Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[Silent Blade]

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League Cup match in Sept 1970 when we won with a TC goal?

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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v Newcastle? Micky Burns?

 

[Silent Blade]

v Newcastle? Micky Burns?

Yes and what was the date?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Yes and what was the date?

From the kit, I'd say it's season 77/78, but date, no idea.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Wasn't born yet, but found these in a box of mum and dads old stuff when I moved, many happy times going to watch him play in the late 60's before his first heart attack, (was landed on my head by the midwife in 61)
dad far right (not saying which row)
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year earlier
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Quite a few of those clubs were founder members of the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Club Cricket League - I played for Old Centralians, Old Edwardians (when the old man knackered his fetlock and they were short), and one of the oldest cricket clubs in the world, Darnall Wellington. Several members of that club went on the first MCC tour of Australia.

 

[Silent Blade]

From the kit, I'd say it's season 77/78, but date, no idea.

Anglo Scottish cup in August 1976. Lost 1-0. A lot of fighting in the Kop. St John Ambulance were busy with stretchers

 

[Kop sufferer]

It certainly is, Bert's was a 1965 version but with a 4 speed gearbox rather than the useless 5 speeder. Gear change on the right of course.

Bert also had one of these but with full fairing, racing tank and seat. The extras were made by well know ex racer and dealer Eddie Crooks.
When Bert came to sell it a bloke rang up and Bert proceeded to describe it.....

Bert. "It's got the full Crooks race kit, do you know what that is?"

Buyer. "Yes, I am Eddie Crooks."

And he was! He bought it £240.

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I started with a 59 Crusader Sports, it had been dropped and rebuilt with a chrome tank, rear set footrests and clip on's, moved into the big time with a Gold Star and all the usual problems, oil all over my dad's garage floor, bits dropping off and a broken ankle trying to start it, valve lifter and all. It would do 70 in first gear, to prove a point. We met at the Fluer De leas at Totley and the trick was to put a record on the juke box dash out race down to the Mingo cafe on Abbeydale road, U turn and race back before the record had finished when the House of the Rising Sun was released it made it much easier, mind you I never did it because I could never get the bastard Goldie started in less than It 5 minutes

 

[Bert]

 

[Bert]

I started with a 59 Crusader Sports, it had been dropped and rebuilt with a chrome tank, rear set footrests and clip on's, moved into the big time with a Gold Star and all the usual problems, oil all over my dad's garage floor, bits dropping off and a broken ankle trying to start it, valve lifter and all. It would do 70 in first gear, to prove a point. We met at the Fluer De leas at Totley and the trick was to put a record on the juke box dash out race down to the Mingo cafe on Abbeydale road, U turn and race back before the record had finished when the House of the Rising Sun was released it made it much easier, mind you I never did it because I could never get the bastard Goldie started in less than It 5 minutes

With the massive carb that sucked in your trouser leg.

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

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[Bert]

I started with a 59 Crusader Sports, it had been dropped and rebuilt with a chrome tank, rear set footrests and clip on's, moved into the big time with a Gold Star and all the usual problems, oil all over my dad's garage floor, bits dropping off and a broken ankle trying to start it, valve lifter and all. It would do 70 in first gear, to prove a point. We met at the Fluer De leas at Totley and the trick was to put a record on the juke box dash out race down to the Mingo cafe on Abbeydale road, U turn and race back before the record had finished when the House of the Rising Sun was released it made it much easier, mind you I never did it because I could never get the bastard Goldie started in less than It 5 minutes

When Bert had his Suzuki T20 super six he got talking to Fred Brindley the dealer and ex racer from Bawtry.
Fred took one look at the bike and said... "When they first came out we had one of the first in the country, in them days we were all Gold Stars etc, we couldn't start the little 250 Suzuki so we bump started it, I whacked open the throttle and it shot up in the air and did a full loop, I immediately knew from that day on Gold Stars were finished, as was the British motorcycle industry. "
How right he was.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Bert had one of these, he went to take his bike test and the bloody thing wouldn't start. He ended up borrowing a Suzuki 100 and passing it on that.

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They are still made under licence in India I think?

 

[Bert]

They are still made under licence in India I think?

They are and they use the same model names as the old ones.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Ok so let’s have a change of topic....

Does anyone recognise this building?



it’s still standing today and has great historical significance.

It isn’t in Sheffield but it’s within a 10 mile radius.

There is an old inn next to it with two birds in the name.

 

[Bert]

Bert had two like these, he's got some old photos somewhere in his garage

 

[Bert]

And one exactly like this.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Tell her it was Gordon Williams, not Derek Hawksworth

 

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Andy McLaren, not Jock Dodds

 

[Silent Blade]

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Hodgy nearly reached the feat

 

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[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Ok so let’s have a change of topic....

Does anyone recognise this building?

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it’s still standing today and has great historical significance.

It isn’t in Sheffield but it’s within a 10 mile radius.

There is an old inn next to it with two birds in the name.

I believe it's Revolution House at Chesterfield, mainly because it says so on the bottom left of the photo
In fairness I have passed this house many times on my travels and always thought it was a bit quirky. I looked up its history and it is a very important building that people here know little or nothing about.

Oh. And it's the Cock and Magpie behind it.

 

[Silent Blade]

I believe it's Revolution House at Chesterfield, mainly because it says so on the bottom left of the photo
In fairness I have passed this house many times on my travels and always thought it was a bit quirky. I looked up its history and it is a very important building that people here know little or nothing about.

Oh. And it's the Cock and Magpie behind it.

I walked to Old Whittington last Monday.

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

Bert had one of these, he went to take his bike test and the bloody thing wouldn't start. He ended up borrowing a Suzuki 100 and passing it on that.

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Ah the old 250 Continental GT! Looked great but was as reliable as Axel Smeets! That's why the British bike industry disappeared up it's own exhaust. Always had Japanese bikes from a Yamaha 100 in 1976. Bit like a less rusty version of Bert's borrowed bike. But it started, stopped, and kept going in between.

 

[Silent Blade]

The Chippy near my grandmother's house!

 

[Kop sufferer]

And one exactly like this.

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Aermacchi ? rare sight even in the 60/70s, got into bed with Harley Davidson for some strange reason I believe. Also made fighter aircraft in WW2, I hope we shot plenty down

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

If

I walked to Old Whittington last Monday.

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If had been to The Avenue Cokeworks in my previous life I would usually get to the big roundabout at the start of the Unstone bypass and think, 'direct or scenic route home?'Usually the scenic route won and I would head up the hill to Old Whittington. Take the road towards Eckington then turn off to Middle Handly, right at the Devoshire Arms, up to Marsh Lane then down into a Ford bottom, up to Ridgeway and then head for home.

 

[Silent Blade]

If

If had been to The Avenue Cokeworks in my previous life I would usually get to the big roundabout at the start of the Unstone bypass and think, 'direct or scenic route home?'Usually the scenic route won and I would head up the hill to Old Whittington. Take the road towards Eckington then turn off to Middle Handly, right at the Devoshire Arms, up to Marsh Lane then down into a Ford bottom, up to Ridgeway and then head for home.

Interesting you call it Unstone bypass, it's Dronfield bypass to me.

 

[Bert]

Aermacchi ? rare sight even in the 60/70s, got into bed with Harley Davidson for some strange reason I believe. Also made fighter aircraft in WW2, I hope we shot plenty down

Yep, a 350TV which was never imported to this country. Bert bought it from a frame maker who brought it in from Italy.
When they got into financial trouble in the 60's Harley took a 50% share, they wanted to sell smaller bikes in the US.
Aermacchi were wonderful racers, Bert can remember watching a mixed classic race at Cadwell in the 80's, there was an old guy on an Aermacchi, the Yamahas blitzed him down the straight but he rode round the outside of them every lap at the Gooseneck bends.