How we used to live

[JJ Sefton]

 

[SwissBlade]

Is that Baxter in our white away kit?

 

[sheffielder]

Is that Baxter in our white away kit?

Never far from a white line that lad

 

[Tyler Durden]

And what I had to grow up with

 

[Woodwardfan]

Quite a few watching from across the cricket pitch at 7.45pm. Games used to start at 7.30pm , looking at the shiny white line the floodlights are on? No Wednesday score showing.

I think that's Mathewson defending.

Good job being a ball boy.

Great times, fond memories.

Thanks Walthamstow.

What? "Get a life" - I'm just off out.

 

[Silent Blade]

Quite a few watching from across the cricket pitch at 7.45pm. Games used to start at 7.30pm , looking at the shiny white line the floodlights are on? No Wednesday score showing.

I think that's Mathewson defending.

Good job being a ball boy.

Great times, fond memories.

Thanks Walthamstow.

What? "Get a life" - I'm just off out.

Yes, it is Reg Matthewson. Who were we playing against? Cant think of a team whose away kit had two pinstripes on both sides of shorts

 

[Silent Blade]

Got it! Alan Skirton of Arsenal

 

[mosbolad]

The player in white, very advanced signalling techniques!

 

[Trigger Blade]

Got it! Alan Skirton of Arsenal

Typical Silent, just getting info from Wikipedia

 

[Silent Blade]

Blades won 3-0 on 25th April 1966. Scorers were Hartle, Fenoughty and Mallender

 

[Silent Blade]

Typical Silent, just getting info from Wikipedia

Google images not Wiki!

 

[blade too long]

The player in white, very advanced signalling techniques!

QUOTE]

no hed just dropped his cigar

 

[blade too long]

I used to love walking round at half time , itd pass on the 10 minute ,( not 15 like the idle sods get today ) break , have a chat withthe scoreboard man and wave at the golden goal board carrier

 

[HighfieldBlade]

That corner of Cherry St and Bramall Lane is so low, you can see the spire and tower of what must be St.Barnabas Church and Highfield Trinity on London Rd

 

[alcoblade]

Is that Baxter in our white away kit?

Judging on the way he's eyeing up that white line, I'd guess so.

UTB

 

[alcoblade]

Never far from a white line that lad

Doh! you beat me to it.

UTB

 

[Bladepicker]

That corner of Cherry St and Bramall Lane is so low, you can see the spire and tower of what must be St.Barnabas Church and Highfield Trinity on London Rd

It is, I was Christened at St Barnabus.

I was born too late to see the cricket ground (which is a shame for me) but when I went to the lane growning up it was still quite low and open in that corner. From the kop youcould distintcly see the little turret buttress of St John's Church at the corner of South View Road ans Sharrow Lane.

I used to go to youth club there and it was a beautiful red brick building. Very upsetting that it has been bulldozed for some prefab Tesco express to sprout up there.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

It is, I was Christened at St Barnabus.

I was born too late to see the cricket ground (which is a shame for me) but when I went to the lane growning up it was still quite low and open in that corner. From the kop youcould distintcly see the little turret buttress of St John's Church at the corner of South View Road ans Sharrow Lane.

I used to go to youth club there and it was a beautiful red brick building. Very upsetting that it has been bulldozed for some prefab Tesco express to sprout up there.

It's a real shame seeing these familiar landmarks disappear.
My old junior school was St.Barnabas on Alderson Rd (opposite The Golden Lion). It's now a bed shop, but thankfully they didn't knock it down and rebuild.

 

[Jonboy60]

The Royal pub just to the right, my local for years. Follow on from the Royal down abbeydale rd, my house was end house 2nd block terrace. That was nearly 30 yrs ago now, I think it was top of field head rd.

 

[Whiston Blade]

Does that mean she wants one in the second hole or two in the first ?

 

[bornablade]

Bernard Shaw and Matthewson on the other photo

 

[bornablade]

The Royal pub just to the right, my local for years. Follow on from the Royal down abbeydale rd, my house was end house 2nd block terrace. That was nearly 30 yrs ago now, I think it was top of field head rd.

Walk down Abbeydale Road from the Royal until you reach the Broadfield. Is there another road (residential) in Sheffield that goes so far without a pub?

That end of Abbeydale Road was never good for a pub crawl.

 

[Slug]

Does that mean she wants one in the second hole or two in the first ?

One in the pink and two in the stink?

 

[silverfox]

I can see Dingledog in the crowd!

 

[Deaneandagana]

Yes, it is Reg Matthewson. Who were we playing against? Cant think of a team whose away kit had two pinstripes on both sides of shorts

Palace?

 

[Jonboy60]

Walk down Abbeydale Road from the Royal until you reach the Broadfield. Is there another road (residential) in Sheffield that goes so far without a pub?

That end of Abbeydale Road was never good for a pub crawl.

No it wasn't bornablade, you always had to go the other way down London rd.
Cremorne, lion, tramway,Barrel,pheasant Albion,( I think) landsdowne and the one opposite can't remember, sometimes round to sportsman, Cricks, railway back towards Sheldon, and nine times out of ten in Locarno. And if that still wasn't enough walk up to all night semi legal blues.

 

[Jonboy60]

No it wasn't bornablade, you always had to go the other way down London rd.
Cremorne, lion, tramway,Barrel,pheasant Albion,( I think) landsdowne and the one opposite can't remember, sometimes round to sportsman, Cricks, railway back towards Sheldon, and nine times out of ten in Locarno. And if that still wasn't enough walk up to all night semi legal blues.

Hermitage, got it.

 

[Silent Blade]

Palace?

I meant in the 1960s. Thanks to google images, I found that it was Arsenal we were playing in the OP's photo

 

[JJ Sefton]

And what I had to grow up with

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[Bladepicker]

Quite a few watching from across the cricket pitch at 7.45pm. Games used to start at 7.30pm , looking at the shiny white line the floodlights are on? No Wednesday score showing.

I think that's Mathewson defending.

Good job being a ball boy.

Great times, fond memories.

Thanks Walthamstow.

What? "Get a life" - I'm just off out.

Yes, it is Reg Matthewson. Who were we playing against? Cant think of a team whose away kit had two pinstripes on both sides of shorts

You two gents may be able to help me here please!

Being a blade and a cricket fan I am big on the history of the Lane especially re cricket. I actually have written a potted history of the lane article I have submitted to Foxy.

One of many things I have read about the lane is that, especially in the early 20th century the cricket crowd had quite a reputation for being quite witty and vocal. It says this section of fans that had this reputation stood on the open terrace in between the pavillion and Bramall lane called the 'grinders stand' and the fans were known as 'grinders'. - what I can't find out is if this part of the ground was still called that after they built the Bramall Lane stand.

I.e. in that photo, was the terracing to the right of the pavillion as you look at it still called the grinders?