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Tickhill Blade said:
Highlights one thing I've often wondered, what was the point of those chin straps that don't go under your chin?
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It was so the policeman couldn’t be strangled with his own helmet, and that it would readily fall off his head if he got into a bit of bother. Having the strap under his chin would have been dangerous.
 
Tickhill Blade said:
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Great photo. Probably taken on top of Wicker Arches.

Studio 7 on the left hand side (?) before it became Studio 5, 6 , 7. Was that the Station Hotel on the right hand side selling Tetley's (?)

Across the road, still on the right hnd side is where the Mobility Shop is now.

There was a big Woodcock Travel on that same right hand side going up towards town.

Big Gun and Coach House (?) restaurant on the right hand side.

In the distance on Lady's Bridge was the Whitbread (Exchange) brewery. Remember waiting for a bus outside Castle Market hating the smell that came from the brewery and yet several years later started to enjoy the taste of a pint of Trophy bitter.
I think this was where the Gold Label barley wine was developed.

Whitbread's a family brewery for hundreds of years decided to pull out of brewing and retailing beer through their pub estate and concentrate on developing hotels. They've not done too badly with the Premier Inn brand.
 
bornablade said:
Great photo. Probably taken on top of Wicker Arches.

Studio 7 on the left hand side (?) before it became Studio 5, 6 , 7. Was that the Station Hotel on the right hand side selling Tetley's (?)

Across the road, still on the right hnd side is where the Mobility Shop is now.

There was a big Woodcock Travel on that same right hand side going up towards town.

Big Gun and Coach House (?) restaurant on the right hand side.

In the distance on Lady's Bridge was the Whitbread (Exchange) brewery. Remember waiting for a bus outside Castle Market hating the smell that came from the brewery and yet several years later started to enjoy the taste of a pint of Trophy bitter.
I think this was where the Gold Label barley wine was developed.

Whitbread's a family brewery for hundreds of years decided to pull out of brewing and retailing beer through their pub estate and concentrate on developing hotels. They've not done too badly with the Premier Inn brand.
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What was the Steakhouse called? (Not the Coach House was it?) Had some cricket club do’s there!
 

bornablade said:
Whitbread's a family brewery for hundreds of years decided to pull out of brewing and retailing beer through their pub estate and concentrate on developing hotels. They've not done too badly with the Premier Inn brand.
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The 1989 Beer Orders caused the traditional big brewers a big headache. They were limited to owning 2,000 tied pubs so they had to sell a load off. Whitbread were also hit by the decline of traditional ales - they had the UK licence to brew Heineken & Stella but obviously didn't own the brands.
So their focus shifted from breweries to Premier Inns & Beefeaters, and the other UK franchises they had (Costa, TGI Fridays, David Lloyd gyms).
 
bornablade said:
Great photo. Probably taken on top of Wicker Arches.

Studio 7 on the left hand side (?) before it became Studio 5, 6 , 7. Was that the Station Hotel on the right hand side selling Tetley's (?)

Across the road, still on the right hnd side is where the Mobility Shop is now.

There was a big Woodcock Travel on that same right hand side going up towards town.

Big Gun and Coach House (?) restaurant on the right hand side.

In the distance on Lady's Bridge was the Whitbread (Exchange) brewery. Remember waiting for a bus outside Castle Market hating the smell that came from the brewery and yet several years later started to enjoy the taste of a pint of Trophy bitter.
I think this was where the Gold Label barley wine was developed.

Whitbread's a family brewery for hundreds of years decided to pull out of brewing and retailing beer through their pub estate and concentrate on developing hotels. They've not done too badly with the Premier Inn brand.
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Late 1960's I worked for a firm who had a general maintenance contract with Tennant Bros brewery.
A tradesman and labourer were in permanent residence with others drafted in when circumstances required.
Unfortunately I never managed to work there.
Anyone working there were allowed to partake of free beer which was on pump to be drawn as and when one required.
The passage of time has eroded whether it was bitter or Gold Label or even both.

Continuing the Tennant theme,
After playing football one Satdi afternoon with the the goalie, a car owner, who also live in Sheffield, making my home game travel much easier.
After one home match we shot down Carr Lane until we reached the rail bridge over the Sheffield to Chesterfield rail line. It could 'ave been the Chesterfield to Sheffield line, or both.:eek:
We were confronted with the result of a collision.
On the bridge a dead horse, a very upset female horse rider and a Tennant brother sat in his large Jaguar.
We assessed and did a rapid 'Foxtrot Oscar'
Details of the accident we gleaned the following weekend.
 
BerksBlade said:
The 1989 Beer Orders caused the traditional big brewers a big headache. They were limited to owning 2,000 tied pubs so they had to sell a load off. Whitbread were also hit by the decline of traditional ales - they had the UK licence to brew Heineken & Stella but obviously didn't own the brands.
So their focus shifted from breweries to Premier Inns & Beefeaters, and the other UK franchises they had (Costa, TGI Fridays, David Lloyd gyms).
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Now Costa is owned by Coke, not sure what others are owned by.
 
Blade1959 said:
Might even have been 9-0 I think..
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There were 2 teams we could (theoretically) overtake. Charlton and Oldham. Charlton and finished their fixtures but Oldham still had to 2 to play. If we had beaten Leicester, we would have been level on points with both, but our GD was far worse than Charltons so we needed an 8-0 win to overtake them.

Our GD was better than Oldhams, so had we won by any score, we would have gone above them. However they would only have needed a point from their 2 remaining games to send us down.

So the Oldham option was more realistic than the Charlton one, but both were extremely long shots.

As it happened, we drew and Oldham won 1 of their last 2, so we would have gone down anyway.
 
programmechap said:
There were 2 teams we could (theoretically) overtake. Charlton and Oldham. Charlton and finished their fixtures but Oldham still had to 2 to play. If we had beaten Leicester, we would have been level on points with both, but our GD was far worse than Charltons so we needed an 8-0 win to overtake them.

Our GD was better than Oldhams, so had we won by any score, we would have gone above them. However they would only have needed a point from their 2 remaining games to send us down.

So the Oldham option was more realistic than the Charlton one, but both were extremely long shots.

As it happened, we drew and Oldham won 1 of their last 2, so we would have gone down anyway.
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I think you are right with 8-0. As I was queuing to get into the Kop, bloke behind said ‘Be just like us to win 8-1’🤣
 
HighfieldBlade said:
Anyone know if this game went ahead?!
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Jeez remember those score boards in the background each letter corresponded to a certain match at half-time they put the scores up A B C et and you had to look in the program for which match it was , they would often get the scores/matches mixed up and when you get home for the final results, they would be completely different , good old days ! Life was so much simpler then .
 
BerksBlade said:
The 1989 Beer Orders caused the traditional big brewers a big headache. They were limited to owning 2,000 tied pubs so they had to sell a load off. Whitbread were also hit by the decline of traditional ales - they had the UK licence to brew Heineken & Stella but obviously didn't own the brands.
So their focus shifted from breweries to Premier Inns & Beefeaters, and the other UK franchises they had (Costa, TGI Fridays, David Lloyd gyms).
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My late father in law was the sales director for Whitbreads (after starting out as a sales rep in some of the less desirable areas of Glasgow and Edinburgh) and was responsible for bringing quite a few franchises over from Europe and the US……..fascinating bloke to listen to, miss him a lot.
 

XH536 said:
Late 1960's I worked for a firm who had a general maintenance contract with Tennant Bros brewery.
A tradesman and labourer were in permanent residence with others drafted in when circumstances required.
Unfortunately I never managed to work there.
Anyone working there were allowed to partake of free beer which was on pump to be drawn as and when one required.
The passage of time has eroded whether it was bitter or Gold Label or even both.

Continuing the Tennant theme,
After playing football one Satdi afternoon with the the goalie, a car owner, who also live in Sheffield, making my home game travel much easier.
After one home match we shot down Carr Lane until we reached the rail bridge over the Sheffield to Chesterfield rail line. It could 'ave been the Chesterfield to Sheffield line, or both.:eek:
We were confronted with the result of a collision.
On the bridge a dead horse, a very upset female horse rider and a Tennant brother sat in his large Jaguar.
We assessed and did a rapid 'Foxtrot Oscar'
Details of the accident we gleaned the following weekend.
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My dad worked for Tennants/Whitbread in the 50s/60s, mostly down in the cellars with the dry hop process of brewing.
He was useless without his glasses and sometimes forgot them in the rush to get to work.
School holidays my mum would get me to catch bus into town to take the glasses to him. He always took some finding but eventually some bloke would guide me to him with the glasses.
He'd always sidle me away to the beer pump where the cellar staff got their daily allowance. He fill a glass with Tennants Queens and let me sup it (I was around 12/13 at the time) and always followed it with 'dont tell thi mum' and 'this'll keep thi bowels oppen'.
Tasted fuckin horrible to me, but mi bowels did open soon after 😂
 
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