Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Lane Ender]

A shit club later to become a decent club.

 

[Selly]

Fitzalan Square

Ah yes, I can see it now...

 

[Selly]

Ecclesall library - my local library growing up

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Another one from a different angle

Ecclesall Jnrs, my school albeit 20 years before I got there...

 

[vorpal blade]

I remember The Classic, Barclays, Wigfalls and the Post Office.

Blimey, the saddest loss is that Barclays Bank building on the corner (being Doncaster I hadn't realised what had been demolished)..... I worried that the old Post Office building might have gone too but Hallam Univ. have it now and its safe. Its sad as hell that the Post Office lost ANY pride in its appearance when they decided to be 'commercial'... the dereliction of thinking that its OK to relocate to a filthy Coop basement says it all. It was a national institution now its a fcuking franchise, deliberately run down and asset stripped. (& you can't blame losing that Bank on the Luftwaffe either.)

I think Fitzalan stands to gain a great deal by having the students around...

Recently going from left to right on you photo South Essex, the line up was:

Cooplands, Pawnbroker, Amusement Arcade, Bookie, Bookie wasn't it. It was like the backdrop for some 21st Century, "Rake's Progress" without the fun of a Pub and a Brothel thrown in.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Blimey, the saddest loss is that Barclays Bank building on the corner (being Doncaster I hadn't realised what had been demolished)..... I worried that the old Post Office building might have gone too but Hallam Univ. have it now and its safe. Its sad as hell that the Post Office lost ANY pride in its appearance when they decided to be 'commercial'... the dereliction of thinking that its OK to relocate to a filthy Coop basement says it all. It was a national institution now its a fcuking franchise, deliberately run down and asset stripped. (& you can't blame losing that Bank on the Luftwaffe either.)

I think Fitzalan stands to gain a great deal by having the students around...

Recently going from left to right on you photo South Essex, the line up was:

Cooplands, Pawnbroker, Amusement Arcade, Bookie, Bookie wasn't it. It was like the backdrop for some 21st Century, "Rake's Progress" without the fun of a Pub and a Brothel thrown in.

The more you see that building, the more you lament it's loss.

 

[vorpal blade]

I'd use the word 'unbelievable' only I believe it and its not a big surprise (it IS a surprise, just not a big one).

Nice view of Hyde Park flats too.

Now this may be a more controversial opinion of mine - but I thought the council made a right pigs ear of that when the part demolished/part refurbed them.

As a lad from Doncaster, coming in on the train, I thought they looked effing magnificent on that hill.

 

[JohnDenver]

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What a car that is in the third photo. It's the car an RAF officer would take his girlfriend out in before downing a few Messerschmitts.

 

[Bert]

What a car that is in the third photo. It's the car an RAF officer would take his girlfriend out in before downing a few Messerschmitts.

It was probably owned by a bloke who had a scrap yard down Attercliffe and had a four berth caravan at Chapel St Leonards.

 

[JohnDenver]

It was probably a bloke who owned a scrap yard and had a four berth caravan at Chapel St Leonards.

Spoilsport.

 

[Dnblade]

 

[Dnblade]

 

[Canterbury Blade]

The more you see that building, the more you lament it's loss.

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Make a great Wetherspoons...

 

[HighfieldBlade]

A shit club later to become a decent club.

Now a Sainsbury's. So glad they didn't knock it down.

 

[ghandi]

Soul City.

Strap line for the Soul City label....Soul as Deep as you like and then??

 

[Bob Socks]

Met my first missus there in 1972, in fact i think that's her at the front of the queue and her two kid's from a previous marriage on the right.

 

[snootyfenooty]

What a car that is in the third photo. It's the car an RAF officer would take his girlfriend out in before downing a few Messerschmitts.

It looks like an old Triumph Roadster

 

[Klanger]

Strap line for the Soul City label....Soul as Deep as you like and then??

Some

 

[super_pig]

Ecclesall library - my local library growing up

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Another one from a different angle

Ecclesall Jnrs, my school albeit 20 years before I got there...

third one with the car looks like a jaguar xk naah its not rear mudguards not round enough
it's bugging me now

 

[super_pig]

It looks like an old Triumph Roadster

yeah i think you are right.. i should have read this first!!

 

[Woodthorpe blade]

Found this old aerial view of Hillsborough. I think that's megson in the centre circle.

 

[Grappler]

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I was at the Barracuda's gig.

 

[Ecco1889]

What could have been..

 

[Sean Thornton]

Strap line for the Soul City label....Soul as Deep as you like and then??

It's "Soul as deep as you like.....and then some".

There was also a subsidiary label , Deep Soul, that issued six singles.

 

[sitwell]

Late 60s, early 70s I would guess. It went to widen the road, which is a shame when you look back at it as a building.

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Does anyone remember the jennel around the back ,think it was called Jew lane. Get a lass off Park hill it was always good for a 'snogging session' on the way home .

 

[Wapping Blade]

Does anyone remember the jennel around the back ,think it was called Jew lane. Get a lass off Park hill it was always good for a 'snogging session' on the way home .

Yep - it's still there I think, certainly there's a gennel off Commercial Street, not sure if it goes anywhere anymore.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

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Bet you read that every night?

Fantastic

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

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And did those feet in ancient times?

 

[Dnblade]

And did those feet in ancient times?

It fits GB...Heart of the City,BDTBL.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[Silent Blade]

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Lee Sinnott, Gavin Oliver and Stuart McCall of Bradford City. Probably April 1988