:lol:

http://www.enterprise.dynip.com/forum_stuff/RPG/sheffield.JPG

looks like we arent the only sheffield, this is a photo i took of "sheffield, cornwall"

Whenever you get a route from theaa.com it defaults to Sheffield Cornwall as the start point. You have to explicitly select Sheffield S.Yorks. :roll:

I.

Here's an aerial photo: http://tinyurl.com/at4i

Originally posted by "baublebag"

Whenever you get a route from theaa.com it defaults to Sheffield Cornwall as the start point. You have to explicitly select Sheffield S.Yorks. :roll:
Yeah, same on the train companies. According to RPG, Sheffield in Cornwall is no more than a few houses. Lets start a campaign to get the "real" :wink: Sheffield listed first... saving us precious seconds when we route plan or book train tickets :lol:

Originally posted by "Sidla"

Here's an aerial photo: http://tinyurl.com/at4i

thats it in the center of the pic, just up from "paul" which has a few houses....and a shop!! :wink:

Originally posted by "RPG"

...just up from "paul" which has a few houses....and a shop!! :wink:
What kind of shop? :lol:

PS. Can this topic be nominated for "Most Random Topic 2003"? :wink:

it was a general shop :P

maybe an awards later on in the year ;)

"Sheffield, Cornwall" comes before "Sheffield, South Yorks" when you sort alphabetically. I think I've found the reason it defaults to "Sheffield, Cornwall" at theaa.com.

I was there in 1955 when we visited cornwall, it is a very nice little village and the name is spelt the same as our sheffield.

How we laughed, on our first trip to Cornwall all those years ago when we came across a little village called Paul (my brother's name), then just when we thought it couldn't get any spookier, around the corner was Sheffield!

We soon stopped laughing when our Dad made us get out of the car and have our photo's taken by the name plaques .... as an 11 year old, I thought my street-cred had been totally shattered by such a ridiculous act of extreme tourism (well would you stop on the A61 to pose by a roadsign?) despite the fact that only cows and small field creatures were there to witness my Mona Lisa style pose on the grass verge... :oops:

i live in this so called out crop called sheffield cornwall and have done since my birth (1980). it's a small village about 3 miles west of penzance towards lands end. i find it most amusing that the aa.com lists us first. my childhood was ruined by people thinking that i had a long way to come to school from and that they were the first people to say it.
well we have three rows of houses, two farms, a garage, a old quarry and lots of fields cows and old people. each summer countless tourists wearing their sheffield wednesday shirts come to have their pictures taken standing next to one of our road signs before nicking it.
michael cornwall

rofl!

its so true!

i do hope we dont steal your signs tho, i love cornwall, almost as much as i do sheffield

There's also a Sheffield in Jamaica which was odd.

Aparently (so a mate of a mate told me... :? ) the Japanese named a city in their lovely country 'Sheffield' so they could stamp there Steel as 'Made in Sheffield' to sell to the world market.

The extremes some governments will go to eh...

Australia also has Sheffield and Ohio in the USA.

There are a few Sheffields in The US and I know of 2 in Australia!

We are the best after all!

Originally posted by "DaBouncer"

Aparently (so a mate of a mate told me... :? ) the Japanese named a city in their lovely country 'Sheffield' so they could stamp there Steel as 'Made in Sheffield' to sell to the world market.

The extremes some governments will go to eh...

it was in taiwan not japan ;)

Originally posted by "RPG"

Aparently (so a mate of a mate told me... :? ) the Japanese named a city in their lovely country 'Sheffield' so they could stamp there Steel as 'Made in Sheffield' to sell to the world market.

The extremes some governments will go to eh...

it was in taiwan not japan ;)
I stand corrected.... well actually I sit corrected, but who cares! :wink:

i live in this so called out crop called sheffield cornwall and have done since my birth (1980). it's a small village about 3 miles west of penzance towards lands end. i find it most amusing that the aa.com lists us first. my childhood was ruined by people thinking that i had a long way to come to school from and that they were the first people to say it.
well we have three rows of houses, two farms, a garage, a old quarry and lots of fields cows and old people. each summer countless tourists wearing their sheffield wednesday shirts come to have their pictures taken standing next to one of our road signs before nicking it.
michael cornwall

If you can get hold of a Picture of the original sign, or with it on. Scan it and save it. Sometime in the future, someone, like your grandchildrens, children will be looking for a picture of it.

We used to travel to cornwall every year as children,in those days it was a 13 hour trip,which to a small child was like a lifetime.........imagine my delight when out one day i saw a sign "sheffield 3miles".........i honestly thought it was a shortcut home,i really did!.........:rolleyes:

Yes, we have the obligatory family holiday photo of the 'Sheffield' roadsign in Cornwall :hihi:

Yes, we have the obligatory family holiday photo of the 'Sheffield' roadsign in Cornwall :hihi:

If one doesn't exist already it would be nice for the Sheffield Forum to create a storage place for scanned photos which could be accessed or used by anyone belonging to the forum. Years rapidly go bye and its frightening what detail can be forgotten until a photograph reminds you.