Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[BushBlade]

The Snorkels in that display had a ping pong ball which acted as a valve to stop the sea or pool water entering your gob. Think they were more lethal than helpful and the serious aquanauts would break them off as soon as they saw any. Spear gun. I've left the water whenever I've seen someone tooled up with one.

Yes, I remember my dad had one of those snorkels with the ball in it. I guess he’d bought it around that time because I never saw him use it so the last time he did must have been before I was born.

 

[Harrisblade]

A few more weeks and the questions yet again will be "where", "not in the accounts I'm looking at", "why did we buy a Desso" and the old favourite, "why do we lose so much money when my local pub team made £57 last year".

Only 'cos the Club Secretary paid all the fines that the players never quite got round to paying for!

 

[Sean Thornton]

Only 'cos the Club Secretary paid all the fines that the players never quite got round to paying for!

From his own pocket?

 

[ghandi]

Another large erection rising in Sheffield

And deflated a few years ago to be replaced by a semi?

 

[Sean Thornton]

It's in the accounts......

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Silent Blade]

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Summer 1960. We got promotion 9 months later. During the season, John Harris had enough of the highly talented Willie Hamilton's lifestyle and sold him to Middlesbrough. He brought in Keith Kettleborough from Rotherham in December and Len Allchurch from Swansea in March. We reached the FA Cup semi final

 

[Bert]

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Bert has a ticket for that but didn't go, if his memory is working correctly it was the same day that he went to Derby to see us well beaten in the Cup (3-0 ?)

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Sean Thornton]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

It's a Knockout, Arbourthorne playing fields, 1971. Arthur Ellis minus his dipstick.

 

[ghandi]

Bert has a ticket for that but didn't go, if his memory is working correctly it was the same day that he went to Derby to see us well beaten in the Cup (3-0 ?)

We were knocked out of the Cup in the 3rd round away at Portsmouth in 1971. Jan 1970 Derby beat us 3-0 I was there at the time.

 

[Silent Blade]

Bert has a ticket for that but didn't go, if his memory is working correctly it was the same day that he went to Derby to see us well beaten in the Cup (3-0 ?)

We played a friendly at Chesterfield as it was FA Cup 4th round day that day. We lost to a first minute goal from Tom Fenoughty. Hodgkinson's last ever 1st team match.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Not sure what this is. Any ideas?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

As a precursor to our game v. Leeds on the 1st December, some pictures from '85.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

 

[Silent Blade]

Not sure what this is. Any ideas?

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Friendly match at the Lane, I was there. We lost 2-1. Oleg Blokhin played for them

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Friendly match at the Lane, I was there. We lost 2-1. Oleg Blokhin played for them

I remember the game, first time I'd ever seen a non-british team live. Just wondered what that actual item was, it certainly isn't the programme, still got that somewhere.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

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Remember that day/ game like yesterday

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Not sure what this is. Any ideas?

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Another one

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember the game, first time I'd ever seen a non-british team live. Just wondered what that actual item was, it certainly isn't the programme, still got that somewhere.

Looks like the item was the banquet menu?

 

[Kentblade]

Potters Snooker Club, Gleadless Road, formerly The Heeley Green Picture House. Opened 5th April 1920. Used as a theatre in 1930s. Closed as a cinema in 1962 (renamed Tudor Cinema at this time) and became a bingo hall. It burned down in 2005 and there are flats where it stood.

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Heeley Green cinema, often used to go there as a young lad .
We were well served by cinemas in the area, Abbeydale Heeley Coliseum, Heeley Palace ,Woodseats Palace, and the Chantry.
Very popular were cinemas before the days of televisions, always used to get the Pathe news for the week, the main film and in addition a second support film.
Ladies with torches who showed you to your seat and then came round in the intervals selling ice cream etc if you were lucky to be able to afford them.

I can still see the queue outside the Abbeydale with the commissioner on duty controlling the queues who had a look of Arthur Askey about him.
Good night out as apart from watching the Blades there was little else to do.
Saw my first James Bond film at the Abbeydale in 1963.

How the world has changed.

UTB

 

[sitwell]

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I was in Irwin Mitchells on the right hand side in 1990 when some poor woman jumped from the top of that car park and landed on top of a parked car. The noise and the aftermath is still with me nearly 30 years later

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

 

[sitwell]

Heeley Green cinema, often used to go there as a young lad .
We were well served by cinemas in the area, Abbeydale Heeley Coliseum, Heeley Palace ,Woodseats Palace, and the Chantry.
Very popular were cinemas before the days of televisions, always used to get the Pathe news for the week, the main film and in addition a second support film.
Ladies with torches who showed you to your seat and then came round in the intervals selling ice cream etc if you were lucky to be able to afford them.

I can still see the queue outside the Abbeydale with the commissioner on duty controlling the queues who had a look of Arthur Askey about him.
Good night out as apart from watching the Blades there was little else to do.
Saw my first James Bond film at the Abbeydale in 1963.

How the world has changed.

UTB

I remember going to see Stardust with David Essex at abbeydale. I used to get a lot of hassle on Sunday nights round there when it was KGBs having Northern soul night ,being a punk.
My Mum and dad said they had their first date in a Sarsaparilla bar across the road.