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ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:34 am

Thirty years ago today, was getting ready for the Lincoln trip to find that my old friend Granville Shackleton, LET and then Burnley Express reporter on BFC had sadly passed away at 64. No reference to the 1991/92 season without mention of Granville, a staunch Claret as well as a supporter.

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Re: ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by Paulclaret » Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:59 am

I remember Granville very well from my time as the Burnley CC scorer. As Tony rightly says in the article, he was a very quiet and unassuming person but he certainly knew his sport. He never failed to thank me for any help I'd given him with any cricket details, although, to be fair, he knew a lot more than I ever did. It's so sad that that Granville, Keith McNee and Jimmy McIlroy have all passed. I spent a lot of time with them in the scoreboxes around the Lancashire League. :(

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Re: ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:06 am

A nice gentle sense of humour too. I was able to get to know both Granville & Keith really well over the years and could call them friends along with Peter Higgs, now retired, who, unlike the other two, wasn't a Claret.

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Re: ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by Herts Clarets » Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:51 am

"Coming late into journalism, he taught me a lot and unbelievably we never had a cross word"

Most unusual for a newspaper to not have some kind of word puzzle..... :lol:
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Re: ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by NRC » Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:05 am

Wasn’t he behind ne of the fanzines that popped up many years previously?

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Re: ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:10 am

NRC wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:05 am
Wasn’t he behind ne of the fanzines that popped up many years previously?
A very definite no on that one - although another former BFC reporter used the pen name Granville Bott in NNN

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Post by NRC » Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:20 am

That’s the name I was thinking of. Thanks CT

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Post by slw » Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:29 pm

I always wonder what my dad Keith and Granville would have made of Burnley's present era in the premier league etc.. Keith was gone even before the Premier league came around, and Granville not soon after, Both gone far too early. Both highly respected and lived and breathed BFC through its darkest times.
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Post by ClaretTony » Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:32 pm

slw wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:29 pm
I always wonder what my dad Keith and Granville would have made of Burnley's present era in the premier league etc.. Keith was gone even before the Premier league came around, and Granville not soon after, Both gone far too early. Both highly respected and lived and breathed BFC through its darkest times.
Granville even was just before the Premier League. Two very different people were Keith & Granville but both good people who bled claret and blue. They were two people I’m pleased to have known so well.
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Post by aclaretinstevenage » Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:38 pm

Herts Clarets wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:51 am
"Coming late into journalism, he taught me a lot and unbelievably we never had a cross word"

Most unusual for a newspaper to not have some kind of word puzzle..... :lol:
:lol: :lol:

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Re: ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by Hipper » Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:46 pm

I used to get the Tuesday and Friday editions of the Burnley Express sent to me by post, as quite a few London Clarets did.

I always enjoyed and found informative Keith McNee's and Peter Higg's reports but never really liked those of Granville Shackleton for some reason. As for Jimmy McIlroy, I didn't like his articles at all as they seemed mostly negative.

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Post by joey13 » Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:15 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:06 am
A nice gentle sense of humour too. I was able to get to know both Granville & Keith really well over the years and could call them friends along with Peter Higgs, now retired, who, unlike the other two, wasn't a Claret.
Never would have guessed Peter Higgs wasn’t a claret he was always very passionate when reporting on our games for Radio Blackburn

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Post by longsidetrumpet » Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:24 pm

Pete is from Reading and a Reading fan. Great bloke I had the great pleasure of sitting across a desk from
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Re: ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:26 pm

joey13 wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:15 pm
Never would have guessed Peter Higgs wasn’t a claret he was always very passionate when reporting on our games for Radio Blackburn
As Longsidetrumpet said he’s very much a Reading fan. Another top bloke is Peter but not seen him in a long time.
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Post by joey13 » Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:18 pm

ClaretTony wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:26 pm
As Longsidetrumpet said he’s very much a Reading fan. Another top bloke is Peter but not seen him in a long time.
Didn’t he go on to be sports writer at the Mail ?

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Post by clansman » Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:31 pm

Always think of Granville along with Alf Thornton who did the rovers reports in the Evening telegraph at the same time. Both good blokes. Peter Higgs once kindly gave me a complimentary ticket down at the valley. Again nice guy.

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Post by ClaretTony » Tue Oct 26, 2021 8:02 pm

clansman wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:31 pm
Always think of Granville along with Alf Thornton who did the rovers reports in the Evening telegraph at the same time. Both good blokes. Peter Higgs once kindly gave me a complimentary ticket down at the valley. Again nice guy.
Alf was a decent bloke who much preferred watching cricket at Rishton to watching football at Ewood. Was it Peter Wight who followed him. Another good bloke.

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Re: ARTICLE: Granville Shackleton

Post by ClaretTony » Tue Oct 26, 2021 8:03 pm

joey13 wrote:
Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:18 pm
Didn’t he go on to be sports writer at the Mail ?
He left the Burnley Express at the end of 1983 to join the Mail on Sunday which was a new publication. He stayed there until he retired.

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