1973

[TOMOGP]

Tidied up some of my old programmes and just to try and stir up some memeories of us oldens.
Bees V Gillingham 1/12/1973 Kick off 2Pm Div 4
Programme 5p 8 Pages
Paul Priddy
Alan Nelmes
Terry Scales
Gordon Riddick
PETER GELSON
Stewart Houston
Jackie Graham
Roger Cross
Andy Woon
Dave Metchick
John Docherty

Manager Mike Everet Going into the game we were 16th and topical advertising the away trip to Barnsley Coach Fare £2.40 Adult Train Fare £4.50 leaving St Pancras.
Stan Webb been put on Transfer list

[bees66]

Originally posted by TOMOGP
Barnsley Coach Fare £2.40 Adult Train Fare £4.50 leaving St Pancras.


I bet you remember it welllol :wave:

[TOMOGP]

Originally posted by bees66
I bet you remember it welllol :wave:

Yes off course to make it worse I seem to remember paying 10 bob
or 50 P to you younguns for the coach to Bournemouth in the 60s

[Santa Barbara Bee]

I just found a programme from 2 September 1964, Bees vs. Southend, League Cup 1st round. (Programme 6d, no fixtures list, pretty pathetic all round). But there's the very same Peter Gelson at No. 5 = what a rock!
Here's the line-up:
Chic Brodie
Allan Jones
George Thomson
Mel Scott
Peter Gelson
Tommy Higginson
Mark Lazarus
Jimmy Bloomfield
Joe Bonson
Dai Ward
John Fielding

Anyone remember Joe Bonson? A definite tryer but really limited from what I remember.
Jones and Thomson were 2 of the best fullbacks we ever had IMHO.

[Nigel Brooks]

Originally posted by Santa Barbara Bee
I just found a programme from 2 September 1964, Bees vs. Southend, League Cup 1st round. (Programme 6d, no fixtures list, pretty pathetic all round). But there's the very same Peter Gelson at No. 5 = what a rock!
Here's the line-up:
Chic Brodie
Allan Jones
George Thomson
Mel Scott
Peter Gelson
Tommy Higginson
Mark Lazarus
Jimmy Bloomfield
Joe Bonson
Dai Ward
John Fielding

Anyone remember Joe Bonson? A definite tryer but really limited from what I remember.
Jones and Thomson were 2 of the best fullbacks we ever had IMHO.

Any line-up with Chic, Pete and Tommy in it would be close to making my all-time top XI. God willing Tommy will be back for the 100 years celebrations. It was a real pleasure to meet him at the Cult Bees and legends launch. Perhaps some of our other 1960's heroes will be there too.

[Milton Keynes Bee]

Joe Bonson was a great character but totally useless - somehow manged to score a few goals. I think we signed him from Newport County. He stayed a couple of seasons (lost his place to Ian Lawther) and then moved on to Lincoln City followed by Billy Cobb.

In 64/65 we finished 5th in th old Div 3 after leading the table several times in the season. Hull City (Chris Chilton and Ken Wagstaff - a lethal twin strike force) and Carlisle Utd were promoted to Div 2 and Carlisle went on to to briefly top Div 1 in the days before the Premiershite.