Cliff Richard is possibly not the first name to spring to mind in answer to the question ‘Whose show at the Chiswick Empire was stopped by a riot?’ But I swear it’s true. It was 1 May 1959 and you never know, there may be a few readers out there today who were in the Continue reading
Month: June 2016
Peterborough United (2) – QPR (1): FA Cup 2nd Round Replay – 9th December 1964
Team: Smith, Brady (P), Hazell, Malcolm, Brady (R), Keen, Collins, McAdams, Leary, Bedford, Morgan (R) Attendance: 15,298 In April I wrote about the dramatic FA Cup 3-3 draw at Loftus Road with Peterborough in 1964. Alec Stock made two changes for the replay four days later with Pat Brady and Billy McAdams replacing Peter Angell Continue reading
Part 2 of the KLM/QPR Years, 1987 to 1990 – An Interview with Barry Evans
In part one of this interview, Barry Evans the Deputy General Manager – UK and Ireland for KLM during the 1980s and 1990s, went into the details of how the Dutch national airline came to be involved in sponsoring football initially with Brentford and later with QPR before continuing to talk about his love of Continue reading
Football League Jubilee Fund – 19th August 1939: QPR v Northampton Town
Team: Allen, McColgan, Jefferson, Lowe, Barr, March, McEwan, Mallett, Mangnall, Fitzgerald, Bonass Attendance: 5,000 At the start of the 1938/39 season Rangers had been involved in two Football League Jubilee Fund matches against Northampton Town. A year later, the R’s played them again in a one-off at Loftus Road. The Marylebone Mercury reported on the Continue reading
The KLM/QPR Years, 1987 to 1990 – An Interview with Barry Evans
Rangers’ club sponsors from 1987 to 1990 were the Dutch national airline KLM, in conjunction with the Netherlands Board of Tourism. It was a period where the club developed strong squads via the traditionally successful formula for Rangers from the 1960s through to the 1990s – a mixture of players developed via the youth system Continue reading
Keith Friend’s 1976 Interview with Stan Bowles for the ‘Superhoop’
Issue No. 6 of the Supporters Club magazine: ‘The Superhoop’: included an in-depth interview with Stan Bowles at the Rangers Stadium on Thursday, 28th October 1976: KF: How did you meet Don Shanks, Stan? SB: I first met Don Shanks in the Robin Hood Restaurant in Hammersmith. I was introduced to him by Gerry Francis. Continue reading
A 1908 Taddy & Co. QPR Cigarette Card from Series 2 – Samuel Morris
Taddy & Co. produced three sets of cards in their Prominent Footballer series: 1907, 1908 and finally 1913. The first series has already been featured and this particular card is from the second series that was issued in 1908. Once again the series included two different back designs, ‘Imperial Tobacco’ and ‘Grapnel Mixture’. Samuel Morris Continue reading
QPR’s 1971 Pre-Season Friendly at Enfield
Team: Parkes, Clement, Gillard, Venables, Evans, Hazell, Morgan (I), Leach, McCulloch, Marsh, Salvage Subs: Hunt, Ferguson, McGovern On 3rd August 1971, the R’s were set to take on Leicester City at Loftus Road but the match was postponed. This led to a stronger QPR side being selected to take on Enfield. There were possibly ten Continue reading
The Hammersmith Palace, Temple or Theatre of Varieties
The Hammersmith Palace, Temple or Theatre of Varieties in King Street, was another example of a Music Hall evolving from a public house. According to ‘The Stage’ weekly newspaper, in 1884 Acton Phillips purchased the Town Hall Tavern, the Theatre of Varieties, which stood behind it, and also some of the adjacent land, which then Continue reading
The 1975 Revolutionary QPR Silk Scarf
I met up with Clive Roberts recently and amongst the items he kindly passed on, was an unusual mid-70’s QPR silk scarf. In the 1970’s, many R’s fans used to tie their silk scarves to their wrists. This particular scarf was described in the Supporters Club section of a November 1975 home programme as the: Continue reading