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Yep can see where I was probably standing

 

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I first started going to the Lane to watch reserve games in the early 80s and that Is just how I remember the Lane looking from the South Stand.

Those two pylons were re wired by my DAD in the early sixties got complimentary tickets over the Christmas period for both of us

 

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XM657- yes, Cravens was opposite Whitby Road. As you said, used to make railway stock. I remember they supplied carriages to all parts of the world when Britain actually produced things. Had a massive contract from as far away as Peru.

 

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XM657- yes, Cravens was opposite Whitby Road. As you said, used to make railway stock. I remember they supplied carriages to all parts of the world when Britain actually produced things. Had a massive contract from as far away as Peru.

Thanks for that DSB, when I saw the photo it registered straight away, as you well know it's all changed along Staniforth Rd.

Whilst working there I saw the last railway carriages they made. In those days you could work whilst six to boost your wage and whilst doing this was asked to do a small job in a shop next to the main rail line, an area I had not worked in. I saw around six brand new carriages obviously not for BR, so went to have a look. A fella saw me and showed me the interiors, basically but beautifully fitted out and bound for Uganda. Ironic really as some five, six years earlier I had been traveling on Kenya Railways and immediately understood why the Uganda carriages were fitted out as they were.

Between Whitby Rd and Jeffcock Rd was the Horticultural Club. The firm I worked for had a resident maintenance man and his mate in Cravens. Small rotund little fella, hated Churchill with a vengeance, understandably, he had been in the Far East WW2 and a POW. The 'Horti' was his favourite haunt, Odd pint at dinner, lived a two minute walk away, always went home for his lunch calling then and evenings with his wife, different world then as I'm sure you appreciate.

In the 90's, worked on Balfour Rd getting to know a lovely elderly couple who had worked in Cravens pre war. He was a welder and his wife worked in the coach shop. Cravens moved into building aircraft fuselages during the war mainly Lancaster's when they came into service. Eventually the husband was called up and his wife trained and took his job welding.
He told me the last fuselage he worked on was a new a/c called a Welkin, one I had never heard of and I thought he must have got mixed up. Thirty years later, by accident in a conversation, was told all about the Westland Welkin, .
At the end of the war the wife continued the welding and he moved into the coach shop and it stayed that way till they retired.

Westland Welkin maybe from a OCU as indicated by band on rear fuselage but certainly commissioned into the RAF.

and a prototype, indicated by the circled P on the fuselage. Could it be one my acquaintance worked on? He said they were a new a/c.

 

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Great post and lovely memories XM657. Great photos too. Yes, Staniforth Road has changed massively. You mention Balfour Road- The Balfour Cinema , I visited on many occasions -Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans, Tarzan and Jane ,Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, The Three Stooges etc. 6d (old pennies) on the front row with a stiff neck afterwards. Incidentally, in the 1940's, I remember counting the number of Cinemas in Sheffield -advertised in The Star- a massive 86. Hope we are not boring everybody.

 

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Hodgy would never get a game these days. Far too short.

 

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Whose signature?

 

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Hodgy would never get a game these days. Far too short.

Which was why we were so delighted to get John Hope!

 

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Whose signature?

Lawler's I think. Found it in Twitter

 

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Which was why we were so delighted to get John Hope!

Though the feeling soon wore off...

 

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Hodgy would never get a game these days. Far too short.

True. Have attitudes to height changed? I think anyone over around 6’2” was likely to be regarded as gangly and uncoordinated, and unable to get down quickly to low shots. And very few forwards were much above 6’. Similarly, Joe Shaw would not be a central defender nowadays.

 

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Great shirts but that looks like Steve Faulkner .