Things you miss from yesteryear at Oakwell

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    Something else about travelling to the match...... by bus.... in the late 60s/early 70s.
    From Darfield, on the two little LP (Larrett Pepper) buses, the cream and red ones, that started their journeys in Thurnscoe. (Are LP still there?) They always put two buses on match day.
    They were ALWAYS packed right down to the front doors, each bus seemed to have about a hundred people on, and yet they always stopped to let more on ! And these were very small, old buses.
    Also, do you remember there was always one very large, fat youngish lad on one of the buses, fair hair, enormous build, he used to sit down at the front. Always cheerful.
    He may have been someone connected with LP.
     
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    Alan Little aiming at Monk Bretton church spire
     
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    Getting half cut before a game with my mates. No time for that now :(
     
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    Chants like.................

    'Norman Hunter's Red N White Army' reverberating around the groud....well left half & right half of ponty end actually.....seemed to go on for ages & ages
     
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    Pipe smoke wafting by on misty Tuesday nights.

    The chance for young children to kick cans around and mess about together by the advertising boards when they get bored whilst their dads watched the match in peace with their mates. Generally being able to move around the ground as you wanted. I could bring my kids now if that was still around.
     
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    Announcements over the Tannoy of births or wives going into labour, so get yersen to hospital quick.
     
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    Being young. Everything was much better when I was young.
     
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    Standing on the Brewery Stand terrace.
    My Grandad shouting "Somebody get that referee down" every game - and people still laughing.
    The smell of Woodbines.
    Running on to the pitch at the end of the game just to pick up a players discarded tie-up. I got George Boardman's and Kenny Brown's back in the day....
     
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    That bloke who used to be in fancy dress collecting for the 'Barnsley Lifeboat Society'....... Or summat similar. Always remember him but a wa young!!!
     
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    Being able to change ends at half time and brass bands.
     
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    Been over excited when you saw the Ooh Gerry Gerry and Currie Barnsleys Red Hot number 10 takeaway t-shirts on sale

    Also for the South Riding fanzines arrival

    The kids who used to sit on those concrete pillars at back of Ponty End
     
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    Stood alongside visiting fans on the ponty (well a line of coppers between us ) then !CHARGE! Ah ah ,!
     
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    The 50pence and jump over turnstile!!!
     
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    opening gates 10-15 minutes before the end so that folk who couldn't afford could get in and watch a bit!!
     
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