Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[1066blade]

Join the Red Revolution.....the power of advertising, selling beer that tasted of....not sure really, just not very nice beer.

Watney’s Party Sevens though, little metal kegs you could gain access to with a tin opener and keep the keg with you all evening, no need to share it with your mates, just tuck it under your arm.

Kids, ask your Dads

And if you didn't finish it all, just put sellotape over the hole to stop it going flat - THIS NEVER WORKED!

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Dyke Vale Road.

Frecheville Community Cricket and Sports ground was and still is on Silkstone Road Frecheville. Dyke Vale Road is further down the hill. I was born on Silkstone Crescent. The top picture is definitely taken at the ground as I recognise the houses in the background. Neil Warnock lived in the posher houses on the other side of the ground not the council estate. Think Hodgy is stood on the top of the hill where the car park was looking down onto the cricket and football pitches.

In my youth I played many unofficial games of football with the kids from the Council estate when the groundsman wasn't around. The Club didn't like us because we weren't from the private housing estates. Frecheville FC had a decent football team playing at County Senior level for a while but they've relocated now to Davy Sports Ground. NW whilst Manager at the Lane played a pre season friendly there once with the Blades.

2017 photo attached of football pitches.

Definitely Silkstone Rd ... I played for them for a while but not in 1960 I might add !!,, Played against both Utd & Weds Northern Intermediate sides in pre-season friendlies up there .. it had a better playing surface than the Ball Inn if I’m honest ( was at Lane as a very young in ) ... good times .. jumpers for goal posts and all that

 

[John Street West Terrace]

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Loved them old Umbro training tops ... two lads in picture weren’t too bad either

 

[XM657]

Taking the heat off a wonderful productive footballing weekend for the Blades, catch your breath. Who remembers using these? I certainly do. Not so much the Tango, bought one for our young 'un. Bloody good ball.

 

[cmbillm]

I got a size 5 casey ball from Suggs on my 11th birthday.... it was bloody heavy in the wet. Used it a lot on the Uni playing fields off Warminster Road.

 

[Wapping Blade]

There was an old casey that my dad and uncle had used that we used to play with at my grandma’s.

 

[XM657]

I got a size 5 casey ball from Suggs on my 11th birthday.... it was bloody heavy in the wet. Used it a lot on the Uni playing fields off Warminster Road.

Tin o' dubin, kept out water but crap for goalies. Get your woolly gloves on.

 

[Bert]

For a time Bert's old man, Bert Snr, used to work at Thorncliffe sports field where Wednesday trained in the 60's. The players often left thing lying around.
Bert had Wednesday boots and case balls.

 

[XM657]

There was an old casey that my dad and uncle had used that we used to play with at my grandma’s.

If leather case balls were used on the road or school yards they soon wore out. Had a full size one when about 8, always looking for value for money, Yorkshire folk understand, anyhow some seventeen years later gave it to a mate who had lost one he'd borrowed so we could have a kick about when time allowed.

 

[XM657]

For a time Bert's old man, Bert Snr, used to work at Thorncliffe sports field where Wednesday trained in the 60's. The players often left thing lying around.
Bert had Wednesday boots and case balls.

Bert Snr. was obviously a very resourceful man, take mi hat off to him. Waste not Want not as they used to tell me as a kid. Sound advice, I like to think, even today.

 

[bromtom]

I'm about 100 pages behind so sorry if already posted

 

[I should coco]

If leather case balls were used on the road or school yards they soon wore out.

This was the answer on hard surfaces. Little bastard plastic nipples all over it and if you neshed a header you got a right graze:

 

[XM657]

I'm about 100 pages behind so sorry if already posted

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Your now a hundred pages in front with this photo, excellent plus for this contribution.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

This was the answer on hard surfaces. Little bastard plastic nipples all over it and if you neshed a header you got a right graze:

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Those are the stuff of childhood nightmares. Never has there been a ball that was so painful, they were rock hard, bounced like a super ball, you daren't head them and if one hit you on the thigh, particularly if it was cold and after someone had wellied it, it was enough to make you cry.
I remember playing on Hurlfield School playing fields in freezing horizontal rain and getting in the way of one of those fifty years ago, that’s how much they hurt.

 

[Bert]

 

[Harrisblade]

Taking the heat off a wonderful productive footballing weekend for the Blades, catch your breath. Who remembers using these? I certainly do. Not so much the Tango, bought one for our young 'un. Bloody good ball.View attachment 70585View attachment 70587View attachment 70587View attachment 70589View attachment 70590View attachment 70591View attachment 70592

Those top 2 pics were my original football boots when I was about 10!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

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Ah, the good old days...

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Is this about to make a comeback........................ ?

 

[benn5712]

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We can all clearly see the birth of the much loved, hallowed even, Pukka pies/ Carlotti kop corner.
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[SW12 to S12 to S18]

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I’m surprised at how small The Kop appears in the photo.

 

[Bert]

I’m surprised at how small The Kop appears in the photo.

Bert's thoughts exactly.

 

[BerksBlade]

Those are the stuff of childhood nightmares. Never has there been a ball that was so painful, they were rock hard, bounced like a super ball, you daren't head them and if one hit you on the thigh, particularly if it was cold and after someone had wellied it, it was enough to make you cry.
I remember playing on Hurlfield School playing fields in freezing horizontal rain and getting in the way of one of those fifty years ago, that’s how much they hurt.

Once in flight they assumed the hardness of a cricket ball. Horrible things. And they made that weird twanging noise when they bounced.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Loved them old Umbro training tops ... two lads in picture weren’t too bad either

Be nice to pop round Donny with 18 grand.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Suggs & Harrington’s kitted me out for wardrobe for a lot of my childhood

 

[XM657]

Ex Blade winning cup 1950Name pleaseAndy Scott?????

 

[Large Mendonca]

Joe Mercer, Doug Hodgson, Dunno, Andy Scott, Gus Uhlenbeek ?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Joe Mercer, Doug Hodgson, Dunno, Andy Scott, Gus Uhlenbeek ?

Dunno is The Birch (Alan Birchenall).

 

[Silent Blade]

“Another us v Sheff Utd fact is that despite only playing 15 league matches against them, we have played them in all four tiers.”
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Like a " Did you know?" me.

Joe Mercer, Doug Hodgson, Dunno, Andy Scott, Gus Uhlenbeek ?

Dunno is The Birch (Alan Birchenall).

Alec Forbes, not Joe Mercer

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[Large Mendonca]

Alec Forbes, not Joe Mercer

Joe has a twin