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Good piece of anti German propergander may be in use here, "brought down by our fighters" and caused it to crash land should be inserted after. I don't believe it was actually shot down , but like I said don't let that get in the way of good publicity. I have heard many times it came down in Manor Lane but don't quote me.
 
There were also League ladders. It was basically a card with slots into which you placed the teams in your division . You could move them up and down each week according to the results

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I used to buy the Shoot magazine, at the start of the season they also had a league ladder in it, and a graph to plot the team position each week. Well I started going to BDTBL in our relegation season from the old division 1 (under Jimmy Sirrel), so it was never a good graph !
 
Broadfield Road, June 1985.
The old dairy, (by then, cowless) discussed before on here.
Also what was I believe the old nursery.
I have, lurking in the back of my mind, a vague, rather uneasy feeling about this place. I'm pretty sure I spent some of my toddler childhood in there in the mid 1950's.
Not that it's affected me much.🤪

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Reference the 'nursery', if it's any help I can vouch on oath that building was built post war around 1947 -50. If placed in the witness box I can recount the building of an identical structure which I witnessed in the years stated, in fact it could have been 1946-49.
Conventional base-b/wk with concrete floor. Precast uprights (visible in photo, infilled with (3" maybe) terracotta blocks. Corner posts were slightly concave externally. Stack indicates a small boiler house, central and entered from back as per photo, originally coke fired boiler.
Accompanying photo, the one I saw built. I have a photo of it newly built but cannot lay my hand on it at the moment.GCS-2 (2).jpg
 
Good piece of anti German propergander may be in use here, "brought down by our fighters" and caused it to crash land should be inserted after. I don't believe it was actually shot down , but like I said don't let that get in the way of good publicity. I have heard many times it came down in Manor Lane but don't quote me.
This is the plane in question shot down in Sheffield apparently.

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A man according to the caption.
Grey matter failure! Again!!!
Where's all the mechanical grease rags? Thought they would be all over this, even to me a mechanical virgin that's a reight piece of equipment.
 
This is the plane in question shot down in Sheffield apparently.

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So, there actually was one. My Dads favourite story was the night he and his HomeGuard mates took down a German Aeroplane flying over Mexborough . The story never did add up, one sentence all they had to protect the country was Brush Tails the next they had brought down a German Bomber . His proudest possession and still kept safe today.
 

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So, there actually was one. My Dads favourite story was the night he and his HomeGuard mates took down a German Aeroplane flying over Mexborough . The story never did add up, one sentence all they had to protect the country was Brush Tails the next they had brought down a German Bomber . His proudest possession and still kept safe today.
Forgive my ignorance, the citation, did all who served get one or was it for something in particular your father did, the downing of the enemy plane, for e.g.. Thank You.
 
Got me thinking this photo, is it a made in Sheffield, Dunelt motor cycle ? I once read that a German woman rode one from Germany to England after WW1. It was also the first motor cycle to cross a dessert, the Sahara I would presume.
Not a Dunelt, all their engines were sloping forwards.
 
Got me thinking this photo, is it a made in Sheffield, Dunelt motor cycle ? I once read that a German woman rode one from Germany to England after WW1. It was also the first motor cycle to cross a dessert, the Sahara I would presume.
Same bike, a 1915 despatch rider.

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Forgive my ignorance, the citation, did all who served get one or was it for something in particular your father did, the downing of the enemy plane, for e.g.. Thank You.
Nowt to forgive, good question. I would think everyone got one because as my mam would always say halfway through his stories, “all they use to do was their courting, they wouldn’t have had a clue what to do if they had seen a German”. I do remember though he told us lots of times about the bombings over Sheffield, he said you could hear and see the night sky lit up all over South Yorkshire and how terrible and helpless everyone felt.
For any younger readers, courting at that time was akin to “ Knocking off”.
If there was some kind of museum that would be interested in the document I think it would be a good time to pass it on ,it’s only 2 weeks since it saw the light of day when I found it in a box in my loft, also a photograph of the full squad taken in front of the pavilion at Mexborough. Sure my dad would be proud as punch to know people where still interested .
 
Yes, Alf, my dad did the same ( too old to be called up). 'Patrolled' most of the night (wth his tin hat on), and then off to work at 7.00 am. Worked at Brown Bailey's as a Spring Forger,making Tank springs. As a young kid I remember , stupidly, throwing red hot bomb fragments back up at the German bombers-before being dragged back into the Anderson shelter in the back garden, by my mother.
 

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