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Finsbury Park is a long way from White Hart Lane!
 

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coconino said:
Oh for the days of regular 3pm kick-offs… er…
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I think matches kicked off late due to many spectators having to work in the morning, go home for lunch then out to the match.
They would have had to rush in the winter, when matches kicked off an hour earlier.
 

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From a exhibition at Liverpool museum a couple of years back before a trip to Goodison. Got tram number's on.
 

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Hedley Lamarr said:
I think matches kicked off late due to many spectators having to work in the morning, go home for lunch then out to the match
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You mean the difficulties supporters had getting to matches were actually taken into account? Halcyon days!
 

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malvernbee said:
From a exhibition at Liverpool museum a couple of years back before a trip to Goodison. Got tram number's on.
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.....Crikey, that's a bit unfair, the Bees at home to Burnley and away to QPR at the same time - although I guess that the B team would adequately cover the QPR away match......




and both Spurs and Fulham home and away at the same time - wow, that's almost like the Christmas/Boxing Day fixtures of old....
 

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malvernbee said:
From a exhibition at Liverpool museum a couple of years back before a trip to Goodison. Got tram number's on.
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Brentford played two matches on the same day? What is ‘London Combination’?
 

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Dusted off the bible (100 years of Brentford). That Burnley game on the poster was our first ever season in Division Two 33/34' Hopkins & Holliday both scored a brace in a 5-2 win in front of 18,000.
 

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Plus the original poster against Exeter. Division Three South. 4-2 win in front of 10,000.
 

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Hedley Lamarr said:
I think matches kicked off late due to many spectators having to work in the morning, go home for lunch then out to the match.
They would have had to rush in the winter, when matches kicked off an hour earlier.
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Or might it also have been because the pubs closed at 3pm* for the afternoon and thirsty fans wanted to get one or two in between lunch and kick-off? Might not have been the reason, of course, but it was likely appreciated!

* - Or was it 2.30pm back in the day - can't remember.
 

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Gawain said:
Or might it also have been because the pubs closed at 3pm* for the afternoon and thirsty fans wanted to get one or two in between lunch and kick-off? Might not have been the reason, of course, but it was likely appreciated!

* - Or was it 2.30pm back in the day - can't remember.
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I always thought it was just the two options - 3.00pm or 3.15pm…
Some teams had permission for Friday nights (Tranmere, Walsall) when the City teams were home on Saturdays.
 

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Gawain said:
Had never heard of "Walham Green Station" (Chelsea v Swansea), google shows that that was the original name from 1880 to 1952, when it was renamed Fulham Broadway.
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Walham Green is north of Parsons Green and South of North End.
 

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malvernbee said:
From a exhibition at Liverpool museum a couple of years back before a trip to Goodison. Got tram number's on.
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I like the old poster having an apostrophe ahead of Spurs, proper grammar in those days, nice 👌
 

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horshambees said:
The nearest Tube Station at the time.
Seven Sisters was not converted to the underground network until 1967.
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I know. Still weird to advertise going by Tube when the Tube ran nowhere near.
 

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big neil said:
Now it’s the new Wetherspoons at Fulham Broadway.
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Thank you for that.

I remember a Minder episode called "Bury my half at Waltham Green"
Waltham Green being Walham Green of course.

Sounds nicer than Fulham Fkng Broadway.
 

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...I've never heard of the bus route 65A - where/when did that run?


My dad was a guard/conductor(? I can't remember what they were called?) on the District Line all his mature working life - other than service in the Great War - until he retired in 1960
 

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EastBilneyBee said:
...I've never heard of the bus route 65A - where/when did that run?


My dad was a guard/conductor(? I can't remember what they were called?) on the District Line all his mature working life - other than service in the Great War - until he retired in 1960
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Looks like it briefly replaced/proceeded the 65 between 1963 and 1968

 

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Frenchbee said:
As far as I remember, the 65A went through the Copt Gilders Estate and some went on to Leatherhead.
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I used to get the 65 straight through from Leatherhead. I seem to remember the 65a going through Copt gilders and perhaps swinging around at the zoo. I’m pretty sure the 65a didn’t go all the way to Leatherhead.
 

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Frenchbee said:
As far as I remember, the 65A went through the Copt Gilders Estate and some went on to Leatherhead.
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Here's what I can find

Route 65 started in 1934 between Ealing and Leatherhead
1950 65A introduced between Ealing and Chessington Copt Gilders, but withdrawn again in 1951 and replaced by 265
Route 265 Started in 1952 between East Acton and Copt Gilders, had various changes and ended up just running between Kingston and Richmond before being withdrawn in 1966.
1963 65A reintroduced between Ealing and Leatherhead via Copt Gilders and Chessington Zoo which reduced the number of 65's running
1966 Only the 65A ran on Saturday's and Sunday's. No 65 ran
1968 65A Withdrawn and the 65 ran 7 days a week to Leatherhead, in 1970 it curtailed at Chessington Zoo
 
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