Colour pic of Meadow Lane in 1968

[upthemaggies]

Not many colour images of Notts pre-1970's, but here's one said to be from 1968.
I'm having trouble identifying which match though. Who wore dark blue shirts with red socks in those days? Southend had dark blue shirts around that period but they wouldn't have needed to change socks, doesn't look like May or August either (when we played them that year). Maybe it's an away kit.

[upthemaggies]

Nice pic of the Kop end from the 1970's. Pretty much taken from the spot I stood when I first started attending.

[snipe_pie]

Not many colour images of Notts pre-1970's, but here's one said to be from 1968.
I'm having trouble identifying which match though. Who wore dark blue shirts with red socks in those days? Southend had dark blue shirts around that period but they wouldn't have needed to change socks, doesn't look like May or August either (when we played them that year). Maybe it's an away kit.

Pompey ?

Edit : just looked. Not in our division 67/68/69

[sidders]

I was there and I can tell you they are all fake pictures. Everyone born before 1960 knows that the world was black and white from the war until 1960 when colour was allowed. Until Queen Victoria died, the world was sepia. Honest.

[Bohinen]

If it's not Southend due to the socks, it could be the Grimsby away kit, as they would have had to change. They did have red socks too, but only from 69.

[SwalePie]

I was there and I can tell you they are all fake pictures. Everyone born before 1960 knows that the world was black and white from the war until 1960 when colour was allowed. Until Queen Victoria died, the world was sepia. Honest.

All true. Also, a lot of people are unaware that until Newton invented gravity everyone could fly.

[countygump]

All true. Also, a lot of people are unaware that until Newton invented gravity everyone could fly.

I've ed nowt but trouble since Boyle invented gas.

[LaxtonLad]

Nice pic of the Kop end from the 1970's. Pretty much taken from the spot I stood when I first started attending.

's where I stood too, from 1970 onwards, then in t'Kop.

[upthemaggies]

If it's not Southend due to the socks, it could be the Grimsby away kit, as they would have had to change. They did have red socks too, but only from 69.

State of the pitch suggests it's some way into a season, Grimsby was a night match in August 1968.
Weather for when Southend visited in May 1968 was apparently cold and damp but the crowd on County Road looks too populated for what would have been the 2nd lowest crowd of the 67/68 campaign, 3,848, wshilst http://www.historicalkits.co.uk says Southend had the navy shirts for 68/69 only.

A pic outside the ground taken by the same photographer and also dated 1968 (probably the same day) shows three people wearing red and white scarves but I guess they could be F-word fans.

[Frigiliana Pie 1]

I think it might be the game against Brentford on 2nd March 1968. I still have a programme for that match which states that Brentford would be playing in navy blue shirts and white shorts (no information about the socks). That would fit with the red and white scarves.

There was another game against Brentford on 26 October 1968 but the state of the pitch suggests it was the earlier game.

Notts won the March fixture 2-1 with goals from Jim Murphy and Ron Farmer. The attendance was 4486. We lost the October fixture 0-2 in front of 4173. I have a vague recollection of Notts being ripped apart by a winger called Allan Mansley who later played a few games for us without success. The Brentford Manager at the time was Jimmy Sirrel.