No farm at Swillsborough !?!

[Tynemouth Blade]

Hasn't this been discussed before?

 

[mosbolad]

Hasn't this been discussed before?

Definitely Maggots.....

 

[mosbolad]

View attachment 39065 Beg to differ

Well if ever proof were needed, here we have it, with a vaguely similar font to the rest of the map (albeit very slightly darker) proudly proclaiming 'Pig Farm'

 

[spikeachu]

Insurance claims for pigs after the great Sheffield flood of 1864. A few years before they were formed.
Everyone in Owlerton and Malin Bridge was claiming for a pig, a sty or a trough.

https://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/search....n=name&in=addr&in=desc&part=yes&submit=search

 

[bladesfan]

Mrk Blade fake news. photoshop removal of pig farm.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Not sure about the pig farms but older Owls and Blades can verify that the pig nickname started being commonly used from 1974.

Wednesday designed a new modern badge that they were very proud of.
Blades in the mid 70’s ridiculed their new badge and said the Owl looked more like a pig.
And hence the legend was born.

In the late 70’s at school I used to draw their new badge and show it to my class mates, then as if by magic in seconds i’d change it to a pig. Also in the 70’s and 80’s, you’d see the Wednesday badge graffitied on walls in Sheffield
Then some Blade would come along and add the pigs snout, pigs trotters and curly tail to their badge
Same as you’d see “Owl”s grafitti and then a Blade would add a F, to make it “Fowls”.
From memory the first time I ever heard a Wednesday fan call it us pigs was in the early to mid 80’s.

I went to school on Parson Cross , one of only 2 Blades season ticket holders from a roster of circa 400. They were definitely calling me Pigfan from early 1979.

The whole pig thing is a bit of an embarrassment to both sides imo, but not nearly as much as ‘ We’re all X aren’t we?’

 

[Sheffsteel]

I went to school on Parson Cross , one of only 2 Blades season ticket holders from a roster of circa 400. They were definitely calling me Pigfan from early 1979.

The whole pig thing is a bit of an embarrassment to both sides imo, but not nearly as much as ‘ We’re all X aren’t we?’

Talking from personal experience the 1st season I went to see United was 1974-75.
My uncle and his mates who took me to matches were definitely referring to Wednesday as pigs during that season.
Before the 70’s most club badges were complicated/ intricate traditional coat of arms style badges.
Wednesday rebranded themselves with a modern simplified outline of an Owl.
They were really proud of their new badge, the simplicity of the badge which could be instantly recognised from a distance was ahead of its time so Unitedites used to mock it, saying it looked more like a pig than an Owl.

 

[diode_blade]

View attachment 39061 Are we the pigs because we play in red & white stripes like a pack of streaky bacon?
Why don't the owls eat bacon, because it would be eating there own kind?
why don't the owls eat bacon, because it's red & white striped?
It's one of life's mysteries, like where does the sun go at night?
what's at the end of the universe, a brick wall? if so what's on the other side of the wall?

My chuffing garden, stop kicking yer ball into otherwise it will get kidney punched...

 

[Paisley Blade]

Talking from personal experience the 1st season I went to see United was 1974-75.
My uncle and his mates who took me to matches were definitely referring to Wednesday as pigs during that season.
Before the 70’s most club badges were complicated/ intricate traditional coat of arms style badges.
Wednesday rebranded themselves with a modern simplified outline of an Owl.
They were really proud of their new badge, the simplicity of the badge which could be instantly recognised from a distance was ahead of its time so Unitedites used to mock it, saying it looked more like a pig than an Owl.

My first season was 70/71 , and with your’s being 74/75 we both had a brilliant introduction, the slight downside being we’ve never hit similar levels since ....!

 

[WhiteHawk]

Hasn't this been discussed before?

Anyone know where to get the Greasy Chip Butty ringtone for a Nokia 3210?

 

[Snowman]

I've no idea what them old maps show but I heard there was one clearly showing a farm there. Then this one has surfaced from Museum yesterday.
I was hoping someone would get the map showing the farm to shut the Wendy up on fb talking Pig iron this pig iron that

If you are really really really really interested, and I mean really and well really, you can research all the old threads on here and you might just find it. I can't be arsed. Most Blades wouldn't need to ask the question.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

Just seen a map apparently from Weston park museum showing original ordnance survey map from 1855 of where Wendies ground is. Doesn't seem to show any farm or piggery !?!
I know it's been talked about over and over but I'd rather stick to Wendies than pigs if that's the case.

The pig farms were established in 1857, a full 10 years before the Pigs were formed.

 

[Blade82]

I'd rather stick to Wendies than pigs if that's the case.

Wendy house it is then

 

[tinhead420]

This the image you’re all looking for?

 

[don240]

All the proof needed

From the above link
"Rock faced Wall to Piggery"
"Pig £4"

 

[JordoBlade]

The Sheffield archives clearly state damage to piggeries in the owlerton area during the Sheffield flood.

 

[BLADES1988]

Well if ever proof were needed, here we have it, with a vaguely similar font to the rest of the map (albeit very slightly darker) proudly proclaiming 'Pig Farm'

It's the best I could do on my phone! Haha

 

[BLADES1988]

It's the best I could do on my phone! Haha

I mean the genuine source I found it on had a slight difference in some fonts found on the 100% truthful and legitimate maps

 

[blade too long]

surely you havent looked properly , your picture of the map clearly states theres a trough in hillsborough park

what more proof do you need

 

[blade too long]

 

[vorpal blade]

.... and on the map with the Piggeries marked on the Hillsborough centre circle - there is also a Pork View Terrace further south then - they moved it and it became the Kop at Hillsborough.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Anyone checked on PT for a Pig stating

" there's a post on S2 from one of there own saying there wasn't a pig farm where the Old Bag Lady is"

That'll be the thread starter that will.

 

[Westran]

There's a bacon island just off Neepsend Lane. What more proof do we need?!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=B...IMTAB#imgrc=_YUt10BvnMkN9M:&spf=1525264120987

 

[Westran]

This the image you’re all looking for?

Dude I remember when we 'found' this! It's Al by the way.

 

[SteveBlade]

If you think about the whole pig argument and all the 'we called it you first' shit. It's fucking embarrassing.

 

[diode_blade]

Anyone know where to get the Greasy Chip Butty ringtone for a Nokia 3210?

That ring tone got lost on mars with beagle 2, probably why it crashed...

 

[boo radley]

Wendy house it is then

There was an old animal called Wendy.
who's followers was claimed to be twenty (000,000).
it's skin was all pink but never washed in a sink but rolled in the mud till its tail was all bendy.

 

[3-GBlade]

Did the original not have a "Swine Cottage" where the Stadio Del Arrugginito now stands.

I believe it first appeared in Flashing Blade

 

[sheffielder]

I don’t like calling them pigs, but cunt doesn’t go down well at work