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In the 60’s from the bar at the back of the Pop Stand.
I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to go ‘fill me boots’ at halftime.
By the time I was it had closed up!
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In the 60’s from the bar at the back of the Pop Stand.
I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to go ‘fill me boots’ at halftime.
By the time I was it had closed up!
Brewed today by Acorn Brewery in Elsecar or Stancil Brewery .
Never tasted the original so can't do the comparison .
The old lads say Stancil is nearer the original taste .
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My first ever pint.
In the Bullcroft Hotel, Skellow.
Cost 2 Bob (10p) in 1968.
I was 16.
Very nice it was
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In the 60’s from the bar at the back of the Pop Stand.
I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to go ‘fill me boots’ at halftime.
By the time I was it had closed up!
Brewed today by Acorn Brewery in Elsecar or Stancil Brewery .
Never tasted the original so can't do the comparison .
The old lads say Stancil is nearer the original taste .
... both good & Acorn is my fav. Always on Little Plough - usually on Windmill Thorne. Old No 7 Barnsley is always good
Too young to have got served in Pop Stand Bar so had to go to TBar. Was it joined on and were they built using Glass block windows ?
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Brilliant times get my place at the little wall around the pitch then at half time up to the bar where the old fella would get me a bottle of coke and a bag of crisps. Then back to the front which way we were kicking
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In the 60’s from the bar at the back of the Pop Stand.
I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to go ‘fill me boots’ at halftime.
By the time I was it had closed up!
Brewed today by Acorn Brewery in Elsecar or Stancil Brewery .
Never tasted the original so can't do the comparison .
The old lads say Stancil is nearer the original taste .
I’m sure Acorn are on an industrial unit in Wombwell
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Used to get mine in the Mallard on Cussy Lane years back.
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Isn't it a similar taste to John Smith's? which I was disappointed to find was chilled the last time I had one, I prefer bitter at room temperature.
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Barnsley is a permanent cask at Three Horse Shoes on North Bridge. Think its Acorn but not sure. Always a good pint though.
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I use to work behind the bar in the Pop Side Bar, then got promoted to the main stand bar. Great Days.
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https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/how-determined-brewer-saved-famous-19316406 (https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/how-determined-brewer-saved-famous-19316406)
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2010/03/08/A-bitter-feeling-in-Barnsley (https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2010/03/08/A-bitter-feeling-in-Barnsley)
There is a lot of history between the 2 Brewers of Barnsley. I offer these without comment if anyone wants a read
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There was a bar in the pop side?
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Yep at the top of the terracing
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In the 60’s from the bar at the back of the Pop Stand.
I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to go ‘fill me boots’ at halftime.
By the time I was it had closed up!
Brewed today by Acorn Brewery in Elsecar or Stancil Brewery .
Never tasted the original so can't do the comparison .
The old lads say Stancil is nearer the original taste .
... both good & Acorn is my fav. Always on Little Plough - usually on Windmill Thorne. Old No 7 Barnsley is always good
Too young to have got served in Pop Stand Bar so had to go to TBar. Was it joined on and were they built using Glass block windows ?
That’s how I remember it Wolf, with the glass bricks.
Perhaps BiargeBob could give us more insight having worked in it.
Was it a rush to get a pint before the second half kicked of BiargeBob, (like on the Keepmoat concourse), how many people were serving on, how many pumps, was there seating, what time did it open & close?
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Yep at the top of the terracing
Long before when it was much higher - seemed to be really high when you climbed up it
Can be seen here with Bars at back - with glass "walls"
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Yep at the top of the terracing
Long before when it was much higher - seemed to be really high when you climbed up it
Can be seen here with Bars at back - with glass "walls"
Seating? There was hardly room to stand up. There were three of us on duty, I only worked evening games, sorry the memory lets me down on how many pumps. Obviously there was a mad rush 10 minutes before half time & if they were losing we had to stay open after half time. I think the chap who ran it after I was there was called Barry Heaton, I believed he worked at British Ropes.
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Used to drink Forest Brown Ale in the popside bar at half-time
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I remember seeing a glow of orange light from those glass blocks when viewed from the main stand terrace, circa 1980. Was it still open then or would this have been a reflection of street lights etc.? Then I used the pop side from aged 15 in 1984 so wouldn’t have used the bar..
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Home roost of the "famous" owl as well
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Surely the owl roosted in that TV cabinet suspended from one of the pillars holding up the Popside roof? You can see the thing in Wolfie's cracking picture.
BobG
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Surely the owl roosted in that TV cabinet suspended from one of the pillars holding up the Popside roof? You can see the thing in Wolfie's cracking picture.
BobG
Was that tv box ever used to your knowledge Bob?
I have a vague memory of seeing bodies (live ones!) but can’t recall ever seeing signs of games being ‘video’d’ from there.
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It shows the loss of crowd capacity that occurred after the stands' demolition when you consider the roof supports at the front of the stand were where the back of the new stand was erected!
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Was Darleys ever sold at BV?
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Hi Colin
I don't have any specific memory of it ever being used but why on Earth would it have been put there if it wasn't?
The obvious game that comes to mind is that match against Luton Town, complete with a young Malcom Macdonald who were top of the third division at the time and going places. We were a decent side near the top of the league too and we beat them 2-0 I think for their first defeat of the season. Big crowd there and it would have been a good match to video. Timing must be roughly right - but I'm guessing now...
BobG
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I thought the gantry was used frequently for filming first-team games.
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Was Darleys ever sold at BV?
Would not think so but bedalerover idler selby etc may hold that info
bedale mentioned Forest Brown which was Whitbread's whereas Darley's offered Nut Brown
I also remember Camerons [**M.H] was painted on Pop Stand Roof and Hull Brewery was painted of front of Main Stand front but were they merely "adverts" or was there product being sold as well ?
**M.H [Malton / Hartlepool]
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I seem to temember as a young teenager buying SamSmiths Nut Brown to take to parties
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I thought the gantry was used frequently for filming first-team games.
F.J. Wilson bought a cameras so that all matches could be filmed and then studied by manager, coaches and players. That as why the wooden loft was built. I don't know how long filming went on but those films would have been great to see now. King Alick and games like the Aldershot 7-0.
Frank Wilson had a vision for the club whereas Hubert Bates was more interested in his bank balance.
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The urinal at the back of the pop side had to be one of the direst ever.
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I remember when I first started drinking legally, 1965, I sometimes drank in the Peacock in Stainy, and if my memory serves me right it was a Sam Smith's pub. I do remember my first pints of Barnsley Bitter, a strange experience for me, as it had an almost yellowy head on it, and I could smell it before I tasted it as I brought it to my mouth. It wasn't to my liking, and I settled on Sam's bottled Nut Brown ale when I drank in the Peacock.
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Was there a “toilet” at the back of the bar behind the stand or was it just the open ones in the corners of Pop Stand
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I have a "feeling" that there were bogs [being kind] out the back of the Stand right on top of the embankment looking out over Airport / houses
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Another HT Board photo for BobG
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Another HT Board photo for BobG
That’s a cracking photo Wolf.
I was stood on the Rosso Terrace in 1968 when we played top of the table Darlington on a night match. We were 2nd & a win would take us above them.
As the players warmed up I watched open mouthed as a Darlington player flicked the ball up & caught it on the back of his neck. WOW!
First time I’d ever seen such ‘a trick’ done live. “Did you see that?”, I said to my brother, “This lot must be good”.
I knew there was a big crowd because I spent all the game crushed up & craning my neck to see the action. 22,000 in Belle Vue that evening as Rovers went down 1-0 in a tense game.
The record crowd for a 4th Division game was even reported that evening on the BBC News.
‘Laurie’s Lads’ went on to lift the title that year of course in a season that will live long in my heart.
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Darlington's winner was a fluke goal. It was at the town end and was intended as a cross from the left-wing by Harry Kirk. It sailed into the corner of the net over the keepers head.
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It was a big terrace that weren't it?! Floodlights on the back of the pylon at the corner with the Popside to light up Donny Town's pitch too.
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And the red lights on top too with it being next to the airfield
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That would be Doncaster United but I reckon too far ... But not as far as Doncaster Town up Bennetthorpe but they were the Cricket Team
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Just shows colindouglashandshake how big the Pop side was before it and Rosso End were altered
Forgive my eyesight but there both had 40 steps +/- a couple so plenty of room on both of them though it did seem rammed for that Darlo 0-1 game for sure
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Another HT Board photo for BobG
Was always fascinated with that as a kid and how a letter related to a certain game.
That and the golden goal competition
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Another HT Board photo for BobG
Was always fascinated with that as a kid and how a letter related to a certain game.
That and the golden goal competition
The girls who sold the golden goal tickets formed their own football team- the Belle Vue Belles, later to become Doncaster Belles.
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....and all went to Luton Town 4 0 game in FA Cup on Special train.
MacDonald 4* McMenemy 0
* 3 at least
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Biggest crowd i have been been present at Belle Vue was 20.000 and something, can’t remember exactly v Hull City in a League Cup tie in Nov 1975
I was stood at the Town end and it was very full to say the least as was the whole ground.
How the heck did they get another 17.000 on top of that figure into the ground against Hull City nearly 30 years earlier.
The ground was the same size in the 40’s as it was in the 70’s so it would seem impossible to have an attendance of 37,000 Quite unbelievable really.
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No Social Distancing in them days
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I was stood on the Main Stand side for the Darlington game with 22,000 odd and literally couldn't move. Packed in like sardines and all around the ground looked the same.
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Darlington's winner was a fluke goal. It was at the town end and was intended as a cross from the left-wing by Harry Kirk. It sailed into the corner of the net over the keepers head.
It was a double fluke BB because it was a mis-hit shot that landed at his feet for him then score. We pummelled them apart from that.
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Another HT Board photo for BobG
That’s a cracking photo Wolf.
I was stood on the Rosso Terrace in 1968 when we played top of the table Darlington on a night match. We were 2nd & a win would take us above them.
As the players warmed up I watched open mouthed as a Darlington player flicked the ball up & caught it on the back of his neck. WOW!
First time I’d ever seen such ‘a trick’ done live. “Did you see that?”, I said to my brother, “This lot must be good”.
I knew there was a big crowd because I spent all the game crushed up & craning my neck to see the action. 22,000 in Belle Vue that evening as Rovers went down 1-0 in a tense game.
The record crowd for a 4th Division game was even reported that evening on the BBC News.
‘Laurie’s Lads’ went on to lift the title that year of course in a season that will live long in my heart.
I think that Brighton had a couple of about 30,000 gates near the end of the season when they went up in 1964.
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It was a big terrace that weren't it?! Floodlights on the back of the pylon at the corner with the Popside to light up Donny Town's pitch too.
Apparently, Bob, it held 15000, including the corner that went round to the Pop side.
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Biggest crowd i have been been present at Belle Vue was 20.000 and something, can’t remember exactly v Hull City in a League Cup tie in Nov 1975
I was stood at the Town end and it was very full to say the least as was the whole ground.
How the heck did they get another 17.000 on top of that figure into the ground against Hull City nearly 30 years earlier.
The ground was the same size in the 40’s as it was in the 70’s so it would seem impossible to have an attendance of 37,000 Quite unbelievable really.
I was there when there were 32000 in, Camps. FA Cup 5th round against Spurs in 1956.
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Biggest crowd i have been been present at Belle Vue was 20.000 and something, can’t remember exactly v Hull City in a League Cup tie in Nov 1975
I was stood at the Town end and it was very full to say the least as was the whole ground.
How the heck did they get another 17.000 on top of that figure into the ground against Hull City nearly 30 years earlier.
The ground was the same size in the 40’s as it was in the 70’s so it would seem impossible to have an attendance of 37,000 Quite unbelievable really.
I was there when there were 32000 in, Camps. FA Cup 5th round against Spurs in 1956.
Your an old codger then SS
I was still in nappies in 1956.
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:that:Biggest crowd i have been been present at Belle Vue was 20.000 and something, can’t remember exactly v Hull City in a League Cup tie in Nov 1975
I was stood at the Town end and it was very full to say the least as was the whole ground.
How the heck did they get another 17.000 on top of that figure into the ground against Hull City nearly 30 years earlier.
The ground was the same size in the 40’s as it was in the 70’s so it would seem impossible to have an attendance of 37,000 Quite unbelievable really.
I was there when there were 32000 in, Camps. FA Cup 5th round against Spurs in 1956.
Your an old codger then SS
I was still in nappies in 1956.
Yes, but at least I had to go through the kids' entrance. I saw BB and Wolfie that day going through the OAPs' entrance.
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SS if you could actually see the game properly against Spurs with a 32,000 crowd in the ground, you must have been at least 16yrs old which makes BB and Wolf mighty ancient.
Are they both going to matches in mobility scooters these days.
Gosh i do feel young now.
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Can’t believe you posted that SS.
Great minds think alike. You just beat me to it.
Unbelievable Jeff. Spoiled my thunder there. Oh well never mind.
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SS if you could actually see the game properly against Spurs with a 32,000 crowd in the ground, you must have been at least 16yrs old which makes BB and Wolf mighty ancient.
Are they both going to matches in mobility scooters these days.
Gosh i do feel young now.
I was quite a few years younger than 16, Camps. The reason I could see the game was that my Uncle took me, as my Dad never took me anywhere, and he made sure I was against the wall in front of the Pop side.
My best memory of the game was seeing Danny Blanchflower play.
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SS if you could actually see the game properly against Spurs with a 32,000 crowd in the ground, you must have been at least 16yrs old which makes BB and Wolf mighty ancient.
Are they both going to matches in mobility scooters these days.
Gosh i do feel young now.
I was quite a few years younger than 16, Camps. The reason I could see the game was that my Uncle took me, as my Dad never took me anywhere, and he made sure I was against the wall in front of the Pop side.
My best memory of the game was seeing Danny Blanchflower play.
I assumed you probably were less than 16 well just. :)
Great memories SS
My 1st memory was age 7 in 1962/63 seeing the great John Charles play for Leeds United.
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SS if you could actually see the game properly against Spurs with a 32,000 crowd in the ground, you must have been at least 16yrs old which makes BB and Wolf mighty ancient.
Are they both going to matches in mobility scooters these days.
Gosh i do feel young now.
Talking of mobility scooters, can you remember the little light blue mobility cars that were allowed on at the side of the pitch?
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SS if you could actually see the game properly against Spurs with a 32,000 crowd in the ground, you must have been at least 16yrs old which makes BB and Wolf mighty ancient.
Are they both going to matches in mobility scooters these days.
Gosh i do feel young now.
Talking of mobility scooters, can you remember the little light blue mobility cars that were allowed on at the side of the pitch?
I remember one with “pipe” on the windscreen
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:that:Biggest crowd i have been been present at Belle Vue was 20.000 and something, can’t remember exactly v Hull City in a League Cup tie in Nov 1975
I was stood at the Town end and it was very full to say the least as was the whole ground.
How the heck did they get another 17.000 on top of that figure into the ground against Hull City nearly 30 years earlier.
The ground was the same size in the 40’s as it was in the 70’s so it would seem impossible to have an attendance of 37,000 Quite unbelievable really.
I was there when there were 32000 in, Camps. FA Cup 5th round against Spurs in 1956.
Your an old codger then SS
I was still in nappies in 1956.
I was barely a sperm in 1956.
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:that:Biggest crowd i have been been present at Belle Vue was 20.000 and something, can’t remember exactly v Hull City in a League Cup tie in Nov 1975
I was stood at the Town end and it was very full to say the least as was the whole ground.
How the heck did they get another 17.000 on top of that figure into the ground against Hull City nearly 30 years earlier.
The ground was the same size in the 40’s as it was in the 70’s so it would seem impossible to have an attendance of 37,000 Quite unbelievable really.
I was there when there were 32000 in, Camps. FA Cup 5th round against Spurs in 1956.
Your an old codger then SS
I was still in nappies in 1956.
I was barely a sperm in 1956.
Never.
In this world or was that another?
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"Talking of mobility scooters, can you remember the little light blue mobility cars that were allowed on at the side of the pitch?"
Forgot about the blue mobility cars, brilliant.
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That would be Doncaster United but I reckon too far ... But not as far as Doncaster Town up Bennetthorpe but they were the Cricket Team
Quite right Wolfie... I definitely had a very senior moment there...
BobG
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I knew that was a "slip" with your cricket knowledge lol
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Isn't it a similar taste to John Smith's? which I was disappointed to find was chilled the last time I had one, I prefer bitter at room temperature.
I never tasted the original Barnsley bitter but I did have a pint of the Acorn version with a couple of older lads who knew the original.
Apparently it had a distinctive copper penny aftertaste. We all agreed the Acorn version did too but they reckoned it wasn't as obvious as the original.
I quite liked it.