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    Sheffield
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    Travel, Music & Sheffield United
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    Retired

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  1. My pal Trevor Ford's young sister Gloria, came to see me last week. Not seen each other since I left school (1954). We mulled over the last 62 years and hopefully another meet for further memories. Amazing, at school a few yeras is a mile apart now we are older, there's no gap.
  2. One of many reasons, but the lift problem was a right blunder. The lifts were then too small for beds
  3. Not free for everyone. I walked for 30 minutes to get to the tram and paid. Certainly more than 3 miles home to school. Distance and parents who claimed they could not afford it qualified for free transport . Two in our class qualified and they lived nearer school than those who paid. Some get benefits, some don't and some shouldn't. Sounds familiar!
  4. I worked there in 1954 as an electrical apprentice for a contractor. Quite an experience for a young lad who had never seen printing machines etc.
  5. East Bank Rd/East Rd to Shoreham St for the tram to Meersbrook. Usually walked it (1 hour) and saved a penny for a fag. 1/2 penny each way = 1 penny.
  6. It was everywhere. form house building to factories. I worked with it from 1954 to late 70's. Cutting & drilling electrical panels. All of a sudden it stopped. I watched insulators putting the stuff on girder work with bare hands. We didn't know any better. I was apprenticed to one of the first guys (PH) to die of asbestosis in Sheffield. As always the USA knew about this, but our side would not listen. The alternative cost too much. When I went abroad to work, I learned that a lot of stuff (sorboil etc) had been banned by USA for years. I came back to find some stuff was still in use. It didn't matter to them upstairs, after all they didn't use it. Once forced on them, things changed to as now. How time has changed. The workman's lifespan was 45 years, it's now close to 83.
  7. Teenbar, Castleton. Me too, only we got on at Heeley.
  8. Probably got mixed up with "Cravens" you could see the carriages from Davy's
  9. Used it in the 70's when I worked at Shardlows. Gleadless Townend to Wincobank, then walked the rest, same to get home. The circle buses were very good and a good way to see Sheffield too. I think rule 1 applied. If it's good, stop it. When we all got cars, something had to go.
  10. Look smart, wear a suit. Of course casual has it's place too.
  11. Sheffield During the Blitz. on sale @ Sheffield Star
  12. 1955. I once courted a girl who worked there. Hi Sylvia
  13. Prior to the do-gudders taking over, children had respect. They respected authority and their parents. When someone does something wrong they should expect to be punished. I don't mean whipped or birched. Myself and a friend asked permission to for the afternoon off school. A big no to that. We went to watch Yorkshire play the Australians at cricket. The following day we were challenged about our absence. The headmaster gave us five on each hand. Then he said tell me about the two best batsmen in the world. Len Hutton & Don Bradman. We were wrong and we were punished. I met the headmaster in pub a few years later, we laughed about the incident and he bought me a pint. Most kids are good. Just what can they do with the bad ones. Can't cane e'm, cant keep e'm back after school, can't give e'm lines. Expel yes and pass them on to another school to start again. I feel for the teachers, I feel for the majority of children. I don't feel for those who know they are not going to be punished. I know they wont, but bring back the cane.
  14. A friend of mine came all the way from Middlesbrough to purchase an OB motor boat. He used it in the Lake district then at sea.
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