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| Club Coach | 6310 | Wigan Warriors |
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| Quote JTB="JTB"I used to stand in the hen pen. I even watched* the Manly game from there
* watched as best I could aged 15 wedged in at the back just under the old clubhouse windows.'"
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| Mar 2006 | 19 years | |
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| The kids pen ? 
Bloody hell that was a frightening place when you are 7.
Thank God my Dad was there to get me out.
Nearly as bad as the ABC minors.  |
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My son was going to Central Park for years before I started to pay for him just used to lift him over the turnstile. Oh happy days at CP
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My son was going to Central Park for years before I started to pay for him just used to lift him over the turnstile. Oh happy days at CP
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| must have had twins  |
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| Club Coach | 903 | Wigan Warriors |
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| Jul 2005 | 20 years | |
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| Quote ray13="ray13"My son was going to Central Park for years before I started to pay for him just used to lift him over the turnstile. Oh happy days at CP'"
My Dad used to do the same for me.
Don't remember when I actually started having to pay to get in.
Think I was about 18. |
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| Quote What was a shilling as a % of an average working mans pay back then?
Just to compare, like.'"
Not sure what the average wage was then on account of being a small boy, but in comparison junior admission price has gone up from 3d to £5 (for the big one). With eighty 3d's in a pound that means the current price is 400 times more expensive. I don't think wages have gone up that much. |
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| International Chairman | 1157 | No
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| Dec 2001 | 23 years | |
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| Quote Wigan/Leeds Andy="Wigan/Leeds Andy"St Pats corner - just under the scoreboard.'"
I was always led to believe the Hen Pen was the middle section, not the corner? If you look at old Central Park pics you will see a walled off section starting at the tunnel going towards the popular side, about 20metres wide. Byt the time I started going it wasn't officially in use any more so I might well be wrong. |
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| Quote WIGAN FOREVER="WIGAN FOREVER"I was always led to believe the Hen Pen was the middle section, not the corner? If you look at old Central Park pics you will see a walled off section starting at the tunnel going towards the popular side, about 20metres wide. Byt the time I started going it wasn't officially in use any more so I might well be wrong.'"
Yes the turnstiles were just to the left of the old clubhouse. It was just left of centre. |
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Does anyone remember the ringside seats?
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| Player Coach | 3528 | Hunslet Hawks |
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| May 2006 | 19 years | |
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| Quote WIGAN FOREVER="WIGAN FOREVER"I was always led to believe the Hen Pen was the middle section, not the corner? If you look at old Central Park pics you will see a walled off section starting at the tunnel going towards the popular side, about 20metres wide. Byt the time I started going it wasn't officially in use any more so I might well be wrong.'"
i believe you to be correct... |
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| Player Coach | 3528 | Hunslet Hawks |
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| Quote Jimmy Birts Lives On="Jimmy Birts Lives On"Watched Wigan from there during my first season in 80/81. I remember being stood next to a strange man at my very first Wigan game. That man, I later discovered was Gary Bennett.'"
Have you seen him lately he looks like that Jack Nicholson from the film The Shining.
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