Memory Lane The Sutton Arms

[Shrimp and two veg]

Did any ever take the North bank? I recall standing near the far goal post one Friday night and turning around to see a small mob weilding an iron bar, some Northern mob was it Scunthorpe ?? They got dispatched pretty quickly

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I remember in the early 70's when they had the downstairs bar, & there were cubicles in the shape of space capsules.
1st home game of 75-76 season home to Sheff Weds, who brought probably the biggest away crew to us ( maybe apart from Brighton in 74? ) up to that time.
They had several attempts to steam in 'The Sutton Arms' which all failed, followed by us steaming out at them, backwards & forwards for some time.
The late Terry Hammond was playing pool & the table kept getting knocked during the fracas.
After a while he'd had enough, grabbed his pool cue, ran outside & chased all the Sheffield fans up the road!. He wasn't a regular Blue's fan, but led the charge at Colchester 4-5 years earlier, when they had a crew waiting over the road after the game.
An ex 'Belfairs boy', think his last local was the old 'White Horse', now 'The Walnut Tree'.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Did any ever take the North bank? I recall standing near the far goal post one Friday night and turning around to see a small mob weilding an iron bar, some Northern mob was it Scunthorpe ?? They got dispatched pretty quickly

Not during those days. 1st team to do that was in 73 & it was Boreham Wood in the F.A. cup. Arsenal were playing at West Ham that day, & during the train journey to Upton Park many of them got 'cold feet' & decided to come to Southend ( as many of them were from the Boreham Wood area ).
Many of our lads didn't bother going that day, & OB put the Boreham Wood mob ( Arsenal ) in the North Bank early doors. We had a go at taking it back ( a Leigh legend who posts on here led the charge ) but the damage was done alas.

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

I was with Peter on a packed underground train coming away from Wembley. Peter was always big on cleanliness and he wound up with his nose squashed against a fella with his arm raised holding the rail. All of sudden I start getting digs in the ribs from Peter, his eyes had gone manic and he's hissing ' Biff Biff, pits pits' l couldn't stop laughing, which didn't help matters, and all the while I'm thinking 'oh **** me, don't go garrity on here'.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

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Nobody was as mad as Peter.

I recall in the late 80's early 90's when the Whitsun air show came to town. Pete & another guy wearing white butchers coats, had gained access to the old woodyard in Woodgrange drive, & were charging day trippers to park in there!.

 

[Blue Streak]

Recognise a lot of the faces, can anyone put names to them?

Fred West under the trophy

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

I recall in the late 80's early 90's when the Whitsun air show came to town. Pete & another guy wearing white butchers coats, had gained access to the old woodyard in Woodgrange drive, & were charging day trippers to park in there!.

The other fella was Podge. I saw Podge in the afternoon and he told me another couple of fellas had the same idea and got to the land the same time as Peter and him and there was a Mexican stand-off in the middle of the land, in the end they split the land down the middle.

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Bob W did the same car parking trick when we won promotion in 1991. At the end of the season he was charging people to park on the grass island on Prittlewell Chase, one game he filled it, from Fairfax Drive right up to Southend High School.

 

[LCBB72]

Bill Prentice and the late Terry Hammond in the top pic.

I remember Terry Hammond turning up to play for Leigh Com football team about 1968/69 with a bandage round his head as he had been bottled the night before .

 

[CanveyCastle]

I'm in the bottom photo

Who is the sexy beast in the red polo ?

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Who is the sexy beast in the red polo ?

Modesty forbids, safe to say in his youth he used to hear the sound of knickers crashing to the floor whenever he walked into the Intercon.

 

[ozzie]

The geezer in the red and the monkey....look like twins

 

[Voice of Reason]

Terry Hammond s son played in the same team as my son so got to know him. Not that long before he died was watching Essex cricket. David Lloyd kept laughing at some guy screaming eessexx at the top of his voice. The camera panned on to said fellow and it turned out to be a rather inebriated Mr Hammond

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Bob W did the same car parking trick when we won promotion in 1991. At the end of the season he was charging people to park on the grass island on Prittlewell Chase, one game he filled it, from Fairfax Drive right up to Southend High School.

Bob's still going strong. He still likes to earn a few quid. He used to sell the football, rugby and pop souvenirs with me decades ago. He's now got a garden, fencing and landscaping business, and also does Christmas Trees on the A127 near Tesco. He won't mind me telling you that, as he likes extra business. I've not seen him for about a year, but when I see him, I will laugh with him about this story, Biffo.

 

[Chrisb]

Modesty forbids, safe to say in his youth he used to hear the sound of knickers crashing to the floor whenever he walked into the Intercon.

Well, I used to go to the Intercom but don't remember this !

 

[Cricko]

Bob's still going strong. He still likes to earn a few quid. He used to sell the football, rugby and pop souvenirs with me decades ago. He's now got a garden, fencing and landscaping business, and also does Christmas Trees on the A127 near Tesco. He won't mind me telling you that, as he likes extra business. I've not seen him for about a year, but when I see him, I will laugh with him about this story, Biffo.

As you say Mr Woolf is well alive and kicking.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Modesty forbids, safe to say in his youth he used to hear the sound of knickers crashing to the floor whenever he walked into the Intercon.

I would have thought you'd frequent Zhivago's in those days!.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Bob W did the same car parking trick when we won promotion in 1991. At the end of the season he was charging people to park on the grass island on Prittlewell Chase, one game he filled it, from Fairfax Drive right up to Southend High School.

May be wrong, but i think John W got nicked for that?.

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

I'm pretty sure there was a story in the Echo the next day with a lot of people complaining they had been given parking tickets.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I remember Terry Hammond turning up to play for Leigh Com football team about 1968/69 with a bandage round his head as he had been bottled the night before .

Some people thought he resembled Benny from Crossroads, but i doubt many told him that??.