Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[oaklandrdblade]

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Mark Ward, Booker, Hoyland and Vinnie [?].

Or Brian Gayle? Wasn't this the game Vinnie got booked after about 5 seconds and then did similar at the beginning of the second half to get sent off?

 

[derfblade.3]

What's the story behind this?

 

[Sean Thornton]

Brunswick just a little further up. You can just see a small 'Tankard' sign on their building. Used to be distinctive yellow tiles which a number of Whitbread (Tennants) pubs had. The Barleycorn and was it the Royal Oak bottom of Cemetery Road(?) are just a couple of examples.

Thanks. I remember the yellow tiling but wasn't quite sure where it used to be. Just across from the top of Fixon Lane?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Or Brian Gayle? Wasn't this the game Vinnie got booked after about 5 seconds and then did similar at the beginning of the second half to get sent off?

Maybe. Here's the yellow card incident. I went to this game.

 

[Silent Blade]

Maybe. Here's the yellow card incident. I went to this game.

Yes it was

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[speedymcgeady]

Yes it was

Lost 2-0 and got lost in Moss Side on our way home.

 

[Sirius]

Lost 2-0 and got lost in Moss Side on our way home.

You got home. Lucky you. Not the best place to be lost

 

[Silent Blade]

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Angel Street/Castle Street?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Chris Wilder?

 

[HarryHaslam]

 

[Sirius]

Bottom of Haymarket, I reckon, looking up towards Fitzalan Square.

Yes it is. My lasting memory of that location is the strong smell of coffee grinding
Coffee beans

 

[vorpal blade]

where is that staircase pls South Essex?

 

[speedymcgeady]

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Name the Blade and the Brighton player

Spoiler: Answer

Paul Garner & Mark Lawrenson

Lawrenson

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Angel Street/Castle Street?

West Bar towards Snig Hill I reckon

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

where is that staircase pls South Essex?

The S&E building on Angel Street.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

where is that staircase pls South Essex?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

where is that staircase pls South Essex?

Castle House was an architectural gem, especially inside.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[CecColdwell]

West Bar towards Snig Hill I reckon

Angel Street/Bridge Street,i think.

 

[vorpal blade]

Thanks Southeast Saxon, I will have been in there when it was fairly new, and isn't it where (disgracefully) the Post Office moved into the basement? The basement is Godforsaken - the selling off and abandonment of the old Post Office buildings is a pathetic by-product of privatisation. The GPO at Fitzalan Square survived by the skin of its teeth but it makes a better Post Office than it does College.

The pride got sold, to line the pockets of fatted chief execs. whose only inspiration is to cut one delivery a day to every address in the country and make working out how much it costs to post a parcel as frustrating as .....



itself.

 

[CecColdwell]

Hollin Bush Lane Deepcar.

 

[CecColdwell]

Hackenthorpe Estate 1958

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

I can't find the post now but, I think, earlier on the thread someone makes the point that a club like MK Dons couldn't have a thread like this. And not many could. Derby? Great history then left one of the best grounds in the league for another soulless identikit bowl. Same for a dozen other clubs.

A very large part of supporting Sheffield United for me, because, God knows, its not for the football or success, is going on the Kop and thinking that this is where my great grandad, who I never met, watched Nudger Needham, Fatty Foulke, and Billy Gillespie. Its where my grandad, who is long dead, watched Jimmy Hagan. Its where my dad watched Joe Shaw, Alan Hodgkinson, Mick Jones, and Tony Currie. And its where he took me to see Brian Deane and Tony Agana. When I'm at Bramall Lane I always feel that those olds lads are there as well. Not just the players, but the fans too.

Its like the ancient Indian burial ground that the Overlook Hotel was built on. If they ever bulldoze Bramall Lane and turn it into flats or offices, generations of Blades will be there haunting the buggers.

Just read your post . You have really summed it up for all Blades young and old . It is a open church which many players , fans pass through . Blades and children are for ever .

Spiritual BDTBL .

UTB

 

[CecColdwell]

Wharncliffe Side about 1910.