Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Sparky]

Just acquired this signed by every player apart fromGil Reece from the 68/69 season. Next stop the framing company!

 

[Silent Blade]

Just acquired this signed by every player apart fromGil Reece from the 68/69 season. Next stop the framing company!

November 1968 just after we signed Tudor

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Who'd have thought that The Tour de France would rush through there in the future?

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Remember these ? Young Uns scratch your heads

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Not sure on date of this

Just found it. Photo was taken in 1926

 

[Wapping Blade]

Remember these ? Young Uns scratch your heads


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There’s still a little plastic container for co-op milk tokens outside my mum’s house.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

There’s still a little plastic container for co-op milk tokens outside my mum’s house.

It was fatal putting them out too early around our end , they would have been gone long before the milkmsm arrived !

 

[tyke1889]

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When I was learning to play Crib I used to use the tickets to practice my counting on

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

The beginning of the end for Tommy .......

 

[oaklandrdblade]

1958

 

[oaklandrdblade]

 

[oaklandrdblade]

All from the Sheffield History page on FB

 

[BushBlade]

He was, on 2nd January 1981. Link

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...efa7c124f!8m2!3d53.3755483!4d-1.4986362?hl=en


I may be wrong, but I doubt if it'll have been the JB. There were two pubs in the Havelock/Hanover Square area - The Hanover (still going) and one I used to use - The Rollng Mill (now closed).

The Jolly Buffer became The Classic Rock Bar around 1985 and I used to know the landlord - Sass - who eventually drank himself to death.

Life seemed much more colourful back then.

And the Little Mesters. That was just down from the square, heading towards Ecclesall Road. I occasionally drank in there when I lived in Broomhall. The Rollling Mill rings a bell but I can't place it. Did they rename the Mesters? It had a bit of a rep. There was the Broomspring on Broomspring Lane which was a little more sedate.

 

[BushBlade]

Don't remember that but, in Endcliffe Park, there used to be an old gyppo, fortune-teller type woman who sat by the waterfall (at the end of the second duck pond as you walked through from the Whiteley Woods end, approaching the cafe). She was always dressed in all black and had some sort of scales with all the brass weights etc. Probably late 60s. She'd probably get arrested nowadays.


I used to work in the Wap and, at night, all the heavy drinkers and druggies used to congregate at the far end ('Druggies Corner' as we used to call it). One night, one of them deposited a huge pile of puke under one of the tables. Come around 11 in the mornings and the place was transformed into a genteel place where 'ladies who shop' used to go for a pot of tea, white tablecloths, waitress service etc. I remember the day after the 'puke episode', a bunch of women shoppers were sipping their tea and nattering away. When they finished and left, I lifted up the edge of the white tablecloth where they'd been sitting and there it was - the same huge pile of vomit. Good job they didn't know as they nibbled their cucumber sandwiches! The Wap was an esoteric place!

When did you work there? I used to drink in there regularly from around 86.

 

[bladesmanluke]

Imagine if we’d have kept, maintained and/or replaced the old trams and network. How unique Sheffield would be

 

[grafikhaus]

And the Little Mesters. That was just down from the square, heading towards Ecclesall Road. I occasionally drank in there when I lived in Broomhall. The Rollling Mill rings a bell but I can't place it. Did they rename the Mesters? It had a bit of a rep. There was the Broomspring on Broomspring Lane which was a little more sedate.

I think The Rolling Mill used to be on Broomhall Street (there's a chemist there now). Me and my mates back then (The Three Amigos!) used to deliberately seek out shitty, 'dangerous' pubs for the buzz - John O'Gaunt, Cross Guns/Tuxedo Blue etc.

When did you work there? I used to drink in there regularly from around 86.

Around1985-86 was the time I stopped going in/working there (no offence!). Time to grow up, get a mortgage and all that bollocks but some great times. I still see some of the old regulars and they haven't changed - even their clothes!

 

[S64 Blade]

I'm trying to locate St Marks Church and King Edwards School (both on Glossop Road) on that photo.

Working from the Children's, down to the bottom of that road where the West End pub (now Doctors Orders?) is and then a right - somewhere up there should be the church and King Teds.

They'd both be out of shot to the top left.

The shot is looking up Western Bank, on to Witham Road with Clarkson Street as the first left turn (going down to where Doctors Orders is).

 

[stringjunior]

Sledging down Bingham Park, happy days..

I lived on Bingham Park Road as a nipper in the 70s. When we moved out in 76ish the garage was in such a bad state of repair it was about to fall down. I drove passed a few months ago and it's still there as if time has stood still.

 

[ghandi]

1958

And scaffolding is still there today!

 

[Sean Thornton]

And the Little Mesters. That was just down from the square, heading towards Ecclesall Road. I occasionally drank in there when I lived in Broomhall. The Rollling Mill rings a bell but I can't place it. Did they rename the Mesters? It had a bit of a rep. There was the Broomspring on Broomspring Lane which was a little more sedate.

NF meetingbplace at one time as the landlord was a member.

 

[BushBlade]

NF meetingbplace at one time as the landlord was a member.

Which one?

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

View attachment 36043 Anybody else got one of these from back in the day when they weren't a loyalty points system to get away tickets and all you did for away games was turn up and pay on the turnstile!View attachment 36044

I issued that to you, that’s my signature on the back. I must have lost mine years ago and had forgotten what they looked like.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[dronny_blade]

Clearing the old programmes out and stumbled across this, was an entertaining read

 

[dronny_blade]

Clearing the old programmes out and stumbled across this, was an entertaining read

And also stumbled across this beauty

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

All from the Sheffield History page on FB

My favourite Sheffield trams, Roberts Cars, they still look quite modern now and I always have a ride on the one at Crich when it’s out.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Which one?

Little Mesters

 

[corkysbeard]

I issued that to you, that’s my signature on the back. I must have lost mine years ago and had forgotten what they looked like.

We joined the sportmans branch of the supporters club because we wanted to go to wolves away on the tuesday night when we drew 2-2 and got promoted from the old 3rd division,fantastic day/night and we enjoyed quite a few other away days with the club,#goodolddays.

 

[BushBlade]

Little Mesters

Wow. Didn't know that, or if I did, I've forgotten. I lived there late eighties and it didn't seem like a racist stronghold at the time. I moved back to Broomhall in the early nineties, on Holberry Gardens and was fixing my car outside when some kid wandered up from the Mesters who'd been stabbed. He told me he was off to find his mates to go back and 'sort it aht'. Not long after that a bloke got shanked outside my window, quite badly. By the time I'd got outside some people across the road were attending to him and had called an ambulance so I didn't get involved but the pool of blood he was in was quite shocking. I moved shortly after that, to my mates' in Page Hall and not long after left Sheffield. Job wise it was a good move and I don't regret it but I still miss Sheffield and I've been considering coming back soon. Not sure if I will though.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

We joined the sportmans branch of the supporters club because we wanted to go to wolves away on the tuesday night when we drew 2-2 and got promoted from the old 3rd division,fantastic day/night and we enjoyed quite a few other away days with the club,#goodolddays.

Yes we certainly have had some good times. We would sometimes take up to twelve coaches, maybe a few more to some of the more popular games roping in regulars to steward the extra coaches.
I suspect that some of the residents of the new flats on Denby Street might get a bit upset with 500 Blades outside their windows at 7am waiting for their coaches though.
It’s difficult to understand how a pub like that had to close, it must have made a fortune on match days alone.
I’ve made a lot of good friends, some of forty years standing from The Sportsman.