Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Tickhill Blade]

Sorry Sean T and Taxi B, jumping in after your answers I'm just slow and to cap it off got the bit about the windows wrong also. Aught to have known been in there hundreds of times and worked in it as a kid helping out, education on life was that, loved the place.View attachment 63627

Here's the other end

 

[Tickhill Blade]

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

 

[XM657]

Here's the other end

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Seen this photo before, good choice, in't it a gem. Believe it's a genuine street scene , not posed, like stepping back 120/130 years. It's pre1904 as an extension, with shops was built 1904/05 onto that façade.

 

[TaxiBlade]

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This looks like they took the design straight from a victorian railway station

 

[Stretch]

I absolutely love this thread yet at the same time it depresses the fuck out of me. Just when I think that the extent architectural vandalism, that took place in this city post WW2 could not get any worse, I find out about a bit more.

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[Blade1959]

Terry Garbett, Mick Martin, Jim Holton and Colin Franks. Blades 0 Man U 1 (Macari) in March 1974. John Hope's last match for us,

I thought John Hope’s last game was against Ipswich on a Tuesday afternoon when the power cuts were on? Lost 3-0 then we signed Jim Brown who played the following Saturday at Manchester City

 

[Bert]

I thought John Hope’s last game was against Ipswich on a Tuesday afternoon when the power cuts were on? Lost 3-0 then we signed Jim Brown who played the following Saturday at Manchester City

Bert agrees with you.

 

[BushBlade]

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They've just heard on the radio that Duffy’s scored our third.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

How many goals?!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

How many goals?!
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With VAR most of them would have been 0-0 draws...

 

[HighfieldBlade]

With VAR most of them would have been 0-0 draws...

It was Boxing Day, too. I wonder if some of the players were still a little worse for wear?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[XM657]

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This photo really evokes memories for me. Not sure when it was taken but my association started around 1950. My maternal grandmother was the florist on the foreground stall. Look below the clock at the UFO type object. That was the central fountain where the square base had a trough and four large brass taps where I filled buckets with water for the flowers. It was carved out of a particular stone, but forgotten what it was, and quite ornate. Wonder where that finished after demolition? There was no form of heating, with a stone flag floor it was bitter in winter, cool in summer. Most stalls had batons/planks for the workers to stand on, it did held to keep warmer. The two arches either side were entrances, left Exchange St, right Dixon Lane. There was an entrance under the clock with steep stone step that resembled the North Face of the Eiger. In my time at the camera side of the Dixon Lane entrance was a tea stall called Edith's. Knew my gran well and supplied tea etc to her, and again my job to fetch an carry the consumables. Edith also sold Vimto, hot or cold, Horlicks with a whisking or steam device fitted onto the counter, where the milk and Horlicks was turned into frothy topped drink, fascinated me those mixers. Edith moved into the Castle market and became Sally's, a relation, and Sally moved into the Moor Market on the Arundal Gate side by the windows. Thank for posting.

 

[Silent Blade]

I thought John Hope’s last game was against Ipswich on a Tuesday afternoon when the power cuts were on? Lost 3-0 then we signed Jim Brown who played the following Saturday at Manchester City

Bert agrees with you.

Yes, that is right, I had forgotten about the midweek Ipswich match which kicked off in the afternoon. I didn't know the score till the next morning when I sneaked in my classroom to look at the papers for the score before breakfast but I was "caught" by the house matron and I was grounded for a week and I missed the school talent contest show which I was looking forward to going to!

 

[S64 Blade]

Here's the other end

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Would have made an absolutely monster of a Wetherspoons that!

Joking aside it’s criminal that buildings such as this were demolished. Sheffield lacks the grandiose old buildings, of other major cities, largely thanks to the Luftwaffe. But the council having demolished so many of this is a shame. This building would still make an excellent market place.

 

[Bert]

Yes, that is right, I had forgotten about the midweek Ipswich match which kicked off in the afternoon. I didn't know the score till the next morning when I sneaked in my classroom to look at the papers for the score before breakfast but I was "caught" by the house matron and I was grounded for a week and I missed the school talent contest show which I was looking forward to going to!

Fair enough, the trauma of missing the talent contest has clearly affected your usually reliable memory.

 

[Stretch]

Found another view of the old Leccy Company, now that I know what it is!

 

[BushBlade]

It was Boxing Day, too. I wonder if some of the players were still a little worse for wear?

My grandad told me the euphemism was ‘too much Christmas pudding’ and yes, they would have been like a Sunday league side after a stag night. I wouldn’t be surprised if one or two threw up at half time (rather than on the touch line like we all used to).

 

[GrayBlade]

 

[Bert]

Nudger smoking his pipe

 

[GrayBlade]

How many goals?!
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That was my first ever away game as a kid apart from the Sty, we were 3-0 down at half time and we came back to draw it. I thought it was always going to be like that. I also recall all the adults being pissed up so nothing’s changed really

 

[Tickhill Blade]

An aerial shot of the market hall just before the war

 

[GrayBlade]

It was Boxing Day, too. I wonder if some of the players were still a little worse for wear?

Looking at those scores you’d think that was the case.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

 

[bornablade]

They look like a team full of attitude.

I bet Chris Wilder could do something with that set of players.

 

[stringjunior]

The electric building was beaut. I love these.

Other good example here of those: (picture sheffield and google maps)

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First legal pint in the tuns

 

[Gateford Blade]

Can't seem to think where it is as its quite a steep section of the street. My rough guesses would be at the bottom of Industry Road which is just opposite Barnadiston or Wilfrid Road (if there ever was houses on there and then may have been demolished).

Although Darnall has some hilly parts I like to think it's one of the biggest areas in Sheffield that is flat.

Could it be the bottom of Poole Road?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Hodgy, Mallender? Bernard Shaw? McLintock?