History Group celebrates 1974 Promotion with guest players

[thegaspirate]

The Bristol Rovers History Group will be celebrating the historic 1974 promotion season with an exhibition of memorabilia at their Annual History Day on Saturday 9 November.


Located in The Thatchers' Bar between 12:30pm and 2:30pm before the Rovers match against Lincoln City, fans can view a display of Rovers memorabilia, focusing on the 50th anniversary of gaining promotion to Division 2 in 1974, with the event free to all.


There will be photos, programmes and match reports from the promotion season to include our amazing 8-2 away win at Brian Clough's Brighton, where seven of those goals came from the famous 'Smash and Grab' team.


Other Rovers memorabilia will also be on display including several collections recently donated: a 1990’s signed shirt, a commemoration bowl and items from the collection of 1950’s Rovers player, Len Pickard.


There has been a tremendous response from the players of that promotion team and we are delighted to welcome 4 members of the 1974 team to include captain Peter Aitken, Jim Eadie, Frankie Prince and Tom Stanton. The ex-players are looking forward to meeting you, the fans to chat and sign autographs.


The History Group looks forward to seeing you on Saturday!

[mftc]

Well done to the history group for organising this.

Happy memories.

[thegaspirate]

The History Group looks forward to seeing you at our Annual History Day in the Thatchers Bar before the match today. Come and meet some of our heroes from the 1974 promotion season. If you can make it, do come up and introduce yourself as from this forum

[meldrew]

Met Jim and Tom Stanton in the bar today. Spent a few minutes reminding Jim when he was in the bed opposite me in Ward 21 of Frenchay Hospital in 1977. Jim discovered that we were allowed to drink beer because the sister in charge had a thing about keeping your bowels open. So Jim made a quick phone call and within the hour, the manager of the True Blue club arrived on the ward with a huge Long John whiskey bottle filled with beer. My nephew who was visiting me was tasked with collecting all the glasses up which Jim then filled up and they were sent around the ward. What a great guy to remember all of that and what a great goalkeeper he was for us. Bless you Jim.