Photo Archive: “Proclaim The Year of The Lord’s Favour”, St. Peter’s Community Mosaic, Incorporating a Tribute to Sir Stanley Matthews CBE, Stoke Minster, Stoke-on-Trent, c.2007.

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bench, ceramics, football., footballer, memorial, mosaics, Quotes, Sir Stanley Matthews CBE, Sporting History, St Peter's Community Mosaic Stoke, Stoke, Stoke Minster, Stoke-on-Trent

Photo Archive: “An early Mariner”, National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby, c.2007.

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football., Grimsby, Grimsby Town FC, moustache, National Fishing Heritage Centre, Sporting History, The Mariners

The Mariner.

I don’t remember the National Fishing Heritage Centre having a permanent Grimsby Town Football Club display, so this must have been part of a temporary exhibition I went to see. I don’t know much about the club’s history, but these early players lack the vertical black and white stripes that characterise the more modern team shirts. These early players also wear the arms of Great Grimsby as their team emblem (the more modern emblems features a complicated design incorporating vertical black and white stripes, a fishing trawler and three fish).

George Robinson Blue Plaque, “The Blue Bell Inn”, Fossgate, York, 12/05/14.

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Blue Plaque, British History, CAMRA, football., George Robinson, pub, Public houses, Sporting History, The Blue Bell York, York, York City AFC

Why wait for English Heritage to get around to putting up a blue plaque when you can do it yourself? I wish I’d gone in and had a drink now (especially since I’ve subsequent read about its historic pub interior on the CAMRA website http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/historic-pub-interior-entry.asp?pubid=358), but I was a bit pushed for time. Perhaps, on my next visit to York, I’ll have to make the time for a pint of bitter in the very same pub where George Robinson played a crucial role in the formation of York City Associated Football Club.