Fulham v QPR - Anyone At This One?

[White Noise]

An Early 20th Century Postcard of Fulham FC's ground at Craven Cottage, on the
banks of the River Thames and a well-known "boat race" landmark.

http://www.oldstratforduponavon.com/londonhamfulham.html

[Burt]

Darn I think I missed that one, I was having Sky installed and had to wait for the dish-dude.
:drums:

[White Noise]

Riverside looks quiet. :029:

[LBNo11]

...not sure about this game (being played in front of the famous "Rabbit Hutch" stand, the predecessor to the Stevenage Road Stand) but the Fulham 'crew' back at the first game ever played at Craven Cottage against Minerva in 1896 (4 - 0) consisted of Fernhurst, Peabody and Corked Hat who made up the 'Riverside Ruffians'. So vociferous was their 'ragging' of the Minerva fans, that they never tried to take the Riverside ever again...

[VB]

taken from the Sanchez Exorcism....

[finnster01]

I think I can make out Mr CorkedHat, Mr OldBrownShoe, Mr Fernhurst and Mr Alfie in the stand, but then I may be wrong... :58:

[In the Enclosure]

Think that is the Riverside - a precursor to the present stand

[Scrumpy]

Well, as LB quite rightly says, that is Stevenage Road behind the Rabbit Hutch (the first 'stand' ever built on the site of Craven Cottage). Proof, if it was needed, that the Club was there long before any of the local houses were built. There isn't a house in sight - and I bet the parking was a breeze!

I guess Fulham was just another suburb in those days, a short trip from London but with plenty of green areas still around. It's changed a bit.

[MJG]

Is that a young Danny Murphy in the middle of the picture?

[White Noise]

Is that a young Danny Murphy in the middle of the picture?

:011:

Looks like he has just mis-timed a tackle - or has his leg given way?

[CorkedHat]

I think I can make out Mr CorkedHat, Mr OldBrownShoe, Mr Fernhurst and Mr Alfie in the stand, but then I may be wrong... :58:

I don't know about those blokes but I distinctly remember that it was another penny to get into the stand and having just spent a halfpenny to park my Penny Farthing in someone's front yard I couldn't afford the luxury. No I'm about thirty from the right standing up. :clap_hands:

[HatterDon]

I think I can make out Mr CorkedHat, Mr OldBrownShoe, Mr Fernhurst and Mr Alfie in the stand, but then I may be wrong... :58:

I don't know about those blokes but I distinctly remember that it was another penny to get into the stand and having just spent a halfpenny to park my Penny Farthing in someone's front yard I couldn't afford the luxury. No I'm about thirty from the right standing up. :clap_hands:

so where did one go to spend a penny in those days?

[finnster01]

I think I can make out Mr CorkedHat, Mr OldBrownShoe, Mr Fernhurst and Mr Alfie in the stand, but then I may be wrong... :58:

I don't know about those blokes but I distinctly remember that it was another penny to get into the stand and having just spent a halfpenny to park my Penny Farthing in someone's front yard I couldn't afford the luxury. No I'm about thirty from the right standing up. :clap_hands:

so where did one go to spend a penny in those days?

Which reminds me of the old joke:
Who invented the copper wire?
Two Scots fighting over a penny :drums:

[alfie]

I think I can make out Mr CorkedHat, Mr OldBrownShoe, Mr Fernhurst and Mr Alfie in the stand, but then I may be wrong... :58:

back in those days i was an Essex boy, did not even know what Fulham was let alone where it was.

[epsomraver]

Riverside looks quiet. :029:

Nothing changed there then :005: