Hugh Curran

 
What an awful late summer this is proving to be….on the very day that Phil Parkes was being given a wonderful send-off in Wolverhampton city centre, another of his team-mates, Hugh Curran, was passing away.
 
We in the West Midlands have not seen as much of Hugh as we would like to have done in the decades since he left Molineux but he created some terrific memories here.
 
In a career highlighed by outstanding deeds, he scored 47 goals in 98 League and cup appearances for Bill McGarry’s Wolves, twice topping the 20 mark in a season. 
 
And all that despite having to compete for a first-team shirt with Derek Dougan, Bobby Gould and the emerging John Richards.
 
Curran also won five caps for Scotland, all while he was at Wolves. 
 
Please go to our news area to read both an obituary on him and our account of Lofty’s funeral.

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RIP Hugh Curran

Scottish Striker Passes Away

The Wolves family have been hit by yet another bereavement, with news of the death of Hugh Curran. The Scottish international striker was 82 and had been in poor health for several years.

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One Of The Very Best

A Full House For The Last Goodbye

“Being a friend of Phil Parkes was an honour. I feel privileged to have known him.” The words were spoken by West Midlands musician Kenny Craig but could have come from any of the hundreds of guests in St Peter’s Collegiate Church.
The Godfather to the Parkes’s son, Greg, also spoke in 2010 at wife Maureen’s funeral and was one of those invited out to Vancouver to spend time with the family during their Whitecaps years. They were all very close.

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Kindo Striking A Nostalgic Note

Tuesday, August 4: Enjoyed reconnecting Steve Kindon with a figure from his Wolves past. Harvey Andrews is not only a well-known name from the music scene but was also the first manager of Wolves’ old club shop – that small, long-gone structure behind the North Bank.

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Cast List of Players

An Impressive Roll Call

Welcome to one of the newer areas of the Wolves Heroes website.
Here, we not only list every player who has appeared in a League match for the club but also the order in which they did so.
For example, this is the place to learn that a few well-known and not-so-well-known men, such as Maurice Daly and Brian Caswell, have special niches in Wolves history that they presumably knew nothing about.
In 1975, Daly became the 600th man to be given a League debut by the club while the on-loan Caswell clocked in as the 700th more than a decade later.
Please take a slow trawl through to see the entire order but bear in mind that, if you are revisiting this area, we may have made alterations since you last looked owing to a recount and the eagle eye of our checkers, Donald Noble in Coventry and more recently southern-based Scott Pritchard, whose www.wolvescompletehistory.co.uk website is well worth a visit…
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Derek Dougan on the ball for Wolves on a sun-filled visit to Stamford Bridge almost 50 years ago. In the background is skipper Mike Bailey. Wolves had a mixed record in away games against Chelsea at that time, following up a defeat in their first season back in the top flight with three successive draws in the fixture.

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Lofty……..loyal, local and loved

Nostalgic Thoughts Of Top-Guy Keeper

Meeting up with Phil Parkes is always a pleasure. His views never fail to be forthright, heartfelt and entertaining. John Richards was not disappointed when he posed the questions put forward by our readers…..

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