BP memories

Does anyone remember

The capital letters at the front of the main stand and why they were there

Before kick-off the marching band on the pitch , early 80's

When the players came out before kick off they kicked football's into the crowd for the kids .

The capital letters. Weren’t they for identifying the half time scores of the other matches? We didn’t have smart phones then.

Does anybody remember...

Mighty and Mini Mariner!

But no, I don’t remember any of yours!

the capital letter boards were for the halftime scores. You needed to buy a programme see which letter corresponded to which match and a kid would walk round and slide the numbers showing the score into slats just below each letter. Real state of the art,

Quoted from Madeleymariner

the capital letter boards were for the halftime scores. You needed to buy a programme see which letter corresponded to which match and a kid would walk round and slide the numbers showing the score into slats just below each letter. Real state of the art,

It was digital technology

Quoted from KingstonMariner

It was digital technology

Don't know why but the dodgy wooden staircase at the back of the Barrett's always sticks in my mind, I need to get out more  

Quoted from Madeleymariner

the capital letter boards were for the halftime scores. You needed to buy a programme see which letter corresponded to which match and a kid would walk round and slide the numbers showing the score into slats just below each letter. Real state of the art,

The halftime scores were put up both sides of the ground.

I found it amusing when on some occasions the kid on one
side of the pitch putting up the scores would find he was
short of a particular number, say for example a nought, and
would sprint round the pitch to  see if his mate had a spare.

Quoted from thefish

Does anybody remember...

Mighty and Mini Mariner!

But no, I don’t remember any of yours!

Yes, didn't we get Mighty in his current guise to celebrate promotion in 98?

Quoted from It Bites

Does anyone remember

The capital letters at the front of the main stand and why they were there

Before kick-off the marching band on the pitch , early 80's

When the players came out before kick off they kicked football's into the crowd for the kids .

The marching Mariners band.   They didn't have get some stick.  There's no need for half-time entertainment these days.  Everybody buries their head into their phones.  I 'd forgotten about the letters.  Yeah for half time scores but was there really a need as they had a tannoy - or was the band too loud to hear?

In those days the scores were not all available till early in the second half!

Quoted from Mayaman

The marching Mariners band.   They didn't have get some stick.  There's no need for half-time entertainment these days.  Everybody buries their head into their phones.  I 'd forgotten about the letters.  Yeah for half time scores but was there really a need as they had a tannoy - or was the band too loud to hear?

Remember they also had an additional 1& 2 category so they could cover all half times so they were changed after a certain amount of time.

As for the Barrett Stand one memory which really stands out is the name calling that went out when someone failed to close one of the back doors at the top of the back stairs. It was equivalent to your parents shouting if you left the back door open on a cold day.

Another is a group of guys who stood together and we nicknamed them the “ Crunchie Crowd” as they always gave the Ginger headed lad, who walked round the outside of the pitch (another memory) selling confectionery loads of stick.

Great days except for that 69/70 season which was pretty woeful stuff with low attendances.

My oldest memory is the charity collection which used to take place with four or more people carrying a sheet around the ground with an extra bit sewn in the middle to catch the coins thrown in from the stands. A couple of extra guys walked along picking up coins that missed the catching sheet and landed in the grass.

I didn't think about it at the time but it was bloody dangerous, the old pennies, halfpennies and threepenny bits would have cut your scalp or worse if you were hit in the face. Most fans near the front simply tossed coins straight into the sheet but those at the back threw them very hard!

Quoted from Ipswin

My oldest memory is the charity collection which used to take place with four or more people carrying a sheet around the ground with an extra bit sewn in the middle to catch the coins thrown in from the stands. A couple of extra guys walked along picking up coins that missed the catching sheet and landed in the grass.

I didn't think about it at the time but it was bloody dangerous, the old pennies, halfpennies and threepenny bits would have cut your scalp or worse if you were hit in the face. Most fans near the front simply tossed coins straight into the sheet but those at the back threw them very hard!

A tarpaulin muster.

It's a vague memory, a long time ago, but i remember when we had promotion winning league teams.

Remember when we were allowed to move around in the ground?
At kick off if town were attacking the Osmond end I used to run past the Barrats to get behind the goal.....then change at half time back in the pontoon
No idea where away fans were located....forgot....lol

I used to have a wooden rattle as well........remember them?

Wooden rattles, ah yes, bought mine from The Army Stores on Freeman Street.

The GOFERS - Grimsby’s Official Football Express Retrieval Service. Aka ball boys! Not going THAT far back there, admittedly. I only started going in ‘89, and it was substantially after that.

Quoted from Heisenberg

The GOFERS - Grimsby’s Official Football Express Retrieval Service. Aka ball boys! Not going THAT far back there, admittedly. I only started going in ‘89, and it was substantially after that.

We weren’t at BP in 1889

Quoted from KingstonMariner

We weren’t at BP in 1889

You honestly bothered to type that?! Anyway.

I remember Clive Spencer the Town mascot in the late 1960s, because he was in the 1st Cleethorpes Boys Brigade with me.

I remember the Supporter's Club hut by the corner of the Constitutional and Barratt Stands, just next to the floodlights.

I remember songs such as "Daisy" and "2-4-6-8- who do we appreciate?" but the best of the lot was the often gutteral roar from the Barratt after a refereeing decision went against the Town "oh,oh,oh, what a referee, what a referee, what a refereee, of, oh, oh, what a referee S H 1 T H O U S E!"

I remember being in the Boys' Stand at the end of the Barratt, and playing football with plastic cups when the game got boring.

I remember Moore, Hurst, and Peters heading back to London after riding their luck in a League Cup quarter final to draw 2-2.

I remember that rank rotten unlit "toilet" at the back of the Barratt, right at the end of the stand.

I remember Dot's washing facilities in the Main Stand.

Memories......

Quoted from Heisenberg

The GOFERS - Grimsby’s Official Football Express Retrieval Service. Aka ball boys! Not going THAT far back there, admittedly. I only started going in ‘89, and it was substantially after that.

i wish i could remember the last time i saw a ball boy actually retrieve a fking ball.

Quoted from moosey_club

i wish i could remember the last time i saw a ball boy actually retrieve a fking ball.

I'm all for it when we're winning  

Quoted from moosey_club

i wish i could remember the last time i saw a ball boy actually retrieve a fking ball.

I wish I could remember when there was a ball for the boy to retrieve.

Quoted from moosey_club

i wish i could remember the last time i saw a ball boy actually retrieve a fking ball.

All the time under Slade Hoof Ball...................

In 1969 we had a brief flirtation with folk music and local? folk singer Dave Durrane who used to treat the crowd to renditions of such classics as "We Shall overcome".

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