Your memories going to BDTBL when a kid

[Grecian2000]

The thing I miss most about BDTBL is the floodlight towers. I wish they could have stayed.

Oh yes. Absolutely nothing like walking up Shoreham Street from the bus station for a night match and catching the lights blasting out as they came into view.

To be fair I think it's the same for ALL grounds. Driving to an away game it was always a buzz to see the floodlight pylons for the first time (as well as a useful help in actually finding the place).

 

[BladeFisher]

...... To be fair I think it's the same for ALL grounds. Driving to an away game it was always a buzz to see the floodlight pylons for the first time (as well as a useful help in actually finding the place).

I remember as a kind of game when travelling around by train looking out for the pylons of the grounds. On a trip south the only ones I can remember from Newcastle where Millmoor, Bramall Lane, (can't rember if you could see Saltergate from the railway but not sure), Baseball Ground, St Andrews, Elm Park. You couldn't see St James', don't recall Bootham Crescent (trains didn't go via Donny then but Castleford), The Manor was too far away and the Dell out of sight.

If I went down from Waterloo you could make out Plough Lane and of course if I went Ryde way via Portsmouth there was Fratton Park.

Looking back on the above list there are not many still there! Just BDTBL and St Andrews. How times change.

 

[torridon]

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I remember the game against Norwich when they took the roof off the kop, last home game of the season and a 2-0 win if my memory serves correct with Agana getting both goals. . Burnt my bonce .

 

[Snowman]

First memory was my first game which was Fulham which ended 2-2. I thought it was 1959 but on checking it appears to have been 1961. I was handed down over the heads of people to where the kids were on Bramall Lane by the railings and then at half time we walked round past the pavilion and scoreboard to the kop. Next memory was losing to Man U when I think Len Allchurch missed a pen and Giles scored. I also remember losing 1-0 in a semi final around that time and my dad showing me pictures in the paper of a floodlight had been blown down.
Oh yes and some time later Bald Bill Punton scoring against Pigs with a header 18 inch off the ground.

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

First memory was my first game which was Fulham which ended 2-2. I thought it was 1959 but on checking it appears to have been 1961. I was handed down over the heads of people to where the kids were on Bramall Lane by the railings and then at half time we walked round past the pavilion and scoreboard to the kop. Next memory was losing to Man U when I think Len Allchurch missed a pen and Giles scored. I also remember losing 1-0 in a semi final around that time and my dad showing me pictures in the paper of a floodlight had been blown down.
Oh yes and some time later Bald Bill Punton scoring against Pigs with a header 18 inch off the ground.

I got Alan Hodgkinson's autobiography for Christmas and he remembers Bill Punton's goal, too: "Bramall Lane enjoyed another bumper gate of 44000 for the derby against Sheffield Wednesday. It was strange to face a Wednesday team without my old pal Ron Springett in goal. Peter Wicks had taken Ron's place. and was beaten by a second-half goal from Bill Punton who, by his own admission, didn't score many. 'I think my last was in 65,' quipped Bill after the game. 'That's 1865.'"

Actually, I thought Wicks only played that day because of injury, presumably to Ron Springett. It was his debut, I think, and he played well but I don't think he was ever Wednesday's first-choice keeper.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

I miss the little stone steps that used to lead off from Bramall Lane down into the car park.

Got to walk all way round a bastard hotel now.