Up Holland Labour Club 1970

Posted by David Sudworth on August 31, 2007 11:29 AM

TONY MARTIN, from Ashurst, handed us this pic from 1970.

He is pictured on the front row (fifth from left) which shows Up Holland Labour Club’s A and B teams at Chequer Lane fields in 1970.
It was taken just a year after he moved into Elmstead from Croxteth.
He started at Glenburn but only had four months of full-time education left.
Eventually, he started at the EAST LIGHT FACTORY but his abiding memory of the town at that time is that there was very little here.
“There was no POLARIS or HIGHWAYMAN pub,” said Tony, formerly of Beechtrees.
“But there was the old CROSS KEYS pub, which used to be near the Grimshaw, and there was the Tawd Bridge further down at the bottom of Ormskirk Road.
“There used to be the RIBBLE BUS which would take us back to Liverpool. It costs 2s 11d and funnily enough the bus number was the 211.
“At that time, most of the kids in GLENBURN were old Skemmers, there were only about 20-24 Scouse kids there so there was always a lot of rivalry.
“There was no police station near the CONCOURSE, it was still the old one in CLAYTON STREET, Old Skem, and Tanhouse had no shops.
“We moved in the April and it was dead hot but later we had massive snow.”
As a youngster, he was really keen on football and even donned a pair of Alan Ball-style white boots, which were extremely rare at the time.
“The Labour club’s A-team played in green and black but the B team played in this horrible orange and black strip.
“As I was in the A team I don’t really remember any of their names.”

Share you memories of the team below.

• add or read comments (2)

• Post to:
•  del.icio.us
•  Digg
•  Newsvine
•  Nowpublic
•  Reddit