clanford
Vital 1st Team Regular
Scrumps for me too, but the Twitter debate seems to show that scrumps is more a Lincoln thing with scraps more common out in the shire !!
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Or elevenses
NottyImp
Vital Football Legend
Since we're hopelessly off-topic: remember these? I have vague memories of them being lined up next to the pitch in the 70s.
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...nvalid-carriage-festival-of-the-unexceptional
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...nvalid-carriage-festival-of-the-unexceptional
sedgleyimp
Vital Champions League
I take it the games still on??
Just checking like.................
Just checking like.................
could you have a slice of tiffin for your elevenses?
Chesterimp
Vital Football Hero
Agreed. When I was a kid, my Dad would come home from work at 12 for dinner, then tea when he'd finished for the day. At school it was school dinner supervised by dinner ladies.
These days, main meal in the evening after work is 'dinner' with a lunch break and sandwich during the day. It's always been 'elevenses' though and we arent posh!
What was this thread about?
Pompeyimp2
Vital Squad Member
Game? What Game???
Ruskingtony
Vital Squad Member
Between being 18 and 21 in 1973-76 a member of our group of drinkers etc.. had one of the blue invalid cars. He had had polio as a kid and was quite badly disabled in one arm and one leg. But he was a great lad and took full part in our drinking activities.
There was just enough room to lie down the side and behind his seat for a passenger to get in. We used to take turns in getting a ride into town and back to the Ermine on many occasions. Depending how much Steve the driver hadhad to drink it was often an interesting ride home!!
There was just enough room to lie down the side and behind his seat for a passenger to get in. We used to take turns in getting a ride into town and back to the Ermine on many occasions. Depending how much Steve the driver hadhad to drink it was often an interesting ride home!!
clanford
Vital 1st Team Regular
No footage from a 70s game is complete without a few of these lined up along the touchline
I remember regularly seeing one in Newark market place when I was a kid. I dare say one in good nick might be worth a few quid now.
Parker’s Garage near Newport Arch sold those cars. The owner’s son used to let some of us mess about with them in the yard after school (Westgate). The site has been a block of flats for many years.
GlenthamImp
Vital Reserves Team
Another tough one today.
We are currently in the 70s, so check back here in about 50 years
CardiffImp
Vital Squad Member
I always call it scrumps but the wife and the South Wales contingent call it scraps. Imps 4ever
CardiffImp
Vital Squad Member
Ermine boys
The Guardian article implies that Invacars were a 1970s thing. In fact they were introduced in the 40s with a much smaller engine. In the 60s I remember a regular contingent of four of them at Sincil Bank, one of them driven by a bloke called Taffy who used to play snooker from a wheelchair in the Legion.
Warrington Imp
Vital 1st Team Regular
When I first started going in the mid sixties I was always envious off the guys sat in their blue cars who could get so close to the action and had a birds eye view of the match, my dad put me right on you don’t want to be sat in one of those cars son!!
cherryexile
Vital 1st Team Regular
You've as much chance as seeing Sunderland promoted or Grant McCann seeing out the season in charge of Hull.
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
That's right - no admission without a team sheet. Believe it or not, 40p was the admission price in those days.
