Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[LSF]

Don't you think Croatias manager is a ringer for Piggy Oldale ?

Deffo got a look with the hair and helped on black colour
Bit like Federer too...

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

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From the same game.
The caption says (freehand translation): Barcelona had managed to infiltrate the crowded British defence line, made up of 10 players. "Canario" tries to put the ball in the gap that he anticipates that Lasso will move into....of His Majesty [?], apart from Hodgkinson who has fallen. Birchenall goes to intercept the ball and nothing will happen [?]; but in the second half, Barcelona recovered and battled...[the rest of the text is cut off].

Doesn't look like Birchenall to me; perhaps he's in the background. Difficult to translate with text missing. I would guess it read 'subditos de Su Majestad', 'subjects of Her Majesty', referring to United, unlike the Catalans, who were lucky enough to be free citizens under Franco. Great pictures.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

For Rodders, Blonk Street

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

The Valley was fantastic in the early days. We had our own garden and an inside toilet, luxury.

Where Herding's Park is now were open fields. At the edge of Norton Avenue was a copse with two small ponds containing frogs and newts. We spent hours in there wading in our wellies catching and releasing the same creatures time and time again.

Across Norton Avenue, which was single carriageway at the time, was Lightwood Lane, a little bit of the countryside right on your doorstep.

We used to walk to the end of the Lane, then over the fields down to Ford, then walk back up the hill to Ridgeway and then back on White Lane to Gleadless Town End and onwards to home.

Those halcyon days seemed to last forever and it sounds a bit of a cliche now, but they truly were "Happy days."

For all you Valley dwellers, here's a fantastic aerial photograph of Newfield Green/Gleadless Valley, taken around 1969

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I think that's a young SouthEssexBlade in the background

 

[Bob Socks]

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A Blade taken by me in late 1969. At the time I didn't know this guy. He's a friend these days.

Hey-up Mick, I've been in touch with Brett about putting the photo in the re- write my new book, he says its alright to use it, i presume he's cleared it with you?

 

[DifferentClass]

It was Gilzean who scored it. All the goals from 2:05 onwards. Great (and typical) Denis Law goal starts off the whole compilation.

World Cup winner and future Blade (for better or worse) Martin Peters also on the scoresheet for Spurs that day.

Dare I dream that come Monday morning we could have two more World Cup winning Blades?

 

[bromtom]

Not a particularly interesting old picture but since it's near my house I went a took a picture of it now.

Shortbrook School field looking towards Eastcroft Drive I think if my paper boy knowledge hasn't deserted me.

First picture is from 1974

 

[1066blade]

 

[1066blade]

BSC in my apprenticeship days.

 

[Mad Mick]

Hey-up Mick, I've been in touch with Brett about putting the photo in the re- write my new book, he says its alright to use it, i presume he's cleared it with you?

Yes m8

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

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Firth Brown 5 ton steam hammer, junction of Savile Street and Sutherland Street, Attercliffe. Same one?

 

[1066blade]

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Firth Brown 5 ton steam hammer, junction of Savile Street and Sutherland Street, Attercliffe. Same one?

Maybe, - ironically I worked for Brightside Foundry and Engineering in Ecclesfield before they went bust and shipped me out to BSC (ESC as it was then known). I also had a lot of connection with Frank Pickering forging shop.

 

[Boxer Blade]

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A Blade taken by me in late 1969. At the time I didn't know this guy. He's a friend these days.

I don't know him but I feel I recognise him, was he a "bit of a lad" at the games in those days? I remember a small fracas in the car park between pond street bus station and midland station with some Everton fans,he reminds me of a blade who was involved.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Porterfield levitating.

 

[Mad Mick]

I don't know him but I feel I recognise him, was he a "bit of a lad" at the games in those days? I remember a small fracas in the car park between pond street bus station and midland station with some Everton fans,he reminds me of a blade who was involved.

That is likely to have been Brett

 

[LSF]

Sheffield Boys U15. 1967-68
Taken at B&C Ground, Bellhouse Rd.
Dec '67 prior to a 4-0 defeat to a powerful Manchester Boys U15.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

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Now that’s what I call a wood fired pizza oven! Do they deliver?

 

[torridon]

 

[torridon]

 

[torridon]

 

[torridon]

 

[prince albert]

Now that’s what I call a wood fired pizza oven! Do they deliver?

no ... but they do chicken,pepperoni,ham and pineapple

 

[Cerberus Blade]

no ... but they do chicken,pepperoni,ham and pineapple

On my way. Magna int it?

 

[Bob Socks]

Yes m8

Thanks Mick.