Ninian Park Memories

[Hilts]

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I remember the City being so sh!t that the only singing or cheering was when Jeff Hemmerman used to come on to treat a player. In fact I remember 1 game the crowd booing when it looked like Jeff was coming on but the player got up without needing treatment.

[splott parker]

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If we hadn’t made the move I dread to think what the state of Ninian Park would be like now and more worryingly what division we’d be in, non league maybe?

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

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There are many memories for me. In the early days of going down mid 70s it was both 'Happy Harry' aka trevor with his plastic OB hat and the hefty Steward with purvey raincoat and flat cap that would patrol the front of the Grange end where me and my mate would end up.
Obviously the bovril, pie and tobacco aroma as you came through the turnstiles.
Counting the away coaches
The latter days it was the pungent smell of Green in the John Smith stand.
Spedger

[Enoch Mort]

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The smell of piss and Peter's pies as you came through the turnstiles

Don't know which was worst

Some time before Peters Pies I remember pies by Stan Thomas of Merthyr being sold at NP. Same family as Peters I think.

[light up the darkness]

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Some time before Peters Pies I remember pies by Stan Thomas of Merthyr being sold at NP. Same family as Peters I think.

There was Stan Thomas the old un who started the pies.
Two sons Peter and Stan who then took over the business
And there was also a younger daughter, name escapes me, who was company secretary

[Enoch Mort]

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There was Stan Thomas the old un who started the pies.
Two sons Peter and Stan who then took over the business
And there was also a younger daughter, name escapes me, who was company secretary

It was the “old un” as you quite rightly put it. I always found it a bit ironic, having bought their pies for so many years at Ninian Park as did many others, the family put their money into the other shaped ball in Cardiff.

[light up the darkness]

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The old un passed in 2015 aged 98.

The daughter was called Mary.

Seems like the more successful of the two sons is Sir Stanley Thomas who does a lot of work for charity

[The Bloop]

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The old un passed in 2015 aged 98.

The daughter was called Mary.

Seems like the more successful of the two sons is Sir Stanley Thomas who does a lot of work for charity

Didnt one relative die in a balcony fall at a nightclub, or did they own the club in which someone else died?

[Cyncoed Slumdog]

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The old un passed in 2015 aged 98.

The daughter was called Mary.

Seems like the more successful of the two sons is Sir Stanley Thomas who does a lot of work for charity

Stan is definitely not short - he's put £4m into Merthyr Rugby Club.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/terrible-tv-programme-sparked-4million-20680870?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wales_rugby

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Stan is definitely not short - he's put £4m into Merthyr Rugby Club.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...gn=wales_rugby

I don't understand why they never put money into Cardiff City

[cardiff55]

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The old un passed in 2015 aged 98.

The daughter was called Mary.

Seems like the more successful of the two sons is Sir Stanley Thomas who does a lot of work for charity

I heard that a daughter married ex Wales rugby international Pat Daniels. He sometimes comes down the City with a group of friends and sits close to me. Apparently they are all very wealthy.