Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Bert]

17/4/71

Blades 3, them nowt.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

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Looks like theyve found another decent 16 year old as well.

 

[Lane Ender]

17/4/71

Remember that game Superboy at the Lane

 

[Andingmen]

Pleased to say I share one of Hodgy’s qualities- failure to keep programme collection tidy!

Hodgy was my all time Blades hero. I had goalkeeping aspirations as a young 'un. So I diligently studied all his positioning, reflex, anticipation and handling skills for years. The only quality I ended up nearly sharing with him was his height- and even then I was half an inch short!

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Not particularly old photos, certainly from my perspective, but no longer there. March 1997.
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Evokes many memories and thanks for sharing. I lived on Alderson Place some of those pictures are very close to my street.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

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Barry Manilow?

 

[bornablade]

Barry Manilow?

Jasper Carrott ?

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Jasper Carrott ?

Made me laugh, because when I was younger I was once persuaded to have a "demi-wave".

For the uninitiated, a "demi-wave" was a sort of "soft-perm". This was back in the '80's when permed hair and the Leo Sayer/Tom Sellick (Magnum)/Peter Wyngarde (Department S) Starsky and Hutch look was in.

I used to go to "Taylor & Taylor" on Surrey Street. The hairdresser there, a plumb bisexual girl called Denise, convinced me that my hair was very fine and would benefit from a "demi-wave". She said, "it will give your hair so much more body".

It did.

I came out looking like Barbara Streisand!

FFS! I used to pick my girlfriend up outside work at 5.30pm. I turned up after having my "demi-wave" and waited in the usual spot. She spotted the car, walked towards it, then turned around and walked away. I jumped out the car and shouted, "Hey!". With an astonished look on her face she walked back towards the car. She got in and said...

"Oh my God! What have you done to your hair? I thought I recognised the car but then I saw this hair and I though it was a woman in it!"

My curly mop didn't go down too well. Luckily, I wasn't living in Sheffield for long. I was working darn sarth, where I got called, "Jasper Carrott" and "Kevin Keegan". But the best one of all was from one of my old Sheffield workmates, who said I looked like, "a poor woman's Barry Manilow".

I have never had curly hair since!

In fact, I have not had much hair since!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Hodgy was my all time Blades hero. I had goalkeeping aspirations as a young 'un. So I diligently studied all his positioning, reflex, anticipation and handling skills for years. The only quality I ended up nearly sharing with him was his height- and even then I was half an inch short!

Looks like you and me led parallel lives as Blades fans and budding Hodgys. Except I grew to 6 foot tall. Still didn't help me deal with crosses, mind...

 

[Andingmen]

Looks like you and me led parallel lives as Blades fans and budding Hodgys. Except I grew to 6 foot tall. Still didn't help me deal with crosses, mind...
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My actual all time goalkeeper hero ever was Lev Yashin. There again, my only brush with similarity there was a black roll neck sweater. At least I felt like I looked the business. I've just found out he was 6ft 2". So you weren't far of him either...

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I wasn't far off him ... Except in ability. I was also a big fan of Trautmann - I want to get round to watching the film based on his life story, which came out a couple of years ago.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

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I can't look at photos like that without focussing on the scoreboard in the distance, Red A, and thinking 'Come on, put up that score, 1-0'. Happy days, simple pleasures...

 

[Silent Blade]

Steel City derby at Olive Grove in 1896 (not sure if year is correct)

 

[CecColdwell]

Steel City derby at Olive Grove in 1896 (not sure if year is correct)

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Sheffield Wednesday F.C. were not formed until 1929 . Has a pig coloured in the original black and white photo,if it seems they have always been liars and brainwashers of their little piglets.

 

[Bert]

Steel City derby at Olive Grove in 1896 (not sure if year is correct)

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Let's have less of that modern malarkey, Steel City Derby, this is the old fogies thread. It was, and still is the Sheffield Derby.

 

[Silent Blade]

Sheffield Wednesday F.C. were not formed until 1929 . Has a pig coloured in the original black and white photo,if it seems they have always been liars and brainwashers of their little piglets.

 

[CecColdwell]

Silent Blade if that report is correct just when did The Wednesday F.C. become Sheffield Wednesday?

 

[Silent Blade]

Silent Blade if that report is correct just when did The Wednesday F.C. become Sheffield Wednesday?

They were called The Wednesday until 1929. I have seen a different photo of Olive Grove in Keith Farnsworth that had Sheffield Wednesday FC painted on that roof. Not seen an explanation on this.

 

[Trigger Blade]

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Trevor Hockey, slightly blurred, but definitely him

 

[Bert]

Trevor Hockey, slightly blurred, but definitely him

That boy actually cemented his place in the Birmingham team once Hockey created a vacancy.

 

[Tom Bott]

Are the pedestals adjustable and what kind of distance generally between sub floor and FF?

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What distance would you like ?

 

[Greenwich Blade]

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[Andingmen]

The Guernsey Road area, April 1983.
Between the junction of Queens Road/London Road and the railway tracks. I know many Blades fans park up there (or used to ) on match days. A couple of decades ago there was Comet (now derelict) B&Q, ( now a gym?, previously Dunhelm Mills) and Halfords (still there).
This first one below, with my back to London Road, is Sark Road, leading to Guernsey Road round the corner on the left.

A shot of Guernsey Road below: Just to the right of that green gate is Cutler's Walk which many will know still leads under the railway, across the river up to the Heeley pubs for pre and post match pints. (Cutler's walk photos to follow in another post....)

Another shot below on Guernsey Road, back nearer to Sark road, taken from what is now an opticians/previously golf shop??

 

[Andingmen]

Cutler's Walk, from Guernsey Road to Sheaf Bank Works. April 1983

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[Bert]

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Looks like Johnny Haynes and Harold Sheperdson and a bunch of foreigners.

 

[Silent Blade]

Looks like Johnny Haynes and Harold Sheperdson and a bunch of foreigners.

Your hero got peed on

 

[Silent Blade]

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1962 World Cup QF. Brazil won 3-1. Garrincha (The little bird) ran the show and scored twice

 

[Cheesebored]

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Great photos these, the last one especially. I sometimes pop down there for an hours fishing. The cobbles in the foreground have gone, replaced by a wooden bridge and walkway but everything else looks the same. Sheaf View if you turn sharp left at the far end of the photo.

 

[Bert]

Your hero got peed on

Well Bert has just had to watch this to cheer himself up.