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Barcelona Based Fan No longer Barcelona, now living in... 11 Aug 10 4.49pm
People on Hol whom remember these times 60,70,80's are true Palace fans, I will always respect and admire them coz they've been there with me thro thick and thin.I used to always buy both peanuts and at least two burgers from that lady, she used to pile on the onions for me, so yummy back then. Who remembers the bell ringer in the mainstand? Who rememebers the St Beranard dog at ther back of the Holmesdale? Who recalls going for a pee behind the toliet block coz the toilets were always so packed? It was right at the bottom of the stairs at the back of the Holmesdale(that was a long climb) I used to love milling around at the top of the stairs by the main hol gate before game and during half time, Used to feel so hard and proud to be there in my obb nails!I even used to go to sit in the Holmesdale when Selhurst was empty and reminisce,during closed season I was there almost every week!! Sad eh? but those were the days of Silk scarves hanging from my wrists etc.Cant beat it. I guess we can all say we Love Palace TaxiMark Sheffield Wednesday Fan Posted 23 February 2013 - 07:49 PM I don't mind palace to be fair. Much better club than tinpot Charlton and Brighton
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People on Hol whom remember these times 60,70,80's
are true Palace fans, I will always respect and admire them coz they've been there with me thro thick and thin.I used to always buy both peanuts and at least two burgers from that lady, she used to pile on the onions for me, so yummy back then.
Who remembers the bell ringer in the mainstand?
Who rememebers the St Beranard dog at ther back of the Holmesdale? Who recalls going for a pee behind the toliet block coz the toilets were always so packed? It was right at the bottom of the stairs at the back of the Holmesdale(that was a long climb)
I used to love milling around at the top of the stairs by the main hol gate before game and during half time,
Used to feel so hard and proud to be there in my obb nails!I even used to go to sit in the Holmesdale when Selhurst was empty and reminisce,during closed season I was there almost every week!! Sad eh?
but those were the days of Silk scarves hanging from my wrists etc.Cant beat it.
I guess we can all say we Love Palace

TaxiMark
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Posted 23 February 2013 - 07:49 PM
I don't mind palace to be fair. Much better club than tinpot Charlton and Brighton

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Horse in Stable One Kent 11 Aug 10 4.51pm
Quote Hoof Hearted at 11 Aug 2010 4.36pm Quote Horse in Stable One at 11 Aug 2010 4.28pm Quote Hoof Hearted at 11 Aug 2010 4.12pm Quote Seth at 11 Aug 2010 12.18pm I remember the cry: "Roasted peanuts, ten pence a bag!" My first memory was sixpence (in old money) Seth! Yeah ...sixpence a paper bag of unshelled peanuts, big dewdrop hanging precariously off the end of her nose, headscarf and dirty ol mac tied on to her with the belt. Happy days! Remember the girl photographer too? Hy Money? Oh yes! Where's my fedora? Yes, thanks for reminding me ...she did a book 'Hy on Palace' I'm standing in a field somewhere in Kent - home of the 2010 Weald Cup
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Quote Seth at 11 Aug 2010 12.18pm

I remember the cry: "Roasted peanuts, ten pence a bag!"

My first memory was sixpence (in old money) Seth!

Yeah ...sixpence a paper bag of unshelled peanuts, big dewdrop hanging precariously off the end of her nose, headscarf and dirty ol mac tied on to her with the belt. Happy days! Remember the girl photographer too?

Hy Money?
Oh yes!

Where's my fedora?

Yes, thanks for reminding me ...she did a book 'Hy on Palace'

I'm standing in a field somewhere in Kent - home of the 2010 Weald Cup

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eagle in cornwall Made In Thornton Heath. 11 Aug 10 5.00pm
Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 11 Aug 2010 4.49pm People on Hol whom remember these times 60,70,80's are true Palace fans, I will always respect and admire them coz they've been there with me thro thick and thin.I used to always buy both peanuts and at least two burgers from that lady, she used to pile on the onions for me, so yummy back then. Who remembers the bell ringer in the mainstand? Who rememebers the St Beranard dog at ther back of the Holmesdale? Who recalls going for a pee behind the toliet block coz the toilets were always so packed? It was right at the bottom of the stairs at the back of the Holmesdale(that was a long climb) I used to love milling around at the top of the stairs by the main hol gate before game and during half time, Used to feel so hard and proud to be there in my obb nails!I even used to go to sit in the Holmesdale when Selhurst was empty and reminisce,during closed season I was there almost every week!! Sad eh? but those were the days of Silk scarves hanging from my wrists etc.Cant beat it. I guess we can all say we Love Palace It was better behind the toilets as you didn't get your jeans/trousers wet and it didn't stink so much. Used to change ends at half time to go the way Palace were kicking.Trouble was I use to slip down that muddy bank and get in a right state. Use to go to watch the reserves play when the first team were away and get their half and full time score from the tannoy. ........................Then along came Johnny Byrne! and the rest, as they say, is history.....................
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Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 11 Aug 2010 4.49pm

People on Hol whom remember these times 60,70,80's
are true Palace fans, I will always respect and admire them coz they've been there with me thro thick and thin.I used to always buy both peanuts and at least two burgers from that lady, she used to pile on the onions for me, so yummy back then.
Who remembers the bell ringer in the mainstand?
Who rememebers the St Beranard dog at ther back of the Holmesdale? Who recalls going for a pee behind the toliet block coz the toilets were always so packed? It was right at the bottom of the stairs at the back of the Holmesdale(that was a long climb)
I used to love milling around at the top of the stairs by the main hol gate before game and during half time,
Used to feel so hard and proud to be there in my obb nails!I even used to go to sit in the Holmesdale when Selhurst was empty and reminisce,during closed season I was there almost every week!! Sad eh?
but those were the days of Silk scarves hanging from my wrists etc.Cant beat it.
I guess we can all say we Love Palace

It was better behind the toilets as you didn't get your jeans/trousers wet and it didn't stink so much.
Used to change ends at half time to go the way Palace were kicking.Trouble was I use to slip down that muddy bank and get in a right state.

Use to go to watch the reserves play when the first team were away and get their half and full time score from the tannoy.

........................Then along came Johnny Byrne! and the rest, as they say, is history.....................

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Barcelona Based Fan No longer Barcelona, now living in... 12 Aug 10 3.23pm
Saddo's aren't we TaxiMark Sheffield Wednesday Fan Posted 23 February 2013 - 07:49 PM I don't mind palace to be fair. Much better club than tinpot Charlton and Brighton
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Saddo's aren't we

TaxiMark
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Posted 23 February 2013 - 07:49 PM
I don't mind palace to be fair. Much better club than tinpot Charlton and Brighton

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eagle in cornwall Made In Thornton Heath. 12 Aug 10 3.42pm
Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 12 Aug 2010 3.23pm Saddo's aren't we Yeah too right but I wouldn't change a thing or perhaps going back to claret and blue. ........................Then along came Johnny Byrne! and the rest, as they say, is history.....................
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Made In Thornton Heath. 12 Aug 10 3.42pm

Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 12 Aug 2010 3.23pm

Saddo's aren't we

Yeah too right but I wouldn't change a thing or perhaps going back to claret and blue.

........................Then along came Johnny Byrne! and the rest, as they say, is history.....................

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lyeemoon Girne 12 Aug 10 8.29pm
Quote Hoof Hearted at 11 Aug 2010 4.12pm Quote Seth at 11 Aug 2010 12.18pm I remember the cry: "Roasted peanuts, ten pence a bag!" My first memory was sixpence (in old money) Seth! 6d is right. I hated those peanuts but one day I was on my own, she thrust a bag at me and said "sixpence." Very naively I said, "I've only got threepence" and produced a threepenny bit. She snatched it from me, tore the bag in half and dumped them on me. I ended up throwing them away. To me she was tiny with a very gypsylike appearance like the Rumanians you see around. lo Selhurst silva felix, lo Selhurst cara nutrix, viget, vigeat, vigebit! Best team:- Jackson; Gilbert, Evans, Cannon, Sansom; Hughes, Kember, McNichol; Byrne, Holton, Wright.
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 11 Aug 2010 4.12pm

Quote Seth at 11 Aug 2010 12.18pm

I remember the cry: "Roasted peanuts, ten pence a bag!"

My first memory was sixpence (in old money) Seth!

6d is right. I hated those peanuts but one day I was on my own, she thrust a bag at me and said "sixpence." Very naively I said, "I've only got threepence" and produced a threepenny bit. She snatched it from me, tore the bag in half and dumped them on me. I ended up throwing them away. To me she was tiny with a very gypsylike appearance like the Rumanians you see around.

lo Selhurst silva felix, lo Selhurst cara nutrix, viget, vigeat, vigebit! Best team:- Jackson; Gilbert, Evans, Cannon, Sansom; Hughes, Kember, McNichol; Byrne, Holton, Wright.

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The Sash Now residing in Epsom - How Posh 13 Aug 10 12.52pm
Great reading this and does take me back, for some reason the 70's evoke memories of night games at Palace more than day ones. The smell of burgers, BO and horsehit drifting across the Holmesdale whilst watching Doris's screamer fly in against Liverpool. A posse of Hereford defenders watching the ball nestle in the back of the net in a big promotion four pointer..my dad taking us in to the seats of the AW for the only time against Millwall because of the potential trouble only to find some of his own and he ends up knocking some nasty Bermondsey b****** down the stairs to applause... I want to go back to 1974 and start all over again... Edited by The Sash (13 Aug 2010 12.53pm) As far as the rules go, it's a website not a democracy - Hambo 3/6/2014
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Now residing in Epsom - How Posh 13 Aug 10 12.52pm

Great reading this and does take me back, for some reason the 70's evoke memories of night games at Palace more than day ones.

The smell of burgers, BO and horsehit drifting across the Holmesdale whilst watching Doris's screamer fly in against Liverpool. A posse of Hereford defenders watching the ball nestle in the back of the net in a big promotion four pointer..my dad taking us in to the seats of the AW for the only time against Millwall because of the potential trouble only to find some of his own and he ends up knocking some nasty Bermondsey b****** down the stairs to applause...

I want to go back to 1974 and start all over again...

Edited by The Sash (13 Aug 2010 12.53pm)

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May11th1979 Crawley 13 Aug 10 2.20pm
I used to work with Mrs Minchellas son a real diamond of a bloke as it happens and the St bernard dog I think belonged to a guy called Chris Wright.Seem to recall him parading it around the pitch sometimes with a Palace shirt on. A five year old child could do this! Somebody fetch me a five year old child.
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I used to work with Mrs Minchellas son a real diamond of a bloke as it happens and the St bernard dog I think belonged to a guy called Chris Wright.Seem to recall him parading it around the pitch sometimes with a Palace shirt on.

A five year old child could do this! Somebody fetch me a five year old child.

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May11th1979 Crawley 13 Aug 10 2.22pm
Quote May11th1979 at 13 Aug 2010 2.20pm I used to work with Mrs Minchellas son a real diamond of a bloke as it happens and the St bernard dog I think belonged to a guy called Chris Wright.Seem to recall him parading it around the pitch sometimes with a Palace shirt on. The dog by the way not Chris Wright A five year old child could do this! Somebody fetch me a five year old child.
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Quote May11th1979 at 13 Aug 2010 2.20pm

The dog by the way not Chris Wright

A five year old child could do this! Somebody fetch me a five year old child.

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cooleagle89 Montrose 13 Aug 10 2.30pm
Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 11 Aug 2010 4.49pm People on Hol whom remember these times 60,70,80's are true Palace fans, I will always respect and admire them coz they've been there with me thro thick and thin.I used to always buy both peanuts and at least two burgers from that lady, she used to pile on the onions for me, so yummy back then. Who remembers the bell ringer in the mainstand? Who rememebers the St Beranard dog at ther back of the Holmesdale? Who recalls going for a pee behind the toliet block coz the toilets were always so packed? It was right at the bottom of the stairs at the back of the Holmesdale(that was a long climb) I used to love milling around at the top of the stairs by the main hol gate before game and during half time, Used to feel so hard and proud to be there in my obb nails!I even used to go to sit in the Holmesdale when Selhurst was empty and reminisce,during closed season I was there almost every week!! Sad eh? but those were the days of Silk scarves hanging from my wrists etc.Cant beat it. I guess we can all say we Love Palace Remember the phantom bell ringer .... anyone know who it was ?? As a kid the peanut wifee always reminded the bird lady in Mary Poppins tupence a bag!!! but unfortunately ,as DRT, i got dissuaded by the dew drop on her nose!!! PS what happened DRT 's got a yella?
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Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 11 Aug 2010 4.49pm

Remember the phantom bell ringer .... anyone know who it was ??

As a kid the peanut wifee always reminded the bird lady in Mary Poppins tupence a bag!!! but unfortunately ,as DRT, i got dissuaded by the dew drop on her nose!!!

PS what happened DRT 's got a yella?

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Kenny Lunt Somewhere a whole lot better than ... 13 Aug 10 2.32pm
I remember it well....very well The Peanut Vendor [Link]
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Somewhere a whole lot better than ... 13 Aug 10 2.32pm

I remember it well....very well

The Peanut Vendor

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cooleagle89 Montrose 13 Aug 10 2.40pm
Quote May11th1979 at 13 Aug 2010 2.22pm Quote May11th1979 at 13 Aug 2010 2.20pm I used to work with Mrs Minchellas son a real diamond of a bloke as it happens and the St bernard dog I think belonged to a guy called Chris Wright.Seem to recall him parading it around the pitch sometimes with a Palace shirt on. The dog by the way not Chris Wright Blimey, that's a name from the past. I rember him well , especially from away games. I once bumped into him in Copenhagen for some reason he arrived at half time. me and my mates were there to support kenny Sansom and see his debut for the u23's. Could write book about trip!!! Is he still on the go?
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Quote May11th1979 at 13 Aug 2010 2.22pm

Quote May11th1979 at 13 Aug 2010 2.20pm

The dog by the way not Chris Wright

Blimey, that's a name from the past. I rember him well , especially from away games. I once bumped into him in Copenhagen for some reason he arrived at half time. me and my mates were there to support kenny Sansom and see his debut for the u23's. Could write book about trip!!!

Is he still on the go?

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