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SW12 to S12 to S18 said:
I came across this photo earlier today and thought it might jog a few memories of Booth and Fisher buses.

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Yep, clearly remember holding onto those railings as a kid waiting for the bus for what seems like hours whilst watching the trains in the station, Park Hill flats and the workshops in the Poly building down below.

That unique 70s bus smell - fags, flammable upholstery and axle grease.
 
XM657 said:
One for ISJS, some good players on here View attachment 93309 LtoR Lofthouse, Williams, Mathews, JOE, Wright, Revie, an other and Blunstone. England training, 1955 at Roehampton for V Scotland. England won 7-2, Wilshaw-4, Lofthouse-2, Revie
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Dennis Wilshaw was a close friend of my ex-father in law, golf partners for donkeys years. It was quite a while before I found out that Dennis had played football not only for Stoke City, but won the league with Wolves and as the caption above says, scored four goals in one game for England (albeit only against the sweaties). He wasn’t even a centre forward, he was an average height inside forward/winger.

As far as I knew he was a teacher and it was only after he’d passed away that I learnt that he was never a full time footballer, he kept teaching throughout his football career, imagine that these days. I can’t tell if he’s the AN Other on the pic, I don’t think so, but couldn’t be sure.
 
Another photo of West St to complement a couple I posted a while back. I'd forgotten I'd taken this one. This time, November 1986.
Darlow's sport shop, with the vertical sign, is visible.
I remember going there once to buy some state-of-the- art goalie gloves, fully and reassuring endorsed by one of the top goalies of the era. Summat like "Ever stick" or "Never slip" they were called, or some such nonsense. Smooth as a baby's proverbial but allegedly coated with some revolutionary super duper chemical.
The next match... guess what?
Back to the woollen mittens after that or, if it was dry, good old spit.

West St towards town. Nov 1986.jpg
 
Trigger Blade said:
Dennis Wilshaw was a close friend of my ex-father in law, golf partners for donkeys years. It was quite a while before I found out that Dennis had played football not only for Stoke City, but won the league with Wolves and as the caption above says, scored four goals in one game for England (albeit only against the sweaties). He wasn’t even a centre forward, he was an average height inside forward/winger.

As far as I knew he was a teacher and it was only after he’d passed away that I learnt that he was never a full time footballer, he kept teaching throughout his football career, imagine that these days. I can’t tell if he’s the AN Other on the pic, I don’t think so, but couldn’t be sure.
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Thanks for that insight, posts as yours are what ,to me, makes this thread possibly the best on S2 4SU.
Reference the 4 goals, don't forget Scots used to have decent sides in the past, 40's/50's, but crap goalies.
Dennis's first goal was a dropped cross tap in. England's 3rd was a fumbled cross by Martin, Revie walking in. Dennis's other three goals were all crosses from Mathews, one of my school boy dreams and he scored a hat trick with them.
Believe your right on AN Other, who has a good head of hair, where as Wilshaw had a receding hair line. There was a Armstrong(Chelsea) right half back but couldn't find a photo of him to compare, but someone my have one.
I may be wrong but believe Sir James was a part timer as many were at that time.
 
Andingmen said:
Another photo of West St to complement a couple I posted a while back. I'd forgotten I'd taken this one. This time, November 1986.
Darlow's sport shop, with the vertical sign, is visible.
I remember going there once to buy some state-of-the- art goalie gloves, fully and reassuring endorsed by one of the top goalies of the era. Summat like "Ever stick" or "Never slip" they were called, or some such nonsense. Smooth as a baby's proverbial but allegedly coated with some revolutionary super duper chemical.
The next match... guess what?
Back to the woollen mittens after that or, if it was dry, good old spit.

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used to go to a tobacconists here
 

Andingmen said:
Another photo of West St to complement a couple I posted a while back. I'd forgotten I'd taken this one. This time, November 1986.
Darlow's sport shop, with the vertical sign, is visible.
I remember going there once to buy some state-of-the- art goalie gloves, fully and reassuring endorsed by one of the top goalies of the era. Summat like "Ever stick" or "Never slip" they were called, or some such nonsense. Smooth as a baby's proverbial but allegedly coated with some revolutionary super duper chemical.
The next match... guess what?
Back to the woollen mittens after that or, if it was dry, good old spit.

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The thing that I find striking in all your photos is the lack of traffic on the roads, did you take all your photos at 6am on Sundays?
 
This is aa follow on from my last post #19214.
Of interest the England V Scotland game was Duncan Edwards first cap also making him the youngest ever England player at 18 years and 183 days.
Of more interest to Blades, Joe Shaw was robbed by the selection committee of a cap. Selected as reserve he should have played as Phillips of Portsmouth, right half, was injured in a first practice match(knee). Joe played in a second practice match V Arsenal, England winning 1-2. When it came to the international game the committee brought in Armstrong of Chelsea to play leaving Joe out.
I remember this happening, I was a month off my thirteenth birthday, my Grandfather was apoplectic. Talk on the terraces about swindlers and alus bloody same wit southerners. Even The Star and Telegraph made comment.
Sad beyond belief, Joe should have had a cap that match. I defy anyone who says different, he was more than worth One cap but the one would have been a tribute to his undoubted skill and eventual contribution to the game of football.
Insert any expletive of choice -HERE!!!!!- For readers of an older generation.
 
XM657 said:
This is aa follow on from my last post #19214.
Of interest the England V Scotland game was Duncan Edwards first cap also making him the youngest ever England player at 18 years and 183 days.
Of more interest to Blades, Joe Shaw was robbed by the selection committee of a cap. Selected as reserve he should have played as Phillips of Portsmouth, right half, was injured in a first practice match(knee). Joe played in a second practice match V Arsenal, England winning 1-2. When it came to the international game the committee brought in Armstrong of Chelsea to play leaving Joe out.
I remember this happening, I was a month off my thirteenth birthday, my Grandfather was apoplectic. Talk on the terraces about swindlers and alus bloody same wit southerners. Even The Star and Telegraph made comment.
Sad beyond belief, Joe should have had a cap that match. I defy anyone who says different, he was more than worth One cap but the one would have been a tribute to his undoubted skill and eventual contribution to the game of football.
Insert any expletive of choice -HERE!!!!!- For readers of an older generation.
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His height was against him. In those days fewer selectors would have seen him play regularly to see how good he was. They would have seen more of London players I expect, and listened to London football journalists. His height and Southern bias robbed him of the many England caps he should have been awarded.
 
SW12 to S12 to S18 said:
I came across this photo earlier today and thought it might jog a few memories of Booth and Fisher buses.

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Yes indeed. I depended on them to a large extent. I can still even remember the registration plates of several of them! There was a 340 NKT in the fleet - I think it was the same type of bus as the one pictured above. The one below was one of our school buses:


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That number plate used to make the girls giggle for some reason? 🤔

The one below was regularly in service on the Killamarsh to Sheffield route (via Coal Aston).

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It was the shorter wheelbase version. The longer wheelbase version, HNU 786C, fell in the canal on the bridge at Killamarsh!

I learned to drive with Booth & Fisher. Not in a bus, in a Mk I Ford Escort. Like the one below.

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Good car to learn to drive in. Really easy gearbox, good visibility, easy to manoeuvre.
 
Sharrow Snuff Mill said:
His height was against him. In those days fewer selectors would have seen him play regularly to see how good he was. They would have seen more of London players I expect, and listened to London football journalists. His height and Southern bias robbed him of the many England caps he should have been awarded.
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Old argument, looked up his height on Wiki, doesn't give it, and for comparison looked at Wright(Billy) and it says 5' 11" but it also says he was born in 1958. Really don't believe Wright was five eleven, would have said he was no more than a couple of inches taller than Joe.
Interesting personal points, my wife has the same birth date as Joe and our eldest son the same as Wright W., that's if info is reliable, never realised the coincidences before.
Cocked that up, wrong Billy Wright, will try again later.
 
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Andingmen said:
Another photo of West St to complement a couple I posted a while back. I'd forgotten I'd taken this one. This time, November 1986.
Darlow's sport shop, with the vertical sign, is visible.
I remember going there once to buy some state-of-the- art goalie gloves, fully and reassuring endorsed by one of the top goalies of the era. Summat like "Ever stick" or "Never slip" they were called, or some such nonsense. Smooth as a baby's proverbial but allegedly coated with some revolutionary super duper chemical.
The next match... guess what?
Back to the woollen mittens after that or, if it was dry, good old spit.

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Brings back memories.

My dad used to instruct me to buy my footy boots from Darlow's. I preferred Sugg's because they'd got a bigger selection, but dad said Darlow's was best so I did as I was bloody told and went to Darlow's.

You can see "Sherbert Plus" in this photo. That was a popular gym back in the day that was opened by the famous Sheffield ex-comedienne, Marti Caine, (I think!). She died many years ago now of cancer. In later years I came to know her widowed husband, Malcolm. Nice bloke.
 
Deaneandagana said:
The thing that I find striking in all your photos is the lack of traffic on the roads, did you take all your photos at 6am on Sundays?
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For a lot of that era, during the week I was working in various sites around the city centre, so often went out at lunch to take a few snaps here and there. Since I was mainly interested in buildings and infrastructure, I did often try to wait for a gap in the traffic to take relatively unhindered photos. Maybe that partly explains the lack of vehicles.
Other times, yes, I did occasionally escape from my family duties at weekends but never that early on a Sunday!
Actually, I only started taking many of the earlier photos because I just wanted to use up the 2 or 3 frames invariably still left on the family holiday film before sending off for processing. Our younger readers won't know what I'm talking about 😉
 
Andingmen said:
For a lot of that era, during the week I was working in various sites around the city centre, so often went out at lunch to take a few snaps here and there. Since I was mainly interested in buildings and infrastructure, I did often try to wait for a gap in the traffic to take relatively unhindered photos. Maybe that partly explains the lack of vehicles.
Other times, yes, I did occasionally escape from my family duties at weekends but never that early on a Sunday!
Actually, I only started taking many of the earlier photos because I just wanted to use up the 2 or 3 frames invariably still left on the family holiday film before sending off for processing. Our younger readers won't know what I'm talking about 😉
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Indeed.
Do you have any photos of the residential suburbs of Sheffield in & around the 80’s?
 
Just looking at that old pic of the Kop. They should have kept the 'corner' section. It would have fitted into the ground better than the pie corner.
 

Cerberus Blade said:
Brings back memories.

My dad used to instruct me to buy my footy boots from Darlow's. I preferred Sugg's because they'd got a bigger selection, but dad said Darlow's was best so I did as I was bloody told and went to Darlow's.

You can see "Sherbert Plus" in this photo. That was a popular gym back in the day that was opened by the famous Sheffield ex-comedienne, Marti Caine, (I think!). She died many years ago now of cancer. In later years I came to know her widowed husband, Malcolm. Nice bloke.
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I saw Marti Caine support Russ Abbot at Torquay pavilion in 1981 ,first holiday with my mates. She was fucking terrible and was booed off ,abbot was really good. First on was Roger de Courcey and Nookie bear ,very daring for the day and hilarious. Marti Caine when she was struggling said 'anyone from Sheffield ?' we clapped ,and she responded throw them a fish ,complete silence, and embarrassing.
Sherbert used to attract some proper flange but out of my teenage bracket , had to put them in the 'bank' for later. I always thought it belonged to Bobby knutts Mrs, Donna hartley ,I know she had the Fringe above the Surrey (now the Graduate)
 
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