English Steel Sports Club, Shiregreen Lane.

[Ponytail]

1 minute ago, Lysanderix said:

Must have been allowed in the rules🤓🤓🤓

Bet he got a good kicking. 😂🤣🤣 Could always tell when inter football was playing... lot of enthusiastic supporters. 😂🤣

[Ponytail]

History of River Don Works Cricket Section, by Donaby Dye feature in BSC Forges, Foundries and Engineering 27th August 1981

ESC Cricket Team 1913 season (below) 

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ESC Team 1915 Champions (below) 

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 ESC Cup Winning Midweek Alliance Team 1930's (below) 

ESC Cricket Teams 1940's

This photograph could be late 1930's.  Bob Short back row third from left, no idea of other names

Back Row left to right: G Bradley?,  ?, Bob Short. Middle Row: ?,  ?,  ?. Front Row: ?,  ?, Harold Booth,  ?. 

On the steps of the Pavilion. 

Back Row:  ?, Bob Short, ?,  ?. Middle Row: ?,  ?, ?, Jack Spencer. Front Row:  Bill Holland, Harold Booth,  ?, Umpire, ?. 

 

Back Row: Ernest Bullock, Matt Cook, D. Jacques, Jack Knighton, George Bradley. 

Front Row: H. Orridge, W. Jarvis, F Smith captain, Jack Spencer, W. Norman, Bob Short. 

Back Row:  ?, G. Bradley?,  ?,  ?, Billy Balme

Front Row:  Ernest Bullock, Jack Spencer, Jack Knighton,  ?, Bob Short,  ?. 

1948 at Darlington (below) 

Back Row: Ernest Bullock; Bill Grant, umpire;  ?;  ?;  ?; Jack Spencer; Billy Balme; George Bradley; Joe Grant;  ?. 

Front Row: R.E. Lucas; Arthur Barker; Jack Knighton; Frank Smith; Bill Jarvis; Bob Short; Bill Norman; Fred Terry. 

Back Row: ?, Umpire, ?, Bob Short,  ?, ?, ?, Umpire,?,  ?. 

Front Row: ?, Geoff Goodall,  ?,  ?,  ?. 

1940's /1950's

Team photograph outside Pavilion (below) 

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Cup Presentation (below) 

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ESC Team for Yorkshire Council Xl 1950 (below) 

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Back Row: Billy Balme;  ? ;  Jack Knighton;  ? ;  ? ; ? ; Joe Grant, umpire.

Seated:  ? ; ? ;  Bob Short captain; George Bradley ; ? ; ?. 

ESC Team at Birkenhead (below) 

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ESC Team 1953 Team (below) 

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ESC were Sheffield B Div Winners 1959

1960's Cricket Team

Back Row: Billy Balme,  ?,  Alec Dyson,  ?, George Bradley, Steve Cave,  ?,  ?. 

Front Row: ?,  ?, Bob Short,  ?, Derek Gibbons. seated crossed legged on the ground son of Billy Balme who used to score.

Cup Winners 1960

Back Row: Joe Grant, cricket scorer, Jack Knighton, Jack Spencer, Ernest Bullock, ?, Derek Gibbons. 

Front Row:  ?, captain Bob Short, G. Bradley?. 

Staff Dance 1960. Standing: ?,  Alf Platts, ?,   Brian Gresham,  ?,  ?  Bob Short, ?,  ?.

Seated: Dorothy Platts, ? Bennett,  Bennett, Betty

Cricket Prize, Rose Bowl on the table  won by Bob Short

Sports Club Dance 1960. Standing :  Mr. Bennett, Alf Platts,  ?, ?, ?, ?., Bob Short. 

Seated: Betty Short,  Mrs Bennett, Josie Bennett, ?, ?,  Dorothy Platts

Sports Club Dance 1965.

Standing: Jack Knighton, Bob Short. Wilf Worley, ?. 

Seated:  ?, Betty Short, Doreen Knighton, Brenda Worley. 

Staff Dance 1957 Bob and Betty Sort second from right. Would love to name the others. 

Staff Dance 1958 Bob and Betty Short centre. Don't know the other two couples

Staff Dance 1959 

Standing:  ?; Mr. Bennett;  ? ; ? ; ?.

Seated:  ? ; ? ; Alf Platts;  Dorothy Platts; Mrs. Bennett; Betty Short; Bob Short;  ?. 

[Ponytail]

ESC Netball First Team 1959/60

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ESC River Don Works Football Team 1930/31

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[Lysanderix]

Quite a few of these faces are familiar…I especially remember Billy Balme ….a pal of my Dad’s.

[Ponytail]

10 minutes ago, Lysanderix said:

Quite a few of these faces are familiar…I especially remember Billy Balme ….a pal of my Dad’s.

Do you remember the names of his sons, especially the one who is crossed legged in front of the team. He was older than me and used to do the scoring. The youngest one, Duncan was a bit younger than me. They used to torment Billy that he'd named him after the brewery, Duncan Gilmour. 

[Lysanderix]

Sorry, ponytail, I don’t remember either of their names.

I  do remember….Mr Bennet, Alf Platts and Bob Short.

[Ponytail]

14 minutes ago, Lysanderix said:

Sorry, ponytail, I don’t remember either of their names.

I  do remember….Mr Bennet, Alf Platts and Bob Short.

Apart from daughter Josie can't remember Bennett first names and we used to sit with them sometimes when dancing on a Friday. Alf had sons, Geoffrey (Jeffrey) older one and Brian who was about my age. Think they lived lower Shiregreen but I may be mistaken. Jack Knighton had daughter Jackie and son Richard, he was same age as me. I'd love to put names to all the faces. Very often I only knew them by a nickname. Bob Short must have made an impression on you, hope he wasn't tormenting. 😂🤣

[Lysanderix]

No, I don’t think so!☺️

[Lysanderix]

Having just watched the current test team in their array of bright coloured garb it occurs to me just how smart were the cricket players of old…in their whites!😌

[Ponytail]

45 minutes ago, Lysanderix said:

Having just watched the current test team in their array of bright coloured garb it occurs to me just how smart were the cricket players of old…in their whites!😌

They were a devil to keep clean, as my mum would have testified, no easy wash fabrics. Washer and ringer and dried outside (subject to weather of course), no spin dryers in the washer or tumble dryers. Bowlers rubbing the ball... red marks, fielders sliding on the grass.. grass stains but they were all cleaned and ironed ready for the next match, often Saturday, Sunday and Midweek. They took pride in having their man turned out well, then again very often the wives didn't do paid work. Oh, can I hear my mum!!! 😂🤣 She even packed his kit bag!! 😂🤣

[Lysanderix]

We grew up in a different world to the one we have today.🤨🤨🤨

[Lysanderix]

Re staff dance 1959….. the man on the extreme left is Phillip Grisdale. The lady seated in front of him is his wife…I think her name was Eva

Phillip became a Councillor on Wortley Rural District…and, after it was taken over by Sheffield…a City Councillor.

Philip had a huge ,family sized ,motor bike and sidecar on which his wife ,son and daughter travelled. At some point he obtained an old car…but being unable to legally drive it until he passed his test he had a “ chauffeur”.

[Ponytail]

7 minutes ago, Lysanderix said:

Re staff dance 1959….. the man on the extreme left is Phillip Grisdale. The lady seated in front of him is his wife…I think her name was Vera.

Phillip became a Councillor on Wortley Rural District…and, after it was taken over by Sheffield…a City Councillor.

Philip had a huge ,family sized ,motor bike and sidecar on which his wife ,son and daughter travelled. At some point he obtained an old car…but being unable to legally drive it until he passed his test he had a “ chauffeur”.

Thank you Lysanderix, that name rings a bell. Dad often referred to people by Nickname or "Old" or "Young" followed by their name, with no disrespect intended just that they were either older or younger than him. In Mr. Grisdale case it was "old" but I wouldn't have been able to put a face to the name. I think he worked with him. 

[Lysanderix]

Phillip was approximately the same age as my Dad ,who was born in 1917.

[Ponytail]

1 hour ago, Lysanderix said:

Phillip was approximately the same age as my Dad ,who was born in 1917.

Dad was probably doing him an injustice then. 🤭🤫 he was born 1916.  I think he was somebody more senior in the pecking order. Dad by this time was a foreman in the South Machine Shop. So glad you identified him, thanks again. 😁

[Lysanderix]

I seem to remember I had an uncle ,Roy ,and a cousin by same name working in the South Machine Shop in the late 50s/ early 60s

[Ponytail]

1 hour ago, Lysanderix said:

I seem to remember I had an uncle ,Roy ,and a cousin by same name working in the South Machine Shop in the late 50s/ early 60s

Small world innit. 😂 Of course the 2 shift system (days and nights) meant they might not have worked together. Mmm, I remember a young lad chatting me up until he said where he worked. It seems dad was his foreman... the reaction?.. Oh no! not him int white helmet! In those days young apprentices were subject to some practical jokes. As "office boy" he was tasked to fetch and carry. While struggling with a pile of paperwork, he'd been told his shoelaces were undone, putting the paperwork down to retie, the papers blew everywhere. Of course the shoes weren't undone. Dad laughed when I quizzed him. Young lad? Didn't speak to me after that!!! 

[Lysanderix]

They were often told to go to the stores and collect …a sky hook!