Floridablade

That was the day Britain became a police state and still is and it was the Year I left Britain for Spain and never returned because it still is a police state. You try to go to a football match and not see thousands of control freeks in blue uniforms and riot gear.

I knew a Jack Glossop who lived on Fentonville St. Sharrow. He died quite young of Asthma or similar problem.

I was 12 years old and went to Heeley pictures to see a Micket Rooney film when the sign came up telling us the sirens had sounded. my brother and I stayed behind and watched the film through. When we got to the Foyer women and kids were crying, I wondered what was wrong but didn't take much notice. We got as far as the bottom step when we heard this whistle screaming sound, get your heads down you daft buggers a policeman shouted, we ran like rabbits and dived under a truck parked nearby. I felt myself being lifted and realised this huge copper was carrying me to the air raid shelter under the railway arches but no sign of my brother. He it turned out had knocked himself out with the girder under the truck and the policeman never saw him, he staggered in half an hour later. There was a tram stopped just in front of the entrance to the station and a carbonosed body was stuck to the upright rail obviously as soon as a foot touched the ground the person just roasted. There were many sights like that. The Womens Institute did a marvelous job dishing out tea and cakes to the exhausted firemen.

Yes I remember the little fat looked like a polar bear Gloops and I too use it as a PW with a few numbers after it for unimportant things. I used to deliver the Star around Hunters Bar circa 1943 and a bloke asked me if I had one to sell because he wanted to see how gloops was doing so I let him see the page then put the paper back in the bag he gave me a threepenny bit and I think the paper only cost 1P so I was well chuffed.

My elder brother and me were in the pictures on heeley bottom near the railway arches on the night of the first blitz ( thursday ) and we stayed in the air raid shelter under the bridge till morning. My grandmother had a large house on Broadfield Rd where an incendiary bomb went straight through the 3 floors into the cellar. She was in her 70s then and laid in bed singing the praises of how she could see the stars through her ceiling, she died a few months later.

I built a boat in the 80s and completed it in 1984 when my wife and I set off across the Channel from Kent to Calais. sailed through the canals and the river Rhone down to Sette. Entered the Med, and followed the coast down to Benalmadena. We stayed in the marina in Calpe for the first winter then made our way down the following summer. Benalmadena marina was still being built when we arrived but we wintered there for 11 winters. We sailed around the Med. every summer, Rome, Sardinia and many other places including Tunisia where I sold the boat to a Frenchman. We had bought a flat in Benalmadena so we had somewhere to tie up. The costa del sol is best from a weather point of view but I liked the Alecante area best for other things. I would have a look at southern Sardinia if I was about to retire.

I remember another very cold winter of 1935/6 we lived on Southey Hall drive and I used to take patato peelings to a farm which is now Parsons Cross, behind the School and I slipped walking up towards the school, can't remember the name of the road but it ran down to Longley Park. Anyway I slipped and broke the ice with my face which bled then froze, I must have looked a right mess.

You see you can get together once you can find another target for your anger. All you have to do now is channel that anger in a positive direction towards putting Sheffield on the map.

Yes just what I expected from all the sheffield mickey mouse football fans, attack the messenger and ignore the message.

1943 1 quid a week painting and decorating for William Axe in Nether Edge and he expected me to pay my own tram fare.

I'm a great believer in honouring the young people who served during the Legal wars, I served for 25 years, but these latest in Iraq and Afghanistan are a disgrace to the USA and Britain. Just consider the number of people in the Middle east who have lost their lives through our two countries illegal actions. Please make it known to your MP that this mass murder cannot be tolerated any longer.

I didn't realise I had submitted an idea but Mickey Mouse Soccer is what is played in Sheffield week in week out and the followers turn up at work on Monday bragging about which Mouse won the day. That makes their week until next time when they lose then of course you keep your heads down, all very childish isn't it because very few of you know anything about the game, how can you when you watch that stuff week in week out.

Yes well I realised many years ago that neither team has any ambitions and are happy to just turn out week in week out producing mediocre hoof ball. Management of both sides also got their heads together and decided to feed the banter culture because most fans have no interest in anything but their bragging rights. As someone said they don't care if their team is in the Conference providing they don't ruin their hatred of the other team by merging the two clubs. But if you're all happy with the rubbish you watch then good luck to you.

darkscience is correct, it's now time to forget about Sheffield trying to produce two teams but to have at least one which puts Sheffield on the map. It may not be obvious to some but a premiership team brings other business to the area. Forget your childish slanging matches and support Wednesday because McCabe has no intention of investing in the team, he's more interested in property and getting players on the cheap. forget my username I gave up on SU many years ago.

buy a Haynes manual and a scanner which will tell you what the code is and how to fix it. Don't get caught paying thousands when it could be something you can get for a few bob and install yourself. My engine check light is on all the time with my Dodge Ram but it's just a fault with the petrol guage and not worth worrying about.