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  1. It's about time they knocked Garlick's down though, it's an eyesore.
  2. As long as you understand this, then pages like this one may help you.
  3. The top house on the right, after the cottages, was the Driver family.
  4. I'd be more worried about someone taking a camera into a Gents' toilets and taking photographs.
  5. Well I've lived away from Sheffield for 32 years, and despite some misgivings about "never go back", I would consider returning. In fact my wife, who was born and lived in the South all her life would love us to move to North Derbyshire. I do occasionally look at properties in the Holmesfield area.
  6. wasn't Harry Elam's deputy called Miles Cooper? As far as George was concerned I'm sure his surname was spelt Wareham. Sorry to be picky. ---------- Post added 19-11-2013 at 17:00 ---------- I was at that church yard last month, visiting my mum and dad's grave. I was impressed with how tidy it looks these days. I can remember it 24 years ago when it was badly overgrown, and spending a very wet weekend with my sisters and brother-in-law and a friend of the family tidying it up. We hired a petrol strimmer and petrol lawn mower and cut down all the waist high grass. I do remember strimming a hedgehog in half, sadly. Thankfully, having done the whole graveyard the then vicar took on board keeping it tidy, even persuading the church wardens to invest in a petrol mower to replace their weedy electric one. We also planted bushes down the side of the church and provided a bench (re-painted). I'm not a church-goer but after all this time it's good to see that people continue to keep it tidy and that the grave yard is quite a pleasant place to visit.
  7. Because it's nearly 3 years since there was a contributor?
  8. The gala was organised by a local charity called Hackenthorpe Old Folks Association. The charity would raise money throughout the year and each Christmas every pensioner living in Hackenthorpe received a carrier bag full of groceries and a 10/- note. ---------- Post added 23-10-2013 at 22:54 ---------- The old one was called Mr Gaston but I can't remember the name of the younger black haired preacher.
  9. I lived in Spring Block (5th floor) 1980 - 84. My flat looked out over the city centre and that was a beautiful sight at night from the balcony. I remember the flat suffered badly from condensation and mould. The only heating was a 2 bar electric fire in the living room and underfloor heating. The underfloor heating was ridiculously expensive to run. The bathroom was overrun with silver fish when I moved in and the previous tenant had covered one wall in the living room with 2" thick Artex painted chocolate brown. Having said all that I really enjoyed the time I lived there- it was my first home having left the family home and incredibly safe. I was working in London for a while and one week I forgot to lock the flat door on the Sunday night, and everything was still there when I got home on the Friday night!
  10. For all those people brought up in Beighton during the '50s & '60s can anyone remember the old anti aircraft site situated at the side of the Beighton - Halfway road. All I can remember, even though I was a regular visitor, were what we thought were some gun emplacements, and some concrete "pill box/or shelter" type of buildings. I can't remember the name of the road the were on, but if you approached Beighton from Drakehouse Lane and turned right up the hill before you got to Sothall club and right at the Y junction at the top of the hill, the site was immediately on your left.
  11. In the 1950s. My mum and dad moved into a new house on Hackenthorpe in 1954.
  12. The best thing you can do is dig out the old air rifle you have in the loft and shoot the buggers. As someone who lives in an area where flocks of parakeets now terrorise the local indigenous bird population I curse the individuals who first set some free.
  13. You mean like it used to be when it was known as four lane ends and they built a roundabout to improve traffic flow?
  14. I think you'll find the border moved from Gleadless Townend to past the Old Harrow in 1967. This was when estates like Base Green, Hackenthorpe etc moved from North East Derbyshire to Sheffield. There were later changes in 1974, when places Mosborough were moved from Derbyshire to the newly created South Yorkshire.
  15. I remember drinking in the Old harrow of a Friday and Saturday night and then, at closing time (10.30), legging it down to the Phoenix because it was over the border and had half an hour's extra drinking time.
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