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iainmentiainment
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Workers in 1963 try and clear of football pitch full of snow

This is in the BBC Football section today over a quiz about what has caused games to be abandoned.
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    TellyTubbyTellyTubby
    Bexley United?
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    cabblescabbles
    the advertising board says Kent something, so maybe Gillingham?
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    Brendan_O_ConnellBrendan_O_Connell
    The old Maidstone ground?
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    AddicktedAddickted
    edited January 2020
    That's Stonebridge Road, Gravesend.
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    guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    Frozen
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    3blokes3blokes
    Think the hoarding says “ ....For Kent Football?
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    stockportaddickstockportaddick
    If that game went ahead I reckon tippy tappy football went out the window. Sledge hammers ffs
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    ricky_ottoricky_otto
    cabbles said:
    the advertising board says Kent something, so maybe Gillingham?
    Can’t be - not a caravan in sight. 
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    BDLBDL
    edited January 2020
    Addickted said:
    That's Stonebridge Road, Gravesend.
    Yep, (Northfleet)

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    iainmentiainment
    Addickted said:
    That's Stonebridge Road, Gravesend.
    Thanks.
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    SoundAsa£SoundAsa£
    No.1 in South London said:

    A bit of a guess but is that the South African winger Cliff Durant?
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    DaveMehmetDaveMehmet
    No.1 in South London said:


    Didn't realise outfield players wore gloves that long ago. Always thought it was a modern thing.
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    No.1 in South LondonNo.1 in South London
    edited January 2020
    SoundAsa£ said:
    No.1 in South London said:

    A bit of a guess but is that the South African winger Cliff Durant?
    It's actually Brian Kinsey SoundAs!! Charlton v Southampton circa '62
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    SoundAsa£SoundAsa£
    edited January 2020
    No.1 in South London said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    No.1 in South London said:

    A bit of a guess but is that the South African winger Cliff Durant?
    It's actually Brian Kinsey SoundAs!! Charlton v Southampton circa '62
    Are you 100% sure that’s Brian......never would have said that was him?
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    SoundAsa£SoundAsa£
    Incidentally, that was Dec 14th 1963....2-2. During ‘the big freeze’ of 63.
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    SoundAsa£SoundAsa£
    Would someone kindly give me the team line up for the game above......I don’t have my Valiant 500 handy.
    Cheers.
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    Pedro45Pedro45
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Incidentally, that was Dec 14th 1963....2-2. During ‘the big freeze’ of 63.
    Why the black armbands?
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    No.1 in South LondonNo.1 in South London
    edited January 2020
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Incidentally, that was Dec 14th 1963....2-2. During ‘the big freeze’ of 63.
    The photo was a match that was abandoned in January '63 with Charlton 1-0 up. It was replayed late in the season when the games caught up after the Dec-Mar freeze. It's not the 2-2 game which was played the following season.
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    iaitchiaitch
    What colour socks are we wearing? They don't look white judging by our shorts.
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    thai malaysia addickthai malaysia addick
    iaitch said:
    What colour socks are we wearing? They don't look white judging by our shorts.
    That's the ones. I am sure I remember the white socks with two red rings.
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    happyvalleyhappyvalley
    edited January 2020
    SoundAsa£ said:
    No.1 in South London said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    No.1 in South London said:

    A bit of a guess but is that the South African winger Cliff Durant?
    It's actually Brian Kinsey SoundAs!! Charlton v Southampton circa '62
    Are you 100% sure that’s Brian......never would have said that was him?
    I thought it was Cliff Durrant as well.
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    soapy_jonessoapy_jones
    One of the baby boomers that resulted from the big freeze.  Born August 63.  Dad was a builder and he had no work for 6 weeks...
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    redmanredman
    Two teams socks look very similar. Were they? And if so when was rule changed that socks had to be different colours. 
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    TellyTubbyTellyTubby
    GlassHalfFull said:

    The big freeze of 63 was in the Spring - the snowfall began on Boxing Day 62. 

    The Southampton match on 14 Dec 63 was a normal game with a crowd of 18,477 - no way is that crowd anything like 18K.

    On the other hand on 19 Jan 63 CAFC 1-0 Southampton was abandoned after 57 mins due to a snowstorm. Crowd 6,402.  Wakeham Sewell Stocks Tocknell Hinton Bailey Kenning Glover Matthews Hewie Kinsey (the goal scorer).

    The Covered End looks pretty full, which held 7,000 standing from memory. However, jumping over the fence and under reporting attendances was pretty common then, so 6,402 might have been the reported gate I guess. 
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    iainmentiainment
    Btw the quiz has a Charlton reference in it.
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    ChizzChizz
    redman said:
    Two teams socks look very similar. Were they? And if so when was rule changed that socks had to be different colours. 
    Socks have to be different colours?  How do you know which goes on which foot?
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    cherryorchardcherryorchard
    BDL said:
    Addickted said:
    That's Stonebridge Road, Gravesend.
    Yep, (Northfleet)

    The big freeze of 1963, prior to FA Cup fourth round match between Gravesend & Northfleet & Sunderland . Score of 1 - 1 on 12 Feb. Sunderland won 5 - 2 after replay on 18 Feb.  Pools Panel introduced due to amount of fixtures cancelled that season due to the weather
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    No.1 in South LondonNo.1 in South London
    edited January 2020
    happyvalley said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    No.1 in South London said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    No.1 in South London said:

    A bit of a guess but is that the South African winger Cliff Durant?
    It's actually Brian Kinsey SoundAs!! Charlton v Southampton circa '62
    Are you 100% sure that’s Brian......never would have said that was him?
    I thought it was Cliff Durrant as well.
    Cliff Durandt didn't play in that match, so it is almost certainly Brian.
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