Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Canterbury Blade]

Remember too the sign, "no spitting"

You been peeping through my bedroom window?? My choice of wall decorations are not for sharing thank you!!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Hard to believe that those walls were ever graffiti free

 

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Unbelievable Jeff!

 

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My first game.

 

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[Ted Hemsleys chads]

Everton 0 Blades 1 (Woodward) August 1971. After beating Southampton 3-1 in first game of the season, we went on to beat 1969 League Champions, 1970 League Champions and then the1971 Double winners

My first away game. I was only a young un and went with 4 blokes, who were friends of my dad. Once they'd parked up they gave me a few bob, Sat me down in a cafe near the ground and fucked off to the pub. The place was full of young scousers and me, supping a cup of tea, eating a sarnie and trying to be invisible. Talk about relieved when the fellers came back and got me.

We were sat in the big stand at the side of the pitch, 3rd or 4th tier and we all jumped up cheering when Woody smashed the winner in. I remember that goal well, a true Woody special (by God he could hit a ball). Thought we were going to get lynched but we made it back to the car in one piece thank God. I remember seeing the Green Un that night and we were top, Grunters were bottom. Marvelous memories, thank-you Blades, you've served us some shite up over the years but the good times have been great.

 

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[Sirius]

It was my fathers testimonial at Bramall Lane on a freezing winters night.

I remember it well. Very windy but your father brought the ball down in one sweet move and as usual he was in full control of it. Happy days Alpine

 

[The Crab]

59 and 2 were outer circulars and went past Abbeydale Grange
8 and 9 were inner circulars and went past Nether Edge Hospital

Anyone else remember when we had a normal easy to understand bus service, one bus colour scheme, one 2 p fare for kids, bus numbers that didn't change meaning you, your Mum and your Gran all understood where the 97 went, when there were bogs for bus drivers to nip into at strategic stops, when the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive had the cricket ground up at Norton, when the bus stops were still in the same place for years, when the driver had that weird periscope thing to look upstairs at what was occurring, when upstairs on the school bus was giving all the non smokers future secondary smoking 'issues', when there was that weird set of bus stops outside the Peace Gardens, when you knew if you wanted to go to THE LANE via London Road it was the 17, 24, 36, 75, 76 or occasionally some weird numbered bus to or from Derbyshire..

and then the Tories fecked it all up...

Thats got me thinking about the ticket machines when I was a kid. You'd drop your money into the hole at the top and it would print a ticket with an impression of your money.

 

[I should coco]

Yes Silent the city had 2 circular buses running as the outer circular and the inner circular.
The outer one went on a circuit from Sheffield Lane top via Wincobank, Gleadless, Carterknowle Road across the western side to Lane Top.
Inner circular up Broadfield Rd, Nether Green across Walkley and into town again.

I'm not sure the 2 route was ever as precise as that. We had the theory that on every driver's bithday, the supervisor would tell him to take a 2 out.
"It's so your birthday, so go wherever you want".
You could be anywhere in Sheffield, lost in some strange estate and then all would be well as the 2 chugged past the bottom of the road.

Some attitude, those 2's had......

 

[The Crab]

When I lived in Oughtibrodge, the 65 seemed to take about 3 weeks to get to town.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Thats got me thinking about the ticket machines when I was a kid. You'd drop your money into the hole at the top and it would print a ticket with an impression of your money.

You mean the videmat buses.

 

[The Crab]

You mean the videmat buses.

Thats the badger. Taken to town, a walk round the market when it was good and a Gingerbread Man from Hagenbachs.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Thats the badger. Taken to town, a walk round the market when it was good and a Gingerbread Man from Hagenbachs.

Aye, if I was good and helped with the shopping I might occasionally have got taken to the Wimpy, which was down that end of town, I think.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Aye, if I was good and helped with the shopping I might occasionally have got taken to the Wimpy, which was down that end of town, I think.

Actually thinking about it, Wimpy was on Fargate. Or is the memory playing tricks?

 

[The Crab]

Aye, if I was good and helped with the shopping I might occasionally have got taken to the Wimpy, which was down that end of town, I think.

I'm sure it was, just opposite Woolworths if memory serves. There used to be another one near the top of the Moor.

Up until recently there was still a Wimpy in the Frenchgate Centre in Doncaster. Last time I went though it had gone, made me feel quite maudlin an old name disappearing.