Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Mad Mick]

"Hole in the Road" Spring 1970.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Don Masson

Eat your heart out Silent Blade.....

Need Silent Blade to confirm it.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

"Hole in the Road" Spring 1970.View attachment 44082

Remember that fish tank down there. Must've been made from 4" thick glass.

 

[Robby Blade]

You might have thought that they would have allowed the trees to grow bigger and f-up the roads and pavements.

Some bad news for you Tom. The trees are staying.

 

[Lane Ender]

"Hole in the Road" Spring 1970.View attachment 44082

Couple of lads there with Colvins bags
Stapress,Sherman’s, Brutus, Fred Perry great shop back in the day

 

[S64 Blade]

Looking at these old pictures from the games, is anyone able to pinpoint when goalkeepers started to wear gloves?

 

[Bert]

Looking at these old pictures from the games, is anyone able to pinpoint when goalkeepers started to wear gloves?

1963, two of the greats.

 

[Silent Blade]

Need Silent Blade to confirm it.

Trigger Blade is correct

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Silent Blade]

Len Badger wore the number 8 shirt in September and October 1972, playing in midfield, because Steve Goulding had claimed the number 2 shirt when Badger got injured pre-season and was unavailable for the first few games of the 1972/73 season

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Looking at these old pictures from the games, is anyone able to pinpoint when goalkeepers started to wear gloves?

It was a long process. As long as I can remember (1950s), goalkeepers used to keep with their bare hands in dry weather, and used gloves in wet weather, and generally did not like wearing them, preferring to have the direct contact with ball, and thus a feel for it. As a kid playing in goal, the gloves were any old winter woollen gloves, and were pretty useless. Around 1960 (my under-13s year) I got as a present new high-tech gloves, which were basically a stringy material with ping-pong bat type rubber on the front of fingers and thumbs. I think I had about 3 pairs for my entire school career, and probably another 2 in adult life. I always preferred bare hands if the weather allowed.
British goalkeepers did not use gloves routinely until several decades later. I don't know who the first United keeper to wear gloves regularly was. The Kelly/Tracy era, perhaps? The marketing value of gloves will no doubt ensure that no keepers revert to bare hands. My grandson had got through about 4 pairs by the age of 10.

 

[Trigger Blade]

1963, two of the greats.
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That picture confused me as I couldn’t imagine a black Russian footballer at that time, nor was the strip the right colour, I got it in the end though.

 

[Bert]

That picture confused me as I couldn’t imagine a black Russian footballer at that time, nor was the strip the right colour, I got it in the end though.

Bert has a signed (Greaves) copy of that photo. There won't ever be a better British goalscorer.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

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Having been so critical of your City, I thought I'd better contribute and old map, if not an old photo! I think this is from about 1890 to 1900 .... look at all the markets, linked straight into the railway yard bringing in the livestock. See also how continuous the buildings and streets are straight across the valley and up the hill to the right up Hyde Park .... the map now will have gashes straight through it breaking the roads and connexions between this area and the commercial centre of town .....THAT is the result of bad planning or at least planning predicated on nothing more than long distance road links. And German bombing ........I was wondering which caused most harm?

Cunt who did Penistone Road

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Has it got stuck on the Town Hall steps

Got stuck in Fitzalan Square trying to get to the Town Hall.

Trapped by a bus gate.

 

[grafikhaus]

John Street stand demolished kop end due to bombing.

UTB

1940.

 

[Lane Ender]

Bert has a signed (Greaves) copy of that photo. There won't ever be a better British goalscorer.

Hard to dispute that

 

[Kentblade]

My mum was on Thorpe House Road, just below Lees Hall Road.

We were on Warminster Crescent.

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

That’s a beautiful photograph: three heroes wearing the shirt that should be the club shirt this year, next year and every year after that.

Knowing what injury was going to do to Dave Powell’s career, you’d wish you could go back in time and wrap him in cotton wool.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

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FFS - I am in that picture, but hidden by an elbow above the G in Pagets!

Only stood there as I had my 13 year old cousin who was an Everton fan with me.

Jeez - remember that game like it was yesterday - we were top of D2, Everton top of D1 from memory.

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[Silent Blade]

FFS - I am in that picture, but hidden by an elbow above the G in Pagets!

Only stood there as I had my 13 year old cousin who was an Everton fan with me.

Jeez - remember that game like it was yesterday - we were top of D2, Everton top of D1 from memory.

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I wasnt at the match but after watching the highlights on YTV in the next day started my love affair with the Blades, became a Lane regular from the next home game (v Preston)

 

[Fulwood Blade]

I wasnt at the match but after watching the highlights on YTV in the next day started my love affair with the Blades, became a Lane regular from the next home game (v Preston)

Not surprised - we played some nice stuff around that time.

Again from memory, I believe Woody crossed for both goals.

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[Silent Blade]

Not surprised - we played some nice stuff around that time.

Again from memory, I believe Woody crossed for both goals.

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Yes from 5 mins 17 secs in below video

 

[Fulwood Blade]

lol - TC with short back and sides ! didn't last long, that's for sure.

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[Worksop II]

FFS - I am in that picture, but hidden by an elbow above the G in Pagets!

Only stood there as I had my 13 year old cousin who was an Everton fan with me.

Jeez - remember that game like it was yesterday - we were top of D2, Everton top of D1 from memory.

UTB

 

[Silent Blade]

lol - TC with short back and sides ! didn't last long, that's for sure.

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Started to grow long hair in 1971

 

[Bert]

2.45 kick off because according to Bert's memory Wednesday we're also at home and they kicked off at 3.15.

 

[torridon]

I suggest that the road that runs alongside Endcliffe Park?

 

[wavy-blade]

Yes from 5 mins 17 secs in below video

Love this, when men were men . Woody !!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I suggest that the road that runs alongside Endcliffe Park?

It does indeed. The big question is did the trees survive?