Name The OLD Ground: No.4
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exhertsimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
Skegness Town? We're you welcome and we're the toilets open?
Norfolk Imp
Vital 1st Team Regular
Watling Street, Maidstone's old ground?
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
That was actually Dartford's ground, but could be it - if you count three games there as 'several'.
I'll guess Underhill, Barnet.
89spartans_12/03/77
Vital Squad Member
Boston
impsimps
Vital Football Hero
Bound to be Barnet eventually ! but there were no trees behind the goal or not when I went. Always easy to get to from Norfolk !
Of course, City Res played several games there in Midland League days, presumably until the formation of the North Regional League in 1958. The latter actually appears in the 1958-9 season ticket as the Combined Counties League.
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
The Reserves played in the Midland League for a couple of seasons in the mid-1960s.
In the days when reserve games were played on Saturdays my father and I would sometimes go along and one of the games I remember seeing was actually against Worksop on the opening day of the 1965/66 season. It's stuck in my mind because normal tough-tackling right back Alf Jones played centre forward and scored a couple of goals in a 5-4 win.
In the days when reserve games were played on Saturdays my father and I would sometimes go along and one of the games I remember seeing was actually against Worksop on the opening day of the 1965/66 season. It's stuck in my mind because normal tough-tackling right back Alf Jones played centre forward and scored a couple of goals in a 5-4 win.
89spartans_12/03/77
Vital Squad Member
Danny played in goal for City in a friendly at Worksop mid 90s whilst we were playing for Lincoln moorlands.
89spartans_12/03/77
Vital Squad Member
Another Worksop story I’d love to share: many years ago I lived on one of the streets on monks rd near the college/cattle market.
Anyways, one corner shop known as Stubbs and Chappell but affectionately known by all who used it as Stubbsys was a popular stop off for us young City fans. 8 black jacks for an old penny.
After many enjoyable chats over the years with Mr Stubbs, he opened up a bit and told us Mr Stubbs was dead and he was Mr Chappell. Lovely bloke.
Then he told us that he had played for Worksop Town sometime in the distant past.
He must have played in the 1920s or 1930s?
Long gone now
Anyways, one corner shop known as Stubbs and Chappell but affectionately known by all who used it as Stubbsys was a popular stop off for us young City fans. 8 black jacks for an old penny.
After many enjoyable chats over the years with Mr Stubbs, he opened up a bit and told us Mr Stubbs was dead and he was Mr Chappell. Lovely bloke.
Then he told us that he had played for Worksop Town sometime in the distant past.
He must have played in the 1920s or 1930s?
Long gone now
Leagues that Imps Reserves played in ...
1947-58 Midland Counties League
1958-9 Combined Counties League
1959-64 North Regional League*
1965-6 Midland Counties League
1966-7 Midland League
1967-75 North Midlands League**
1975-6 Northern Intermediate League
* The NRL was Wednesdays ... Saturday games were played in the Lincs League Prem Division
** In some seasons of early 1970s, matches were played in both NML (24 games) and NIL (32 games) as an example in 1974-5.
1947-58 Midland Counties League
1958-9 Combined Counties League
1959-64 North Regional League*
1965-6 Midland Counties League
1966-7 Midland League
1967-75 North Midlands League**
1975-6 Northern Intermediate League
* The NRL was Wednesdays ... Saturday games were played in the Lincs League Prem Division
** In some seasons of early 1970s, matches were played in both NML (24 games) and NIL (32 games) as an example in 1974-5.
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
The Midland Counties League and the Midland League were of course one and the same.
The Northern Intermediate League was a competition for youth teams (not sure of the age limit). City didn't have a reserve side in the 1975/76 season.
I can only answer for the 1963/64 and 1964/65 seasons, but the North Regional League games were usually played on Saturdays at the same time as the first team were in action. In fact, during the Con Moulson era my father and I would go along and see the reserves because at least we would see a win! Gloomy announcements of the latest score from the first team's match would be made at intervals over the loudspeakers.
The Lincolnshire League Premier Division, as can be seen from this programme page only had six teams in it, and was usually played midweek.
The Northern Intermediate League was a competition for youth teams (not sure of the age limit). City didn't have a reserve side in the 1975/76 season.
I can only answer for the 1963/64 and 1964/65 seasons, but the North Regional League games were usually played on Saturdays at the same time as the first team were in action. In fact, during the Con Moulson era my father and I would go along and see the reserves because at least we would see a win! Gloomy announcements of the latest score from the first team's match would be made at intervals over the loudspeakers.
The Lincolnshire League Premier Division, as can be seen from this programme page only had six teams in it, and was usually played midweek.
GrotierBranfootLeigh
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Wasn’t the Northern Intermediate League the Youth Team rather than Reserves?
GrotierBranfootLeigh
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I see Merthyr Imp just beat me to it!
I guess it must have been. I'd left Lincoln by that time, I was just looking at my Dad's old season tickets.
