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  1. Hillsborough Inn,the building is still there but no longer a pub. On a slow afternoon the landlord would let us pull our own beer
  2. Used to visit my grandparents in the late 40s. There name was Glaves, I think they lived on Valentines Rd
  3. While researching the English composer George Butterworth I found he was an officer in the Durham light infantry which was one of the regiment’s stationed at the barracks.Alas he was killed in WW1
  4. I seem to remember buying at different times,a trumpet,banjo, and camera from the shop on Infirmary Rd
  5. They sold lots of things other than paint.White Lead,,Red Lead,Linseed oil, Dryers, pumice blocks ,brushes etc,etc
  6. On the subject of travel agents,my grandson who is interested in all things Titanic has a copy of a poster advertising Titanics Atlantic crossing.Booking at Thomas Cook ,Fargate ,Sheffield
  7. I seem to remember going there,must have been 55or 56..we were painting at the royal hospital.Can’t for the life of me remember what I was sent to get.
  8. Dr Panniker was my GP from 1940’s to when I moved to Canada in 1966. I heard his son committed suicide.Is this true? .
  9. What was the route that came through Parson Cross,Fox Hill .The terminus was Leppings lane behind the Hillsborough school?
  10. Reading of the death of Ned Beaty who played Joseph Locke in ,Hear my song. Was Joseph Locke ever at the Empire?
  11. I always thought dried eggs were a major component.
  12. The first suit I ever owned came from there, must have been about 1954
  13. Up North? Hardly ,S W Ontario
  14. In my recent endeavours at bread baking I was not able to replicate the taste of my grandmother’s brad cakes..I seem to remembered the yeast was called balm and was the texture of firm putty..Am I mistaken, when I google“balm” there is no indication it is yeast
  15. There used to be a bake shop on Parkside Rd.When I was going to Hillsborough infants school, must have been around 1945 I was given milk money,I think it was a penny. I used to walk up Parkside Rd to school.We would sometimes buy a tea cake with the milk money At the bake shop By the way there was a photo on the BBC Sheffield website showing 75 anniversary by some residents of Parkside Rd
  16. The newsagents I do remember. I used to buy my cigarette Tabasco and liquorice rolling paper there, along with the Daily Worker and the Daily Telegraph
  17. I must have a huge gap in my memory.I remember Red Circle library.Leyland paints.Was it Avery scales, a candy store.Too many dead brain cells in my 81 year old head
  18. I must have a memory block.For the life of me I cannot remember this cafe. I must have been up and down Snig Hill hundreds of times from 1945 to 1966 was it opened after 1966?
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