Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 7:57 am  

Very interesting is this. I moved to Wakefield in 1976 and probably caught the tail end of the old Wakefield. Things seemed to change a lot after that, especially where RL was concerned.

When I first arrived Wakefield had a real identity to which Trinity was crucial, now I don't think it really does, it's now more of a commuter town for Leeds, Makes the BV and Trinity team rebuild even more vital if we are to reverse the trend.

Keep posting chaps, I feel a book forming here, what do you say Slugger? You write it, I'll get the images sorted and it ready for print? No pressure

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Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:37 am  

vastman wrote:

Very interesting is this. I moved to Wakefield in 1976 and probably caught the tail end of the old Wakefield. Things seemed to change a lot after that, especially where RL was concerned.

When I first arrived Wakefield had a real identity to which Trinity was crucial, now I don't think it really does, it's now more of a commuter town for Leeds, Makes the BV and Trinity team rebuild even more vital if we are to reverse the trend.

Keep posting chaps, I feel a book forming here, what do you say Slugger? You write it, I'll get the images sorted and it ready for print? No pressure

Will it be like This Sporting Life where you are the updated Frank Machin Vasty?
They could make it into a musical and cast Zac Efron as you.

Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:53 am  

PopTart wrote:

Will it be like This Sporting Life where you are the updated Frank Machin Vasty?
They could make it into a musical and cast Zac Efron as you.

No, strictly backstage on this one for me. I'm a Wakefield legend I know but I'm strictly 80's onwards.

These guys came from a much tougher time and a much tougher city, I think it deserves recording for postterity.

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Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:41 am  

vastman wrote:

No, strictly backstage on this one for me. I'm a Wakefield legend I know but I'm strictly 80's onwards.

These guys came from a much tougher time and a much tougher city, I think it deserves recording for postterity.

All joking apart, I agree that it was a time we shouldn't forget and should be recorded somehow.
Trinity Heritage do a good job recording the Wakefield Trinity side of things and there are many sites on Facebook recording the changes to Wakefield through photographs and comment.
But I like reading the accounts of the rugby teams of the past as its a part never discussed.

I realise we've drifted away from Rob Burrow so I'll try and split this thread out later today.

Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:46 am  

dickie mint wrote:

That was done at the County Hospital on Park Lodge Lane, me and they're Baz were in at the same time having our tonsils out, Dennis was an Amateur international for GB.

Yes, Dennis not Len,getting them mixed up ,they were a big family 11 brothers and two sisters i think. great bloke Dennis,he played on wing for GB as an amatuer if i remember correctly,had many a pint with Den when i was younger, he sadly passed away at a relatively young age.

Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:01 am  

KevW60349 wrote:

Yes, Dennis not Len,getting them mixed up ,they were a big family 11 brothers and two sisters i think. great bloke Dennis,he played on wing for GB as an amatuer if i remember correctly,had many a pint with Den when i was younger, he sadly passed away at a relatively young age.

Here you are Kev just for you old pal Ken, Arthur, Dennis], Fred, Len, Brian(Bart), Eric, Harold(Pally) Bob, Baz, and Micky, and the 2 sisters were Muriel and Dorothy, those underlined as you've probably guessed were the rugby players.

Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:03 am  

try scorer wrote:

Sorry lads a genuine honest mistake meant the lindops how I brought that other fine rugby family into it I don't know

Do you mean the Lingards from Sharlston?

Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:12 pm  

dickie mint wrote:

Here you are Kev just for you old pal Ken, Arthur, Dennis], Fred, Len, Brian(Bart), Eric, Harold(Pally) Bob, Baz, and Micky, and the 2 sisters were Muriel and Dorothy, those underlined as you've probably guessed were the rugby players.

You've missed Mick off as a rugby player dickie, a best mate of mine and he was a very good natural, athletic player, as you will well know Mick died from mesothelioma at the young age of 40, me and the wife went on holiday to Benidorm with Mick and his wife Teresa in November 1988, we came back and in December he was unwell, had tests done and in January told the devastating news he was terminally ill. he passed away in August 1989. all these years later, the night he told me the news that Friday in January in the Jockey on Northgate, is still seared in my memory.

Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:20 pm  

dickie mint wrote:

Do you mean the Lingards from Sharlston?

That's where they came from dickie Ivor was the best known I should say but I honestly was thinking about the lindops don't know how the lingards happened old lad unless it's old age or the couple of tots of whiskey. I'd had to keep me going while I get my jab.

Re: Rob Burrow part 2 : Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:57 pm  

KevW60349 wrote:

You've missed Mick off as a rugby player dickie, a best mate of mine and he was a very good natural, athletic player, as you will well know Mick died from mesothelioma at the young age of 40, me and the wife went on holiday to Benidorm with Mick and his wife Teresa in November 1988, we came back and in December he was unwell, had tests done and in January told the devastating news he was terminally ill. he passed away in August 1989. all these years later, the night he told me the news that Friday in January in the Jockey on Northgate, is still seared in my memory.

We used to call him Micky drip he was the youngest same age as you, which you probably know anyway, the reason I didn't include him was because he seemed less interested than their Baz and all the others had packed in playing, I went to the funeral myself with the Deeley twins, not sure if you know it but his lad Mat posts on here, went to a funeral myself the other year on Eastmoor and had the afters in the Albion, thought I might have seen you in there, sadly not.