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Diversification at Knowsley Road


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#1 ONLINE   Alan

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Posted 29 October 2007 - 01:19 PM

In recent years there've been pop concerts but who remembers other ventures such as The Harlem Globetrotters in the fifties?


#2 OFFLINE   Voll

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Posted 29 October 2007 - 01:35 PM

I know I saw the 'trotters once, Alan, but I have a vague memory of seeing them twice at KR.

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Posted 29 October 2007 - 04:36 PM

There was an American forces in Europe team, the acronym SHAPE comes to mind, who took up rugby league and played a friendly or so at KR, again in the 50s

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Posted 29 October 2007 - 09:27 PM

There was a crap version of It's a Knockout there when I was a kid.

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Posted 29 October 2007 - 10:27 PM

In 1965, my dad took me to watch Saints play cos I nagged him to death. Before the game, he sat me outside the Seven Stars, bought me a lemonade and left me there for 40 minutes. I was 6! and I never went again!

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Posted 29 November 2007 - 04:07 AM

View PostMadge, on Oct 29 2007, 10:27 PM, said:

In 1965, my dad took me to watch Saints play cos I nagged him to death. Before the game, he sat me outside the Seven Stars, bought me a lemonade and left me there for 40 minutes. I was 6! and I never went again!

What no crisps as well? :angry:

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Posted 29 November 2007 - 09:41 AM

Re: diversification

'Soap Aid' in the 1980s. I only went because a favourite band (at the time: Marillion) were on the bill. It was organised by one of the Brookside writers who lived locally (Andy Lynch) and Thongy's parents had something to do with it too.





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