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Post by hawke on Jul 8, 2024 10:04:35 GMT
Great stuff SLA. My daughter also played hockey and I too saw David Byas at an event. Of course he was a hockey player too.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Jul 8, 2024 10:44:48 GMT
yes he was. I have played against him when he played for Welton (now Hull) and stood on the goal line at corners as he struck a shot that whistled past me and broke a window in the house behind!
My son played hockey at Sheffield for a season or two and had a couple of games with Billy Root and once he reckons Joe played too but had to keep it quiet in case he got injured!
I have also sat opposite one of the Hairy Bikers on the LNER train up to Scotland and across the aisle from Gaby Logan returning north to visit her Mum with her daughter. Both very pleasant and happy to have a quick chat.
And we stayed in Clapham once at the New Inn pub and then went out for a walk one morning and Alan Bennett walked past us going the other way!
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Post by newby on Jul 8, 2024 20:27:19 GMT
More Showbiz, with a small 's'.
I spent a few years working in that London 1971-73, based at the Old Admiralty building in Whitehall, it's the building just back from the Mall which forms one edge of Horseguards parade. As radio operators, one of a couple of hundred, we worked 24/7 shifts in a very large bomb proof bunker directly underneath the building.
After the morning shift, which finished at 1 pm, and occasionally very naughtily before the night shift, which started at 10 pm, a fair number of us 'single men' would adjourn to our local pub the Silver Cross in Whitehall for a pint or three.
As well as us the Cross was also popular with actors and actresses appearing or rehearsing at the Whitehall theatre just across the way. This was a few years after the famous Brian Rix Whitehall farces had finished and the place had been taken over by a certain Paul Raymond and his rather Risque version of theatre.
The actors weren't stars as we know them today, though I remember Bob Grant and Reg Varney, well known in those days for On the Buses, most of the others were just faces who you recognised from various bit parts on TV, mostly comedians whose names would mean nothing to most people today.
They were generally speaking a nice lot, some of them were quite famous but there were no trappings of fame or affectation that I can remember after all this time. Some were rather Camp of course, but mostly not.
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Post by hawke on Jul 9, 2024 6:39:47 GMT
Still chuckling about Steve McLaren
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Post by hawke on Jul 9, 2024 20:05:32 GMT
The second experience of Geoff is a lot more positive than my autograph one. Yorkshire were playing at Hull, a relatively unsophisticated out ground and my dad was sat near a sight screen. An opposition batsman asked it to be moved and young Boycott ran over from mid off to wheel it across. My dad stood up, walked over and assisted Geoff who said the words “Thank you my friend”. A moment of course he never forgot, I mean my dad not Geoffrey.!!
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Post by hawke on Oct 6, 2024 21:03:53 GMT
We have not heard about Geoffrey’s health for some time and we hope he is doing okay with a challenging situation. After a long gap I complete my Geoffrey Boycott three part connection.
To recall 1. in about 1965 he dismissed me and other children from his autograph queue for leaving it to rush after Sir Leonard who was being whisked away by car and was not signing. 2. around 1967 he thanked my dad for helping hi. move the sight screen at Hull with the words ‘Thank you my friend’
Well a few years ago I did get his autograph, in a book I had just bought after his talk at the Ilkley Literature Festival. I should have told him the Hutton story but instead blathered on about seeing his hundredth hundred at Headingley. I think I told him we were all anxious when Ray Bright shouted out a big appeal. He responded, ‘Pah, Ray Bright’ in a dismissive manner!
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