Month: October 2020

First trip to Griffin Park- revisited

I have previously written about my memories of going to GP for my first game. I managed to track down the game with the use of THE ENGLISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL ARCHIVE. I narrowed it down to the Boxing Day match in 1971.

Now I have found more information after buying book about Griffin Park.

From that I can see that it was a big match with a remarkably large crowd of 18,000+.

No one that I recognise

This also invokes the memory of once queuing for ages to get in with my Dad. So maybe this was the match and it was almost a family day out!

Peter

Tuesday 20 October was the funeral of Peter.

He was diagnosed with his cancer in early 2018 and unfortunately curative treatment did not work out for him.

The service was held within he limitations of the Covid-19 pandemic rules, do there was no function afterwards. One of the readings in the service makes you think about the important things in life: