anyone old enough to remember GLOOPS ? i had my photo taken with him in the fifties, i think it was in the sheffield star,were you a gloops club member ?

were they in the junior star?

cant rightly remember mate.long time ago

My nickname in school (1947-54) was always Gloops! Being a little fat, and wearing glasses, I guess I resembled Gloops, but it was never said to me in anything but a put-down!I hated that little feline! Then, lo and behold, Garfield came on the scene. Thankfully, I was too old to have that name bestowed on me. Just as an afterthought, when I first got a computer, and entered into the world of 'user names and passwords', the only name that came to me was, you guessed it, GLOOPS!!! Still use it to this day as my password!

you should never give out your password oldtimer someone may log in as you and take the ****...:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:


couldn't resist:hihi: (kirky)

little things amuse little minds eh!:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

the very word used to make me heave...reminded me of sickly puddings at school!!! do i remember correctly a lady called janet who usually appeared along side gloops in the junior star?........

think your right,wish i had,nt posted this..think of all the people who are getting complexes reminding them of when they were younger and were a bit over weight or wore glasses...nowt so cruel as kids..i remember fishing on graves park a few years ago when a man walked on and one of the other anglers said out loud " fxxk me gloops is back " forty odd years after we last saw gloops,theres a million memories out there shame is the ones with the memories of how sheffield used to be dont have pc,s .....what a waste of knowledge.like a lost library...sad....i,m sure the uni or polly could get a grant to collect some of this info before its too late and all the sheffield folk with the knowledge have passed on........am i showing my age ?

What was the name of that other character? the one with a long nose peering over a wall..always saying things like "wot no bacon" or what ever we were short of in those days....It's just come back to me he was called "Chad"..anyone remember him?.

cant remember the name but looked like an aardvark.......any body work at the sheffield star archives on here ?

going off the thread a bit.any one remember albert the copper with the biggest hands in sheffield ? used to be the town ( fitzallen square ) bobby.......the bell pub and the elephant pub in the square ?police box in the wicker.......the free water supply ( and cup ) outside the sheffield court house oppossite the cannon pub, which used to have a men only room.....the brunswick pub..post office building in fitzalan square and the police box also the toilets where you could have a wash and brush up,not as grand as the ones out side the town hall,there still there under our feet,a time machine from towns history that just needs some one to sign the papers to re open them.where can you go for a pee nowadays in town ?

Kirky, the Gloops club members did feature in the Junior Star. I only know this because I was one of the winners of the "Plant a Tree in 73" competition [which was front page news throughout the world...], and the copy my mum still keeps has the cartoon and membership form in it. I was never a member, preferring the more aggressively masculine, Dennis The Menace Fan Club. As yet, it has brought me no benefit in society.

Thank there was another character in the Gloops strip called Uncle Burford.He had a beard.As a kid in school prayers I always thought of him whenever God was mentioned.
Most papers in those days had children's writers called Uncle So and So.Think the Star has an Aunt Edith and later Aunt Janet and Uncle Timothy.Nice,gentle folk you could trust.
The Star also used to run a weekly kids painting contest.The winning pictures were displayed in the Telegraph building window.
Some of the little smart-arses would cheat by adding feathers and other textures - I hated those kids.

The Gloops club used to give out a badge if you went to school for 3 years without a day off. Think my brother got one. I was a couple of months away from mine when the Sheffield gale blew our bungalow roof off (see thread) and I missed a day. Hence no badge. That's probably what started me on the downward spiral towards my present physical and mental state. Oh well , back to the meths.

Yes, I well remember the Gloops club, I had my Gloops badge, must have been about 1954, the highlight for me was winning a handwriting competition in The Star and receiving two tickets for Billy Smart's circus. I used to love the little strip cartoon in The Star, thought it was great!

Originally posted by Timbuck
What was the name of that other character? the one with a long nose peering over a wall..always saying things like "wot no bacon" or what ever we were short of in those days....It's just come back to me he was called "Chad"..anyone remember him?.
l believe Chad came with the saying BIG BROTHER'S WATCHING YOU. Thats if memory serves me correct.

Originally posted by oldtimer
you should never give out your password oldtimer someone may log in as you and take the ****...:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:


couldn't resist:hihi: (kirky)

Impersonating an old timer Eh Kirky, thats against the forum law.
Sentance should be passed by Judge Geof.
What would you say Geof, this is a serious offence.
No postings for a week would be fitting.

Thanks Cycleracer

I agree he is out of order, I refer him to the prosicution.

He should be hung drawn and quartered for his crime.

Yeh I agree Oldtimer.
hehe.

Originally posted by Cycleracer
Impersonating an old timer Eh Kirky, thats against the forum law.
Sentance should be passed by Judge Geof.
What would you say Geof, this is a serious offence.
No postings for a week would be fitting.

shut up you plant pot..i would hardley put my name on the post if i was up to no good:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Calm down Kirky,, its not to be taken seriously.
Read it and read it again and you will see the hypocritic humour.
Its there, I promise.

I remember gloops. Also remember a kid we called gloops, an apprentice plumber i think.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by kirky
[B]shut up you plant pot..


:clap: :clap: :clap: lol not heard that saying for years, PLANT POT
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
what was this gloops supposed to be , was it a bear,monkey or just some dude dressed up? :confused:

I remember Gloops well, from around 1973. I always had an urge to poke its eyes out.

Kiwi----I think Chad's a bit older than Big Brother.

When Chad says ,"Wot..no ---- ?" he is having a dig at the wartime shortages and rationing. Since rationing went on into the early '50's with various products ,Chad lasted ,I think , until the mid--'50's.
I suppose , having him looking over a wall symbolised the "outsiders"who were short of evrything and couldn't afford to buy stuff on the Black Market.

Originally posted by sheffexpat
[B]Kiwi----I think Chad's a bit older than Big Brother.

hahahaha very droll ...

I must have been a member of Gloop's Club too, when my parents died and i was clearing out I found a membership card and a badge ...

Another Star character I remember was Little Sport on the back page or was he in the Green Un? Just loved that biggggg quiff he had ...

Depoix: Use any shop doorway. That's today's custom.:thumbsup:

Originally posted by sheffexpat
Kiwi----I think Chad's a bit older than Big Brother.

When Chad says ,"Wot..no ---- ?" he is having a dig at the wartime shortages and rationing. Since rationing went on into the early '50's with various products ,Chad lasted ,I think , until the mid--'50's.
I suppose , having him looking over a wall symbolised the "outsiders"who were short of evrything and couldn't afford to buy stuff on the Black Market.

l stand corrected mate. lts a terrible thing this senility

I must have been a member of the Gloops club in the 40's. Remember having the card and badge. So it must have continued for quite a while.
I too went in for the painting competitions and pressed my nose to the Telegragh window but nevr won.
Hazel

Do any of you 'older' folks remember an arcade type place on the Moor? It would have been on the left as you go down, and about where Woolworths is now. I vaguely remember it from when I was a kid. It ran from the Moor through to the parallel street at the back. Haven't got a clue if there were shops in it, or if it was a short-cut.

Has anyone ever heard of a street somewhere in Sheffield where they used to have to winch trams up and down because it was so steep? I remember it being pointed out to me when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I think it was somewhere around Newhall/Carlisle Street area. Might be wrong!!

Yes, I remember the arcade. I thought it was higher up more just past the Peace Gardens. There were shops on it. I remember a gents outfitters on the corner. I bought presents for my boyfriend there.
Don't remeber the tram being winched tho.
Hazel

Thinking about it somemore hazel, the arcade may have been somewhere on Pinstone Street between Peace Gardens and Moorhead. In which case it would have run through from Pinstone Street to Union Street.

Glad someone else remembers it aswell. :thumbsup:

Do you know I can't remember going straight tho to the other end, But you are right it would have gone straight thru to where Union St Picture house was. Can you remember Stewarts and Stewarts, the dept store who were opposite the arcade. And further down from the arcade was Redgates the toy store
Hazel

I remember Redgates with a passion, but unless Stewarts and Stewarts sold toys or sweets I wouldn't have been aware of the place.

In those days I was a scruffy little lad who hated town, so I was in a trance unless toys or sweets were visible.

:o i can only just remember this arcade , it did have shops ,i can remember going for my haircut think it was the first sweeneys to open in sheffield , may be wrong

No, you would not have appreciated Stewarts and Stewarts as a child Lovely store I think family run.
Redgate too was privately run I think by the Nunn family.
Walshes too was owned by a Sheffield family (where Hughes is now ) I remember them living in a large House opposite The Girls High School, the store took a direct hit in the war and they rebuilt it.
Further down in Fitzallen Square was Wilson and Gumpets Toy Store equalling Redgates for delight.
Hazel

Hazel, both Redgates and Wilson Gumpets were owned by the Nunn family. Mr Michael Nunn ran Redgates and his (I think) Uncle ran Wilson Gumpets.

The arcade ran from Pinstone Street [The Moor really begins at Debenhams] to Union Street. The top of it came out almost opposite the bottom of Cambridge Street and at the bottom was the [in]famous El Mambo.
It was usually called "Barney's Arcade "because probably Sheffield's best-known tailor's shop was in the arcade---Barney Goodman's.
For years at the top there used to be a blind man[ we nick-named him Blind Pew] stood , selling trinkets from a tray. A friend told me he'd died fairly recently.
Tha Arcade did have a few shops---I vaguely remember a jewellers and maybe a hairdressers ?
Didn't want to be too fussy about the Moor and Pinstone Street but loads of people think it begins at the Peace Gardens but , not so. Don't make Pinstone shorter than it already is !
Obviously THe Moor was a lot longer in those days as it ran past where the Manpower building is now and joined up with London Road and Ecclesall Road.

I always thought that the Dr Gumpert at the nureological dept at the Hallamshire had ties to that family shop !!!

I remember the tailors now

All the lads used to brag that their suits were made by Barney Goodman with hand stitched lapel A sort of over stitching.

They used to stand around in groups at the dances all in charcoal grey suits and not dancing until the last waltz.

Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
I always thought that the Dr Gumpert at the nureological dept at the Hallamshire had ties to that family shop !!!

I remember the tailors now

All the lads used to brag that their suits were made by Barney Goodman with hand stitched lapel A sort of over stitching.

They used to stand around in groups at the dances all in charcoal grey suits and not dancing until the last waltz.

Hazel

Oh my god! Barney Goodman suits, yes the lads DID use to brag about their suits from there, i remember them mostly tweed though, the lads use to stand there dead stiff if they had on a new suit on, how funny !

Originally posted by depoix
going off the thread a bit.any one remember albert the copper with the biggest hands in sheffield ?
I think he was Security chief at Daniel Doncasters on Penistone Rd around 1990.

Hi Hazel and Poppins
you must have been the two girls at the opposite side of the dance hall, laughing at me in my new Barney's suit and crocheted tie and d.a haircut. Well thanks for the memory that l've had to live with for all these years, l never have realy got over it lol.

Ps. you both looked pretty cute.

Originally posted by poppins
Oh my god! Barney Goodman suits, yes the lads DID use to brag about their suits from there, i remember them mostly tweed though, the lads use to stand there dead stiff if they had on a new suit on, how funny !
Barney Goodmans is still around. When the owner retired some years ago the staff bought the business and moved to Ecclesall Road, and it's still there.

Originally posted by KIWI
Ps. you both looked pretty cute.

Hazel was the cute one, i was the one with the dyed blonde hair that was back combed so much it looked like a birds nest !

You could tell a Barny's suit by the shoulders

Originally posted by prioryx
You could tell a Barny's suit by the shoulders

Yes, still had the coat hangers in it.

Originally posted by poppins
Yes, still had the coat hangers in it.


:clap: :clap: the old uns are still the good uns :heyhey:

Originally posted by KIWI
Hi Hazel and Poppins
you must have been the two girls at the opposite side of the dance hall, laughing at me in my new Barney's suit and crocheted tie and d.a haircut. Well thanks for the memory that l've had to live with for all these years, l never have realy got over it lol.

My God, crochet ties and DA haircuts, I'd forgotten those. you young men looked so dishy.
We could well have been, Kiwi, I think more
likley to be Poppins tho. I usually missed the fun could never escape the boy friend.

Was that when Duffle Coats came into fashion too.
Hazel

Was that when Duffle Coats came into fashion too.
Hazel [/B][/QUOTE]

No it was before duffle coats Hazel. They didn't seem to go with my crepe soled shoe's, lt was the time of the gabadine and later when the velvet collars came in ( l felt such a ponce )
l left for N.Z. For shorts and singlet and yes l remember you Poppins. Still recon you were both cute.

Do you remember the Teddy-Bear era??with the velvet collars and pockets, the jacket reaching half way down the thighs,the drain-pipe trousers and the crepe shoes about an inch and a half thick, the shoe lace tie and the hair with about a half bottle of vaseline hair tonic to keep it in place??????
What some people will do to pull a bird. lol

Some girls had DA cuts, that was from Doris Day hair doos,
my days were all back combing and bleach, never did ruin my hair till this day, fish tail dresses where in stlye too, think that was from Doris ***** can't remember her name, she married Micky Haggerty, then got killed in a car accident.

Originally posted by KIWI
Do you remember the Teddy-Bear era?
Think you mean teddy boys KIWI. I was a bit too young, but I had an older cousin who I hero-worshipped and who was heavily into it for a while. Up to a couple of years ago there used to be one or two you still saw around town occasionally, same style, same gear, but in their t 50's!

The arcade you mention was a bit lower down from where Suggs is now, and it ran through to Union Street, at the top right was Barney Goodmans, a very high class gents outfitters,They made mens suits with massive shoulders, which made the men look real tough as they swaggered through town,at the other side of the Arcade was Suggs, and I think I also remember a card shop, standing at the top op the arcade was a blind man who I think sold matches.

There was an arcade with an entrance on Pinstone St, called the Cambridge Arcade. It had a jewellers and a camera shop where my mum bought me a second hand plate camera. She worked then at Singer's Sewing Machine Shop a little further down the Moor not as far as the Empire.

Does anyone remember:

the tailors Haycock and Jarman on Pinstone St? My mum (I was all she had) bought me a made-to-measure Crombie overcoat there for my 17th birthday in 1954 while I was at KES.

the shop on Charles St that sold chemicals?

Gloops was a plump cat who had a coat, striped trousers and a lisp. 'Thmile' was a catchword.

My nickname in school (1947-54) was always Gloops! Being a little fat, and wearing glasses, I guess I resembled Gloops, but it was never said to me in anything but a put-down!I hated that little feline! Then, lo and behold, Garfield came on the scene. Thankfully, I was too old to have that name bestowed on me. Just as an afterthought, when I first got a computer, and entered into the world of 'user names and passwords', the only name that came to me was, you guessed it, GLOOPS!!! Still use it to this day as my password!


I can't believe it,that's my password. He was in a comic strip in the Star. In fact I used Gloops as a username once on a talkboard.:o

Some girls had DA cuts, that was from Doris Day hair doos,
my days were all back combing and bleach, never did ruin my hair till this day, fish tail dresses where in stlye too, think that was from Doris ***** can't remember her name, she married Micky Haggarty, then got killed in a car accident.
I think that it was Jayne Mansfield that married Mickey Haggarty and then died in a car crash. Incidentally their daughter Mariska ( spelling not quite right) Haggarty stars on one of the "Law and Order" programmes.

Poppins
Just got back in and I suddenly realized the last name was wrong. The guy that Jayne Mansfield married was called Mickey Hargitay. Could this be the person you were talking about ? The "Law and Order" actress also has this last name.

I think that it was Jayne Mansfield that married Mickey Haggarty and then died in a car crash. Incidentally their daughter Mariska ( spelling not quite right) Haggarty stars on one of the "Law and Order" programmes.

Mariska Hargitay, the daughter of JM, also starred in early series of E.R.

wasn't Mickey Hargitay some sort of weightlifter/mister universe-ey type?

PT

anyone old enough to remember GLOOPS ? i had my photo taken with him in the fifties, i think it was in the sheffield star,were you a gloops club member ?

I certainly remember Gloops and being a member too. Even entered the Gloops Queen/princess competition - never won!!

My wife's still got her Gloops badge, it is inscribed "MERITORIOUS SERVICE - THE STAR GLOOPS CLUB" It has a face of what looks like a cat with "SMILE" inscribed underneath. She says she got it for attending school for four years without a day off - she left school in 1961 :smile:

i was made a member of the gloops club along with my twin sister when i was just a few hours old ,my cousin enrolled us and we got our names in the paper for being their youngest members .a few years ago my mum gave me my gloops card.sad to say i lost it after she had kept all these years

I had completely forgotten about the Gloops Club until this thread reminded me. I must have been about eight when I joined. I remember receiving a yellow badge, and a piece of paper which said "Now you're in!" I found the badge when clearing out my late parents' house three years ago, but we've moved since then so it's gone missing again.

Although Gloops was the main character,there was also his two owners
Burford and Belinda. The Gloops club also organised day trips to the seaside
for those kids who had never seen the sea,and also provided boots for those without. Some kids used to run around in bare feet in the Summer,things were tough in those days. I remember one lad came to school in girls shoes,a
plain shoe with a single strap that was fastened by a small button. His peers
gave him hell over that ,laughing pointing, jeering. I felt very sorry for him as his family's circumstances were so dire he had to wear whatever was available.

I think he was Security chief at Daniel Doncasters on Penistone Rd around 1990.

I saw him 2 years ago he lives at netheredge, walks with the aid of a cane but is still on the ball as for the blind guy in the arcade i am sure he used to sell lavendar when i was a boy

Did you know that Gloops was what we used to call 'short tongued' - talked with a lisp. He would say "thmile" instead of "smile" and instantly everyone did so. His one objective in life was to make people smile.

Barney Goodman had a shop at the top of the moor, the jackets always had massive shoulders so everybody looked like Atlas in them.

Yes, I remember well Gloops, Burford and Belinda and I joined the Gloops Club in the mid to late 1940's. My dad wouldn't let me wear the badge on my best suit, he seemed to feel that it was a bit infra dig although when I had a professional photograph taken with my baby sister, I managed to sneak it in. I still have that photograph some sixty odd years later.

I am convinced that the artist who did Gloops used my uncle as a model for Burford - a dead ringer right down to the spats.
Barney Goodman's suits had wide shoulders in those days because that was the fashion ( remember " wide boys" ?). I had to scrape up enough money and go into debt to buy one because Bill Stanley wore Barney's suits and he had all those blondes fawning on him at the City Hall dances . They must have made my suit wrong as not one blonde showed up to hang around me.

I don't know what the connection is between Gloops and Barney Goodman but mention of him reminds me that I bought my wedding suit from upt mooer, brown birdseye with 26 inch bottoms, My wife must have liked it (the suit) because we're still together nearly sixty years on. Our stamping grounds for dances used to be City Hall, Cutlers Hall, and Deys at Pitsmoor. Thmile !!

I certainly remember Gloops because I actually was Gloops for a while.

just found at my dads an old badge the star GLOOPS its blue and white:thumbsup:

I am sorting through my mothers papers and there is my brothers membership card number 392.798 to Gloops Club and the badge.
Signed from Auntie Edith
From the age written on the card the date enrolled must be 1939.

There is also a Gloops Birthday Card dated 6th.March 1932

To wish You a Jolly Birthday
Gloops can always make you laugh,
In the Star and Telegraph,
¨Thmile¨I´m sure this Birthday you,
Will not find it hard to do,
And Gloops has come to say;
May ´thmiles and pleasure last away¨

I´m not sure why it says Thmile

Gloops... is there no end to what can be found on this site?... I have just dug out my GLOOPS club membership card No. 430,732

the very word used to make me heave...reminded me of sickly puddings at school!!! do i remember correctly a lady called janet who usually appeared along side gloops in the junior star?........
Wasnt there a Birtha too ? my mom used to read me, Gloops every night, she,s 94 years old now, I remember when Martha,hung Gloops on the washing line to dry. :loopy::loopy:

What was the name of that other character? the one with a long nose peering over a wall..always saying things like "wot no bacon" or what ever we were short of in those days....It's just come back to me he was called "Chad"..anyone remember him?.

don't know how he got it, but one of the teachers at High Storrs where I attended in the 50s was nicknamed "Chad." Real name was Ray Tattersall, math teacher.

What was the name of that other character? the one with a long nose peering over a wall..always saying things like "wot no bacon" or what ever we were short of in those days....It's just come back to me he was called "Chad"..anyone remember him?.
Yes it was just after the war when every thing was rationed Chad used to pier over a wall & say WOT NO SOAP -------:loopy::loopy::loopy::loopy:

I remember Gloops I have a photo of myself about 4 or 5 years old queuing up to meet him at Greystones Ballroom (now Nap's)

My sister ( Edwina Baser )was voted Gloops Queen by her class mates at Woodhouse West End school 1955 or 56. We raised money through jumble sales , collecting tin foil etc. The highlight being to meet Ruby Murray who at that time was a popular singer. Its all so long ago I may have the dates wrong.

In the late 1950s I had a Gloops Club membership card and a badge, but these have long since gone the same way as my dinky toys, Bayko outfit and Meccano set.
But here is a badge: http://www.ourselvesourplace.org.uk/images/small/Gloopsbadge.jpg and a membership card: http://www.ourselvesourplace.org.uk/imageHolder.php?imagename=Gloopsclub.jpg&altTag=Large

It must have been in the early 1960s that The Star ran an article about the history of the Gloops Club (I think for an anniversary - maybe the 25th) and they had tracked down member No 1 - he was a Sheffield businessman who was pictured in the article.

There is an interesting reference to Gloops under the thread "A Cartoonist called L.R.Briault" in this section.

Spotted a Heap cartoon from November 1946 featuring the crowning of the Gloops Queen that year --a girl by the name of Pauline Hartley.

Yes I remember Gloops, in fact I have the little registration card and the badge in one of the dressing table drawers......Any offers?

There was an arcade with an entrance on Pinstone St, called the Cambridge Arcade. It had a jewellers and a camera shop where my mum bought me a second hand plate camera. She worked then at Singer's Sewing Machine Shop a little further down the Moor not as far as the Empire.

Does anyone remember:

the tailors Haycock and Jarman on Pinstone St? My mum (I was all she had) bought me a made-to-measure Crombie overcoat there for my 17th birthday in 1954 while I was at KES.

the shop on Charles St that sold chemicals?

Gloops was a plump cat who had a coat, striped trousers and a lisp. 'Thmile' was a catchword.

Talking about Gloops I remeber as a chiuld and a member of a dance school I was actually chosen to wear the Gloops costume at various funcions, I can't remember what they were, but I was supposed to mingle with the children and be a happy little cat. I finally grew out the costume, thank goodness, it was very warm. I wonder if anyone has a picture of Gloops
Coral

Hi Coral,
No picture I'm afraid but I have a vision in my mind's eye that he looked a bit like Caspar the friendly ghost! Was your dance school Connie Grant's by any chance?
Mike

anyone old enough to remember GLOOPS ? i had my photo taken with him in the fifties, i think it was in the sheffield star,were you a gloops club member ?

If I remember rightly, there was also another group thing in the Telegraph called the 'Childrens' Ring' although I cannot recall what it represented

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/GLOOPS.jpg

The Gloops Club was run by Aunt Edith and was launched on January 2, 1929. I was a member, apparently, but I don't know why, or what good it did. I was too young to know.

Someone mentioned Stewart & Stewart. They had the same vacuum tube system for collecting your cash and giving change, as the Co-op.

If I remember rightly, there was also another group thing in the Telegraph called the 'Childrens' Ring' although I cannot recall what it represented

Hi oldrowley,
You are correct, the Children's Ring was the children's club in the Sheffield Telegraph. This was run by "Uncle Timothy". If I recall correctly, whereas the Gloops Club had picture cartoons and appeared to cater for the younger child, the Children's Ring seemed to cater for the older child.
Regards m.

theres a new black version .....boyfriday

Hi oldrowley,
You are correct, the Children's Ring was the children's club in the Sheffield Telegraph. This was run by "Uncle Timothy". If I recall correctly, whereas the Gloops Club had picture cartoons and appeared to cater for the younger child, the Children's Ring seemed to cater for the older child.
Regards m.

Uncle Timothy was actually a City Councillor called Ernest Tindall, and he worked in the publicity dept of the old Sheffield Daily Telegraph. He wrote a daily column in the paper for 30 years, and was figurehead of the Children's Ring from 1930. He died in December 1968. A very decent man.

Talking about Gloops I remeber as a chiuld and a member of a dance school I was actually chosen to wear the Gloops costume at various funcions, I can't remember what they were, but I was supposed to mingle with the children and be a happy little cat. I finally grew out the costume, thank goodness, it was very warm. I wonder if anyone has a picture of Gloops
Coral

If you search the sheffieldhistory site, there is a picture of Gloops. There is a thread re the men who drew Gloops, too. Sadly, pictures cannot be posted here.

Yes I remember Gloops with Ferford and Belinda and Emma. It was may favorate cartoon.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/GLOOPS.jpg

The Gloops Club was run by Aunt Edith and was launched on January 2, 1929. I was a member, apparently, but I don't know why, or what good it did. I was too young to know.


I think the cartoon started about five or six months before the Gloops Club was launched, for, while looking through copies of "The Star" for May/June 1953, I came across a special feature on the 25th anniversary of Gloops, and it prompted me to wonder about the men who drew gloops.

Tailor-made reminders of Barney Goodman. Back in the early 1950s, a colleague of mine went to work in Manchester where he called in a tailor's shop in search of a new suit. The tailor unfurled his tape-measure, then ran his fingers along my friend's lapels. 'Hello,' he said. 'Looks as if old Barney's still up to his tricks!'

Good story, Dublugee. But how about some tales of Uncle Timothy?

Actually we moved to the USA and my Grandmother sent the Gloops cartoons to me.

anyone old enough to remember GLOOPS ? i had my photo taken with him in the fifties, i think it was in the sheffield star,were you a gloops club member ?

Yes, my friend. Gloops as a character did actually sell newspapers when I worked at The Star during the latter part of the second world war. During those war years The Star — then a good newspaper owned by Lord Kemsley — also sponsored The Sheffield Walk which took place either Easter or Whit; cannot recall which.

But yes, Gloops was a good idea at the time. In can also recall visiting a cat show at Doncaster Race Course, either late 1960s or early 1970s, when someone dressed as Gloops was running around the place, still advertising The Sheffield Star.

anyone old enough to remember GLOOPS ? i had my photo taken with him in the fifties, i think it was in the sheffield star,were you a gloops club member ?

Good Lord! From another SF member I, learn that in 1953 Gloops had a 25th anniversary. Today, he’d be only very slightly older than I am.

Does anyone know when Gloops started?

See thread 92. Gloops started in 1928. It was in 1953 that the cat cartoon celebrated its 25th anniversary. Sadly, Ken Sydney, who was the first man to draw Gloops, is now completely forgotten.

I first saw gloops cartoons in 1929 aand was an avid reader though the
1930s This was long before the gloops club

I remember Gloops and was in the Gloops club in the 1950s. As we lived six miles south of Chesterfield in our village you could have the Sheffield Star, the Derby Telegragh or the Nottingham Post in the evenings and we had the Star, not many house holds had the star and most kids I knew had never heard of Gloops and I had the mickey taken a fair bit but it did not worry me. I was a one for joining clubs and remember being in the Dennis the Menace club and later the Boys Own Paper Club.

Actually my late dad was the first member of the Gloops club, somewhere we have his membership card showing his proud number 1 membership number. Dad was born in 1915 so I guess that he must have joined the Gloops club around 1925. I do know that the Star sent him birthday cards and other contacts all through his service in the RAF during WW2.
........must try and find that card !!!!!

Anyone know when the Gloops cartoon strip stopped appearing in the The Star? My guess is sometime around 1958.

My Dad's best man was known as Gloops! Alan Glossop was his name. :)

Anyone know when the Gloops cartoon strip stopped appearing in the The Star? My guess is sometime around 1958.

In fact, I have just learned that Walter Chambers, the last man to draw Gloops, died suddenly in April 1958 at the age of 39 --and it seems fair to assume that The Star was unable to find anyone to take over the cartoon strip on a regular basis. Walter Chamber, by the way, lived at Bankfield Road, Stannington, and had been on the staff of The Star since 1934.

I remember Gloops and I remember the Gloops Club - run by The Star - I seem to recall in about 1952ish receiving a silver Gloops badge for Excellent attendance at school. Wow!!!

Trevor Vevers

--I ALSO REMEMBER GLOOPS IN THE 40/50s.
I REMEMBER GOING TO SEE GLOOPS AT THE CITY HALL, AND THATS WHERE
WE GOT OUR BADGE FROM.
HE USE TO RUN ABOUT IN WHITE WITH BIG BLACK EYES.
GLOOPS DID A LOT OF CHARITY WORK AND GAVE DONATIONS TO THE-
OR`PHANAGE ,
THAT HOW THE ORPHAN KIDS GOT THERE CHRISTMAS GIFTS,
I WAS ONE OF THEM KIDS AND WAS VERY GREATFUL.
<< LOVE AND GOOD WILL TO ALL .>>

the web site www.ourselvesourplace.org.uk has an image of the gloops badge

anyone old enough to remember GLOOPS ? i had my photo taken with him in the fifties, i think it was in the sheffield star,were you a gloops club member ?

Yesl l was a member in the thirties had my card and badge. Cheers Arthur

I am convinced that the artist who did Gloops used my uncle as a model for Burford - a dead ringer right down to the spats.
Barney Goodman's suits had wide shoulders in those days because that was the fashion ( remember " wide boys" ?). I had to scrape up enough money and go into debt to buy one because Bill Stanley wore Barney's suits and he had all those blondes fawning on him at the City Hall dances . They must have made my suit wrong as not one blonde showed up to hang around me.

hi Redneck you mean Bob Stanley l think he married Evelyn Shortland at the end of his amorous escapades he was also yorkshire amateur dance champ; at one time. Also like you my first Barney's suit skint me Cheers Arthur

My mistake Arthur - I did know a Bill Stanley in later life so I got them mixed up. Did your Barney's suit get you any blondes hanging on your arm ? Incidentally I think I had to wait 4 months for my suit in those days.

I just noticed this 1930s Gloops birthday card (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/c1932-SHEFFIELD-TELEGRAPH-BIRTHDAY-CARD_W0QQitemZ370228713564QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Co llectables_Postcards_MJ?hash=item563359d85c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A10%7C66%3A3%7C39%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C29 4%3A100) on eBay..:)

--I ALSO REMEMBER GLOOPS IN THE 40/50s.
I REMEMBER GOING TO SEE GLOOPS AT THE CITY HALL, AND THATS WHERE
WE GOT OUR BADGE FROM.
HE USE TO RUN ABOUT IN WHITE WITH BIG BLACK EYES.
GLOOPS DID A LOT OF CHARITY WORK AND GAVE DONATIONS TO THE-
OR`PHANAGE ,
THAT HOW THE ORPHAN KIDS GOT THERE CHRISTMAS GIFTS,
I WAS ONE OF THEM KIDS AND WAS VERY GREATFUL.
<< LOVE AND GOOD WILL TO ALL .>>
Hello Brian
Good to hear from you. The reason I started this thread was because as a child I actually was Gloops in that costume and had to attend the various charity events and other activities and talk to the children there. I did not have a photograph of myself in this costume and wondered if anyone else had one. I am writing a family history and wanted to explain about Gloops and what he was all about. A very kind person sent me a copy of a Gloops badge and ceritifcate and the Sheffield Star sent me a copy of the cartoon character. I don't know who took over from me when I grew too big to fit into the costume, that would be interesting to know.
Regards Coral

Only just found this thread, what memories of the Gloops Club and the badge I had, circa 1952 , dont know why i got it, i must have been good for a few days !

going off the thread a bit.any one remember albert the copper with the biggest hands in sheffield ? used to be the town ( fitzallen square ) bobby.......the bell pub and the elephant pub in the square ?police box in the wicker.......the free water supply ( and cup ) outside the sheffield court house oppossite the cannon pub, which used to have a men only room.....the brunswick pub..post office building in fitzalan square and the police box also the toilets where you could have a wash and brush up,not as grand as the ones out side the town hall,there still there under our feet,a time machine from towns history that just needs some one to sign the papers to re open them.where can you go for a pee nowadays in town ?

HI depoix l remember all those things,the Brunswick used to be very popular pub when Con Aherne was the landlord also the Cannon was a meeting place of builders when they were rained off ll was just thinking you must be about my age to recall those days ilm 85 next week Cheers Arthur

Hi I have a pair of Gloops cuff links, lovely blue enamel with Gloops Thile around the face of Gloops, Aunt Edith used to run the Gloops club in the Star, Initially Gloops spoke with a lisp but lots of children in the Sheffield area began to imitate him, so the Star started to have Gloops speaking correctly, think these cuff links were won in a competition by my Father around late 1930s or early 1940s

Hi there!

Listen ain't any on yer got a 'pic' on mi namesake then???? :hihi: :help:

So far as I know, you can't post pics on here, but there may be one of Gloops on Sheffield History.

Hi there! Listen ain't any on yer got a 'pic' on mi namesake then???? :hihi: :help:

Hi GLOOPS..:wave: .In post #79 on this thread I gave a link to a badge (http://www.ourselvesourplace.org.uk/images/small/Gloopsbadge.jpg) and a membership card (http://www.ourselvesourplace.org.uk/imageHolder.php?imagename=Gloopsclub.jpg&altTag=Large) with pics..:)

Say those pics are cute......I remembers the little guy! :cool::cool:

I have never lived in Sheffield, but I have worked in the city for a big chunk of my life. Always loved the place. ;) ;)

Seems to me it has lost a lot of the 'sparkle' I remember all those years ago. Remember how busy Fittzallen Square always used to be? Always humming with folk, bustling to and fro and at all times of the day. Always bright in the 'dark nights' of winter, with the lights from the old 'Classic Cinema' ; The 'Sleep Shop' and not forgetting old 'Wiggys'...eh? :)

The same place was quite dead when me and the missus passed through a few months ago now. Must admit to feeling somewhat sad at all this. :o :huh: :confused:

Yes I remember the little fat looked like a polar bear Gloops and I too use it as a PW with a few numbers after it for unimportant things.

I used to deliver the Star around Hunters Bar circa 1943 and a bloke asked me if I had one to sell because he wanted to see how gloops was doing so I let him see the page then put the paper back in the bag he gave me a threepenny bit and I think the paper only cost 1P so I was well chuffed.

hello brian
good to hear from you. The reason i started this thread was because as a child i actually was gloops in that costume and had to attend the various charity events and other activities and talk to the children there. I did not have a photograph of myself in this costume and wondered if anyone else had one. I am writing a family history and wanted to explain about gloops and what he was all about. A very kind person sent me a copy of a gloops badge and ceritifcate and the sheffield star sent me a copy of the cartoon character. I don't know who took over from me when i grew too big to fit into the costume, that would be interesting to know.
Regards coral

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hello coralt`5203034,
how is the story coming along since my last contact,
now with your help i need to know when gloops finished.
I need this for
my stories on the fulwood cottage homes
i have some news paper clippings of gloops ect should you
want then.
--------------- bye brian

HI Yes I remember Gloops as a kid I think it was in the Star and I used to wait outside the newsagents in ST Mary's road for the paper to catch up with his latest '
does anyone remember the Blitz and the chaos in the city
I was seven at the time and still can hear the bombs wiping out many of the houses around where I lived in the ST mary's road and matilda st area.
I have never forgiven the germans for bombing Mrs Crowther's chip shop
along Leadmill rd as she mane the most fantastic chips and cod and Bert her husband who was a little man always under the thumb .
len

i was sorting some old photos the other day and came across 2 of me at a 'gloops' dance then saw this thread what a coinicidence .

going off the thread a bit.any one remember albert the copper with the biggest hands in sheffield ? used to be the town ( fitzallen square ) bobby.......the bell pub and the elephant pub in the square ?police box in the wicker.......the free water supply ( and cup ) outside the sheffield court house oppossite the cannon pub, which used to have a men only room.....the brunswick pub..post office building in fitzalan square and the police box also the toilets where you could have a wash and brush up,not as grand as the ones out side the town hall,there still there under our feet,a time machine from towns history that just needs some one to sign the papers to re open them.where can you go for a pee nowadays in town ?

Of course I remember big Albert, apart from having shovels as hands he was a super person and a gentleman, I used to serve him and his wife at my shops in Castle Market.
It was aslo said, Albert was the only man who could handle Lol Knight (remember him?) I had my first encounter with Lol when I was fifteen, I punched him as hard as possible with absolutely no effect, as I stood there waiting to die he just slapped my face in a hard but friendly way and said, dar or reyt de kid not like dem f****** cowards, referring to the people who knew who he was and scampered at a pace. Back to Albert, the last few times I've seen him was in the Nether Edge area, this was 4-5 years ago as I now lived in Bulgaria for some time; he was a shadow of his former self but you couldn't help but admire and respect him. I wonder how old he would be?

I was enrolled in the Gloops club when I was born (1948) by my grandpa. I still have the badge with a white cartoon of Gloops on a navy blue background. I have a vague memory of seeing the cartoons and Gloops being a sideline commentator on family affairs with a particular line of sarcasm.
I have a treasured photo of me standing on the path of my grandpa's house in Totley Brook Road with him sitting on the front step. I am about 18months old and wearing his homburg. I still have the hat and I am going to try and retake the pic with my grandson when he is old enough.
On a different subject, I remember the 'rag and bone ' man coming up our street and his shout was something which sounded like "Johnny Doinks!" Can anyone out there translate?

The rag and bone man around my area used to shout "donkey stone"; an indication of what he would give you in exchange for the rags. Donkey stone was a white block which people used to apply to the sides of their door step.

I had a girl friend who lived on Totley Brook Road in the late 50's.

I too was a member of the Gloops Club in the 40's. Do you remember his owners, Burford and Belinda?

Mike

In the late forties my brother and i where both in the GLOOPS club,and read the cartoon every night in the STAR, Years later i drove a taxi for awhile. I was in the taxi rank in FITZALLAN SQUARE, when an elderly,well dressed lady asked me to take to ABBEY LANE, upon leaving the cab, she said 'do you know who i am? i said sorry ,but i do not. To which she replied "i am AUNT EDITH of the GLOOPS CLUB, and she gave me a generous tip.eightlegger.

This was sent to my Late Dad on March 3rd - 1930

It would have been His 10th Birthday .

By a strange quirk of fate , shortly after Re - Patriation from a German WW2 P.O.W camp - He went on to work for " The Telegraph & Star " through it's various owners until early retirement via ill health .

http://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m548/Dippy55/Gloops.jpg

My sister was a member of the Gloops club in the forties. Their original motto was "Thmile" which was changed to "Smile" because parents complained it would make their children "short tongued"

I remember going to the Gloops club at the ABC cinema (where Argos is now) in the mid seventies. He was a ghost like character!

anyone old enough to remember GLOOPS ? i had my photo taken with him in the fifties, i think it was in the sheffield star,were you a gloops club member ?

I remember Gloops,still have my membership card after all these years

In the Gloops cartoon was Polly the name of the girl with the odd hairstyle?

I have my late fathers membership card and ironically when he had to spend some time in the Royal Infirmary he spent it in the bed sponsored by 'The Gloops Club'

depoix ... I can remember when I was about 10 going to roundel st church to see my cousin edwina baser crowned gloops queen !

I remember an 8 year old going into the orphanage for a short stay, the plain
shoes she had on had a single strap that fastened to a small button.
they were a gift from gloops who helped the sick, blind, weak and lame were looked
after.

Couldn't believe my eyes when some years ago I was at Newark autojumble with hubby when I saw a Gloops badge for sale on a stall, I couldn't resist it for £2.50. Stuck in a drawer somewhere now !

Yes remember it but not well - I remember him can picture him now and the cartoon strip, also remember getting the badge but do not think we had to do anything for it - I am sure I would not have got it for attendance although might have been possible and certainly not for the handwriting!