Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Great old picture, showing where I stood on the Kop.

You must have got there well before kick-off to take that picture! We used to stand in a similar position to the left of the goal - ready to get round to the Lane end more quickly. Great picture, very nostalgic. Cheers.

 

[Bert]

Bert often wonders, if anyone rescued a bit of the old white fence and still has it in their garden.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Bert often wonders, if anyone rescued a bit of the old white fence and still has it in their garden.

The very young SEB first watched at BDTBL perched on that white fence, kop end of John Street.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I think this was about 1981.

 

[broomhillblade]

1950s?

 

[Silent Blade]

Farokh Engineer the wicketkeeper? Must be Roses match

 

[Bert]

Farokh Engineer the wicketkeeper? Must be Roses match

Close fielders, must be a spinner bowling, probably to the tail enders.

 

[Silent Blade]

Close fielders, must be a spinner bowling, probably to the tail enders.

Think Phil Sharpe is the non striker

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Farokh Engineer the wicketkeeper? Must be Roses match

Could well be. That looks like Jack Simmons in the slips and I reckon Peter Lever is bowling. August 1969 if it is.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Could well be. That looks like Jack Simmons in the slips and I reckon Peter Lever is bowling. August 1969 if it is.

Keeper stood up and a short leg slip would suggest it's a spinner rather than Lever. Hazy memories of Lever nearly decapitating an NZ tailender and being in tears as he surveyed the stricken bloke.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Keeper stood up and a short leg slip would suggest it's a spinner rather than Lever. Hazy memories of Lever nearly decapitating an NZ tailender and being in tears as he surveyed the stricken bloke.

David Hughes?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Keeper stood up and a short leg slip would suggest it's a spinner rather than Lever. Hazy memories of Lever nearly decapitating an NZ tailender and being in tears as he surveyed the stricken bloke.

Yes, it probably is a spinner. Simmons is in the slips so it isn't him, studying the action I'm still not sure who it may be, could be a part-time bowler.

 

[Silent Blade]

Keeper stood up and a short leg slip would suggest it's a spinner rather than Lever. Hazy memories of Lever nearly decapitating an NZ tailender and being in tears as he surveyed the stricken bloke.

Ewen Chatfield

 

[Paisley Blade]

David Hughes?

Decent shout.

 

[stringjunior]

I think this was about 1981.

Some time around September I think

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Some time around September I think

You should have been a detective stringjunior!

 

[Lane Ender]

Blades 1 (Addison) 1 West Brom 1 in February 1968. John Kaye, John Talbot and I think Dick Shepperd the WBA players

Jeff Astle that other West Brom player

 

[GrayBlade]

I spent most of my Saturday mornings here as a kid. Frozen Jubbly anyone?

 

[Bert]

I spent most of my Saturday mornings here as a kid. Frozen Jubilee anyone?

Jubbly

 

[GrayBlade]

Jubbly

Corrected. It’s been a long time since I sucked on one.

 

[XM657]

That does seem a bit grand for a football stadium press box to me. Saying that,I have no idea what the norm would have been in that era. Was ours unique and would it have been used for the cricket, hence why it presumably looks a bit bigger and more spacious if you're going to be stuck in it all day ?

Originally,it could have been used for a multitude of functions I just don't know. All I know is that in my time it was the Press box. It does seem strange that it was altered so dramatically after the war when in the 1940 photo it seems relatively intact, this club never ceases to amaze me in all aspects of it's being.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Some time around September I think

 

[finlaytheblade]

Are the players in the picture ? Doc Pace ,Willie Hamilton and Ron Simpson, the picture looks like it was took in the late fifties when these players were playing for us ?

 

[XM657]

1950s?View attachment 57044

Pond Hill certainly 50's

 

[Silent Blade]

Jeff Astle that other West Brom player

No, John Kaye, John Talbot and I think keeper Dick Shepperd the WBA players

 

[grafikhaus]

Bert often wonders, if anyone rescued a bit of the old white fence and still has it in their garden.

When they made the kop all-seater, a mate of mine went down trying to beg a sheet of the red-painted corrugated iron (by then sun-bleached to pink) which he wanted to mount on his living room wall. He also tried to beg one of the pedal-operated turnstiles - again for his living room. His wife wasn't impressed.

Strangely, they're no longer together.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

When they made the kop all-seater, a mate of mine went down trying to beg a sheet of the red-painted corrugated iron (by then sun-bleached to pink) which he wanted to mount on his living room wall. He also tried to beg one of the pedal-operated turnstiles - again for his living room. His wife wasn't impressed.

Strangely, they're no longer together.

Women eh, never happy,