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davidpw

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About davidpw

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  • Birthday 02/03/1954

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    derbyshire
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    boating, walking , reading, fishing, holidays
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    company director
  1. Indoor market or are you intending to go around various outdoor ones?
  2. Kershaws must have had a dozen or so seafood sellers in Sheffield in the 70's, are there any still around? I know the company is still about as I bought some cockles from one of their guys in a pub called the 5 lamps in Derby about 2 weeks ago. Dave
  3. B&C Basegreen 35437, where abouts on Basegreen did you live Elizabeth? Dave
  4. Does any one know if Harry Webb is still around, he used to sell footwear on the markets, then I believe he started selling safety gear to business abouit 6-7 years ago. Dave
  5. With the cost of parking in Sheffield city centre what does it matter which roads are open for access, it won't be long before the final few remaining shops in the centre close.
  6. Shades on Ecclesall Road was the place to be late 60's early 70's, I think it was run by a guy called Max Omara? great days
  7. The only thing I ever remember Nora shouting was "seen thee father" which she shouted at most people as they walked by. The guy who scared us was the "mirror man" he used to sit at the bar in vaious pubs and hold a little vanity mirror up to his face and speak to his reflection about the other people in the bar. Dave
  8. It was one of the excuses used but while we closed our Steelworks the French Germans Belgians Italians Spanish carried on subsidising theirs and still do to this day. It suited thatchers model to do this, she used unemployment and the threat of unemployment (as well as selling council houses to working class people but that's a whole other story) to break the power of the unions. Dave
  9. The seeds of the current financial crisis were sown by the tory government de regulating the banking system in London, the so called "big bang" in 1986. Dave
  10. I had mine out about '63 but had them done at Thornbury Annexe which is i think a private hospital now. They had a freezer at the end of the ward and you could help yourself to ice cream or lollies any time. Different now days they make them eat dry toast.
  11. Adam you have a very jaundiced view, the unions were certainly their own worst enemy but the closure of the mines was Tory policy partly payback for the humiliation of heath but mainly to break the power of all unions. The closing of the Steel Industry abbeted by McGregor was shamefull, Tinsley Park for instance was one of the most modern, most productive and most profitable Steel Works in the World at that time the only reason it was closed was revenge for it's support in the previous steel strike. thatcher took a great nation which was under pinned by a great manufacturering base and turned it into a service centre built on the "big bang" in the financial sector, the same "big bang" that led to the melt down of that self same finacial sector some 20 years later. As for the Falklands War thatcher was warned by the Secret Service and the MOD that the Argetinians were about to invade, "the invasion force" was tiny and would easily have been dealt with 1 platoon of Marines but it is generally accepted that if Britain had had any real Military presence there, that the Argentinians would never have launched the invasion. I think that the fact that they have not tried since pretty much backs that feeling up.
  12. Hi look above, Doom posted a link to the item in the Star. Dave
  13. thatchers policies put millions of people out of jobs, of those millions, many hundreds committed suicide through the despair and misery she caused so in the way a political leader can be called a murderer for committing war crimes, thatcher can be called a murderer for committing crimes against society, she also alowed the Falkland war to happen to boost her flagging popularity before a General Election (when by despatching a platoon of Marines before the Argentinians invaded would have stopped them in their tracks) the blood of many are on her hands.
  14. Tonys at Mosboro are great Fish and Chips, one to steer clear of is Whitbys, over priced and vastly over rated. IMHO of course.
  15. Alex Parramore runs a melting company called Allied Steel it is in the road that leads to the railway station near to the Co-Op funeral directors. I believe he lives at Ranmoor.
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