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The old Sheffield I knew and loved has long since disappeared, the city centre is a mess, seems all that get built is cafes, restaurants, pizza palaces, hotels , flats for the affluent and flatulent, the supposedly homeless, alcoholics and beggar numbers seem to get bigger everyday, shouting and swearing, generally making a nuisance of themselves.

The friendliness of people on the housing estates between neighbours has also disappeared, what were decent council homes are now ruined by the minority, windows smashed, bedsheets as curtains and never taken down from the day they are put up, children left to run riot. It was the highlight of my week going into town with my dad on a Saturday for a walk round the fish market, Woolworths and standing in Fitzallan Square listening to my dad chatting to someone he knew and even in the early sixties that visit to town on a Saturday I continued with my mates all of us sixteen years old. Memories I have will always be my look on what Sheffield was.

8 minutes ago, bassett one said:

could it be someone torching a car? as that sounds like that

No I don’t think so but I will keep an open mind.

Anyone hear the explosion at 05:25 this morning? Quite loud in Gleadless Valley.

4 hours ago, The_DADDY said:

😂

You're a bad lad 😂

Leighton Road? 

Has it been resurfaced as last time I used it it was like the surface of the moon.? 

It was resurfaced a couple of years ago and speed bumps put in place but they don’t seem to deter the idiots.

It’s the same problem on Leighton Road, cars and idiots on motor bikes.

21 hours ago, alexander874 said:

Tried 2 newsagents in Hillsborough today but no papers had been delivered, anybody know why?

 

It’s because they don’t have enough delivery drivers, it’s the same problem at the Coop and the Newsagents on Newfield Green on Gleadless Valley. Nobody wants to get up at 03:00 in a morning to deliver papers, gone are the days of newsagents being open at 06: 00 as nobody seems to be working now, plus the fact it’s only the older people who seem to buy them and since you can’t charge them up or put batteries in them the younger end give them the elbow

I won’t use the self checkout system, not when Sainsbury’s ( on the Moor ) are making staff redundant, I suppose other Sainsbury’s stores are doing the same, I couldn’t in all honesty see hard working staff lose their jobs then the store expect me to use the self checkout without a thought

One of the female staff, worked for them over twenty years was suspended and ultimately sacked because she had the temerity to question a very young supervisor, the lady was wearing a mask but was told she should wear a different one, she asked why she should change her mask when the supervisor who was berating her, why she wasn’t even wearing a mask, result suspension then dismissal, no common sense was used, several people thought it was just an excuse to get rid of her.

Carr’s make excellent cutlery as do British Silverware, Wrights too BUT BEWARE some of the cheap end of goods sold by other so called manufacturers are just cheap foreign imports, they are unpacked roller marked and repacked and sold on. David Mellor in Hathersage import at least 95 % of their cutlery, mainly stainless steel, e.p.n.s. Ready for silver plating are also imported, roller marked, plated , finished and sold, they have Chinese and Japanese knives for sale in Sheffield Shop, which they don’t like anyone to know, they are also sold in the Millennium Gallery, who ignore the fact. The black fibre handled kitchen knives are very good but they are imported from China Electrolytically etched and repacked, the large kitchen knives were bought for under ten dollars and sold at over sixty pounds, they don’t have a large enough workforce to produce the amount of cutlery they sell, so buyer beware.

I remember this place, if it was the one on Greenland Road, we used to walk down Prince of Wales road or down Strawberry Lane to have a good play around in the troop carriers and other stuff ready for scrapping, I did find a couple of little sausage shaped bags in one of the carriers one day, it had a draw string and it contained some kind of crystals. I was around nine or ten years old, happy days.

In the sixties I worked in a cutlery firm on Portobello just opposite St George’s church, the area from here reaching down to Wellington Street roughly a square half mile-which was filled with many cutlery firms that produced first class cutlery and hollowware  all of which produced many smells, I could smell the burning of steel from knife blades being ground, the smell of polishing compounds, the silver plating and chrome plating plants I could never forget, antlers from deer and other animals from Indian when they were worked on had its own odour some of which had to be dyed which was a pungent smell but one you’ve worked in a cutlery firm you never forget the smell, small engineering firms and steel stockists using soluble oil to produce their goods, the oil had an odour that hung on the air, sadly the cutlery square mile has gone swept away for car parks and flats, no food smells thank god but one fantastic smell albeit a bit away from West Street was the smell of roasting coffee beans from Pollards on Charles Street, even that incredible smell has been lost.

In the forties and fifties the hammers of the steelworks could be heard all through the night as could the trains in the marshalling yards, all very comforting to a you lad back then.

8 hours ago, Def Cougar said:

I remember them all except I remember Mrs Artindale not 'Miss'. "Good Morning Mrs Art - in-dale!"

 

I used to be chosen every year for 3 years to pick out the school Christmas raffle tickets.  Mr Long used to come into the infants classroom and always pick me. He'd take me by the hand to the big hall, stand me on a table in front of all the big older pupils and I had to put my hand in a bucket and pull out the tickets.  The second year he did it, when he walked in announcing what he was going to do, I shrank slightly under my desk...and he still came and picked me again! I couldn't believe he hadn't remembered that he'd picked me the year before. Well I was puny and cute with plaits. After the 3rd year I guess I didn't look so cute. LOL

 

I'd like to arrange a reunion of St Theresa's pupils, there from about 1959 to 1966. Get in touch if you want to too and we'll try to get it rolling!!!!!

I was there from 1950 to 1959, and it was MISS Artindale never MRS , I remember  all the teachers mentioned, I disliked The headteacher Miss Camm, she always had her favourites, my sister was picked on by her in the 1940s, so as soon as I reached 9 or 10 it was my turn, none of the teachers helped or encouraged me all the time I went through my “education ?” , I though I was stupid but later life I realised I could have done better things with a bit of nurturing by the teachers, don’t try and put the onus on me I was willing to learn but never asked why I wasn’t doing very well, I was a very quiet, shy pupil.

I just put Goldiak in search and there they were.

There’s one for sale on eBay , £49:50.

They are now revamping the Retro, the Metro is a far better newspaper than the Star, it’s absolutely terrible and Nancy Fielder thinks she’s doing a good job.

Without me having to go down to Queens Road B & Q, does anyone know if there’s long queues there? I can stand for so long but over half an hour it starts to get to me, I’m not idle it’s just I’m over seventy and can’t stand for long and please no wise cracks or digs.

Tilleys on the corner of Shoreham Street and Charlotte Road, comics are the only thing he deals in.

Flyers and menus are unwanted in my letter box.

14 hours ago, RiffRaff said:

I'm fed up of hearing Mrs.RR complaining about the state of clothing coming out of the machine!

Is there really no washing powder advert that actually tells the truth?!

She's tried a range of big names over the years, and on "tough stains" - advertising jargon, there! - she's used Vanish in various forms....but the results are always a bit iffy.

We've all seen the rubbish about pure white t-shirts following a cross-country run - does anyone actually achieve as good a result?!

 

The advert with a mob doing an assault course in white t shirts, they get caked in mud etc but when they remove them for the washing test, the shirts underneath haven’t a speck of mud on them, this is just impossible. if you can ask your mum or gran, they know how to get clothes clean.

16 hours ago, Baron99 said:

Well it's only like ITV showing all the Bond films again, week in, week out son that they'll end up with 'Spectre' as their New Year's Eve big film. 

True but Bond isn’t seasonal is it.

We are not out of July yet and already and Christmas films are being shown in the Virgin tv package.

I’m glad to say my school never had uniforms or homework.

4 hours ago, Yorkshire64 said:

My Great Great  Great Grandfather was the licensee of the Royal Standard, can anyone help me with the history of the hotel I can't seem to find much information about it, ie when it was built and any other information that may be interesting, as I am not in Sheffield or the UK it is a bit harder to find out much.  Any help would be great.

There’s a full list of pubs and their licencees on History Sheffield, not much on the history of pubs though but you just ask a question about the Royal Standard and someone may come up with information for you.

Royal Standard

156 St Mary's Road, S2

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1841 James Hodgson [ Leadmill Road ]

1845 James Hodgson (172 St Mary's Road)

1849 H Pigott

1851 Henry Pigott (census)

1852 Henry Pigott

1854 Henry Piggott

1856 Henry Pigott [ 2 St Mary's Road ]

1859 Charles Elliott

1862 to 1865 Charles Elliott

1868 Charles Elliott

1871 Charles Elliott

1876 Charles Elliott [ 156 St Mary's Road ]

1879 Charles Elliott

1881 Charles Elliott

1883 Charles Elliott

1887 to 1890 Edward Rowland

1901 to 1903 Edward Rowland

1905 Edward Rowland

1907 Edward Rowland

1910 to 1913 Percy Wild

1916 Percy Wild

1917 Arthur Edlington

1919 to 1923 Arthur Edlington

1924 - 25 James Flood

1929 James Flood

1931 to 1933 James Flood

1936 to 1938 James Flood

1939 Frank Green

1942 Frank Green

1944 Frank Green

1948 Frank Green

1951 Frank Green.

No entry after 1951.

What idiots!