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image.jpg Anyone want to hazard a guess as to year this was taken.
Extra point for who we might have been playing ?




A clue: The pavilion was demolished some 10 years later :)
 
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Trigger Blade said:
If the pavilion clock is working, 0-0 would be right with quarter of an hour to kick off :)
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Beat me to it.

Fifteen minutes to kick-off and there's already a fair crowd gathered there. They would only be there in anticipation of there being a really substantial crowd so I'd go with Silent and say the Birmingham 1971 game. There are no cameras set up on the cricket pitch and that game wasn't on TV.
 

Silent Blade said:
Would like to know too as he was a bit of a character. A question for John Garrett to answer?
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Well, Silent, according to the (rather good) Blades Tales book, Page 17, Len Strike writes:

'How times change. I still possess a One Guinea (£1.05) season ticket. (This was 1965-66) That season the reserves won the Central League before crowds of up to 10,000. With no local radio reports or Teletext coverage, many went just to watch the man on the cricket scoreboard. Every fifteen minutes he would update United's and Wednesday's scores. I suffered hours of nervous tension as he moved the numbered boards to their appropriate positions. Sometimes, thinking he was being humourous, he would temporarily pretend we were losing.'

The man responsible was one of the Chief Stewards, Ches Grey.
 
I'll go for August 69 to be different. Was the railway box for the Cricket Scores?
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
21st August 1965

Sheffield United 1 Aston Villa 0
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Five points:

(1) Was the photo taken before the season started? The wicket area used to be roped off during the season and it isn't here.

(2) Weren't kick-offs at 3.15 pm in those days to give fans time to reach the ground after the pubs shut at 3?

(3) I can't say when the photo was taken except to say that it was before 1973.

(4) That game against Villa was the first I saw after moving to Sheffield the previous Sunday. Birchenall scored but I soon realised
that Mick Jones was the fans' favourite.

(5) In those days the season started towards the end of August rather than near the start of the month as they do nowadays.
 
Longtime Blade, I can confirm KO was 3pm. I always missed kick off as boozers stop serving at 3pm. I usually missed the first 5 minutes. :)
 
wasn't that the flying Welshman game ,the game when Gil Reece became an Icon to me.
 
sitwell said:
wasn't that the flying Welshman game ,the game when Gil Reece became an Icon to me.
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Yes, will try to post the photo of his 2nd goal in here in the next few days. Mrs Silent has the ipad at Scotland and will be back this Sunday
 
Silent Blade said:
Would like to know too as he was a bit of a character. A question for John Garrett to answer?
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Didn't professional pig fan and former MP for Bassettlaw Joe Ashton use to do that job at some time when he was a ball boy at the Lane, or so he likes to claim. I don't think I would ever describe Joe Ashton as a bit of a character though, something else beginning with 'c' possibly.

The photo was before my time but wouldn't the cricket season have started by 17 April, or did it start later in those days?
 
SUFC Handsworth said:
Didn't professional pig fan and former MP for Bassettlaw Joe Ashton use to do that job at some time when he was a ball boy at the Lane, or so he likes to claim. I don't think I would ever describe Joe Ashton as a bit of a character though, something else beginning with 'c' possibly.

The photo was before my time but wouldn't the cricket season have started by 17 April, or did it start later in those days?
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Yes, you are right. I remember reading in a programme some years ago that Joe Ashton either played in a trial game at SUFC or that he played for one of our "Nursery clubs". Yes, he had a playing connection with us but cant remember exactly

As for cricket matches at BDTBL you will see in the below link that most of the cricket matches were played in June and July also late May and early August. Most of YCCC home matches in April, May, August and Sept were played at Headingley, Bradford and Scarborough (also few at Middlesbrough, Harrogate and Hull).

http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/728_f.html

SUFC did play a home league match on 14th of June (v Stoke in 1947) and for some time I had been meaning to find out if there was a YCCC match at BDTBL played in May 1947 and tonight I have learned that we did play a County Championship match on 21st, 22nd and 23rd of May so it does look like that one of the reasons why we played our last home game of the 1946-47 season (the big freeze was from January to mid March) as late on 14th June was that when it came to re-arranging the home game against Stoke (postponed during the big freeze) we couldnt play the match in the 3rd week of May was the YCCC match against Glamorgan was already booked to play at BDTBL
 
Silent Blade said:
Yes, you are right. I remember reading in a programme some years ago that Joe Ashton either played in a trial game at SUFC or that he played for one of our "Nursery clubs". Yes, he had a playing connection with us but cant remember exactly

As for cricket matches at BDTBL you will see in the below link that most of the cricket matches were played in June and July also late May and early August. Most of YCCC home matches in April, May, August and Sept were played at Headingley, Bradford and Scarborough (also few at Middlesbrough, Harrogate and Hull).

http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/11/728_f.html

SUFC did play a home league match on 14th of June (v Stoke in 1947) and for some time I had been meaning to find out if there was a YCCC match at BDTBL played in May 1947 and tonight I have learned that we did play a County Championship match on 21st, 22nd and 23rd of May so it does look like that one of the reasons why we played our last home game of the 1946-47 season (the big freeze was from January to mid March) as late on 14th June was that when it came to re-arranging the home game against Stoke (postponed during the big freeze) we couldnt play the match in the 3rd week of May was the YCCC match against Glamorgan was already booked to play at BDTBL
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Yes, got a few Yorkshire scorecards for Yorkshire Bramall Lane games and off the top of my head most of them are 'mid' summer. Would Sheff United CC have played in April?
 

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