Charlie Sneddon
 

Bit of a long shot this, Charlie Sneddon played for Stanley between 1953 and 1962, his granddaughters would very much like any photos of him in action if anyone has any . Please pm me on here.

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Think me late mate "Jeff" had some pics of Walt Galbraiths team n Charlie was playing then, But whats happened to his pics Linds i don't know?:confused: He also had loads of owd accy pics. Have posted this in case someone on here does know.

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David Barnett May know what happened to Jeff's pics but, other than to left of the goal at the Clayton End, I don't know where to find David.

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He is on this team photo form 60/61 season, I think.

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He is back right, We stand left of goal clayton end exile, is it the bloke Dave that used to drive jeffs car to away games? never did know his last name.;)

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Sounds very likely. He and Jeff did used to get to a lot of away games in Jeff's car.

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Charlie was bald at a very young age. He must have been in his 20s when Galbraith bought him. A classy player

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Ah good i do know him, will ask him, but wont see him till end of month earliest as i'm away Sunday morning.

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Good pic, but I would say it's more like 1956.

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Way i see it in 59 Bert Scott left fer Wrexham in 55 John Ryden left fer spurs, both joined stanley 54/55 so its between 55 n 59.:) Both those lads came down from Alloa n were great mates.

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Hubby and i believe the picture was taken at start of 55-56 season. The reason for this is, Jimmy Mason, pictured, only played a handful of games before he lost is place to Jimmy Anders who signed in 56, and for some reason, and we could be wrong, we think that Anders played against Liverpool in Jan.56. Charlie had a bald patch when he signed for Stanley. he was about 23-24. He married a Accrington girl who lived close to Peel Park.

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[QUOTE=lindsay ormerod;1078599]Bit of a long shot this, Charlie Sneddon played for Stanley between 1953 and 1962, his granddaughters would very much like any photos of him in action if anyone has any . Please pm me on here.[/QUOTE

The Observer could be a good bet. Action pictures of Saturdays games taken by Garth Dawson used to be in the following Tuesdays Observer

Re: Charlie Sneddon
 

Pretty certain the team is early 1956-57 season as Bob McNicol and Jimmy Mason only played a few games together during the start of that season. I have the same picture on a bubble gum card.

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You could be right ossy kid. We were thinking of linking of Mason/
Anders rather than Mason/McNicol. We can't recall just when McNicol signed, but we are thinking Mason signed in55 but only played maybe a dozen games before he left. It was a long time ago and memories can get distorted.

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There is pretty good footage and a quite lengthy interview with him on a "Accrington Stanley - Legend, Myth, Reality" Video I've had since the mid 90's.

Have also managed to transfer it to DVD if it's of any use, I could burn a few extra copies for anyone who wants one.

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I have just checked the caption on the photo I posted and it says 1956/7 team.

I don't know where I got the 60/61 from.

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Anyone aware of this site ?

Some pretty useful information on here, not sure how accurate it all is though. Most of the players names have links to them too.

http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.c...accrington.htm

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very interesting site smobile, well found.;)

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Mason didn't really lose his place - it could be argued that he never had one! He played 4 games in the 55-56 season and 11 games in 56-57 (but 5 of those were as makeshift centre-half). Jimmy Anders signed in January 1957 a full year after the Liverpool game

Ossy Kid has it right, the picture is from the 56-57 season - The Tranmere game at home on the 12th September

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doesn't include competitive cup matches - only league matches. And some of those are wrong as well. Ian Craney is listed as having played 98 league games (inc sub appearances) when he made 100, but the FL had listed two Ian Craneys (one spelt wrong) playing one season and one of them played two of the others games! When this list was compiled it must have been whilst the error was still there - but only a fan compiling a proper list would have spotted it :rolleyes:

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Like i said, memories get distorted. Can you refresh our memories and tell us the player/players who played on the left wing from 55 until Jimmy Anders signed in 1957, apart from Mason. Who was the left winger at Liverpool?.

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I was at Liverpool for the cup game and the team was McInnes, Ashe, Mcreadie, Sneddon, Harrower, Hunter, Cocker, Wright, Stewart, Dick, Scott. I could be wrong on Cocker and Scott they may have switched wings? Other left wingers at that time were, Norrie McReadie, Henderson and a good friend of mine Willie Millar but Bert Scott played most games on the left wing prior to Jimmy Anders.

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Course if anyone has a program from that game I could be corrected.

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I have a programme from that game (from eBay, I'm not that ancient!).

Will dig it out this weekend.

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Can't remember a winger named Henderson. Was he from Scotland

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Years ago I was delivering solvents to Rolls Royce at Hillingdon near Glasgow.
The chief security officer came to me after seeing Accrington on the tanker and told me he used to be the goalkeeper at Stanley. It turned out he was McQueen.
We had a good chat about the town and I pretended I knew a bit about Stanley.
The load wasn't due until the day after but McQueen arranged for me to unload that day so I could get back home, all because of our connections to Accrington.

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Can anyone remember the home game against Hull City when Raich Carter played for them or the 3rd round cup game against Portsmouth with Englands Jimmy Dickinson playing.

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Remember the cup game very vaguely,wi Pompey, seem to think we crabbed a draw at Peel Park n lost the replay.? never seen as many away fans in me life walking up Burnley Rd,:eek: mind Pompey were a top side back then.:)

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There was also local interest that day. Tom Berry who was born in Clayton, was a regular in that Hull side. Also in later years, Niel Franklin played for Hull against Stanley at Peel Park after he came back from South America.

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Thanks for all your input folks, Smobile is kindly going to bring a dvd up when he next ventures North, I have advised the family of this and also of Macca's advice to try Garth Dawson. Please keep posting if anything further turns up.

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24th Jan 59; 0-0 at home, lost 4-1 at Fratton Park four days later

I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the opening post of the Prediction League game 2 (v Portsmouth - home) wherein it says so ........... :D

:alright:

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the replay was my first sight of Stanley since being exiled south at the end of '51. Signal failure meant my train was late and got into the ground after 20 mins played. No subs back yon and Stanley had had one carried off + 'keeper McInnes limping badly out on the right wing. Don't know what the hell had happened but we were also 3 - 0 down to the top division side. Did well to draw the remaining 70 mins 1 - 1 with effectively 9 men on the park. Charlie Sneddon must have been out injured as Gordon Stones wore the 6 shirt that day.

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Just spoke to Dave, he doesn't know what happened to Jeff's stuff.


I think it's his son that has a hairdressers place on Avenue Parade


Dave did say that Charlie Sneddon was on one of the big posters at the exhibition, it's possible that may be up in the clubhouse now

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Cheers saves me hunting dave down on my return,:)

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Big thanks to Smobile ( Simon) for dropping the dvd round tonight, top chap! :dancedog: