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30-04-2003, 19:32
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When i was young many many many years ago i was taken to see a whale yes a whale on a truck somewhere off the moor. was this just a weird dream i had or did anyone else go see it?
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30-04-2003, 19:54
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Tottyrator
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Weird dream 
I dont remember anything like this
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30-04-2003, 20:07
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Chief Boggwoppit
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This may sound wierd but I am sure I have heard this before from someone else????
Just what time period were you young?
Moon Maiden
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30-04-2003, 20:09
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Originally posted by "Moon Maiden"
This may sound wierd but I am sure I have heard this before from someone else????
Just what time period were you young?
Moon Maiden
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 ops: lets say sometime in the 1970's
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30-04-2003, 20:26
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Chief Boggwoppit
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Don't blush bit before my times but not the hubby who is a ntive Sheffielder - he would have been under twenty then.
I think it was my hubby ya know?? I'll ask him when he gets home from work. He will probably look at me like I have just spoken in tongues.
Moon Maiden
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30-04-2003, 21:17
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Originally posted by "Moon Maiden"
Don't blush bit before my times but not the hubby who is a ntive Sheffielder - he would have been under twenty then.
I think it was my hubby ya know?? I'll ask him when he gets home from work. He will probably look at me like I have just spoken in tongues.
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i'm sure Mr Moon Maiden will be plzed to be classed as a whale
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30-04-2003, 22:18
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Originally posted by "Jon"
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Originally Posted by Moon Maiden
Don't blush bit before my times but not the hubby who is a ntive Sheffielder - he would have been under twenty then.
I think it was my hubby ya know?? I'll ask him when he gets home from work. He will probably look at me like I have just spoken in tongues.
Moon Maiden
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i'm sure Mr Moon Maiden will be plzed to be classed as a whale
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someone must have seen da whale lol?
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03-05-2003, 21:15
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I heard from a teacher at school that this is true, its not just a dream!
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03-05-2003, 21:53
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wasn't it displayed at the whale weigh station ?
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03-05-2003, 22:20
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Quote:
Originally posted by "Internetowl"
wasn't it displayed at the whale weigh station ?
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lol you are so 4unny  u should be on stage and theres one leaving sheffield @ 12 lol only joking
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06-05-2003, 01:26
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told you this wasn't a dream i asked my 72 year old mum and she remembers it too taking me to see this whale
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06-05-2003, 01:28
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Originally posted by "f_g"
I heard from a teacher at school that this is true, its not just a dream!
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told you this wasn't a dream i asked my 72 year old mum and she remembers it too taking me to see this whale
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10-05-2003, 18:03
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no your not dreaming it its true it was on the bottom of the moor where the milk board used to come in the 50s and i went inside it ok,it was a full scale whale not real but near enough and you walked in the mouth i think and out the tail and it was on a big truck,and the silly thing when i took my kids to great yarmouth in the early 80s we went to hemsby for the day and there it was poss not the same but same idea and i got pics of the kids going into this whale on the truck so yea you aint dreaming it ok it came to sheffield and was on the spare ground bottom of the moor next to the travelers pub.
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13-05-2003, 14:38
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I hope the kids had a whale of a time.......<<<sorry>>>
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11-08-2003, 19:16
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Going back a little further. Does anyone remember seeing 'Half Safe' at the bottom of the Moor?
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24-11-2003, 19:50
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No, you wer`nt dreaming, I saw that whale but there were several that toured the country as part of a fair, I think it would be in the early fifties.
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24-11-2003, 23:40
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Quote:
Originally posted by David Bowler
No, you wer`nt dreaming, I saw that whale but there were several that toured the country as part of a fair, I think it would be in the early fifties.
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 I knew someone else must have seen it 
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11-01-2004, 17:58
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Does anyone else of a 'certain age' remember being taken to see a Blue Whale (dead) in Sheffield. My vague (surreal) recollections are that is was somewhere down the bottom of the Moor, where Santas Grotto used to be.
It was on a lorry and huge, but if you do have strange memories of it that are still lingering the truth is at hand.....
see www.bigwhaleonalorry.com
andyb
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11-01-2004, 18:20
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I never went to see this marvel but by god that website made me laugh.
Just the thought of a lorry with a dead whale going round the country ammuses me
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11-01-2004, 18:25
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 I remember it well
Last edited by Tony Ruscoe; 12-01-2004 at 13:23.
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