WHEN BARROW PLAYED CHELSEA

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[SayitagainSam]

Does anyone remember this game? If you do, you'll be at least 80 years of age or more...

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[attachment=1 BARROW AFC 1947/8. Not the exact Chelsea team.
BACK ROW: McIntosh. Kelly. Lee. Summerbee. Hindle. Regan. Rodgers. Beattie.
FRONT ROW: Mycock. Burnett. Collins. Forbes. Miller. Leech. Quigley. ]NWEM 2. JAN 12 1948 001.jpeg[/attachment]

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[SayitagainSam]

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[MisterPleasant]

Excellent extracts there, thanks. Nice to see Lee and Summerbee in the team. Must have been just before they moved to Man City.

[SayitagainSam]

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[Cromwell58]

So if we can keep the score down least than 5-0 we will have done better than the 1948 team.

[Azrael]

My nanna's stepfather was Lance Hall, part of the famous (according to my Grandad!) Barrow half back line up of Lee, Summerbee and Hall. He played in that game against Chelsea. He used to say it was a very even game until right up to kick off. He also used to say his memory was thinking 'oh no, here they come again' as Chelsea launched yet another attack.

Lance died when I was very young so I never got the chance to know him, but he apparently he was a lovely man. My nanna used to tell me the story of how he came to Barrow and into her life.

Her father died when she was only 4 or 5. He got knocked off his bike I believe on Holker St / Abbey Road junction ironically enough. He took a big whack on the head but initially seemed alright. A couple of weeks later he was supposed to go to the cinema with his wife, but he felt tired and so went to bed instead. My great-grandmother went on her own, and when she came back she found he'd died in his sleep whilst she'd been out. Very sad, he was only 30 odd. This would have been early 1930''s.

They'd lived on Walney in a nice house - I think one of those up near the King Alf for 'management types' in the yard. But with her husband and main breadwinner gone and three young children to take care of it was suddenly all a bit perilous for my great grandmother. With no support and nowhere to turn, they were turfed out of the house on Walney and took up a small terrace, I think the back of Oxford St way, I'm not sure exactly where. Without saying as much, from the story my nanna would tell it sounded brutal and it was a real struggle. There was terrible poverty around in the 30's and nothing in the way of a safety net. To make ends meet they took in lodgers, and a few years later one of those was a footballer who'd transferred to Barrow named Lance Hall. He ended up marrying my great-grandmother and living in Barrow the rest of his life. He died in 1985.

My nanna was incredibly fond of Lance. I think he gave her away when she married my Grandad. Sadly she passed last year, but I know she'd have been absolutely thrilled at the thought of Barrow travelling to the Bridge and taking on Chelsea once more, after all these years.

[Cubbins Paratrooper]

My nanna's stepfather was Lance Hall, part of the famous (according to my Grandad!) Barrow half back line up of Lee, Summerbee and Hall. He played in that game against Chelsea. He used to say it was a very even game until right up to kick off. He also used to say his memory was thinking 'oh no, here they come again' as Chelsea launched yet another attack.

Lance died when I was very young so I never got the chance to know him, but he apparently he was a lovely man. My nanna used to tell me the story of how he came to Barrow and into her life.

Her father died when she was only 4 or 5. He got knocked off his bike I believe on Holker St / Abbey Road junction ironically enough. He took a big whack on the head but initially seemed alright. A couple of weeks later he was supposed to go to the cinema with his wife, but he felt tired and so went to bed instead. My great-grandmother went on her own, and when she came back she found he'd died in his sleep whilst she'd been out. Very sad, he was only 30 odd. This would have been early 1930''s.

They'd lived on Walney in a nice house - I think one of those up near the King Alf for 'management types' in the yard. But with her husband and main breadwinner gone and three young children to take care of it was suddenly all a bit perilous for my great grandmother. With no support and nowhere to turn, they were turfed out of the house on Walney and took up a small terrace, I think the back of Oxford St way, I'm not sure exactly where. Without saying as much, from the story my nanna would tell it sounded brutal and it was a real struggle. There was terrible poverty around in the 30's and nothing in the way of a safety net. To make ends meet they took in lodgers, and a few years later one of those was a footballer who'd transferred to Barrow named Lance Hall. He ended up marrying my great-grandmother and living in Barrow the rest of his life. He died in 1985.

My nanna was incredibly fond of Lance. I think he gave her away when she married my Grandad. Sadly she passed last year, but I know she'd have been absolutely thrilled at the thought of Barrow travelling to the Bridge and taking on Chelsea once more, after all these years.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Azrael (interesting moniker, btw). Your notes brought a lump to my throat.

[John Alison]

I had a copy of this program, along with the Wolverhampton Wanderers program and the 50 year souvenir booklet, donated them to the club when Paul Casson was in ownership, his son was running the Crossbar office, don’t know what happened to them?

[John Alison]

Lived next door to Lance Hall and his wife (her son Bill Jones lived there on and off with them) in Westgate road in 1982, great bloke, loved to talk football.

[Jim]

Someone posted this picture on here a few years ago. Time for a repeat. I was stood right in line with McAdams' shot, in the Holker End, it was breathtaking.Billy_McAdams.jpg

This was the other goal - a diving header by Jimmy Mulholland.

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[Cromwell58]

When was the last time we played in front of a crowd of 40,000 could have that again against Chelsea.

[SayitagainSam]

Excellent extracts there, thanks. Nice to see Lee and Summerbee in the team. Must have been just before they moved to Man City.

George Summerbee was Mike Summerbee's Father.

Andy Beattie became Scotland's 1st Manager.

Interestingly, Legendary Secretary Mr Barrow AFC Wilf Livingstone (not in photo) played Centre Forward for the Bluebirds in the 1947/8 Season.