Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Worksop II]

I learnt to bowl in our back garden with a sixpence as my target and every time I hit it, I got to keep it. Over several years I think I amassed about half a crown

For those puzzled by this terminolgy

Half a Crown was worth 5 x Sixpence .... so he estimates hitting the Coin 5 times, probabaly exagerating, more like 2/- (2 Bob) = 4 times

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

A large tranche of these London Transport posters were sold at auction a year or two ago. They are absolutely superb and cover a wide range of sports and pastimes. Art Deco that I've never seen reproduced in the modern era.

Talking of Art Deco, I’m touring 55 Broadway on Saturday, the Art Deco old HQ of London Transport.

 

[I should coco]

I used to 'go out' with his then-to-be wife Janine. Both now dead and both nutters.

I guess you valued your own teeth enough not to go out with her once she was with John. All sorts of rumours about him taking on all comers in illegal prize fighting. He was fine as a landlord but nobody ever took any liberties.....

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

1925 FAC Final - London Transport Poster - Sheffield United v Cardiff City:

Did we wear blue shorts for the final, to boost sales of the replica kit?

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

If anybody thinks cricket is a soft game, this is what facing Wes Hall could do to you.

The often told story is the one where he was fielding at short leg and was struck full on the head by an opposition batsman's pull shot. The ball bounced up and landed near to one of his colleagues. The fielder was so concerned for Close's safety he rushed up to see how he was but was greeted by Close saying,"Why dint tha catch it?"

 

[essex blade]

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Is that Ian Ramsey , the man who first started the catchphrase Beautiful downtown Bramall Lane ?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

 

[oaklandrdblade]

I guess you valued your own teeth enough not to go out with her once she was with John. All sorts of rumours about him taking on all comers in illegal prize fighting. He was fine as a landlord but nobody ever took any liberties.....

Knew John for years, always great with me but like you say not one who'd you want to be on the wrong side of. Not long after he took it on (and changed the name to The John Thomas) he invited a few of us to go up. We turned up the next Sunday about 7, didn't have to buy a drink all night and then he paid for our taxi back home.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Bramall Lane/Queens Rd/Myrtle Rd junction (Monks DIY on the corner?)

 

[vorpal blade]

always liked this drawing, they weren't afraid to draw realistic bad weather in those days .... nowadays architect's renderings are unremittingly sunny as if dull Hull were in Dubai for instance. Queen Anne's Gate is a remarkable old street very nearby too and a mate designed an ItRat (Italian Rationalist) style office block in Travertine right opposite the Westminster Cathedral (RC). Of Broadway, the Epstein sculptures are of note and I think Eric Gill may have done some too.

 

[1066blade]

Talking of Art Deco, I’m touring 55 Broadway on Saturday, the Art Deco old HQ of London Transport.

You're in for a right treat.

 

[grafikhaus]

I guess you valued your own teeth enough not to go out with her once she was with John. All sorts of rumours about him taking on all comers in illegal prize fighting. He was fine as a landlord but nobody ever took any liberties.....

A pussy compared to one of her (many) exes, Tony. She did like bad boys!

 

[georgebernardshaw]

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Bramall Lane/Queens Rd/Myrtle Rd junction (Monks DIY on the corner?)

Almost impossible to have an image of that type and era without a Ford Transit in it...

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

You're in for a right treat.

I’m really looking forward to it. Last time I went inside was for a job with L.T. in about 1984.

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Freddie Trueman was the first adult who ever swore at me, I was 8 or 9 at the time. I used to go to every day Yorkshire played at Bramall Lane during the 60s when they won the county championship nearly every year.

After the days play the kids used to gather in the car park on Cherry Street behind the pavilion to collect autographs. I recall Geoffrey Boycott signing as many autographs as we wanted in incredibly neat script, all the time engaging us in conversation about the days play. Jimmy Binks was dour but signed all our books, Brian Close was brusque, "four only!" He'd bark and that's what he did.

Truemans was the autograph we all wanted mind but he was rarely known to ever give one, he used to stride out of the dressing rooms, swinging his coffin like a battering ram, shouting "fuck off you little bastards" and was gone..........

I remember getting Boycott's autograph at Queens Park, Chesterfield after which me and my mate referred to him as Geoffrey Doughnut because that's what we thought his autograph looked like it spelled!

 

[1066blade]

You'll be taking a trip back In time 50'years further than 1984 mate, back to a time when architecture was an art form never to be bettered, curvilinear lines which just drip quality of design, and allude to a futuristic cityscape which unfortunately (due to the outbreak of WW2) was never to be. Leaving us with a country starved of money, and any architectural artistic vision.

 

[Kentblade]

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Bramall Lane/Queens Rd/Myrtle Rd junction (Monks DIY on the corner?)

I have been over that bridge most days when living at home, called Havlock Bridge, on a no 34 or 35 bus into and out of the city.
Walked over it from the match up to Heeley Green to get a bus as many got off there.
Driven over it on a Lambretta, car and over the past years to find a parking space for the Lane.
By train many times from and to the Midland station.
Very well remembered bridge to me right from childhood even to the present day.
Junction of Shoreham Street, Queens Road and road linking in to Bramall Lane.
Was used both ways before they started the left fork from the Lane down to Queens Road.
Happy memories.

UTB

 

[Lane Ender]

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Bramall Lane/Queens Rd/Myrtle Rd junction (Monks DIY on the corner?)

Thats got to be me in that Viva Van must have had a over a dozen of them in my time

 

[Silent Blade]

Hodgy's England debut. Conceded a goal in the 1st minute but England fought back to win 2-1.

We have seen this iconic picture of Duncan Edwards many times but in the next picture you will see Hodgy and Billy Wright there too

 

[bornablade]

Hodgy's England debut. Conceded a goal in the 1st minute but England fought back to win 2-1.

We have seen this iconic picture of Duncan Edwards many times but in the next picture you will see Hodgy and Billy Wright there too

If Joe Shaw had been playing he wouldn't have ended up on his backside like Billy Wright

 

[grafikhaus]

Ma! There's a ship in our street!



The 'Dominion Monarch' pictured at the end of Saville Road, Silvertown, London's King V Dock around 1962? A photograph taken from the same spot today would take in the terminal buildings of London City Airport.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Hodgy's England debut. Conceded a goal in the 1st minute but England fought back to win 2-1.

We have seen this iconic picture of Duncan Edwards many times but in the next picture you will see Hodgy and Billy Wright there too

That ball landed in Milton Keynes

 

[blade too long]

it was only in 1919 it was neccesary in england for the keeper to wear a different shirt, It had been brought in to law in Scotland in 1909, Prior to that only wearing a cap distinguished who was in goal .

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Talking of Art Deco, I’m touring 55 Broadway on Saturday, the Art Deco old HQ of London Transport.

If you're heading up East, let me know and I'll shout you a pint!

 

[Pavilion clock]

Hodgy's England debut. Conceded a goal in the 1st minute but England fought back to win 2-1.

We have seen this iconic picture of Duncan Edwards many times but in the next picture you will see Hodgy and Billy Wright there too
programme of the match.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Colin Grainger is the only England player from that match that is still alive

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

If you're heading up East, let me know and I'll shout you a pint!

Thanks for the offer SEB, I think Mrs SW12 has plans for our afternoon following the visit to number 55, something cultural such as looking in shops!

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

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Reading the programme it’s interesting to read that The National Anthem was sung before and after the game. now we have to have a folk song to appease The Sweatys as The National Anthem isn’t good enough for them.

 

[XM657]

Hodgy's England debut. Conceded a goal in the 1st minute but England fought back to win 2-1.
It is from this photo that a statue was sculptured of Duncan Edwards which stands in Dudley High St.
We have seen this iconic picture of Duncan Edwards many times but in the next picture you will see Hodgy and Billy Wright there too

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

it was only in 1919 it was neccesary in england for the keeper to wear a different shirt, It had been brought in to law in Scotland in 1909, Prior to that only wearing a cap distinguished who was in goal .

At first glance, I thought the keeper was the only one allowed not to have a moustache...