Lets find out how many 80s children we have on this Forum...

This is not a thread about spandex and Spandau Ballet... It's about YOUR memories from growing up in the 80s in Sheffield.

Personally I remember my mother dressing me in those god-aweful callotte things and crimping my hair, WALKING to school (god forbid!), being given a carton of milk at break-time, and computer games that were loaded from cassette tapes.

I remember trips into town when The Moor was less scabby, the trams were non-exhistant, and John Lewis was Cole Brothers. I also remember the Christimas lights being a damn-sight more impressive, but perhaps I was just being young and niave!:suspect:

My favourite parks were Graves Park (are the big hairy Highland Cows still there now), and millhouses Park when it had those wierd blue empty swimming pool things.

I remember when swings, slides and seesaws had tarmack or concrete underneath them instead of child-friendly soft surfaces!
:roll:

And Heeley City Farm used to have two huge black and white bunnies that you could cuddle!

Anyone got anything to add...?

Yeah I remember most of those!

The highland cattle are still there, I went to see them not long ago, they are still as big and cuddly as ever.

Do you remember the fishtank in the hole in the road? Millhouses Park has changed so much now, does anyone know if they still do the rubber duck races down the river there?

Oh shucks I feel all nostalgic! Remember most of the same things, especially the fish bowl, felt sad when that went.

I remember having to go to Bishop's House with school all the bloody time.

I remember really really cheap busfares.

I remember walking home from School (Greenhill) and my Mum going to the two Woods Supermarkets.

I remeber being rather mean with a group of kids on Annesley Rd (Greenhill again) to a local character who the kids named "Chicken George". :( Of course I feel terrible now.

I remember wearing Fergie bows in my hair and had a particularly attractive (?) tiger patterned one. MMMMM, classy.

I remember my Mum taking me to C & A clothes shopping for school.

That'll do for now.

Originally posted by sugarnspice

I remember having to go to Bishop's House with school all the bloody time.

Thats on the days when you weren't dragged round Khelm Island right? :D
I don't think I have visited either since the age of 10 and have no imediate plans to remedy that situation.

I remeber the escalators that went from near the old boots (?) down into the hole in the road. And the big, long thin sculpture of a man (looked like he was aleep or crying) on the side of C&A.

I remeber when it used to cost 2p for me on the bus and there were conductors and I remember the Miners Wives stall outside the town Hall.

Wow I feel old now ;)

I remember earning £1.50 for my first day in my Saturday morning job (aged 14) at the bakers and blowing the princely sum of £1.27 on a bottle of Martini Rosso, drinking it in Crookes Valley Park with two girl friends (they had to make do with 2l of cider each, not having my vast earnings to fund their habit) (Deb Holland, are you there?!), throwing it all up at the party at the back of the South Seas, calling for the boy I fancied at the time (Mark Tilbrook are you out there?!), being put on the bus and being back in the house (unwell and in disgrace, need I say that?) by 8.30pm.

Oh the joys of being young!

:P

I can remember having day-glo Fresh-Prince odd yellow and orange socks.

Tumbling Teds (and Tumbling Tots) at the YMCA on Saturdays.

Being the last of the 'Rising Fives' at Nethergreen First School, and the last of the 'middle school' kids before the schools all turned to junior schools.

Maybe when I'm less hungover I'll be able to remember a few more...

Originally posted by JBee


I remember trips into town when The Moor was less scabby, the trams were non-exhistant, and John Lewis was Cole Brothers. I also remember the Christimas lights being a damn-sight more impressive, but perhaps I was just being young and niave!:suspect:

My favourite parks were Graves Park (are the big hairy Highland Cows still there now), and millhouses Park when it had those wierd blue empty swimming pool things.


Do you mean the paddling pools, I remember them with water in, we used to have a fantastic time in there, I can't understand why they can't be revamped.

Originally posted by ADC_28
I can remember having day-glo Fresh-Prince odd yellow and orange socks.

Tumbling Teds (and Tumbling Tots) at the YMCA on Saturdays.

Being the last of the 'Rising Fives' at Nethergreen First School, and the last of the 'middle school' kids before the schools all turned to junior schools.

Maybe when I'm less hungover I'll be able to remember a few more...

ADC how old were you in, say, '77? Just curious....were you still in Nethergreen then?

I used to meet a lass from Dore every Saturday & ride up & down in the lift in Cole Bros - much to the irritation of the staff.

We'd be clad in our Heavy Rock gear & stinking of jip juice.

:rolleyes: ahh memories.

I remember just travelling on buses for the sake of it with my friends (2p bus fare) buying shoes from Rebina (think thats what it was called) Walking round town with my big boom box (cringe cringe) Going to meet lads that we had spoken to on the 'talkabout service' Being nearly killed by my dad for putting an extra £150 on the phone bill ! Yummy wham bars been twice as big as they are today. Wlking round with a leather jacket hanging half way down arms and thinking I was cool, the awful hair styles which used to mean using half a tub of hair gel a day! Ahhh bring back the 80's.

Sheffield in the 80s was great, everything cheap...

There was Racoms (or alternative spelling), Cole Brothers (as most of us still call it), Redgates, large avenues in the City Centre, a hole in a road, a large grassed garden next to Pinstone Street (now a concrete slab surface thing).

It were the bomb, you have to get away from City centre to still have this 'Sheffield' feeling :(

Does anybody remember the glass lift in the big Co-op?

Originally posted by JBee
Does anybody remember the glass lift in the big Co-op?

God, yes, vaguely. Something's swimming back from over the years. It fills the same space in my mind as 'Hamleys' which lasted about 7 months, if I remember rightly.

I remember the buses being red, brown and beige, the bendy buses, the fountain at the top of Fargate, particularaly at Christmas - munching on mint tooty fruity squares, which you can't get anymore.

I used to go to bonfire nights at Endcliffe park, where they used to make a big deal of it - and wearing those headbands which had 2 little foil windmills that used to bow round and round.

As little kids, we used to wear ear muffs - sometimes fluffy but one of mine was a dog's face and the other was the dog's behind.

Also having those Shee-ra dolls, Keepers and Cabbage Patch kid/ Rainbow bright dolls.

Can you remember these kind's rhymes? Pepsi cola, pepsi cola, here we go, I'm gonna hyptnotize you, (repeat) 'till you fall, we're going high, we're going low, we're going fast, we're going slow, so come on baby, let's go go go!

AlsWe used to also play Cops and Robbers in the playground to!

Originally posted by Captain_Scarlet


"Heaven is like Matlock in the clouds."

Sorry? Hullo? Hehehehe. Are you not going to post on the Heaven or Hell thread, Capt S m8e, with this new and frankly challenging viewpoint?

Mind, we were about to go out for a wander across some moors. Maybe we'll head for Matlock and feed the fish and fund the arcade owners' winter in Spain instead in the happy thought that we're indulging in something heavenly. Not that I've owt agin Matlock, mind, just tickled by your sig.



:P

Originally posted by scoop
Do you mean the paddling pools, I remember them with water in, we used to have a fantastic time in there, I can't understand why they can't be revamped.

i remember playing in the paddeling pools too, there were often so many people there that there was nowhere to sit on the grass.

The sun always seemed to shine in the 1980s.

i remember Sheffield in the 80's, the place to be (early 80's anyway).
Rara skirts, batwing tops, rebina shoes & X-clothes.
Hanging out in pond street with my shaggy perm & cats eyes.
Remember the ice cream jackets, jeans with a red or white line down the side & certain pubs that let you in no matter how young you were like the Cannon, Marples & Bario.
I also remember the Millhouses Lido & miners wives.
Can anyone remember Maces pet shop near the markets & the Miner bird that use to swear & chat to you?

i was an 80's child

i remember the rush down to Redgates at every birthday to buy the latest Transformer.
i remember the smell of fish as you entered Sheaf Market.
the tape stall just inside the enterance of Castle markets.
the labyrinth of clothes stalls also in Castle Market, going to Harringtons for cheap(er) jeans and stuff.
anyone remember the fountain thing outside the old eggbox xouncil offices in the peace gardens-playing stepping stones across it ???
and the scale model of sheffield in the same building?
i remember the YEB showroom just off the hole in the road. always seemed to be in there with my mum for some reason, perhaps that is how the 'leccy bill was paid in those days!
the toilets in the hole in the road,
the toilets in the subway what used to link high street with the top of the moor, where Mcdonalds is..

anyone remember the brilliant santas grotto at the co-op opposite the law courts. it was great, sit on santas lap,choose a gift, ride in the 'magical' moving sledge (when in reality it was just some cheap moving pictures on either side of the room !

reading all this nostalgia is making me want to come home to sheff !

I remember the mynah bird in Maces, he was I real character but i can't remeber his name. All my shoes came from rebina and I remeber that although they were flat they could be very uncomfortable but it was FASHION.

The 80's were the happiest days of my life. My main memories are -

Rebina shoes - I had a rara skirt too
Getting up early morning to go to the 'shoe market' (outside Sheaf Market)
Josephines on a Monday night was FAB then to Chubbys after at 2.00am
Steelys and Romeo and Juliets nightclubs
Shalamar, Imagination and 'Murphy's Law' (who sang that??)
Wearing those beaded headband things around my forehead (for clubbing)
ABC Cinema
Mega cheap bus fayres
Working part time as a waitress at Scoffers Restaurant on West Street (now the Sahib Indian). Can anyone remember their famous 'Beef Rib'? If you could eat it all, you didn't have to pay. No one managed it as far as I'm aware...

Does anyone know when they do those 80's nights at the City Hall??? LOL....

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Shalamar, Imagination and 'Murphy's Law' (who sang that??)[QUOTE]

CHERIE recorded a hit single called Murphys law in June 1982, made the top 20

Originally posted by adventurer
The 80's were the happiest days of my life. My main memories are -


Working part time as a waitress at Scoffers Restaurant on West Street (now the Sahib Indian). Can anyone remember their famous 'Beef Rib'? If you could eat it all, you didn't have to pay. No one managed it as far as I'm aware...

...

I remember Scoffers and the 'Rib' but the free offer must have come in at a later date - like you said it was a real plateful, but my late father in law, who could eat for England, always had one when we used to go, and he always cleaned his plate. If I remember it was one of the few places at that time that was open on a Sunday afternoon - rare back then.

Originally posted by Maddy
I remeber the escalators that went from near the old boots (?) down into the hole in the road.
I had totally forgotten about those!

I remember wearing the new stretch jeans (drainpipes), of course with the luminous lime/yellow/pink socks and rebina shoes, with a red Harrington jacket. I'll also admit to wearing yellow dungarees with the trousers turned up and 3inch stilletoes. :gag:

I got a Saturday job at the checkout at International Stores (now Somerfield) at Broomhill - this is before the electronic tills and barcodes- where we had to use the shop tannoy to query prices. My mates would often peel off the price tickets and buy dubious items so I'd have to announce the query to all and sundry!!

I'd blow my wages doing the crawl of Fox & Duck,York Hotel and South Seas or going into town to Romeos and Juliets or Sinatras.

Now I feel old. :(

I remember -

Redgates

Harringtons market stall (trousers and jeans) and having to climb a ladder to go into the loft in order to try them on ???

2p bus fares anywhere

The travelling sports van that visited the Bole Hills every summer, complete with Lacrose equipment ?

Bad Snow

Arthur Huntchinson & Yorkshire Ripper !

Sammy (deaf and dumb wednesdayite)

Christie's nightclub (Tony Christies place underneath the South Stand at Hillsborough)

Fusty Clips (flicking peoples ears)

Hanging around Fargate on a Sat afternoon.

Listening at the back door of City Hall when a gig was on, A-Ha and Tears for Fears (Oh the shame)

Thinking Hallam Towers was amazing ?

Smart R's jeans

Ice Jeans with free keyring !

Tank Tops

Mohair Jumpers

Going to the ABC cinema every Sat, then to Romeo and Juliets kids disco (circa 1981) from 12 til 3 I think

God what a time to grow up, when I think back & tell my kids (10 & 13) what is was like, they laugh. Then when there grandparents tell them what thet had / did (had nowt, played we nowt. No money so made own entertainment, nugh said!)
Yes we had the miners strike, boom & bust economy, & the rest of it but I know we had a good time without the peer presure that kids have now, I think we had it good.

50p Saturday mornings at the ABC
Watching my mate nearly kill himself after betting me he could ride my bike down the Donkey Hill in Firth Park (He almost did it too, death wobble set in when he got to the bottom)
Buying computer games in a shop near the Wicker (I'm sure it was called Quadrophenia)
Building our own BMX bikes from parts we came across
Tarzan swings in the woods
Having to buy a 2p platform ticket to watch the trains at Midland Station
The bonfire in Firth Park
Exploring the derelict houses when I lived at Lower Manor
Making dens
Quattro fizzy pop from Woollies on the Moor
Mr Wimpy walking up and down the Moor
Santa at the big Co-op (still got a photo of myself there to see him)
Scollops for 5p from the chippy on Fairleigh (Hague's?)

Those were the days :D