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pommpey said:
Rafferty's was upstairs, two floors up, on Arundel Gate not far from Oyl in t'rooerd, in the building opposite the Mulberry Tavern.

It was a fish and chips restaurant, and used to do those massive cod fillets in over crispy batter and giant chips. Shamefully however, they never had Henderson's Relish, which is frankly illegal in my eyes.

It was one of those 'it's thi birthday son, we're tekkin' thi ter Raffs' treats where because you were eating posh, your world was complete.

20 or 33 bus to town and back. Can't be too snooty, can we?

pommpey
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We used to go, very very occasionally though, early 70’s, then walk round to bottom of High Street & 76 bus home
 

10/5/1971

Len Allchurch testimonial match

Swansea 3 Blades 5 (Staniforth, Currie 2, Salmons, Addison)

Team; Hope, Badger, Ogden, Flynn, Colquhoun, Hockey, Woodward, Salmons, Staniforth, Currie, Ford. subs Hodgkinson, Barlow, Addison replaced Hope, Colquhoun and Staniforth.

I dont remember being aware of the match and I had always thought Hodgy's last 1st team game was in the Chesterfield friendly.

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Silent Blade said:
10/5/1971

Len Allchurch testimonial match

Swansea 3 Blades 5 (Staniforth, Currie 2, Salmons, Addison)

Team; Hope, Badger, Ogden, Flynn, Colquhoun, Hockey, Woodward, Salmons, Staniforth, Currie, Ford. subs Hodgkinson, Barlow, Addison replaced Hope, Colquhoun and Staniforth.

I dont remember being aware of the match and I had always thought Hodgy's last 1st team game was in the Chesterfield friendly.

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Where was laughing Ted, turning out for Worcester??
 
Silent Blade said:
10/5/1971

Len Allchurch testimonial match

Swansea 3 Blades 5 (Staniforth, Currie 2, Salmons, Addison)

Team; Hope, Badger, Ogden, Flynn, Colquhoun, Hockey, Woodward, Salmons, Staniforth, Currie, Ford. subs Hodgkinson, Barlow, Addison replaced Hope, Colquhoun and Staniforth.

I dont remember being aware of the match and I had always thought Hodgy's last 1st team game was in the Chesterfield friendly.
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There were quite a few of us needing Swanseas Vetch Field in our quest to get the 92 grounds up as we had never played them in recent times back then
We found out Shred had already been and it was to a testimonial so this must have been the game he went to :)
 
22/5/1971

I think it was the weekend when the papers reported that we signed Stewart Scullion from Watford for £25,000 as I remember it wasnt long after the end of the season and I remember reading about it at my twin uncle's house in Hartley Brook Road. I watched the England v Scotland match there. He wasnt a name I knew of and didnt remember his shot that hit the bar at the Lane three weeks earlier. He was our only signing between January 1971 and summer 1972

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England 3 (Peters, Chivers 2) Scotland 1 (Curran)

I was more passionate about supporting the England team than I am now, it was pleasing to see that we beat Scotland and won the Home Internationals (although I have no memory of the 0-0 draw against Wales a few days earlier- my dad must have told me that it wasnt worth staying up to watch the highlights on tv because there were no goals).

I am not sure if Hugh Curran did get the last touch on Scotland's soft equaliser. Looking in the video below I think it was an own goal by Alan Ball. Martin Chivers was on fire that season scoring 34 goals in League and cup competitions, he scored two good goals against the Auld Enemy

 
Silent Blade said:
22/5/1971

I think it was the weekend when the papers reported that we signed Stewart Scullion from Watford for £25,000 as I remember it wasnt long after the end of the season and I remember reading about it at my twin uncle's house in Hartley Brook Road. I watched the England v Scotland match there. He wasnt a name I knew of and didnt remember his shot that hit the bar at the Lane three weeks earlier. He was our only signing between January 1971 and summer 1972

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England 3 (Peters, Chivers 2) Scotland 1 (Curran)

I was more passionate about supporting the England team than I am now, it was pleasing to see that we beat Scotland and won the Home Internationals (although I have no memory of the 0-0 draw against Wales a few days earlier- my dad must have told me that it wasnt worth staying up to watch the highlights on tv because there were no goals).

I am not sure if Hugh Curran did get the last touch on Scotland's soft equaliser. Looking in the video below I think it was an own goal by Alan Ball. Martin Chivers was on fire that season scoring 34 goals in League and cup competitions, he scored two good goals against the Auld Enemy

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Chivers had it all didn’t he. Big, fast, could play and also scored goals...I was a lad when he was at his peak but I was always impressed by his massive shoulders!
I remember my dad howling with laughter when reading a match report in the Sunday Times; a typesetter, presumably an Arsenal fan, had him as Fartin Chivers throughout the piece. We had to make our own fun in those days...
 

pommpey said:
Rafferty's was upstairs, two floors up, on Arundel Gate not far from Oyl in t'rooerd, in the building opposite the Mulberry Tavern.

It was a fish and chips restaurant, and used to do those massive cod fillets in over crispy batter and giant chips. Shamefully however, they never had Henderson's Relish, which is frankly illegal in my eyes.

It was one of those 'it's thi birthday son, we're tekkin' thi ter Raffs' treats where because you were eating posh, your world was complete.

20 or 33 bus to town and back. Can't be too snooty, can we?

pommpey
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Wow!!! 20 & 33 buses, that tecks yer back a bit.
Mostly used fotty seven for town, 20-33 for Graves Park, Rowlinson baths and Woodseats, had to walk up't 'ill to't Gaunt for them.
Happy days though, and seemed much better than now , but suspect that it's because I'm an old fart now.
 
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XM657 said:
Wow!!! 20 & 33 buses, that tecks yer back a bit.
Mostly used fotty seven for town, 20-33 for Graves Park, Rowlinson baths and Woodseats, had to walk up't 'ill to't Gaunt for them.
Happy days though, and seemed much better than now , but suspect that it's because I'm an old fart now.
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'Walk up to the Gaunt'?

Did you live down in the Valley, then?

43 ran into town down Blackstock (through Norton, from Jordanthorpe) down PoW into Pond Street.

Used to be good for us because we'd either get the 33 or 20 going one way into town or the 43 going the other way from our nearest bus stop opposite Backmoor Road

Four 1/2ps in the Videmat machine

pommpey
 
pommpey said:
'Walk up to the Gaunt'?

Did you live down in the Valley, then?

43 ran into town down Blackstock (through Norton, from Jordanthorpe) down PoW into Pond Street.

Used to be good for us because we'd either get the 33 or 20 going one way into town or the 43 going the other way from our nearest bus stop opposite Backmoor Road

Four 1/2ps in the Videmat machine

pommpey
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Yes , yes and yes but originally 43 (47 now) terminated at the Gaunt till Jordanthorp was built, then extended through terminating there.
 
XM657 said:
Yes , yes and yes but originally 43 (47 now) terminated at the Gaunt till Jordanthorp was built, then extended through terminating there.
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Whereabouts down in the Valley?

And did you go to Bankwood/Gleadless Valley Secondary/Comprehensive up at Matthews Lane?

pommpey
 
pommpey said:
Whereabouts down in the Valley?

And did you go to Bankwood/Gleadless Valley Secondary/Comprehensive up at Matthews Lane?

pommpey
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Overend. No and no, but our kids did, two are in there 50's now, youngest late 40's, well Rollistone Inft.&Jnrs., then GV.
As you probably know GV is now housing. Co op has moved to Constable Rd. from Newfield Green as the shops there is a bit like walking through Crater.
 
themaninblack said:
Chivers had it all didn’t he. Big, fast, could play and also scored goals...I was a lad when he was at his peak but I was always impressed by his massive shoulders!
I remember my dad howling with laughter when reading a match report in the Sunday Times; a typesetter, presumably an Arsenal fan, had him as Fartin Chivers throughout the piece. We had to make our own fun in those days...
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"Chivers is a jelly" ;)
 
XM657 said:
Overend. No and no, but our kids did, two are in there 50's now, youngest late 40's, well Rollistone Inft.&Jnrs., then GV.
As you probably know GV is now housing. Co op has moved to Constable Rd. from Newfield Green as the shops there is a bit like walking through Crater.
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I was 'Class of 79' at GVSS. Born in Gaunt Rd, raised on Constable, kicked about on Blackstock, Ironside and down to Overend. Good friends of the Machins, Parsons and Carrs. Knew Plattsy and some on t'other side of the Valley (Goodens, O'Neills) and the Herdings lot.

Gleadless Valley was fucking ace to grow up in.

pommpey
 
Silent Blade said:
I still remember clearly when my dad was picking me up from a children's xmas party organised by his work and he was telling me "United won 6-0". I wasnt really into football yet despite having been taken to the Lane a few times but I was impressed that the Blades had won 6-0. Birmingham City were the opponents.
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What year was that Silent?
 
Pedro Verde said:
I vaguely remember going to that 6-0 game
There was a game at the Lane around the same time v Birmingham think it was a Cup game think we lost 2-3 From what I remember the game was televised via closed circuit TV
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yeah me anall think we were 2 up in that cup game with birmingam
 
pommpey said:
I was 'Class of 79' at GVSS. Born in Gaunt Rd, raised on Constable, kicked about on Blackstock, Ironside and down to Overend. Good friends of the Machins, Parsons and Carrs. Knew Plattsy and some on t'other side of the Valley (Goodens, O'Neills) and the Herdings lot.

Gleadless Valley was fucking ace to grow up in.

pommpey
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All names that ring bells.
Sharon Gooden was same year as our daughter all way through schooling, and were in a group of mates that stuck together, picking up a few more at GVSS, till they left in '81.
Yes, always plenty of kids out and about playing on the expanses of open grass and in the woods. School holidays and fine weather, give ours their breakfast and they were gone, only to return when they were hungry.
Wouldn't you go to Hemsworth J&I? I Remember there was a bronze statue of a, standing, young girl with, sitting dog by her side just inside the entrance on Constable Rd. Wonder where that went when they bulldozed the the school.
 
XM657 said:
All names that ring bells.
Sharon Gooden was same year as our daughter all way through schooling, and were in a group of mates that stuck together, picking up a few more at GVSS, till they left in '81.
Yes, always plenty of kids out and about playing on the expanses of open grass and in the woods. School holidays and fine weather, give ours their breakfast and they were gone, only to return when they were hungry.
Wouldn't you go to Hemsworth J&I? I Remember there was a bronze statue of a, standing, young girl with, sitting dog by her side just inside the entrance on Constable Rd. Wonder where that went when they bulldozed the the school.
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That statue disappeared not long after the school was junked. The concrete plinth remains.

Just thinking now, kinda good that Hemsworth J&I went when it did. It would have ended up torched otherwise. Completely thrown up in the early sixties. Steel frame but all wood and plasterboard.

Seem to recall the further you went down the Valley from Hemsworth, the piggier it got.

pommpey
 
2/6/1971

Yorkshire v Worcestershire County Championship match at Bramall Lane


Cricket was starting to be my "2nd sport". My dad wasnt interested in the sport, I often watched John Player League matches on BBC2 with my twin uncles at their house in Hartley Brook Road and they would explain the scores, rules etc, which ones were the outstanding players to me. My favourite cricketers at the time were Geoff Boycott, Alan Ward (cos he is from Dronfield) and Ted Hemsley so I would check their progress in the papers. My twin uncles then decided to take me to my first professional cricket match especially because Ted Hemsley plays for Worcestershire.

We sat on the wooden benches between the Bramall Lane stand and the pavilion. The first ball I saw was Chris Old bowling to Glenn Turner (New Zealander). I was disappointed that Boycott didnt play in the match, cant remember the reason (he wasnt in the 1st test match against Pakistan in the next day).

The first wicket I saw was Glenn Turner being caught behind by David Bairstow off Richard Hutton's bowling. Next in was John Ormrod, I knew Ted Hemsley was going to bat after him and I was getting excited. Ormrod got out first ball (I think) so the waiting was over for Hemsley to step in with his bat. I read years later that Len Badger, Tony Currie and a few other Blades players were in the pavilion sarcastically slow handclapping him as he walked onto the pitch!

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Early in Ted's innings he hit a four and the ball reached the boundary not too far from where I was sitting but soon after he got bowled for only 6 runs by Geoff Cope. I was disappointed and felt like going home! My twin uncles werent happy a few overs later when I asked them if I could go home! Then they made a compromise that we would go home after the end of West Indian Ron Headley's innings. Headley was eventually bowled by Cope for 80 runs.

My parents werent too happy with me when they learned that I wanted to go home much earlier than my uncles expected. It was in 1975 when I followed cricket a lot more after watching the exciting Prudential Cup matches on tv and then watching the Ashes series through my school summer holidays.

A few hours after my first cricket match I was at home watching the 1971 European Cup final between Ajax and Panathinaikos on tv

 

reedy63 said:
beat Liverpool on easter monday at the lane i
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Silent Blade said:
The 2-1 win was at Anfield, we played them again the following Saturday, 1-1 draw. TC scored in both games
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It was at Anfield but it was on Good Friday.

The famous day me and my then school-mate Cookie (now from Donny and I'm sure some on here will know who I'm talking about) hitched lifts to the match and and back.

The return trip being made in the team coach which picked us up on the East Lancs Road and brought us all the way back to Sheffield!
 
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