Cliffhanger

Definitely ’ cough & drop’ in my day at King Ted’s. I was just describing this to my wife earlier who said “it must have just been a perverted practice at that weird school you went to! “ So I googled it and here I am.

I have a copy of the 1957 timetable book which includes trams and train services too, if anyone has any queries relating to that era

That's amazing - my grandad was born on 8 Court 2 back in 1881. Family name was Bunting. By 1911 they had moved to Pitsmoor though, Thorndon Rd

How sad. Camped there (honest) one weekend early 70's for a pub crawl - Marsh Lane maybe? Don't recall going short of ale back then!

Probably, I think there was a car sales place there after the petrol station shut. Just had a look on Street view - whole place behind builders fencing - and Bistro Piere shown on map view. Long time since I passed that way. I worked in the petrol station evenings and w/e's - would have been 1972/3 as I could drive by then. Think it was badged as a Shell station then. The owners were real tight-wads. The pumps were still in £-s-d and we had a conversion chart behind the till - loads of arguments with the punters as to whether we had rounded the amount up or down! The till itself was as bad as Arkwright's. The mechanism had broken, and where the receipt roll should have been was a piece of stiff wire that you had to yank to open the drawer. Of course the receipts then had to be hand-written on tear-off pad, including the VAT No. when that came in in 1973 (although they did run to a rubber stamp for that eventually IIRC). ps - anyone identify the bus route - doesn't look like a 4 or a 28 that I recalled earlier? And the distinctive sign on the house on the right - it was like gold leaf on black glass - quite classy, looks like an undertakers but I think a a plumbers from memory?

Just above Endcliffe Park on Ecclesall Rd.

Brilliant!! Thanks everyone. I'll not lose it this time, promise

I had a copy of an old b&w photo of a bus coming down Ecclesall Rd past the bottom of Greystones Rd which I've managed to lose. Was about 1960 vintage off the internet, and showed the pertol station where I worked for a time. The bus was from Bents Green IIRC and was probably an No 28, if not a No 4. So here's the challenge - can anyone find it again because I certainly can't! Here's hoping!

Yeah - works a treat thanks, - on with the ign, off with the lights

Hi Garbo - finally finished the job afters hols and bucket loads of drought got in the way. Pin 4 works fine, but the wire you want is grey with a black stripe. (Is white/red maybe the offside?).

Yep - that's up and running. It's not really 'spare' - it's actually for the Zenons which I don't have.

Top man! Will have a go at it tomo if this drought ever stops Thanks again - been trying for days to get steer on this. B-T-W, I took a feed from spare fuse No31 for the switched live to the DRLs - made a narrow spade connector and stuffed it down the live side, but had to drill a small hole in the back of the fusebox to feed the wire through.

The wires go into a cover on the back of the plug so you can't easily see which ones link to which pins, esp towards the far end, eg Pins 4&5 (and 9&10 if they were connected). I can see the backs of 1,2 & 3 but not beyond there. I've had the plug off and dropped it through the little hatch in the wheel arch protector, which is how I will attach the DRL wire once I know exactly which wire I'm after in the harness

Ah ha. And very good it is too ..... except ....... I can't get at the back of the plug as it's got a cover over it, so what I really need to know is the colour code of the wire to Pin 4 so I can hack it in the harness please!

Well that's totally awesome. As per usual cometh the hour, cometh the Tyke - beat all the Vaux forums hands-down So No4's the baby then!