Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Original, bought by Bert from a dealer outside White Hart Lane 1969.

I trust you know the differences between the originals and the reprints.

 

[Silent Blade]

England caps, football?

Youth caps. Never played for our first team

 

[Bert]

I trust you know the differences between the originals and the reprints.

Off the top of Bert's head... Colour of blue ink, weight and Cadets advert etc.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Bert used to watch Wednesday train at Thorncliffe, Swan had a Ford Zephyr.

Also, when Swan was banned from all forms of organised football Bert saw him playing for a pub team (illegally) on the sloping pitch at Whitley Lane, Ecclesfield. You can imagine how much better he was than the others.

Out of interest , whereabouts on Whitley Lane was the football pitch ?

I know that Whitley Hall CC's ( my old club) first pitch was just below the Norfolk at the top of the hill .

 

[Bert]

Out of interest , whereabouts on Whitley Lane was the football pitch ?

I know that Whitley Hall CC's ( my old club) first pitch was just below the Norfolk at the top of the hill .

Bottom of Whitley Lane, 200 yds up, it was Batchelors Sports Ground. A cricket pitch and two football pitches, one of them extremely sloping.
There are horses on there now.

 

[Bert]

Off the top of Bert's head... Colour of blue ink, weight and Cadets advert etc.

Darker pages on the insert also, as per Bert's programme.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Bottom of Whitley Lane, 200 yds up, it was Batchelors Sports Ground. A cricket pitch and two football pitches, one of them extremely sloping.
There are horses on there now.

?

 

[Bert]

Didn't go to this game, was out of Sheffield at this time, but it makes good reading. Peter Swan never seemed to get the better 'Doc' over the times they opposed. Admit I didn't know much about Swan but never thought he was more than a decent Div. 1 centre half. Remember seeing him, on a newsreel (Pathe), playing for England. Spent most of the time on his arse and you know can't play football on your ar...……
Top R hand corner league table showing, Blades just behind Owls, wonder if the win placed Blades above Owls?

 

[bornablade]

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That win would have put us on level number of points. Our goal average (what a weird calculation that was) would have been inferior.

We still had a game in hand.

Fulham in their usual fight for survival. Finally caught up with them in 1968.

 

[Bert]

Bert's just found a few more in the depths of the Bert garage.

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Bert's just found a few more in the depths of the Bert garage. View attachment 54118 View attachment 54117

What year was the Youth Cup match at Forest ?
Just wondering if the Peter Ward at No:10 for us was the same one that went on to score a few goals for Brighton, late '70s ?

 

[Bert]

What year was the Youth Cup match at Forest ?
Just wondering if the Peter Ward at No:10 for us was the same one that went on to score a few goals for Brighton, late '70s ?

Bert went to the game, a friend of his was playing for United, it would be around 1973. It wasn't the same Peter Ward, but note the 2 future England internationals playing for Forest.

 

[Yank]

 

[Bert]

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What a legend that man was, people talk these days about Booker, Coutts etc being legends, they aren't even on the same planet as Alan Woodward.

 

[Yank]

What a legend that man was, people talk these days about Booker, Coutts etc being legends, they aren't even on the same planet as Alan Woodward.

As a newer Blade, has been awesome to read up and learn more about the club's history and particularly players such as Woodward,Currie,etc.

 

[Bert]

As a newer Blade, has been awesome to read up and learn more about the club's history and particularly players such as Woodward,Currie,etc.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...t-and-became-the-blades-leading-10456845.html

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Bottom of Whitley Lane, 200 yds up, it was Batchelors Sports Ground. A cricket pitch and two football pitches, one of them extremely sloping.
There are horses on there now.

If Swan played there, they will make a change from a donkey on there...

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Kember, Webb, Harris, Currie, Eddy and Hollins?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Is that the year Chelsea went down?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Silent Blade]

Is that the year Chelsea went down?

No. the photo was Sept 1973. We won 2-1. They went down in 1975 with Luton and Carlisle

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

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Same game...

 

[Silent Blade]

Kember, Webb, Harris, Currie, Eddy and Hollins?

Yes

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

No. the photo was Sept 1973. We won 2-1. They went down in 1975 with Luton and Carlisle

Ahh, I think they then won at the Lane 2-1 that season

 

[Silent Blade]

Same game...

Birchenall guested for us. TC was recovering from a cartilage op. He would have missed the World Cup had England qualified

 

[Silent Blade]

Ahh, I think they then won at the Lane 2-1 that season

Yes on New Years Day

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]