Grimsby's last FL visit to Holker Street

[xerxes]

The programme for our last FL match at home to Grimsby, in September 1971. It was a drab 0-0 draw.

The editorial refers to a League Cup match against Preston a couple of weeks earlier, when there was some trouble on the terraces. I wonder if, nearly 50 years later, any of the club's current supporters will own up to being one of the 'naughty boys'?

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[MisterPleasant]

That will be the Dave Worthington that played for us at half-back lining up for Grimsby at right-back. Better games against Grimsby were in the cup when we drew them in successive seasons around 65/66; 66/67, I think and they were in Division 3.

[John_Bucks]

Those houses on Leece Lane still for sale? Absolute bargain!

[Suffolk Blue]

Those houses on Leece Lane still for sale? Absolute bargain!

Current average value of houses in Leece Lane according to Zoopla is approx £181,000! Someone will work out what the compound interest is and tell me that's peanuts no doubt.

[Jonty]

Love reading the old programme notes although this reads like what it is- 50 years old! One thing that always strikes me when reading articles from yesteryear is the use of language and how much writing / reporting styles have changed. Some words and terms used probably wouldn’t get past the editor these days and would probably be deemed too offensive / antiquated to use.

For me a few interesting points on one page...

- Reference to the club as “Barrow In Furness AFC Ltd” I wonder when that title was last used.
- The old crest- I must admit I prefer it.
- article makes reference to the Holker Street End. Not, as some refer to the “Holker End”. I guess you’re are in either camp on that one.
- kit- White/Blue/White. I recognise this is the classic Barrow kit, though we have gone Blue/Blue/White in recent seasons. Our new third kit shirt is more like a first choice home shirt for many.
- we had a President as well as a Chairman, Vice Chairman and a board of 10 Directors. Did these people own the club back then?. Nevertheless- seems a lot for the size of club. Tough times for the club around the corner, I presume many of this board were at the helm when we went out the league.
- finally- pick up a new home in Holbeck for £3625. Inflation calculator puts that at £51500 today....

[Mr Zebedee]

Issue 14 (November 1992) of Give 'em Beans probably the last time the full title was mentioned, unless anyone knows different

[AyrToBarra]

Love the "young hooligans" being described as "gentry" but deemed a danger to fish were they to be thrown into the nearby reservoir! No doubt much offence would be taken to such a phrase today

[Leo]

Those houses on Leece Lane still for sale? Absolute bargain!

Current average value of houses in Leece Lane according to Zoopla is approx £181,000! Someone will work out what the compound interest is and tell me that's peanuts no doubt.

4500 in 1971 is worth 60,500 today

Oh to be a boomer and have had it so easy

[Fazered]

Current average value of houses in Leece Lane according to Zoopla is approx £181,000! Someone will work out what the compound interest is and tell me that's peanuts no doubt.

4500 in 1971 is worth 60,500 today

Oh to be a boomer and have had it so easy

Yeah just think you could have been paying 15% interest on your mortgage in the seventies

[Hadrian]

Those houses on Leece Lane still for sale? Absolute bargain!

Perhaps not on 1971 wages...

Using an old article (2013):
HOUSE
Price in 1971: £5,632
Price now: £247,000
How much they should cost? (using inflation figures since 1971): £67,483

WAGES
Average in 1971: £2,000
Average now: £26,000
Where they should be (using inflation figures since 1971): £24,000
Where they would be if following house price inflation: £87,720

[Leo]

It's a joke isn't it. I know the guy above is talking about higher interest, but you could buy a new house in less than 3x your annual wage back then. Now it's 10x and higher. Boomers really did mess the world up for their kids, had the world handed to them on a silver platter and squandered it

[Jim]

It's a joke isn't it. I know the guy above is talking about higher interest, but you could buy a new house in less than 3x your annual wage back then. Now it's 10x and higher. Boomers really did mess the world up for their kids, had the world handed to them on a silver platter and squandered it

To be fair, the financial sector fuelled the house price boom. When I bought my first house in 1972 for 3,750, I could only get a mortgage for my salary plus half my wife’s. Decades later, it was 4 times combined salary.

[mickmike wilson]

It's a joke isn't it. I know the guy above is talking about higher interest, but you could buy a new house in less than 3x your annual wage back then. Now it's 10x and higher. Boomers really did mess the world up for their kids, had the world handed to them on a silver platter and squandered it

It’s the Bank, Government & Corporation's Cartels between them that stitched everybody up, Nowt to do with those normal people who lived through it.

[SKIPPER]

Remember Dave Worthington cruising up to the Paper Mills,where I worked,every night in his cadillac to pick up his wife, Wasn't for very long though as she was sacked for giving a director an ear bashing with some very un-ladylike language.Notice from his Wiki page he spent many years since scouting abroad for the likes of Chelsea,Sunderland and Blackburn.
Mention of Grimsby games in the FL reminds me of the FA Cup tie in the 60's in the midst of one our regular financial crises. The game went to a second replay at Old Trafford where the gatemen donated their pay for the night to our survival cause.

[Jim]

It's a joke isn't it. I know the guy above is talking about higher interest, but you could buy a new house in less than 3x your annual wage back then. Now it's 10x and higher. Boomers really did mess the world up for their kids, had the world handed to them on a silver platter and squandered it

It’s the Bank, Government & Corporation's Cartels between them that stitched everybody up, Nowt to do with those normal people who lived through it.

We shouldn't hijack this thread - I must start a topic on the "other topics" forum.