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Rare game for Widdowson
These are brilliant photos. I would love to know more about them, and your role (without wishing to be nosey).
Our junior school went on a school trip to Hillsborough circa 1975 - I was 9 and the only Blade . Born behind the enemy lines in Grenoside.Spoke once to Mick Prendergast, told him " I wish you were at Bramall Lane", he answered " me too". Apparently a real nice guy beset by illness and injury. Had to retire early and overdid the alcohol which caused his premature death.
I'd have been slightly to the left of you that day , mostly Blades around us , feel sick thinking about it.
One or two people have said they cannot remember the little house in Andingmen's post #14815. I'm amongst them, but you can clearly see the same house in the far left of this photo. Maybe it was because the pavilion itself was such an imposing building that the little house became a bit lost. Strange how the mind plays tricks on you.
Yes, it is strange indeed. I've still been puzzling over it since. This may have been shown before but here's part of a map from the NLS site, which seems to show the house in relative isolation, just above the "ER" in Cherry Street.
The map is from somewhere between the dates 1891-1913, I think. However, I'm still no wiser about its function.View attachment 74031
He was abducted by aliens after leaving Samanthas nightclub in the early hours of the morning and never seen again.Did a quick web search which came up with a couple of websites which listed his previous clubs as Bury and Burnley, but show nothing after he left us.
Ooh Heyup! Be careful what you share with him Bert!Do you have many of those sort of programmes? (Sheffield Boys type stuff).
Nice. But it’s not Steve Wood it’s Billy Dearden!
It's nothing exciting unfortunately, I'm struggling to remember myself!These are brilliant photos. I would love to know more about them, and your role (without wishing to be nosey).
Don't give up the day job.....Ooh Heyup! Be careful what you share with him Bert!
Once played against him on a Sunday morning , both knees bandaged , hardly moved but was brilliant and ran the game. Nice bloke after too.Spoke once to Mick Prendergast, told him " I wish you were at Bramall Lane", he answered " me too". Apparently a real nice guy beset by illness and injury. Had to retire early and overdid the alcohol which caused his premature death.
Thanks so much for all this information. What you have written about the little house on Cherry street makes perfect sense. It would have been in the perfect location for all the duties you mentioned. I can comfortably stop pondering now!From memory, in the recorded interviews I have with Eric Burgin, on several occasions Eric mentions a “little house” that the groundsman lived in, on-site at Bramall Lane—the groundsman having year-round responsibility for the cricket pitch, the nets behind the kop, the football pitch, the indoor winter shed, and the bowling green too (before it was paved over for car parking).
I’m guessing this is the house that’s pictured, on Cherry St? I’ll try to dig out the relevant transcripts from my recordings, and report back. For info on Eric, and the work I did with him before he died in 2012, pls see:
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He's referring to the name on the watermark.Have you been drinking?
Was a regular at the Central Deaf club which is on the far left of the photo!Summer 1986, now the site of Millennium Galleries. I seem to remember going in that long low building a few years earlier than the photo to tax my first ever pride and joy - a clapped out, column change, bench seat Ford Corsair
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Highland Bitter in a plastic glass if I remember rightly.
Highland Bitter in a plastic glass if I remember rightly.
I think you might be correct about the dimple glasses.Originally in pint mugs, like you got in pubs that sold draught double diamond.
Edit, ignore me, thought it was about the Claymore.
Note to self, look at attachment.
Scottish and Newcastle and their Tartan brand had little presence in Sheffield.
Claymore on Arundel Gate (as mentioned) and the only other one I can think of is the Nailmakers (Yates) near Norton Water Tower.
I think the Top Rank sold it as maybe other clubs. S&N probably threw a shed load of money at these clubs in order to get their beer in.
Absolute crap beer and only made consumable with the addition of a bottle of brown or Guinness.
That makes perfect sense!
My schoolmate was clearly on the wind-up telling me it was short for skeleton because they found a dead body there.
Yes. It was always Newcastle Exhibition for me when I lived in the North East as well. Alternatively it was Vaux's Strongarm.Youngers was crap but for a time they did Newcastle Exhibition which was a fine drink in its day when I worked up in the North East.
When I was a programme seller we used to finish off by going to an upstairs room in somewhere that sounds similar to hand over the cash from sales and take our divi.Sorry, I can't help. My missus used to work in there occasionally, and she recalls it was more or less opposite the main entrance on a left hand corner, looking from the stand. Oh, and they had "rattles and pennants and scarves in the window" - not much help I'm afraid! But I hope you're successful in your search. I'd love to see a photo too.
Scottish and Newcastle and their Tartan brand had little presence in Sheffield.
Claymore on Arundel Gate (as mentioned) and the only other one I can think of is the Nailmakers (Yates) near Norton Water Tower.
I think the Top Rank sold it as maybe other clubs. S&N probably threw a shed load of money at these clubs in order to get their beer in.
Absolute crap beer and only made consumable with the addition of a bottle of brown or Guinness.
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