Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Trigger Blade]

What make is the white car on the right of the photo with the square number plate

Lada?

 

[Kop sufferer]

Lada?

Before the jokes start, anyone on here admit to being the owner

 

[Andingmen]

Before the jokes start, anyone on here admit to being the owner

I initially thought Moskvitch, but I'm certainly no car expert.

 

[Kop sufferer]

I initially thought Moskvitch, but I'm certainly no car expert.

I thought Simca, but I'll go with the Lada

 

[Kop sufferer]

I initially thought Moskvitch, but I'm certainly no car expert.

Way back my mate bought a brand new Moskvitch van but the passenger seat came at an extra cost which he couldn't afford so he had a milk create with a cushion on top instead, pre seat belt days obviously

 

[BerksBlade]

What make is the white car on the right of the photo with the square number plate

I'm going with Moskvitch 412...

 

[Therealfurphy]

Portsmouth was an experience, remember the big bald black Pompey fan offering us out from car roofs before getting nicked and fighting with the coppers. Garner got the first ever professional foul sending off ,Conroy couldnt catch Corona and we lost 4-1. Typical blades day out in those days.

Sitwell - Don't know how to get hold of you otherwise - just to ley you know that Heppy has been taken into the Northern General with a chest infection. I'll keep you posted

 

[sitwell]

Sitwell - Don't know how to get hold of you otherwise - just to ley you know that Heppy has been taken into the Northern General with a chest infection. I'll keep you posted

Cheers mate ,will PM you.

 

[sitwell]

Which side? My mate was the last one before The Lawns after Wyatt (and another mate lived opposite on The Lawns). Don’t remember the car at all!

As you come up Wyatt ,it was one of the first two houses as you go onto Jowitt on the left , its years since Ive been on there ,but would know as so as I saw it. His car went down in folklore and blue suede/velvet triumph Vitesse. Apparently he had a pink piano too but I never saw that. I think he had me weeding his front garden for Bob a job ,Badger had me clean some shoes and Mrs Dearden had me sweep their drive. All to keep the paedo scoutmaster in porn probably

 

[BushBlade]

Lovely selection of photos from the past SEB. Interesting for someone like me who's not a native Sheffielder to see the development of Pond Street as once was. Looking at the images it seems as if there was once factories in or around Pond Street, so it's character has changed completely. Even before the current malaise, I can't recall Fargate that busy. I wonder if the populace of Sheffielder was actually larger than we're lead to believe it currently is.

I think Fargate looks so busy because it’s two pavements with the trams in the middle. If you took away the trams and opened it up like it is now, it wouldn’t look as busy. Plus there’d have been a lot of people queuing for the trams. When I was a kid in the 70s/early 80s Fargate always seemed busy on a Saturday, as did the Moor and the market areas.

 

[Lane Ender]

What make is the white car on the right of the photo with the square number plate

Wartberg

 

[I should coco]

What make is the white car on the right of the photo with the square number plate

I initially thought Moskvitch, but I'm certainly no car expert.

I think it is a Moskvitch. 412. They sold well in the early 70s as they were dirt cheap, but then it got slated for being unsafe. Lada were producing better dirt cheap cars, so that indicates how basic the Moskvichs were.

 

[Woodwaaard]

I think it is a Moskvitch. 412. They sold well in the early 70s as they were dirt cheap, but then it got slated for being unsafe. Lada were producing better dirt cheap cars, so that indicates how basic the Moskvichs were.

Agreed, it's a Moskvitch 412: deadly contraptions

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I used to have a ' knocking in ' implement , basically a wooden mallet with half a leather cricket ball outer stapled to the mallet face, an essential routine for new bats back in the day.

I had a proper mallet with a dome of leather on the end, I think my Dad got from Archers. First bat I got had hours of linseed rubbing, then knocking with the mallet, then hours knocking up with an old ball. Bats back then were made of pressed willow, making them very hard, but brittle if they weren't seasoned properly, modern bats aren't pressed in the same way, one of the reasons they are so much bigger. A pressed willow bat of current dimensions would weigh a ton.
Later when I got seriously into the game, I bought a Duncan Fearnley bat, with a polyplastic coating, one of the earliest to not need any pre-treatment. Still the best bat I ever had.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Bert's just found another one, you don't see it very often. View attachment 76838

Produced in Santiago like Matusalem, never tried it though. They were one of the first in Cuba to start selling rum in tetra-packs. I didn't believe a friend of mine when he said he'd bought rum in a carton in Cuba, but he showed me a photograph of it. Has Bert encountered the carton of rum on his travels?

 

[Bert]

Produced in Santiago like Matusalem, never tried it though. They were one of the first in Cuba to start selling rum in tetra-packs. I didn't believe a friend of mine when he said he'd bought rum in a carton in Cuba, but he showed me a photograph of it. Has Bert encountered the carton of rum on his travels?

He has, you can get small cartons of cheap rum for $1. It's fine for Cuba Libres but that's about all. Only Cubans buy it normally.

 

[Paisley Blade]

I had a proper mallet with a dome of leather on the end, I think my Dad got from Archers. First bat I got had hours of linseed rubbing, then knocking with the mallet, then hours knocking up with an old ball. Bats back then were made of pressed willow, making them very hard, but brittle if they weren't seasoned properly, modern bats aren't pressed in the same way, one of the reasons they are so much bigger. A pressed willow bat of current dimensions would weigh a ton.
Later when I got seriously into the game, I bought a Duncan Fearnley bat, with a polyplastic coating, one of the earliest to not need any pre-treatment. Still the best bat I ever had.

I know the bat you mean . I didn't like the look of them daft as it sounds, just personal preference I expect. My best ever was a Gray Nicholls power spot , or maybe it's just what I was using when I was batting at my best !

 

[Tony]

Agreed, it's a Moskvitch 412: deadly contraptions

The satnav wasn't too good either.

 

[grafikhaus]

27th December 1977, upstairs in The Nelson waiting for the coach to leave for Oldham. Gerry Rafferty on the 'juke.

 

[Kop sufferer]

The satnav wasn't too good either.

At the end of WW2 the Ruskies shipped a job lot German Opel plant back to the Motherland to produce the Moskvitch.
I think the Germans had the last laugh in the end though

 

[Neuschwanstein]

27th December 1977, upstairs in The Nelson waiting for the coach to leave for Oldham. Gerry Rafferty on the 'juke.

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We lost 3:0 at Oldham 17th December 77, remember it well, stood on their wooden kop with loads of Blades. The result spoilt otherwise a good day out.

 

[grafikhaus]

We lost 3:0 at Oldham 17th December 77, remember it well, stood on their wooden kop with loads of Blades. The result spoilt otherwise a good day out.

Oldham back then was one of 'the' away games. After we played them in 1935 (no, I wasn't there), we next played them in 1974 and met them eight times up until 1979. I think the game you mention was when the Blades fans ran across the pitch to get on their kop. As you say, the 'steps' were wooden and some naughty lads tried to set fire to it. Strangely, I remember Colt 45 was a popular drink back then.

 

[Silent Blade]

Oldham back then was one of 'the' away games. After we played them in 1935 (no, I wasn't there), we next played them in 1974 and met them eight times up until 1979. I think the game you mention was when the Blades fans ran across the pitch to get on their kop. As you say, the 'steps' were wooden and some naughty lads tried to set fire to it. Strangely, I remember Colt 45 was a popular drink back then.

I went to the friendly at Boundary Park in August 1973. Saw a Hover fly for the first time and it spooked me. We won 3-0. One year later I went to the same place again, we lost 4-0.

 

[Andingmen]

Another from the roof of Telephone House March 1983. Facing roughly North West. In the centre is the former Mount Zion Chapel, which was incorporated into the outpatients dept of the Royal Hospital.

And one from further towards the north

 

[Woodwaaard]

27th December 1977, upstairs in The Nelson waiting for the coach to leave for Oldham. Gerry Rafferty on the 'juke.

Who's the gent 2nd from the right?
I recognise him from my Wap days

 

[grafikhaus]

Who's the gent 2nd from the right?
I recognise him from my Wap days

We only ever knew him as 'Stu' - he was a drummer and did a passable impersonation of 'Animal' from The Muppets! Still goes to matches.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Oldham back then was one of 'the' away games. After we played them in 1935 (no, I wasn't there), we next played them in 1974 and met them eight times up until 1979. I think the game you mention was when the Blades fans ran across the pitch to get on their kop. As you say, the 'steps' were wooden and some naughty lads tried to set fire to it. Strangely, I remember Colt 45 was a popular drink back then.

Colt 45 was my go to drink at the start of my boozing career , used to love it . Another favourite was Schlitz , can't remember the last time I saw either of them.

 

[sitwell]

Another from the roof of Telephone House March 1983. Facing roughly North West. In the centre is the former Mount Zion Chapel, which was incorporated into the outpatients dept of the Royal Hospital.View attachment 76895

And one from further towards the north

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Would Mr Kites be on the top photo in 1983 ? Opposite the 2 parked cars

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Wartberg

Knight

 

[Kop sufferer]

Colt 45 was my go to drink at the start of my boozing career , used to love it . Another favourite was Schlitz , can't remember the last time I saw either of them.

Schlitz, "what made Milwaukee famous made a loser out of me" to quote the line from the song