Looking to buy an old ticket

[JamBug]

Hi all

First off, apologies if this is not allowed or I am posting in the wrong place.

For my dad's birthday I'm hoping to frame a picture of WHL along with a match day program and ticket from this first and last visit to the lane. His first was 22nd October 1977, a 9-0 thrashing of Bristol Rovers in the 2nd Division and his last was the Middlesbrough game just gone. I have got both a ticket and program for the recent one and a program from the Bristol game but am coming up short with the 1977 ticket. I have tried contacting various Ebay sellers and websites but there doesn't seem to be one in circulation at the moment. I even contacted the club directly but the club historian was not able to help.

If anyone that reads this happens to have one they'd be willing to part with (of course I'd be happy to pay) or if anyone knows the guys that sell stuff like this outside the stadium on matchdays and could help me contact them I would really appreciate it.

Thanks for reading

 

[Lighty64]

to be honest mate, back in 1977 you never had tickets, unless a season ticket holder.

you paid on the turnstiles, entered the ground and headed for the area you preferred

 

[Gbspurs]

Tickets were pretty basic back then, have you thought about knocking one up?

 

[TheChosenOne]

to be honest mate, back in 1977 you never had tickets, unless a season ticket holder.

you paid on the turnstiles, entered the ground and headed for the area you preferred

So true.

 

[JamBug]

to be honest mate, back in 1977 you never had tickets, unless a season ticket holder.

you paid on the turnstiles, entered the ground and headed for the area you preferred

Hadn't thought of that, set myself a hard task! Oh well, at least I got the program.

 

[TheChosenOne]

I am hard pushed to even think how much it was to get in back in '77

The only reference mark I can use is that the 1981 cup final ticket for standing was £2.50 so on
that basis I would think about 75p or a quid standing at WHL.

I wasn't at that match as I was working as a bus conductor, gutted. I was earning take home wages of
about £50 per week then.

 

[Lighty64]

I am hard pushed to even think how much it was to get in back in '77

The only reference mark I can use is that the 1981 cup final ticket for standing was £2.50 so on
that basis I would think about 75p or a quid standing at WHL.

I wasn't at that match as I was working as a bus conductor, gutted. I was earning take home wages of
about £50 per week then.

i remember the game pretty well, showed how bad a team Rovers were that day, Ian bloody Moores even got a hat-trick

the next funniest part of it, their keeper was man of the match after Colin Lee, he made about 5 outstanding saves

 

[Gbspurs]

I am hard pushed to even think how much it was to get in back in '77

The only reference mark I can use is that the 1981 cup final ticket for standing was £2.50 so on
that basis I would think about 75p or a quid standing at WHL.

I wasn't at that match as I was working as a bus conductor, gutted. I was earning take home wages of
about £50 per week then.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Cheers for that Gbspurs ... Not a bad guess on my part.

 

[Mr.D]

Fuck the fuck off! That was my first game! Lost 1-3

 

[TheChosenOne]

Ian Moores .... We used to call him 'Victor' after a famous giraffe of that time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southtoday/content/articles/2008/10/03/telltom_victor_feature.shtml

I'm sad to say he was another one of ours that died young .. Aged 43.

 

[archiewasking]

I am hard pushed to even think how much it was to get in back in '77

The only reference mark I can use is that the 1981 cup final ticket for standing was £2.50 so on
that basis I would think about 75p or a quid standing at WHL.

I wasn't at that match as I was working as a bus conductor, gutted. I was earning take home wages of
about £50 per week then.

Only one I missed that season

 

[riggi]

Blimey how old are you lot?

 

[Saoirse]

70p in 1977 is £3.99 in 2016 pounds. Wouldn't get into a non-league game for twice that these days. Really sad

 

[yido_number1]

70p in 1977 is £3.99 in 2016 pounds. Wouldn't get into a non-league game for twice that these days. Really sad

It would be interesting to see how the wages compared to ticket price rises for the same period...

 

[TheChosenOne]

It would be interesting to see how the wages compared to ticket price rises for the same period...

I bought a 3 bed house in Cheshunt in late 1978 for £15,500 ..
It is now worth £350k !!!

 

[yido_number1]

I bought a 3 bed house in Cheshunt in late 1978 for £15,500 ..
It is now worth £350k !!!

Just a shame you'd have to fork out so much to buy another or you'd be quids in! We bought our two bed for 184,000 nearly 8 years ago and its work £375,000 now. The market has gone mental, we have to fork out nearly £500,000 round here for a 3 bed, only option is to move further out...

Any idea what the players weekly wage was in the 70's?

 

[waresy]

Any idea what the players weekly wage was in the 70's?

Hunter Davies book the Glory Game has a whole host of appendices with 1970's data. On a quick flick through I can't see anything on wages in them.

 

[JW72]

That ticket now £65 on Stubhub

 

[Lighty64]

Blimey how old are you lot?

obviously older than you























so show some respect kid