When i was young many many many years ago i was taken to see a whale yes a whale on a truck somewhere off the moor. was this just a weird dream i had or did anyone else go see it?

Weird dream :D

I dont remember anything like this

This may sound wierd but I am sure I have heard this before from someone else????
Just what time period were you young?

Moon Maiden

Originally posted by "Moon Maiden"

This may sound wierd but I am sure I have heard this before from someone else????
Just what time period were you young?

Moon Maiden :oops: lets say sometime in the 1970's

Don't blush bit before my times but not the hubby who is a ntive Sheffielder - he would have been under twenty then.

I think it was my hubby ya know?? I'll ask him when he gets home from work. He will probably look at me like I have just spoken in tongues.

Moon Maiden

Originally posted by "Moon Maiden"

Don't blush bit before my times but not the hubby who is a ntive Sheffielder - he would have been under twenty then.

I think it was my hubby ya know?? I'll ask him when he gets home from work. He will probably look at me like I have just spoken in tongues.

Moon Maiden i'm sure Mr Moon Maiden will be plzed to be classed as a whale :o

Originally posted by "Jon"

Don't blush bit before my times but not the hubby who is a ntive Sheffielder - he would have been under twenty then.

I think it was my hubby ya know?? I'll ask him when he gets home from work. He will probably look at me like I have just spoken in tongues.

Moon Maiden i'm sure Mr Moon Maiden will be plzed to be classed as a whale :o someone must have seen da whale lol?

I heard from a teacher at school that this is true, its not just a dream!

wasn't it displayed at the whale weigh station ?

Originally posted by "Internetowl"

wasn't it displayed at the whale weigh station ? lol you are so 4unny :wink: u should be on stage and theres one leaving sheffield @ 12 lol only joking

told you this wasn't a dream :D i asked my 72 year old mum and she remembers it too taking me to see this whale

Originally posted by "f_g"

I heard from a teacher at school that this is true, its not just a dream!told you this wasn't a dream i asked my 72 year old mum and she remembers it too taking me to see this whale :D

no your not dreaming it its true it was on the bottom of the moor where the milk board used to come in the 50s and i went inside it ok,it was a full scale whale not real but near enough and you walked in the mouth i think and out the tail and it was on a big truck,and the silly thing when i took my kids to great yarmouth in the early 80s we went to hemsby for the day and there it was poss not the same but same idea and i got pics of the kids going into this whale on the truck so yea you aint dreaming it ok it came to sheffield and was on the spare ground bottom of the moor next to the travelers pub.

I hope the kids had a whale of a time.......<<<sorry>>>

Going back a little further. Does anyone remember seeing 'Half Safe' at the bottom of the Moor?

No, you wer`nt dreaming, I saw that whale but there were several that toured the country as part of a fair, I think it would be in the early fifties.

Originally posted by David Bowler
No, you wer`nt dreaming, I saw that whale but there were several that toured the country as part of a fair, I think it would be in the early fifties. :thumbsup: I knew someone else must have seen it :P

Does anyone else of a 'certain age' remember being taken to see a Blue Whale (dead) in Sheffield. My vague (surreal) recollections are that is was somewhere down the bottom of the Moor, where Santas Grotto used to be.

It was on a lorry and huge, but if you do have strange memories of it that are still lingering the truth is at hand.....

see www.bigwhaleonalorry.com

andyb

I never went to see this marvel but by god that website made me laugh.

Just the thought of a lorry with a dead whale going round the country ammuses me :D

;) I remember it well

I remember seeing a couple of Pilchards on Commercial St.

Reminds me of the time (here we go again) in the early 70’s when a bloke from Barnsley stopped me on Pinstone Street and asked me where the whale was.

“What whale?” I asked.

“The one at the bottom of the Moor,” he replied.

“I’ve just come from the bottom of the Moor, and I can assure you there’s no whale there” I said.

Looking confused, he went on, “I’ve just come all the way from Barnsley to see the whale. Where is it?”

“I’m telling you,” I pointed out firmly, “there’s no whale at the bottom of the Moor. I’ve just come from there, so I should know!”

“But I’m neglecting my ferrets to see the whale! It MUST be there.”

I was by now losing my patience.

“Do I have to spell it out to you?” I ranted, “THERE IS NO ‘W, H, A, F, L, E’. Now sod off!”

“And I thought us Barnsley folk were thick,” he said gloatingly, “There’s no ‘F’ in whale!”

“And that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to tell you for the past five minutes!”

The olduns are still the best Markham :D

I remember something like a whale, or shark where you entered the mouth and walked through the tail when I was a kid in the mid to late 70s. It was on the peace gardens, behind the row of bus shelters. On the grass. I think it was some kind of exhibition or display. It looked quite scary and I had bad dreams about it afterwards.

Have look at this already posted...Originally posted by StatisTYKE
for the full story see www.bigwhaleonalorry.com

Any one remember the Lancaster bomber and Spitfire on display on the Moorhead.They were covered in saving stamps for the war effort

Are we talking WWII here prioryx?

Originally posted by Timbuck
Have look at this already posted...Originally posted by StatisTYKE
for the full story see www.bigwhaleonalorry.com
Crikey I didn't know that this was about an actual real dead whale. The one I remember was a huge man made thing.

It was real. Just all the preservatives over the years mande it look wird and smell. It was caught off Trondheim Norway in 1952 and toured the whole of Europe and every town on this country until 1979. It visited Sheffield in the 50s, 60, and 70s. It caught fire at one stage while being displayed on Shepherd's Bush Green when somebody dropped a tab end in its mouth as they were waliking through. True

Don,t remember a whale,but definately saw two elephants in a car park of what is now the days inn hotel nr.meadowhall,about 1981,from a circus that was in town....obviously or maybe not,well it is Sheffield.

Oh yes, I know this is an old thread but as I have only just found it I will have to say yes, I remember Jonah the whale. I can smell it now. It was on some spare ground around Division Street I think and would have been in the early 50's.
I'm convinced I walked through it, but in some replies to a letter I wrote to the Star,they got to thinking maybe that was just how I saw it at the time being only young.
Anyway, it definitely WAS there.:thumbsup:

I've just been looking through paperwork left by my father after he died. Amongst the old photos etc. is a postcard and a four page leaflet about Jonah and his 'career' as an exhibition piece. Dad took my brother and me to see Jonah. My brother was too young to be bothered and it wasn't my idea of a fun outing - I would rather have gone to the library. Funny enough I now find the leaflet quite interesting!

In 1970 or 71 I was taken by my parents to Barnsley where the markets are to see a whale on a lorry. This whale was real and was preserved with chemicals.I remember being amazed at the size of this thing.I recently found out it toured the country and i think was called Jonah.

Here's a link that works !

BBC South Yorkshire, Local History (http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2009/03/03/jonah_whale_feature.shtml)
M&P

I remember going into town to see it. Cant remember if it was down the moor or the market area. Seemed huge when i was about 5 or 6.