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Elmambo last won the day on April 14 2022

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  1. You are correct regarding Firth Park, it was a respectable area well into the 60's. Don't know about doctors, you are probably confusing it with the Abbeyfield area which has some fine houses. Crookes has never been for well-to-do people, that is Broomhill and areas adjoining. It was however, well known for it's bracing climate and people did go there for their health. It is mainly a mass of terrace housing and was a very respectable working class suburb, until the comparatively recent recent arrival of a student population and many incomers. The Moorsyde estate has been there for almost a hundred years, is very small and has has little impact it's as much Walkley as Crookes.
  2. Vehicle speedometers are rarely exactly accurate because of the difference in diameter between a new tyre and a worn tyre, this can be as much as 14,mm. This is why there is a 10% leeway. Don't rely on GPS, speed calculations either, they are only accurate on a level road.
  3. In 1950, King Edwards was the top school, you needed really good marks in your 11+ to get in. They will be a bit long in the tooth by now, but there will be a few still around, probably not on this forum which is a bit of a closed shop, I'd try Facebook.
  4. Don't think that's true at all, few places except clubs, employed bouncers - not like today.
  5. Tell the police there was a golly mascot attached to it - they'll soon act.
  6. Never seen any. The entrance was on Union Street, but for a time they had a unit selling hot dogs etc., with a entrance in the arcade.
  7. Little to do with bad driving or road safety, all about making money. They have been doing this in the metropolis for some time, other councils have been eyeing with envy, the large amount of money that can be harvested from the motorist. These fines are a multi billion pound industry, despite the pretence of catching "bad drivers" etc., moreover the penalties take no account of the financial status of the victim, so are an unfair imposition on the poorest off.
  8. Sorry, the only way of contact that I know of is via the Forum. I'd try a few pm's. Looking back a few pages, I see what you mean about lack of recent activity, maybe time (or Covid) has taken it's toll or could be that, like me, they don't bother visiting these pages very often.
  9. That would be Tony's American style cafe at Firvale. Still a few of us left, but lots of people have deserted the Forum. There was (is) a group organised by Parsley Diva, that used to meet in the Winter Gardens every so often.
  10. So in order to encourage people to walk and cycle more they have chosen the hilliest and least suitable (especially in winter) part of Sheffield to do so ? The same people who wanted to make Sheffield greener by chopping the trees down ? Lord help us all.
  11. They are not rats, merely motorists who pay large amounts of money for the doubtful privilege of using the roads. I do not understand the logic of what you are saying - roads are made inaccessible, therefore motorists must use accessible roads, increasing the volume of traffic on them. I keep hearing about "traffic problems" in Crookes - apart from stupid and dangerous parking, which this scheme does not address and in any case disappears with the students, there are none. I don't think you actually live in Crookes.
  12. If Springvale is being made one way, then traffic will use Bradley Street ? School Road ? Mainly School Road which is set to become very busy. Some roads become quieter, others must become busier, where is the traffic to go ? - the fifth dimension. Roads are for the swift and efficient movement of goods and people, shifting the problem to other areas is not a solution. Remember, election time in May, this is your opportunity to express your views.
  13. Yes, parking on the pavement is a nuisance and sometimes dangerous, but it is already an offence with which the police (not the council) can deal with, the problems is they don't bother. We don't need a traffic scheme or anything else, just enforcement. The other hindrance and danger to the disable/ pushchairs/etc is the plethora of tables chairs and other junk, mainly from cafes, that litter the pavement, an accident waiting to happen. why is it allowed.
  14. "People perceive, people think, many people claim, decision makers nationally and locally" I wish I was gifted with your God-like powers to divine all this. People like your self with this mindset are the problem, too obsessed with their own self importance to know the difference between democracy and autocracy. Councils are elected to observe the will of the majority electorate, not to steer us, fit us into agendas or get us out of our cars. How about you give us a demonstration of wonderous benefits of these "agendas" by say, cycling up the length of Springvale Road in the teeth of a howling winter gale.
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