Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Lane Ender]

I had a 506, and I’ve still got (and use) my old Mitchell 300 - when you see some of the Chinese shit being sold these days, you wonder how they’re still in business

Great reel 506 still got mine going to have go on the Trent next summer a mate of mine been bagging up on the river this year 506 will be back in action on the stick float

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[georgebernardshaw]

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Got my combat jacket from that corner shop in the early 60s, looked the mutt’s nutts in it, my gran said

 

[Woodwaaard]

In front of the Cortina is, I think, a Rover, a Morris Marina estate and an Austin 1100.

Nay Lad!!!
Assuming you mean the first Cortina in the bottom left of the picture...

Ford Cortina, Ford Anglia 105E, Ford Cortina Estate, Ford Cortina, Ford Anglia 105E (turning)

It can't be a Marina because they weren't available until 1971. The photo is 1966

Happy to assist

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I remember this and later as a Berni Inn.

 

[sitwell]

I remember this and later as a Berni Inn.

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The un poshest Berni Inn ever. Barley wine with your black forest gateau ?

 

[BushBlade]

Nay Lad!!!
Assuming you mean the first Cortina in the bottom left of the picture...

Ford Cortina, Ford Anglia 105E, Ford Cortina Estate, Ford Cortina, Ford Anglia 105E (turning)

It can't be a Marina because they weren't available until 1971. The photo is 1966

Happy to assist

I was looking on my phone. I see now that the front one is another Cortina. I thought it was an Austin but facing the other way. I can see the rear light looking more closely.

I recognise the Anglia because Uncle Fred had one.

 

[snootyfenooty]

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There's a common denominator in all your old photos of the City Centre streets. Cars. The cars bring people, just like Meadowhell. I wonder if someone should tell the council?

 

[DifferentClass]

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Looks rather like Leicester Square there. How did Fargate go to (relative) shit from there?

 

[Mad Mick]

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Good old St Vincents in the background 1971. My old school and also Patrick McGoohans.

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

Good old St Vincents in the background 1971. My old school and also Patrick McGoohans.

Did he go on to my old school, De La Salle, Mick?

 

[Trigger Blade]

Obviously in't back room, his mum wouldn't have let him use the front room - that was only for if someone posh turned up and maybe family gatherings at Christmas (if there were too many to fit in't back room )

And funerals

Bert thinks he saw that photo of Joe one Christmas in The Star, however Bert is in Amsterdam right now and there has been a lack of communication between him and his memory today.

At around that time, I read in the NME or similar that he would be home for Christmas. My Nan lived on Salisbury Road and knew Joe's Mum. I got my Nan to take me round to his house, which was a substantial intrusion on all fronts. Anyway, I was shown into the back room and had an hour or so with Joe and we drank a glass of sherry, the only alcohol in the house. Amongst other things, he showed me his framed telegram from John and Paul, thanking him for his version of With A Little help From My Friends. I wonder what happened to that.

People always say you shouldn't meet you heroes, but that just cemented my adulation, he wasn't as I'd expected, shorter and very, very quietly spoken, humble and gentle and apparently untroubled that this youth turned up out of the blue and was happy to chat.

 

[Mad Mick]

Did he go on to my old school, De La Salle, Mick?

Apparently he did.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Quite a few seem to like car spotting, so here you go

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[georgebernardshaw]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Armaments production in Sheffield during WW1. I think these are Hadfields.

 

[BerksBlade]

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Alfasud!

 

[BerksBlade]

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That is a great photo!

 

[Silent Blade]

Quite a few seem to like car spotting, so here you go

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What year?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

What year?

Not sure. Early 60s I'd guess.

 

[metalblade]

Quite a few seem to like car spotting, so here you go

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Where's the copper in the white coat ?

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

And funerals



At around that time, I read in the NME or similar that he would be home for Christmas. My Nan lived on Salisbury Road and knew Joe's Mum. I got my Nan to take me round to his house, which was a substantial intrusion on all fronts. Anyway, I was shown into the back room and had an hour or so with Joe and we drank a glass of sherry, the only alcohol in the house. Amongst other things, he showed me his framed telegram from John and Paul, thanking him for his version of With A Little help From My Friends. I wonder what happened to that.

People always say you shouldn't meet you heroes, but that just cemented my adulation, he wasn't as I'd expected, shorter and very, very quietly spoken, humble and gentle and apparently untroubled that this youth turned up out of the blue and was happy to chat.

Not sure if it’s been mentioned earlier in this thread, but was Joe a Blade? I’d read somewhere that he was.
I now live not too far from his last home in Crawford Colorado and for some reason I thought it might be nice to have a Blades scarf on display in the bar he used to frequent..

 

[Tunstall Fred]

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Love it that Ladybower/Derwent is on our doorstep,so many great walks around the place

 

[Trigger Blade]

Not sure if it’s been mentioned earlier in this thread, but was Joe a Blade? I’d read somewhere that he was.
I now live not too far from his last home in Crawford Colorado and for some reason I thought it might be nice to have a Blades scarf on display in the bar he used to frequent..

He definitely was. I have a picture of him from the late seventies wearing an SUFC jumper, although that in itself wasn't conclusive proof. After his biography came out, I wrote to his biographer JP Bean, himself a Blade and asked him. He confirmed it and said that when he came to Sheffield, Joe was a regular in the club shop and he kept in touch with results.

Good idea about the scarf.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Not sure if it’s been mentioned earlier in this thread, but was Joe a Blade? I’d read somewhere that he was.
I now live not too far from his last home in Crawford Colorado and for some reason I thought it might be nice to have a Blades scarf on display in the bar he used to frequent..

Definitely a Blade. I can remember a photo in the star of a particularly hungover looking joe sporting a United sweatshirt.

In the early eighties I had a season ticket in the John Street (Central) stand. As I went through the turnstile to walk up to the concourse ( a grand word for what was no more than a corridor) I saw the Hallam DJ Ray Stuart at the top of the stairs. He was talking to a small chap in a long overcoat. As I got to the top of the stairs I said excuse me to the small chap to get past him and as he turned it was Joe looking very quiet and unassuming. I just nodded as I passed as you do.

It seemed a bit surreal at the time as only a few weeks earlier I had seen the same man, resplendent in a white tuxedo, singing "Love Lift us up Where we Belong" with Jennifer Warnes at the Oscar ceremony and yet here he was, his wonderfully dishevelled self, just an ordinary man at a football match.

 

[I should coco]

People always say you shouldn't meet you heroes, but that just cemented my adulation, he wasn't as I'd expected, shorter and very, very quietly spoken, humble and gentle and apparently untroubled that this youth turned up out of the blue and was happy to chat.

It seemed a bit surreal at the time as only a few weeks earlier I had seen the same man, resplendent in a white tuxedo, singing "Love Lift us up Where we Belong" with Jennifer Warnes at the Oscar ceremony and yet here he was, his wonderfully dishevelled self, just an ordinary man at a football match.

He obviously made a few bob in the US and when his mum died and the Salisbury Road house was sold, he gave the proceeds to charity. Mrs ISC was fund raising for Lydgate Infants which was Joes's old school and IIRC, he gave £40k to help equip a canteen to allow kids to have hot dinners. I understand the rest of the money went to other local charities.

No blue plaque or anything of course on the house, but then what would you expect of Sheffield Council. A major international star who helped the profile the city around the world - no thank you!

 

[Harrisblade]

He obviously made a few bob in the US and when his mum died and the Salisbury Road house was sold, he gave the proceeds to charity. Mrs ISC was fund raising for Lydgate Infants which was Joes's old school and IIRC, he gave £40k to help equip a canteen to allow kids to have hot dinners. I understand the rest of the money went to other local charities.

No blue plaque or anything of course on the house, but then what would you expect of Sheffield Council. A major international star who helped the profile the city around the world - no thank you!

Is it coz he was a Blade?