Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[bornablade]

Harringtons - where you had to climb a ladder to a poky changing room. Health and Safety would have a field day nowadays.

 

[Silent Blade]

Arundel Square and Arundel Gate were completed in 1968

 

[Lane Ender]

Wilson Gumperts

That was in The Square

 

[metalblade]

 

[sitwell]

Spent half my youth looking out of that top window where the turret is. My Mum was the main on call haematologist at the Royal and couldn't afford babysitters. She had a pickled foetus and a brain in her lab.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Is this in the town centre?

 

[Kendal]

From the programme for the home game against Spurs in January 12th 1974

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I thought The Horse was towards the end of his career when he was with us

 

[I should coco]

Bloody South Yorkshire Metropolitan Council!

We'd always had lovely clean white buses and trams with a bit of, ahem, livery. Then SYT come along and decide to paint all our buses pink.
Fortunately that didn't last long and we moved to the familiar cream and biege.

Early 60s? Park Hill built (61) but no Oyl in t'road.

 

[TBW57]

The bus is going to run over that old man if he doesn't walk a bit faster. Luckily, there's an umpire standing in the road and it looks like he's given the driver out.

Nice of the council to splash a bit of left over pink paint on the building behind. Really brightens it up.

Was the photographer's mate having a wee across the bottom left corner there? Pity the shoppers below in that case.

 

[I should coco]

It looks like the bus is going to run over that old man if he doesn't walk a bit faster. Luckily, there's an umpire standing in the road and it looks like he's given the driver out.

Yes, they were allowed to mount the pavements and chase after errant pedestrians in those days.

Now, bloody Elf and Safety laws mean that buses have to stay on the roads. Bloody killjoys!

The umpire is PC McGarry from nearby Camberwick Green. They'd drafted all available officers into Town, as the Massive were at home.

 

[Grappler]

Yes, they were allowed to mount the pavements and chase after errant pedestrians in those days.

Now, bloody Elf and Safety laws mean that buses have to stay on the roads. Bloody killjoys!

The umpire is PC McGarry from nearby Camberwick Green. They'd drafted all available officers into Town, as the Massive were at home.

Number 452

 

[Kendal]

Is this in the town centre?

I thought it was the river sheaf under the station. But then found a picture of that - it must be somewhere else.

 

[I should coco]

I thought it was the river sheaf under the station. But then found a picture of that - it must be somewhere else.

Is it the tunnel at Hillsborough in summer 2007?

I can't see the 'This the Pig sign' though, like they have at Anfield. Perhaps it got washed away?

 

[Kendal]

Is it my dodgy memory, or was there an indoor fairground on the upper floor of sheaf market?

 

[Bert]

 

[Bert]

Bert is also in the picture.....

 

[I should coco]

I found out that yesterday was 'Blue Monday' which is apprarently the grimmest day of the year, with Christmas over and Spring a long way off.
I thought it only fair that I do my bit to cheer people up.....

 

[Grappler]

Is it my dodgy memory, or was there an indoor fairground on the upper floor of sheaf market?

That rings a bell, although I think you mean Castle Market, not Sheaf. I seem to think it was around Christmas time back in the 60's but could be wrong

 

[Bert]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...fessions-of-a-sheffield-turncoat-2371326.html

 

[I should coco]

I think that some of the gob on his shirt is mine but definitely not all it.

Still laughing about when he first ran to the Kop with his arms outstretched and seemed suprised by 10,000 Blades spitting at him and chucking coins.

Super-Pig incarnate!

 

[metalblade]

I thought it was the river sheaf under the station. But then found a picture of that - it must be somewhere else.

Isn't that where the Porter joins the Sheaf?
http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2015/01/megatron-sheffield-city-centre-storm-drain-tunnels/

 

[TJB.]

Is this in the town centre?

That's Megatron. Giant Victorian storm drain; goes under the station/Ponds Forge...that sort of area. One of the city's best kept secrets for a long time and many still don't know about it.

As part of the regeneration of the Castle Market area currently under construction, there are plans to run tours down into the storm drain itself from the little park they're building, which I can't wait for.

Great video here which gives a real sense of what it's like down there.

 

[Bert]

Didn't he wear this shirt at Wembley in the play off against Palace?

 

[vorpal blade]

I think both photographs are part of the MEGATRON where, the Porter Brook and River Sheaf collide beneath Platform 1 and then run through to the mighty Don.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/megatron-sheffield-may-2015.t96728

(don't do this at home, at least, not when its been raining)

 

[Bert]

 

[Silent Blade]

Bert is also in the picture.....

I was sat near the front of that side stand

 

[bornablade]

Isn't that where the Porter joins the Sheaf?
http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2015/01/megatron-sheffield-city-centre-storm-drain-tunnels/

Porter's playing for the Sheaf now? Bloody 'ell he's soon fallen down the leagues.

 

[bornablade]

Tony Waiters?

 

[Rodders]

Didn't he wear this shirt at Wembley in the play off against Palace?

Yes he did and he was clearly pissed when he picked that tie.

 

[Silent Blade]

Tony Waiters?

Yes, Blades 1 Blackpool 3 in October 1964