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m/k mick Flag milton keynes 15 Feb 20 12.34pm Send a Private Message to m/k mick Add m/k mick as a friend

There is a mass grave in Mitcham cemetery, also Ewan MacColl singer songwriter, he wrote Dirty Old Town, Rod Stewart does a good version on youtube, he wrote The Young Birds, about the lads in the crash, his son went to Lanfranc and was friends with some of the lads

 
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becky Flag over the moon 15 Feb 20 12.36pm Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Originally posted by cryrst

Wow my heart aches a little.
I just read about that ref your post.
Before I was born so first I heard of it.
Having kids myself it seems unimaginable.
Still RIP x

Slightly OT, but if you're every around Croydon cemetery there is a dedicated memorial to the boys and 2 teachers that died.

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cryrst Flag The garden of England 15 Feb 20 1.48pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Originally posted by becky

Slightly OT, but if you're every around Croydon cemetery there is a dedicated memorial to the boys and 2 teachers that died.

That can never be OT Becky.
If I'm in the area I will pay my respects.
Thank you.

 
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JRW2 Flag Dulwich 15 Feb 20 2.03pm Send a Private Message to JRW2 Add JRW2 as a friend

Originally posted by monkey

I don’t get what draws these foreign supporters groups who haven’t that connection to a club. They meet up in pubs at strange hours to watch the games, okay it must be a good social thing, but why palace?


Back in the nineties I was in the Wetherspoons opposite Thornton Heath station before an evening game and struck up conversation with a guy from Denmark. He explained that watching Premiership football was his passion and that he'd settled on Palace because it was the only conveniently located club where he could get (and afford) a season ticket. (Wouldn't Newcastle be easier?)

 
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milaneagle Flag Cheshunt 15 Feb 20 2.19pm Send a Private Message to milaneagle Add milaneagle as a friend

Enfield

Long story

Edited by milaneagle (15 Feb 2020 2.19pm)

 
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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 15 Feb 20 2.48pm

Originally posted by ASCPFC

My mother was born in Holmesdale Rd. I come from Bromley.


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kingdowieonthewall Flag Sussex, ex-Cronx. 15 Feb 20 2.55pm Send a Private Message to kingdowieonthewall Add kingdowieonthewall as a friend

Originally posted by m/k mick

We have a supporters club in Norway, in the early sixties a plane crash caused the death of students from Lanfranc school in Croydon, there has been a connection ever since, i remember the crash, some of the lads who died lived close to me

Croydon crem.has a memorial for this to the left of the main drive , as you approach the crematorium.
Very moving.

 

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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 15 Feb 20 3.03pm

Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall

Croydon crem.has a memorial for this to the left of the main drive , as you approach the crematorium.
Very moving.

They were our own. From the same streets.

 

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chris123 Flag hove actually 15 Feb 20 3.26pm Send a Private Message to chris123 Add chris123 as a friend

Old Coulsdon - all my dads fault.

 
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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 15 Feb 20 3.39pm Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle


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RH8Eagle Flag Oxted 15 Feb 20 8.55pm Send a Private Message to RH8Eagle Add RH8Eagle as a friend

I would think as well as directly around selhurst the majority of our supporters will come from the south side as it's always been the biggest club in the vicinity

 
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eagle@ tn34 Flag hastings 15 Feb 20 10.46pm Send a Private Message to eagle@ tn34 Add eagle@ tn34 as a friend

no family ties to the palace location and my dad hated football,just simply that a teacher at my secondary school in cranbrook kent, He was a palace fan born in croydon and took me and a mate up to selhurst for games. good chap actually. that was in 1976, I was 15 then. that was in simpler times as it wouldnt be allowed now etc. been going ever since and ST in the arfur.

COYP

 
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