A WEE LOOK BACK AT DUNDEE - 1960's, 1970's & 1980's.
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Wednesday 13 May 2009
DUNDEE ROCKETS - EARLY 80'S
Not a brilliant quality shot but it's the only picture I have of the Dundee Rockets from the period I went to see them play. Ex Craigie High School pupil, Jim Pennycook, is 2nd from the right in the centre row.
They were absolutely brilliant. Mike Mazur, a Canadian, and Jimmy Spence were the top scorers. My mum knitted me a Dundee Rockets scarf but with the wrong colours - green and orange. There were also some tense England v Scotland ice hockey games too.
They were a great team who had a great (art deco?) home, sadly now the site of a supermarket... I get jealous when I pass the Fife Flyers rink, it's still there in all its glory!
Jimmy Pennycook - now there's a name from the past. Jimmy was a year behind me at Rockwell Primary and he lived around the corner from my gran, so we chummed around at bit in the mid-1960's.
Was anybody at- or played in- the play offs held at Streatham in 1982?
The Blackpool Seagulls (Rockets semi final opponents) have just reformed as a recreational team and we are looking for stories to go in the match programme.
Not a brilliant quality shot but it's the only picture I have of the Dundee Rockets from the period I went to see them play.
They were absolutely brilliant. Mike Mazur, a Canadian, and Jimmy Spence were the top scorers. My mum knitted me a Dundee Rockets scarf but with the wrong colours - green and orange. There were also some tense England v Scotland ice hockey games too.
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I remember them handing out free tickets to school kids, and I lost mine!
ReplyDeleteThey were a great team who had a great (art deco?) home, sadly now the site of a supermarket... I get jealous when I pass the Fife Flyers rink, it's still there in all its glory!
ReplyDeleteThe manager 'Tam/Tom Stewart' had big plans for the rockets...
ReplyDeletemy pal married jim pennycook and until a few years ago, used to see molly reid in ferry pub!
ReplyDeleteJimmy Pennycook - now there's a name from the past. Jimmy was a year behind me at Rockwell Primary and he lived around the corner from my gran, so we chummed around at bit in the mid-1960's.
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Was anybody at- or played in- the play offs held at Streatham in 1982?
ReplyDeleteThe Blackpool Seagulls (Rockets semi final opponents) have just reformed as a recreational team and we are looking for stories to go in the match programme.
yes I was there with nipper oneil
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