Charles Bannerman

On Friday 22nd November 1963, round about tea time GMT, President John F. Kennedy of the United States was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. The 50th anniversary of this event is therefore on Friday. Many who were around at the time (and that effectively now means at least the over 55s) have a strong tendency to remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard this news. This has become known as the "JFK moment". I was swimming in a Life Boys gala at the old Inverness swimming pool in Friars Street when my mother, who was among the spectators, gave me the news. Anyone else remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard about JFK? And apologies for the typo in the subtitle, which I can't change and which of course should read "generation"

Agreed! A sizeable slice of the traffic crossing the Ness Bridge is going from Culduthel, Hilton, Holm, Lochardil to the other side of town and vice versa. Another crossing is vital not only to relieve that pressure but also to provide a link between the A82 and the A9/96 which doesn't go through Inverness. Inverness is progressively becoming more and more gridlocked which is made worse by this city's long held obsession with digging up the streets! As for the various options, I lost track of that debate years ago and I just don't understand what's taking the Council so long. On the other hand I did observe in detail their decision process in relation to giving Caley Thistle their £900,000 grant and Caley's Carse application before that......

That right DV..... about Alan Stevenson I mean He was the year behind me at Dalneigh School, and I do believe he went on to Clach after he left Jags.

Yes I'm sure you do...... but what's that got to do with Kenny Cameron?

Do you mean Alan Stevenson, or is that Clarkie lying on the ground?

Charles - No date on that Caley-Thistle cutting so no info sorry - before my time though. It is near the end - Allan and Kev and Ian Polworth in the tracksuit top next to them. No idea about the lottery as I was already away and missed the last few years and the great debacle. I think that kit may have been the Umbro one (or maybe Matchwinner). Several years ago I spoke to the guy who now runs the Matchwinner kit and he had no idea that they provided them for the Jags. Another of those company names that was bought out and the history had been lost with the new men coming in. Sound familiar... TBB - it was the Matchwinner kit, launched, I think, in the spring of 1992. I certainly remember Mark Mitchell, one of the Thistle Rebels (Jags weren't too genteel to have them as well!) appearing in the grren away kit when the Wick Academy boys were loading up their lorry with the Thistle enclosure which they'd bought, and wishing them the very best of luck in very emotional terms. And I've remembered the name of the lottery - The Jags Premier Club, which unfortunately found it difficult to get off the ground in competition to Caley's and Clach's well established equivalents. This led, at the merger, for it to be claimed that Caley had 70% of the assets, 80% of the members (after massive recruitment!) and 90% of the fundraising capacity.

I think a few Jaggies felt that way at the time Kingsmills... in relation to that 1893-4 season when Thistle won the inaugural Highland League title, I discovered relatively recently that a Ross County team started that season but resigned after three games. Maybe they felt a little overwhelmed in a competition where six of the other seven teams were from Inverness! These were Thistle, Caley, Clach, Citadel, Union and the Camerons. The only other non Inverness team was Forres Mechanics so that means that Clach and Forres are the only surviving founder members in the Highland League. Sneckboy... was that definitely the defeat by Rangers in 1985? I had been wondering if it was the 2-2 against St Johnstone in 1992 and if that might have been Polworth in action? On the other hand the skimpiness of the shorts maybe does place the game in the mid 80s.

Davie Reid.... legend! That would have been round about 1964-65 or thereby. I do have so many happy memories of Highland League football and enjoy continuing them whenever possible. That's usually at Grant Street these days but I'm hoping to get to the ICT Old Boys' battle - Fridge v Wilson at Nairn tomorrow. The photo in post #5 must be in the very latter days of Thistle, partly because I can see Henrik there with (I think) Alan MacDonald and Kevin Sweeney on his left. Then there's the kit which I think was launched in 1992 because I remember being at the official launch in the Haughdale with the most phenomenal buffet! That, I think, was during the short time that Ian Davidson was commercial manager when he also set up a lottery-type enterprise like the Caley Centenary Club and the Clach Capital Club (TBB - can you remember the name?). I think the change strip, the alternative to black and red in that design,was green with white by the way.

But at least there's more red than blue on the flag!

Maybe there's a byelaw which states that any fish caught in the Leejun Pool from the Leejun side belong to the Leejun so they can sell them to boost their seriously ailing coffers!

I do believe that bus is turning left from Strothers Lane into the Farraline Park bus station in an era when the ramp up to MacRae and Dick can still be seen behind it. Judging from what looks like an Austin 1800 and the very short skirt on the girl who appears to be wearing a Royal Academy blazer, the photo may date from the mid/late 60s to the early 70s. The tin shed on the right of the photo is also long gone. But to return to topic - I have only been on the Caley Club bus once, for last October's derby. I could certainly recommend it, except that when I came back out of the stadium after that particular 3-1 home win I jumped on to the bus in the layby with the words "Is this the Caley Club bus. I looked up just as one of a number of very glum faces replied: "No! This bus is going to Dingwall!" It was a very long five steps back off that bus amid robust abuse

I would rate the Hilton chippy(er) a lot higher than "OKish" and surely a lot closer to Westhill than Greig Street. It's always the "chucken sapper" that I get and that's just a fiver for what I would say is a pretty large portion. Apart from the quality of the fare in Hilton, I have found the prices consistently lower than anywhere else in Inverness that I've tried. Ther Kebab House at the bottom of Stephen's Brae is also OK.

CAPTION - "Now I wonder? Caley Thistle or Ross County?" Congratulations Scotty!

CAPTION - "Now I wonder.... Caley Thistle or Ross County??" Congratulations Scotty!

"Nope! I just can't find it."

That's actually a bridge and TWO castles. Inverness Castle and Castle Tolmie! When I was about 3 my dad had a seat for me on the bar of his bike and we were just turning left from Huntly Street on to the bridge at the left hand little tower there when we fell off. My tears were quenched by a lady giving me chocolate.

Given that this was at the TCS, they probably sat in silence.

I would simply like to commend the moderators twice over.... for moving the thread to the forum in which the perpetrator, if he desperately felt he had to, should have started it in the first place - and for changing the title to its now inoffensive one.

. I agree! To call one of our fellow fans who is also a member of the armed forces an "idiot", frankly is deeply offensive and upsets me greatly! Agreed wholeheartedly! Come on Joe! Let's be having an apology from you to a brave man who has spent his professional career serving all over the world in the British armed forces under the flag which you - but apparently very few others - seem to find so offensive. These are men who tell us they are proud to serve in our British armed forces, and we are proud of them. It's also thanks to such men - and women - that in more recent decades, the chances of you being blown up as you walk along the high street have been minimised - whether the threat is Irish or Muslim. Many of these people have actually given their lives in the cause of your safety. Your gratitude is a long way short of impressive. So perhaps - having put up out of order - you could now shut up.... after you have issued a much needed and even more belated apology to this man.

I'm not quite clear as to what you mean by that post. Would you mind explaining?

As far as I am aware the OP has not posted extensively if at all on the Independence thread, so to attribute to him an "ulterior motive" smacks of paranoia. In which case it's a pity he missed out on this opportunity to catch up on lost ground.

Oh aye? So wot about this then? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoMeUcC_M20&noredirect=1 and this.... http://news.yahoo.com/80-arrested-anti-islam-protest-denmark-172249372.html And loads more. Sounds like you've had another "Ireland and Iceland Arc of Prosperity" moment!

Scotty, whilst in no way challenging the final decision of the moderators as to what goes where, I would suggest that individual posters should be entitled to express in open forum the point of view that a thread has been started in the wrong place. This is especially the case if, by the raising of the issue, those who might not have realised one are invited to consider the possibility of an ulterior motive within the thread in question.

No I'm not. I'm simply saying that the discussion, given its obvious motivation, is in the wrong forum and would be better pursued in the Independence Debate or General nonsense sections.

The voice of sanity speaks! IHE has hit the nail squarely on the head. This is the ICT thread within the "Football and other sport" section of this site. If this was www.chippyjimmy.com or such like, then it might be different. But since it's not, the obviously politically motivated gripe which the original poster seems hellbent on pursuing has no place in this section and should have been made elsewhere - in the Independence Debate thread or better still in General Nonsense. But at least there is one interesting observation to be made about this thread in relation to what it was REALLY started to say. I am referring to the extent to which this politically motivated claptrap seems to be prompting viewpoints on the Union from the silent majority who are now making their views very clear. So from that point of view, and to return to IHE's theme, the starting of this thread has at least provided one thing that didn't materialise in Perth yesterday - a spectacular own goal! If anyone wants to have a rant against the Union, the "Independence Debate" thread is the place to do it - not here! PS - the guy who nicked the flag and wouldn't give it back wasn't a reincarnation of Willie Bell by any chance?