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No: 1065 Contributor: David Smith Year: 1953
Invergordon Football Team 
Invergordon football team, probably taken early/mid 1950s. Some of the players are also in picture #886.
Goalkeeper.... Bill Mctaggart. Front extreme left... David Bremner. Front middle... Bunny MacDonald.
Can anyone help name the others?
Picture added on 17 February 2008
Front 2nd left Jimmy Farquhar. 2nd from right front, Johnny Miller? Not sure about far right front Davie Moir?
Added by Harry O'Neill on 17 February 2008
My dad used to take me into the "Dressing Room" hut after games and I never knew where to look! The players would be washing themselves from buckets of cold water, usually brought in by Frankie Hoy. Frankie had learning difficulties and looked quite scary at times but he was really a harmless, nice man who was mad about football. On saturday nights he would walk up and down the High Street selling the "Football Times" which had the day's results in its Stop Press column. Invergordon FC had many successes in the 1950s.
Added by Bill Geddes on 18 February 2008
picture #813 which I posted some time ago shows the Trophy in this picture on our living room piano. My date of 1950 was a guess but I think the team won trophies several times in that era. The team strip was red and Bill MacTaggert usually wore a yellow jersey. The home ground was at Blackpark to the west of the Naval Playing Grounds and between the town dump and the oil tanks. I think the school is on the site today. How many kids at the school today know that their school is on a site of great historical significance? It was where sailors from the Home Fleet held a massed meeting in 1931 and voted to go on strike because Winston Churchill decided to cut their pay. The last mutiny in the British Navy!
Added by Bill Geddes on 18 February 2008
Sorry Billy but your geography is a wee bit out. Black Park is about 300 metres to the East of the "Rec" and the current Academy, the rest of your input is accurate. Black Park has been part of Invergordon Distillery grounds for a number of years as well as the old dump. The road that went from Tomich Road past the dump to the cottages has also disappeared over the years.
Added by Duncan Murray on 19 February 2008
Black Park was situated between the town dump and the oil tanks. The railway line ran between the park and the tanks.
Anonymous comment added on 20 February 2008
Second from the left in the back row is my Dad, Roddy Macleod the painter.
Added by Ruth Gavin (Macleod) on 23 September 2008
Front row extreme right is my late uncle Donnie Murray. Standing behind him looks very like Ian Sutherland ..but ..am not certain about him.
Added by Duncan Murray on 10 May 2009
On the end of the back row left hand side is my dad Robert Connnell.
Added by Irene Green on 31 January 2012
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