Can anyone tell me if a tale i have heard is true, that an elephant (possibly named Lizzie) sometime around the 1920's played in goal for a sheffield football club? Please :loopy: The elephant could be the same one that used to work at thomas wards scrap yard on carlisle street. Thanks
A picture would be great too.

I think something like this was mentioned in Sheffield History & Expats

link here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=15134&highlight=wards+elephant)

yes, i was there they, even had a racoon up front

I posted the name of the elephant on Sheffield History and ex-Pats, but I’ll give it again because everyone still seems to think it was Lizzie. It was Daisy!
I might be old, but I do remember its name. Can’t help about Sheffield United though. If it did play in goal, it wouldn’t have been in a league match, that’s for sure! In any event, everyone on Attercliffe Common fed it buns every day so it wouldn’t have been fit enough to play goalie. Big enough, yes.

Hi.
In all the articles I have read it was named Lizzie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist10_prog13d.shtml
During the First World War, Thomas Ward's was heavily engaged in war activities. There was a shortage of horses which had been sent to the Front and in 1916 Ward leased an elephant (and a man to look after it) from a circus. Circuses had been stood down for the duration of the war. The firm had the elephant for a couple of years, stabling her near the factory and using her for hauling heavy loads of steel around Sheffield. The elephant's name was Lizzie and the records are full of anecdotes about her - eating a schoolboy's cap, putting her trunk through a kitchen window to help herself, and pushing over a traction engine.

There are pictures of Lizzie Ward on picture Sheffield.
http://www.picturesheffield.com/

Tuppie

Hi.
In all the articles I have read it was named Lizzie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist10_prog13d.shtml
During the First World War, Thomas Ward's was heavily engaged in war activities. There was a shortage of horses which had been sent to the Front and in 1916 Ward leased an elephant (and a man to look after it) from a circus. Circuses had been stood down for the duration of the war. The firm had the elephant for a couple of years, stabling her near the factory and using her for hauling heavy loads of steel around Sheffield. The elephant's name was Lizzie and the records are full of anecdotes about her - eating a schoolboy's cap, putting her trunk through a kitchen window to help herself, and pushing over a traction engine.

There are pictures of Lizzie Ward on picture Sheffield.
http://www.picturesheffield.com/

Tuppie

Don’t believe everything on the internet. I can assure you that its name WAS Daisy. I can also assure you that despite the ‘anecdotes’ she did not push over a traction engine. Moved a stationary one, yes. But pushed one over, No. It was a fairground traction engine owned by John Farrar who took his fair on the Yorkshire circuit. I’ve got a hand-written copy of the original report on it, written to John Farrar by my father who was its driver. He worked the circuit fairgrounds before he was married.

Don’t believe everything on the internet

I don't ....!!!!!!

It is documented in the Local Studies library.

Kind Regards

Tuppie

please help me find a full england team AND manager cos ours are ****

I don't ....!!!!!!

It is documented in the Local Studies library.

Kind Regards

Tuppie

Not correctly documented, I fear.

yes, i was there they, even had a racoon up front


And a giraffe (Jack Charlton) at the back

She eventually finished up here.... http://www.swanseaheritage.net/swanseathroughtheyears/gat.asp?A_ID=270