Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Tickhill Blade]

The OS map has it as a tank. Not sure that makes it any clearer!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

This one is from a bit later, 1952. Looks like there might be a reserves game on.

Does anyone know what the dark square area next to the Pavilion was that looks a bit like a swimming pool?

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Great pic. Can anyone confirm that despite how it appears at first glance, the cricket wickets were always in the direction Cherry Street to John Street?

 

[Speedracer]

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Wasn't there a bowling club at one time?

Possible bowling green?

Not sure about that one, but there was an awful lot of room behind the Kop, so it is feasible.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Great pic. Can anyone confirm that despite how it appears at first glance, the cricket wickets were always in the direction Cherry Street to John Street?

Yes they were. If you sat in the pavilion you were always behind the bowler's arm. What you see in the picture is just the more finely cut cricket square.

 

[Boxer Blade]

In the late 1960s the CWS Bank was a "boutique" called Lift Up Your Skirts and Fly. My sister worked there and I often visited. You could actually access the upper floors from the back of the shop. They were in a seriously dilapidated condition with holes in the floors, peeling paintwork and bird droppings all over. I don't think they could have been saved and as someone pointed out earlier these buildings all came down in the early 1970s to make way for the Eggbox Town Hall extension and the building of Arundel Gate.

Next door to lift up your skirts and fly was a small cafe, I worked in 1972, next door at a office furniture supplier called A and F. Drake Ltd and remember going upstairs to a to a small storage area and as you say accessing all the old offices, you could get right over to Surrey Street, it was like being a kid again because you weren't supposed to be there but so what, I remember finding lots of old brass and copper which me and the van driver took to G.B.Housley scrap metal merchants to weigh it in, proper peaky blinders us.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Next door to lift up your skirts and fly was a small cafe, I worked in 1972, next door at a office furniture supplier called A and F. Drake Ltd and remember going upstairs to a to a small storage area and as you say accessing all the old offices, you could get right over to Surrey Street, it was like being a kid again because you weren't supposed to be there but so what, I remember finding lots of old brass and copper which me and the van driver took to G.B.Housley scrap metal merchants to weigh it in, proper peaky blinders us.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

There was the Tartan Shop.

Yes there was, it’s the only shop I can remember on there though.

 

[bornablade]

This one is from a bit later, 1952. Looks like there might be a reserves game on.

Does anyone know what the dark square area next to the Pavilion was that looks a bit like a swimming pool?

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The 'dark square' became the indoor cricket nets. It's also the building where the Young Blades Club met. I became a member in September 1966.

 

[oohaah]

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A sight in our city centre that not many, if anyone at all has actually seen this church.

You can still see this church in a manner of speaking. The stone from the demolished church was used to build the five houses at the end of Trap Lane at Bents Green, just before it turns into a single track on the left hand side. Actually, it may no longer be the last five houses as I think they are building a couple more in the garden of the last house. The stone does look completely different to the other houses round there, very Churchlike with a hint of soot.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Us v Forest???

 

[bornablade]

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Us v Forest???

Maybe September 1971. 3-2 winners. Peter Grummitt and Terry Hennessey

 

[sitwell]

The 'dark square' became the indoor cricket nets. It's also the building where the Young Blades Club met. I became a member in September 1966.

And where we used to play 5 a side in the early 80s

 

[TaxiBlade]

This one is from a bit later, 1952. Looks like there might be a reserves game on.

Does anyone know what the dark square area next to the Pavilion was that looks a bit like a swimming pool?

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Another great shot I'd never seen before!

You can see how they squeezed 68k easier looking at this. Golden Lion there, used to go pre-match. I never remember the row of houses running along BL itself ( demolished ready for dual -carriageway) . They must have gone before I first went, 1982.

I don't think a comparison can be made with the Star & Garter and the buildings above.

Yes, I know what you mean. I picked that one out, because one by one ALL the old buildings around the Uni, are slowly going. If the Uni Arms/and building on Hounsfield go - which I think are on the cards - then they'll have completed operation remove all past from Brook Hill

 

[Silent Blade]

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Us v Forest???

Maybe September 1971. 3-2 winners. Peter Grummitt and Terry Hennessey

December 16th 1967. Yes, Grummitt and Hennessey. Peter Hindley and Colin Addison on the right. Forest won 1-0. Think Henry Newton between Hennessey and Hindley

 

[TaxiBlade]

Got me thinking now...

do anyone know if there are ANY pictures at all of the 68k record crowd?

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

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[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Got me thinking now...

do anyone know if there are ANY pictures at all of the 68k record crowd?

A bit misty but look from about 50 seconds in

 

[TaxiBlade]

A bit misty but look from about 50 seconds in

wow!

Can you believe it though. How rare it must have for cameras to have been there, let alone still available footage, and it was fecking foggy!!

 

[stringjunior]

You can still see this church in a manner of speaking. The stone from the demolished church was used to build the five houses at the end of Trap Lane at Bents Green, just before it turns into a single track on the left hand side. Actually, it may no longer be the last five houses as I think they are building a couple more in the garden of the last house. The stone does look completely different to the other houses round there, very Churchlike with a hint of soot.

Well, blow me down. I lived round the corner on Barnet Avenue as a kid and often wondered why those houses were so different to all the others around. Thanks for thay

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[I should coco]

. I never remember the row of houses running along BL itself ( demolished ready for dual -carriageway) . They must have gone before I first went, 1982.

I first went in 1970 and don't remember them either. Only the Railway and Crics were right up to the road, with the place just above the Crics being a steel stockholder's yard.

 

[TaxiBlade]

I first went in 1970 and don't remember them either. Only the Railway and Crics were right up to the road, with the place just above the Crics being a steel stockholder's yard.

Yes if you look on google maps you can see the route they planned and they hoovered up all the properties apart from the pubs. Anything else on there is only car places with no buildings.

Thank goodness.

Sheffield loses enough buildings through poor ideas over the years. At least now the dual carr is ditched, we still have 2 victorian beauts

 

[S64 Blade]

Yes, I know what you mean. I picked that one out, because one by one ALL the old buildings around the Uni, are slowly going. If the Uni Arms/and building on Hounsfield go - which I think are on the cards - then they'll have completed operation remove all past from Brook Hill

Agree with you on the Uni Arms! Something worth saving.

 

[XM657]

Great pic. Can anyone confirm that despite how it appears at first glance, the cricket wickets were always in the direction Cherry Street to John Street?

Yes, is the quick answer to your question. Photographic evidence. Pavilion End and John St End.

 

[bornablade]

Yes, is the quick answer to your question. Photographic evidence. Pavilion End and John St End.View attachment 60294View attachment 60295

Those posters on what is now the Pukka Pie stand - always seem to remember them being for Army Recruiting.

 

[XM657]

I remember The Mustard Seed cafe was on that little lane at the rear of Peace Gardens.

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Mustard Seed was previously Pinders. office supplies furniture etc. Bought an easel from there about '58, last I saw of them was Cumberland Way. I always thought Norfolk St was interesting as a kid especially bottom end from Fitzalan Sq. up to Surrey St.

 

[XM657]

The OS map has it as a tank. Not sure that makes it any clearer!

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Would the debated area of BDTBL, taking in to account the above drawing, be an underground water tank for watering the playing areas? Ye know what there like in Sheffield, Yorkshire-tight as a nuns front bottom. If it saved both, YCCC and SUFC of old paying water rates I'll believe it.

 

[TaxiBlade]

I couldn't ever argue that the JS stand didn't look best in it's original Leitch form.

Yes, is the quick answer to your question. Photographic evidence. Pavilion End and John St EndView attachment 60295

And St Mary's too in the shot.

I posted this film in the other thread about Bury... a rare chance to see BL in all it's glory. I can't believe that something built in 1902 I stood in same place on terrace west.