SACFC in St Albans Museum?

[lauraxgraham]

There's a great exhibition in St Albans museum, showing photos from the St Albans Review from the 70s and 80s. One of the first big pictures you see is 'St Albans Football Club' in a communal bath drinking beer. Has anyone seen it? Is this St Albans City FC and are there any famous players shown? It's a bit before my time you see, as I was a northener in the 70s and 80s!!

 

http://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/temp_exhibitions.htm

[Laz]

That looks like one of the churches down my road on fire!

[Rob_the_Saint]

It wasn't far away! The one on the corner of Victoria St and Beaconsfield Rd. Quite a spectacle as I remember. The Midland Railway pub was opposite in those days.

[Laz]

The Midland was my local for a while.

 

When was the fire?

[Rob_the_Saint]

1985. I was living in one of the flats above Iceland at the time. Very handy for the Robin Hood, New Gulshan and the mass brawls outside the Horn of Plenty every weekend!

[GHA EFM]

Beejams back then, surely?

[JKiF]

wasnt that fire to do with our copy-cat riots...?

[Sensible]

Are you sure that it wasn't earlier then 1985? My brother used to play in a band called The Innocent Vicars and they played a 24 hour gig in the church to raise funds for a youth club which was based there. I'm sure their gig was a couple of weeks before the place burned down. He was in the band late 70's early 80's if I remember rightly.

[Rob_the_Saint]

Sorry, yes, it was 1981. See interesting BBC link .

 

Some superb photos, this guy was even more famous than Thornsy!

 

Ginger Mills

 

And who can name these likely lads?

City 1980?

[Webbo MFI]

I presume the city picture is at Gravesend and Northfleet?

[lauraxgraham]

yes that's the picture that's in the museum, the one i was asking about

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/conte...allery.shtml?10

[Laz]

Ginger Mills allegedly got up on stage at the Isle of Wight festival with Jimi Hendrix! I have no idea why. He was last seen camped outside the Fighting Cocks.

[JKiF]

ginger mills?

 

did well out of Sainsburys?

[Laz]

He's probably called Silver Mills now.

[AFF]

He was paid off by the developers of the Christopher Place Shopping Centre, allegedly, and if he did the same on the site of Sainsburys, he's probably living in happy retirement in Barbados.

 

Silver? Golden, more like.

[Rob_the_Saint]

Slaphead? Wouldn't say that to his face, mind. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/boxing.gif" alt="" />