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About beezerboy

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    Ontario, Canada. Ex. Pitsmoor / Grimesthorpe
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    Machine tool fitter,Retired, E S C apprenticed.

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  1. In the 50's to 60's+, there was such a shop on what I think was called Chapel Walk between Pinstone and Norfolk St's at the side of the old Peace Gardens. It had a low wall with bronze measure standards on top. It was about the centre of the line of shops and I believe there was dance hall above called Alf Golds It may now called St Paul's Parade !!
  2. If you wheely want a answer , any that are not red or blue
  3. Do they still change the wheel colour from blue or red depending on who's running the city?
  4. Only try whilst sober, Mrs Hunt, had a rough cut punt , not a punt cut rough, but rough cut rough s
  5. Was that the one that did tuxedo rentals. It was a bit like Grace Brothers, a teller sat at one end of the counter and the bills , cash and change were shot back and forth on cable. This was opposite the peace gardens in the 60's.
  6. My dad was in the Home Guard in WW II, he said he fought all is Jerries in Bowden Homestead Wood , Handsworth. I remember he said he and another guarded a hole in the ground at Cravens all night
  7. Try asking for them on the Picture Sheffield site.
  8. Crickey, that's going back a bit. We did that in the 50's Or Eeny Meeny Minny Moh
  9. Assuming you are looking for a marriage in Sheffield, you could try The Sheffield Indexes. Here you may be lucky and find them in church registries. This is a great site for ancestry research for births, deaths, graves etc, complete with who else is buried with them.
  10. Mr Crownshaw was a silversmith, he once brought in complete silver tea service and tray he had made to show us. Very impressive.
  11. It was called A Smith's , Bought mine from there about '62. Formerly Lodge Inn. Picture Sheffield Image # v02687 Zoom Move cursor over image to magnify Ref No v02687 Title No. 47 A. Smith (Motor Cycles) Ltd., formerly The Lodge Inn, Spital Hill Location Sheffield_Burngreave Date Period 2000-2019 Photographer Stanley Jones
  12. This makes more sense than the bridge idea and probably explains why there are a few Norfolk Arms pubs around
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