Hi
I remember going to the Top Rank on Tuesday nights for the disco, no booze, for under 18's, the No4 bus would have heaps on from Hinde House going into town.
Used to get fish and chips near pond street and get on the bus back home about 11pm, last bus was 11.15pm, so was always a bus to fall back on if we were late.
Used to go to school the next day,
Do you remember Harrington jackets, Ben Sherman Shirts and walking around like idiots with bowler hats and brolleys when the skinhead days were in.
Do you remember the Bay City Rollers and Rod Stewart with the tartan and sewing to the Levi's, I remember my Dad was not amused when I spent five pounds (that was a lot then) on a pair of Levi's and scrubbed then till they were pale and sewed on the tartan.
I crave for some sherbert lemons, Thornton toffee, Tizer, when friends go back to England they fetch all these goodies back, although havent had any sherbert lemons, do they still make them.

used to buy my levi 2 tones from sexy rexy,went to city hall 2 c t rex,still got concert ticket stub.wimpys not mcdonalds,whetstone pub bottom of the moor and of course redgates toy shop,used 2 b 2pence from pond street to hillsborough to watch the owls stand in rain no cover on cop under scoreboard,

Neils
Yes, I remember Sexy Rexy, redgates and Wimpy.
Used to have a hamburger and I loved the Horlicks in those white mugs that said Horlicks on the side, the Horlicks had thick froth.

rag n tag market,hole in the road,that map in pondstreet that lit up when you pressed the buttons,sheaf valley baths opened by rolf harris,top rank on a saturday mornings,chips n beans in woolworths cafe (12p) tramps,revoulution records.

Nsiebert [Nadine], I remember Sexy Rexy with the unisex changing rooms where people would try on their Levi Sta Press, Ben Sherman shirts etc. I also remember Colvins [always having a clear out sale of Brutus, Ben Sherman gear etc], and Tramps. Redgates was the big toy store, which I think closed down in the late 80s due to competition from Toyz r US. Also worthy of mention; Top Rank Saturday morning "Disco" sessions where it was possible to "get off with" girls. Every girl seemed to wear Monkey boots and sport the Feather cut around 1972 [when I was 11], and Harringtons and Crombies were fashionable for lads.There seemed to be more support for United than for Wednesday around 71-73 amongst my age group, with Woodward and Currie seen as Gods. Maybe this is just the case in the East Sheffield areas like Wincobank, Shiregreen and Firth Park. I do remember Concord Middle School being Blades enclave though, and the Head [Mr Roch] expressing surprise as the Shiregreen area is nearer to Hillsborough than the [beloved] Lane.

Originally posted by timo
Redgates was the big toy store, which I think closed down in the late 80s due to competition from Toyz r US.

I think it was Hamley's that mostly did for Redgates - mid-80s would be about right - then they chuffed off along with Habitat and left The Moor to rot. LOL, can you believe there was a Hamley's in Sheffield??:o

got the book - paid the prise.
it's bin a long road, getting from there too here, it's bin a long time.

yes remember it all.
those black crombie's with tie tacs,
monkey boots.
or if you thought you were really hard it was doc martins- the girls i mean.
remember the skinbird little skirts with big diamond patterns.
or was it some kind of tartan, they were mostly like a mauve and white.

going to vallances on chapel walk to buy records.downstairs listening to records in the little booths....pop ex singles from the newsagents...going to the lane on sats with me dad..crying when we sold TC to leeds...

I remember when it was Cann's the music mans.

How about Bradley's Records on Fargate? Didn't the staff used to wear nylon jacket/overall things, rather like dinner ladies or something??!!

A few of my memories

Hole in the road
The fish tank
Pippy's
Harringtons
Fine Fare(now theres a blast from the past)
The Lido
The all new Sheaf Market!!
Bradleys
Violet Mays
The Original Virgin Records
The building of the Manpower Services Building,
The New Town Hall (RIP)
The Wedding Cake (Registry Office)
Taggy's Ice Cream

and dont forget Original Skateboards - used to spend my life in the old Heeley Pictures - that was converted into a Skate park.

I loved going to the Top Rank on Tuesdays with all my old mates.Shaun Shackleton & his brother Craig,Andy(Butch )Bullen & a load more & Taggys the world best ice cream.Heeley I miss those great days.

I remember the crombies, do you remember also sewing the coloured bias binding round the edges, and black was the most fashionable for boys and girls, even the Doc Martins, although I didnt have any one those.
I had a feathercut hairstyle and must admit to attacking my hair with the pinking shears to get a spiky cut.
I had a diamond skirt bought from "Etams" are they still there, they came in different colours.

Someone has mentioned the "hole in the road" is that not there anymore, I thought that was a landmark in the city centre, with the fishtank, shame if it has gone, we used to go to Walsh's and C&A, from underneath, also Dorothy Perkins,
I used to go with my Dad to shop at Fine Fine, he had a motorbike and sidecar, and shame of it, I used to hide on the floor of the sidecar if I saw anyone,

of course, taggy's was the world's best ice-cream! It was the only ice-cream that my late mother would accept!
it was firm, yellow and creamy, not pale, whipped and sloppy! Bradwells' or Thorntons is about the nearest in taste and texture these days...

someone mentioned the Sheaf Market...
me and my then best friend, used to go to the Granelli's balcony bar, upstairs, and spend an entire afternoon sipping one class of cola.

PT

Originally posted by nsiebert

I used to go with my Dad to shop at Fine Fine, he had a motorbike and sidecar, and shame of it, I used to hide on the floor of the sidecar if I saw anyone,
We also had a motor bike and side car and remember that distinctive smell when you got in it.
I personally loved it and we had ours for years.
Two seats, 1 front 1 rear.
I have seen one or two about these days as they became almost extinct did'nt they.
Oh the 70s,, Genevieve,, faces,, Crazy Dazie,, the working mans club still going strong, the salvation army carol singing on your street at Christmas complete with brass band, and running rings round the night watchman at the brick yard on Rutland Road poor old bloke.
Tank tops and yellow cardigan with a star on either side.

i worked at hulleys in 70s ice cream place at high greave nr ecclesfield.
people told me years ago there use to be queues miles long
waiting for icecream there.

Hello to Tara and Nsiebert [Nadine]. Fine Fare had a branch at Firth Park, which in the sixties to early seventies was next dor to Woolworths, if I recall. I had the distinction of being sacked from the Firth Park branch as a shelf-stacking 6th former. I moved out of the way accidentally on purpose when another lad threw down a crate of coffee jars from the van as we were unloading. Unfortunately, the managers were standing directly behind me as I did so. They promptly, "terminated" my "contract", as they so elegantly put it.
Anyone remember the old "Rag and Tag" Market? I'm 43 now, but I have vague memories of the place. Wasn't it where the Sheaf Market is now?

remember WESTERN JEAN COMPANY at the top of Fargate around 1980-83 big yellow store front, roughty where DIXONS is now I think.....and just across the road nr bradlets Records was the JEAN GENIE store, next to Radio Rentals showroom, selling exactly the same stuff as Western Jean Company. Bought some fine pairs of Levis from there........

Wasn't there a WIMPY BAR on FARGATE where Burger King was/is? There was also a Wimpy somewhere nr the Top of the Moor I seem to recall......

Are the markets still there.
I had a Saturday job while I was at school, in the indoor market, the one that they moved from the outside.
I sold mens clothing and used to get old men come over to me, being only young and in those days mens trousers used to come in different leg measurements, and they used to want me to measure them up for trousers, I was not amused.
I have fond memories of those days.

Originally posted by nsiebert
Are the markets still there.
I had a Saturday job while I was at school, in the indoor market, the one that they moved from the outside.
I sold mens clothing and used to get old men come over to me, being only young and in those days mens trousers used to come in different leg measurements, and they used to want me to measure them up for trousers, I was not amused.
I have fond memories of those days.

indoor market is now a car park

Goldenfleece- nice to see you on this thread. I recall our mutual loathing of the Underclass on "Sheffield Chavs" thread. Re the Wimpy Bar you mention, yes there was one at the top of the Moor. It was there in the mid-eighties I recall, as I used to pop in there with my then girlfriend at lunchtimes. It was just down from Pinstone Street [I think], at the top of the Moor.
Back to the seventies, more memories; Sutherland Road swimming baths [with the infamous Mr Scott, the attendant with the penchant for pushing kids in to the "deep end"], Bradleys Records, going to the Golden Dragon and Zing Va Chinese Restaurants and thinking they were exotic [ha ha], buses going down the Moor, the dj regularly playing "Rose Garden" at Bramall Lane, Shoreham Barmy Army, Hillsborough [ugh...] Park Show, Rivelin Valley in the summer sunshine, Millhouses "lido", the opening of The Crucible [my Nan insisted on calling it "The Cubicle"], Playing football on Concord Park, and sledging down the park Golf course in the snow, "egging" in Woolley Woods and the countryside up to Thorpe Hesley [hunting for birds' eggs- obviously not to be recommended], fighting with Shiregreeners on Wincobank Hill, Playing on Maycock's Field, Wincobank-do you remember this field Tara, Nadine and Cycleracer? Just below Hinde House up to around 73, when it was built over. You could gain entry from Fife Street.

I can remember the buses going up the Moor, they were the ones with the door at the back and the little platform, why do I remember them? I threw up on one that's why right in mum's shopping bag and she wouldn't let me go into Redgates that at that time was on the Moor.
Also the co-op at the bottom of Cemetary road which supplied us all with those dreadfull school uniforms, that was a shopping trip I hated.
Also in the early 60's every christmas there was a santa's grotto probably were the Manpower Services Building now stands at the bottom of the Moor, it used to have fountains lit up with coloured lights.
Also before Millhouses had it's lido rebuilt into two pools it used to be one big rectangular one with what seemed like HUGE diving platforms, I know I got pushed in the deep end which had me terrified of water for about the next twelve years.
Carter Knowle Junior school and taking every newspaper I could lay my hands on so they could sell the paper and get the money to build a swimming pool, strange as at that point I still didn't like getting my head wet, though I did learn to swim in that pool but then it was only about four feet deep.
Do we all have rose tinted spectacles or was life somehow better back then?

dempsey's clothes shop on the park hill flats (now housing office) if you were a pikey and your dad was on the dole you'd get vouchers for shoes and clothes for school.......i got my first star jumper from their:D

if you remember the "Buccaneer" have a look at this:

Buccaneer (http://www.moss-net.co.uk/buccaneer/index.htm)

Originally posted by kirky
dempsey's clothes shop on the park hill flats (now housing office) if you were a pikey and your dad was on the dole you'd get vouchers for shoes and clothes for school.......i got my first star jumper from their:D

dempseys also had a shop opposite the park hill flats, on duke street, during the 1960's to what must have been the early 80's on the big green tenement block (I think it was called "crown Place, it was definitely called crown something-or other) it was knocked down in the mid 1980's , around the same time that the huge tenement block at the top of bard street was demolished, and the rest of the blocks there on bard st, old. st and school st (i think) were refurb-ed.

I got my first pair of shoes from dempseys, they were white, t-bar "sandals" the style with the sole that ran in a curve, round, right up the back of the heel. "dandy-steps", they were called. (this memory dates from the early mid sixties)

on that same blockof shops, on duke street, where teh post ofice used to be, and dempseys etc, there was a decorating shop, called blaskeys. I believe there is only one balskeys in existence, these days, in the firth park area. I remember them being all over the shop the had branches along infirmary road, in the hole in the road, firth park,

Back on topic...
re taking vouchcers to Dempseys...

I remember the mid/ late 70's , and having to go with a letter to a place in the orchard building, beside the fountain precinct, in the education dept, to collect your "allocation" of school uniform, and the cattle market that it was with everyone crammed into this small room, like a "quartermasters store" whilst these elderly women scurried back and forth into the cubboards fetching out clothing that they thought would fit you, in your school uniform colours.

I remember feeling the humiliation, a few years further down the line, taking my lad and his half-brother to the same place, to obtain some school clothing for them. the women seemed the same, and I felt such shame, and felt as if these women were sneering at us, because we were reduced to getting the school clothing for our lads from them.

I have heard that you are hard pressed, these days even to obtain your entitlement to the free school meals from the council, and that the school uniform grant has been totally abolished by Sheff' CC. I had heard that, these days, No-one gets it, needy or not..

PT

Originally posted by Lostrider
if you remember the "Buccaneer" have a look at this:

Buccaneer (http://www.aburke.freeuk.com/buccaneer.htm) That was a play list from 1972 not 1970.
Timo, the houses that were built on the field at the bottom were built about 1973 when we used to nip through the site to Sullivans chippy.
My mate was larking about one day and heavy rain had caused the building site to a mass of sludge and he did a goalkeeping imppression and lost his balance and slid down the mud head first for about 20 feet.
When I finally picked my lungs up from the floor due to hysterical laugher he had a tantrum and fell out.
Our friendship was never the same after that.
His name was David Austin and I have'nt seen him since 1975.

Originally posted by Plain Talker
dempseys also had a shop opposite the park hill flats, on duke street, during the 1960's to what must have been the early 80's on the big green tenement block (I think it was called "crown Place, it was definitely called crown something-or other) it was knocked down in the mid 1980's , around the same time that the huge tenement block at the top of bard street was demolished, and the rest of the blocks there on bard st, old. st and school st (i think) were refurb-ed.

I got my first pair of shoes from dempseys, they were white, t-bar "sandals" the style with the sole that ran in a curve, round, right up the back of the heel. "dandy-steps", they were called. (this memory dates from the early mid sixties)

on that same blockof shops, on duke street, where teh post ofice used to be, and dempseys etc, there was a decorating shop, called blaskeys. I believe there is only one balskeys in existence, these days, in the firth park area. I remember them being all over the shop the had branches along infirmary road, in the hole in the road, firth park,

Back on topic...
re taking vouchcers to Dempseys...

I remember the mid/ late 70's , and having to go with a letter to a place in the orchard building, beside the fountain precinct, in the education dept, to collect your "allocation" of school uniform, and the cattle market that it was with everyone crammed into this small room, like a "quartermasters store" whilst these elderly women scurried back and forth into the cubboards fetching out clothing that they thought would fit you, in your school uniform colours.

I remember feeling the humiliation, a few years further down the line, taking my lad and his half-brother to the same place, to obtain some school clothing for them. the women seemed the same, and I felt such shame, and felt as if these women were sneering at us, because we were reduced to getting the school clothing for our lads from them.

I have heard that you are hard pressed, these days even to obtain your entitlement to the free school meals from the council, and that the school uniform grant has been totally abolished by Sheff' CC. I had heard that, these days, No-one gets it, needy or not..

PT

to be fair mate today's kids wouldn't be seen dead in the clothes the council would hand out not unless they were £100 nike trainers and trackies

Originally posted by Cycleracer
That was a play list from 1972 not 1970.


Thanks Cycleracer, should have said 70's not 70.
I'll change it now.

Buccaneer bar was before my time but it sounds amazing!!! Which bar now occupies this old cellar? Is it vaguely architecturally recognizable or has been completely rebuilt?

Originally posted by goldenfleece
Buccaneer bar was before my time but it sounds amazing!!! Which bar now occupies this old cellar? Is it vaguely architecturally recognizable or has been completely rebuilt?

the buccaneer was underneath the Grand Hotel, which was demolished in the very early '70's..

it was replaced by the fountain precinct, and the pub which is now the Fountain bar. Used to be called teh Pig and whistle IIRC.

PT

I remember Millhouses, Rivelin and Sutherland Road Baths, and walking home from Sutherland road baths in the winter with my hair sopping wet, I remember Wincobank Hill and sliding down on cardboard it was great fun
I used to walk over Wincobank Hill to get to Brightside, is there still fields there, or is it all houses now.
I used to go to Wooley Woods and pick bluebells and bike to Scholls Scopy (sorry about the spelling, but you must know what I mean),
What about roasted chestnuts at Christmas from a man with a trolley with a fire on, can you still buy them.
I used to sledge on concord park, and who said the hole in the road has gone, fill me in, I remember the aquarium,
I remember Fife St, Timo, but not sure about Laycocks field, that name sounds familiar, was it someone that was admired.

:thumbsup: NSIBERT, sherbert lemons,yes they still make them,i know a nice litte old fashioned spice shop that sells them, send me your contact details and i'll forward you some.
yes the seventiesmy hero was marc bolan ,bless him,i remember getting my first weeks wages,i was working as a painter and decorator (apprentice) brill job for pulling the girls,anyhow the wages i recieved for 40hrs equated to £5.00,yup ,£5.00.the shop next door to the chemist we were decorating sold all the latest trends,that £5.00 did'nt last long as i purchased a red satin jacket just like bolans.wore it to go skating,remember silver blades on queens road, no expert skater but enough experience to stay up, all the girls thought i was in charge (red jacket) embarrising :( tuesday nights at the top rank used to go with john bell(i think he's got a pub up walkley?) david oxley,scraps all from the netherthorpe area,
met my first girlfriend there,sadly it did not last,wimpy on commercial street used to be a good place especially ater closing time.
i used to have a small cassette player that played c60 and c90 tapes it used to go everywhere with me playing all the latest sounds,slade ,glitter,bolan,stewart,osmonds,jacksons,tamla motown,elo,wings,ringo.
i also used to ride on the back of my dads vespa scooter,he used to play whist at various venues the one i can remember the most is the tuesday or wednesday nights at the cemetry road church :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Cycleracer, glad you remembered the fields. We used to call them Maycock's Field as there was a butcher by that name at the end of Jedburgh Street/junction of Fife Street.
Nsiebert[Nadine], glad I brought back good memories for you. Don't worry about spelling mistakes- nobody minds that. The are around Wincobank Hill/Brightside is, I believe, quite built up now. You refer to Scholes Coppice, and no doubt you remember Keppels Column too- the big tower just before you got to the woods at Scholes. I, and my mates Gary and Andy Barrs, used to be maniacal egg-collectors [sad buggers or what?!], and we used to dream of scaling the tower to get at the Kestrel's nest up there. Fortunately, we never did. Woolley Woods were great fun though, and we played for hours there. In fact, when I die [sorry to be morbid] I'll have my ashes scattered in there. What a happy childhood I had, racing through those woods on bikes. How long ago it now seems.
More memories; those big blocks of orange-flavoured ice called "Juicer Joe's", Chip shops that gave you scraps [the batter bubbles] with your cake and chips, Cowhorn handlebars on bikes, Glitter worn on the face by boys as well as girls, silk football scarves, Two-tone trousers, Snake belts, Hotpants, and Treets.

Fridgeman
It would probably cost a bomb to send sherbert lemons to the other side of the world, not sure if you realise I am in New Zealand!
I loved Marc Bolan too, also girls liked David Cassidy, Donny & Jimmy Osmond, Gary Glitters road manager lived in Brightside and I remember knocking on the door with mates and asking if he had any posters,
Rod Stewart, I still like Tamla Motown.
I went skating for a long time and had lessons when I was younger and could get around quite good,
You say 5 pounds (no pound signs in nz on the keyboard) was a lot of money, I paid that for Levi's and that was a lot then.
I remember having a cassette recorder and thought it was great not to have spools of tape, and my dad also had a scooter, with as sidecar, it was a German one I think Bella Zundap, do you know that brand?
There was a chippy near the Pond St bus station and we used to get fish and chips and smuggle them upstairs on the bus and hope nobody noticed, as there was not many on at night.
Is Fitzallen Square still there, and please will someone answer what happened to the hole in the road

Timo
Yes that is what I meant, the coppice place and Keppels Column.
We used to bike down past Woolley woods, and we were never scared of anyone lurking in the bushes or anything.
I had a two tone skirt, and do you remember brogue shoes, for girls and boys
I never had a silk football scarf, but people used to tie them to the wrists.
Sometimes we used to take the No2 bus, it was a circular route and just go around in the circle to see the city, (I didnt get out much I dont think)
Does anyone remember the movies on a Saturday morning it was a kids club thing for the younger ages, and it was a riot, everyone throwing stuff around and watching cartoons.
I loved the scraps, if we were hard up, we would ask for a bag of scraps, imagine the cholesterol in that lot.
I used to go to St Thomas's for a while when I was about 11, I wanted wear the cassock and sing in the choir, a whole group of us joined, didnt last long though, cant sing.
I got flashed at with Lorraine Hunt at the bottom of Merton Lane, late one night, when I think we used to walk all over the place, but that was the only time it went amiss.

I remember wearing cardigans backwards.
Drinking Barley Wines at the Red Lion.
City Hall dances
Black patent enevelope bags
Waiting for dark to take bottles back to the Magnet so no one saw me.
Asking to use peoples lavs just so we could see their house.
Pushing each other into bushes on the way to school.

Always wondered why my mother kept saying,"you look like you'v been pulled through a hedge backwards" I was !

My Mom always said "It looks dark over Bills Mothers ", any one kknow what that ment, i know there was no Bill and it looked like rain, but where did the saying come from ?

Is Fitzallen Square still there, and please will someone answer what happened to the hole in the road [/B]

The Square is still there although its changed a little. The Hole in the Road vanished in, 1993 I think, when it was filled with cement and became the site for a supertram halt. I can remember climbing over the steel fences one night on my way home from Rebels and walking through the underground bit......it was scary...all the escalators were stripped out save for one and huge chunks of concrete had been thrown in ready for cement. It was really wierd down there in the dark with the city lights shining through the roof, and some last resort security lights still on inside. Bit dangerous actually, but I was rather drunk and wanted a little piece of it. Well, a small bit of concrete actually which I lost on the way out...

a few days later it was gone forever. I may have been one of the last people to walk around the inside, since it was heavily fenced off at all entrances with steel fencing. Its amazing what you do after a few pints.........it was quite literally full of cement 3 days later. Good job I didnt fall asleep but I guess I would have noticed wet cement pouring in through the roof.

Nsiebert [Nadine], glad you remember scraps! Yes, I remember brogues, and also loafers. I was a Doc Marten shoe man , myself. You are certainly right about our lack of concern for our own safety as kids. Actually, there were dangerous types lurking around, it is just that there wasn't the degree of press coverage of deviants that there is today. I can remember several times in the early seventies when we were warned to be careful in Woolley Woods as "bad mesters" had been seen exposing themselves. Of course, being stupid lads, we hunted for such inadequate perverts armed with air guns. We never found them, which is perhaps fortunate for us. You are right though, we roamed far and wide without much of a care in the world. How many children can be allowed to do the same today?

I am sorry to hear about the hole in the road.
I remember the fish tank and the Thorntons toffee place down there.
You could get into all the shops without crossing the road, why was it filled in?
Timo
We used to roam around everywhere, not fun being flashed at though late at night, a man walked us home, as we were banging on his door at the bottom of Merton Lane.
A flasher used to be around the gennell place, between Hinde House and the cemetery, and some bullies attached my friend in there, she had a summer dress on walking to school late and they just about ripped it off her, I suppose you still get that sort of thing nowadays,
People do not even want the kids to walk to school if they are young now and on there own, in case there are perverts hanging around, I think too, parents in those days were not so involved with the kids, left them to wander and make there own fun, there was a tip or junk place on Wincobank Hill with guard dogs and we used to be frightened the man would let them off on us, suppose that is all gone now.
Does anyone remember the co-op in Wincobank, and buying cheese in a slab, they used to cut it off a big piece,
and potted meat, we used to call potted dog.

Cant get Cheshire Cheese here, you could for a while, it was imported and they stopped fetching it in, lovely crumbly stuff.

Nadine, I think the "Hole in the road" was filled in around 93, when we had moved to Nottingham for a while. I definately remember "Potted Dog" from many a kids' party in the seventies. The Co-op you refer to must be the one that was situated on Fife Street [opposite to my paternal grandparents' house], on the same side as the chippy, only further down. I recall the cheeses too. You can't get Cheshire in New Zealand? Come back to civilisation!

Oooh, the taste!
Potted dog on bread cakes, (they are called hamburger buns here), do you still call them breadcakes.
Yes that is the co-op I meant,
A local firm made Cheshire cheese for a while, but they stopped, I dont think it was very popular, they prefer the more rubbery cheddar cheese here.
Have lots of fancy cheeses, but just not Cheshire, so I buy a very mature cheese, it gives the crumbly effect, and has a nice strong bite to it, and pretend.
I do not think I could cope with an English winter again, we dont get snow in Auckland, you have to drive further down the country, the South Island around Christchurch and Dunedin, have weather like England.
It is very wet here and it can bucket down.
It is catching up here now, it was like a time warp when we came back in the 70's

wasn't it sutherland rd swimming baths where a frightening baths attendant called mr scott use to get this big hook on a long stick and pull you along the baths with it to get you to finish your length's.

oh timo, we used to always play on those fields on the left on merton lane going down, there were also garages there and it lead to the tips which may have been on fife st not standon rd.
as standon drive etc was already built when i was there.
these fields are always in my dreams .
i dream of wincobank lots but the way it use to be.
across from these fields was a junk shop .- merton lane.
cant remember the name of the steep lane that runs off top left going down merton lane.
anyone know.
i had a friend on there called maria with long dark hair i think her mother was italian.
she would always invite lots of us back to her house for ham salads in summer.

anyone remember brian( barney )green from vauxall rd,
someone called paul fiander.
also had a friend called jill brown.
i think im on the wrong thread.

Tara I remember Sutherland Rd baths, and loved that place when I was younger.
We used to go out with a hot drink from the machine with soaking wet hair,
I think you may be right about Mr Scott, and those funny cubicles alongside the pool, and they had sessions, and everyone used to have to come out at the same time.

Nadine, your comments on the "sessions" in the swimming baths has just prompted another memory,

do you remember, at the Sheaf Valley Baths, the coloured wristbands, like an oversized rubber band, that the changing room staff issued you with when you handed your clothes in?

they had a number on the band, corresponding to the hook your property was stored on, so you could reclaim your clothes after your swim.

You only had about an hour-and-a-half to have your swim. that was the approx length of the session.

At the bottom end of the swimming baths was a huge board, mounted on the wall. It had big coloured lights on it, red, green blue and white, I think (if my memory serves me well).

A hooter/ siren would go off, and one of the coloured lights would flash, at the end of each session. If it was your band-colour, that was it, no arguing, you had to get out.


I remember the "lifeguard" used to sit in a tall, blue, plastic chair, between the main pool and the diving pool, in order that s/he could supervise both. and I remember their whistles going-off and them shouting at swimmers if they weren't adhering to the "rules" of the pool, (especially the ones about running, and "bombing"!!)
- remember the plastic signs that were attached to the walls with the cartoon instructions/ rules? "no running no diving, no bombing, no petting" etc?

I miss those days of the sheaf valley baths... I took my lad swimming there when he was a tot. I used to go there, years before that, with my school-friends, "mob-handed" (lol)

I remember the baby-pool, which was quite warm, just as you exited the changing rooms.

the big pool could be on the cold- side, (and was, quite often!)

I remember the diving pool was so damn PERISHING-COLD!

That was awful! (i wonder if it was so cold, to deter anyone hanging about in it, rather than getting straight out after their dive..? Not that anyone would have wanted to "willingly" stay in that freezing water once it had knocked the breath out of you with the iciness!)

From what i gather, a mistake had been made, when the main pool was constructed at SVB...

it was constructed, slightly too short, perhaps a metre and a half:- but, too short to be used as a competitive venue... and it would have cost an arm and a leg to rectify, (yes, even to dig out just another yard or so, to extend the pool, it was too prohibitive, so the svb was closed down, and the soulless Ponds forge was opened... so sad, such a shame!)

PT

Tara, glad to see I'm not the only ex-pat for whom Sheffield, and particularly Wincobank, is the landscape of their dreams. I often walk through Woolley Woods in my dreams, or sometimes I am biking on the way to Wentworth with my then mates. One recurring dream rather upsets me. I sometimes dream of visiting my grandparents' house on Fife Street. The dreams are always set at in early evening, when it is just going dark. I walk around to the back of their house to find the lights off but the back door wide open. They are nowhere to be seen, and I shout their names. No reply.One day, I hope the lights are on, and they are there to greet me.
On a humorous note, yes, I have memories of the infamous Mr Scott. He used to delight in hurling the timid into the "deep end". He did that to me, and I thought I was going to drown. As I have relayed on another thread, one day he went too far and threw a lad called Mitchell [can't remember the surname] in. Witnesses claimed that the lad's father threw Scott in fully clothed. If true, serves him right!

Did that Mr Scott scream at everyone very loud, was he grey haired, or light haired.
Timo, you mentioned Wentworth, I couldnt remember the name of the place, was there a big pond, with lillies on.

We also used to go miles on our bikes, we didnt know where we were going, but it was good fun,
Is Woolley Woods not the same now, if not why is that, we used to hide in the ferny bracken,
We used to sledge down Concord park, and there was a stream at the bottom, I once landed in there,
What about the lads pelting the girls with snowballs as they came out of school, they would make them hard as rocks, and they would make your legs sting, or tipping snow down the back of your neck,

What about those lovely school dinners, I used to love them (really I did),

Nadine, when I knew Scott he was grey haired with specs, and he certainly shouted a great deal. Wentworth is on the way to Barnsley, and I think there is a big pond there. We would cycle there to go "egging", usually Rooks, Magpies etc nothing exotic. I wouldn't encourage it now.

Sorry, you mentioned school dinners too. I hated them at Wincobank, Concord and Hinde House and usually took a packed lunch or went to the chippy. The dinners at Wincobank were easily the worst; huge vats of lumpy Shepherd's Pie, horrible glue-like Semolina, chips that tasted greasy and sour, and terrible, cheap chocolate ice cream in a round circle. The cups were red or blue plastic with bite marks all over. Perhaps the worst for me was Spaghetti day, when the retards would pretend the pasta was worms. Ugh. The only decent meal they could do was Cheese Pie, with a Tomato sliced on top. I wouldn't feed the rest to my Bull Terrier!

cheese pie was my favourite school dinner, too, I loved it, when they served it with chips and tinned tomatoes.

I hated the shortbread that they sometimes used to serve at school, which was completely rock hard; you couldn't bite into it, and the fork-and-spoon attempts to break it merely sent it flying off the plate, a chisel would not have made any impact on it.

I detested semolina/ sago and tapioca.

I also remember them bringing in soya meat, as an experiment in the 70's, to "pad-out" the "real" meat that was served.

My mother had to sign a form that was sent home, giving her authorisation that the school meals service could serve soya meat to her child! how weird is that?

edited to add, does anyone else remember the pastel-ly refreshers -coloured melamine plates and dishes that the school lunches were served on?

PT

I've always said, Plain Talker is a person with good taste. I'm going to try to persuade my wife [Julie] to make Cheese pie. She has mastered the traditional Sheffield Meat and Potato pie rather well. Actually, I might have a go myself, and recreate the old days.

yes thats all i remember about wincobank school that horrible rice pud or what ever and it always had a perculiar smell.

well plain talker cheese pie was my fav too, but i only remember it later when i went to hartley brook school.
it was always served with chips and baked beans but their baked beans were not nice to say the least.

coconut sponge and custard was one of my fav desserts.
and the water was served in those horrible red plastic cups with
hundreds of scratches all over them.


remember the junior school christmas parties, take your own plate and cup etc.
weren,t they just great.
and on the last day you were aloud to bring games.
i remember gregory boyes bringing in that horse racing game where you turn a handle and the horses moved along.
everyone was fascinated.
he always use to bring in his mini record player and his top ten singles.
and for a special treat julie france would let her hair down for the party. (literally)

she had the longest hair ever.
then we'd have quizzes and the winner got a pack of chocolate.

Those were the days,
Well I have to say I loved all those things, the semolina and meat and potato pie etc.
Maybe it was because my Dad did all the cooking and it was the same old things, and the school dinners were a change, and the cheese pie I could not stand, the smell of that cooked cheese used to make me feel sick, you lot probably went home to some lovely mothers cooking and nice deserts, I must have been deprived or something.
I make a nice shepherds pie and my family like it too,
forget the cheese pie though, I dont think I will be making it.
Although nowadays Quiche has become fashionable, do you think it was a type of Quiche, and I like that, but I dont remember it being the same.
I was not keen on the mashed potatoes though, they were always tasteless and lumpy, and didnt care much for the custard, I used to have the desert without custard, it was often lumpy

I had a note in the old days not to have school milk, it was disgusting and I still dont drink milk on its own to this day, maybe that was before Timo's and PT's time, the milk monitors used to bring it in and distribute it.

yes and it was always the same person who got the milk monitor job- teacher's favourite.
things are done a bit more democratic these days the kids vote for things.
school council etc.

Nadine, no school milk was definately in my time! I remember the lukewarm stuff in bottles with a straw provided, at Wincobank Infants. We used to have a variety of crisps at break [I think Tara once referred to them] that were delicious. They were called, I think, Potato Puffs. They must have stopped making them years ago, but they were "ace", as we would say! This thread, along with the Hinde House, Lost family, and Wincobank Vicarage threads really are Nostalgia City aren't they?! Keep them coming...

yeah bring on the chockie teacakes.

yes, I well remember the little 1/3 of a pint bottles of milk,

I remember paying Sixpence (2 & 1/2 new pence) for a bottle of milk and a dundee biscuit (the dundee biscuits were like a shortbread circle, resembling a sunflower centre, and they were coated with somethiing that passed for chocolate.

we paid our sixpences, because thuggie snatcher (maggie thatcher, the milk snatcher") had abloshed the free milk for schoolchildren...maybe she wanted the schoolkids to grow up to be sineless as her cabinet members, I don't know!

The thing I hated about the school milk was that for some incomparably daft reason, the milk was kept by the radiators, and used to be warm, when it was dished out at morning playtime.

That made it taste vile, and sour.

It can't have been good for us to have to drink the milk, as it was stored, with it being in such unsafe conditions...? I am surprised that it was permitted.

To this day, I have to have my milk chilled, almost within an inch of it's life. whether on my cereal or as a drink. I cannot drink milk that is warm.

PT

Yes PT, maybe that is why I cant drink milk, the thought of that warm stuff by the radiators

Oh Chockie teacakes, you can still get some over there with a silver and red wrapper, someone I worked with brought me some and they were soooo delicious, the marshmallow was soft and creamy, and I loved the potato puffs, I remember being at Wincobank and this girl brought some cherry yogurt in a tupperware container.
We all had to taste it and it was bitter and awful, I am a huge yogurt fan now, but in those days, it was weird and new, and foreign.
I loved wagon wheels too.

Do you remember the nurses that came to look in your hair to check for nits, does that still happen?

no, nadine, sadly, "nitty Norah" the head-lice nurse doesn't exist any more. (I don't think that they even do the eye testing in schools, like they used to)

This possibly explains why there is a near-epidemic of head-lice, and, because there is no consistency of treatment, (I E the "wrong treatment, or in the case of some parents, no treatment at all)
or that the treatments aren't administered closely enough together, across the school, that the lice are permitted to spread.

I was one of the lucky ones, I never caught head-lice, during my school years.

I remember when kids were discovered to have head lice, a note was sent home, with some special shampoo, like Derbac, which the parent used on the child, and got shot of the lice. The child was not generally permitted back into the class for a week or two, IIRC, to prevent the spread.

It seems to be much more "laissez-faire" these days,there doesn't seem to be the drive to prevent the spread of lice.

PT

Originally posted by mikey
A few of my memories


The Original Virgin Records

and dont forget Original Skateboards - used to spend my life in the old Heeley Pictures - that was converted into a Skate park.

I used to spend my life in that Virgin shop, also saw Vice Versa before they were ABC play live there.

Also, Im a bit of a skate historian - tell me more about this Heeley place - was that the one I read about that burned down before the guy was properly insured and he lost a fortune? Or another place?

going back to school milk .remember in winter when the cream at the top all turned to ice.
it tasted better all iced up.
in my junior school it was given out as soon as the crates came but it still tasted awfull.
like gone off cheese.
the cheese biscuits were good and teacakes etc but i think the peanut bars surpassed the rest.

I remember going to silver blades i could never walk in the hired skates but did a good job of sliding all over the ice to the latest
pop charts.- early 70s.


timo's late this evening.

PT, I am glad to say I never got the lice either in all my days at school, and the ones that did we thought were disgusting, although we know not its not there fault, you were frightened they would jump at you.
I must say its the same here, as far as the treatment goes,

Tara, I used to love the silver blades, I had lessons on a saturday morning for ages, and had my own skates, those hired ones were terrible and all the support had gone in them, do you remember on a saturday morning (I was younger then) they used to stop everything for a while and they used to play music like the waltz and foxtrot, well I used to dance to that also.
I stopped for a while and then went again when I was about 14-16, but that was just skating around meeting people, I used to get certificates and was always disappointed as my Dad when I was yound didnt come to watch me, I still have those certificates now, I had my photo took once by some bloke that was a proper photographer at the rink, and I picked it up the following week and some rotten begger nicked it, I was so upset as I didnt get much like that.

Yes Timo is late, he must have other things to do,

Nadine, Timo's here, having arrived home from work early for aThursday. Yes, I remember the Silver Blades ice rink. Wasn't it next to a nightclub called Samantha's? I remember that the blades was a place to chat up girls in my early youth. I actually learned to ice skate through trips every week from Hinde House. I don't think the management trusted us at all, and we were watched like hawks. Can't imagine why...

Samantha's was actually above the skating rink.
Before Samantha's it was the Heartbeat Club.......members only, but some bloody good music in the late 60's.

I never went to Samantha's, must have been too young.
Is that ice rink not there now?, or have they moved it.

Does anyone remember those huge platform shoes, I bought some wooden soled clogs, they must have had soles on them about 3-4inches thick,

Those blazers at school were horrible furry material, but the boys bought some different ones called I think barathea blazers, and they were quite smart looking, if you look at some of those photos on the friendsreunited website of the kids at Hinde House school in the 2-3 form, I cant believe we were so young looking and I thought we were so grown up.

What about the rag and bone men, I know that was a long time ago,

I remember the Rag and Bone man who occasionally frequented Wincobank; "Aaaany olllddd" appeared to be the cry, or it could just as easily have been a snatch of functional Swahili for all I know. He had a horse and cart, I recall. Do you remember Rington's Tea vans? They used to come around lower Wincobank in the period we are talking about. I think they were Black and yellow? One of the drivers was a real character called Joe Broomhead. I remember him from when I was a small kid, and in later years [my early twenties], I got to know Joe quite well as he was a receptionist at the bank I then worked for. Sadly missed.

The rag and bone man in Pitsmoor used to wheel a barrow along though never saw him with a horse.
That would be a novelty around there at that time.
I once traded my mums new clothes for a gold fish and remember her looking through the house high and low for them.
If only she knew.:blush:

Yes Timo, that is what he called out, and he had a horse as I remember, and I remember my Dad looking out for droppings for the garden, I think he called out for rags too,
I dont remember the tea vans, or that man you menthion what were tose vans then..

Cycleracer, what a laugh, I bet your mum thought the clothes were nicked off the washing line!!!
Did you get a goldfish, I dont remember goldfishes, I cant remember what ours gave you, I remember goldfish in a plastic bag at the fair though.

I dont know if they still exist, but what about the coal man, who used to but bags of coal in the coal hole (a door on the side of the house), remember when they made Sheffield a smokeless zone and we got some sort of grant towards a gas fire, then the coal hole was just used to store junk, after a while you could see Tinsley easily from our house, as the steel places started to get less smokeless.
Are the water coolers and gasometers still at the bottom of Wincobank, I think I might have a couple of those photo's of the old days if anyone is interested, you can tell me if it is changed.

Nadine, Rington's were a tea delivery company who used vans around Sheffield. I believe that they used horses before the age of the motor, so they probably have a long history in Sheffield. Nowadays, of course, we all get our tea from the local Supermarket in the main. I recall them all over Sheffieldin the mid 60s to mid 70s, when I was a little lad.
Your reference to the Rag and Bone man made me think also of the occasional visits we got from Gypsies. Nowadays, we are encouraged to view this group as an oppressed ethnic minority. In the Wincobank of my childhood, word would spread like wildfire when they made an appearance. This was not often, but when they were seen , my mother would tell us not to answer the door. People were genuinely afraid of them, and their "curses". It seems almost medieval now, but they had the effect of making everyone hurry inside. I remember one small encampment of gypsies at the top of Fife Street, around 1975, on then waste land just below Hinde House. Do you remember them coming round selling heather etc, and asking for scrap iron etc?

I remember being frightened of them, and didnt like to answer the door, I think the people were suspicious of the people that worked at the fair too, and thought they may come back to your place if you didnt treat them right.
The gypsies used to sell clothes pegs too.
I dont remember those tea vans at all, I wonder why not.

I think now that the rag and bone man used to give us balloons and we used to call the market in town, the rag and tag market.

Going back to those trips with the Working Mens Clubs, I used to love Skegness the best as I liked the Wild Mouse, is that still there.
It was rickety and wooden in those days, and you used to think you were going to come off at the top as it zig zagged around before that big drop down, I am scared of heights and used to scream blue murder on the whole ride.

Yeah the local coalman lived across from me in a cottage.
challoner was his name.
we had this celler with two little doors outside on the pavement where the coal went down.
I remember the rag men at first had golfish to give out but then i think they later reduced it to a baloon or something.

What about donkey stones?

You could get them off the ragman too, and I think they used to use them for cleaning the front steps before they whitened them
with Cardinal polish. Wonder if you can still get that?

I know that you can still buy black lead for your fireplace.

Originally posted by tara
Yeah the local coalman lived across from me in a cottage.
challoner was his name.
we had this celler with two little doors outside on the pavement where the coal went down.
I remember the rag men at first had golfish to give out but then i think they later reduced it to a baloon or something.
I remember the "Challoner Family" we got our coal from him ..where did you live ????

newman road, near bottom.challenors was bang across on a bit of private land.

Tara,
One of the Challoners taught me at Wincobank First School. I remember Miss Challoner was about 25/26 years of age, and she had brown hair, and wore specs. She had a nice, gentle manner with the children. This would be about 1967/68.

So this interesting topic continues.
I was,nt from Wincobank so can't really participate in this discussion, but I will take a close interest in the continueing postings.
Keep up the good work you Wincobank migrants.:mad:

Cycleracer- of course you can contribute, mate! The original thread is about the early seventies in general, but myself, Tara and Nadine have flooded it with Wincobank nostalgia!

Yes Cycleracer, put in your twopennath worth, it might be something we have forgot about,
I remember getting people to go into that pub on the corner of merton lane and newman drive (where the road forks) was it the Wincobank Hotel, and getting people to buy us Cider,

well, the Wincobank hotels still there. bit of a closed shop, or so I understand.

What nice memories you all bring back, loved the rag man, scared to death of the gypsies, they use to sell paper flowers.

what a difference viewing sheff after they made it smokeless.
our coal box was outside, we lived in a council house in southey green, then we would bring it in in buckets and keep it in the kitchen, i also remember the gas always went down low when we all cooked sunday dinner at the same time, took hours for the meat to get done, i lost the job of straining the gravy as a few times i strained it all down the sink and saved the lumps by mistake.

Having a once a week bath, it took our imersion heater hours to heat up, so with 5 of us in the house you only got one bath a night per person, if you were lucky you could jump in the same bath water of who ever got out fast and left some warm water l.

Mom use to put the bowl of jelly in the bath with a bit of cold water to set , took forever,

thanks for the memories.

Poppins
You were brave to mention the once a week bath, yes, going back to when I was young, we only turned on the immersion heater for baths,
Someone I knew didnt have a bathroom and they would heat up the twin tub washing machine and pump the water into the tin bath, I used to think that was so old fashioned even then.
There were 8 kids in the family and they all had to go to the front room while the people bathed in the kitchen, that would have been in the late 60's.
People used to look at your neck too to see if you had a "tide mark" after you had washed your face, oh dear these days that all sounds terrible
I laughed at the gravy story, I could imagaine that.

Nadine
My gram had a tin bath tub, i think it was copper, worth a lot now, she would set it up in front of her fire place for me, i just soaked in it while she combed the nits out of my hair so i could go to school next day.

poppins.

I am glad you two went to live at the opposite side of the world , with your mucky habits and nitty hair.:) only joking ladies, honest

Nadine
Did you read what oldlad said ? that was funny, we must sound like a real pair .

Poppins.

They were probaly the ducklings who turned into Swans

Hazel, if read these two correctly, the only swan they will be getting into is the white swan...pub....the first round is on me ;)

Owdlad
How about the "Mucky Duck" is it still there ?

Originally posted by poppins
Owdlad
How about the "Mucky Duck" is it still there ?

Alias the Black Swan, look here

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14325&highlight=black+swan

owdlad you must be a lot younger than us, not to remember that!!
Otherwise he would be "tarred with the same brush"
Yeah I remember the phrase "mucky duck", no wonder.
These days it sounds terrible,
Anyway the swan pub sounds good, if your buying.
I think Hazel is correct, I like to think I had turned into a swan, in comparrison to those days, we were not too bad, I cant ever remember not having a bathroom, but even up to leaving England in 1974, there were houses not too far away that still did not have a bathroom, can anyone else comment on that,
surely we are not the only ones that were mucky back then,
By the late 60's and early seventies things were moving along and I remember someone having a shower installed, but a lot of those terraced places didnt have a lot of mod cons

Hi Nadine, yes I am younger, a mere stripling in my fifties, I can well remember the mucky duck, I can't get rid of the taste of the beer from there, foul stuff it was.
I too was lucky that we never had a house without a bathroom, but remember my grandmother who lived in a terraced house never had one, even into the 60s. I think most folk were no dirtier then than now, it was just harder to keep clean, I mean who wanted to get washed with carbolic soap, and coal tar soap.
The kids these days still catch nits, but now they are looked at differently, flaming heck I am scratching even talking about em.

poppins, in answer to your question, the mucky duck is apparently still there, but of course under another name, and I can't remember the last time I went to town for a drink.
I will make an exception for you and Nadine, when you come back to us poor souls back home, but only for a swift half, I have heard about you women from abroad...me mam warned me about you lot ;)

man about the house

rising damp

kung fu

double deckers

mary mungo and midge

skippy

marine boy

tarzan (ron eli)

high chaperal

the virginian

bonanza

whacky races

clackers

Originally posted by nsiebert
owdlad you must be a lot younger than us, not to remember that!!
Otherwise he would be "tarred with the same brush"
Yeah I remember the phrase "mucky duck", no wonder.
These days it sounds terrible,
Anyway the swan pub sounds good, if your buying.
I think Hazel is correct, I like to think I had turned into a swan, in comparrison to those days, we were not too bad, I cant ever remember not having a bathroom, but even up to leaving England in 1974, there were houses not too far away that still did not have a bathroom, can anyone else comment on that,
surely we are not the only ones that were mucky back then,
By the late 60's and early seventies things were moving along and I remember someone having a shower installed, but a lot of those terraced places didnt have a lot of mod cons

the terraced house that we moved into in 1973/4 had no mod cons

It didn't even have a sink, and had only one electrical plug for the whole house!!!

I well remember the tin bath, hung on the cellar head,
and the friday night bath, where everyone shared the same bathwater.
the last one into the bath always came out dirtier than they went in!!!!

PT

Originally posted by Plain Talker
the terraced house that we moved into in 1973/4 had no mod cons

It didn't even have a sink, and had only one electrical plug for the whole house!!!

I well remember the tin bath, hung on the cellar head,
and the friday night bath, where everyone shared the same bathwater.
the last one into the bath always came out dirtier than they went in!!!!

PT
When you mentioned the one plug, you forgot to add that everyone had a multi plug kind of thing that fixed into the light socket, my mother used to use her electric iron from it, and the Christmas tree lights were always fixed into it.

What about the washing rack/frame thing that hung from the ceiling..I used to use ours to hold up my bike so I could clean it and service it...and there was the clothes horse kids used it to make a tent.

My grandmother had no bathroom and and outside toilet up until the time she died in 1983. She lived in one of the terraced houses that used to be where the Hillsborough leisure centre is now.

They don't know they're born these days!

the 1974 miners strike......sat around eating our candle lit tea.....my worse memory of this was...being the oldest it was my job to fetch the coal from the celler i used tho **** mi sen everytime i had to go down in the dark:blush: :blush: :blush:

My Mom never trusted the coal man, they would try to short her a bag or two if she wasn't looking out the window.

Remember the chimney sweep, we had to cover the harth and rugs with newspapers, what a mess ! what a job !.

I notice tiled fire places are back in style now, but what red lines we use to get on the back of our legs trying to warm up, getting shouted at for standing in front too long.

I use to go to bed with our warm tea cosie on my head some times, my gram would warm a brick in the fire to put in bed, we had regular hot water bottle though.

Aye there's so many things we can look back on, Rickits, Ring worm, Diptheria, Polio, proper Measles, not them German things, and last but not least Smoke puthering out of every chimney, so your clothes got covered in little black bits ever time next door fired up.......wor it thee kirky :P

Originally posted by owdlad
Aye there's so many things we can look back on, Rickits, Ring worm, Diptheria, Polio, proper Measles, not them German things, and last but not least Smoke puthering out of every chimney, so your clothes got covered in little black bits ever time next door fired up.......wor it thee kirky :P
tha wazzock:)

i think we know each other from another message board......football related.......sussed!!!!:P :P :P :thumbsup:

Not me kirky, I don't go on any of them kind of boards, as a matter of interset which one is it ?

owdlad
I am in my late forties, so you must be a bit older than me even.
Someone in NZ just went to London and commented how dirty the air was and his nostrils were full of sooty stuff.
I remember the black smuts on the washing back in the 60's before Sheffield was a smokeless zone, as we could see Tinsley and the gasometers and water towers and steel factories from our house in Wincobank

Nadine, I am in my 50s, and can well remember those damp days, in fact it's like that today, damp and miserable.
I rarely go to London, as your friend rightly says it always seems dirty and full of fumes. Tell them to come up to sunny Sheffield.
Another thing that I found a few weeks ago was the hobbing foot, complete with a tin of segs.

Originally posted by owdlad
Nadine, I am in my 50s, and can well remember those damp days, in fact it's like that today, damp and miserable.
I rarely go to London, as your friend rightly says it always seems dirty and full of fumes. Tell them to come up to sunny Sheffield.
Another thing that I found a few weeks ago was the hobbing foot, complete with a tin of segs.

during the war............................................... .................

Segs! I'd forgotten all about them. There were Blakeys too, which I think were slightly larger. I used to wear segs on my brogues, sport a "skinhead" coiffure, with two-tone trousers and short-sleeved Ben Sherman shirts. Looking back, I was really gorgeous!

Originally posted by timo
Segs! I'd forgotten all about them. There were Blakeys too, which I think were slightly larger. I used to wear segs on my brogues, sport a "skinhead" coiffure, with two-tone trousers and short-sleeved Ben Sherman shirts. Looking back, I was really gorgeous!

i remember the bouncers at the top rank (sat mornings) making us all take the segs out of our shoes before we were allowed in........apparently they marked the dance floor

Originally posted by timo
Segs! I'd forgotten all about them. There were Blakeys too, which I think were slightly larger. I used to wear segs on my brogues, sport a "skinhead" coiffure, with two-tone trousers and short-sleeved Ben Sherman shirts. Looking back, I was really gorgeous!

Don't kid thee sen. ;)

The mention of segs in the heels of shoes, and the Hobbing-foot for repairing shoes brought back some really strong memories for me, of my father cobbling our shoes, to get a bit more wear out of them.

Do you temember the Phillips' Stick-a-soles? your shoe would wear thin, under the ball of the foot, and the stick-a-sole would extend the shoe's life a little...

and Tatting-ends! what about Tatting-ends!!!????!!!

that really strong twine/ thread stuff that you used to repair seams on handbags, or to stitch shoes back together when the seams went, or the stitching that joined the upper to the sole split...

My mum always had, in her workbasket, a selection of threads, and needles/ bodkins etc, a cofffee-jar full of buttons, and a couple of cards of Tatting ends!

Is it my imagination, or do shoes, these days, not even last long enough to have a bit of polish put on them, never mind lasting long enough to be taken to the cobblers for soles and heels?

PT

Plain Talker, no it is not your imagination about shoes- I find they do "run out" long before they should. Of course, this has absolutely nowt to do with the fact that I am heavier these days. Do you remember those Tuf shoes for boys in the seventies? I also remember Wayfarer's Animal Track shoes, which had paw prints on the soles. Also, I recall the George Best- advertised Stylo Match Maker football boots. They were truly crap. I stuck to Adidas Samba after that.

My Mother never threw away a button, they were always "going to come in" she kept them in a Zubes tin.
so remember, Zubes are good for the tubes.

Please have a look at my web space and see if you could help me add and preserve our heritage. thanx

Originally posted by timo
Plain Talker, no it is not your imagination about shoes- I find they do "run out" long before they should. Of course, this has absolutely nowt to do with the fact that I am heavier these days. Do you remember those Tuf shoes for boys in the seventies? I also remember Wayfarer's Animal Track shoes, which had paw prints on the soles. Also, I recall the George Best- advertised Stylo Match Maker football boots. They were truly crap. I stuck to Adidas Samba after that.

Tuf shoes....you had to have heels as hard as a cobblers last to break them in, oh yes remember the joys of breaking new shoes in, and even then you got blisters the size of Pontefract cakes on your heels the first time you wore them to go out for more than a walk up the garden.

owdlad,
Segs, I had forgotten about those, I spoke to someone ages ago, about those metal things and I remember when it was also quite fashionable to have them on your shoes,

I see your living in Derbyshire, I would imagine on a horrible day it is still nice,

Do people still like to eat tripe, can you still buy it in the shop

Originally posted by nsiebert
owdlad,
Segs, I had forgotten about those, I spoke to someone ages ago, about those metal things and I remember when it was also quite fashionable to have them on your shoes,

I see your living in Derbyshire, I would imagine on a horrible day it is still nice,

Do people still like to eat tripe, can you still buy it in the shop

they are very fond of sheep apparently:)

Originally posted by timo
Plain Talker, no it is not your imagination about shoes- I find they do "run out" long before they should. Of course, this has absolutely nowt to do with the fact that I am heavier these days. Do you remember those Tuf shoes for boys in the seventies? I also remember Wayfarer's Animal Track shoes, which had paw prints on the soles. Also, I recall the George Best- advertised Stylo Match Maker football boots. They were truly crap. I stuck to Adidas Samba after that.

"Tuf" brand shoes also had a range for girls.

I well remember this, because I had a pair in the first year of the junior school.

They were very masculine-looking plain, black, lace ups. they looked like the kind of shoes that kids in the pictures of the turn of the 19/20th century would have worn. They were sturdy shoes, admittedly enough, but, the shoes my mother bought for me, looked even more masculine, on me, because of my big feet. (I was a size adult 1 on starting school, today, I am an 8.5 to a 9). The kids in my class kept teasing me, all the time i had to wear them, saying "PT is wearing BOYS shoes!!!" . As you can imagine, this really endeared those shoes to me!

I don't know if they had some kind of charm on them, but, by-gum!!! for love nor money, I could not wear those shoes out!!!

They certainly were "tough" shoes, as owdlad said.

P "don't love ya, 'cos yer feet's too big!" T

Originally posted by kirky
they are very fond of sheep apparently:)

Yep and Velcro gloves :wow:

Originally posted by nsiebert
owdlad,
Segs, I had forgotten about those, I spoke to someone ages ago, about those metal things and I remember when it was also quite fashionable to have them on your shoes,

I see your living in Derbyshire, I would imagine on a horrible day it is still nice,

Do people still like to eat tripe, can you still buy it in the shop

Nadine
I have always hated tripe with a vengeance, of all the things that comes off a cow, tripe is just what the name says.
Derbyshire is always nice, especially when you can nip over into Chatsworth and the Peak District in fifteen minutes, just to sicken you have a look at our beautiful county.

http://www.chatsworth-house.co.uk/
http://www.derbyshire-thepeakdistrict.co.uk/
Enjoy at your leisure.

Owdlad, thanks for the photo's they are lovely
Have been to Chatsworth as a kid, so good to see it again, I will have a good look at the photo's tonight.
Did you move there for the work?

My Dad saved everything, even walking along the street, if he saw screws or buttons etc, he would pick them up, not to mention the night he bent to pick up what he thought was a silver coin, and it was the moon shining on a heap of spit, I laughed for days.

Timo, I too as a girl had a skinhead haircut, Bensherman shirt, and we had also 2 tone skirts, remember those 2 tone trousers were they called "parallels" and then skirts came out the same for girls.
I remember the brogues and loafers, I had brown loafers and we used to polish them with ox blood colour polish to make them look red.
Those Tuf shoes I remember and the ones with the animal prints, what about those boys shoes that came out with the compass in the bottom of the heel, what were they called,

Nadine, I am only twenty minutes from Sheffield, but safely over the border.I love living so close to the Peak District, especially knowing it will never change, and spend many happy hours in there.
The piece about your Dad and the spit is brilliant, I can just imagine the look on his face, it's just a good thing he didn't try picking up sausages...urgh! When I worked down Attercliffe, the man who used to walk down to work with me once stopped me picking up a coin, his thoughts were that it would make me round shouldered, when I asked why he said " because for the rest of your life you will be looking down at the floor trying to find another one" I still picked it up though.
I had no time for the skinheads, although these days I am one of them, well it sounds better than saying I am going bald I have to admit though to having some Doc Martins, and they were and still are the most comfortable boots around.

owdlad,
I dont think my Dad picked up any sausages (yuk),
I think when I was in my teens we didnt think of the implications of skinheads, I think most people were not real skinheads if you know what I mean, we enjoyed the fashion etc.

Kirky, I remember the Top Rank on Saturday mornings, would have been about 1968 (oh god I'm old), I remember the bell bottom trousers and the girls tucking there blouses in the bras, so we had a bare middle, and dancing like Pams people (do you remember those dancers, and eating those crushed ice things with the flavour poured on the top.

I then moved to the Tuesday nights, it seemed so much more grown up, and wearing halter neck tops and dresses, than would have been the early 70's, we used to sometimes dance in the long lines

Nadine, Pans people, would that be Babs, Dee Dee, Flick,Ruth, Andi and Louise..no i've never heard of them :heyhey: I did used to walk past the Top Rank though, and wonder why all those people were wasting good drinking time going into there.
The Claymore was open at 11 o'clock, and we never wasted a drop.

owdlad
What a memory, or did you look it up somewhere?

When we went to the Saturday morning top rank, when I was a kid, we used to try and dance like the 'go go dancers'.
I remember the wet look boots, and they had to fit really tight up your calf.
The real skinny girls always had wrinkly ones, and they didnt look good, white boots I think were fashionable,
I am not a tall person, and have small feet and always had problems getting shoes to fit,
Is Timpsons, Dolcies still selling shoes these days.

What about, Chealsea girl, Etams, C&A, Dorothy PerkinsI used to shop there for clothes, still you may not be interested being a bloke, maybe some women will know, I left school in 74, so didnt have a lot of money, so didnt shop in the expensive places

Originally posted by nsiebert
owdlad
What a memory, or did you look it up somewhere?

When we went to the Saturday morning top rank, when I was a kid, we used to try and dance like the 'go go dancers'.
I remember the wet look boots, and they had to fit really tight up your calf.
The real skinny girls always had wrinkly ones, and they didnt look good, white boots I think were fashionable,
I am not a tall person, and have small feet and always had problems getting shoes to fit,
Is Timpsons, Dolcies still selling shoes these days.

What about, Chealsea girl, Etams, C&A, Dorothy PerkinsI used to shop there for clothes, still you may not be interested being a bloke, maybe some women will know, I left school in 74, so didnt have a lot of money, so didnt shop in the expensive places

don't forget "clock-house" brand, at C&A... sexy rexies, (and of course "pippy's"!)

saxone shoe shop had a "tall and small" department with sizes 1,2, & 3, and sizes 8, 9, & 10.... they are shut down, now, so I have to buy my "broad-fitting size 9's at Evans'.

and as for those plastic, "wet-look" boots,
do you remember the craze for those sock-like things, that you could wear with your ordinary court shoes, that turned them into "boots"? they were made from the same wet-look pvc material as the boots. I remember them being in black, and white, but I can't remember any other colours.

and who remembers "Stylo's Bargain Basement" beside the old blue bell (now cavells ) on high street? shoes (seconds, or end of range, usually), for a couple of quid a pair...

PT

PT
I remember Saxone's, and those plastic things,
Sounds like I have the opposite problem to you though.
There was also wet look coats, I had a red one,
It had a zip up the front, but some had poppers.
There was those caps too, that had the peak on the front,
What about hot pants, those boots reminded me,
Alas I did not have good legs, so didnt like to wear them.

Originally posted by nsiebert
owdlad
What a memory, or did you look it up somewhere?

When we went to the Saturday morning top rank, when I was a kid, we used to try and dance like the 'go go dancers'.
I remember the wet look boots, and they had to fit really tight up your calf.
The real skinny girls always had wrinkly ones, and they didnt look good, white boots I think were fashionable,
I am not a tall person, and have small feet and always had problems getting shoes to fit,
Is Timpsons, Dolcies still selling shoes these days.

What about, Chealsea girl, Etams, C&A, Dorothy PerkinsI used to shop there for clothes, still you may not be interested being a bloke, maybe some women will know, I left school in 74, so didnt have a lot of money, so didnt shop in the expensive places

Nadine I have to admit to cheating regarding Pans People, I couldn't remember Andi and Louise, but the others came straight to mind, and just so that you and PT don't get carried away with all that talk of wet look shoes and boots, most of the lads thought they looked like Wellies :P

Wellies!!!
Thats another name I havent heard for ages, they are called "Gum Boots" here.

I suppose they did look like Wellies, we thought they looked great.
I had these white bell bottom trousers and I thought I was great in them,

Later on the high platform shoes came out and it seemed the higher the better, we all must have looked terrible.

What about the midi and maxi coats, I was given some money for my birthday and went to Attercliffe to a shop called "Banners" and bought a maxi coat, and my Dad marched me straight back to the shop saying it was ridiculous, he let me have a midi coat though, it was dark blue with a tie belt.

Plaintalker- yes I do remember Stylo's near the Blue Bell! This thread is bringing back some long, long forgotten memories [if that's not a contradiction in terms].
Nadine, I have very fond memories of a certain Christine in Hotpants! We lads used to roll our trousers up at Concord Middle School in an attempt to satirise Hot Pants. It amused the "dinner ladies", but gained us no favours from the girls. You are right re the Skinhead culture- kids adopted the style but rarely the serious violence associated with the image. I can remember EVERY lad in my middle school class having the haircut at one point. Scotts of the Wicker was the fashionable barber then.

Timo
I remember a certain Christine in hot pants too.
She always had lots of clothes and certainly more than I had.

Does anyone remember the catalogues, do you still have those.
big thick things that you could buy just about anything in.
There was kayes I think and some others
I know the women like to buy things from them, you could even carpet your house.

I remember when cassette recorders came out and it seemed great after those spools of tape, and I remember staring through a neighbours window when they got a colour television that they won on the pools, how times have changed.

My Dad had a motor scooter and sidecar and I remember him looking at a reliant, because you could have the same licence, what a hideous car they were.

Nadine, glad the memories of, "a certain Christine" in Hotpants are shared by you too. I was beginning to think they might be the product of my beautiful imagination.
Re catalogues- yes, I believe they are stll available. Of course, nowadays one wouldn't wish to shop through a catalogue, would one? Only joking! I do remember Kays, and also Brian Mills catalogues. They doubtless saved many a family a "bob or two", as we used to say.
Do you remember those truly terrible LPs in the 70s, which were called [I think] Top Pops? They always had a bikini-clad young woman on the front, and were rotten cover versions of the latest hits. You would get a version of, say, a Slade or T.Rex hit as performed by some unknown "session musicians". I recall a hilariously bad version of The Osmonds' Crazy Horses [the original was bad enough...].

yes I remember the catalogues,

there was Kays, yes, there was Great Universal Stores, and Grattan..... "owt y' wanted, for a shilling a week! lol"

Then there were the shedload of catalogues all owned by the littlewoods people, (the Moores, of Liverpool, who IIRC also owned the Football Pools company, and endowed Liverpool polytechnic)
there were John Moores, and Janet Fraser, there was another one, called Peter... Woods? ( It was Peter Something or other, anyway) and the actual Littlewoods catalogue, itself.

I remember that , in the catalogues when I was a little girl, the baby wear section was Illustrated, rather than photographed, not like the older kids' and the adults' clothing sections. I always thought that looked rather odd, like the illustrations on the front of the "butterick" and "Simplicity" dress pattern packs.

PT

Just to add to my reminiscence above...

Brian Mills, that timo mentioned, was another catalogue that was in the Littlewoods stable.

thanks for that, Timo...

PT

Plain Talker,
just to show I'm on form today [and to avoid doing the work I'm supposed to be doing...] here's another "blast from the past" re catalogues- Marshall Ward. I'm an Oracle of trivia, aren't I ?! Regards.

I think those catalogues were quite expensive to buy from, but people were motivated because you could pay the stuff off, and that was in the days before everyone had credit cards,
Sorry to sound ignorant, but what is this expression (lol) that everyone keeps putting in the emails, they dont use it around these parts.

The No6 cigarettes used to have the cards in the packets and you could save them up and buy stuff, I remember the co-op used to have stamps also.
There was a place in town you could go and cash in the No6 cards and get your purchase.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nsiebert

Sorry to sound ignorant, but what is this expression (lol) that everyone keeps putting in the emails, they dont use it around these parts.

I was told it meant 'laugh out loud' - not certain though.

Originally posted by nuf_said
[QUOTE]Originally posted by nsiebert

Sorry to sound ignorant, but what is this expression (lol) that everyone keeps putting in the emails, they dont use it around these parts.

I was told it meant 'laugh out loud' - not certain though.

As far as I know You are right LOL means laugh out loud at least
that is what my daughter told me it meant as I am claassed as an old codger these days I have always used it as that I hope it doesn´t mean anything else! (lol)

Thanks for that information, I had wracked my brains trying to work it out,

What about the rag day, I remember as a kid thinking those uni students with the long hair, were pretty strange.

:D ah yes,rag day i remember watching all the students setting off from hillfoot bridge on their home made rafts,very funny.
we used to run to the next bridge and prepare our bags of flour to bomb them.
pyjama jump i used to enjoy that when i was a little older brilliant neets. :heyhey:

anyone remember cantors . hope ive got name right.
I remember in early 70s my dad had less hours at sanderson kayser and i had to have my crombie coat from there on the never never.
cantors sold furniture and fashions. think it was in town somewhere.
then when my dad got more hours i remember purchasing three pair of staypress trousers from harringtons.

Tara,
Wasn't Harrington's in the Sheaf Market? Is it there still? I remember it. I think it was owned by a guy called Keith. Everyone I knew shopped there due to the cheap prices re Levis etc. There were adverts in the Star featuring a photo of the owner, and a list of Levis, Ben Sherman, Brutus, Wrangler, Lee gear etc available. Must get off to work now...

It went....
'John Collier,....John Collier.....................?

tara

i worked at Sanderson Kayser in the 70's - what was your Dad's name? (don't reply if you are uncomfortable releasing your name)

'john Collier...John Collier - the window to watch!!

Docmel you got in before me, I remember that advert with the window to watch.

There was also an army surplus shop as you came into Sheffield, and I remember buying a few things from there in the early seventies.

Is Wilson & Peck the music shop still around, my Dad and I played instruments and used to go there to buy his music at birthdays and Christimas,
There was also another music shop down a gennell way, on the way to the moor, and I cant remember the name, it will come back to me, if it is like here

About the 33's that were out in those days, and the covers with the bikini clad ladies, I had some of those, I was an Elton John & Rod Stewart, David Bowie and Bryan Ferry, fan, in my early teens, and still have some of the old records, one of my favourites is a monty python of the 4 Yorkshiremen, it brings back memories, does anyone remember that one.

"trouble wi kids today is that if you told 'em what we had to put up with - they'd never belive you"

Originally posted by timo
Tara,
Wasn't Harrington's in the Sheaf Market? Is it there still? I remember it. I think it was owned by a guy called Keith. Everyone I knew shopped there due to the cheap prices re Levis etc. There were adverts in the Star featuring a photo of the owner, and a list of Levis, Ben Sherman, Brutus, Wrangler, Lee gear etc available. Must get off to work now...


Timo, I seem to remember Harringtons being in castle market. Didn't you have to climb up a ladder into the loft just to try something on? Crazy! A bunch of sweaty guys in the loft stumbling around trying the what? 36 inch? bell bottom/flares on.

Good times.

have we mentioned colvins at waingate.
docmel i'll pm you.

Wasn't Cantors down the Moor? Anyway, you mention a couple of adverts but cany anyone remember this:

"Fletcher's tomorrow - good for you, good for me
Don't wait til tomorrow - better fetch a Fletcher's loaf".

How wildly exciting you shout, but it'd give McTry and Flusted a run for their money. Next time I pick up the Takamine I'll give it a go. Shall we try the key of C?

Hi to Gettingon- I've posted you a private email; do get back to me. Re Harrington's, yes you are right. I remember the loft- ludicrous situation wasn't it?!
Tara, re Colvins; I've mentioned them at some point. They seemed to have a permanent "Clearout Sale" going on, with Ben Shermans etc at low prices. The shop was like bedlam at times. I personally found Sexy Rexy, with its Unisex changing rooms a theatre of humiliation. I was quite shy then [though NOBODY I know now would believe it], and the idea at once excited and embarrassed me. It all seemed so sophisticated and erotic then[ha ha ha].

Timo
In those days, even the name "Sexy Rexy" seemed erotic!!

Tara

Replied to your PM - thanks

Am a real oldie I remember "The Shack" cafe on west st, anyone else alive remember it too, IT HAD A LEAN TO with straw on roof outside, used to ride to it on my Velocette Venom, park outside and pose, ah days gone by!!

Mauricejag,
If you had a Velocette Venom, you must be a man of great charm, distinction and impeccable taste. They are, with respect, before my time but so great!

Wilson and Peck closed about 6 years ago. It moved from the bottom of the Moor to Rockingham Gate (I think!) Too expensive and over priced.
Does anyone remember Cranes Music Shop and the ABC Minors filmshows on a Sat- Morning and that crazy theme song!!!!!?

I remember the saturday morning filmshows.
Didnt go much, but remember no one sat quiet and watched the films, and people would be throwing stuff all over the place.

Originally posted by timo
Re Harrington's, yes you are right. I remember the loft- ludicrous situation wasn't it?!

Absolutely.

Used to go to a shop across across the road (where all the buses lined up), from castle market for the ben shermans... is that the colvins you speak of?

Originally posted by timo
Re Harrington's, yes you are right. I remember the loft- ludicrous situation wasn't it?!

Wasn't a store called Jean genie right at the entrance to castle mkt?

Originally posted by bassplayer
Wilson and Peck closed about 6 years ago. It moved from the bottom of the Moor to Rockingham Gate (I think!) Too expensive and over priced.
Does anyone remember Cranes Music Shop and the ABC Minors filmshows on a Sat- Morning and that crazy theme song!!!!!?

I remember the ABC alright and that rockin tune we used to sing!



:heyhey:

At least I can't forget the tune, although the words escape me now.

What about the Tufty Club - used to go see the films at the ABC!

I have been reading all these 1970's memories and they are so brilliant! Brought back so many memories...

I lived in Woodseats (Bedfordshire these days) and always remember how deserted it was on Cup Final days and Grand National day.

We used to go sledging in Graves park (when we had proper winters with snow), and my Grandpa was one of the old men in the parkkeepers hut, they used to talk about the war, put the world to rights and play endless games of dominoes..

Does anyone remember the childrens film shows that libraries used to put on, usually on a Thursday evening, it was 6p for a ticket and we used to sit on wooden benches and watch cartoons and I think once we had a Double Decker film or something very much like it.

Someone mentioned the 'Clockhouse' in C&A it used to be in the bottom of the shop and the door was in the hole in the road, but wasn't it Richards Shops before that? They used to have a coffee bar on the 3rd floor - oh I thought I was so sophisticated when I went in there.

I used to have a Saturday job in Sandersons the pen shop on Chapel Walk, right opposite the cafe (this would be 1975) and I used to go downstairs to the Egyptian Room for my lunch, and then when I got my £2.00 wages I used to rush round to Etams before they closed and buy a new top for that night out.

When I was younger, the never never man used to come on Friday nights, he was called Jack, he used to fancy my mum and she used to tell me to stay in the kitchen with her when he came so he wouldn try anything! LOL
He used to get his stuff from some warehouses near where the new courthouse is can't remember their names, can anyone else?

Rosie

Gettingon,
Colvins [they of perpetual "Clearout Sale"] were on Waingate. I don't remember Jean Genie at all. We all dug Levis, Ben Sherman etc. What would you consider to be the crappiest clothes of those days? I always laughed at the Lord Anthony range for social lepers.

I see on another thread people are talking about pak a macs and rainmates, anoraks were also another crap clothing item, people used to call each other "an anorak" to say they were a plonker.
Of course for ladies (cardigans), the woollen knitted variety
I remember as a teenager any shoes or handbags that were not real leather also, or imitation sheepskin or suede was also looked down upon
I must confess, I am still a bit of a clothes snob, that is what happens when you live in Britain,
Come here to NZ and anything goes, even anoraks

What about the silver blades then and all those hot pants :clap:

Originally posted by Lostrider
if you remember the "Buccaneer" have a look at this:

Buccaneer (http://www.aburke.freeuk.com/buccaneer.htm)

Good photos Lostrider,
One of the photos brings back memories,Whats that road that runs from the bottom of the moor to west st? well that pub at the top, me and a couple of mates were having a drink, got chating to a load of students and got asked to crash a party with them, it was an old house in or near havlock quare and it was McCloskey's Apocalypse's party, a cracking night/morning, we got totaly bladered on cider and cheap wine, the next day or probably the day after, my mate woke up with a pocket full of fuses, it seems on his way out he fell down the cellar grate into the cellar and one of the band was laughing at him, so my mate nicked all the fuses "total chaos" about 50 drunken people crammed into that small house totaly blind, What a night to remember

What about the Green Shield stamp shop behind the Moor?

What about Bazooka Joe comics? Save hundreds of them and you could send off for some X-ray specs, save thousands and you could order a miniature working submarine.

What about eating chilli at Mr Kites then browsing for books and records at Rare and Racy? Rare and Racy is still there!

What about the garage on Norton Lees Road with half a Mini sticking out of the wall?

What about the ladybird invasion of 1976? I ate one and it tasted of strong grass (vegetation type).

Sledging in Meersbrook Park. I remember going out once after Match of the Day with my mate Simon Gledhill and it was really icy and dark. We both smacked into the wall at the bottom. I heard that someone once broke their neck doing a similar thing. Not sure if they died.

did u snog me under the stairs in roxys tue night or sat morning. lol . pmsl . memories. they were great days they were. Also the skates, love being a skinhead. remember the rockers chasing us out of pond street after skates finished. wow memories. So many years have passed.

We used to stand and dance near snack bar and stairs
on tue nights and sat mornings. wow under them stairs.

SNEAKS.
Ps. still laughing while posting this

one of the things i remember about the seventies was going to the shop for my mum to get a tube of hair lacquer which was called bellair. she used to have a squeezy bottle which you refilled with the tube of hair lacquer. i'm so glad we can just buy tins of hairspray these days.

Originally posted by coyleys
, we got totaly bladered on cider and cheap wine,


Lots a laughs Coyleys.
If the pub was full of student, it was probably the Raven.
I bet the plonk was Hirondelle or Corrida. I have an aversion to red wine even now after some very drunken episodes on that stuff.
It was the cheapest way to get very, very p****ed. :hihi:

My mate could get luncheon vouchers from his dad (who delivered for styans and daveys bakers) we would go to silver blades to try to pull, if we got lucky we'd then go on to wimpy's on the moor to trade in the vouchers,
Hamburgers, bannana longboats, brown derby's.
Did'nt take much to impress the girls back then.
Lewis leathers and virgin records were faves of mine.

Oh Tuesday nights at the Top Rank!

That horrid Slush - UGH!

We had Dom Sci all afternoon and spent the time deciding what to wear - Miss Duffin was our teacher at Hinde House - poor thing.

All the clothes and music - what sophisticates we were!!!

Windmillgal

PS They do still make Sherbet Lemons!










Hi
I remember going to the Top Rank on Tuesday nights for the disco, no booze, for under 18's, the No4 bus would have heaps on from Hinde House going into town.
Used to get fish and chips near pond street and get on the bus back home about 11pm, last bus was 11.15pm, so was always a bus to fall back on if we were late.
Used to go to school the next day,
Do you remember Harrington jackets, Ben Sherman Shirts and walking around like idiots with bowler hats and brolleys when the skinhead days were in.
Do you remember the Bay City Rollers and Rod Stewart with the tartan and sewing to the Levi's, I remember my Dad was not amused when I spent five pounds (that was a lot then) on a pair of Levi's and scrubbed then till they were pale and sewed on the tartan.
I crave for some sherbert lemons, Thornton toffee, Tizer, when friends go back to England they fetch all these goodies back, although havent had any sherbert lemons, do they still make them.

Nadine, I think the "Hole in the road" was filled in around 93, when we had moved to Nottingham for a while. I definately remember "Potted Dog" from many a kids' party in the seventies. The Co-op you refer to must be the one that was situated on Fife Street [opposite to my paternal grandparents' house], on the same side as the chippy, only further down. I recall the cheeses too. You can't get Cheshire in New Zealand? Come back to civilisation!


I can remember Fife Street chippy, it was owned by the Olivers I think and across from there was Wadsworths a grocer I believe. My grandparents lived on Jardine Street at Wincobank so remember those places

Ooh, the 70`s!! Left school, started work. Wore the most outrageous, and now thinking back...embarrassing, clothes e.g Trousers worn included Bright Yellow, Bright Red and White with Blue Stars!!! Platform shoes ugh!!! But we did have the wonderful days of The Buccaneer, The Penthouse and The Nelson. Marriage followed in 1974 and we will soon be on our 32nd Anniversary. So yes the 70`s were memorable on a personal level and I look on them with much affection as I met a lot of nice people and I often wonder what happened to them.:sad: