A record to rival Aguero
QUESTION Sergio Aguero has become Manchester City’s all-time highest goal scorer. What became of Tommy Johnson, who scored 38 league goals for City in the 1929 season? Tommy ‘Tosh’ Johnson played centreforward for City from may 1918 to march 1930, in which time he scored 166 goals in 354 senior appearances, including 38 in the First Division in 1928-29, the record for the most goals scored by a manchester City player in a single season.
Born in Dalton-on-Furness, Lancs, on August 19, 1901, he played local club football until joining City after a successful trial. on leaving maine Road he signed for Everton for £6,000.
He went on to score for Everton against City in the 1933 FA Cup final, one of his 64 goals in 159 games for the Goodison Park club. In fact, he helped City (1927-28) and Everton ( 1930- 31) win the Second Division championship.
Capped five times by England (192632), he also represented the Football League and the FA, and went on to play for Liverpool ( eight goals in 39 appearances) and Darwen before retiring in may 1937. He became a publican when he retired from football.
He enjoyed cricket, played golf regularly and was also pretty useful at snooker, as well as being a boxing enthusiast, attending many major fights in the UK. He lived in manchester until his death in the city’s monsall Hospital on January 29, 1973, aged 71. Tony Matthews, author Manchester City:
Player By Player, Almeria, Spain. ALL our family drank at Tommy’s pub, the Crown Inn, Clowes Street, West Gorton. He could also be seen at my pub, the Werneth Hotel, Gee Cross, Hyde, every Sunday lunchtime.
Here (above) is a photo probably taken in Blackpool about 1970. He is sitting with his bosom pal Jack Ballinger, my uncle, a painter and decorator who had a shop on Gorton Lane, practically facing the Gorton Conservative Club. Mrs Patricia Anne Shaw,
Stockport, Cheshire.
QUESTION How deep are the Norfolk Broads?
THE Broadlands are a landscape of slowmoving rivers, fens, marshes and waterlogged woodland in the eastern parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. The name comes from the shallow lakes that form the Broads, all linked by 125 miles of navigable water.
The Broads range in size from small pools to the 350-acre expanse of Hickling Broad, with far more in the north of the region than in the south. Sixty-three broads have been identified, with a combined area of 2,066 acres. Their remarkable feature is that they are believed to be man-made, something discovered as recently as 1952 by geology specialist Joyce Lambert.
our medieval ancestors dug peat by hand for fuel, not knowing that underground water and rivers would fill up the holes, forming these great, shallow lakes or broads. They are popular with holidaymakers as they are lock-free, unlike other navigable waterways such as the Thames, and generally provide unrivalled opportunities for trouble-free boating.
But beware of getting stuck under the low arch of Potter Heigham Bridge or grounding your rudder in mud.
This is a possibility because most Broads are 6ft 8in or less in depth, though the rivers are about twice that depth, at least in their navigable sections. Consequently, all boats require a shallow draft.
The great Norfolk wherries, clinker-built boats with a large gaff-rigged sail, that once ploughed the Broads, could carry up to 25 tons of cargo, despite having a particularly shallow draft for their size.
Jared Rowley, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
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