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2 hours ago, blackhill said:

Hi Ken. You are going back a few year drinking at the Hillsborough Inn. My wifes father used to work behing the bar there. The door/gate to the back of the inn is/was still there. Left Sheffield in 1985. so dont know if the door/gate is still there.

This would be 1957,I think the landlords name was Wilf

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

 Used to visit my grandparents in the late 40s.

There name was Glaves, I think they lived on Valentines Rd

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

I seem to remember buying at different times,a trumpet,banjo, and camera from the shop on Infirmary Rd

16 hours ago, Jim Hardie said:

Paint?

16 hours ago, Jim Hardie said:

Paint?

They sold lots of things other than paint.White Lead,,Red Lead,Linseed oil,

Dryers, pumice blocks ,brushes etc,etc

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

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.

On 12/09/2010 at 06:52, djmill said:

Wadsley Bridge doctors surgery had a father and son team, Dr Panniker and DR Peter Panniker, both were very nice. I think Dr Peter ( the son) married a doctor who also worked there (Dr female Panniker) and then their son Dr Andrew Panniker took over, so I heard. I only went a couple of times as a kid and the receptionist gave you a numbered card and you had to sit and wait til the people with lower numbers had been in then it was you turn, very depressing if you were number 28 at 8.00am when they had only just opened, where did the other 27 people appear from! It was a dark gloomy waiting room with just a few chairs and a table with a couple of mags, most people stood outside smoking and would stick their head round the door and say "has number 21 gone in yet?" to see where they were in the queue!

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?

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What was the route that came through Parson Cross,Fox Hill .The terminus was Leppings lane  behind the Hillsborough school?

Reading of the death of Ned Beaty who played  Joseph Locke in ,Hear my song.

Was Joseph Locke ever at the Empire?

11.5 pence an hour for 48 hour week

I always thought dried eggs were a major component.

The first suit I ever owned came from there, must have been about 1954

At 89 but still I sad loss.I think ‘ Sing  a song of Basie’ Is still one of the best jazz vocal albums ever made

10 hours ago, davyboy said:

Don't you have barm cakes  up north?

 

look up barm cake in Wikipaeda

Also: http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/1406-bread.html

Up North? Hardly ,S W Ontario

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

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

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

7 hours ago, hillsbro said:

It was actually the Centre Spot on Snig Hill that opened some time before 1964. The buildings there were demolished in 1971 and so it by then must have moved to King Street, as shown in the April 1971 photo. Here is a link to a scan from a 1970 Kelly's directory showing businesses on that part of Snig Hill. https://i.postimg.cc/6QqG1xY7/001.jpg

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

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?