Big thing sponsor

When was Ora then ? Still got my Ora shirt in great nick wear it for bed.

 

I think it was FPW, who were announced as sponsors, but never made it onto the shirts. We played the season (or at least part of it) without a shirt sponsor on the Pelada kits.

Ian Davies, the Marketing Manager at the time, said he had the publicity shirt they used for photos which was the only one in existence with the logo one, and something of a collector's item.

 

Think ORA stepped in in 1994 when FPW went bust

 

Christmas 94 to 2000

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/barnsley-11-archdeacon-match-issued-472050633

Gives a bit of an explanation to the fpw shirts

 

Correct. There was a gap where no sponsor was on the shirts for the first part of the season but ora stepped in halfway through.

 

I had an Ora mobile phone case on the Motorola brick I was rocking in around 1998. It was a **** case and was quite expensive but it was the only time I’d ever seen one of their products in a shop - and at 15 I thought it highly important to buy the products of the club sponsor. I believe I also bought an Ora replacement aerial (remember when mobiles had screw in aerials? One for the teenagers...) in the same era, made the phone nonstandard, I thought the fact the aerial was slightly smaller was cool, and the fact I got next to no signal with that aerial was non-consequential...

 

And heres the **** who was doing the scamming along with his bent son (from Dodworth) too
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/902743178/MR-THOMAS-LEIGH/companies

 

ORA were quite a big player in the mobile phone market, Tandy, Maplin and even Currys and Dixons stocked some of their accessories. I had a phone case and an in-car charger branded in their name, although I think they manufactured for other brands as their biggest line of business? Their owner, Malcolm Hanson, joined our board at some point didn't he?