Programme cover showing Luton FA Cup match - February 1961

I have a few programmes from this era I picked up but all mine run from 74 to 82. After that I stopped buying them. Love looking back at the ones i have, as Iley into Clarke & Hunter was probably the most transformational period of our club in the modern day & it is not documented well online, or elsewhere, unlike, say the Wilson years. Only John Dennis's book covers the bare bones.

 

There are some 1960s Cup memories covered here ......

https://www.flickr.com/photos/barnsleycollector/albums/72157650351793589

and 1961/62 programmes here...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/barnsleycollector/albums/72157626680321765

 

Loved looking through these - thanks!

 

I have lots of the actual programmes of that era. They have survived remarkably well considering the travelling they have done with me. Like old books though they have a distinctive smell when you take them out of their boxes

 

Went to both those games the Barnsley v Luton and the opening of the floodlights stood on the kop for both games.

 

I wish I could remember that Bolton game but I can't. I'd love to have a vivid memory of what it was like to see the great Tom Finney wearing our number nine shirt. Another England international, Jimmy Hagan, also guested for us.

Do you remember the Greenock Morton friendly a few weeks later? Tom guested in that one too but, again, I have no memory of the match.

 

I can remember the game against Bolton for the opening of the floodlights (Bolton were in Division 1 then). I seem to recall Tom Finney actually scored for The Reds that night - a shot from the edge of the penalty area around the middle of the goal ? But I may be confusing players in my mind - does anyone else remember this ?

 

I can not remember that one Prince but one thing I know about Greenock Morton is that one of the greatest Barnsley Players of all time Johnny Kelly came to Oakwell from Greenock Morton. Regarding the Bolton game, I remember Barnsley playing a number of youth players, Nat Lofthouse played for Bolton along with most of there cup winning team in 1958ish.

 

Yes and Eddie O'Hara came from Morton if I remember correctly. Great left winger for us.
It's hard to imagine being at Oakwell with two greats of the game facing each other - Nat Lofthouse and Tom Finney. I was only nine at the time so too young to appreciate the novelty of that happening at our ground. Younger fans would look at this and see that the opposition was Bolton and think pfffftt considering where they are now but, as we both know, the Trotters were a big name back then

 

The gate receipts for that match were £6604, making the average ticket price 4 shillings, or 20p in today's coinage. By the way, I was at that match and am pretty sure that left-winger, Jackie Lunn, did not "poke home" the winner. It was a cross from the wing, which eluded the keeper and ended up in the net. Lunn was only just in front of my vantage point near the wall in the old Paddock, later called Brewery Stand and now, of course, East Stand. The official attendance for the 6th Round replay with Leicester was 39,250, with many thousands locked out. Gate receipts for that match were £7727 ( an average, in today's money of 19.69p per person).