St Petre

Isn't there more to life than if, or if not there's a Burger King  on Fargate? Like Fargate itself?

Perhaps by the point but Sheffield is/was the only UK city that never had a remand prison. Holding Cells don't count.

Did Neil Warnock go there, as he was a Frecheville kid then?

9 hours ago, busdriver1 said:

East Midlands, Manchester and Leeds/Bradford all within easy travelling distance, the difference is they have things worth visiting nearer than Sheffield.

Like Leicester, (who's county it is in), or Bury, Stockport, Oldham and Heckmondwike?

1 hour ago, DUFFEMS said:

Been on many a charabanc working mens club trip and not had a break down experience. always looked forward to them because being given actual cash in a brown envelope felt brilliant!

However, I did have the unfortunate experience of being on a boken down charabanc in the middle of a snow storm in about 1954/55. 

My parents were given a newly built council house on the Hackenthorpe estate in 1953, it was wonderful, 3 bedrooms, lounge, dining room, kitchen, seperate bathroom and toilet and a large garden. The only problem was access to anywhere, the only bus was up the estate on Occupation Lane, we were right down in the bottom on Rainbow Avenue. There was no school for infants as the village school in Hackenthorpe was over full so, as a 5 years old I was taken up to Occupation Lane every morning (we moved there in Autumn) and bundled onto a charabanc along with all these other unknown kids, no good roaring, your mum wasn't on the bus! 

Firstly I went to a school room down the side of the church in Ridgeway, we sat round a pot bellied stove and wrote with chalk on slates, as there was nowhere to play at lunchtime we were taken for walks through fields of snow, sludge, rain etc.

I later progressed up the road to a school room which I think was the Methodist Church in Ridegway, again no play area so walking through fields lanes etc. at lunchtime for recreation.

I actually got to the main school in Ridgeway the following year  just as snow really set in, that's when our charabanc veered off High Lane into the field to the left. No phones, helpers etc. and no-one knew we were there but, eventually some men in uniform arrived and we were dug out and finally landed with our mums who knew nothing about our experience, they were anxiously waiting on Occupation Lane, it was late evening.

After 3 years of unreliable charabancs, poor bus services and bad weather mum decided she'd had enough and we went back to civilisation in Meersbrook.

Great prose DUFFEMS, thank you.

9 minutes ago, Longcol said:

Old Redgates premises  on Furnival Gate AFAIK.

Did part of the store go around the corner to the Moor? (and thank you).

24 minutes ago, salmonbones said:

I guess you steal from all of them.

What or where was Sunwin House? (from Sheffield ex-pat).

Lots of posts on SF relating to above but  did anyone have the unfortunate  experience of having their coach break down on the way there,  depriving the kids of a day at the seaside or maybe half a day if bus repaired or replaced in the middle-of say--remote Lincolnshire?

Why do  Castlegate shops keep getting mentioned- there was never any shops on there ( only bus stops)  except a betting shop next to the old Bull & Mouth pub. Perhaps what's meant is the triangle of Castlegate. Waingate and Exchange Street?

3 hours ago, crookesey said:

I started work in SCC in 1962, when it was buzzing, having a night out in those days normally involved cinemas, very long established pubs and  trendy nightclubs/discos, what has replaced them?

Not many (if any) nightclubs/discos around in 1962.

18 hours ago, NERVY-OWL said:

Chelsea managed to take a point off them so you never know🙂

Chelsea were two-nil up in that game.

25 minutes ago, harvey19 said:

I am indeed. I can still see him now.

One day a pupil was imitating his stance when Silas came in. His comment was "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery "

I think former football manager and Shiregreen  born lad Jim Smith was a Firth Park pupil  around mid- 1950s, mentioned the magazine in his biography.

Off the immediate subject but wasn't there a Don Inn in the Newhall Road area?

2 hours ago, cuttsie said:

I always entered the Mambo half way down the parade , never on Union Street , pretty sure there was more shops below the Mambo towards the end of the Parade 

I believe the Mambo had downstairs premises, if so, from which side was access, Cambridge Arcade or Union Street?

Just now, St Petre said:

I believe the Mambo had downstairs premises, if so, from which side was access, Cambridge Arcade or Union Street?

Sheffield United Tours had a booking office on the arcade,  near bottom left going down from Pinstone Street.

15 hours ago, Baron99 said:

The London Rd area sadly might have seen a decline in pubs in recent years but Abbeydale Rd is thriving. 

 

Jabberwocky (technically London Rd) 

The Bear

Rumkeg876

Dead Donkey 

Turner's Beer Shop / Tap Room

Over The Yardarm 

Glass Frog

Abbeydale Tap

Barrowboy

Two Thirds 

The Teller

Gin Place 

The Broadfield

Wasn't  Barrowboy near the bottom of Dixon Lane or am I

 confusing myself?

2 hours ago, staninoodle said:

Much improved in terms of shots at goal and intensity, missed two good chances and had a pen given then taken away, but the overall issue in terms of a lack of quality around the box cost us the points.

The game hung on a moment where a sub with his 1st touch raced away from defenders, cut inside another two and finished astutely into Dawsons bottom corner, Wednesday brought on Wilkes who just kept giving the ball away and looked like he was new to the game of football and looked quite easily the worst player on the park, hopefully thats the last we see of him in a Wednesday shirt and its indicitive of chasiris recruitment failures.

Rotherhams 23 points in 2016/17 in the championship

Thank you Staninoodle. 23 points? That looks like being a Herculean achievement for a team not a million miles away from Miller town.

7 hours ago, Padders said:

How do you know her name is Hilda.. Jud.?

Perhaps Hilda had a 'Big Girl's Blouse'?

1 hour ago, vmam said:

We get Hedgehogs in our garden and I'm sick of them, they crap all over the lawn and if you tread in it without seeing it , it ends up on the carpet in the house.

Then don't tread on your roof slates either!

9 hours ago, cuttsie said:

  Reveal spoiler

 

The Mambo was never on Union Street .

Yes -and with respect to you -it was Cuttsie, at the bottom  of Cambridge Arcade (the other end from Barney Goodman's). In the late 1950s I was only eleven, so not really a 

a Mambo wannabe!

I know it's early but who has the record(s) for the least points in the Championship or the old second division, which was only two points for a win then?

On 27/07/2008 at 16:01, baz52 said:

Hi Ellieve,

Not quite what you asked for but my late wife was credit draper and Emma was one of her good customers.

Regards

Baz52

What's a 'Credit draper' Baz?

On 07/10/2023 at 15:26, rogets said:

Watford will be fully aware that 3 points will give them a decent gap between them and the bottom 3, occupied by QPR the Owls and another team

 

They will be highly motivated.

 

For that reason I have to say Watford 3 - 0 Owls

And then there's Plymouth, who are just above Watford, where the Owl's go to in a mid-week long away trip but then it's the Miller's at home.

11 minutes ago, Irene Swaine said:

I think your first point is true, but only part of the catalyst for the cafe deals. It gets people in to the supermarket, and as you say, makes them use their brand instead of competitors. 

 

Some people want convenience but for some people, a leisurely stroll round the supermarket can be enjoyable. There is a social element to it as well, I often bump in to people I know there. 

 

You're right Irene ,  perhaps a stroll around the old Castle Market could have   induced the same  experience  ?

8 hours ago, bazza63 said:

Booking double seats at Hillsborough Kinema for courting couples.

You could actually 'book' seats? Hillsborough Kinema wasn't  the London Paliadium.

1 hour ago, Evie_nicksonxx said:

I am actually looking into this case, can anybody give me any names of those involved, or where I could access some more info about the case, as struggling to gather info on the case with names??

...

Sheffield Star newspaper may be of help.