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  1. As a young feller I spent best part of a week at the Royal as Children's hospital was full. I had a septic sore on my knee and antibiotics were only just being used in the early 50s so they wanted to keep an eye on things while I had the penicillin or whatever. I remember a cavernous ward with long lines of beds. After the lights went out at night, everyone started to fart. Remember telling mum and dad about it when they came to visit me and they thought it was hilarious.
  2. I remember Sunday trips to the seaside. Late fifties. It was very common to see cars whose engines had caught fire stranded by the roadside with perplexed owner and family standing by. Why did so many cars catch fire back then?
  3. I spent many nights in the front room of my girlfriend's house. Just the two of us listening to Radio Luxemburg and....use your imagination.
  4. I went to Manor Lane School 1948-51, though I lived on Talbot Place, a tram ride away. My grandmother lived on Dovercourt Rd.
  5. Right on. As a teenager I had a Saturday job working at a furniture store down near Heeley bottom. At lunch time, which was no more than three quarters of an hour if that, I hiked all the way up London Rd to the disk jockey so I could have my nosh listening to the juke box. Then, raced back again.
  6. Seem to remember a small coffee bar/cafe at the top of London Rd opposite what was then the Locarno.
  7. Remember those luminous socks that fellas wore in the late 50s? I bought mine from Winstons. One day, our Latin teacher at High Storrs GS stopped his lesson to point out to everyone that he was finding it hard to continue because he was dazzled by the socks that soft ayperth (insert real name) was wearing.
  8. October '61. I was a first year university student. On "Rag Day" (many on here will recognize what that was). I dressed up as a woman. Lipstick, rouge, skirt, high heeled shoes, 2 cushions stuffed under my blouse. The whole bit. In the days before public sensitivities to such things as transgender recognition, gay pride, let alone political correctness, came into being. You can imagine the looks and the banter that went my way as I went to use the public lavs in Fitzalan Square.
  9. Remember going on a blind date to see Jailhouse Rock there. Blind date didn't work out.
  10. Anyone mention The Raven? A meeting place for many of us at Sheff. Univ. in the '60s.
  11. Nowadays, bald is considered attractive. At least, I keep telling myself that.
  12. I'm 74 Peter so not a lot of years between us. You evidently led a pretty active outdoor life. I did most of my potholing in Derbyshire. Had one trip up to the Yorkshire Dales where I went down Gaping Gill, spending a night in that cave. After I went to univ., alas my outdoor recreational life came to an end. I joined a jazz band and our efforts were entirely indoors. All the best.
  13. Sure wasn't. Being a teenager, I used to shop there but the quality of the stuff was awful. After a few short months the black drainpipe trousers I wore became threadbare.
  14. I must have just missed you, Peter. I caved between 1959 to 61. Don't remember a Sheffield Caving Club. I joined the British Speleological Society, in which Les Salmon was a prominent member. Strangely enough, the Neil Moss tragedy in Peak Cavern in 1959 sparked my interest in the sport. Giant's Hole and Gautrie's Hole were my favourite haunts.
  15. Back in the '50s, it was fashionable for young men to wear a St Christopher medallion around their necks. I did. Some wore a crucifix instead. The wearing of these had no religious significance. Anyone else remember wearing one?
  16. I lived in a home on Talbot Place that backed onto Talbot Gardens as a young kid. That wasn't yesterday. I strolled down Talbot Gardens around 5 years or so ago. It was in dreadful condition, like it hadn't been touched since I was a kid.
  17. Remember the request stops? if you didn't specifically request the conductor to stop and there was nobody at the stop wanted picking up, the bus wold fly right past it. Maddening when that happened.
  18. Used to go in there a lot. It was a hangout for university students (and others) during the 60s. Well populated on a Friday or Saturday night. I think it might have been a Wards pub but not certain about that.
  19. 'Boiled spice' was the term used by my grandparents. No idea where the 'boiled' came from.
  20. At High Storrs (boys) 1954-61 the gym slipper on a pupil's backside was the customary form of corporal punishment. The headmaster and deputy headmaster used canes. Lesser forms of punishment consisted of detention (having to stay for half an hour to an hour after school, often having to solve mind boggling long division sums) or lines. Lines (50, 100, or even more) usually started "I must not......"
  21. Working Class 60s and 70s? Attercliffe and Pitsmoor come to mind. Also, Parson Cross estate and Wybourn estate. Good luck with your book.
  22. You didn't need to open the envelope to know whether you'd passed or not. A large brown envelope meant "yes," a small white one "no." Inside the brown envelope was a letter stating which grammar school you had been assigned to. In my case it was High Storrs.
  23. At High Storrs, A levels were Oxford & Cambridge. I think the 11plus exam attempted to divide students, academic/ non academic too early in a child's development. I know several examples of students who failed that exam, but blossomed later when the Labour government brought in a late developers' program. Many of these went on to university.
  24. I bought my first trumpet from Cann's on Dixon Lane. It was a Selmer Lincoln and cost 17 guineas. I bought it on the "never never."
  25. They were indeed. Spent a lot of time in those booths. Purportedly, they were to allow previewing a record before you bought it. But, many people, myself included, had no intention of buying it. Just wanted to listen to the song. Imagine something like that catching on nowadays?
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