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maginu

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  1. saw a ka for sale at this garage someone bought it from tinsley 3days later its in a garage in brinsowrth!!
  2. so its official dave jones sacked who is going to take this job :huh:
  3. from my old headteacher at hammerton road school in 1961 "feet take me east feet take me west feet take me home again to tea and let me rest"
  4. thepub is the corner pin and there is an excellent picture of it on the sheffield old and new site on fb
  5. i was a bus driver for 17years with mainline which is now first group you will never find a nicer bunch of guys to work with and the pension is not bad only bad word i have is dont trust the union reps if i was you i would deffo go for it i know the hours can be long b ut at the end of the week you can earn serious money
  6. sorry but i worked in dawn dept i didnt know anyone in magnets
  7. can see it from brinsworth looks bad
  8. rip i dont know you but you will now be in paradise and the person who did this should be sent to hell there is no place in heaven for people like him it makes people so angry that this is happening why does it happen who knows so sad
  9. if any body who has sky hd and are not getting look north "yorks/lincs try channel 956 on your remote i have and now im getting the right news instead of london news hope this helps most of the bbc channels ie bbc scotland wales etc and local area channells are located in the 900s but well after the adult channels which atart at 900
  10. deffo brinsworth especially ferleigh drive beautiful houses and no anti social yobs
  11. just bought a sky plus hd box for £3 .50p took lead out of the old sky sd box and connected the hdmi lead to the tv and i am now getting hd channels on fre to air without me having to subscribe so the chaps who said i would have to subscribe to get ftv hd channels were wrong
  12. does anyone know if you can recieve sky hd free to view channels without subscribeing to sky ask jeeves says yes sky sales in meadowhall say no
  13. i worked in dawn department which was located on the first floor above bandsaw dept this was from 1975 till 1979 had some good times and it was a pleasure to work there had many a few run ins with brian bullas who played hell when he used to come and nosey at what we were doing "absolutely nothing sat on our bums and watching the radyne machines doing the work " he couldnt understand that when we were sat doing nowt the job was been done properly some names to remember geoff peat steve hoyland pete gold john taylor to name a few
  14. overheard someone today stating that a bus company is going to run a bus on sundays in the summer to cleethorpes anybody know if its true
  15. mks fenceing post £1afoot gravel boards£7 &panels "good quality" from£25 depending on size 01709 553311 ask for sara
  16. i went for a job at monogram i was 17 at the time this guy showed me round and told me my duties would involve cleaning tho bogs "ladies as well as gents and that he never wanted to see me without a sweat on i told him you dont want a labourer you want a slave and that had been abolished years ago i walked out the door never to be seen again
  17. thanks for that philgben the girl i knew was called cooke "maiden name"
  18. would she be called denise and did she have a brother called alan and a sister whos name i cannot remember if so i lived across the road from her and once asked her to be my girlfriend "mind you i was onlt 13 at that time
  19. diamondjack dont recall shop explosion but remember how far it was from one end of ripon street to the other i used to do a paper round and thouht this bag was heavy my god it used to take me 2hors to do my round and it was only a couple of streets i did got paid a pittance
  20. diamondjack quite correct it was harrys also do you remember cafe on corner of woodbourne road and worthing road
  21. i think the sheffield joseph was my granddad just goy to find out wher they are buried you have helpedme enormously thankyou to youall ---------- Post added 01-04-2013 at 21:46 ---------- smary sorry didnt get your message just learning how to use this computer
  22. yes crrect they did show on my dads birth certificate as joseph and susanna davis of omderman street thought his name was john henry i was wrong it is joseph have you any idea when they died and where they might be buried thankyou for all your help it might give me the chance to visit their resting place for the very first time because i never met my grandparents and it leaves a big void which needs filling once again thankyou for your help
  23. they lived in an area at the back of where sheffield arena is near to darnall also there adress was somehow connected to general gordon i think theres an old school in the vicinity just below phillimore road thats all i know also my dad was born on29th october 1911 his name was john henry davis he died on23rd november1965 hope this helps thanyou
  24. hope someone can help me find surname davis buriedin tinsley cemetery my parents are there but trying to find grandparents john henry andsusannah thankyou
  25. always remembered going in wilfs and my dad ordering to haddock and the size of them when we got home "unbelievable" good days and then there was the odd fight outside the dog&partridge times never to be repeated why did the council decide to demolish woodbourne i never know those were the best days of my childhood going on rec at back of our house on ripon street staying out till 9oclock then having abath in the skullery "tin bath by the way"
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