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Spoon cleaning competition at Skelmanthorpe Co-op's treat day, 1909.
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Lindley National School, 1900. Did the 'I' on the chalkboard stand for 'Class One'?
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These boys from Dearne Head were runners-up in the local schools league in the 1920/21 season. We have no names.
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Moldgreen Holliday Cup Final team in the 1947/8 season. They were beaten 13-4 by Lockwood. Back row, from left: president Clr Norman Hopkinson, Harry Langford, Bob Howarth, Ted Cregan, Harry Wortley, Eddie Hirst, Willie Nolan, Jim Conlan and trainer/manager Oliver Morris; front row: Gordon Sandford, George Haigh, Derek Pearson, Peter McNab, Neil Sowden and Peter Whalley.
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We don't know much about this photo, but what we do may spark a memory or two. The group is from Milsbridge Baptist Church, the year is 1952, and the production is Bless The Bride.
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Lindley National School, 1903 - and the letter 'F' could stand for 'Class F'.
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Lockwood RFC in 1947/8, winners of the Huddersfield and District RL and Holliday Cups. Back row from left: E Lenighan, J Foster, D Crossley, E Price, H ingleby, F Wrigglesworth, H Handy, W Brosnan, W Rockett, H Linfoot, W Schofield, ?,?: front row: R Lumley, ?, F Fawcett, W Fuller, F Farrell, H Crosfield, J Lockwood. H Copley and G Dyson also played but are absent from the picture.
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The boys in this photo had been recognised as being members of 'the most sporting side' in the Red Triangle Under-16s League in the 1930/31 season. They were the YMCA 'C' team and one of their number is called Percy Garside - our copy of the photo was presented to him by the then Boys Deepartment secretary, Mr L Barley.
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Bradley C of E School football team in the 1936/37 season, with a cup. Teacher Mr Schofield is at the back, with (back row, from left) R Carey, W Coates, J Hewitt, D Leach, R Bleazard, L Lyons and G Hurst; front row: W Chapman, A Buckley, A Leatham, C Jessop and R Littlewood.
IT’S hard to imagine an era in which the highlight of one’s year would be the Co-op ‘treat’ and the highlight of that ‘treat’ would be a spoon-cleaning competition.
The picture is just one of several old pictures that turned up as our Examiner archivist Stephen Carter spring-cleaned our library prior to the move of the paper’s head office to Bradley.
It is unlikely that spoon-cleaning would be an attractive and popular way to entertain oneself on a summer’s day – though interestingly, in an age when computer games, iPlayers and videos predominate, a special fun day in the park or at an agricultural show still attracts thousands and a great number of them are children.
Perhaps it’s time for some enterprising group to bring back spoon-cleaning?
Readers enhance this miscellany with a number of their own photographs which we feature this week on the All Our Yesterdays centre spread.
In almost all instances there are opportunities for other readers to dig into their memories to identify scholars and players, choristers and partygoers in a selection of pictures covering life in our area during most of the 20th century.
See more galleries at www.examiner.co.uk/nostalgia
