Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Tunstall Fred]

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Was this the game when United fans got turned back to answer police questions,Speight got sent off and we won,on a Monday night?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

A favourite of mine...

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Was this the game when United fans got turned back to answer police questions,Speight got sent off and we won,on a Monday night?

Better memory than me Fred. If it was a Monday night it would explain why I didn't go.

 

[Woodwaaard]

A favourite of mine...

Looks like a toe-ender, heading for the young lad's nuts!

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Better memory than me Fred. If it was a Monday night it would explain why I didn't go.

Only one man to ask about such a thing Silent Blade

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Looks like a toe-ender, heading for the young lad's nuts!

It defines my childhood. Playing football anywhere we could. At some point there would have been a game invented, involving those blocks in the wall.

 

[sitwell]

It defines my childhood. Playing football anywhere we could. At some point there would have been a game invented, involving those blocks in the wall.

Spot.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

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I'm not into fishing, but I'm guessing the guy in the 4th picture is holding a fishing-rod. It seems odd that he appears to be posing for the picture...with his zip undone. Is this the origin of the phrase 'fly-fishing', perhaps?

 

[Harrisblade]

I'm not into fishing, but I'm guessing the guy in the 4th picture is holding a fishing-rod. It seems odd that he appears to be posing for the picture...with his zip undone. Is this the origin of the phrase 'fly-fishing', perhaps?

It's a convenient pocket when help is needed to support the end of the rod

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

I'm not into fishing, but I'm guessing the guy in the 4th picture is holding a fishing-rod. It seems odd that he appears to be posing for the picture...with his zip undone. Is this the origin of the phrase 'fly-fishing', perhaps?

I would think so, especially if his name is J R Hartley.

 

[BushBlade]

A favourite of mine...

I'm guessing late seventies/early eighties and the kid will be around fifty now. I had a coat like that (as did loads of kids). I think they were called snorkel coats, like a nylon parka with a big hood that stuck out and if you didn't have your wits about you some kid would grab the front of the hood, screw it up so you couldn't see then give you a quick punch in the head. For a laugh, as you did in those days.

Must have been cold that day if you could play footy in a coat.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I'm guessing late seventies/early eighties and the kid will be around fifty now. I had a coat like that (as did loads of kids). I think they were called snorkel coats, like a nylon parka with a big hood that stuck out and if you didn't have your wits about you some kid would grab the front of the hood, screw it up so you couldn't see then give you a quick punch in the head. For a laugh, as you did in those days.

Must have been cold that day if you could play footy in a coat.

Coat? You were lucky etc etc etc

 

[The Crab]

Coat? You were lucky etc etc etc

Had to get my Snorkel Coat from the school place at Leopold Street. Might as well have just painted a big fucking target on me instead. Warm coat though.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Had to get my Snorkel Coat from the school place at Leopold Street. Might as well have just painted a big fucking target on me instead. Warm coat though.

Bruising does that .

 

[georgebernardshaw]

I would think so, especially if his name is J R Hartley.

It’s Ernest Stamford, who had a tackle shop on Attercliffe Common, designed and made excellent rods and won dozens of big matches.
Really nice fella, top man

 

[Kentblade]

No,no, no that is what the little platform is for in the picture when it was busy a copper in a white coat would be stood on the platforn directing the traffic
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I was referring to the picture showing Fitzallan Square on a different picture.

 

[XM657]

It’s Ernest Stamford, who had a tackle shop on Attercliffe Common, designed and made excellent rods and won dozens of big matches.
Really nice fella, top man

That's interesting, never been fishing or met Ernest Stamford but have done work for his son John in the past. Lost contact now, is the business still on the go? I hope so, like his father John is a really nice fella. A pleasure to work for him had some laughs. Thanks for the info, strange how things come about.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Spot.

Or the extended version "Donkey".

 

[wavy-blade]

It defines my childhood. Playing football anywhere we could. At some point there would have been a game invented, involving those blocks in the wall.

I so wish I could back to those days .

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Just lacking Nudger then.

And Brooks?

 

[peteribb]

It may look like a Maxi from that angle but it isn't
I'm trying to think what it is
Maxis had both a C and D pillar and that car only has a C

Looks like a Mk1 Vauxhall Viva

 

[I should coco]

I had one too and thought it was the dog's bollocks.

I was only 8 though.

 

[Bert]

Believed to be the oldest photo ever taken in the Sheffield area, dates from 1840.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

I had one too and thought it was the dog's bollocks.

I was only 8 though.

Mine was a green parka,with white fur around the collar,I got it just in time to see the Blue Peter presenters and the Flying Scotsman in Donny,I also thought it was the canine testicles of coats

 

[Silent Blade]

Believed to be the oldest photo ever taken in the Sheffield area, dates from 1840.

Where is this?

 

[Part timer]

I had one too and thought it was the dog's bollocks.

I was only 8 though.

I remember wearing one with the hood out like that when getting in a scrap. The kid I was fighting grabbed the furry bit and through me all over the place before kicking the shit out of me. It felt like I was in a washing machine.

 

[Bert]

Where is this?

Ecclesfield

 

[Silent Blade]

Ecclesfield

St Mary's? My parents got married there on 25th March 1961

 

[Bert]

St Mary's? My parents got married there on 25th March 1961

It certainly is St Mary's. Bert's old neck of the woods, known as the Minster of the Moors.

 

[Bert]

It certainly is St Mary's. Bert's old neck of the woods, known as the Minster of the Moors.

One of only 3 or 4 grade 1 listed buildings in Sheffield.