Keanaz

I used to be in the cubs & scouts in Darnall on Mandeville st, we used to lead the parades through Darnall and then into HH Park - I used to play the side drum and bugle (not very well) but they were great fun, with all the church goers behind and then that led onto the Darnall Medical Aid parade with the decorated lorries all following, they had hell of a job getting down the hill from the start point and then eventually into the park - they screwed up in the park when they put all those concrete barriers up; Great times

yes, now you mention it, Pete Codman and his younger sister, was it Carol or something ?

left in summer 77, joined the soft and barmy and never been back to Sheffield since. dont recall your name, but there was a young girl in your year - Coleman, (had a brother in our year - Pete) gorgeous little blonde?

Now that Gene's dead, they are going to take 4 weeks to make his coffin out of Oak, but only 24 hours from BALSA ?

the lido was a great place for trapping birds I remember many a girl trying to swim, dive or whatever. I also a couple of guys used to do handstands on rubber bricks showing off thier tans etc, I always felt like pushing one over, just like in the film tootsie happy days

Ali, you dont have to shout you know! By the way do you have a sister

Yes, Jacklev1 I remember all them and more, we lived on Nightingale street and my whole family went there, my mother was a dinner lady for a while as well. Pity about it now!

I went to it once it was big, High Hazels Park in Darnall also used to a big one, we used to belong to the cubs and scouts on mandeville street or road, they used to also pull in the crowds for such a small place

Yes Ali you are correct, bates wine shop was on the corner. I remember the fish shop, he was a right character, but he had the best wet fish around, he gave me one of his rubber hammers once, I dont what for or what I did with it. The fish and Chips in Lomas was the best, they had a cafe bit at the back (or upstairs) that was a real treat sitting in there. Darnall has gone right down the drain!

On the road next door to Banners there used to be a fruit & veggie barrow with a bloke called Arnold, looked a bit like reject Spiv - anyone remember him?

High Hazels Park wot a great place that used to be, you could do everything there: Sledging down camels hump Blackberry picking over the back, next to the woods play golf ( I couldnt) Nik flowers ride bikes - they were a few them who used to hang round the park! get a fag and a saspirilla. Have a fight or 2 the students used to come in the summer and run play schemes they used to put ropes in trees to make great swings

So Sandy youve said a lot of things about Darnall and Hurlfield you must know me or my brothers or sisters? check out some of the other topics fm my sis Exhatter or my bro Singledad1 ?

Yeah that was them, my uncle was part of that, they were hilarous

It must be to keep them out, coz none have come in yet!

5m x 4.5M Edwardian in mahogany, Dwarf wall. Electric vent, Eleccie heater - 13K

take em 2 any curry ouse down't Cliffe!

Whitby Road (Darnall) primary and Junior school, then Hurlfield Comp finally left in 77 and joined the Army & Sheffield!

Sorry, I was wrong, memory not so good I left in 77 so things a little hazy, Yes it is on Fisher Lane Shirland Lane was at the bottom end of Darnall off Balfour Rd etc thanks Julie. So whats happend to the old Cravens site?

I used to deliver this around Darnall about 1974ish and more towards the back of Darnall, mainly ethnic minorities houses who wouldnt buy it because they couldnt speak or read english. How long did this rag last for and what was it about, I sold it but never read it?

there were a group of Sheffield bus drivers who used to do the circuit - they were "drag" artists that mined to music also used to dress up as allsorts and mine to all the latest bits of music coppled together and put on a tape and played in the background. Anyone shed any light?

The Darnall Medical Aid building was on Shirland Lane which ran the back of WHitby Rd, and a load of others to almost the centre of Darnall. It was originall like a nissan style hut, but was burnt down full of collected newspapers, it was then re-built and I think re-opened by Cilla Black. Dont know what happend to it after I left Sheffield in 77?

we didnt have anything against the girls! Just the lads I left in 77

I didnt go out with no Carol! Did I?

Not quite as glamourus as some but East Devon!

I dont remember the dances of the 60's coz i woz a bit small then, but I remember collecting milk bottle tops and newspapers for Darnall Medical Aid until it burnt down. The parades were excellent, we used to spend ages making the floats up and then driving thru Darnall on them and ending up in High Hazels park for the judging etc does anyone have pictures of any of these?