heard its going to be J.A Waldegrave - what a coup this will be - knows the game inside out and a local lad, spending his early years in the academy that is Alderwood School
1987, The Great Storm, 23 people were killed & millions of pounds worth of property was damaged as hurricane force winds ravaged the South East.
And my parents still drove me and my younger sister up to Sidcup for school (as all the buses had blown away) just to find that half the school had (unsurprisingly) blown away... It meant I didn’t even get a lie in ffs
Started work at 5am, no trouble driving there although things like dustbins blowing about. First I realised how bad it was when the rest of the staff turned up late and I was told that just after I had driven down the tree lined road to my firm, one of the trees blew down across the whole of the road. When your lucks in
First visit to The Valley was just after Jimmy Seed died. Dec ‘66 for the Millwall game. Next visit was when my mum opened the Jimmy Seed Stand. More recently it has become an unexpected second home, and I’m sure JS would understand.
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It meant I didn’t even get a lie in ffs
Thanks
Then the council planted 7 new oak trees alongside, the surviving tree ..... and Singleoaks became Eightoaks.
Or something like that.
Didn't pay much attention to football that season until the following year when I dragged 2 friends along to "battle of the bridge "!