St Petre

The chemist's on Ellesmere Road (near Lyons Road) was Greenstreet's, in the same block of shops was also a chip shop, a shoe repairer, a fruit and veg and Karr's (later Woodhead's) sweets and ice cream shop.

Hasn't Wickham been on loan to the Owls before (from Sunderland) ?

That came to be known as 'The Little Miss Music Murder' when an elderly piano teacher- a Miss Jones - was slain in her Ellesmere Road home by a neighbour from nearby Lyons Road name of Phillips, all for five old shillings. The incident happened at Christmas 1961 and the killer being sentenced in early 1962.

Perhaps they can get about a quarter of Chelsea's loanees -44 of them last year- but the Owls are ok for goalies.

Who owns/uses the old E.S.C. sports ground on Shiregreen Lane, did Forgemaster's inherit it ?

What was in the Wicker Lazrus ?

Not to confuse but wasn't the Plumpers pub at the corner of Sutherland Street and Greystock Street, and Corby Street ran parallel between there and Princess Street, might that help ?

Actress Jane Leeves (Frazier) was born in Sussex, so must have had to work on the Lancashire accent.

One perm would be Good Friday (afternoon), Easter Monday (afternoon) and Tuesday (evening) (some home, some away) and that would be when Bob Lord, Alan Hardacre and their Football League pals were running the show. Made me think, did the Owls or the Blades ever play a Good Friday game at home back then ? (obviously not against each other).

Wasn't a day to forget until about ten minutes from the end but I do get your very good point.

Perhaps the Owls won't need a points deduction imposed by the Football League, at this rate they'll do it by themselves.

Where in Pitsmoor was Allen Street ?

Derek Dooley's career ending injury in 1953.

I recall that back in the 1960s-or perhaps even later- SCT used to re-hire former conductors that had reached retirement age (65) and they supplemented the regular crews, working week days part time on some of the not so busy routes, off-peak say 10am- 2pm

Didn't the buses that used to run from Sheffield (Pond Street) display just 'Killamarsh' on the destination board and just went via Intake, Mosborough and Halfway ? Perhaps Booth and Fisher bus company did as they were based at Halfway but not sure if they ran bus routes out of Sheffield city centre. I know that the current trams display Halfway on the route board.

The Forest defenders are probably asking each other the same question.

Were there buses running on Boxing day, the day of the Owls-Blades (4-0) match 1979 ? I seem to recall having to walk back to town, or were they on strike ?

As well as the Merseybeats, ( for whatever reason) they, St. Christopher's-) had quite a few groups from the Liverpool area late '63 early '64. I saw Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders -who were from Manchester- who had already had a chart hit there in 1964. So the Stringfellow's didn't have it all their own way.

Nowt's a given in this division especially Derby v Owls, could be 3-3 or 0-0.

Well Tom, Idsworth Road WMC (proper name Firth Park WMC) is on the Page Hall/ Firth Park border, so perhaps a clue to Jim's early Sheffield years there,

Yes Jim I once read that and to get to Herries Road from any of those areas (and perhaps Grimesthorpe) one had to get to Longley Lane/ Herries Drive first, can't imagine anyone doing on a February afternoon-evening these days

Yes sad news, Jim was Sheffield born and later on I don't think he had much to do with Sheffield football altho' I believe he played for the Blade's junior and -perhaps- the reserve teams. Jim was a pupil at Firth Park grammar school and excelled as much at cricket as he did at football, I think Jim was from near Firth Park, maybe there, Shiregreen or Page Hall anyone know?

Exactly right Sweetcheeks and Edward didn't live in the UK for long after and I think he moved from Paris to 'warmer and friendlier' climates' during WW2. As for Wallis, she probably couldn't care less as she had married -the then- world's richest man.

Just for the record; Wallis Simpson was TWICE divorced before she married Edward.

He doesn't get much opportunities to play, either starting line up or sub, if he was so valuable to Norwich I wonder why they didn't sign him in the summer. Perhaps it's not all his fault, ditto for Winnall.