Old Molineux Photos

[old wittonian]

Probably shown on here before:

 

[Hot Fuss]

 

[ricki herberts moustache]

Here's Ricki Hebert with no moustache.

Best strip ever btw

 

[ricki herberts moustache]

This picture of Ricki is pure perfection:

Long sleeve shirt
hooped socks.

 

[Teddy Ruxpin]

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I fail to see this as an old photo, it's in colour for starters and I'm sure it was only about 10 years tops that did the south bank wasn't it?

I am getting old, in my head when I think of the South Bank I still think of the old terrace first.

 

[Frank Lincoln]

This picture of Ricki is pure perfection:

Long sleeve shirt
hooped socks.


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Where‘s his moustache…

 

[Hot Fuss]

I fail to see this as an old photo, it's in colour for starters and I'm sure it was only about 10 years tops that did the south bank wasn't it?

I am getting old, in my head when I think of the South Bank I still think of the old terrace first.

1993 Teddy, so 30 years.

 

[Ginger Chimp]

1993 Teddy, so 30 years.

****, that makes me feel old.

 

[Mutchy]

One of my own. Last day for the old South Bank. Anyone see themselves on here?

 

[Achilles Last Stand]

Sir Jack is there atleast?

 

[WV10Wolf]

Sir Jack is there atleast?

Probably left soon after to avoid the tax man.

 

[Lou Pine]

One of my own. Last day for the old South Bank. Anyone see themselves on here?View attachment 38404

Great picture! Kind of debunks the myth that the South Bank only used to be populated by young, rowdy followers of fashion, doesn’t it?!?!

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

One of my own. Last day for the old South Bank. Anyone see themselves on here?View attachment 38404

I'm almost scared to look, not even sure I'd recognise myself! I was in there somewhere though.

 

[ricki herberts moustache]

One of my own. Last day for the old South Bank. Anyone see themselves on here?View attachment 38404

Grea pic

Not a cellphone in sight or a v-logger talking to themselves in the midst of the crowd

Those were the days frenz

 

[ricki herberts moustache]

Where‘s his moustache…

I know right

I may have to change my username to ricki herberts (sometimes) moustache

 

[ricki herberts moustache]

Wonder what Nicky French is up to these days?

 

[sedgwolf1980]

Never seen this one before. Artists impression of what the outside would have looked like if we had completed the entire stadium, not just the John Ireland.

 

[Macman]

View attachment 38555Never seen this one before. Artists impression of what the outside would have looked like if we had completed the entire stadium, not just the John Ireland.

I remember seeing this image back in the late 70s. Basically the outside of the current Steve Bull but all the way around. Would have been great back then, but a dour concrete bowl by now. This must be one of the very few futuristic stadium mock ups that dont have the red arrows fly past on!

 

[Big Saft Kid]

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Wolves players left to right

Ron Flowers, Bill Shorthouse (clearing the ball) Johnny Hancocks (? distant figure) , Billy Wright, Bill Slater. I think this was April 16 1955 v Arsenal. Won 3-1, Hancocks hat-trick.

 

[Baboon]

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Wolves players left to right

Ron Flowers, Bill Shorthouse (clearing the ball) Johnny Hancocks (? distant figure) , Billy Wright, Bill Slater. I think this was April 16 1955 v Arsenal. Won 3-1, Hancocks hat-trick.

That was our last home match of the 54/55 season. We lost the three remaining away games and finished Division One runners-up to Chelsea. I saw Jimmy Mullen play but Hancocks had retired before I started. He was a tiny guy but his goal record from the right wing of 26 (including 3 pens) from 32 games in that season was phenomenal.

 

[Pengwern]

According to my late uncle, both Hancocks and Mullem trained with a tyre sticking out from the post, to try snd put crossed through & that Hancocks could put the ball on the bar from the centre circle In training.

 

[Big Saft Kid]

According to my late uncle, both Hancocks and Mullen trained with a tyre sticking out from the post, to try snd put crossed through & that Hancocks could put the ball on the bar from the centre circle In training.

Or as my late Dad put it 'Johnny Hancocks could hit a dead ball like a bomb'. Hancocks, like Terry Wharton a couple of generations later, almost never missed a penalty,

 

[wolvesaywe]

 

[Ginger Chimp]

That brings back memories.

 

[mcwolf]

remember this great game.....iwan Roberts earned legendary status this day at the hawthorns.

 

[Rednal Wolf]

remember this great game.....iwan Roberts earned legendary status this day at the hawthorns.
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Roberts was ok but never ever even close to being a legend

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

Roberts was ok but never ever even close to being a legend

Different sorts I'd say. Scorer of a legendary goal rather than a legendary player maybe?

Hindmarch (RIP) was very poor, but scored one very late scrappy but legendary equaliser. So in those terms Roberts scored a legendary hattrick.

 

[Macman]

Who else is on that photo? Steve Corica, Simon Osborn, Dean Richards (RIP) and Jamie Smith?

 

[mcwolf]

Roberts was ok but never ever even close to being a legend

that day he was

 

[northnorfolkwolf]

https://www.molineuxmix.co.uk/forum/index.php?attachments/fb_img_1698527256036-jpg.38150/

Wolves players left to right

Ron Flowers, Bill Shorthouse (clearing the ball) Johnny Hancocks (? distant figure) , Billy Wright, Bill Slater. I think this was April 16 1955 v Arsenal. Won 3-1, Hancocks hat-trick.

Just seen this BSK. I think the distant figure is George Showell?

 

[ricki herberts moustache]

remember this great game.....iwan Roberts earned legendary status this day at the hawthorns.
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This picture proves, hands down, that hooped socks are indeed a winning combination

Bring em back!

 

[Big Saft Kid]

Just seen this BSK. I think the distant figure is George Showell?

You could be right. It looks like him. He made his debut early April 1955 v Preston. I have team sheets for all the games and will check if he played v Arsenal

Edit: George did play in that game, at right-back, so I think you are correct! Well spotted.

 

[Ercall Wolves]

This picture proves, hands down, that hooped socks are indeed a winning combination

Bring em back!

No No No

 

[Big Saft Kid]

This picture proves, hands down, that hooped socks are indeed a winning combination

Bring em back!

Love the old hooped socks

 

[Beastier]

Fantastic video - some great history in there

 

[Timberwolf]

This picture of Ricki is pure perfection:

Long sleeve shirt
hooped socks.


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I was still at school and we didn’t have much money so my mum, god bless her, decided to knit me that shirt for Xmas….Now, I love my mum to the heavens and back but fiery hell on earth, that was an abomination. The wolf’s head looked like it had been stoved in on the ears, and took up half the RIGHT side. I never wore it and when my dad brought me to Molineux, I was allowed to stuff it behind our bin til we got home. Thankfully, I soon grew out of it but my dad had to talk my mum out of knitting me another one. Which upset her at the time as I ‘obviously loved the first one’. When she was alive, we used to joke about that jumper but my mum never really cottoned on.
Now that she’s been gone a few years, I wish I’d kept that jumper…but then on reflection, probably not.

 

[woop woop barmy army]

I was still at school and we didn’t have much money so my mum, god bless her, decided to knit me that shirt for Xmas….Now, I love my mum to the heavens and back but fiery hell on earth, that was an abomination. The wolf’s head looked like it had been stoved in on the ears, and took up half the RIGHT side. I never wore it and when my dad brought me to Molineux, I was allowed to stuff it behind our bin til we got home. Thankfully, I soon grew out of it but my dad had to talk my mum out of knitting me another one. Which upset her at the time as I ‘obviously loved the first one’. When she was alive, we used to joke about that jumper but my mum never really cottoned on.
Now that she’s been gone a few years, I wish I’d kept that jumper…but then on reflection, probably not.

Brilliant storey mate, things moms do for us kids at the time we never appreciated it.

 

[northnorfolkwolf]

You could be right. It looks like him. He made his debut early April 1955 v Preston. I have team sheets for all the games and will check if he played v Arsenal

Edit: George did play in that game, at right-back, so I think you are correct! Well spotted.

That's made my day. The first time I've known something about Wolves before you!

 

[Big Saft Kid]

That's made my day. The first time I've known something about Wolves before you!

Don't crow too loudly! When I first saw that photo, I, like you, thought it looked like Showell. But I dismissed the thought when I looked at the photo closely and saw who else was playing (Wright, Slater, Shorthouse, Flowers, for certain) as I thought George first came into the team in the late, not the mid-50s. Turns out I was wrong -- he had a short run of games at the end of 54-55 at full back, and the Arsenal home game was one of them. TBF, I did put a question mark against Hancocks, as it doesn't look much like him.

 

[Big Saft Kid]

I was still at school and we didn’t have much money so my mum, god bless her, decided to knit me that shirt for Xmas….Now, I love my mum to the heavens and back but fiery hell on earth, that was an abomination. The wolf’s head looked like it had been stoved in on the ears, and took up half the RIGHT side. I never wore it and when my dad brought me to Molineux, I was allowed to stuff it behind our bin til we got home. Thankfully, I soon grew out of it but my dad had to talk my mum out of knitting me another one. Which upset her at the time as I ‘obviously loved the first one’. When she was alive, we used to joke about that jumper but my mum never really cottoned on.
Now that she’s been gone a few years, I wish I’d kept that jumper…but then on reflection, probably not.

My Mum knitted me a green goalie's jersey like the one Bert Williams wore (with a crew-neck). I loved that jersey!