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Programme Feature
Dear all,
As those of you who religiously purchase a programme (thankyou if you do) will know, we usually push the boat out a bit for the last issue of the season with a bumper centre spread feature about some epic moment in the Terrors' history.
This season I want to do something about our first ever match in the Isthmian League (Saturday 18th August 1956).
If you can offer any contribution to this prospective feature I would be eternally grateful to receive it.
IF you are of a certain age (Boggy ? Bondy ? etc.) perhaps you were even there and can provide some first hand memoirs ?
It doesn't matter how small or what type of offering your contribution might be (written, photos, newspaper reports etc), it's all grist to the mill for us and potentially great stuff. Thanks to my hard working assistant Ian Bullock who has already come up trumps with some good stuff.
Many thanks in anticipation. 
I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left !
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Hmm - 60 years ago! Can't be too many people around who remember that game!
So this is our 61st season in the Isthmian League - I think only Dulwich have been in it longer.
- Bondy
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Ah got me back there DeePee. And fully deserved.
Sadly, I was just an aggravating piece of grit in the eye of my parents in August 1956.
I can't even claim that I was taken to the old ground the year after as a babe in arms.
But I certainly look forward to buying that bumper issue to tide me over the summer months.
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I too was merely a twinkle in 1956.
My old dad always maintained he recorded my conception in his diary with the words Partick Thistle 4 Celtic 1.
Oooh look, I'm now a Bog End Yoda ! You don't get many of them to the pound.
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- Plumpton
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Now, DeePee, without trying to hijack the programme thread too much (but keeping with the historical connection) I've been pondering an idea I have had for a few days.........
Recently there has been a lot of discussion here about the club history and various memories, mainly of the old ground. Also there has been a lot of discussion/interest regarding the 'Tooting On The Move' book. My idea is this: A history night - maybe one weekday evening a month, or maybe on a quarterly basis. It could take the format of a talk from a TMU history expert, or an informal meet with a few pints around a table in the Hub bar........I am not sure who could organise it (whether it be the members club, another branch of TMU etc - my knowledge on 'the workings' isn't great) or how much interest there would be for it. I also don't know if such an event exists or something similar exists already.
As said, just an idea - but if the history experts were to meet for an event like this once in a while, it's certainly one I'd put in my diary.
DeePee wrote:
IF you are of a certain age (Boggy ? Bondy ? etc.)
Oh DeePee 
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1956/1957 season to 2016/2017 season - 60 years of T&M in the Isthmian League, and League Champions
- Wetherby Mike
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I was definitely at the match but can't remember anything about it except that it was the custom for clubs moving from the Athenian to Isthmian League to play their first game at home and choose their opponents. I think this practice continued for some years and we were the invited opponents when Wealdstone joined in 1964.
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Thanks Mike - a nice little snippette for the feature.
Keep 'em coming peeps.
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BUMP - any more offerings please 
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Thread Starter- Johna
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I was around then too; that was the year my Dad started taking me out to Sandy Lane but I have no memory of anything about it. My memories really start with my still hero Paddy Hasty and I am not sure he was around quite then...maybe.
I'd love to help but sadly my memory isn't too good for that.
I remember being incarceratedx in Wandle Valley hospital for a month that year as that was totally traumatic but I hadn't yet caught the incurable Toooting and Mitcham bug...but that was soon to follow.
Here's to a great finale to the season!