Bee Hole Wall collapsing

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Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Rodleydave » Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:46 pm

Does anyone know anything about a wall collapsing at the Bee Hole End sometime in the 50s.

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by durhamclaret » Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:12 pm

Look the way the ref is looking at his watch as if to say to the poor injured gentleman “come on, get up, we’ve got a game to finish”

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Volvoclaret » Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:37 pm

Is that CT receiving treatment? 😉

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by ClaretTony » Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:51 pm

Volvoclaret wrote:
Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:37 pm
Is that CT receiving treatment? 😉
Is that Volvoclaret pushing his luck and trying to get a ban? :D :D :D

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Volvoclaret » Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:57 pm

Couldn't resist. Have you still got that hat? 😝😝😝😝

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by JohnMac » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:25 pm

I bet he didn't roll over several times and then hold his head!
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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by RMutt » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:38 pm

JohnMac wrote:
Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:25 pm
I bet he didn't roll over several times and then hold his head!
Good early time wasting though, teach these youngsters a thing or two. And he wasn't even playing!
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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Leisure » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:45 pm

JohnMac wrote:
Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:25 pm
I bet he didn't roll over several times and then hold his head!
But I can almost hear his screams! ;)
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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Rodleydave » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:54 pm

Rmutt excellent many thanks

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by elwaclaret » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:54 pm

Not saying St. John’s were not up to it, but it was his other leg.

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by bfcjg » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:55 pm

And they still got Barnfield back !! 😁

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Claretforever » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:56 pm

I’m not sure where I read it now, but I have it in my mind that it was a game v Arsenal in the early 1950’s, with a crowd of over 54,000?

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by mdd2 » Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:36 pm

I was at that match
Think it was in the FACup against Sunderland

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:42 pm

This sounds like something that Royboyclaret would know about

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by GordonvaleClaret » Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:39 am

Why do they always print "St. John's Ambulance" instead of "St John Ambulance"?

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by mikeS » Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:16 am

Burnley v Sunderland 31st January 1953. Several supporters injured when the Bee Hole End wall collapsed. Mostly children hurt.
Bob Lord was the Grounds manager then.
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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Rowls » Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:15 am

Shocking to see rampant global warming back then and everybody oblivious to it and treating it just as "a flood".

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by Claretforever » Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:14 am

mikeS wrote:
Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:16 am
Burnley v Sunderland 31st January 1953. Several supporters injured when the Bee Hole End wall collapsed. Mostly children hurt.
Bob Lord was the Grounds manager then.

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14,000 Sunderland fans. What an amazing following, but normal for big FA Cup ties I’d imagine. I think we took around 13,000 to Man United in the late 60’s I remember reading on here? All ticket games means numbers would be known.

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Re: Bee Hole Wall collapsing

Post by mikeS » Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:39 am

There would have been 14 or more trains carrying the 14,000 down from Sunderland, arriving at Burnley Manchester Road and BUrnley Bank Top (Central), one after another. The sidings at Bank Top station Must have been quite a sight to see that day.

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