Snow memories..

[Canterbury Blade]

First, let’s clear up that this is nowt to with a bit of ‘recreational’..

And it’s feck all to do with football really, more about someone who hasn’t lived in Sheffield for nearly 30 years, got thinking about sledging and wanted to reminisce as the match has been cancelled.

Tell me, do people still go to Beauchief golf club and outside Hathersage to get a bit of downhill action?

Such different days when you’d walk miles just to trudge up a hill to go down it dead fast.

Also remember putting me feet into placcie bags and an elastic band as otherwise the snow would go over the top and into me wellies. No gortex in 79!

And cross country runs where the tallest kid was told to stand in the snow drift and if it didn’t go over his knees we had to run... we always ran.. and chafe our thighs in hobbott industrial grade nylon shorts.

Is it still the same for those with kids?? Somehow me thinks it isn’t...

And before we had undersoil heating I recall the club offering free entrance for those who came down to clear snow off the pitch. No worry then about ice around the ground...

 

[Dellas Cowboys]

First, let’s clear up that this is nowt to with a bit of ‘recreational’..

And it’s feck all to do with football really, more about someone who hasn’t lived in Sheffield for nearly 30 years, got thinking about sledging and wanted to reminisce as the match has been cancelled.

Tell me, do people still go to Beauchief golf club and outside Hathersage to get a bit of downhill action?

Such different days when you’d walk miles just to trudge up a hill to go down it dead fast.

Also remember putting me feet into placcie bags and an elastic band as otherwise the snow would go over the top and into me wellies. No gortex in 79!

And cross country runs where the tallest kid was told to stand in the snow drift and if it didn’t go over his knees we had to run... we always ran.. and chafe our thighs in hobbott industrial grade nylon shorts.

Is it still the same for those with kids?? Somehow me thinks it isn’t...

And before we had undersoil heating I recall the club offering free entrance for those who came down to clear snow off the pitch. No worry then about ice around the ground...

all the same except the nylon shorts - and you're not allowed near some snow at Bramall Lane in case you slip and sue them for having caught a tummy bug on holiday abroad within the last 5 years, no win no fee or something like that.

 

[Rodley]

Throwing snowballs at Dwight Yorke and Mark Bosnich in the cup game.

 

[Linz]

Meersbrook Park was as busy as ever.

Photo's nicked from local Facebook group OIM:

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

I’d like to throw hot bovril, gravel, white dog shit and a snowball at Carlton Palmer, Terry Curran and Tony Blair (bit political, but I don’t give two fucks). Love to know fellow Blade’s choices.

 

[PatBlade]

As a relative youngen I can confirm graves park on a bit of tarpolin is still a treasured pastime

 

[I should coco]

Anston Stones wood on a fertiliser sack. The River Ryton at the bottom of the hill severely tested your stopping skills.

A couple of years ago we dragged the kids up to the Norfolk Arms at Ringinglow. Having taken an hour and a half to walk up the valley, they were gobsmacked when I opened the rucksack to get empty compost bags out and we all sped down Jacobs Ladder.

Great fun but you are far more worried about your knackers than when you were an indestructible yoof.

 

[super_pig]

Throwing snowballs at Dwight Yorke and Mark Bosnich in the cup game.

wasn’t it milosevic?

 

[Wapping Blade]

Chelsea Park at Nether Edge for us. Nice long steep hill with a bump in the middle for a jump. Trains of as many sledges we could tie together. Bushes at the bottom to crash into before the wall if you couldn’t stop. Saw one miss the bushes and out onto Chelsea Road through the gap in the wall also one went into a prickly bush and couldn’t get out.

 

[super_pig]

As a relative youngen I can confirm graves park on a bit of tarpolin is still a treasured pastime

cobnar road entrance?
we used to go there for night sessions there was easily enough light from the woodseats street lights

 

[Trafford]

The way that they’ve gone on about it on the news you’d think that snow has only just been invented! We used to get loads more of the stuff than we do now (and that’s not just nostalgia kicking in) and schools were closed because you had no chance of getting there, not just because you might slip and hurt yourself. And don’t get me started on snowball fights - there were some cracking (and vicious) ones between KES and Tapton. The Bolehills were brilliant for sledging, albeit dangerous too if you flew out onto Bole Hill Lane.

 

[Carlton Blade]

Hill up on old Frecheville school. Really steep and never too many people because it's away from the road.

A few trees around though

 

[Large Mendonca]

Live at Frecheville now but grew up on Gleadless Valley. We used to sledge on the grass parallel to the 1 in 6 bit of Gleadless Road, which was ace

 

[Northyorksblade]

Our Jack turned up at our house Wednesday. He'd been given the day off work as no one could get to him to pick him up. So him and some mates had decided to meet up for a snowball fight. After about an hour and all frozen, one said. what the heck are we doing? We're 18 and having a snowball fight. So they all went home except our Jack, who crashed his bike and ended up at ours. Never grow up kids.

 

[Bowman Blade]

The 'Camels Hump' and the 'Devils Elbow' the steep bit of land between Raeburn Rd and Leighton Rd, Gleadless Valley about 200m. If you got enough speed up on your mum's best tea tray, you could actually go whizzing across Leighton Rd, but back in the 70's there were hardly any cars around, using anything from big plastic sheets to biscuit tin lids, owt which would slide.. The Devils elbow, a path between the gauze bushes with a sharp bend, and a big tree at the apex, so if you got it wrong it hurt !!- Happy Days

 

[Peezablade]

I'm pretty sure Wilder made his debut for us on a snow covered pitch at Bramall Lane. I remember watching it from the John St East Terrace as they kicked an orange ball around.
Certainly one of his first games anyway.
No idea of opposition, the year or the score!

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Silent Blade]

I'm pretty sure Wilder made his debut for us on a snow covered pitch at Bramall Lane. I remember watching it from the John St East Terrace as they kicked an orange ball around.
Certainly one of his first games anyway.
No idea of opposition, the year or the score!

v Brighton in FA Cup 3rd round in January 1987. Drew 0-0 but we won the replay

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Is that before the Palace 3rd round match? Or even older?

 

[Silent Blade]

Is that before the Palace 3rd round match? Or even older?

Not sure

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Jacobs Ladder

Out of interest - was the old modified car engine (in the green box?) still there that used to be a ski pull type contraption?

My uncle and his pals donkies years ago installed that.

UTB

 

[mercian]

Remember digging 6” snow off the pitch in the 4th division season & we got a free ticket to the home game with Halifax , a cup of bovril & met Bobby Hatton .

 

[Wapping Blade]

Remember digging 6” snow off the pitch in the 4th division season & we got a free ticket to the home game with Halifax , a cup of bovril & met Bobby Hatton .

Did it twice in the 80s for free ticket and soup!

 

[dublin 10 blade]

3 memories of snow
1. during a game v Cambridge I think they went 2-3 up and where taking the piss, time wasting , so I said fuck this I’ve had enough got some snow together made a big huge snowball and lobbed it at there keeper , as it flew towards him he moved a fraction and just missed his head
2 . game was in danger of being snowed off v West ham so club asked for volunteers to come and help clear the pitch of snow so me and a few others went down and helped , when Saturday came game was still called off but everyone got a free ticket for a game .
3 . Hill down from fellbrig boozer in Norfolk Park heading down to woods , used to fly down that hill , but you had to be careful of trees on your way down , we also used to wait for 71 bus then lash it out of it with snowballs before launching ourselves down the hill .

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Did it twice in the 80s for free ticket and soup!

Might have done it with you Wap ( clearing the snow ) for a ticket and a hot drink

 

[Camden Blade]

Remember the referee getting knocked out by an 'iceball' thrown from the Kop in a game against Halifax in the early 80's. Must have been the Div 4 season. Gary West played CB and we drew 2-2. Tony Pritchett made an appeal on the back page of The Star on the Monday for the snowballer to hand himself into the police so the club wouldn't get in any trouble. Also playing school football at All Saints on Saturday morning on the school pitch overlooking BDTBL and being bitterly disappointed and dumbstruck at how our home match against West Ham that afternoon was called off which meant an afternoon in front of the telly with Dickie Davies and wrestling instead.

 

[bertieblade]

Did Peter Dornan make his debut for us in a night match on a snow covered icy pitch, where players kept changeing their boots?
A very short career which resulted in him going back to Ireland as he was homesick and did not like full time football?

 

[Silent Blade]

Did Peter Dornan make his debut for us in a night match on a snow covered icy pitch, where players kept changeing their boots?
A very short career which resulted in him going back to Ireland as he was homesick and did not like full time football?

Dornan came on as sub in the 3-2 home defeat to Bolton in December 1976. During half time ref, Roger Kirkpatrick, had another hard look at an icy area in the Kop End and it took a long time before he decided that the game should continue

 

[I should coco]

Out of interest - was the old modified car engine (in the green box?) still there that used to be a ski pull type contraption?

My uncle and his pals donkies years ago installed that.

I know there was supposed to be some old ski drag thing but I've never seen it, so it must have gone years ago.