Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Silent Blade]

http://www.lfchistory.net/SeasonArchive/Game/277

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Nice picture, which captures Joe Shaw and Brian Richardson very well. JS nicking the ball off the opponent (Liverpool?), BR always looking to cover. The other Blades player, Matthewson never seemed to properly establish himself at the Lane.

 

[bornablade]

Peter Thompson and Roger Hunt are the Liverpool players.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Nice picture, which captures Joe Shaw and Brian Richardson very well. JS nicking the ball off the opponent (Liverpool?), BR always looking to cover. The other Blades player, Matthewson never seemed to properly establish himself at the Lane.

I think it's Peter Thompson for Liverpool

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Rodney Marsh....you basterd

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Woolworths, Haymarket. Loose biscuits sold by weight. Nowt better than an assortment of broken biscuits!

 

[BigBed]

 

[BigBed]

 

[corkysbeard]

Sheaf valley baths absolutely brilliant,I used to torpedo off the top board and get whistled by the attendant to get out as I was apparently put myself in danger,was only about 9 at the time,cup of hot chocolate from the machine and a McGowans toffee bar on the way out.

 

[BigBed]

Why don't we see toffee bars anymore!!??
Was HIGHLAND TOFFEE when I were a lad!

 

[HighfieldBlade]

As Silent Blade correctly says

Spill the beans mate. What happened?

 

[Ivanhoe]

Why don't we see toffee bars anymore!!??
Was HIGHLAND TOFFEE when I were a lad!

Or Parkinson's Butter Scotch, six or eight individually wrapped square sweets in a packet. Tasted similar to 'Werthers' if my memory serves me...

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Woolworths, Haymarket. Loose biscuits sold by weight. Nowt better than an assortment of broken biscuits!

Great picture. Used to love finding an unbroken biscuit in amongst them. What a find!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Any oldies remember this?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Same place...

 

[snootyfenooty]

How did that side ever go down?

I only started watching around 1970 so know nothing of the relegation struggle. A team with Hodgy, Badger, Shaw, Woody, TC and Reece was surely far to good to go down? Were there just too many old men or was their some other CheatinAmmers stuff going on?

No, that back line of Munks, Mallender and Barlow was probably the worse we ever had.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Any oldies remember this?

Longley Park?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Longley Park?

Aye, another great shot of it:

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Aye, another great shot of it:

Went there a few times in the early 60s with future Mrs HBT; it was well past its heyday by then, and nothing like the numbers of people in these pics. What date are these photos from? I seem to remember the temperature of the water was very low; most of the swimmers were Wednesdayites, so it probably helped limit their ability to reproduce.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Went there a few times in the early 60s with future Mrs HBT; it was well past its heyday by then, and nothing like the numbers of people in these pics. What date are these photos from? I seem to remember the temperature of the water was very low; most of the swimmers were Wednesdayites, so it probably helped limit their ability to reproduce.

I think most of these are from the 30s or 50s. Whatever happened to irascible Park Keepers?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I think most of these are from the 30s or 50s. Whatever happened to irascible Park Keepers?

They too probably failed to reproduce.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Fucking hell, that diving board was 10x higher when I used to jump off it.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I only went to sheaf Valley a couple of times. My local pool was Heeley. Used to have to go there for a bath too!...my parents sometimes hired a bath tub for us instead of the tin bath in the living room at home!! Kids these days don't know they're born.

 

[vorpal blade]

luxury,

all we had were a tin can

and it still had beans in it

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I only went to sheaf Valley a couple of times. My local pool was Heeley. Used to have to go there for a bath too!...my parents sometimes hired a bath tub for us instead of the tin bath in the living room at home!! Kids these days don't know they're born.

Reminds of the scene in Quadrophenia.