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13 hours ago, redruby said:
What would happen if an historical drama about African people had white people playing black Africans? I have a feeling it would be considered offensive. But maybe I am wrong?
I'd love to see The Battle of Rourke's Drift with the Zulus played by white actors, what an uproar that would cause.
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On 20/03/2021 at 06:08, Poll said:
We also had Drs Downie, Livingstone and O’Connell but on Prince of Wales Road. Dr Wells was also part of the team. Those were the days when you actually knew your Doctor and they knew you. The surgery was in a house.
They were our family doctors, no telephone consultations then, no receptionist trying to act like doctor's.
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9 hours ago, Longcol said:
The vast majority arrive legally by aeroplane. The desperate people claiming asylum after arriving by rubber dinghy are a small minority.
Desperate ! They're as desperate as I am when I can't change TV channels, free housing, cash is their driving force.
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Treat them as what they are, put extra beds in cells.
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Each and every sport to me is boring, especially tennis, football.
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On 08/06/2024 at 15:28, Baron99 said:
In the style of the Jesse character from The Fast Show.
This week I've been mainly watching 'Spooks'. The full series is available on BBC iPlayer.
I forgot how good this series was & considering it stopped years ago, how many of the programmes still have relevant story lines. You probably wouldn't get away with some of the violence & references these days without a warning before hand.
I'd like to see some of the people who object to comedy shows or is it some executive who thinks they may offend without actually doing just that.
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19 minutes ago, Delbow said:
It will be true in Darnall because it has a high immigrant population. In Ireland, it's Irish people who cause most of the problems because Ireland is mostly full of Irish people. In Russia, it's mostly Russians who cause all the problems and do all the crime because they don't like letting other people in to do it instead. In Liverpool, organised crime is heavily white dominated and they have a bigger gun problem than a knife problem, for reasons I don't understand.
Poverty generates crime, the way to reduce crime is by reducing poverty. The Cleveland police area has one of the worst, possibly the worst, violent crime rate in the country and it's 96% white. It's also - surprise, surprise - a very poor area.
That said it seems more of the drug crimes are controlled by immigrants, also look at the grooming gangs, it's been going on for years but again our police don't want to be classed as racist, let people call them whatever they want, just arrest the detestable Asian men.
If Cleveland has a violent crime rate and you quote it's 96% white but who's committing the crimes, it's easy money that generates crime not just poverty as people just don't want to work.
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When will someone realise it's the immigrants that's causing most of the problems but as usual people are afraid to classed as racist even though it's 100% true.
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3 hours ago, Slighty batty said:
Or did you mean that it was a strengthening arch so that the wall would be less likely to tumble down at that point?
I can't decide what the Victorian builders had in mind but it was given an arch for a reason.
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5 hours ago, Cody's Granddad said:
Ok good find but the horse trough doesn't explain the arch
I'm afraid it does, it's shelter for the horses head while it's drinking.
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On 14/05/2023 at 09:51, pattricia said:
Bad or what ? And not just because we came next to the bottom. Singers crawling about on the floor, bawling their heads off, women with claw like nails ! Thought I was on LSD ! Where are the proper singers ? I switched over to Dan Snow exploring Tutankhamens tomb. Think it was a repeat but anything was better than that bawling lot !
I agree wholeheartedly, why can't they just dress normal and stand before a microphone and just sing? why all the cavorting around like someone possessed
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The Sheffield Boiler Disaster - 1st November 1899 - Chris Hobbs -
Further to my previous post, look at photos u10411 & u10412 on picture Sheffield.
Southern and Richardson were cutlery manufacturers. The power for driving the grinding wheels and other machinery in the works was provided by a large Lancashire boiler, built between two blocks of shops. The boiler was due to be dispensed with and a powerful gas engine had been purchased to replace it. A leakage into one of the flues, however, was followed by an explosion, the effects being felt in two directions. Seven men and boys were killed in the explosion: -
Harry Dickinson, caretaker to the firm, aged 55
William Ward, aged 27, 8 court, 1 house, Bath Street
Herbert Arthur Lickfold, aged 24, until recently in the employ of Messrs Hattersley and Davidson
Albert Wharton, aged 15, 71 Burnt Tree Lane
John Whitehead, aged 54, 26 Shepherd Street
Frank Anderson, aged 15, 4 court, 3 house, Burnt Tree Lane
John Ellis, aged 40, carter, in the employ of Messrs Doncaster and Sons.
An inquest was held, the result being a verdict of accidental death in relation to all the victims, who had all died as a result of the injuries caused by the explosion, which itself was caused by a defective water gauge. No person was blamed for it.
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Research the old cutlery factory just across and read about the terrible accident that occurred there when a second hand boiler exploded.
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I would have thought a horse trough may have been there at one time.
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On 31/01/2020 at 07:12, lazarus said:
I just can’t recall, I’m talking about the sixties and seventies.
93 ran from Pond Street to Stradbroke via Wybourn and Manor Park in the fifties and sixties.
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On 04/11/2007 at 22:04, Plain Talker said:
The one's I can remember are:-
sheffield:-
no 1 ran from city to longley,
no 2/ 59 circular
no 4 ran from millhouses via ecclesall/ psalter lane to wincobank/firth park replaced by 3/4 city to millhouses, now to be replaced by 4- millhouses-meadow hall
6- bradfield/dungworth
8/9 inner circle withdrawn then reintroduced as the no 10
13/14 city to wisewood
17 totley brook to attercliffe/ parson cross hillsboro'
20 southey green
22 southey to gleadless valley (hemsworth)
23/32 woodhouse via woodthorpe/ richmond (became 223 and 232)
24 totley/ millhouses to atterclifffe (replaced by 97/ 97a then 97/8)
26 city to beauchief
27 pond street to dyke-vale road (hackenthorpe) via arbourthorne/ manor top
28 city to herdings via east bank raod and newfield green (replaced by 47/8 extension)
30 woodhouse
31 lower walkley
32 see above(23)
33 shirecliffe to hemsworth
36 city to batemoor
38/9 upwell st/ margate drive area
41 hackenthorpe
42 grenoside to lowedges
43 city- jordanthorpe
47/48 city-shiregreen
51 lodge moor - herdings (changed to charnock from herdings)
52 handsworth -crookes
53 grenoside-lowedges
56 Wybourn circle
57 Stocksbridge
60 City- hallamshire hospital-fulwood (now the 40/41/2)
63- city-birley via manor top and base green discontinued, replaced with 94)
64- city-charnock (rebranded as no 6 which went from manor top to city via arbourthorne, then to darnall/ littledale)
65 Oughtibridge
69- sheffield to rotherham
70 circular norfolk park-manor top-darnall-attercliffe-city (was altered to 70/71/771, but replaced with the no 7 which did shirecliffe-darnall)
72 limited service (only a few a day, at peak hours) charnock
75/76 lowedges-sheffield lane top
77 parson cross high green
79 as above
80 high green
81/2/3/4 middlewood- bents green/ ecclesall
86 stannington
88 fulwood- hillsboro (can't remember all of route. think it turned to malin bridge on holme lane)
91/4/8 grenoside to handsworth/asda via arbourthorne manor, richmond college (discontinued, no replacement)
95 Intake- walkley
97 Nether Edge Hospital- southey green via longley
The 71 route ran from Manor Top via Prince of Wales road to Darnall, Attercliffe and on to town in the fifties and sixties.
The 92 route ran from Manor Park centre in the fifties and on to Pond Street later it was extended to a new terminus at the Crossways on the Manor Estate.
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Possible heart attack suffered by driver.
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1 hour ago, SheffieldForum said:
You’re right about the pedestal and the griffins, but the Crimean Monument WASN’T Victoria and it didn’t end up in Endcliffe.
The Crimean Monument was a figure of Victory. It got moved in the roadworks at Moorhead to the Botanical Gardens where is sat for a while (off of it’s pedestal) and when the gardens were refurbished it was moved into storage, where it has remained since (despite a promise to relocate it within 2 years of its removal).
Sorry the statue was Peace.
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Sorry but you have to blame the parents, our two children were out of nappies at seven months old apart from at night when they wore one for another month, it's not hard to train children they are not stupid, at three months old we held ours on a potty making the usual sounds and they got the idea.
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The column is now part of a play area at Upperthorpe and has been for years, the mythical animals outside the Poundland crossing on High Street were cast from the originals from the Crimea monument, I don't know what happened to the cannons that were there, Victoria ended up in Endcliffe park.
The council don't give a toss about the history and heritage of Sheffield, all they can say is " knock it down and build student flats "
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I'm sure horse riders are not allowed to ride on grass verges - hence - on the road.
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Just leave the family alone.
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I've never been in a Gregg's.
Racially diverse cast to play Anglo-Saxons in BBC drama
in Padders' Bar: General Discussions
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I remember Lenny Henry being on it but now he's a "Sir " he's against the old show, he enjoyed the money he made but now he's climbed on the bandwagon by writing a series about the Windrush and his family but he spit his dummy out after the series was cancelled because nobody watched it. My family had a worse life in Ireland during the 1800s but it's only interesting to my family.