lazarus

I can’t say that this is anything to do with the weather but from Spotswood Mount to Spotswood Road, Leighton Road is closed, signs and cones are in place but some idiot has already moved some of the cones to get through. I feel for the people who have to use the 11A bus, it’s bad enough when the road is ok but with this bit of Leighton closed just how are people going to get up Leighton Road and before anyone asks, the 11A is the only bus that uses Leighton Road.

Just who will be able to afford the fares, I can’t even afford the rail fares now.

7 hours ago, Jim Hardie said:

I don't think he merits a blue plaque, lol.

Mrs Dyson who’s husband he murdered moved to Harrington Road after her husbands murder , she moved to Harrington Road, it’s behind the Earl of Arundel and Surrey pub, sadly there’s only a few yards of the road left and all the houses have gone.

His first job was working was in the old bank on George Street, now a cinema, in the 18th century it was a well used coffer house.

3 hours ago, Chaddamp said:

Hello

any one know how I can find out where all the blue plaque house are in and around Sheffield,ie where famous people lived such as Michael Palin etc etc

Hope you can help

Regards

Paul

I don’t know who decides where blue plaques are placed, but the old trade directories of Sheffield give an insight  to where the great Sheffield names lived, on College Street, a street of small terraced houses, Samuel Plimsols mother lived in one of them, just round the corner on Clarkehouse Road, lived actor Patrick McGoohan as a child. I trace these houses of the movers and shakers of 19 th century Sheffield 

Won’t change his name to Malt Loaf.

9 hours ago, Padders said:

firth 

Firth Park- City-Woodhouse.

I just can’t recall, I’m talking about the sixties and seventies.

92 Manor Park

71 Elm Tree

32 Woodthorpe

93 ?

On 27/01/2020 at 07:14, RiffRaff said:

Am I the only person who's never heard of him?

 

I’ve never heard of him either.

7 minutes ago, Olive said:

Great picture Hillsbro, but I'm damned if I can figure out which direction it's looking at!  Hillsborough Corner has certainly changed a lot, I can't get my bearings at all! What does the tower in the middle of the picture belong to?

Can’t you see the Holme Lane Street name near the tobacco advert?

Bad cramp is the reason I stopped taking them.

Come on Barnstoneworth United, send for Golden Gordon.

Football at Bramall Lane?

Do you only go to the pub on quiz nights  or do you go in two or three nights a week? It’s just not on going just to do the quiz and buy a couple of drinks, the landlord has to bring in customers seven days a week not just one day, a quiz is just an event to get customers in the pub and hopefully return a couple of other nights.

14 hours ago, jaffa1 said:

Does anyone know where the pen specialist on Surrey Street

has moved to. I called today and the shop is all closed up, I'm  hoping it has

moved to another address and not just closed for good.

When I spoke to the lady who owned the shop just a couple of days before the shop closed, she did tell me they would still be trading online but I haven’t looked to see if they are. The closure wasn’t anything to do with rates, it was because the lady was in her early eighties and sales had dropped off and I’m sure she said no one had come forward to buy it but I can’t remember a For Sale sign up.

8 hours ago, Tilly12 said:

Anyone remember Pinders on Matilda street 

Remembers hints at Pinders being a firm of the past, it’s still on Matilda Street producing goods.

2 hours ago, Meltman said:

I thought it was a straightforward question.

I can't see where you have said it was in the Wicker, your post #3 asks the same question and #6 refers back to the OP which was about a baby show!

Thank you to hillsbro for clearing it all up.

I answered Dropouts question, nothing about a baby show at all, the post just said Batchelors,  thank you Lazarus for the Wicker link.

Well Robert, I never knew you were so enthusiastic about the history buried beneath our feet and I enjoyed your videos, hows your Mrs, haven’t seen her since you moved from Spotswood.

Find the so called owner and do the same to him or her.

1 hour ago, Meltman said:

Was there a Batchelors factory or not in the Wicker then Lazarus?

I believed it was at Wadsley Bridge but there might have been more than one factory.

I already said there was a Batchelor's factory in the Wicker so why the was there or wasn’t there? If you look on picture Sheffield you will see that there was a canning factory in the early thirties

8 hours ago, St Petre said:

What was in the Wicker Lazrus ?

Look at the topic ! 

50 minutes ago, TomMix said:

I was a pal of Danny Mulcrone in the sixties , a smashing lad Danny .

 

Where did you know him from?

Wasn’t it in the Wicker?

14 minutes ago, Jeffrey Shaw said:

 

 

Well, I did try it- and blow me down but that's the answer! Whoever would have though it, eh?

Many thanks for the guidance.

I’ll write you a prescription!

It’s the same company, Donnelly was the company name and John Mulcrone was the owner, he had four sons, John, Raymond, David and Danny, I worked there for a few years, it was a very harsh place to work, me being just seventeen, but I absolutely loved it. I went to school with Danny, I know his three brothers are dead and the last I heard Danny was living in Lincoln. I earned fifteen pounds odd per week but I worked sixty hours a week, Mr Mulcrone , we called him John, worked along side us and if you walked on the firm you would have thought he was just a worker.

The firm was sold, demolished and students flats built on the site, I worked there from around 1961 to 1964, happy days.