BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??

Subject: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: beachcomber
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 05:51 PM

Look , I apologise, in advance, if this kind of thing upsets anyone but I have been trying, since 2000 when I first bought this thing (PC), to discover what happened to my old football club, without success. I used to play with a team called GWR (It had been founded by employees of the old , original, Great Western Railway) Our home ground was at Vallis Way, West Ealing and I used to take a railcar from Ealing Broadway to Castlebar Park Halt on the Greenford line. We had , for the times, terrific facilities there and I had many friends, needless to say. I often wonder if the club still exists and would be very grateful for any information that anyone can provide.

cheers

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 06:10 PM

Well there's a tennis club there:

Great Western Railway LTC
Castle Bar Park, Vallis Way, Argyle Road, Ealing London
W13 0DD (020 77237000 e2959).

Maybe worth ringing them, someone might know

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 06:38 PM

Or try the 'Friends Reunited' website, they have sporting connections too, or if they don't they might be encouraged to start some....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 10:48 PM

Played rugby against GWR, thirty years ago...

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: GUEST,Hrothgar
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 10:51 PM

That was me - have to fix cookie!

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: GUEST,John from Hull
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 10:56 PM

I am in Hull, PS.I think they have run out of cookies, i just tried to get another one myself but there was none left.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 11:34 AM

O.K. Who stole the cookies? C'mon 'fess-up.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: beachcomber
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 03:38 PM

Hrothgar We are contemporaries then, that was around the time when I played there also, thanks Was that you too, the Guest who mentioned the tennis club?I remember often watching the Bowls and Tennis there on a summer's evening as I sipped a pint of Watneys. I live in Ireland now but will try the telephone no. you so kindly supplied. Thanks and Happy birthday also, to Liz.

beachcomber.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Sep 02 - 07:44 AM

One childhood sport, I am both glad and a little surprised to have survived, was brought back to my mind by this post.

The sport (not football) required for those brave enough or stupid enough, to run along the platform at Drayton Manor and jump on the (slow) moving goods trains.... Jumping off again at Castle Bar Halt....

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: beachcomber
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 05:40 PM

Shambles, now I know why those trains were always so slow moving as they "ploughed" through a "swamp" of youngsters bodies along the tracks, (-:? Still I'll bet you enjoyed the "games", never even imagining how dangerous it was? Cheers

beach

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: Midchuck
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 08:03 PM

A mudcatter lady from Ealing Once claimed she had no sexual feeling 'Till a cynic, named Boris Just touched her clitoris And she had to be scraped off the ceiling.

Sorry.

P.

Subject: RE: BS: Any Mudcatters live near Ealing??
From: The Shambles
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 07:28 AM

I must confess that I only did it once. I also killed a blackbird with a capapult in the elms growing along the railway embankment there. I only did that once as well.

Alas, although keen, I was not good enough to be picked to play football for the many teams playing locally. I did managed to get 'sent-off' while watching my friend play for the Boys Club team on Cuckoo Schools playing field.

I was behind the goal when two chaps from the visiting team lifted up the goalposts about a foot, then left me alone behind the goal. When this was brought to the refferee's attention, he assumed that I was responsible and ordered me off!