Saltcoats Victoria

[mike mccann]

Thanks PT, don't specifically remember the games but may well nave been Fr there Vics had a very good team then.
Frank Quinn went to Celtic but only lasted a season there before moving to Dundee United where he was their top scorer for five seasons .
Mike

[Sarah]

Thanks for that PT I never saw that before, I know he was in Colchester for a few years I use to carry around
his photo on one of these little cards that boys collect, but last time I saw Charlie he took it back he did not have one.
Charlie turned 80 last month and keeping well as can be expected.. Lovely Big Brother...

[Penny Tray]

Sarah,

Here's quite a good Colchester United team photo:

http://www.coludaybyday.co.uk/Gallery/S ... 61957.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Sarah]

Don't recognize him in that one either Penny, Charlie had a mop of black curly hair.
Hope Im not losing it..??

[mike mccann]

Hi Sarah,even though he is named in this photo I wouldn't have picked him out . I remember the black curly hair . When he left Winton Tommy Morgan moved from left half to centre half .

[Penny Tray]

Mike/Sarah,

Could he be in one of these photographs then, maybe the third one down?

http://www.cu-fc.com/page/History/0,,10 ... 20,00.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Sarah]

Thanks for all that info. Mike and Penny but I don't see him in any , saw his name mentioned.
Was nice talking about him, brought back a few memories, for me..

[mike mccann]

Hi Mary,
I am having trouble getting email with pics off to you so feel free to download ffrom the site.
mike

[George Ardrossan]

hi Sarah
Here is photo of Winton Rovers around 1949 . I started following them thext year so can't recall everybody , but here goes .
BACK ROW :-Sam Pllu , ?,?, Tommy Morgan , Puggy Muir and ?
FRONT ROW :- Lawrie , Jackie Thomson , John Reid , Neilly Hawthorne and Willie Kearney .
Any corrections would be welcomed.
Mike

I came across the photo that Mike was referring to in the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald of 2 September 1949. The caption gives the name of everyone in the photo and shows that Mike's recollection was very close.


George

[ronnie69]

Hi Sam, , here is what I can remember .

the players wearing the plain shirts are the first team , so starting at the back here they are left to right :-

Sam Pllu , ( later went to Winton Rovers ) , McGeachie and Ross .

Next row:- O'Rourke (hugh} , Frank Quinn , " Seagull" McKenna , Harry Leckie and Tommy Cairns .

Front row :- Joe Kirk ( captain ) , Gill and Stewart .

The person beside Sam Pllu is " Sparrow " Alexander , and beside Ross is Willie Walton .

Beside Joe Kirk is Eddie Quinn .

Don't recognise the other players . I suppose some of the civvies would be commitee members etc .

Re nicknames , in the fifties , Winton had a great wee centre forward called McEwan and of course his nickname was " Screwtap " !

I have a pic of Winton in the ealrly fifties which I Will dig out an post .

[ronnie69]

O'rourke his first name is Hugh as he is my dad.

[wellparkno9]

was his nick name Salty?