robertb1970
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Favourite CUFC match: 5-1 London road 3 1 89
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Post by robertb1970 on Apr 7, 2024 17:07:57 GMT
Royston Hospital, three days before our election to the league. 14 miles as the crow flies, slightly further than the distance to Broadhall Way... Same place a month before you. That lot further west weren’t even born then
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Post by ambernut on Apr 7, 2024 17:22:16 GMT
Royston Hospital, three days before our election to the league. 14 miles as the crow flies, slightly further than the distance to Broadhall Way... Same place a month before you. That lot further west weren’t even born then Royston hospital as well but five years before you guys and now living in St Neots.
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neilmc4
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Post by neilmc4 on Apr 7, 2024 17:43:31 GMT
Chalk another one up for Mill Road Maternity. Although they were both born in Newmarket , Mum and Dad`s first house together after they got married was in Whitehill Road. Dad was a regular at The Abbey in the late 1940s and early 1950s and once stopped a game when the neighbour`s dog , who he was supposed to be taking for a walk , got on to the pitch.
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joffjog
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Post by joffjog on Apr 7, 2024 17:52:33 GMT
Mill Road for me and my bedroom in my childhood home on the Whitehill Road estate was 482m from the centre circle according to Google Earth. There's nothing like your bedroom being fully illuminated by those beautiful floodlights on a cold, dark winters night when I was young 😍 Chalk another one up for Mill Road Maternity. Although they were both born in Newmarket , Mum and Dad`s first house together after they got married was in Whitehill Road. Dad was a regular at The Abbey in the late 1940s and early 1950s and once stopped a game when the neighbour`s dog , who he was supposed to be taking for a walk , got on to the pitch. These are top drawer anecdotes. I love this board very much 💛🖤
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Post by davidq on Apr 7, 2024 19:06:15 GMT
378 miles away in Edinburgh 😂
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Fred Colon
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Favourite CUFC match: Maidstone 0-2 Cam Utd AET, Division 4 play-off semi, 2nd leg
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Post by Fred Colon on Apr 7, 2024 19:51:50 GMT
Mill Road Maternity, 1971. Apparently it was frosty.
My Grandad used to play for Abbey United (was top scorer for 2 seasons!) and my Dad, who has also supported the U's since he was a kid, took me to my first game in 1978. I often say that I didn't choose to support Cambridge, I inherited it.
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Post by rayhertford on Apr 7, 2024 22:03:54 GMT
Mill Road Maternity Hospital.
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Post by UIE on Apr 8, 2024 8:13:03 GMT
Born 4,522 miles away. But moved to South Cambs (8 miles away) aged 7 and got caught up in the buzz during the Beck promotion years. I've never looked back. Exiled once again.
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Badger
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Post by Badger on Apr 8, 2024 11:07:13 GMT
Born at the Rosie not long after it opened and grew up on Suez Road just off Mill Road (Coldhams Lane end).
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Post by unclemike78 on Apr 8, 2024 11:18:11 GMT
Whilst I was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. My uncle Mike (who my profile name pays homage to) was born at 32 Perne Avenue which is 2.2 miles away. I remember being around 10 years old walking from there (my grandparents house) with my uncle for my first ever football match. Been a Cambridge supporter ever since.
Good thread by the way. Enjoyed reading everyone's stories.
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gstictok
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Favourite CUFC match: 9th November 1991 Ipswich 1 - 2 Cambridge Utd
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Post by gstictok on Apr 8, 2024 19:04:16 GMT
Mill Road Maternity Good Friday 1958 then Sturton Street
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tufta
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Post by tufta on Apr 9, 2024 4:34:33 GMT
0.9 miles away at 112 Hemingford Road, near Vinery Road rec. Dad used to go to reserve and 1st team matches and took me with him to perch me on the pitch perimeter wall of the central part of the Habbin, now under the advertising in the mid 1960s when I was about 5. Childcare...
Walking to the ground,just me and him, remains one of my fondest memories. Listening to the scores on Spirts Report on the way home and telling people, who asked, the U's result. Billy Wall, Roly Horrey, Rodney Stark, Terry Eades and Bill Cassidy were my favourites then. Been in love with the whole theatre of it ever since.
Not just a football club. Part of peoples life and loves. I will take it to the grave.
It's only football, it's not important....
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Post by marchal on Apr 9, 2024 7:36:24 GMT
Milk Rd Maternity hospital was my place of birth but I lived at the top half of Whitehill Rd for the first 21 years of my life, just a few minutes walk from the Abbey. I now live in a small town with a PE postcode!!
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Post by madmarvin on Apr 9, 2024 8:19:45 GMT
Mill Road for me and my bedroom in my childhood home on the Whitehill Road estate was 482m from the centre circle according to Google Earth. There's nothing like your bedroom being fully illuminated by those beautiful floodlights on a cold, dark winters night when I was young 😍 Chalk another one up for Mill Road Maternity. Although they were both born in Newmarket , Mum and Dad`s first house together after they got married was in Whitehill Road. Dad was a regular at The Abbey in the late 1940s and early 1950s and once stopped a game when the neighbour`s dog , who he was supposed to be taking for a walk , got on to the pitch. These are top drawer anecdotes. I love this board very much 💛🖤 My aunt and uncle (neither of whom are blood relatives but don't ask) were part of the St John Ambulance team back in the early 70s and they took an extremely young me to a game. I had to stand near my uncle close to the touchline and was told by my aunt to stay with him no matter what. At one point in the match there was an injury to a player that meant my uncle and others had to go on to the pitch to help stretcher a player off so of course I also ran on the the pitch following my uncle which apparently got quite a few cheers before I was unceremoniously removed from the pitch by my aunt. You can't win sometimes...
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eenyc
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Post by eenyc on Apr 9, 2024 9:50:44 GMT
As others have said, this is a brilliant thread. To save me going through all the posts now I'm logged in (my machine keeps logging me out) I'm going to assume I've clicked the thumbs-up on every single one of them.
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