Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Silent Blade]

 

[bornablade]

'....which had begun badly due to Norwich's spoiling defensive tactics'

Nothing changes.

 

[grafikhaus]

Old news. You've been up in t'loft Silent Blade ?

I was at all the games you've featured here.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Old news. You've been up in t'loft Silent Blade ?

I was at all the games you've featured here.

Found a lot of good stuff in this blog! http://uttonfromuddersfield.blogspot.com/2015/02/in-beginning.html

 

[BushBlade]

Good old Stevie C

 

[BushBlade]

Missed this match due to being in bed with flu

Jostein?

 

[Silent Blade]

Jostein?

 

[Bladethebrian]

Same here with the Old Harrow and the Phoenix

Me too - or sometimes the Queens Head (the Phoenix was a Ward’s pub and me and Ward’s never really got on)

 

[Bladethebrian]

Worked on the Wicker in 76-77 and used to eat the excellent giant sausage sandwiches at The Station pub right by the arches.

 

[Bladethebrian]

Great picture, Silent. The lad on the bike could be me.

Others have mentioned the Berni Inn and Brocklehurst Motors and from the deepest recesses of a once bright(ish) mind I’ve come up with some other names which, if nothing else, tell us what a thriving shopping centre Meadowhead once was and many others like it:

Clements. Thos Clements, to give it its full title. A sort of general grocery store, next to The Norton. I think it became a Pricekene in the seventies.

Tauntons Chemists. On the corner of Hunstone Avenue.

Cranns fish and chip shop. On the other corner of Hunstone Avenue.

Cranns shop, next door to the chippie. It was quite big inside but I can’t remember what it sold. There was a cafe on the floor above.

Pembertons Newsagent and Post Office across the road. I spent many an early Saturday evening queuing outside for a Green ‘Un, peering down the hill towards Woodseats for a sight of one of the vans.

Mitchells. It’s still there, of course, as a wine merchants. It was an off-licence back then. Mitchells had another business there but I can’t remember if it was a butchers shop or a greengrocers.

There was a Barclays Bank branch, some sort of insurance brokers, a travel agency (I think). There was also a tobacconists next door to Cranns and a haberdashery shop next door to that. I seem to recall a flower shop as well.

Brocklehurst Motors became an Alan Pond petrol station in the seventies. I had a summer job there for a couple of years.

Does anyone else remember a trip to a Berni Inn was deemed a posh meal? Wasn’t there one in Leopoldo street?

 

[bornablade]

Does anyone else remember a trip to a Berni Inn was deemed a posh meal? Wasn’t there one in Leopoldo street?

Berni Inn on Orchard Street. Just off Leopold Street.

 

[Bladethebrian]

Berni Inn on Orchard Street. Just off Leopold Street.

Ta

 

[Digger]

Blades 2 Palace 0 April 1973

Thanks Silent. My first ever game.

 

[grafikhaus]

Does anyone else remember a trip to a Berni Inn was deemed a posh meal? Wasn’t there one in Leopoldo street?

Berni Inn on Orchard Street. Just off Leopold Street.

 

[bartman]

Worked on the Wicker in 76-77 and used to eat the excellent giant sausage sandwiches at The Station pub right by the arches.

and then you went into Studio 5,6,7 for a bit of 'light' relief ?

 

[BerksBlade]

Worked on the Wicker in 76-77 and used to eat the excellent giant sausage sandwiches at The Station pub right by the arches.

Used to meet my Dad in the Big Gun on Saturday lunchtimes. If there was no game on then I'd go back to work with him & help drag red-hot steel bars out of the furnace (this was before Health & Safety was invented, obviously).

 

[Lane Ender]

Museum great boozer.

 

[BushBlade]

Museum great boozer.

It was quite interesting weekday lunchtimes in the mid to late eighties.

 

[Lane Ender]

It was quite interesting weekday lunchtimes in the mid to late eighties.

Too right

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Is that the Hulse goal against Liverpool in the first match of the last Premier League season?

 

[LSF]

Big Eddie finished off the unfortunate Boyer down the tunnel....

 

[grafikhaus]

It was quite interesting weekday lunchtimes in the mid to late eighties.

Town has always had 'schitzophrenic' boozers where they change completely from lunchtime to evening 'clientele'. I used to work at The Wap and one night - in 'druggies corner' - someone threw up a massive pile under a table. Lunchtimes, it was a place where 'ladies would lunch' - all white tablecloths, pots of tea etc. I remember watching a couple of old birds nibbling at their cucumber sandwiches (crusts removed, of course), blissfully unaware that under the table was this huge pile of puke that nobody wanted to clear up the night before...

The Yorkshireman used to be full of 'metalheads' in the evening but, every lunchtime, was the scene of 'trading' that would put Del Boy to shame courtesy of blokes who worked in Cole's loading bay across the road. It all added to the colour of life back then.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[Therealfurphy]

All those old reports are brilliant, brings back some memories, or in some cases what happened, depending on drink!!! Please keep them coming.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

All those old reports are brilliant, brings back some memories, or in some cases what happened, depending on drink!!! Please keep them coming.

I've got loads going back quite a time. I'll put some more up later

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]