The 1962 storm that destroyed our floodlight

[silver blade]

I can remember the Blades appealing for fans to pick up glass from the pitch before the next match could go ahead

 

[Silent Blade]

v Norwich FA Cup 5th round in February 1962. We won 3-1.

 

[Dkc]

 

[Harry's Game]

Nice of the young Fred West to drive up North to help out..

 

[Grey Blade]

I was 8 years old at the time and living in North Yorkshire. I doubt I even knew Sheffield existed! I remember the storm though.
I was living in an Airey house ( another post war quick fix) on top of a hill overlooking the Wharfe Valley. The whole house was shaking in the wind and you could hear the concrete slats (which lined the walls) rattling in the wind. Mum moved me and my brother downstairs and had us sheltering under the kitchen table. I remember it being very frightening.
In the morning when the wind had died down, we realised half the tiles off the front of the house had been blown into the field beyond our back garden - about 50 yards way!
Only been in a similar gale in 1985, whilst living in Orkney, but fortunately the houses were more solid and I only lost 4 tiles.

 

[bladesince64]

I was 8 years old at the time and I remember a house on the next road (Honeysuckle Rd) where the chimney stack blew over and crashed through the roof and into the bedrooms.

Luckily nobody was hurt, but I believe another property on Windmill Lane (fairly close to us) was damaged structurally and someone died.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Not a good night that….

My mum was a carer for an old dear living down our road, she made her normal morning visit to find her in bed, snoring away, with all the chimney stack bricks around her.

Got to school at High Storrs, watched the biggest lad in our year being bowled across the school yard by the wind. They wanted to close the school down by lunchtime, but it was thought to be too dangerous to let kids out in that.

Prefabs flew away in S6, there was hardly a house in the city that wasn’t damaged in some way, builders had weeks of work to do, and cowboy builders sprang up everywhere and had a field day.

 

[djbaldken]

I was ten years old. Lived in Thrybergh just outside Rotherham.
I woke to the sound of roof tiles blowing off the roof. I sat up and drew the curtains to see an avalanche of slates flying into our back garden. Quite scary.
Half our roof went. Luckily it was a council house and so didnt cost us anything to repair. But for a few months all we had was a tarpaulin sheet over the damage.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Nice of the young Fred West to drive up North to help out..

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Any connection to Mick Speight?

 

[HarryHaslam]

Took down the Shoreham Street wall also.