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Grew up in Coningsby now Live in Brisbane . Was never lucky enough to go many games as a kid. . Was lucky to meet imptastic who as it happens knows my mate well and johnolbe . Ifollow has been a godsend and gets better every year. Try to get to 2 or 3 games every season however no chance this year. Great we have such a good forum to keep find out whats happening .
 
These nostalgia threads are the best on here. Tell you what I miss nowadays, the old-fashioned full and proper league table which showed won, draw, loss at home, goals for and against, and then the same for away games. These modern, cut-down tables just won't do.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
 
These nostalgia threads are the best on here. Tell you what I miss nowadays, the old-fashioned full and proper league table which showed won, draw, loss at home, goals for and against, and then the same for away games. These modern, cut-down tables just won't do.

David Coleman on Grandstand giving out the results with mic and video printer . Brilliant
 
Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks wrestling as the precursor to Saturday afternoon sports. Good times!
My dad used to take me to see it live when I was a kid. The Grove sports centre in Newark, even as little lad I knew it was all acting, but god it was entertainment. Always remember Catweasel taking out his false teeth and rubbing them in his opponents face, and Rollerball Rocco being straddled the ropes and pulled along them. Happy days.
 
Away from the RAF link, but still related to the City's military manufacturing, my Great Grandfather (who I never knew) worked on the first tanks that were built, in Lincoln at William Foster's on Firth Road
Thats very interesting would have been great to here how they evolved especially from some body who was part of the process. Did your great grandfather pass down any stories
 
Thats very interesting would have been great to here how they evolved especially from some body who was part of the process. Did your great grandfather pass down any stories

Regrettably, all I know is what my Dad told me, that he worked on the tank. I've read odd bits on the background, and a couple of articles are attached.

https://www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/history-heritage/birthplace-of-the-tank/

https://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/posts/view/the-tanks-of-lincoln

An interesting point is that the Visit Lincoln article doesn't refer to testing on the South Common, whereas the Lincolnshire Life article does - and other stuff I've read does refer to the South Common being used. From an LCFC viewpoint, the Common is close (more or less adjacent) to Sincil Bank
 
An interesting point is that the Visit Lincoln article doesn't refer to testing on the South Common, whereas the Lincolnshire Life article does - and other stuff I've read does refer to the South Common being used. From an LCFC viewpoint, the Common is close (more or less adjacent) to Sincil Bank

That is probably why it is so boggy when one parks one's car on it for games.
 
I did a piece of A level history coursework on the tank - I am going back a while but the Lincolnshire archives were a very good source. Reading that link has jogged my memory If I remember rightly I think they did use the common for testing (in the small hours) but they used to train them off to Hatfield for trials.
 
Regrettably, all I know is what my Dad told me, that he worked on the tank. I've read odd bits on the background, and a couple of articles are attached.

https://www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/history-heritage/birthplace-of-the-tank/

https://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/posts/view/the-tanks-of-lincoln

An interesting point is that the Visit Lincoln article doesn't refer to testing on the South Common, whereas the Lincolnshire Life article does - and other stuff I've read does refer to the South Common being used. From an LCFC viewpoint, the Common is close (more or less adjacent) to Sincil Bank

This site has some interesting tank history
https://www.friendsofthelincolntank.co.uk/
 
Perhaps we could let our exiled Imps friends have this thread back, rather than using it to reminisce about "those glory days" as Bruce Springsteen might have put it...