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The Glory of Goodison

Lyndon Lloyd , 12 November, 7comments  |  Jump to most recent
Museum of Liverpool marks stadium's 120 years
In partnership with the Everton Heritage Society, the National Football Museum and Everton in the Community, the Museum of Liverpool will host a weekend of events on the 17th and 18th of November to mark 120 years of Goodison Park.

They include a number of talks covering the legendary Dixie Dean and other great Everton centre-forwards, the history of the Toffee Lady, Everton's tour of South America in 1909, the close links between Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs, the invention of goal nets, the 1933 FA Cup Final ball and the great T G Jones, the ‘Prince of Centre Halves'.

Opened in 1892, Goodison has a long and rich history that includes Second World War bomb damage, the death of Dixie Dean, a 1966 World Cup semi-final, and more top-flight matches than any other stadium in England.

That's not to mention the long list of firsts that the Grand Old Lady boasts, including being the world's first four-sided double-decker stadium, and the first football ground in England to have dugouts, fit a scoreboard and install under-soil heating.

The weekend will also include Museum tours, object handling sessions, footie-themed craft, children's stories, and the Liverpool Shanty Kings singing Everton Songs. The Toffee Ladies will also be on hand to make sure there's Everton fun for all the family and visitors of all football allegiances.

And if that's not enough, the Museum of Liverpool has more to offer in the Wondrous Place gallery, which explores sport and creativity in the city. Visitors can learn about the history of football on Merseyside, and experience Kicking and Screaming, a 360-degree film immersive exploring Liverpool's passion for football and the unique rivalry and success of Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs.

Opened last year, the Museum of Liverpool is the largest newly-built national museum constructed in Britain for more than a century. It showcases Merseyside's popular culture while tackling social, historical and contemporary issues.

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Trevor Lynes
2 Posted 13/11/2012 at 09:45:49
I will defo be there to try to regain my youth by remembering a lot of great years watching EFC. I have followed Everton since 1948, strapped to a stanchion, and have witnessed initial lows (relegation) and highs with the fabulous Johnny Carey 60s team that was inherited by Harry Catterick.

I even saw Lawton in his twilight years playing for Notts County when they and him in particular inflicted a 4-1 defeat on us at Goodison Park. I saw Finney and Matthews, Shackleton and Liddell – who put the fear of God into me whenever he got the ball in derby matches. :(

I watched in delight in 1963 when we won the league with a big win against Fulham... Vernon was my hero as he always shone in derby games. I'm afraid Young never really enjoyed the physical side of those games.

I love pointing out to foreign fans the fact that our great city has won more league titles than any other English city and that the history of football did not start with the Premier League. Both ourselves and Liverpool won all their trophies without the aid of foreign players or Sky TV revenue. In those days, the playing fields were level and the league was much harder to win. Now we are not much better than the SPL and the title depends upon money.

I will be at the museum this weekend to relive those great memories.
Gerry Quinn
3 Posted 13/11/2012 at 18:24:42
Talking of which - I came across this poll and thought it might be great if everyone at TW cast their vote for our "Old lady" being the noisiest football ground. Just to let them know we are the best! :)
http://www.footballfancast.com/football-blogs/the-noisiest-home-ground-in-the-premier-league
Mick Quirke
4 Posted 13/11/2012 at 22:27:56
Lovely post, Trevor. Think my Dad's been going just a couple more years (born in 36). My Great-Grandad went to the 33 FA Cup Final, my Dad in 66, and both of us in 84, 86, 89 and 95. From that little I've seen of Vernon on John Motson's great Official History, Vernon was some player.
Paul Wharton
5 Posted 14/11/2012 at 00:04:06
Fellow Evertonians, we have a great passion for our club and we can show the tourists who visit our city what we are made of this weekend.

We will have short talks on some of our great players, not too heavy and not too long.

Music, stories for your children, something for everyone – so come along and enjoy a free day out.
Colin Potter
6 Posted 14/11/2012 at 13:13:59
Fantastic post Trevor! It was 1947 when I started going.

Did you go to Oldham for the last match of our promotion season? We needed to win 7-0 to win the league, but had to settle for 2nd when we only won 4-0. I remember those buggers coating the top of the walls at "our" end with tar to try and stop the ones without tickets getting in! Thankfully I had a ticket.

Trevor, did you go and see Dixie Dean play at South Liverpool's ground, I'm not sure but I think that was around 1948. It was Old Everton v Old Liverpool. Everton won 4-0 all scored in the 1st half. Dixie only played in the1st half unfortunately.

Talking of Royston Vernon, he was one of the really greats who played for us, and was certainly a great favourite of mine, who we bought from Blackburn Rovers. Another favourite was Wally Fielding.
Gerry Quinn
7 Posted 14/11/2012 at 18:52:23
Ha, brilliant, the power of ToffeeWeb - Everton are now top - keep voting


Everton (22%, 786 Votes)
West Ham (16%, 572 Votes)
Tottenham (13%, 454 Votes)
Liverpool (10%, 349 Votes)
Sunderland (9%, 306 Votes)
Man City (7%, 257 Votes)
Newcastle (6%, 221 Votes)
Chelsea (4%, 157 Votes)
Stoke City (3%, 119 Votes)
Arsenal (3%, 95 Votes)
Man United (2%, 85 Votes)
QPR (1%, 35 Votes)
Aston Villa (1%, 24 Votes)
WBA (1%, 24 Votes)
Fulham (0%, 16 Votes)
Swansea (0%, 13 Votes)
Wigan (0%, 6 Votes)
Southampton (0%, 3 Votes)
Norwich (0%, 2 Votes)
Reading (2%, 1 Votes)
of the shite!

Trevor Lynes
8 Posted 16/11/2012 at 14:55:23
I was actually at Anfield when Finney missed a penalty but PNE beat Liverpool 5-1 and sent them down.

I later played for Southport and was on opposing sides to Eddie wainwright and Jackie Grant who were playing for Rochdale.

I still believe that Liddell was Liverpool's most feared player and Catterick was a poor centre forward.

I never saw Dean play but Nobby Fielding was my favourite amongst a pretty poor Everton team during the 50s.

That 60s side that Carey built was the best footballing team I saw but he did not win the title so he lost his job to Catterick who removed some of the flair players and injected a bit of steel.

Vernon and Rush were the two best strikers I have seen in the city and Roy was a fabulous finisher for us.

He was very similar to Rush in pace and positional sense... he was a bit waspish too and could take care of himself.

Alex Parker had a pub in Runcorn shopping city called the swinging sporran after his playing days... he and Ray Wilson were a great pair of full backs.

Bainesy is 2nd best to Wilson in my view.

I'm going tomorrow to relive my memories with my eldest son (also a Blue).

I spent a lot of years working around the middle east and I have converts in Sudan, Egypt and Iraq who all support EFC!!!

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