Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Bert]

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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Trevor Hockey minus beard!

 

[Bert]

Trevor Hockey minus beard!

Aye, aye.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Looks like 1968 when Arundel Gate was being built?

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Looks like 1968 when Arundel Gate was being built?

That must be about right. The Crucible has not been built yet and that started in1969. It looks like the ground is being cleared ready for construction. The most important question is, Unitedites coming away from the Lane, or Wednesdayites going to Hillsborough?

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Why are two doctors walking up High Street?

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Of more interest is the on loan Nottingham bus on loan to SYPTE, must have been a bus shortage for some reason.

 

[Robby Blade]

Was that Cantors only shop? Six star furniture it may be, but it’s not exactly DFS is it? Imagine mauling a three piece Dralon suite up to the third floor!

Cantors turn your house into a home Trigg.

 

[Robby Blade]

Stand corrected, if that's so, never went in Banners always lived on south side.

Posh boy eh?

 

[XM657]

Posh boy eh?

Yes, Hollinsend Posh.

 

[XM657]

They had a shop on Queens Rd , too. Probably somewhere near where the Evans bike shop is now.

Same building. We bought kitchen table and chairs their some forty years ago, that's how I remember.

 

[TaxiBlade]

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Fulham FA Cup, I think.

This reminds me that the lines were always mudpits. I bet it's crap being a linesman, imagine in the 70s and 80s when even the pitches were crap.

This is a wonderful picture

The guy in the middle is certainly making himself comfy. Pillow!

No idea which game this was
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Someone said around '84, and my recollection of that era, was that it was rare that there were enough away fans, for it to be busy in the corner. The home end looks busy too.

Sherlock required.
1. Team with big away following around 84.
2. Big game as big home crowd
3. Trouble.

The first things that come to mind regarding 3, is Chelsea, Millwall or Leeds.

Leeds fits 1 and 2 aswell. So that's my early guess


-edit Man City? They always brought a fair few.
- possibly Chesterfield, they always brought a lot.

 

[Robby Blade]

Yes, Hollinsend Posh.View attachment 64931

Yes, Hollinsend Posh.View attachment 64931

Yes, Hollinsend Posh.View attachment 64931

You could have cut the grass before taking the photo.

 

[Silent Blade]

That must be about right. The Crucible has not been built yet and that started in1969. It looks like the ground is being cleared ready for construction. The most important question is, Unitedites coming away from the Lane, or Wednesdayites going to Hillsborough?

We need someone in here who knows how to colourise the photo!

 

[Sean Thornton]

My dad worked there so went to various Xmas kids do's.

Now a gym and wellness palace for ladies who lunch....

Still smile at the old joke

"Can you tell me where x is?

You know where Banners is?

Well it's nowhere near there"


I have no idea why Banners or why it's funny. It just is.

 

[Sean Thornton]

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Having that on your computer could get you into trouble these days.....

 

[Sean Thornton]

Yes, Hollinsend Posh.View attachment 64931

We dreamed of living in a house.......

 

[wavy-blade]

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[Bert]

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Where does it say that? Sounds ridiculously exaggerated.

 

[bromtom]

Found a few old scrapbooks the other day. From the Star, August 78'

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Bit bloody expensive that isn't it? £4 in 1978!

McCabe out

 

[XM657]

You could have cut the grass before taking the photo.

Ah! you noticed, problem wasso was looking for a but couldn't locate one. This is what it was like to start with.

 

[XM657]

Of more interest is the on loan Nottingham bus on loan to SYPTE, must have been a bus shortage for some reason.

Thanks for that, had me puzzled, thought it may have been an out of town service running into Sheffield. You must have recognised the livery?

 

[XM657]

We need someone in here who knows how to colourise the photo!

By the length of shadows and calculating, X x Y etc., recon there Blades going for celebration drink in't "Mucky Duck".

 

[XM657]

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Tozzing photo, nothing like a drop of rain to add an aura to a mundane scene.

 

[XM657]

We dreamed of living in a house.......

Our dream was a nightmare.

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[BushBlade]

Our dreamView attachment 64944 was a nightmare.

It’s fine. Just needs a new roof, new windows and doors and new walls

 

[bladesfan]

That must be about right. The Crucible has not been built yet and that started in1969. It looks like the ground is being cleared ready for construction. The most important question is, Unitedites coming away from the Lane, or Wednesdayites going to Hillsborough?

It cannot be pig fans going back to the sty they look happy and are smiling.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Of more interest is the on loan Nottingham bus on loan to SYPTE, must have been a bus shortage for some reason.

Maybe the driver got lost?

 

[XM657]

It’s fine. Just needs a new roof, new windows and doors and new walls

You noticed! Thank you, was beginning to think no one would.
In reality its one of two "huts" , in what is now Hollinsend Park, Rec to us, that were used by the park keepers as rest rooms and for dispensing bowls, tennis rackets, bring your own tennis balls, and putters + golf balls. I'm talking late forties and early fifties when the "hut" was spic and span and park keepers keep us kids on our toes. The photo shows the back where at least once a year, in summer, a Punch and Judy show arrived. To me, nobody ever knew when it was to arrive, we'd either see it if playing in park or heard on the kids "jungle telegraph" and before long there'd be probably 50-100, maybe more, people watching. Kids like us old enough to play out alone and adults with younger children and babies. Phew, rambling on here me, know any good builders? Or is that a oxym…….. something or other,

 

[Cerberus Blade]

You noticed! Thank you, was beginning to think no one would.
In reality its one of two "huts" , in what is now Hollinsend Park, Rec to us, that were used by the park keepers as rest rooms and for dispensing bowls, tennis rackets, bring your own tennis balls, and putters + golf balls. I'm talking late forties and early fifties when the "hut" was spic and span and park keepers keep us kids on our toes. The photo shows the back where at least once a year, in summer, a Punch and Judy show arrived. To me, nobody ever knew when it was to arrive, we'd either see it if playing in park or heard on the kids "jungle telegraph" and before long there'd be probably 50-100, maybe more, people watching. Kids like us old enough to play out alone and adults with younger children and babies. Phew, rambling on here me, know any good builders? Or is that a oxym…….. something or other,

Are you looking to restore it? Not that I'm volunteering, but I know some folks do volunteer for such projects. For example, my son did his National Citizen Service a couple of years ago and him and his friends helped to restore a hut in Bingham Park which had fallen into disrepair. Might be worth exploring that option, look up "National Citizen Service" locally.

What you describe there will ring a bell with folks of a certain age I'm sure. Long summer days spent playing out on the rec, getting physical exercise. Football was my main thing. Sometimes we'd have 20 aside! Lads v Dads and stuff like that. I loved it! The only Punch & Judy shows I remember were ones I'd seen at the seaside on day trips to Brid/Filey/Cleethorpes/Mablethorpe/Scarboro'. I'm glad my parents didn't realise there was one in Hollinsend Park or I might have spent my summer holidays there!