hacko 11:12 Sat Nov 24
Hackney Marshes on a Sunday morning
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Time was when all the pitches were in use when I played there often some 45 years ago. Is it still fully occupied?
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wanstead_hammer
1:27 Wed Nov 28
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I've put his up before but for anyone who's interested and can make it up there, the Tower Hamlets Local History Library is well worth a visit.
It has every weekly copy of the East London Advertiser since it began. So it covers every year.
The old big volume books have now been microfished so you can scroll through each copy.
The sports reports cover all the East End junior/senior football matches (including the marshes) from each era. (As well in-depth reports West Ham, Orient and Millwall (spits) matches.
So you can find your old team reports from particular years and any other articles (it's basically football, boxing and crime!).
277 Bancroft road
London E1 4DQ
(Open Tues/Weds/Thurs)
(It's between Mile End and Stepney Green stations,
next to Mile End Hospital).
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Northern Sold
12:04 Wed Nov 28
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We used to play Broadwater Farm FC in a pre-season friendly for about 4 or 5 years on the trot... they used to make a right day out of it bringing the whole family, dogs, BBQ's (great chicken afterwards) ... decent team as well... all in all a great bunch.... well when not slicing up coppers that is...
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LittleZee
10:54 Tue Nov 27
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Grew up on Clapton Park Estate n one of them tower blocks over looking hackney marshes. Was quite a sight from the 10th floor in the 70s & 80s. I particularly remember the Turkish leagues. Some of the teams bought quite a few fans along.
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HairyHammer
6:22 Mon Nov 26
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Spent a few years of my childhood there in the late 70's early eighties watching Turkish named teams with a mix of black English Turkish players .
Great happy day's.
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Long Lost
1:16 Mon Nov 26
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Average age is about 12 over there JLAP. Was there last week :-)
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BubblesCyprus
12:23 Mon Nov 26
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Carried Posts and Crossbars from changing room to pitch both at Hackney and Wanstead
just hoped your allocated Pitch number not to far IIRC ?
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Northern Sold
12:16 Mon Nov 26
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Do they still play loads of games over Wanstead Flats... traveled a couple of times for cup games to play over there.. decent boozer on the road as well what I remember
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Eggbert Nobacon
10:29 Mon Nov 26
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Gavros 8:49 Sun Nov 25
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Still Europe's biggest but not as big as it used to be. As a sort of payback for building the A12 they let a part of it go wild. In the past 25 years it's turned into a forest. Really impressive to see and shows how quickly nature would take over again if we disappeared.
should check out Samphie Hoe Gav, they piled up all the crap the dug out when making the channel tunnel and have done similar
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brick_lane_batty_boy
9:31 Mon Nov 26
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Didn't he? Wasn't it? Oh what great days
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Oh dear
9:24 Mon Nov 26
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The Hackney and Leyton League still thrives.
Very mixed culturally now.
I used play for St John the Baptist Boys Club on Saturday morning and then when I moved to adult football I played for Hackney Volunteers
If you never had a game you could always get one by standing around the changing rooms with your boots in your hand and wait for an offer, you never failed to get a game.
Good memories.
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Rossal
9:15 Mon Nov 26
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Played there pre season......the club house is half decent and its fairly well orgainised in terms of what pitch youre on.......youve just got to find your pitch amongst the 50 odd
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JLAP
10:16 Sun Nov 25
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BARLEYLANDS is where it’s at ..
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joyo
10:08 Sun Nov 25
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I used to play for Lakeview, played loads of away fixtures there
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Far Cough
9:50 Sun Nov 25
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Clement Attlee and Sunday league football?
Arf
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irons1979
9:18 Sun Nov 25
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Thank me later - https://youtu.be/2t1ECK9yWK4
27 year’s old but absolute classic from back in the day!
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one iron
9:01 Sun Nov 25
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I used to play for manorpark youth and the fox and hounds if you was on pitch 101,you was fucked after walking to the pitch with the goal posts (1971)
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Dwight Van Mann
8:59 Sun Nov 25
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wanstead_hammer 9:55 Sun Nov 25
great memories
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Gavros
8:49 Sun Nov 25
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Still Europe's biggest but not as big as it used to be. As a sort of payback for building the A12 they let a part of it go wild. In the past 25 years it's turned into a forest. Really impressive to see and shows how quickly nature would take over again if we disappeared.
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Norman
8:46 Sun Nov 25
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Only played there once for West Ham Supporters Team against Orient Supporters a few years ago. Doing the Park Run there on Saturday though.
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wanstead_hammer
9:55 Sun Nov 25
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Yeh, played there loads of times back in the day. Meet, still half pissed o/s the boozer.
The cow sheds changing rooms. Smell of white horse oil/deep heat.
hundreds of pitches, putting the posts up and a net if you were lucky, HT snout, tear-ups all over the gaff, then back to the boozer for a livener and the bar spread (spuds etc).
And not a jumper for goalposts in sight.
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arsene york-hunt
1:44 Sun Nov 25
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I went over there once to watch my brother play and got roped in to be the ref. I had no experience and was not prepared for the abuse I was getting from guttersnipes of the opposing team. Half way through the second half, after a mass brawl, I realised I had not got a clue what time the match was due to end, so when the next piece of verbal abuse arrived I ripped off the whistle and threw it in the face of the cunt abusing me. I then said "You fucking do it then, you cunt" and walked off. They then begged me to stay on so I finished off and blew up early having got roughly the finishing time from a spectator. Never again
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