OT Keppels Column

[CAMiller]

Sadly not me - I was about 10 years before you and Steve Miller comes from Abracadabra... which i hope we will be invoking 2mora ��
I was in Monkwood team with one Phil Hamshaw though!!

You must be mistaking him for someone else? He was in the 1972 team as seen here.

https://tottycup.wordpress.com/1970s/1972-2/

[Steve Miller]

You must be mistaking him for someone else? He was in the 1972 team as seen here.

https://tottycup.wordpress.com/1970s/1972-2/

I'm pretty sure Phil Hamshaw is Matt Hamshaw's dad... which would have made him a parent at the age of 10 if it were that Phil!!! 😂😂
There were a lot of Hamshaws in Rawmarsh

[Steve Miller]

Phil Hamshaw I knew lived on Monkwood Rd and would be 67ish like me..

[CAMiller]

Phil Hamshaw I knew lived on Monkwood Rd and would be 67ish like me..

The Phil Hamshaw in that photo is definitely Matt's dad and he will be 60 or 61 as he was in the same year at school as me. He was 20/21 when Matt was born. Phil's parent's lived on Meadow/Harding Avenue and his wife Bev (Roddis) lived across the road from us on Hague Avenue. Bev and Phil once lived next door but one to her parents at the bottom of Sharpfield Avenue. Bev's dad Denis played for England schoolboys and 3 her brothers were all well known footballers around Rawmarsh.

Nice read here:

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/big-i...-united-327300

[gm_gm]

The Phil Hamshaw in that photo is definitely Matt's dad and he will be 60 or 61 as he was in the same year at school as me. He was 20/21 when Matt was born. Phil's parent's lived on Meadow/Harding Avenue and his wife Bev (Roddis) lived across the road from us on Hague Avenue. Bev and Phil once lived next door but one to her parents at the bottom of Sharpfield Avenue. Bev's dad Denis played for England schoolboys and 3 her brothers were all well known footballers around Rawmarsh.

Nice read here:

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/big-i...-united-327300

Thats a great article CAM

[Steve Miller]

The Phil Hamshaw in that photo is definitely Matt's dad and he will be 60 or 61 as he was in the same year at school as me. He was 20/21 when Matt was born. Phil's parent's lived on Meadow/Harding Avenue and his wife Bev (Roddis) lived across the road from us on Hague Avenue. Bev and Phil once lived next door but one to her parents at the bottom of Sharpfield Avenue. Bev's dad Denis played for England schoolboys and 3 her brothers were all well known footballers around Rawmarsh.

Nice read here:

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/big-i...-united-327300

Fair enough Cam! I must have come across you at some point as I lived at Manor Farm and walked through Thorogate every to to get the bus to MGS!

[Townerslovechild]

Great piece, I'm glad our club is made up of people like Matt.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Odd though isn't it, praising a monument built to commemorate an obscure event in history done by a man most (if not all) would have to "google" to know who he was.

Paid for by a rich (tory like) landowner with so much cash he spent it on building follies

[great_fire]

Odd though isn't it, praising a monument built to commemorate an obscure event in history done by a man most (if not all) would have to "google" to know who he was.

Paid for by a rich (tory like) landowner with so much cash he spent it on building follies

I believe the Fitzwilliam heiress is married to Jacob Rees-Mogg.

EDIT: Her mother is the current heiress and Helena Rees-Mogg is the only surviving child so will inherit.

[CAMiller]

Fair enough Cam! I must have come across you at some point as I lived at Manor Farm and walked through Thorogate every to to get the bus to MGS!

Must have. I too went to MGS and spent a lot of time on Manor Farm as my Aunt/Uncle and their two boys lived there, one of them also went to MGS and must be about your age. My uncle even had one of the streets on Manor Farm named after him, Thompson Close although they didn't live on it. I have fond memories of getting my hair cut at Victor's and perusing his magazine collection