Spurs team 1950's

[phil]

Do any of you remember the old Boys Enclosure? I think it was in the second tier of the old East stand. Entrance was one shilling (that's 5p to those of you who have no pre-decimalisation knowledge). I think that adult admittance was 3shillings (or 2 shillings behind the goal).

 

[TheChosenOne]

Do any of you remember the old Boys Enclosure? I think it was in the second tier of the old East stand. Entrance was one shilling (that's 5p to those of you who have no pre-decimalisation knowledge). I think that adult admittance was 3shillings (or 2 shillings behind the goal).

I do, Was only thinking about it the other day, up on the end of the Shelf at the Park Lane End.
1/6d when I used to go in there - What a squeeze.
Downstairs and outside was the only schoolboys entrance in the whole darn ground.
I remember the houses in Park Lane, where people used to pay a few pence to leave their bikes in the owners hallway !

 

[worcestersauce]

I do, Was only thinking about it the other day, up on the end of the Shelf at the Park Lane End.
1/6d when I used to go in there - What a squeeze.
Downstairs and outside was the only schoolboys entrance in the whole darn ground.
I remember the houses in Park Lane, where people used to pay a few pence to leave their bikes in the owners hallway !

Thats right chosen one, there was only one the boys turnstile in the east stand wasn't there? Worcester avenue, where I first entered the ground, (hence the name).
I remember the Arenal match 3-1 in 66 as well, I was ten.
I went with two friends one supported arsenal and we had made boxes to stand on then just as the players ran out onto the pitch his box collapsed. Three kids up in the middle of the swaying shelf crowd sharing two rickety boxes and waving bits of a third one over our heads, Christ what would the green team make of that now.

 

[TheChosenOne]

For some strange reason I watched the Arsenal; game hanging from and standing on one of the floodlight pylon concrete bases on the corner of the ground between the front of the shelf and the paxton. It gave an "adult" view in the thick of it all.

 

[bas]

I remeber the Boys Enclosure. It was a triangle shape in the corner of the stadium and it was where I first saw Ramsey, Nicholson et al. Happy days.

 

[GosfordSpur]

Do any of you older lads remember Mel Hopkins? quite a stylish fullback (Welsh international) who was around in the late 50s. Also Tony Marchi and Alfie Stokes (My very first game at WHL was as a 7-year old in 1957 and Alfie got 5 (yes FIVE) against Birmingham City in a 7-1 win)

And several of our double winning side first made their appearance in the late 50s, the incomparable Cliff Jones, Bobby Smith, Peter Baker and Bill Brown.

yes, the good old days in many ways. Players seemed so genuine and down to earth, and had a real love for the club.

 

[nipponyid]

I do, Was only thinking about it the other day, up on the end of the Shelf at the Park Lane End.

And then it became the Cage or Pen as some liked to call it...Spent most of my youth in there.

 

[phil]

Do any of you older lads remember Mel Hopkins? quite a stylish fullback (Welsh international) who was around in the late 50s. Also Tony Marchi and Alfie Stokes (My very first game at WHL was as a 7-year old in 1957 and Alfie got 5 (yes FIVE) against Birmingham City in a 7-1 win)

And several of our double winning side first made their appearance in the late 50s, the incomparable Cliff Jones, Bobby Smith, Peter Baker and Bill Brown.

yes, the good old days in many ways. Players seemed so genuine and down to earth, and had a real love for the club.

Yes, I remember Hopkins well and Tony Marchi was our school's football coach. One afternoon he drove up in a very dirty car and the kids wrote graffiti all over it. The sports master made the offenders clean the car. From memory in our double season we only used about 14 players - the famous eleven plus Hopkins, Marchi and Medwin. And I remember Alfie Stokes and his 5 goals. Strange, I remember Spurs in the 50s and 60s but cannot recall what I should be doing at work today.