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  1. So why are they needing more Jobcentre staff then, why am I training to work there? Jobcentres may go out on strike to protest about redundancies in general but once again the actual redundancies are in the other parts of DWP, apart from the fixed term contracts. I think that, with working for the DWP I am aware of what is going on.
  2. Do you actually work for the DWP? If not, where do you get your information from and are so sure it is right? Yes there have been strikes at the Jobcentres but in Sheffield the strikes have been for the call centre staff because of their working conditions. I know this as we were told when we signed up for training that we couldn't strike because it was for call centre staff only. Yes the Government are trying to make it cheaper to make staff redundant but this is for other DWP staff, not staff in the Jobcentres, staff are needed in the Jobcentres. If this were not the case they would not be moving staff there.
  3. OK lets get things straight here. I work for DWP and am currently training to work at the Jobcentre. Being an employee of the Department I can say that Jobcentre staff are not being made redundant, people on fixed term contracts are having to leave which is why they need more permanent staff in the Jobcentres. Jobs are being cut elsewhere in the DWP but not in the Jobcentres, which is why staff are moving into the Jobcentres. This is a fact from someone who works there and isn't just making assumptions. There is no Jobcentre at the Manor Top as far as I am aware but there is one on Eastern Avenue at Arberthorne if thats the one you are thinking of. I doubt that there are redundancies there, the person who is leaving is no doubt a fixed term contract worker and is just using the term 'redundancy' as some people do. As far as I am aware security guards are there just to ensure there are no kicks offs and to deal with the situation if there is. There are floorwalkers who greet jobseekers at the door and direct them to where they need to be. They may take the details initally and take the signing card but then the people who need to sign on will come to an officer such as myself, we shall still need to ask their details and see their signing card. The floorwalkers are there to direct people to where they need to be so that they are not just walking around the Jobcentre not knowing who to see or what to do. The majority of people do go to sign on, some go for interviews with Personal Advisers, some just want to use the phone or the job points to look for jobs. There are different people who use Jobcentres. Yes there will always be those who don't want to work and abuse the benefit system but there are also those who have been made redundant and genuinely want another job or have just left school and want to work. We are trained not to stereotype people and to treat them all with politeness and respect. There will always be kick offs in Jobcentres from some people, especially when benefits are refused for whatever reason, thats why security guards are there to protect staff and other customers. I agree that the call centre approach to making new claims isn't a brilliant idea, as most people would rather go into the Jobcentre and claim in person but every place seems to have a call centre of some kind now. The main thing is that everyone can see an officer in person when they come to sign on fortnightly for their benefits. As for those here who are wishing DWP staff out of work, that is quite laughable. If we were all made redundant then no benefits would be paid and would that make you happy? Think about things before you say something ridiculous.
  4. Lobster, thanks for that, I think I will order Charles Deakin's death cert and see what I can find from that. Allen, sorry so far I haven't come across a Harry Deakin in the family but I will let you know if I do.
  5. Hi Rivelin, Sam married Selina Smedley Hardy in September 1872. Hope this helps.
  6. Hi Rivelin, will these links help at all, from 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 census, this is the only way it seems to let me copy them from Ancestry. The 1871 census is where a Sam Deakin is living with his widowed mother Sarah. I can't trace a Sarah Deakin's marriage or death and have exhausted that avenue I think. http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/ViewRecordRedir.aspx?tid=14688088&pid=146088185&dbid=7619&rpid=28417253&pg=32768&pgPL=pid http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/ViewRecordRedir.aspx?tid=14688088&pid=146088185&dbid=7619&rpid=28417253&pg=32768&pgPL=pid http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/ViewRecordRedir.aspx?tid=14688088&pid=146088185&dbid=6598&rpid=5844983&pg=32768&pgPL=pid http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/ViewRecordRedir.aspx?tid=14688088&pid=146088185&dbid=7814&rpid=27799208&pg=32768&pgPL=pid
  7. Hi Rivelin, his wife was Selina. Thanks for this, I have been racking my brain for ages over this one
  8. Hi Rivelin, I have got Sam's birth date down by his death details. He died in 1904 aged 51,I do have his death certificate. I will post a link to a later census later when I have got into Ancestry, many thanks for your help. Catherine, I am assuming Bertha died in the Braithwell area as thats where she lives when she married the second time, unless she did go back to Hull. I can't think why she went there from Sheffield in the first place.
  9. Hi Rivelin, thanks for this. I have seen this census entry before and ruled it out with the father being called James. Also the son Sam would have been born in 1857 which doesn't tally with my Sam who was born in 1854. Do you think there is a possibily it could still be the same family?
  10. Hi, I am tracing my family history and am stuck with something, just wondering if anyone can help me. I am searching for my great grandfather's parents. My great grandfather's name was Sam Deakin, born 1854 in Sheffield, trade is a grinder. I can find Sam in all the censuses from when he got married in 1872 but not before then. On his marriage certificate his father's name is down as also Sam Deakin, with a trade of spring knife cutter. The younger Sam's birth wasn't registered so I can't find out his parentage from a birth certificate. All I know is that his Dad was called Sam also but no name of his mother and I can't find him in the census before the 1881 census. There is a Sam Deakin about the right age living with a widowed mother Sarah in 1871, but if Sam's father was at his wedding in 1872 then this doesn't fit with Sarah being a widow in 1871. I can't find a senior Sam Deakin with the trade of spring knife cutter in any of the census, I have also searched parish records and still can't find anything so I don't know where to go with this. Also, another one on the Deakin side. My Dad's Aunt - Sam's daughter, Bertha. I have all her details apart from her death. She was born in 1882 in Sheffield and she married twice, first to a Thomas Hall and then to a Charles Carter in the 1950s. She lived in Mickelbring/Braithwell area and I can't trace her death at all, I have searched under all her surnames. If anyone could help me I would be most grateful. Thank you.
  11. Sorry to hear about Eddie. Regarding Dennis, sorry if I got him wrong but most women who delivered to him thought the same thing, maybe it was how he looked at us that made us think that and maybe it was just because he was wary of answering the door. I am also sorry he died, do you know what he died of? I got it wrong about Dennis and the Star Walk, I think that was a bloke called Johnny Jackson who also had meals on wheels.
  12. Oh just remembered, rumour had it at the time that Dennis Cragg entered the Star Walk every year, yet he was still allowed to have Meals on Wheels!
  13. Hi all, I don’t come from Parson Cross (originally a Hillsborough gal) but I did deliver meals on wheels on the Cross in the early eighties and I remember Eddie Bedstead very well. He was known to us as Dirty Dick because he always seemed to be collecting rubbish. He used to leave the money for his dinner outside in a dirty saucer which was filled with water. I had forgotten his real name but looking though the Directories in the library yesterday I found his surname was Bettison, not sure on the first name though but his initials are given as C.E. I also delivered meals to Dennis Craggs aswell, did he live on Wordsworth Close or Drive? He always gave me the impression of being a dirty old man and used to eye me up and down when he answered the door (I was only eighteen at the time) so I used to ask the van driver to deliver his meals as he made me feel uneasy. Can’t believe on reading this thread that these were two of the well known characters on Parson Cross. Talk about memories Oh and yes we had them in Hillsborough too 
  14. Hi, just found this thread. Yes she was Miss Greaves. I know this because it’s one of those family stories that kept getting raised during humourous moments. My Grandmother who lived with us when I was a kid, God bless her, she was stone deaf and my Mum once took her to Greaves Opticians and Miss Greaves was being a bit awkward and bolshy so my Grandmother, being deaf and talking loudly without realising it, said at the top her voice ‘Blimey, no wonder she’s a Miss’! Classic one Gran 
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