One of Big Lil's earlier matches ;-)

May have been pub hours that dictated it. Closing time 3pm, just enough time to get from the nearby pubs to the ground. Low crowds then of course, so no turnstile queues.

 

Pontefract races always started at 2.45 so miners could attend

 

Jimmy Baxter ran the paper shop on Sackville Street for a few years after retiring from football. I'll never forget answering a knock at the door as a kid, to find Jimmy standing there to collect the paper money.
I can still see him in my mind's eye he was wearing a navy blazer with a badge with PP on it - which didn't impress my dad because as he told me later it was his Preston jacket!

 

Pretty sure we kicked off 15 minutes later than the rest for the miners. Could well be wrong, need clarification from even older fossils than ourselves.

 

We did indeed, always remember the 3:15 but never knew why at the time. Remember seeing it in the fixture list back of the daily papers.

 

Johnny Kelly is said to be the reason why Alf Ramsay played his team of ‘Wingless Wonders’ in the 1966 World Cup.

Right back Ramsay hated wingers because every time he played against us, Johnny Kelly tore him a new ar$ehole.

Who’d have thought it: a Scotsman helping England win the World Cup.