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I remember that term for 'real' cricket balls, also, a 'casey' was a real...as in leather....football.

I lost a sixpence in Weston Park back in the 70's....if you find it would you pass it on please?

Hi Jam, yes, it was Beverley Collie...well done, but as for the other names, I don't recall any of them. I was born 1961, and only went to St. Marys from about 1868 ish to 1971 ish, thence onto King Teds, then Lady Manners at Bakewell. I don't recall going to the Bole Hills for sports day, but I remember the day we heard Mrs. Reynolds had died, I went running to my mum standing at the school gates shouting "mum, mum, Rennybags is dead".....for which I got a huge slap across the head ....ho hum.

I remember the dancing.....in the hall across the playground. Really hated it too. The name Julie Goodwin rings a bell, and of course the Tarantini brothers, the eldest being John Tarantini who we called "squashed nose" then ran like the clappers as for John Webster, we were pretty good mates at the time. Another name was Louise Woodhead and her little twin sisters, all three had lovely ginger hair as I recall. There was a tall girl called something Colley, used to tell us she was Evlis' cousin......they were the days.

Does anyone recall those old guys who stood around the town centre late of an afternoon peddling the late version of the Star? They used to shout out something that was supposed to sound like "late night Star" but it just seemed to be a one long word that barely sounded like late night Star. Back in the '70s that would have been.

Unfortunately here in Cornwall no bu**er stocks the Sheffield Liquor, so when my mate went to visit his daughter, I got him to bring me back 10 bottles of the stuff!

The kids that were there when I was include, John Webster (Hoole Street), Michael Dinegan (South Road), Terry Crookes(football mad), Theresa and Warren Buckmaster (top of Greenhow Street, Julian Roland (Carr Road), Mark Hartley (Herbalist's shop, South Road), Tony Tarantini (South Road), Andrew Cuneo(of iced cream fame, South Road), a really dodgy looking lass called Mandy (tough as nails she was), Peter Holt, Julie Gregg (newsagents shop, South Road), Peter Hardy, Louise Woodhead (lovely ginger hair), Richard Tunstall (Greenhow Street, used to let me ride his 'chopper bike'), Leroy Gale (the first coloured kid I got to know and no doubt many others, oh, by the way, I am amongst that lot, if you can pick me out, answers on a postcard please!

I remember Mr. Jarman, his breath always smelled of Vinegar, I had to polish the chrome on his car as a punishment during play time. As for Mrs. Reynolds, we knew her as 'Rennie Bags' but not to her face mind! There was also a Mrs. Mee there too.

I wasn't aware of any reunion, mind you, living in Cornwall wouldn't have helped! Were you at St. Marys at Walkley or King Ted's?

Cheers for the map Pawa, it does seem that the story I read / heard was true then.

Hi Ms. Tetley.....I lived at 122 Carr Road, left there to move to the Peak District circa 1975/6. I went to St. Marys on South Road. Don't recall a Robert Marshall though.

They were in deed from Walkely, South Road to be precise, I was from Carr Road.

I remember the bear pit, the tennis courts (where my sister tried to teach me tennis) and of course the long speed boat. Does anyone remember the Salvati family that lived and worked at the restaurant? Went to school with Tina Salvati, also Andrew Cuneo, who's dad was the iced cream magnate and whose vans were always parked at the entrances to the parks......happy days.

When I lived in the Peak district in the 70's, we had a Sheffield postcode, and we were well high up.

Some time ago I was either told or I read something about the Wicker, and I'm not totally convinced it is/was true. The reason why the Wicker is so wide is that in the late middle ages it was used for archery practice, and as time moved on, and buildings appeared it kept it's width. Is there any truth in this story?

Sure is Retep, they married at St. Peter's...now the cathedral of course. Do you know of these folk? I am descended from their daughter Sarah Oldale who married a Georgius Barber.

Hi Retep, we have 'spoken' before on here. My 5th great grandmother was Hannah Housley (1750 - 1845 Sheffield) and she was married to a Joseph Oldale (10 Sep 1748 - May 1803 Sheffield) and had at least 9 children. Jay.

I seem to recall The Cannon opposite the Crown Courts was oft frequented by skins.

Hi Peter, the Manchester paper's name escapes me, but I do have a recording somewhere where my father was interviewed for Radio Sheffield about his career in journalism, and the Manchester paper is mentioned on it. All I do know is that not long after he started there (he was offered the Rome office for Reuters, but as Mum was pregnant with me she didn't want to go) the paper folded. I was born in Manchester 1961, but we all came back to Sheffield when I would have been about 6 months old, so you should be able to work out which paper it was from that info. Cheers, Jay.

Some years ago i was told by my mother that on her maternal side of the family one of her uncles/cousins was Lord Mayor of Sheffield sometime twixt 1926 and 1929.........I do know that there was a Harry Bolton in that position, but does anyone know how I might find out any dates (birth, marriage, death etc) for the chap mentioned? I do have a Harry Bolton (second cousin twice removed) on my tree and am hoping to prove or disprove that I have the correct Harry Bolton. Please no suggestions that I might 'pop into' the Town Hall as I live in Cornwall! Cheers, Jay.

I seem to recall my old man who was a journalist at the Star telling me about the nuclear shelter under the peace gardens that would hold about 200 / 300 people, the likes of local dignitaries, doctors, scientists etc.

If I recall, the first headmaster when I was there, prior the Mrs. Reynolds taking over was a Mr. Jarman.......for some reason I had to polish all the chromework on his car during platyime........perhaps I was a naughty boy

Blimey!.....that was quick.....am just about to look now......cheers.......

I recently bought a new graphics card (NVidia G-force FX 5500) for my computer and with it came a game called "Chronicles of Riddick---Escape from Botany Bay. I loaded the game up and when I try to open it I get the following error maeeage... "This application requires graphic driver support for opengl 1.3 or higher" Then i click ok and then this appears... "RUNTIME ERROR! PROGRAM STUDIOS/RIDDICK EFBB\SYSTEM\WIN32_X86_sse2\\sbzEngine EXE" "This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way" Can some kind soul tell me what all this means?.....I uninstalled and reinstalled and still the same.......