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As a kid I used to wait for the 42 / 53 bus next to that interactive map and try with all fingers and thumbs to light up as many places as possible.
 
Tony said:
Anyone ever drink Davenports:-
"Beer at home means Davenports
That's the beer, lots of cheer,
Straight from brewery to your home
Don't you shiver, we'll deliver
That's the beer!
Lots of cheer!
The finest malt with hops and yeast,
Turns a snack into a feast.
Straight from breweries to your home,
Why collect?
We'll deliver!
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This is great! We lived in Coal Aston and when Emley Moor telly mast blew down in about 1968 my dad had the aerial turned round so we got Midlands TV. I remembered bits of that song, but not the whole lot, so thanks for that Tony. Years later I went to Coventry Polytechnic, and the students union bar had hand pulled Davenport's, about 25p a pint! It was ok, I think I'd liked it more now because then I was just used to Tetley's and Stooanses then and didn't know any better. Sadly the brewery, like many local ones, went years ago. Good memories though!!
 
Numpty's Dusty Ruts. said:
This is great! We lived in Coal Aston and when Emley Moor telly mast blew down in about 1968 my dad had the aerial turned round so we got Midlands TV. I remembered bits of that song, but not the whole lot, so thanks for that Tony. Years later I went to Coventry Polytechnic, and the students union bar had hand pulled Davenport's, about 25p a pint! It was ok, I think I'd liked it more now because then I was just used to Tetley's and Stooanses then and didn't know any better. Sadly the brewery, like many local ones, went years ago. Good memories though!!
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March 19th 1969

www.bbc.co.uk

Emley Moor: 50th anniversary of television tower collapse

The 1,265ft (386m) high metal mast collapsed when ice built up on its support cables.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Paisley Blade said:
Gold Label was very much the 'go to' for a few of my Aunties who were fond of a drop.

I also remember my Grandad being ' dispensed ' it on the wards at the Royal Ed Ortho hospital at Rivelin in the late 70's, and I was still signing it off as a hospital buyer in 1987 ( along with Mackeson).
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I think Mackeson but definitely Jubilee, were both also brewed there.
 
LSF said:
Interesting stuff on Tennant's brewery guys and thanks for stirring childhood memories for me.
My dad worked at Tennant's in 50's & 60's ( he died in '68). As a young lad, in school holidays generally, my mum would send me down to his workplace in the brewery (somewhere in the cellars) with his glasses he'd forgot that morning, on the pretext he was 'blind' without them.
I'd be around 10 or 11 at time and society allowed such minors to get a bus into Pond street and walk to Millsands quite safely.
I strolled to the lorry loading bay where I had to ask for an Irish bloke named Bernard, who I used to introduce myself as Bill's lad. He'd guide me down into the cellars where my dad would be feeling his way around the walls shouting for my mother....I'd hand him his glasses and he'd realise he was at work.
As a reward my dad would take me to this small glass fronted room which contained a beer pump dispensing Tennant's Queens ( a signature beer of theirs), pull half and give me a sup, exclaiming as I gulped it down, " that'll keep thi bowels oppen".
He would, quite regularly, arrive home, three parts pissed from their daily quota they were allowed to have (obviously abused ).
Whitbread's bought Tennant's over early 60's I think and 'Queens' disappeared, much to my dad's disgust.
I could go on......but I won't bore you anymore 😉
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I could never get bored listening to stories about my first proper place of employment. I think it was later in the 60s the Whitbreads bought it out but I could be wrong. One of the other students was a guy from the South and tried really hard to get Sheffieldish. One regular, a little guy who was dead gobby at work but a mouse when out with much bigger wife (!), used to to tell the Southerner, "Dee Bollocks" every time the lad opened his mouth. He took it really well and started to give up back but it was a strange exchange of twisted vowels. "Dee Bollocks" would be answered by the Southerner with "Naa Day Bow Lux" 😂😂😂
 
A very long time ago I got bored with the very limited beers for sale in Coal Aston and Dronfield and decided to try summat different. I thought, "I'm a proper bloke now, I can drink beer" (about 19, dead skinny, pissed after 5 pints of Tetley's). Anyway, much to mate's amusement, decided that a pint of Gold Label was what was required- 3 bottles in a pint pot. I'd had a couple of pints of bitter before this awful misjudgement. I drank it, but rather a waste of quite a lot of money as it reappeared not too long after! At the time it tasted like alcoholic black treacle. Never touched it since but I might like it now, in moderation. Is it still brewed anywhere?
 

HighfieldBlade said:
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Blades 2 Charlton 1 in April 1979. Relegation battle between both teams. After the match Charlton were only point above us with one game left to play but we had three games left (at home to already relegated Blackburn, away to Cambridge and home to Leicester). Charlton won their last game and we only got a point in the last three games and got relegation.
 
Silent Blade said:
March 1967 FA Cup 5th round. Blades players complained that other clubs travel to away matches by coach rather than by train. After that, the club made a decision that the players would go by coach to away matches.
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Just realised the Chelsea play is Tony Hateley, his son Mark was a player for Coventry (and other clubs) in the 80s.
 
Sean Thornton said:
Jubilee was Stones/Bass
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Yes indeed , once had a brewery tour around there ending with a couple of hours on the Stones in their staff bar , all gratis and tasting like rabbit gravy. I was 17, made a beast of myself and threw up. Good times.

Played cricket against Jubilee a few times , their ground was behind the brewery on Claywheels Lane. The main memory was that after sitting on what looked like lush grass ,my whites were always caked in black silt which had settled having been produced from the nearby British Acheson works.
 
Silent Blade said:
Blades 2 Charlton 1 in April 1979. Relegation battle between both teams. After the match Charlton were only point above us with one game left to play but we had three games left (at home to already relegated Blackburn, away to Cambridge and home to Leicester). Charlton won their last game and we only got a point in the last three games and got relegation.
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I really upset my mother the weekend of that Charlton game. I was in my third year at Liverpool University and due to sit my finals the following month. My usual habit if I was coming back to Sheffield was to arrive Friday afternoon, stay at my mum and dad’s and go back after Sunday dinner but with exams coming up and panicking a bit I didn’t think I could spare the time so I got the train Saturday morning, went straight to Bramall Lane for the match and travelled back to Liverpool immediately afterwards without even going home for my tea. One of my brothers grassed me up and when mum found out she wasn’t happy: “you love Sheffield United more than you love me”. She wasn’t a football person.
 

Any chance of a "Photos For No Reason" forum.
 
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