Jason Stockwood article in todays guardian - worth

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Totally agree mate, you need a good business model but like all things in life you need an element of luck. I'm hoping the newly passed football regulator means that we somewhat return to normality at the lower levels and teams are spending within there means. Going back to my point of luck, I think we've used all ours over the past two years as our council seems more intent on throwing up a new cinema in the town centre as a hub for the youths of tomorrow to gather that absolotely nobody asked for rather than supporting the towns football club. We already have a cinema in the area that whenever i've attended you aren't exactly rushing to get a seat. Take a trip down to Bradley FDC and you see a hub of operations that kids and adults alike are gathered every single night and it's very rare there's ever a pitch unused. Down the road at the college everyday from the hours of 5-9 the astro and sports hall is packed in operation again of kids and adults, men and women alike playing Football, Hockey, Netball, Badminton etc. I think we are excrement out of luck of living in a Town of councillors that are anonymous and are benign to getting out and seeing what the Town is actually like. Youths on the streets with nowhere to go, smashing up police cars and shops because they live in a town where really all you can do is roam the streets. My mum, and dad who unfortunately passed away on Saturday had run the Nunsthorpe Funhouse a few years back now and since that closed there's absolotely nothing to do for the kids anywhere. Scartho Baths closed down and the land has been abandoned every since. The Funhouse closed down, facilities are either to expensive or rundown to a state of not being used. A Training Ground for Grimsby Town football club in the day that could quite easily be transformed into a multi use sports and leisure facility by afternoon and night is something this Town could do with but instead we have a Cinema being built into the Town Centre when the one we already have doesn't get used...

Quoted from Yarborough Vaults

I've never got the 'kids have got nothing to do' argument. It's not as though they've read every book in the library.

Quoted from 123614

Agreed, when I was a kid we made our own 'things to do'.  Marbles, cigarette packets, conkers, etc.  In teenage years, meeting up in the park and playing football/cricket sometimes even an attempt at rugby.  There is always plenty to do if they just open their eyes.

Quoted from 123614

Agreed, when I was a kid we made our own 'things to do'.  Marbles, cigarette packets, conkers, etc.  In teenage years, meeting up in the park and playing football/cricket sometimes even an attempt at rugby.  There is always plenty to do if they just open their eyes.

Quoted from Croxton

That was luxury!  A park? All we had at Croxton was climbing trees, making trollies from pram wheels and putting pennies on the railway line.

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Totally agree mate, you need a good business model but like all things in life you need an element of luck. I'm hoping the newly passed football regulator means that we somewhat return to normality at the lower levels and teams are spending within there means. Going back to my point of luck, I think we've used all ours over the past two years as our council seems more intent on throwing up a new cinema in the town centre as a hub for the youths of tomorrow to gather that absolotely nobody asked for rather than supporting the towns football club. We already have a cinema in the area that whenever i've attended you aren't exactly rushing to get a seat. Take a trip down to Bradley FDC and you see a hub of operations that kids and adults alike are gathered every single night and it's very rare there's ever a pitch unused. Down the road at the college everyday from the hours of 5-9 the astro and sports hall is packed in operation again of kids and adults, men and women alike playing Football, Hockey, Netball, Badminton etc. I think we are excrement out of luck of living in a Town of councillors that are anonymous and are benign to getting out and seeing what the Town is actually like. Youths on the streets with nowhere to go, smashing up police cars and shops because they live in a town where really all you can do is roam the streets. My mum, and dad who unfortunately passed away on Saturday had run the Nunsthorpe Funhouse a few years back now and since that closed there's absolotely nothing to do for the kids anywhere. Scartho Baths closed down and the land has been abandoned every since. The Funhouse closed down, facilities are either to expensive or rundown to a state of not being used. A Training Ground for Grimsby Town football club in the day that could quite easily be transformed into a multi use sports and leisure facility by afternoon and night is something this Town could do with but instead we have a Cinema being built into the Town Centre when the one we already have doesn't get used...

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

There used to be a house in the centre of Croxton with a tree in the garden trimmed to look like a peacock. Is it still there?

I agree there can’t have been a lot to do in Croxton, although the Marrow Bone and Cleaver used to be a good pub in the 1960s

Quoted from Croxton

That was our house! Dad was known for his gardening prowess. Only a farm labourer's tied cottage but a massive vegetable patch which he ploughed each  year. No money but we were well fed. Sherry trifle was the nearest we got to alcohol. Dad was also a Church organist and I was forced to be a choirboy as well as go to Sunday School.

Dad moved to work at a Habrough farm when I was ten and I got to experience the 'good life' of downtown Immingham which did have a park where kids could play etc. They also had girls there too.

Quoted from Shipwrecked In Gainsborough

My experience of girls from Immingham was that they were pretty scary!!