BDTBL - historical questions

[bornablade]

Anyone got photos of Billposters advertising Blades home games in the late 1960s and early 1970s that used to be on the the walls on Bramall Lane and Shoreham Street also on the advertising hoardings near where Homebase at the top of Meersbrook is now?

The posters advertising the next first team game were a fair size. I am sure there were also posters advertising the next Central League games but these were maybe half or even quarter the size.

The colour red comes to mind for the first team posters and white for the Central League games although I may be confusing this with the match day programmes.

 

[metalblade]

lightwood.. former RFC base

I think it was RAF, not the flying corps. Wasn't it RAF Norton?

In the second world war Norton was a punishment camp for any bad lads (AWOL etc) in the RAF or for those who "lacked moral fibre" as they put it.

 

[ghandi]

Wendy posters were on that advertising hoardings near Homebase too also on the advertising space opposite where Ponsford (near Heeley Bridge) is now and on hoardings in Penistone Road

Wendy and United posters advertising the next match were also located close to the Iron Bridge at the bottom of the station approach to Woodhouse station.

 

[Silent Blade]

Wendy and United posters advertising the next match were also located close to the Iron Bridge at the bottom of the station approach to Woodhouse station.

Didnt know that but I hardly visit Woodhouse. Tried googling for photos of these posters but no luck

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Yorkshire's first cricket mach was at Bramall Lane in 1855. Sussex were the opponents. Was there a pavilion as big as the one in the drawing at the time?

This also marked the Yorkshire debut of Geoffrey Boycott.
It wasn't until the outbreak of war in 1939 that Mr Boycott reached double figures, playing himself in
for almost Eighty Four years, Mr Boycott declared the wicket very temperamental due to the
inclement Sheffield weather.

 

[blade too long]

The configuration of the old kop in the 60 s had a drop half way back as I remember , the main swaying mob of singers being central back half, rember the shafts of light through the open gaps at the back where you accessed the kop at the back was just an opening in the cladding , well corrugated tin , more than an entrance.
The surge for a Mick Jones header going in the net could lift you up and move you about 10 feet or more, way too dangerous for todays H and S mob
As a youngster used to like being able to change ends at half time with a leisurely stroll past the pavillion , and having a chat with the score board man. and the golden goal board carrier, and they sold programmes through the kop fence then , cant see why thats stopped
In later years stood in the bottom kop corner near john street and remember always the 2 posters for joining the army on the elevated bit above the corner, and the old granite stair well to the upper corner

 

[Cyprus Blade]

2 more pics of the 1902 Third test