Winter 62/63 ice skating pic

[King Suddick]

Can anyone post that famous pic of Jimmy Armfield & Tony Waiters skating on the frozen Bloomfield Road pitch please? Or post a link to it? I've been trying to find it using Google, but can only find a small, crummy one. Cheers.

 

[BlossomHill]

 

[King Suddick]

Brilliant! Cheers BlossomHill!

 

[Ballaragh]

I've got that picture in my old footy scrapbook!

 

[Whitstabletangerine]

That was January 1963, we played at Bloomfield road mid December against Liverpool and our next home match was not until early March against Leyton Orient, because of the weather, frozen pitches and snow.

 

[Levi501]

I've got that picture in my old footy scrapbook!

Likewise,wish I still had it! Remember going down to the ground as a 10 year old with my mates to see the frozen pitch!

 

[Tangerinemoss]

Haven't seen that pic for years, cheers. One of my very earliest memories was that winter, big chunks of ice on the Wyre

 

[Robbosa]

Looks like they are skating on thin ice

 

[Bluecabinboy]

Looks like they are skating on thin ice

No change there then!

 

[clappers]

Still more playable than the Oyston sandpit pitch!

 

[1966_and_all_that]

So, that's the then England captain and a capped England goalie on their home turf (well...ice) of Bloomfield Road.

 

[Insider]

One of my all time favourites. I've got a picture taken at the same time (of me) sledging on the sandhills.

 

[timaruseasider]

The only place for a game of football in Blackpool for weeks was on the beach when the tide was out and even that was rock hard.