Bramall Lane early 80s photos

[Basing Blade]

I found these images

I found some old images that I took at Bramall Lane, one day in about 1982, when I sneaked in.
They are actually quite good quality (Itook these on my phone from the prints).
I guess they are now a historical record. Terraces, wooden seats, toilet rolls thrown on the pitch, floodlights, white kop fence, exposed corners of the ground.
don't know what to do with them. May offer them to the club historian, but if any interest is shown I will upload better quality scans.

I hope they bring back some memories.

Bramall Lane / John Street entrance with floodlight stanchion.




Kop fence.


South Stand wooden seats.


John Street floodlights.


Kop / South stand corner with old cricket terraces still there.




Is this the kop / John Street corner?

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

"Is this the kop / John Street corner?"

No I'd say that was Bramall Lane / John Street corner - it looks like the Cricks in the background???

 

[Worksop II]

"Is this the kop / John Street corner?"

No I'd say that was Bramall Lane / John Street corner - it looks like the Cricks in the background???

I see the Ladies were getting fussed over as usual

 

[Worksop II]

These two photos are of the same area, from different angles

 

[Ecco1889]

Can't take your camera in now Kingston,I did last season,this jobsworth steward made me delete a photo of the family stand.Said it was breaking ground regulations..that fact that he stank of beer and seemed worse for wear, wasn't,apparently

 

[JohnDenver]

Can't take your camera in now Kingston,I did last season,this jobsworth steward made me delete a photo of the family stand.Said it was breaking ground regulations..that fact that he stank of beer and seemed worse for wear, wasn't,apparently

That's quality. Did he confiscate everyone's phone too?

 

[Basing Blade]

These two photos are of the same area, from different angles

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I remember now because that was the place where i stood for my first game. Home to Liverpool in September 74 and we stood in that corner. Winning 1-0. Downhill since then.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I found these images

I found some old images that I took at Bramall Lane, one day in about 1982, when I sneaked in.
They are actually quite good quality (Itook these on my phone from the prints).
I guess they are now a historical record. Terraces, wooden seats, toilet rolls thrown on the pitch, floodlights, white kop fence, exposed corners of the ground.
don't know what to do with them. May offer them to the club historian, but if any interest is shown I will upload better quality scans.

I hope they bring back some memories.

Bramall Lane / John Street entrance with floodlight stanchion.
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Kop fence.
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South Stand wooden seats.
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John Street floodlights.
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Kop / South stand corner with old cricket terraces still there.
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Is this the kop / John Street corner?
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Wow, great photos. Thanks for sharing.
In that first photo, I'm sure that bus on Bramall Lane would be one of the cream and brown ones.

 

[grafikhaus]

Great stuff! Nobody moans more than me about the sanitisation of football - no e-cigs, cameras etc. but it was shit attending in them days. John Street was a potential death trap, fans' behaviour was appalling and it took Hillsborough in '89 to stop treating fans like cattle (in fact, in the Hillsborough Enquiry, reference was made to the Leppings Lane 'pens', 'cages' and 'pits' - terms straight out of the abattoir.)

I'm sure many fans will remember the back of the kop. Gangs of lads looking out for 'their lads' trying to 'take the kop'. There was also a frightening staircase at the corner of John St/Shoreham St. Totally enclosed and pitch black as the light bulbs had been smashed and not replaced.

Happy days. Not.

 

[grafikhaus]

Wow, great photos. Thanks for sharing.
In that first photo, I'm sure that bus on Bramall Lane would be one of the cream and brown ones.

This one?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

This one?

That's it.
In the days before de-regulation, it cost us kids the princely sum of 2p from London Rd to Fox House, Peak District. Happy days.

 

[blade too long]

Can't take your camera in now Kingston,I did last season,this jobsworth steward made me delete a photo of the family stand.Said it was breaking ground regulations..that fact that he stank of beer and seemed worse for wear, wasn't,apparently

bit daft when you can happily snap away on open day pre season
got some snaps from the tv gantry to the boardroom

 

[Basing Blade]

I liked the old bus colour. And the 2p price from the old machines that photocopied your money.

 

[blade too long]

hard to believe this

became this

 

[HighfieldBlade]

hard to believe this
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became this
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I wonder if anyone salvaged the old street signs for John St and Bramall Lane. I'm guessing they got skipped.

 

[blade too long]

I wonder if anyone salvaged the old street signs for John St and Bramall Lane. I'm guessing they got skipped.

didnt realise the lane was so steep

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I liked the old bus colour. And the 2p price from the old machines that photocopied your money.

Photocopied 2p pieces! We used to think that this was as far as technology would ever go! I'd forgotten all about them.

 

[Crouchy]

Photocopied 2p pieces! We used to think that this was as far as technology would ever go! I'd forgotten all about them.

Those were the Videmat machines. We used to use as many halfpennies as possible so that we got tickets like ribbons.

 

[Lane Ender]

These two photos are of the same area, from different angles

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The venue of proper bollocks 70s early 80s

 

[dublin 10 blade]

The venue of proper bollocks 70s early 80s

too right , in that old triangle bit , or in john st terrace or stand , or maybe dropping into away end from south stand , jesus I was
a proper little bolox back then.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

That's it.
In the days before de-regulation, it cost us kids the princely sum of 2p from London Rd to Fox House, Peak District. Happy days.

Arbourtorne through to lodge moor on 51 , nesting camping and swimming up there onsummer holidays from school.

 

[Lane Ender]

I see the Ladies were getting fussed over as usual

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Only a few skinbirds about in those days

 

[blade too long]

now available in colour

 

[Billyblade]

Those were the Videmat machines. We used to use as many halfpennies as possible so that we got tickets like ribbons.

We used to chuck ring-pulls in and hope an inspector didn't come on

 

[HighfieldBlade]

We used to chuck ring-pulls in and hope an inspector didn't come on

If you're on the ring road bus route you'll be fine.

 

[Billyblade]

If you're on the ring road bus route you'll be fine.

 

[CarlingBlade]

Great photos, didn't start going until 1988 myself but some of those photos bring back some memories of how the lane used to be, some images of how the refreshments area on the West End of John St used to look would send the H&S inspectors into minor heart failure.

 

[Triggster]

Great photos, didn't start going until 1988 myself but some of those photos bring back some memories of how the lane used to be, some images of how the refreshments area on the West End of John St used to look would send the H&S inspectors into minor heart failure.

Great photos, didn't start going until 1988 myself but some of those photos bring back some memories of how the lane used to be, some images of how the refreshments area on the West End of John St used to look would send the H&S inspectors into minor heart failure.

The food and drinks were terrible, thinking back the only decent thing was the chewing gum . They came in a blister pack of six and were so strong they made your mouth burn, can't remember the name either.

 

[Boxer Blade]

Highfield, I have an original Bramall Lane, cast iron road sign, possibly there when the club was formed, has pride of place in our kitchen, bought by my wife years ago as a birthday present, I was away playing cricket in skegvegas, she took home on the bus, weighed a bloody ton!

 

[BushBlade]

The food and drinks were terrible, thinking back the only decent thing was the chewing gum . They came in a blister pack of six and were so strong they made your mouth burn, can't remember the name either.

I used to love the meat pies at the Lane in the early eighties. I suspect in reality they'd have been ears, tails and scrotums but they tasted good at the time.