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  1. I can't help but think that the Kelham Island name and branding is just being used as an estate agent marketing tool to try and increase the value of property outside the Kelham area and ditto by new residents in the area. The actual Kelham island is a relatively small area and in no way covers the much larger area that some people try to claim as Kelham. Given that places mean a lot to people (as well as their history) I'd much rather stick with what the locations were (and still are) originally called. What is up with Neepsend or Parkwood Springs or Shalesmoor or Bridgehouses or West Bar. Why is Kelham Flea located in Neepsend, Why is Kelham Chippy at West Bar, Why is Kelham Books located in Shalesmoor? Just my view I know but it saddens me to see these historic name places being lost to a marketing exercise. The very special area of Kelham Island is being slowly transformed and is becoming a shadow of what made it so special.
  2. This WW1 site lists Frank Searle from Neepsend and him being included on the memorial at St Michaels & All Angels Neepsend Church so I presume that it must be the one and the same. http://sheffieldsoldierww1.co.uk/search4.php?id=23644
  3. I'm still trying to find a family connection between Gilbert and Kate Searle and the other Searles listed in this thread - any help appreciated.
  4. I have found a record that says that Frank Searle is 'Remembered With Honour' in the Bedford House cemetery https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/55502/BEDFORD%20HOUSE%20CEMETERY
  5. I'm trying to track these down - I have a family tree drawn out that a distant relative copied to me which includes the Searle's as ancestors to Frances but which doesn't include Gilbert or kate but I do know that Dad had relatives living on Wallace Road. I think that his aunt and uncle - Elsie and Denby - lived on that road but I can't recall Denby's surname.
  6. We must be related. My dad's mum was Vera Smith whose Mother is the Frances that owned the sweet shop. Her siblings (from memory) were Roy, Elsie, Joan, Edward (or Teddy) and I think one more. Teddy was my Dad's best man at his wedding and I have a photo of the two of them together. Dad and his mum and gran Frances were in 72 Parkwood road at the time it was bombed. I have other stories too. Do you have anything that you can share?
  7. Thanks for the info. Are these sold in any other pubs in or around Sheffield?
  8. Which pubs in Sheffield stock these ploughmans snacks (Openshaws Ploughmans Lunch Snack Pack) or similar - the ones with the two crackers, cheese spread triangle and a pickled onion?
  9. You have misunderstood me. I have been in your cafe several times and think it's great. All I suggested (and politely) was not to be publicly rude to people who don't like your cafe, ie don't bite. Again I think your cafe is great, but what do I do now that you have just called me pathetic for trying to help you ?
  10. Whilst I don't necessarily agree with mossDog, the style and type of comments from the café owners don't give a very good impression of how the business will be/is being run. I am sure that is not the intention. Can I offer some polite advice - if you are running a customer focused business please moderate your comments as I'm sure you don't want to give the wrong impression.
  11. Mary Elizabeth Woofindin is my Great Great Grandmother. I believe that her first name was passed on to two of her granddaughters - Mary Smith b 1920 and my grandmother Vera Mary Smith b 1917, it looks like Mary Woofindin met Edward Smith when her family moved from Rotherham to Snig Hill in Sheffield. The Smith family were either already settled in nearby Neepsend /Apple Street area or that is where the couple lived after getting married in 1896
  12. Do you have any information about my family that lived in those areas? I think my Dad's Smith family lived in Apple Street as well as near the gasworks in Neepsend and that his Grandma Smith had a shop near the gasworks that was badly damaged during the blitz. Also the Storey family who lived in or near Apple Street.
  13. Presumably you mean Markham Vale in Derbyshire - except that this is being developed for new industry http://www.markhamvale.co.uk/ ---------- Post added 25-01-2016 at 13:56 ---------- I think the coke works you refer to was The Avenue and I think that somebody is already looking at 650 houses on the Coalite site http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/grassroots/1-500-new-jobs-derelict-coalite-site-set-for-exciting-transformation-1-7689209 The other site, Staveley Works Corridor is being looked at by Chesterfield but I think most of the land belongs to Chatsworth Estates - see here http://www.chesterfield.gov.uk/Site/1/Documents/draft%20report_LR.pdf ---------- Post added 25-01-2016 at 13:58 ---------- Its not as simple as that - if the hole that you have dug fills up with water (to create the lake) then there is no spare space for the flood waters to go and the raised ground that you have created means that you have displaced flood water that will inevitably caused flooding elsewhere.
  14. This link should provide some answers http://www.markhamvale.co.uk/masterplan.php
  15. But they re not entirely in the Sheffield City Region as those areas are also in the D2N2 Region. It is only the ditrict councils that signed up to SCR, there are other organisations in those parts that have signed up with D2N2, ie Derbyhsire and Notts County Councils ---------- Post added 15-05-2015 at 13:18 ---------- Not all these powers are within the Sheffield City Region. The councils within north Derbyshire and North notts that have signed up to SCR do not have the powers that you talk about; they have some planning but nothing relating to waste or minerals. Similarly the transport, ie the Highway Authority for the whole of Derbyshire is Derbyshire County Council (and similalry for Notts). Therefore these powers in north Notts and North Derbys will go to the D2N2 region and not Sheffield City Region. This equally applies to Education, Economic Regeneration, Adult Care, Young People etc.
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