My grandad - If it wasn't for his love of Sir Tom and cycling down to Deepdale to see his hero from Over Wyre every weekend the PNE tradition would not have been born in the family.
RIP (and to Dirk to)
RIP (and to Dirk to)
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My mum, Jenny Jones, former season ticket holder of this parish, just over 7 years ago.
Mick "Wack" Murphy
Mick "Wack" Murphy
Mick "Wack" Murphy was Mr PNE , known to so many on here and such a lovely Guy. Thought of you at Wembley Mick and often think of you when looking over at your seat , bet you and sir Tom are having a great year up there watching the success that we are all sharing at the moment. One of the best.
Mick "Wack" Murphy
Mick "Wack" Murphy was Mr PNE , known to so many on here and such a lovely Guy. Thought of you at Wembley Mick and often think of you when looking over at your seat , bet you and sir Tom are having a great year up there watching the success that we are all sharing at the moment. One of the best.
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Gordon Worden.
A real Prestonian and legend to many people across Preston from all different walks of life. He left life far too early and is greatly missed by his family and friends.
A real Prestonian and legend to many people across Preston from all different walks of life. He left life far too early and is greatly missed by his family and friends.
Dave Armer - Family friend of mine. Big PNE fan along with his son Stuart. He worked for Lancashire Constabulary for many years. Had a pint at Wembley with Stuart.
My Grandad, Ronnie Cheston. Lifelong North Ender and apart from me, the only other PNE supporter in my family.
Quite fitting that Bolton away is Gentry Day, as the rest of my family are Wanderers and the last game my Grandad attended before passing away was our game at The Reebok in 2000.
RIP Big man xx
Quite fitting that Bolton away is Gentry Day, as the rest of my family are Wanderers and the last game my Grandad attended before passing away was our game at The Reebok in 2000.
RIP Big man xx
I'd just like to add the names of those in the 1964 cup final side that have sadly passed away. Alan Kelly snr. Jim Smith, Nobby Lawton, Tony Singleton, Howard Kendall, Alec Ashworth, and of course manager jovial pipe smoking ( as Walter Pilkington quoted him) Jimmy Milne. They gave me a great season and final day out I have never forgotten.
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I believe Doug Holden is still alive along with George Ross, Dave Wilson, Alex Dawson and Alan Spavin. In a sense, of course, all that team live on in a pantheon of glory. But remember also Brian Godfrey, who scored in the quarter final. It is a day I will never forget even if I watched it on a black and white television on the eastern edge of Preston.
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So he is Ernest, apologies and corrected in original post.
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Lost my dad
John Hoy on 11th feb after a 7month battle with lung cancer
He was a season ticket holder in the 60s and 70s and awayday regular during that time
Recently found all his stubs and season tickets
Going to get them framed
Will be at the macron donning his bowler hat
John Hoy on 11th feb after a 7month battle with lung cancer
He was a season ticket holder in the 60s and 70s and awayday regular during that time
Recently found all his stubs and season tickets
Going to get them framed
Will be at the macron donning his bowler hat
My dad N Keith Scott CBE, d 26.07.15, aged 88, at home. He grew up behind the Kop on Sherborne Crescent, storing bikes on match days and going on for the 'last 10' when the gates opened. He welcomed the team back from Wembley at Preston Station in 1937, and said every player was battered and bruised from a thuggish Sunderland side. He missed the '54 Cup Final as he was living in the USA then, and didn't want to leave my Mum in '64, as I was only 6 weeks old! Season Ticket holder from the 1960s till about 5 years ago he took me on some of my first memorable away trips, Sealand Road in about 1977, at 2-1 win at Bury in the season we went up and a 0-0 draw at the Hawthorns in the 3rd Round of the Cup. A lovely man whose time had come. Didn't realise there was a shortage of tickets at Macron till they were all gone, but I did go there with him in 2008 - for a Trade Show in one of the Conference Suites!
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Fancy you making your dad miss 64!🙂
Your dad sounds like what supporting PNE is all about,I'll be thinking about him and quite a few others on gentry day.
My dad, Ken Bertwistle, passed away on 25/11/15...funny thing is he did not like football at all...any team...but it spurred me on, out of spite, to be a nobber so I thank and remember him for that....🙂
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My dad and and my uncle Terry Holt and Barry Holt both massive north end fans. My dad died on the 18th of Febuary this year whilst on holiday in Australia visiting my cousin in Darwin.
I had sent a pair of north end mugs out with him to give to my cousin as he is a massive north end fan with a little note about how his dad had taken me to my first match at deepdale in 1970 when I was 8 years old and that it had inspired me to become a nobber for the rest of my life,something I have passed on to my 2 girls 🙂
We will all be there on Saturday shedding a few tears but most of all roaring on the mighty whites knowing that my dad and his brother are reunited and cheering them on together 🙂 🙂
I had sent a pair of north end mugs out with him to give to my cousin as he is a massive north end fan with a little note about how his dad had taken me to my first match at deepdale in 1970 when I was 8 years old and that it had inspired me to become a nobber for the rest of my life,something I have passed on to my 2 girls 🙂
We will all be there on Saturday shedding a few tears but most of all roaring on the mighty whites knowing that my dad and his brother are reunited and cheering them on together 🙂 🙂
My dad passed away on Boxing Day - the first time I've posted about it on here. A good innings at 92 but I miss him every day and I know will continue to do so. Although originally from Liverpool, he moved to Preston during the war where he met mum and became a North Ender from the very first time he saw Sir Tom in a white shirt( I used to rib him that he was a glory hunter having changed allegiance from Liverpool, who were then in the 2nd division, to follow the Lilywhites!)
He was utterly and totally North End and his love and passion for the club have been passed on to me and, I'm glad to say, the same passion has been picked up by my son and daughter. We'll be there on Saturday cheering the whites on and thanking dad/grandad for giving us our lifelong commitment to North End.Thoughts will also be with all other North Enders who have passed on and who now watch the boys from loftier heights.UTW!
He was utterly and totally North End and his love and passion for the club have been passed on to me and, I'm glad to say, the same passion has been picked up by my son and daughter. We'll be there on Saturday cheering the whites on and thanking dad/grandad for giving us our lifelong commitment to North End.Thoughts will also be with all other North Enders who have passed on and who now watch the boys from loftier heights.UTW!
Lovely story, - and forgive me - but your user name reminds me of just about the only time one of my older sisters went to Deepdale. She was a teenager dating the guy she's been married to for 40 odd years now, and the PA was announcing the line up: "Number One, Roy Tunks, ..." (Her) "What was that?" (Him) "Tunks". (Her) "What? As in swimming tunks?" - still makes me smile!
Cheers Tark. The user name comes from a similar mis-hearing by one of my mates in the 70s of the name of our erstwhile German-born goalkeeper. It was a very unusual name and did immediately make you think of gentlemen's swim wear!