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Anyone remember the chippy half way up/down Walkley Bank Road? Was it a corrugated iron edifice? It was run by a pleasant elderly gentleman . Chips and fishcake used to last well past Malin Bridge on my way home from Broomhill - in the mid 70`s. When did it close down??

Hello, stpetre, Excellent maps available (OS) all over Britain via National Library of Scotland - Sheffield areas from 1840ish to 1948ish..go to `old ordnance survey maps`, then Nat Lib Scotland, or " maps.nlsuk/os/6inch-England-and-Wales" -zoomable images etc. My personal is the Wadsley common/Loxley area..

A great student pub in the 70`s - I used to walk there and back with my dog from Wisewood - the dog complained about the poor Whitbread beer....

On the Top Fields behind prefabs next to reservoir there were a few large concrete blocks..as kids in the 70`s we were told they were balloon ballasts during the war..anyone know the truth??

Are you possibly G Bingham of Balmain Road..or Sutton Estate - near Martin Hutchinson??

Anyone recall those private codes in the Star given to parents of very poorly children ...relatives could find progress privately..my brother had meningitis for instance..

Anyone remember the half dozen or so prefabs on a track just past the Robin Hood..They were demolished around 1970..

Bit late with this.....I recall closing track Led Zep....`Stairway to....`` ironically, all these years later. I`m living just a couple o` miles from Robert Plant..he`s just like one o` the locals in the pub..and does a lot for Charity..

stpetre, Carbox (carbon blocks) was part of the Marshalls group - manufacturing very large - and heavy - linings for the teeming process within the steel industry. The site was in Bradfield Dale - alongside the River Loxley - where damage took place in the 1864 Sheffield flood- but it`s now in a ruinous state. The carbon based materials used were largely bitumen, tars and , worst of all, graphite dust! This stuff festered in my lungs for a full six months after I left..

I, too, worked there in the early 70`s....muckiest job in Britain, surely, yet in beautiful scenery..some lads used to fish in the Loxley..

I used to deliver papers for Beckwiths - any others paperboys out there?? Also recall house `next door` belonging to sergeant in Police..can`t recall name..

I worked at Dysons in the 70`s and looked forward to the Fair- I was on the coconut stall with Selwyn Horsfield - his dogs used to win!!

Yes, I remember Ken, from about 1970 - seem to recall he was a kiln filler in No. 1 plant?

I well remember Gordon - always wore a flat cap - mate of Boy Booth - lived at top of Stannington?

Fotheringham was the works manager..Jenkins sales manager, Jim Duffy no.2 plant gaffer, a Goodison no. 1 plant gaffer, forget no.3...also the unforgettable, incomparable Selwyn Horsfield.

I remember him as a schoolboy at Firth Park - the best ice cream I`ve ever tasted!!

Are there workers from the 60`s and/or 70`s anywhere ?? Remenber Fotheringham- aye laddie!!

Are there any ex Viners workers from the seventies out there - especially Quality Controllers?