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Thanks for those. I will give them a go. Whilst I'm on the oak topic, does anyone know where to get oak for furniture making. I've never seen selections of oak in timber merchants. Where do furniture makers get it from?

I know that this probably isn't the place for this question, but I do not have a clue where else to post it. I'm looking for a length of machine cut oak to act as a lintal/mantle above a fireplace. It needs to be about 200mm x 200mm and a minimum 1.4m long. I have been to a number of timber merchants in Sheffield, but non of them deal in Oak. Can anyone please tell me where else I could try to purchase such timber. Thanks in advance (I know through past experience that someone on this site will be able to answer). Chris.

I am an amateur photographer and am interested in trying my hand at studio work. However, I have never used anything more than a couple of Nikon hot shoe flashes (off camera) and a blank wall. Does anyone know of anywhere (maybe a club) that would be a good place to have a go in a studio environment, and may be able to give advice on how to get the studio gear to work with my Nikon D80? Hiring out a big professional studio sounds scary when I've never even been in one before, and expensive if I can't work out how to use it.

It's actually my brother-in-law's. It's old video footage of his parents. He told me that it is Super 8. Not sure how much of it there is though. Do you have any ideas of where might do this?

Not sure if this post belongs in here (guess it will get removed if not). I have some old Super 8 film that we would love to view again and take some copies for relatives (in South Africa - so could do with something easy to post). Does anyone know of anywhere in or around Sheffield that would scan the film and transfer to DVD? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Chris

Ms Prat? I missed that one. by the sound of her, I would have remembered her. when was she there?

that is fantastic. thanks. does anyone know when it closed?

Ah! Birlins! those were the days. you had to be 15 or 50 to fit in. spin the wheel was good. that was in the days when you were un-able to go out in trainers.

I can only seem to find evidence of the St Matthias church at this location. was there a school there too?

Hope this is not an abuse of the forum, but I am wondering if anyone knows of, or can remember St Matthias School in Sheffield. We are looking into our family history, and my grandfather (who unfortunately is no-longer here to tell us) went to St Matthias School. He lived some of his childhood in the Owenton area. It must have been around the 1920s. We would love to know where this school was / is. can anyone help in identifying this school?

This is a bit different though. The bird flue is the same as any other flue, except that it likes warmer temperatures. Whereas the common flue lives in the throat (relatively cool) the bird flue attacks the lungs (Warmer environment). Unfortunately, like the common flue, it is extremely contagious and, like the common flue, can attack almost everyone within one winter. It also has the same characteristics in that it can mutate very quick, therefore being difficult to keep on top of. No true vaccine has been developed for the common cold or flue because of its ability to change. Imagine if the common cold and flue was a killer of ‘normal’ people (ie not just the old). A small break-out of the bird flue in 1918 killed mainly 18-30 yr olds. It is a flue related pandemic that scientists and governments have been afraid of due to these characteristics. I know this amount of info is a bit sad. I spent an evening with a bloke who is working on the vaccine in London. It was a riveting evening.

Anyone see the ‘crap your pants’ documentary on Bird Flue the other night. They recon a pandemic could kick off within 3 week of the virus catching a piggy-back ride from the common bird flue. However, the drugs cannot be developed until the type of virus it turns into can be analysed. It will then take about 6 month to manufacture enough to immune the country. The drug already in manufacture is based on a guess of what the flue will turn into, and they are only producing enough to supply to ‘important’ people, ie doctors, MPs and their friends. They recon the UK death alone could be anywhere between 50,000 and 750,000. How scary is that? I’ve watched films and the like where people are facing death from pandemics, but never imagined that it may happen. We were planning a trip to Vietnam in April. Think we should cancel it?

Whilst I’m on the topic of recycling, is anyone else frustrated with Sheffield’s method of household recycling? We live in a small terrace house with a very small bit of a yard at the rear. On this yard we are to store a blue paper recycling wheelie bin, a very large green garden waist recycling wheelie bin (we have a very small yard with no garden waist), and the normal black wheelie bin. As there are only 2 of us in the house, these bins are never full. Following a recent visit with friends in Newquay, we found that their local authorities provide rolls of different coloured bin liners (given out by the bin collectors) for paper, tin/aluminium, glass, plastic and clothes. This seems to be a very good method of encouraging recycling without cluttering people’s space. How can we get SCC to adopt such a scheme.

does anyone know where i can take plastic to be recycled? there are glass and paper bin everywhere, but nowhere to put my plastic milk containers.

sounds nice and friendly, but also a bit thick. (i'm from sheffield, and my southern friends think i sound like those old creature comfort adverts, which make us northerners sound thick)