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SirNibletsO'Korne said:
[QUOTE="LYDON, post: 1621186, member: 16392"

The Sheffield Pals...
Bramall Lane.
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Tony Robinson did an excellent prog on the Sheffield Pals(First day of the Somme if i remember correctly)where he filmed on the South Stand where he talked about them drilling on the pitch.If you look on google maps just above Redmires,you can still see the outlines of the practice trenches they dug...[/QUOTE]

Not the 'Sheffield Pals' one (I'm sure I've posted it in the past), but a similarly-evocative pic:

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Found it!

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And finally...

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Shit quality pic, but a cracking article about Burnden Park, and a brief mention of The Blades.
 
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grafikhaus said:
Tony Robinson did an excellent prog on the Sheffield Pals(First day of the Somme if i remember correctly)where he filmed on the South Stand where he talked about them drilling on the pitch.If you look on google maps just above Redmires,you can still see the outlines of the practice trenches they dug...
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Not the 'Sheffield Pals' one (I'm sure I've posted it in the past), but a similarly-evocative pic:

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Found it!

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And finally...

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Shit quality pic, but a cracking article about Burnden Park, and a brief mention of The Blades.[/QUOTE]

Is the top photo the FA Cup game against Villa and the minutes silence for the passing of Winston Churchill?

Just looking at the old scoreboard on the pavilion. Every 15 minutes during the game a guy would appear from the pavilion and update the Wednesday away score on Red Indicator A. He would then proceed to the end of the scoreboard and put up 15 / 30 / 45 etc minutes depending upon the time of the update. During Central league matches he would do exactly the same apart from our Away match would be Red Indicator A and Wednesday's home match would be White Indicator A.

It seems that from an early age (7) that I (and thousands of others) have been brainwashed by the club to think it important to know how Wednesday are doing every 15 minutes of each match and to cheer or boo accordingly.

I am sure the same happened at Hillsborough.

Maybe Sheffield's inability to provide a serious Premiership team since 1992 is more down to our insular view of the game. We are more concerned about how we are performing in relation to our nearest rivals than we are about progressing up the leagues.

Ironically that insular nature is the very thing we accuse Premiership club supporters of having.
 
bornablade said:
Not the 'Sheffield Pals' one (I'm sure I've posted it in the past), but a similarly-evocative pic:

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Found it!

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And finally...

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Shit quality pic, but a cracking article about Burnden Park, and a brief mention of The Blades.
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Just looking at the old scoreboard on the pavilion. Every 15 minutes during the game a guy would appear from the pavilion and update the Wednesday away score on Red Indicator A. He would then proceed to the end of the scoreboard and put up 15 / 30 / 45 etc minutes depending upon the time of the update. During Central league matches he would do exactly the same apart from our Away match would be Red Indicator A and Wednesday's home match would be White Indicator A.

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Was anyone else at the Lane when at the 'other' Lane Spurs beat Everton 10-4? At full-time the guy on the scoreboard put the 4 up for Everton, and then had to stand there holding a 1 and a 0 for a while hoping that we would work out that Spurs had scored 10. Our record away win and defeat both had 10 goals for one team - I wonder if the scoreboard was manned for either of those games - would have been tricky.
 
bornablade said:
Just looking at the old scoreboard on the pavilion. Every 15 minutes during the game a guy would appear from the pavilion and update the Wednesday away score on Red Indicator A. He would then proceed to the end of the scoreboard and put up 15 / 30 / 45 etc minutes depending upon the time of the update. During Central league matches he would do exactly the same apart from our Away match would be Red Indicator A and Wednesday's home match would be White Indicator A.

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HodgysBrokenThumb said:
Was anyone else at the Lane when at the 'other' Lane Spurs beat Everton 10-4? At full-time the guy on the scoreboard put the 4 up for Everton, and then had to stand there holding a 1 and a 0 for a while hoping that we would work out that Spurs had scored 10. Our record away win and defeat both had 10 goals for one team - I wonder if the scoreboard was manned for either of those games - would have been tricky.
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On 20th April, 1974 Wednesday were at Middlesbrough in League Division Two. Wednesday were 6-0 down and the 'bloke in the white coat' appeared to update the score. A mighty roar went up from the kop. It was 8-0, but they didn't have an '8' so he picked up a '2' and signalled that we should add the two together! (No need for Smartphones back then...)

Among the scorers for 'boro was a hat-trick from...Grahame Souness.
 
bornandbred said:
I used to go to Mr Wall's class on a Tuesday evening at Heeley Baths followed by fish and chips on the way home.This thread keeps on bringing back the memories.
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LSF said:
Mr Wall! Jesus! My swimming teacher at both Heeley Bank and Abbeydale schools.
Jet black brylcreemed hair!
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Me Too , different times but there were a lot of rumours about him at our school. Nearly drowned getting that bloody brick in the deep end in my Jamas
 

grafikhaus said:
Tony Robinson did an excellent prog on the Sheffield Pals(First day of the Somme if i remember correctly)where he filmed on the South Stand where he talked about them drilling on the pitch.If you look on google maps just above Redmires,you can still see the outlines of the practice trenches they dug...
Click to expand...

Not the 'Sheffield Pals' one (I'm sure I've posted it in the past), but a similarly-evocative pic:

View attachment 37235

Found it!

View attachment 37236

And finally...

View attachment 37237

Shit quality pic, but a cracking article about Burnden Park, and a brief mention of The Blades.[/QUOTE]

Don’t know what year the photo at Burndon Park was taken but that looks like a WD 2-8-0 pulling the freight train which would put it after 1940.
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
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That car bang centre looks like an Austin A40 woodie, possibly even an A70. A seriously beautiful and rare car of which less than two hands worth survive.

I narrowly missed out on one 5 years ago and it hasn’t moved since, being sat in a Kent shed doing fuck all. A bit like me if I can get away with it in the Summer months. I love a good shed me.
 
Canterbury Blade said:
That car bang centre looks like an Austin A40 woodie, possibly even an A70. A seriously beautiful and rare car of which less than two hands worth survive.

I narrowly missed out on one 5 years ago and it hasn’t moved since, being sat in a Kent shed doing fuck all. A bit like me if I can get away with it in the Summer months. I love a good shed me.
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My uncle owned an A40 for years. He worked at an Austin garage as a mechanic from 15. When the garage closed the boss let him have any spare parts he wanted. There was almost another car in bits in his shed, kept it going for another 15 years :)
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
My uncle owned an A40 for years. He worked at an Austin garage as a mechanic from 15. When the garage closed the boss let him have any spare parts he wanted. There was almost another car in bits in his shed, kept it going for another 15 years :)
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My first ever car, Maroon, AWR 136B, never let me down once
 
Therealfurphy said:
There's Tommy Oxley with the stripes (other than Shred), Colin and Billy Birks, Neil and Kevin Brewster and I think, Phil Holmes. Sorry, but can't remember the names of the rest. I agree with the 1971 tour to Holland and Belgium, I went with them in 1975 and 1976.
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Ted Hemsley said they were well beaten by FC Twente in the 1971 pre season friendly( lost 2-0) and they never imagined that they would win 8 and drawing 2 in the first 10 league matches!
 

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