Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Silent Blade]

10/2/73

Was going to go to that match but my dad's car broke down on the M1 near Leicester. When the AA eventually came round and fixed the car. We went to watch Leicester v Leeds instead.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Interesting, it will be the John Street Stand built in1895 before it got demolished and rebuilt in 1902.

Found this link

1898-03-12: Sheffield Utd 1-0 Celtic, Friendly – The Celtic Wiki

John Street stand would make sense.

The two chimney stacks in the background would be from the Portland Works (built in 1879) on the corner of Randall St & Hill St.

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[DifferentClass]

Interesting, it will be the John Street Stand built in1895 before it got demolished and rebuilt in 1902.

Found this link

1898-03-12: Sheffield Utd 1-0 Celtic, Friendly – The Celtic Wiki

Sydie's great-great grandad?

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Sydie's great-great grandad?

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Could be a new song for us, ‘On South Street Moor, felt ‘at.’

 

[HarryHaslam]

 

[DifferentClass]

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"Sheffield"...

...even then there was only one team in Sheffield!

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Franz Reichelt before, during and after his jump off the Eiffel Tower in 1912, in an ill fated attempt to prove that his parachute suit worked. Alas it didn't and before his demise, he was so flattened by the landing he ended up in wards 5, 6 and 7 of the Paris Infirmary.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Reference the above...

 

[XH536]

Reference the above...

Wonder what his last thought was?
Probably "Oh bugger".
Lengths the human species will go to for any form of notoriety is quite astounding.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Wonder what his last thought was?
Probably "Oh bugger".
Lengths the human species will go to for any form of notoriety is quite astounding.

I thought just the same. I know when I've done daft stuff and how time seems to slow way down before impact. He must have known as he was plummeting towards the ground that the end was nigh. 'Oh shit ' seems a bit of an under statement.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

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What an incredible photo (as are the others related to it). You can sense the history emanating from the screen, complete with dark satanic mills behind the John Street Stand. Marvellous stuff.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I thought just the same. I know when I've done daft stuff and how time seems to slow way down before impact. He must have known as he was plummeting towards the ground that the end was nigh. 'Oh shit ' seems a bit of an under statement.

Looking at the video, I think he knew before he jumped - so hesitant.

 

[ancientblade]

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coldwell richardson shaw and dobson 2 -2 draw october 62 if im not mistaken silent will correct me if im wrong lol

 

[HarryHaslam]

coldwell richardson shaw and dobson 2 -2 draw october 62 if im not mistaken silent will correct me if im wrong lol

1-1 in 63 I have it.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

OK, this one's a little bit gruesome so should you be squeamish you might want to give the last picture a swerve.

Thomas Edward 'Black Jack' Ketchum, outlaw in the old Wild West about to pay the ultimate price for his crimes. Sadly for him, the executioner miscalculated the drop and rather than a quick neck break, old Jack ended up decapitated. Bet the blood thirsty crowd whooped that up

UTBFTP

 

[Maurice Maurice]

OK, apologies but I think I was fed a duffer with that first picture. The gallows is a different design and the rope's so short he'd only have dropped 2" .

The rest is genuine, and the decapitation picture was very popularly sold on postcards back then, similar to lynching pictures which were apparently much sought after.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

I thought just the same. I know when I've done daft stuff and how time seems to slow way down before impact. He must have known as he was plummeting towards the ground that the end was nigh. 'Oh shit ' seems a bit of an under statement.

When I was 12 years old at Grammar School I wrote an essay in which I included the word plummeting .

The English teacher who marked it struck it out in red ink and wrote in the side column “ No such word “.!!

 

[Maurice Maurice]

They were a strange bunch teachers, way back when. I got knocked unconscious by a teacher for telling a girl how to spell 'doesn't', then sent to the headmaster who caned me for talking in class.