Drive past Sheffield Wednesday during Lockdown April 2020

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Let's get the old girl rocking!

[OwlsMan1961]

Here's a bit of 'anorak' style information for those interested, having seen the video and reminding myself of the turnstiles and wall of the ground on Penistone Road, has any one noticed the similarity in style to the  brickwork of the older parts of the wall and compared it with some of the 'remaining' old wall brickwork on Olive Grove Road ?

Go take a look, google earth will get you there in lockdown, I may be assuming, but the similarity suggests it's pretty much the same style, and of course some of that wall on Pensistone Road must have been built back when Wednesday moved the ground up there in 1900.

 

Edited April 27, 2020 by OwlsMan1961

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Here's the wall on Penistone Road

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Wall from Olive Grove that might be what you mean?

[OwlsMan1961]

That's the part I'm talking about yes !

[OwlsMan1961]

That's the part I'm talking about yes !

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It almost looks like they used to have small windows in some of them..

[OwlsMan1961]

1 minute ago, @owlstalk said:

It almost looks like they used to have small windows in some of them..

In that part of the wall it does, not sure what was at that specific part, I believe The Olive Grove ground was probably a bit further back up the road but part of the wall there has been replaced looking at the Google Earth pics

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@KivoOwl will know..

[OwlsMan1961]

Looking at side by side maps, I'm thinking this was probably the location of the ground at the time looking at the pitch shaped area and it's comparative position now.

 

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1 minute ago, OwlsMan1961 said:

Looking at side by side maps, I'm thinking this was probably the location of the ground at the time looking at the pitch shaped area and it's comparative position now.

 

Good work - looks bang on that.

 

[@owlstalk]

That would also mean that the wall you've pointed out could/would have been there at the time

[OwlsMan1961]

1 minute ago, @owlstalk said:

That would also mean that the wall you've pointed out could/would have been there at the time

That's my thought's exactly, looking at the wall on Penistone Road some of that has been replaced up towards the entrance to the club shop car park, but the older parts of the wall must be the original build.

[longreach]

Thanks for posting that.  It must be over 5 years since I traveled on Penistone Road and some of it I didn't recognise, however, it was nice to see the road works near Hillsborough Park seem to be progressing nicely

[TommyCraig]

So full of character, my theatre of dreams, and the odd nightmare. She's a fabulous old lady.

[@owlstalk]

 

If you travel to/from the ground through Hillsborough Corner then this one might be more familiar to you..

[Fuzzy logics]

I still miss the pigeon coops.

 

 

 

 

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25 minutes ago, Fuzzy logics said:

I still miss the pigeon coops.

As daft as it sounds that's my childhood memory of Penistone Road.

I used to look. up at them and wonder how on earth anyone managed to climb the cliff up to them!

[gazzamk2]

Enjoyed that. 

 

Nice instrumental, is it an artic monkeys tune that?

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1 minute ago, gazzamk2 said:

Enjoyed that. 

 

Nice instrumental, is it an artic monkeys tune that?

It's not - it' just some random tune that you can download on Youtube to put to your videos etc