Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing. Though he didn’t do it for very long......I’m guessing the management put a stop to it as he was definitely pushing his luck.
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
I think they were on sale when chelsea visited one year.
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Though we wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Especially the hot steam rising from the men's urinals on a freezing winters night....
somehow hypnotic and bizarrely surreal.
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Though we wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Especially the hot steam rising from the men's urinals on a freezing winters night....
somehow hypnotic and bizarrely surreal.
That urinal at the very top of the east terrace near the Sam Bartram gate was possibly the most basic I can remember. It literally was just a wall. In fact, I am not even sure that the "building" had a roof. Can you recall?
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Though we wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Especially the hot steam rising from the men's urinals on a freezing winters night....
somehow hypnotic and bizarrely surreal.
That urinal at the very top of the east terrace near the Sam Bartram gate was possibly the most basic I can remember. It literally was just a wall. In fact, I am not even sure that the "building" had a roof. Can you recall?
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Though we wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Especially the hot steam rising from the men's urinals on a freezing winters night....
somehow hypnotic and bizarrely surreal.
That urinal at the very top of the east terrace near the Sam Bartram gate was possibly the most basic I can remember. It literally was just a wall. In fact, I am not even sure that the "building" had a roof. Can you recall?
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Though we wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Especially the hot steam rising from the men's urinals on a freezing winters night....
somehow hypnotic and bizarrely surreal.
That urinal at the very top of the east terrace near the Sam Bartram gate was possibly the most basic I can remember. It literally was just a wall. In fact, I am not even sure that the "building" had a roof. Can you recall?
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Though we wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Especially the hot steam rising from the men's urinals on a freezing winters night....
somehow hypnotic and bizarrely surreal.
If you could bottle that memory you could put it in a museum
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Though we wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Especially the hot steam rising from the men's urinals on a freezing winters night....
somehow hypnotic and bizarrely surreal.
That urinal at the very top of the east terrace near the Sam Bartram gate was possibly the most basic I can remember. It literally was just a wall. In fact, I am not even sure that the "building" had a roof. Can you recall?
The building did not have a roof so the rain would keep everything fresh.
You had to hope that we did not have a dry spell between games.
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Just one question from me; would any new station have a popcorn stand?
And a peanut seller...
And Hot chestnuts, I remember them being sold on the East terrace.
Mal......are you sure about that? I can remember them being sold in the streets around The Valley but not inside, even then health and safety existed and I doubt an open brazier/fire on a terrace would have been allowed.
In the late sixties, I remember a guy with a brazier used to come in (when the gates were opened ten minutes before the end of the game) and sell chestnuts on the open space by the side of the South terrace.
Yes, I do remember that......but there was never a brazier actually on the terracing.
all too often we could have done with one .. sometimes on that big open space with just a few thousand in the ground, it was fecking freezin'
I remember one freezing evening game when it seemed as if old boys were dropping like nine-pins around me on the east terrace. Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Though we wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Especially the hot steam rising from the men's urinals on a freezing winters night....
somehow hypnotic and bizarrely surreal.
That urinal at the very top of the east terrace near the Sam Bartram gate was possibly the most basic I can remember. It literally was just a wall. In fact, I am not even sure that the "building" had a roof. Can you recall?
No roof that’s how I used to bunk in!
That's where some Watford lads bunked out many years ago to escape a few Charlton herberts
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Though he didn’t do it for very long......I’m guessing the management put a stop to it as he was definitely pushing his luck.
Began to worry for my own well-being, and I was a fit young lad back then
Back then of course you will recall it was just St. John's Ambulance volunteers rushing to their aid, with those old hard canvass stretchers held together by 2 long wooden poles!!
Unless you join Walt Disney in his freezer in the meantime.
Leeds
Charlton
Chelsea
It literally was just a wall.
In fact, I am not even sure that the "building" had a roof. Can you recall?
Respect!
You had to hope that we did not have a dry spell between games.
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