Far Cough
9:01 Mon Nov 3
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I still see Bank and his trusty donkey jacket in the Chicken Run
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North Bank
8:59 Mon Nov 3
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Andrew that takes me back, the travel club cards were light blue weren't they and the size of a credit card, donkey jackets were a regular site in those days on specials
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Scully
8:56 Mon Nov 3
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I had one of those, happy memories! Ha Ha!
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wanstead_hammer
7:53 Mon Nov 3
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Yep. Still got the membership card somewhere indoors somewhere. Used to get one of them little cardboard tickets as well.
Remember going to the newcastle petrol bomb game to Manors station, when One Iron was one of the 'Stewards' as you say.
And the same, then went with the persil tickets and then on to the van for the away games. We used to hire a van from a place in Walthamstow (Auto- rent) and come up with some old flannel about we was an hockey team or cricket/basketball team, cos they wouldnt let you hire the band for football.
What made me laugh was, we was all from Stepney. (Hockey and cricket was very popular round there then!!)
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Sxboy_66
7:46 Mon Nov 3
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I still have a 'You've just met the ICF' card. What do I win?
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River Plated
7:41 Mon Nov 3
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I still have my ITC card as well. I must have been around 16 or 17 at the time.
I also recall the Stewards, one of which I am sure sells his fanzine outside the ground these days? (My memory could of course be playing up).
I recall the special trains to Old Trafford which used to stop at Warwick Road, by the cricket ground. The train was always bricked on the way back to London, so was not unusual to have the plastic sheeting/blind pulled down across the windows, as you left the area to avoid the glass flying across the carriage. We made the entire journey one year with no glass in the window. Bloody cold it was!
Happy days though, although we had probably lost!
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Andrew Ware
7:12 Mon Nov 3
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The Irons Travel Club appointed a number of now well known 'Stewards' to maintain order on their trains in the late 1970s. I think they even issued them with armbands, never worn but used to get out of the police escort whilst the rest of us were herded into the Away sections. Coincidently after our 'Stewards' had left the escort there always seemed to be
some kind of melee in the Home support.
The trains were always knackered old stock. We went to Sunderland midweek in the LC and the engine failed on the way home, no engine, no heating so we sat in a freezing carriage somewhere like Doncaster for two or three hours waitg for a replacement engine to take us back to Kings Cross.
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Andrew Ware
6:53 Mon Nov 3
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i also was a Travel Club member and had my card for many years in with all my programmes.
The cards had your photograph attached.
Mine was taken with me wearing my away games donkey jacket.
Our away support went through a phase of wearing donkey jackets and flat caps.
Working in an office i didnt have one and paid about £8 i think for one from the Army and Navy stores just down from Manor House underground.
I do remember walking out of Ipswich station towards the ground and seeing this sea of donkey jackets and caps disappearing into the distance and thinking it looked like a scene from a history book about the Jarrow March.
And just as suddenly the scene changed and evereyone was into Harringtons and those green puffa jackets with the orange lining.
It all seems a long time ago now.
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belly39
6:47 Mon Nov 3
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This post is about the Irons Travel Club all those years ago and the memories of that time . I was 15 at the time and yes boys i did travel throughout the eighties home and away I can assure you I wasn't a founder member of the ICF nor have I written any books either. It was a great time to follow West Ham and in 86 we very nearly achieved the dream.
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cuzoftheeast
6:38 Mon Nov 3
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Lacey's coaches
Hated them
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HairySpotter
6:37 Mon Nov 3
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me neither
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Far Cough
6:36 Mon Nov 3
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No mate
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HairySpotter
6:33 Mon Nov 3
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Far Cough, you must recall Belly? wrote so many books
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Far Cough
6:31 Mon Nov 3
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Founder member of the ICF were you?
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HairySpotter
6:24 Mon Nov 3
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i also recall Utopia travel
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