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Title: more old pics Post by: le god cuervo on Monday, May 23, 2005, 11:16:22 just been looking on getty images site & there are some more interesting swindon pics on there. is this the county ground?!?
http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/3346455.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=81564C6EB01C130BA2F0A430C5871E68 caption says this but not clear if it is at CG or not... 1938: The players of Swindon Town Football Club are put through their paces during a training session. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images) - is that the old north stand in the background? other good ones its not clear on are these... http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/3268996.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=8E13F40D06FF65FC7BF9078869288826 harold fleming/north stand? http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/3295842.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=ECA5E66F61CBDAD6C4F1B482437D1EC9 shrivenham road in background? http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/3425391.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=61969FFEBFAD895DCFB5080CBE3B83FD shrivy road again? see more here, you need to go to about page 19/20 for captions & stuff http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesSearchState%7c0%7c0%7c28%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c1%7c%7c%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c7%7cswindon%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0&p=7&tag=1 Title: more old pics Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, May 23, 2005, 18:15:21 Le GC.....haven't had time before now to do this stuff justice.....picture one is definitely the CG.
Of the others I'm not convinced they're the CG at all, somehow doesn't feel right not that I was around then.....maybe the clue is in the credit given to London paper? Can't be Harold in the 38 pic as he retired in 24.... Of the other images on p's 19/20.....George Swindon (sic) the Arsenal goalkeeper should be George Swindin.....not to be confused with Syd Swinden our full back from in fact 38. But this on ealthough unconnected to football is a beaut....Regent Street on a wet Wednesday. Marks and Sparks is visible on the right.....I think something like half a dozen pubs went under the Brunel. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/Reg__Smeeton/wetwednesday.jpg Title: more old pics Post by: yeo on Monday, May 23, 2005, 18:31:13 Thats ace more old pictures please 8)
Title: more old pics Post by: Johno on Monday, May 23, 2005, 18:51:55 quality stuff.
Title: more old pics Post by: Piemonte on Monday, May 23, 2005, 20:09:44 old picture threads are almost as safe as techie threads
Title: more old pics Post by: le god cuervo on Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 10:13:40 Quote from: "Reg Smeeton" Of the others I'm not convinced they're the CG at all, somehow doesn't feel right not that I was around then.....maybe the clue is in the credit given to London paper? Can't be Harold in the 38 pic as he retired in 24.... surely the first two pics have the same part of the ground in the background - the north stand/stratton bank corner... http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/3346455.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=81564C6EB01C130BA2F0A430C5871E68 http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/3268996.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=8E13F40D06FF65FC7BF9078869288826 Caption for the second one was this... March 1924: Captains L Taylor of Burnley and R Fleming of Swindon Town shake hands before the start of their match at Easter. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) ... so must be mr fleming? Title: more old pics Post by: OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR on Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 10:17:24 Fantastic picture Reg, also a bit sad I can't help thinking. The town centre today could actually be quite pleasant if what is in that picture was being modernized today. i.e it would have been pedesrtianised and modernised sympathetically. The caharacter of the place would have been retained. Unfortunately it got done in the early 70's when architects and town planners were, I can only assume, tripping on acid. We are therefore left with the hideous, souless monstrosity today that is the Brunel Centre.
Title: more old pics Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 10:19:57 Its the way you set it out.....I read the caption for the 24 pic as applying to the 38.
I thought it looked too big for the old stand there....remember it was the same stand up til 72 and was in the first pic. Might very well be wrong though...just my hunch. Title: more old pics Post by: Reg Smeeton on Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 10:37:01 Quote from: "OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR" Fantastic picture Reg, also a bit sad I can't help thinking. The town centre today could actually be quite pleasant if what is in that picture was being modernized today. i.e it would have been pedesrtianised and modernised sympathetically. The caharacter of the place would have been retained. Unfortunately it got done in the early 70's when architects and town planners were, I can only assume, tripping on acid. We are therefore left with the hideous, souless monstrosity today that is the Brunel Centre. The whole post war urban development thing is best summed up by Joe Strummer when he spits out the line.......the architects could not care in Something about England.....Doesn't get much better than this. "Something About England" They say immigrants steal the hubcaps Of the respected gentlemen They say it would be wine an' roses If England were for Englishmen again Well I saw a dirty overcoat At the foot of the pillar of the road Propped inside was an old man Whom time would not erode When the night was snapped by sirens Those blue lights circled fast The dancehall called for an' ambulance The bars all closed up fast My silence gazing at the ceiling While roaming the single room I thought the old man could help me If he could explain the gloom You really think it's all new You really think about it too The old man scoffed as he spoke to me I'll tell you a thing or two I missed the fourteen-eighteen war But not the sorrow afterwards With my father dead and my mother ran off My brothers took the pay of hoods The twenties turned the north was dead The hunger strike came marching south At the garden party not a word was said The ladies lifted cake to their mouths The next war began and my ship sailed With battle orders writ in bed In five long years of bullets and shells We left tem million dead The few returned to old Piccadily We limped around Leicster Square The world was busy rebuilding itself The architects could not care But how could we know when I was young All the canges that were to come? All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield And now the terror of the scientific sun There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs They taught you how to touch your cap But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace England never closed this gap So leave me now the moon is up But remember all the tales I tell The memories that you have dredged up Are on letters forwarded from hell The streets were by now deserted The gangs had trudged off home The lights clicked off in the bedsits An' old England was all alone [/i] Title: more old pics Post by: OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR on Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 11:50:43 F****** hell, they don't write em like that any more! I imagine when XTC wrote Ball and Chain they had Swindon at least partly in mind.
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