Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

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Silver Blades sometime in the 70s

 

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Davy's Cafe on Fargate. Menu from the 30s

 

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Lord Mayor's Parade 1975.

 

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Fuck me I had my first season ticket when I was ten ( I got my Christmas present in August) and it was a 3/4 years before this photo and today who would allow a ten year old to go the Lane on their own on the 52 bus as I did but where have all those years gone?

 

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My uncles would have drank in here

 

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High Street subway, Boots entrance to right.

 

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Neepsend

 

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Castle Street sometime in the 60s

 

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Hillsborough Barracks, now Morrisons

 

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VE Day Electric Tram, Coles Corner

 

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Had a few mentions on here.

 

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Anyone remember it looking like this? My recollection is dark, dank and smelling of piss

 

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That was part of my journey by foot from Pond Street station to Bridge Street bus stop to catch the connecting bus to my grandmother's at Shiregreen. A tramp called Cyril was often seen roaming around this part of the subway

 

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Greenhill

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Great photo. Bocking Lane, Westwick Crescent, Hemper Lane, Road behind the photographer to Lowedges estate. Road up to the right up to Greenhill village and the White Hart and White Swan pubs.

The main building on the opposite side of the traffic island was Mitchell newsagents. I used to do my paper round from there. The white door to the left hand side of the building was like a garage where we picked up our papers in the scruffy Star bags.

I did Old Park Avenue and Old Park road. Newspapers were always late delivered on a morning after a Blades night match due to me taking my time reading all the reports.

Usually got a bollocking and late for school.

 

[Bert]

That was part of my journey by foot from Pond Street station to Bridge Street bus stop to catch the connecting bus to my grandmother's at Shiregreen. A tramp called Cyril was often seen roaming around this part of the subway

Cyril was a city centre regular. They found him dead in a doorway one morning.

 

[Bert]

Cyril was a city centre regular. They found him dead in a doorway one morning.

 

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My mum applied for a job at the Bassetts factory in the 70s. You could help yourself to as many sweets as you liked on the conveyor belt as they went past but if you took just one home you'd be sacked.

Unthinkable now, especially with corona!

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

What a fabulous and evocative selection of photos from South Essex .

My absolute favourite has to be the 1930's menu from Davy's . Obviously before my time but I remember the place from later and the wonderful smell of roasting coffee which permeated the whole area .

Back to the menu , I'm going for Turtle Consommé , Jugged Rabbit with Bacon and Manchester , just to find out what the fuck it is .

 

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Is that the original BBC gathering ready to go into action?. Love the lady in the hat.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Is that the original BBC gathering ready to go into action?. Love the lady in the hat.

That's Ball_Sup (Phil) and his mates the CBF last week......

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

That's Ball_Sup (Phil) and his mates the CBF last week......

My mum applied for a job at the Bassetts factory in the 70s. You could help yourself to as many sweets as you liked on the conveyor belt as they went past but if you took just one home you'd be sacked.

Unthinkable now, especially with corona!

I worked at the Bassetts distribution warehouse rather than the factory (in the 70s). We had a table, upon which damaged boxes of sweets, which could not be sent out to shops were placed. We were free to help ourselves to this damaged stock. Natch, when those ran out, we just got the forklift driver to run into another pallet of boxes & damage some more.
The Carrier Bag Firm, bringing you solutions, not problems, since the 1970s.....

 

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Opening of the new Cole Brothers, Barkers Pool 1963

 

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