CaptChris

Anyone out there worked in the Family Law department during the 80s and 90s. Due to the pandemic situation I am unable to return to my home abroad for the foreseeable future and would like to renew acquaintances whilst I am in Sheffield.

Thank you Mack and all the best to you for 2015. Retired to Thailand (cheap and hot) but my heart remains in Sheffield. I will enquire with the forum to see about loading the photo. I remember WO Bottomley from 1963 - last saw him at Mosborough Squadron about 1990 and he was a Squadron Leader.

I have a 1963 Squadron photo from RAF St Mawgan summer camp. You may recognise some of the senior cadets and adults - is it possible to post photos on this forum?

Sincere thanks for your time and effort in posting this information. Later this year when I return to Sheffield I will carry a print-out and no doubt discover what is no longer there.

Oh God!! For reasons which I don't now know why, I thought I was sending a personal message. Flattered, well I can now only hope - nothing like shooting ones self in both feet and everywhere else. Hazel always had a good heart and a forgiving nature and I am sure that is still the case, otherwise oblivion here I come!! I worked in gents outfitting about 1966 for approx 12months before I moved down south. Initially I was with Wattam on the shirt section then more latterly directly opposite on the shop floor in the tie and accessories section working with a young lad straight from school. I remember that after work we would either go in the pub opposite The Arcade at the bottom of Cemetery Road (I think the outside had cream tiles) or the coffee bar just to the right on London Road - I think the current juke-box hit at that time was Barry Maguires "Eve of Destruction". Did you used to live in one of the terraced houses on Ecclesall Road more or less opposite the main Arcade entrance at the side of the pharmacy?

Certainly very very helpful. My mother and her three brothers were raised there - feel I should say sorry that those terrace houses are no longer still there but when my mother (died 1983) and I went around the Fitzwilliam Street area in the 1960s they were well gone - perhaps it is called progress or whatever??. Plenty of family heritage but no current buildings to show it. I now live in Thailand but when I return to Sheffield every 12/15months I always walk to the top of Fitzwilliam Street and try to show my respect to my ancestors who lived there. Many many thanks for your immediate reply. God bless you and yours and all in Sheffield.

Three years after your very informative post re Reuben Crosby - many thanks and my sincere and humble apologies for my tardy thanks.

I remember him very well and my colleagues in gents outfitting. I think I was there about 1965 but you may well have to ask Hazel Walch with whom I used to go out and still keep in contact with (she was and still is the only love in my life and I had the chances to make an honest girl/woman of her but I foolishly threw them away - for Gods sake please do not tell her or my contact with her after many years may come to a sudden end). During the 1970s I used to work with his cousin Peter Wattam when he joined the police force. I also remember a girl who lived in Holmesfield with larger than average breasts (please forgive my wording) whom I used to go out with and I believe she also worked in gents outfitting.

He was nicknamed "Nutty" Howard and had a very extensive collection of police memorabilia from all over the world - a sound old fashioned bobby.

How about Michael WATTAM

Was it not 367 Squadron based at Norton?

Good news for you both - Hazel just told me she has spoken to you

Could it be the Hazel Walsh who did live on Upper Valley Road and worked for the S&E Co-op in the 1960s? If so, I am in touch with her. Send me a personal message if this forum allows it. I no longer in live in UK and am based in Asia.

I can think of far better ways to spend my £1 than on foreign unwanted riff-raff.

My uncle, Reuben Crosby, used to live at 25 (I think, it was on the corner) Burton Street which they rented from the Patnick family. He had several children and I feel sure they would have gone to Burton Street School. Their names, starting with eldest, are Edith, Brian, Mary, Peter and Margaret.