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  1. Was the motorist turning left when the accident occurred? I find, as a car driver, that some cyclists tend to "undertake", which is a dangerous (illegal?) procedure. Are cyclists considered to be correct in "undertaking" even if there is a cycle/bus lane on the left? Ecclesall Road is a typical example of this, especially in the "rush hour".
  2. Albert, Ernie and Graham all went to Woodside Junior School, on Rutland Rd., before moving up to Burngreave Secondary. I was lucky (unlucky?) enough to pass the 11+ and went on to a grammar school. The Helen Wilson Settlement was used as a youth club, in the evenings, and I used to be able to get in, although I was too young, officially. Howard Wilkinson lived somewhere in the Platt St. area - strange thing is that he went to the same school as me after the 11+.
  3. I hate it when I go in a post office and people are queuing to get change so that they can get on a bus.
  4. The Meers Brook runs down from the Gleadless Valley Estate and enters a culvert by the side of the Council Tip at Blackstock Road - it reappears near to the big house on Cat Lane and continues past the bottom of the gardens of all the houses on the L.H.S. of Northcote Avenue from Cat Lane. It enters another culvert just before where the Meersbrook garage was, at the bottom of Northcote Avenue, behind the houses nos. 2 and 4. It then travels down Albert Road as described in the other messages.
  5. The web site is unusable and non user friendly - as advised it is easier to phone them! Simple procedures such as applying for a permit when you move in to a new house; changing your car; renewing your existing permit; and buying resident's visitor's passes become a tedious and frustrating chore. The whole system needs an overhaul.
  6. 5 metres is a definite. They would have had to build another storey on top of the building to accommodate 10 metres Five metres is like jumping or diving from the average house rooftop, which is pretty scary.
  7. Why take the kids to the supermarket? Do you take them with you to work or on a night out? Do most supermarkets deliver? Do you have to go often? Walk. Organise.
  8. This problem will escalate as more and more of us buy items via the internet. The "Post Office" need to modernise and use new ideas. Travelling to a sorting office to pick up a parcel does NOT work (my current trip is 6 miles round)- allowing 48 hours from when the card is left in the letterbox. Lots of people are tied to going on Saturdays when the queue at the Office is round the block. This system probably worked in 1948 but not now. My last parcel could not be found at the Office (after the requisite 48 hours) and I was told to come back the next day. I did and it was still lost (12 miles travelled). I phoned the Help Line and was told the parcel would be with me by 6 pm that evening. It wasn't. I eventually received the parcel (redelivered via normal post without any warning -what would have happened had I not been in again!!) 9 days later. Amazon now offer delivery to local businesses near you - for example Staples; the Co-op etc. whose shops are open all day every day for you to pick up. A sorting office in every street. Bit of lateral thinking required.
  9. Gregconn - I worked at the same research labs around 1963 - I was in the small furnace area where we made experimental ingots. An old guy called Mac was in charge. I played football for Firth Browns from 16 yrs. old and, yes, it was referred to as "Atlas and Norfolk". The facilities were the best in Sheffield at the time.
  10. I am trying to learn Spanish (mainly for fun!). Anyone know of any Groups around Sheffield? Anyone else interested? Am I in the right Forum? Do I need to start one? Saludos
  11. Just because something is "the most natural thing in the world" does not mean it will be instantly acceptable to be done in a "public" area in our society. We wouldn't defecate, urinate, fornicate etc. in public even though these are the most natural things in the world. We don't walk about naked on the hottest day - we cover bits of our body that are deemed to be "naughty" with shorts or trunks or bikinis. Women showing their breasts in public is still seen as a taboo by some - generations were brought up like this and change takes time. The people who made the comments were out of order but, perhaps the mother, with a little effort, could have been more discrete, knowing that offence can be taken by some. I'm not sure that I would particularly appreciate walking into, say, a restaurant or cafe, and two or three mothers were breast-feeding. A lot of men would find this "embarassing" just because we're not supposed to see this and don't know how to react.
  12. The shop at the bottom of Cook St was definitely Olive Dungworth in the early fifties. Trams did run along Neepsend Lane (from town to Hillsborough via Hillfoot Bridge) and back. The tram to town ran down Neepsend Lane over the junction with Rutland Rd. carrying on along Neepsend Lane, past the bottom of Harvest Lane and then past the Corporation St. baths, Nursery St. then turned right over Lady's Bridge and up to Fitzalan Square. When I moved to a "posh" school at age 11 (still living on Manners St. Neepsend) in 1958, I caught the tram to town each school day, across the road from the Gardeners Rest, and quite near the junction of Rutland Rd. and Neepsend Lane. The tram terminated in Fitzalan Square and then I caught another tram from High St. to Millhouses to get to school ( every single day- unaccompanied). There was another pub opposite the Gardeners, nicknamed "the Stone House", whose real name was The Crown (I think!) I was involved in the stone throwing wars between the "Woodies" and the "Springies" and I also fetched coke (fuel not white powder) from the "Gas House" on Neepsend Lane. My dad worked at Hallamshire Steel and File and still worked there after all the houses on Manners St. were demolished (c. 1960) and we moved to Hunters Bar (v. upmarket!) He was made redundant in 1974.
  13. try this :- http://www.mappedometer.com/ allows you to plot any route and gives the exact distance.
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