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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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| Quote: 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 "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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| Quote: 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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[size=75:2n7j1gh7][color=black:2n7j1gh7]There will always be a Wigan Warriors no matter what the bitter & twisted blues say[/color:2n7j1gh7][/size:2n7j1gh7]:25472.jpg |
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| Quote: 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. 
PS: is he on here? |
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| Quote: wiganrlforever "Have you seen him lately he looks like that Jack Nicholson from the film The Shining.
I think you'd know if he was.
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,uoteDoes anyone remember the ringside seats?'"
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yes i remember them,sitting on a plank on the touchline.
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THE ONE AND ONLY "LATICS" ,
Ronnie Blair scorer of the goal that wasn't given
Oldham Athletic v Man Utd 28th Dec 1975
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Gary Bennett " Man in charge of all Car Parks "
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SAINTS THE ORIGINAL AND PERENNIAL CHEATS
For sale full Saints kit (circa 1989). Shirts in pristine condition, but shorts badly soiled.
For 27 - 0 you get a trophy
For 75 - 0 you get sod all.
Wigan had eight in a row
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| Quote: jinkin jimmy "Does anyone remember the ringside seats?'"
Don't I just.
My first season tickets were there sat with my mam & dad. Had them for about 10 years until health and bl**dy safety rule. 25 yard line popular side scoreboard end.
You could here the bones crack.
Scrum down, McTigue playing second row.
Hggr, aahhhhhhh.
Opponent second row lies prostrate as scrum breaks up. Mac walks away from scrum, looks back and smiles.
Billy B beats two men and scores in the corner, as he scores my mam is diving on him to congratulate him.
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| Quote: wiganrlforever "i believe you to be correct...'"
he is correct...it was on the left hand side of the tunnel(as they ran out), with the scoreboard on the other side of the tunnel |
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| Quote: Hoops "3d for the bus to Wigan
3d for a programme
3d for admission to the hen pen
3d back home on the bus
Great value for a shilling in total, which is 5 pence for those who don't know. And you got to watch, Billy B, Eric Ashton, Brian McTigue, Frank Collier, Punchy Griffiths, DAvid Bolton et al. (Am I giving my age away?)
It is still great now at the JJB/DW but it don't half cost a lot more.'"
cost me a tanner..........i walked |
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