Person6

On 20/05/2021 at 15:05, Vl69 said:

High Pete       It's Val here sorry it took so long to reply  I remember you at school  but who did you knock about with I remember John g   arbor t     Paul hardy Keith  Palmer Tony Smith   Billy Hudson Keith docerty I knock about with Anne Thompson  Marie Biggins Ann-Marie O,mallet Jean Palmer  she was my badminton partner 

I have lived in Blackpool for over  forty years I like to hear back

Val

 

Loooong time since I've been on here! I remember most of those from St Theresa's. The only people from there I've been in touch with recently are Elizabeth Osborne and Paul Feetham.

I bumped into John Garbutt a few years ago, he was living in Suffolk and I saw Gerard Desforges when he was working for Sheffield College, that would be around 2000.

I should have gone to St John Fisher's but my records were wrong and after a bit of a fight with the authorities I went to St Paul's where I had a great time for five years.

 

Michael Dolby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coloucraft, originally Ducketts I think.

Anybody know what Jelly Tripe was?

Looking at an old picture of Myers tripe stall in the market and there's a sign saying "Jelly Tripe".

Also any idea why tripe would be two prices? On the price list it's on at 61p and 65p. I wondered what the difference was.

Someone has suggested bleached and unbleached, is that true?

3 minutes ago, me-and-pippo said:

 

Walter Bubien, boot maker, 29 Cross Myrtle Road, (1957 directory).

Thanks very much for that

53 minutes ago, DavidFrance said:

Sadly it isn't just the WMC trips that are fading into memory, the Clubs themselves are almost a distant piece of history. Yet Working Mens Clubs (how politically incorrect is that?) are a huge part of the fabric of Sheffield and South Yorkshire with thousands of stories about Club "turns", "stripper Sundays" and the inevitable Hammond Organ and a drummer.  I'm sure that someone somewhere has written a book?    My own fond memories are of trips from Upper Heeley, Midhill, Queens Road, Ecclesall Non Pol  (Non-political) and Smitheywood Clubs, always to an east coast resort, and in many years in the 40s and 50s it was our only taste of a summer holiday.  And out of all those trips I can't remember a single one where it rained !  But there was always a child who was sick on the bus and had to puke into a seaside bucket!  Happy Days !

I think there is a "Dirty Stop Outs Guide to Sheffield  Working Men's Clubs". I haven't seen it so can't comment but I've been told about it since my previous post.

Considering how many people went on these trips and how many places ran the trips I find it a bit odd how little evidence and reminiscences there are of them, not just on here but generally.

In the sixties I went on trips with The Arundel, Park & Arbourthorne, Manor St. Philip's, Upper and Lower Heeley clubs as well as  Mote Hall and Steel Inn pubs. The pub trips were generally

less well regarded by us punters because we got less money and the refreshments tended to be more frugal, but a trip to the seaside was a trip to the seaside. We went to Cleethorpes mainly but I remember individual trips to Scarborough, Skegness, Mablethorpe. and Hornsea.

Mablethorpe was unpopular because we soon ran out of things to do in the rain and Hornsea was just pointless, there was nothing to do and we were given yucky sandwiches for lunch.

I'd be interested in any resources, particularly photographs and reminiscences that I could be pointed to.

15 hours ago, lazarus said:

These polish people lived on Myrtle Road in 1974

At No 373 Lived Beatrice Czerwinski

At No 186 lived Eugeniusz Raczynski
At No 103  Lived and worked motor mechanic Teofil Szcupak ( I couldn’t understand a word he spoke but a decent man)
No polish sounding names on Cross Myrtle Road.
 

Probably just rented the shop space then. I knew the other three.  Thank you for looking

7 hours ago, osscat said:

I have plans    watch this space  - meanwhile my gallery is on my flickr pages at: https://tinyurl.com/ratuxht

Yes, I remember them.

I hope the plans go well, keep us informed.

The Facebook group Park Hill Flats (Sheffield) is run by Mick Jones who took photographs there 1969/70 and he may well be worth getting in touch with to compare notes.

He has a book and an exhibition coming up at the end of the summer.

Can anyone remember the name of the Polish cobbler with the shop on Cross Myrtle Road?

Maybe it's in an early 70's Kelly's directory.

It was something like Bueben but I'd like to know the exact spelling.

16 hours ago, osscat said:

I lived in Darnall for a while and took many photographs - one day I went into the Rose and Crown and someone said to me - "take his picture, he's just read his obituary in the Star"  I did but it was 1976 and my notes have gone astray - If my memory is correct he was called 'Albert' - if anyone knows who he was and anything about him I would be greatly obliged .

 

https://tinyurl.com/sogag6a

 

Thanks - Peter

I've seen your pictures before, have you ever exhibited or published them?

There was a bloke by the name of Chris Firth  who had a shop in the Oasis in Meadowhall in the early 2000's selling old telephones and memorabilia.  He had a collection of old photo's and might be worth tracing.

He was ex-Post Office Telephones. someone told me he now lived in Devon.

Profumo scandal, a lad in my class got into bother for asking if Christine Keeler was a harlot. Nobody understood the teachers response.

Don't remember the one on Rockingham Street but I remember Theatrical Supplies at the bottom of the Moor in the early/mid 60's. They were purveyors of stink bombs and other childish prank materials.  They sold some packets of little tablets which when inserted into a cigarette were supposed to emit a cloud of snowflakes after the cig was lit. Didn't work. We sneaked one into a fag belonging to our history teacher, no snowflakes but the fumes nearly choked him. Pastilles like Jelly Tots that came in soap or hot mustard flavour were quite funny in a one hit wonder kind of way.

The Groobeys lived at number 1 Larch Hill, they had a son, Gordon (Dennis to his family). They bought the house new and lived there until the late 70's.

6 hours ago, Unrecordings said:

Maybe it's to allow access for an internal inspection

 

Hope someone gets some photos of the interior

It's always been sort of accessible from the other end. I went in and photographed it in the early 90's and it was full of rubbish and overspill from the scrapyard. I assume it's been cleared as part of the current works.

Richard Stefanski went to St Paul's school on Granville Road in the 60's, he would have left in 1969.  I remember him working in one of the men's fashion shops on Chapel Walk, possibly Harry Fenton's.

https://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/vesta-curry-and-rice-with-beef#

Poundstretcher were selling Vesta meals for £1.99 recently but not in every branch. I've also seen some in Tesco and Sainsbury's.

You can still buy them if you fancy reliving the experience. Not made by Bachelors any more but they're still out there.

My motorcycle test (a very long time ago) the examiner sent me off round the block and said "I will step out into the road and you should do an emergency stop when you see me". For some peculiar reason he did it from the opposite side of the road, I saw him  but the guy on a moped coming the other way didn't and they had a glancing collision with mopeds, clipboards and blokes all ending up on the floor. My examiner was taken away in an ambulance and my test finished there. I had to return to the test centre and tell them the examiner was at the casualty department.

My first car test failed due to ingition problems  with the car - Ford Escort and British School of Motoring- it kept stalling in traffic which meant progress was erratic and the examiner called a halt, walked back to the test centre and sent my very sheepish instructor to come and sort out me and the car.

17 hours ago, danensis said:

No, it wasn't bomb damage, it was an accidental fire in 1939.  Just across the way was a spirit store and the fire service were concerned that the fire would spread, so they pulled down the middle section of C block so that the burning timbers fell inwards rather than outwards. If you have a spare £250,000 Portland Works would be delighted to rebuild it.

Thank you.

Sadly my spare £250,000 is committed elsewhere but I spent a few happy hours in the sunshine on the flat roof in the early nineties when I had a studio up there for a few months.

I failed, it didn't ruin my life.  I certainly felt like I was swimming against the current until I went to University. The headteacher of the secondary school I went to  said we were there because we'd failed and weren't GCE material. The school  prepared us for a life of dead end manual labour with no direction or support for those who realised there were other possibilities. 

On ‎27‎/‎08‎/‎2019 at 08:59, Person6 said:

Alan Dagnall is very much alive although not in the best of health.  I can probably put you in touch. PM me if you want to. I won't be available for a couple of weeks but I'll pass any messages on after that.

I've also been given the address of Jimmy Noonan today if you're interested

On ‎01‎/‎09‎/‎2019 at 04:02, seamuscleary said:

Does anyone know where I can see pictures of the old heeley that I recognise. I can picture where our old house would have been, would love to see our row of terraces again. Ours was the end one with a pink shed at the back of the garden. We were just around the corner from Ann's road school.

Your best bet is to join the Heeley Past and Present group on Facebook. Old pictures are regularly posted on there by former residents.

I think the council may have been partners with the University of Sheffield in the experiment. I remember seeeing film footage of it on a visit to the School of Architecture there in the eighties.

On ‎23‎/‎08‎/‎2019 at 19:58, plantman said:

Does any one remember Alan Dagnall Ken Fenton Steve Harper Ralph Edwards Jimmy Noonhan they used to play football on the field off Motehall Road.                                                     Yes i remember Jimmy working on the railway the last time i saw him  he was on one of the electric trains at Sheffield Victoria Station, also Ken Fenton  joined the railway i think Alan Dagnall worked in the cutlery trade some where like Viners                        

Alan Dagnall is very much alive although not in the best of health.  I can probably put you in touch. PM me if you want to. I won't be available for a couple of weeks but I'll pass any messages on after that.