Another home draw for the Clarets in 1973
For the third home game in succession in 1973 Burnley were held to a draw in the First Division. This time it was Derby County who returned home from Turf Moor with a point, this one from a 1-1 draw.
One poor Burnley mum was at the hospital holding a vigil at the bedside of her two-year-old son after he fell fifteen feet from an upstairs window at their Saxon Street home. From the moment young Bradley Glover was admitted to the accident ward at Burnley Victoria Hospital with a fractured skull and hand injuries she’d been by his side.
She explained:Â “I do not really remember much about the accident. I was much too shaken. My husband went to work about 7:30 and shortly after I heard Bradley playing with his model car. At the time I was getting dressed. Then I heard him scream. I do not really know what happened. I was not in the same room. From what I can gather he just sat on the window sill, leaned on the glass, the window opened and he fell out.” A hospital spokesman said that Bradley’s condition was reasonably comfortable and that he’d shown a slight improvement. This was a relief for Mrs Glover who a year earlier had lost her 10-week-old daughter who had died in her cot.
There was certainly some better news for Mr Raymond Fletcher of Rosehill Road. Back in 1962 he went into the record selling business with just £10 in capital and in 1973 was selling his empire for a bumper profit. He was also selling his house and he, his wife and five c...
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