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This is a long shot - but does anyone have an image of a Jonah's trade mark boot boy boot with a J in it that he left as his calling card around the town.
I have a tribute penned in the fanzine about legendary Boro boot boy Jonah and was told there was a drawing of said boot in the fanzine around 20 years ago. Possibly in the first season at the Riverside. Possibly. And equally possibly I might have drawn it so if that is the case it really would not be worth the searching.
I will have a quick look tomorrow morning. But if anyone happens to know where to find a boot that would save some time.
 
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This is a long shot - but does anyone have an image of a Jonah's trade mark boot boy boot with a J in it that he left as his calling card around the town.
I have a tribute penned in the fanzine about legendary Boro boot boy Jonah and was told there was a drawing of said boot in the fanzine around 20 years ago. Possibly in the first season at the Riverside. Possibly. And equally possibly I might have drawn it so if that is the case it really would not be worth the searching.
I will have a quick look tomorrow morning. But if anyone happens to know where to find a boot that would save some time.
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If it is what I think you are after, they use to spray an exaggerated boot from the side with their initial in the toe cap and B, B, B, (Boro Boot Boys) underneath it.
 
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I was just talking to someone about this today. The one I remember most was on the toilet block at the rec ground opposite Middlesbrough art gallery (now demolished). Bright red doc boot with Jonah underneath it.
 
Was there something like "football hooligans epitomise infantile behavior" painted on the wall of Boot Boy alley?

I knew Jonah (Peter) - Recently deceased.

I don't remember him specifically being the creator of the B.B.B. Boot, which appeared on all the best walls 😉 in the early 70s, but was omnipresent.

But then again, it would make sense as someone must have come up with it, and it was before my time. Even though I had it painted on the back of my school havvie.

Around 1980, I bought a yellow Harrington and did my own B.B.B. Boot on the back in homage to the old boot boys.

Needless to say, I never wore it out often 😎.

I did a Adobe Illustrator drawing which I may have posted to Tim Lloyd's old Boro Message List. Mebees someone copied it for a fanzine 20 years ago? , Peter was a 'respectable member of society' by then, so a 'calling card' doesn't sound right.

Perhaps @Johnny Vincents Motorbike may know, as I'm sure you know, Rob, created the Ayresome Angel, the UK's first ever football fanzine pre-dating FMTTM.

I was living abroad then, so maybe it had something to do with Jonah's studies in fine art and/or football tribalism.

I'll have a root about my hard drives/cloud shares for a jpeg of my Illustrator file.

Watch this space
 
I posted last week about Jonah here:

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RIP Dicko and Jonah old skool Boro

I heard of Dave Dickson (Dicko) passing from lung cancer 3 weeks ago, but couldn't make the funeral yesterday. I called a friend to ask about the do and got the news that Peter Jones (Jonah) had also died a few days later. These were my idols in the late 60s/early 70s, being stalwarts of the...
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I've found the following jpeg of my digital attempt. Note the all important reflection of a window on the toe cap:
 

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Here's a couple of great Robin Dale photo's from that period, but you'd probably have to ask his permission to use them, if he still has a web presence.
 

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Many thanks indeed. Neil Wheldon is writing about his former workmate Jonah in the current issue of fmttm. He recalls that Jonah "starred" in an advert for the Evening Chronicle and also the famous boot that adorned many a wall.
Yeah, Ayresome Angel was indeed the first Boro fanzine, not THE first fanzine in the world though, Bradford's City Gent was a year or too earlier and in fact there were loads of fanzines before they came to Ayresome Park.
But anyway, Jonah's brother Simon has sent a couple of glimpses of Peter "Jonah's artwork for the fanzine also. Thanks to him for that.
 
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Many thanks indeed. Neil Wheldon is writing about his former workmate Jonah in the current issue of fmttm. He recalls that Jonah "starred" in an advert for the Evening Chronicle and also the famous boot that adorned many a wall.
Yeah, Ayresome Angel was indeed the first Boro fanzine, not THE first fanzine in the world though, Bradford's City Gent was a year or too earlier and in fact there were loads of fanzines before they came to Ayresome Park.
But anyway, Jonah's brother Simon has sent a couple of glimpses of Peter "Jonah's artwork for the fanzine also. Thanks to him for that.
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I think you've corrected me in the past RE. City Gent.
 
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