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Long Ago

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About Long Ago

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  • Birthday 26/11/1952

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    West Mids
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    Reading, caravan, ignoring idiots.
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    Early retirement

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  1. Thanks to Mark for the link posted to the police report. However! Disgusted that nobody can see the picture or video of wanted person unless accepting the advertising cookies. No chance , so me and no doubt some others will not be able to see if known. Glad those behind desks continue to prioritise the aims of policing. God help those on the frontline and victims.
  2. It’s not a false memory you have there Dreb48 as around round Grimesthorpe / Owler Lane in the late 50s onwards we, or at least most I knew of similar age, used the term ‘bossy pants’ for anyone trying to be bossy. I don’t remember the baggy comic character though. Reminds me of ‘going round the lump’ being a common term in our house at the time but my wife also a Sheffielder had never heard of it. Had to clarify I was referring to those I knew before anyone wasted time claiming they lived there and it was never used.
  3. Spent many hours in the seventies having treatment at the dental hospital. Not my favourite place but eventually benefited from the experience. Now attend my own NHS dentist. Main thing that should reassure anybody attending is that this will never happen there: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035988/Dentist-retrieved-tooth-bin-sewed-hours-later-pulling-wrong-one.html 😳
  4. Worked from the PWD depot at Moonshine Lane terminus opposite the library early 70s. The head offices were situated at Fitzwilliam Gate near the bottom of the Moor. There was a pet shop nearby.
  5. “Monkeys smell their own muck first”, meant rubbish yourself before talking of others. “If you’ve nowt good to say, then don’t say it”.
  6. Do NOT phone the number given as it will be just another low life sat in the van or in their dump waiting to confirm identity. Find the legitimate number of the claimed company and phone that. Leave the person locked outside. All major companies give this advice. Only con merchants will say they haven’t time to wait for checking.
  7. Firstly, if it results in more cars being crushed that are driven by unlicensed, uninsured and, indicative of the previous two, untaxed ‘persons’ then fantastic. Secondly, retaining the data to facilitate police in later tracking hit and run drivers who leave your family members and children dying in the road, to later track the child kidnapper, to track the county lines drug pushers, etc, etc, then fantastic retain the data and more cameras please. Fine if you can’t stand big brother watching but perhaps you would not mind the aforementioned consequences. Having said that if data is breached then someone should be fully accountable.
  8. Hello! Good evening and welcome to all. Must have taken me over a year to meander through the two 'Anyone come from Grimesthorpe' threads but have enjoyed visualising some of the descriptions of places and events even though some of my own experiences were not as pleasant. I cannot now remember all I've read so I suppose I'll have to start reading them all over again and add any applicable memories I may have that may interest. I get the impression that many who contribute may be a few years older than I, not a lot, so names are not all known to me though I do remember Mr Gathercole at Grimesthorpe Junior whom I've heard mention. I smile about my mother in the late 50s always telling me that we would soon get a council house with a bath when the council purchased and cleared Birdwell Road, Southwell Road and Wansfell Road et.al. She has passed so would have still been waiting. Who says the council does not get things done. A sad thing is to have seen Wincobank Hill part built on, sanitised, hazards to the life and limb of every child removed, (the two gun stands), the black heaps that were better than any modern day skate board park. I used to enjoy standing and looking all around from atop the stands, zooming down the black slag hills on a crappy mongrel bike put together that had more patches on the inner tubes than there were inner tube. Great also to lay on my back on the hill side in the fine grass looking up and listening to the skylark whistling as it rose vertically higher and higher till it could hardly be seen or heard. Also got the greatest shock when I found in the grass the one and only Stag Beetle I've ever seen in my life. It was huge, especially the jaws at 3" across. Its colours were fantastic, iridescent like petrol shinning on the top of water. You just did not see such a thing in Grimesthorpe, or I bet certainly not now. Also wonder if skylarks are still around. Never mind for now. One person I've not heard mention of is Old Man Woods, the woodwork teacher at Owler Lane. Had some respect for him till one day he threatened me with what he called his Double Diamond, his cane. He called it Double Diamond as he claimed it worked wonders, it didn't as even though he only threatened me with it once I subsequently lost all respect for him as he had proved he was just another that thought violence was an okay thing. To finish for the time being, there were many great things in and around Grimesthorpe one being Firth Park pond. I used to go there as a youngster sailing little yachts and less often, due to the price of fuel pellets, the Jetex speed boat that you could buy from Hobbies next to the Peace Gardens. Hated the burns you used to get from the engines when used but survived. I see the pond is now just a concrete wasteland with token basketball poles at both ends. Never seen the number of parents and children gathered there as I remember seeing when little. More to come if of any use.
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