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This was probably the last year I lived in Sheffield and sums up a lot at that time.

I know I’m sad but if I was going anywhere into town or to other side of the city, I always walked past the Lane. This time I took this photo.
 

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Cerberus Blade said:
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!
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Afraid I have never heard of the NCS, sounds a creditable organisation. The question to me is why there should be such set ups repairing vandal damage when the better, more economical, answer is to find and punish, properly, the perpetrators. When looking at the damage in the photo, I can't help but think who ever did it are no good to themselves, anybody or anything else. We all pay for public services, no excuse, hit the bastards where it hurts, scum. Wow! feel better for that, day will run a little better now.
 
XM657 said:
Afraid I have never heard of the NCS, sounds a creditable organisation. The question to me is why there should be such set ups repairing vandal damage when the better, more economical, answer is to find and punish, properly, the perpetrators. When looking at the damage in the photo, I can't help but think who ever did it are no good to themselves, anybody or anything else. We all pay for public services, no excuse, hit the bastards where it hurts, scum. Wow! feel better for that, day will run a little better now.
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I don’t think it would be economical to find them tbh. Unless you catch them in the act, how would you find them?
But yeah, shows how fucking dumb they are. They could have used it as a place to hang out when it’s cold and pissing it down instead of smashing it up.
 
XM657 said:
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?
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Yes, I do recognise the livery as belonging to Nottingham corporation. Around that time, SYPTE seemed to have quite a lot of problems with their buses for one reason or another and hired in buses from several areas, mainly in the north but once also had some from as far away as Northampton. I particularly remember seeing red Huddersfield buses and also others from SELNEC (Manchester), South East Lancashire North East Cheshire and of course Nottingham. Most of these hired in vehicles were quite old and a bit clapped out as they were the only buses these companies had spare.
 
TaxiBlade said:
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.


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



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.
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Quality vid that Bert brings great memories , I know it's a bit cheeky but do you a my footage of woody scoring 2 away at Derby both screamers might be my memory playing tricks but think one was from about 25 yards out and the other about 35-40 yards out think we lost 3-2 and think it was one of YTV,s Sunday matches with Keith macklin commentating .
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XM657 said:
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,
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Used to go down to hollinsend park a bit as kid was good fun , then back up via Townend chippy ,happy days
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Never be mastered said:
Quality vid that Bert brings great memories , I know it's a bit cheeky but do you a my footage of woody scoring 2 away at Derby both screamers might be my memory playing tricks but think one was from about 25 yards out and the other about 35-40 yards out think we lost 3-2 and think it was one of YTV,s Sunday matches with Keith macklin commentating .
UTB NBM
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Woody's 2 goals at Derby was in 1975/76 season
 
Silent Blade said:
Blades 0 Palace 2 in Sept 1978. Imre Varadi's debut. He is the one attempting the diving header. The last time I saw Woody play his competitive game (his last was the following week's defeat at Fulham)
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That was the first sign that something was wrong. New signings, including Sabella, victory over Liverpool in the League Cup, the icing on the cake with the game against River Plate, Latin American champions who had several players who had just won the World Cup with Argentina, optimism was high, and than a real let-down with a poor performance against Palace. Mixed results followed, but a decline was setting in, and we soon ended up in The 4th Division.
 

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