Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

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Surrey Street before the building of The Central Library on the right hand side? I think that on the very left of the picture, where you can see a couple of windows, is Leader House, the only building out of that lot to still exist.

 

[Silent Blade]

Does anyone recognise this? Not even sure if it's 50s or 60s.
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Think is is against Huddersfield. HodgysBrokenThumb will know. Looks like Ray Wilson the number 3

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Some excellent footballers in that team including some of my all time favourites

Joe Shaw and Jimmy Hagan are obviously two of them , but I would also include Burgin , Ringstead , Jim Iley and Colin Grainger , the latter being still the only English player to have scored 2 goals against Brazil . I had great pleasure in watching that match on black and white TV , having developed a mysterious illness which prevented me from going to school that day .

As for Jim Iley , he is seldom remembered for the number qualities he possessed which included courage , determination, the ability to carry the ball forward and provide excellent passes both long and short . The fact that he went on to have successful careers with both Spurs and Newcastle and was greatly appreciated by fans of both these , is a good indication as to what an excellent footballer he was .

Remarkable coincidence, but I was ill and off school for the Brazil match. After the first 10 minutes or so, I decided I was ‘lucky’ to be ill…

 

[Tickhill Blade]

In the late 1960s there was a shop on the corner of what was Norfolk Street and Howard Street, on the right hand side of the old photo, called ‘Lift Up Your Skirt and Fly,’ a swinging sixties boutique. My sister worked there for a while and you could actually get into the upstairs of the building, which was more or less derelict, with huge holes in the internal walls and floors, quite dangerous really.
That whole row of buildings was demolished to make way for the old Town Hall extension and the building of Arundel Gate. Howard Street today is a much truncated version of the original street

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I reverse searched your picture and it led to this fantastic set of photos of Sheffield from the 60s to 80s

Sheffield

Photos of Sheffield, taken from the 1960s to the 1990s.

www.flickr.com

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Does anyone recognise this? Not even sure if it's 50s or 60s.
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Possibly March 8, 1958. Pace and Ray Wilson played, and is that Brian Richardson celebrating a rare goal? He scored that day, and the hairstyle looks right…

 

[HarryHaslam]

Possibly March 8, 1958. Pace and Ray Wilson played, and is that Brian Richardson celebrating a rare goal? He scored that day, and the hairstyle looks right…

Tickhill nailed it previous page, 3-1 v Brighton 1959, Kevin Lewis goal in the pic (so says Google)

 

[DifferentClass]

In the late 1960s there was a shop on the corner of what was Norfolk Street and Howard Street, on the right hand side of the old photo, called ‘Lift Up Your Skirt and Fly,’ a swinging sixties boutique. My sister worked there for a while and you could actually get into the upstairs of the building, which was more or less derelict, with huge holes in the internal walls and floors, quite dangerous really.
That whole row of buildings was demolished to make way for the old Town Hall extension and the building of Arundel Gate. Howard Street today is a much truncated version of the original street

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Named for the controversial line in that John's Children song

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Named for the controversial line in that John's Children song

‘Desdemona’ can’t really remember it, but was written by Marc Bolan.

 

[DifferentClass]

‘Desdemona’ can’t really remember it, but was written by Marc Bolan.

He was their guitarist at the time.

 

[XH536]

I think that might be the second time I’ve made that mistake .

Tha'll remember it n'aa though.
Tommy Taylor, some player were he.
Apparently, when he rolled up at Old Trafford, from Barnsley, he arrived with his boots in a, as then paper, carrier bag.

Gosh look at 'chimmly', where's Fred.

We went to this game and looking back over 60 plus years, how lucky I was to see these marvellous players in the flesh, Shackleton, the Haganesque style player, for Sunderland also.
Man. Utd. won 4-0 to secure the 1st Div. title for the second season in succession, Whelan-2, Edwards & Taylor.

 

[XH536]

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Is this Surry St looking towards the top of Fargate?

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Is this Surry St looking towards the top of Fargate?

Yes it is. See my post at the top of the page

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Not sure about 'The walrus of love'...

 

[DifferentClass]

Not sure about 'The walrus of love'...

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How many rhyming slangs did he have a day to shed all that timber then?

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[XH536]

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I see this is possibly1907, but any idea which newspaper it was in.
Sheffield Independent?

 

[XH536]

Yes it is. See my post at the top of the page

Thank you,
I forgot to mention the car with the top down and the rakish angle it is parked at.
I recon the driver was a man of discerning and panache or the breaks aren't good.

 

[Silent Blade]

I see this is possibly1907, but any idea which newspaper it was in.
Sheffield Independent?

Not sure, saw it in a Facebook group.

 

[XH536]

Just trying to get my bearings on this old photo, but on the left, with the glass covered entrance is the Theatre Royal which burnt down in 1935 and further in the background the building with the triangular pedament at roof level is the Adelphi Hotel where we, Yorkshire County Cricket Club (and another local football team) were formed.
The Central Library, where the buildings are on the right, was started in 1929, so the photo is before that.

Believe Blades were formed in an office at 10, Norfolk Row opposite the Roman Catholic Cathedral, not in the Adelphi Hotel.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

I should have put that the Adelphi was connected to the formation of United rather than it was formed there.

Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield​

Coordinates:

53.3811°N 1.4669°W
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Adelphi Hotel was a hotel in the centre of the city of Sheffield, England.

It was connected with the founding of three major sports teams: Yorkshire County Cricket Club (1863), Sheffield Wednesday (1867) and Sheffield United (1889)

 

[XH536]

I should have put that the Adelphi was connected to the formation of United rather than it was formed there.

Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield​

Coordinates:

53.3811°N 1.4669°W
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Adelphi Hotel was a hotel in the centre of the city of Sheffield, England.

It was connected with the founding of three major sports teams: Yorkshire County Cricket Club (1863), Sheffield Wednesday (1867) and Sheffield United (1889)

Arrr but, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are the connections?
I ain't ever heard of any Blades connection with the Adelphi Hotel regards it's conception, or owt else, so I'm open to 'edification'.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Arrr but, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are the connections?
I ain't ever heard of any Blades connection with the Adelphi Hotel regards it's conception, or owt else, so I'm open to 'edification'.

Re the Blades connection to the Adelphi

I believe that in 1854 it was in the Adelphi that it was proposed to lease from the Duke of Devonshire, an area of about 8 and a half acres. Somewhere south of the city at that time ( free of smoke ha!) not sure what became of that land

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Maybe they formed United on Norfolk Row and went to the pub after .

 

[XH536]

Maybe they formed United on Norfolk Row and went to the pub after .

AARRRR but Brown Bear is nearer.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Stones or Sam Smiths……….. let me think

 

[DifferentClass]

Stones or Sam Smiths……….. let me think

Sam Smiths is a top seller at Dempseys.