heppers 5,137 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 9 hours ago, @owlstalk said: Fastest bike in the world. It was always going downhill. Link to post Share on other sites
Revenant 2,582 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 9 hours ago, rickygoo said: Bought my Wednesday Subbuteo team from there. It was IFK Gothenburg though wasn't it if you looked on the box? Used to get my mitre football trainers from Sugg Sport back in the day. Link to post Share on other sites
Marro 387 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Remember going to Suggs as a kid and my mum buying me these beauties 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LoadABallacks 873 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Used to buy all my Subbuteo stuff from the one at the top of the moor. Link to post Share on other sites
Kevan 1,115 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 10 hours ago, mogbad said: Yep bought loads of stuff from Suggs in my time. Mind you I’m that old I can remember buying football boots & kit from Jack Archers on Bramall Lane. I played for a junior Sunday team in the late 60s / early 70s and we bought our kit and match ball from Jack Archer's. The quality was superb. We played in what was then the Everton away kit. Amber shirts and royal blue shorts. At the tkme I remember feeling that we had really professional kit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
edmontonowl 11,027 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 1 hour ago, swinners said: I remember longing for a hockey stick on the 2nd floor of suggs. Never could afford it, but then won the bingo at Manor Top working mans club and mum and dad getting it me. I was only 15. Great times. "Everyone's a swinners" Link to post Share on other sites
edmontonowl 11,027 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Ozymandias Owl said: It was IFK Gothenburg though wasn't it if you looked on the box? Ref 51 - named boxes were post-heavyweight (zombie and lightweight c.1980 onwards)* http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/sub20.htm *I got my anorak from Halfords Link to post Share on other sites
Sergeant Tibbs 3,179 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 11 hours ago, @owlstalk said: Anyone remember Sugg Sport in Sheffield City Centre? Did you ever buy Sheffield Wednesday stuff from there? It seemed at one time there were branches of Sugg Sport all over Sheffield City Centre, with shops on Pinstone Street, Castle Street etc I remember going in there every Saturday morning Upstairs I think was a right waste of the space - you had to climb the steps up to the first floor and there was just a few trophies and that's about it Nah, they had snooker cues upstairs, could usually get ‘em half price in June. Link to post Share on other sites
fatzooma 2,046 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Absolutely loved the place!! Saturday pilgrimage to look at the kits and flick through the other teams kits. Still got some great badges that I collected In the early 80 s. one of them is like a metal rosette design. Great memories. Link to post Share on other sites
shandypants 9,807 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 As a child, my three favourite places were Hillsborough, Suggs Sports and Redgates. Suggs Sports was amazing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
qantas 724 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 I bought my first Wednesday scarf from Suggs, top floor of the shop near Peace Gardens before it moved down the street...it cost me nineteen & threepence which I'd saved from a paper round. My now missus then girlfriend worked at the 'new' Suggs, I got a shirt from there & some darts flights with the Owl on them. She served Steve Davis with some new sports shoes just after he'd lost to Tony Knowles in the 1st round, 10-1 I think, he signed the old ones which were like new & gave them to her, we still have them now. Suggs seemed to be a good place to meet/see celebs, while there she met, Davis, Seb Coe, Bomber Graham, Sherpa Tenzing, Tommy Cooper & Freddie Star, plus a few footballers she can't remember the name of. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
OWLERTON GHOST 29,654 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 3 hours ago, hugeowl said: Yes West st but I think they had one in Hillsboro, just up from the baths on the other side That was Burgins .... The last shop on the left heading up towards the Barracks .... Bus shelter outside at the bottom of Forbes Road across from the baths & Sacred Heart school n church ...... Special mention for Bert's the tailors few doors down from Burgins ... Made me a black suit same as Rick Bucklers with the blue stripe down the front of the jacket ... Made me some fantastic suits did Burt .... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
mogbad 5,384 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 12 hours ago, Striggy said: Nope! Burgins at Hillsborough My Aunty bought me my first Wednesday shirt from there for my 8th birthday. Link to post Share on other sites
Nut 898 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Marro said: Remember going to Suggs as a kid and my mum buying me these beauties I had a pair. Loved em. Got a picture somewhere of me wearing them at a presentation night getting my medal from Ian Mellor. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
qantas 724 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 12 hours ago, mogbad said: Yep bought loads of stuff from Suggs in my time. Mind you I’m that old I can remember buying football boots & kit from Jack Archers on Bramall Lane. Archers was awesome, unbelievable how he got all that stuff in there, Subuteo was the main reason I went there & football boots. My dad was looking for a new ferrule & tip for his cue so I went to Archers not really thinking he'd have them but no, he had a range of sizes for tips & ferrules plus the glue pads & chalk. Link to post Share on other sites
Revenant 2,582 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 51 minutes ago, edmontonowl said: Ref 51 - named boxes were post-heavyweight (zombie and lightweight c.1980 onwards)* http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/sub20.htm *I got my anorak from Halfords Definitely post heavey weight, wasn't even aware they existed. As I recall now they broke quite easily if you accidentally trod on them. I think me and my brother were down to 7 aside before Football Manager on the BBC Micro ended my subuteo career. (Trevor Francis was a reyt player on Football Manager btw) Ironically, I'm sure one of the Gothenburg players would have been Maradona in my head. Shouldn't really mention it on here, but I was bequeathed the pitch by my uncle, who supports the other team in Sheffield. I think the standard players in the box were red v blue, so on the arrival of Gothenburg from Suggs sports it was Wednesday v Liverpool every week. Them were the days... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
trevdi9 25,181 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 11 hours ago, marconi said: I remember the old blind bloke regularly outside the Pinstone Street store. ”Combs and Pens sixpence each.” just bought a comb today , cost me £1 -30 p bloody thieves Link to post Share on other sites
mogbad 5,384 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 7 minutes ago, qantas said: Archers was awesome, unbelievable how he got all that stuff in there, Subuteo was the main reason I went there & football boots. My dad was looking for a new ferrule & tip for his cue so I went to Archers not really thinking he'd have them but no, he had a range of sizes for tips & ferrules plus the glue pads & chalk. The place was like a tardis. Before I went I was told he’d have everything, when I saw the shop I thought this is going to be crap, I walked in & every shelf, nook & cranny was crammed with stuff. I don’t know how he remembered where everything was but you’d ask for something, he’d nod, disappear behind a load of boxes & have what you wanted in his hand when he reappeared. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
qantas 724 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, mogbad said: "I don’t know how he remembered where everything was but you’d ask for something, he’d nod, disappear behind a load of boxes & have what you wanted in his hand when he reappeared." The perfect description of Jack Archer's. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
rickygoo 10,319 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 16 hours ago, qantas said: I bought my first Wednesday scarf from Suggs, top floor of the shop near Peace Gardens before it moved down the street...it cost me nineteen & threepence which I'd saved from a paper round. My now missus then girlfriend worked at the 'new' Suggs, I got a shirt from there & some darts flights with the Owl on them. She served Steve Davis with some new sports shoes just after he'd lost to Tony Knowles in the 1st round, 10-1 I think, he signed the old ones which were like new & gave them to her, we still have them now. Suggs seemed to be a good place to meet/see celebs, while there she met, Davis, Seb Coe, Bomber Graham, Sherpa Tenzing, Tommy Cooper & Freddie Star, plus a few footballers she can't remember the name of. That’s the first time I’ve seen Sherpa Tenzing and Tommy Cooper in the same sentence. Link to post Share on other sites
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