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Any window cleaners doing Longley Hall Road area? I have a 1 bedroomed flat on the bottom floor.

Can anybody recommend a window cleaner for Longley Hall Road S5. I had one some time ago but he does not come around any more.

Does anybody know if the window cleaner who has been doing the Langsett estate is still doing his round? He hasn't been for months and I wondered if he was well.

Are there any window cleaners working in the Longley area of Sheffield? I don't know if they have been furloughed by Covid19. My daughter wants somebody to clean her windows on Longley Farm estate.

Does this affect Sky as my daughter at Longley is getting no signal at all?

What is it like to live near the little shop? I have a relative who is thinking of moving on one of the blocks of flats there.

In the 1970s I used to go down Pitsmoor for a drink at weekends and I called in the Albion. The landlord was Dennis Altrop I believe and his wife was called Molly and she was Irish. I visited the place several times and I never saw any trouble in the community those days. A lot of Jamaicans were working in the steelworks or on the buses I believe. I was amazed how they played dominoes in the tap room and they used to pull them up and bang them down on the table. It used to amuse me to watch them. The Jamaicans always used to welcome me when I walked in that pub. There was a restaurant on Spital Hill and the chef was half Chinese and half Jamaican I believe. The food he cooked was fantastic especially the snapper fish when he used different spices in the cooking. He was a really nice man. That is how I remember it.

Yes I have read that article thank you

Has anyone received their care?

Has anyone had any dealings with SSA Social Care and Community Services ? My uncle is having his care taken over by them and I wondered how good the company is?

What will happen to the post office when the Coop closes?

Does anybody remember school bullies when you were at school? In my life I remember one at a school in South Yorkshire. He was bullying one or two lads the same age as me when I was about 13. He had a habit of coming up to you and kicking you at the back of the legs and screwing your ears round. On one particular day he came up to me while my back was turned and got hold of my ear so hard. I turned round and hit him so hard on his chin that he fell on the floor and cried. He never did it any more. I had another incident when I was at work at 17. I was working at a pork butchers in Sheffield. This man said he was a karate expert. While I was working doing menial work cutting up the fat and meat for the shop this person tried giving me rabbit chops at the back of the neck and started pulling my ears round as a laugh. This particular day I turned round and hit him on his chin and he ended up in a bosh of washing up water. That was two bullies I have met in my life. Don't forget all bullies are cowards who try to play on the weak in society.

I have always liked the new Jersey Royal potatoes when they come into season but this year they have not had the same taste. Has anybody else noticed this?

I am looking for Mick Stone who I worked with as an apprentice butcher at Farm Stores when it was at the bottom of the moor. I left there and went to work at Friedrich's in the Wicker. I believe Mick Stone later worked at Peter Austins on Richmond Road at Woodthorpe.

When I first started window cleaning in 1986 I started to charge 80 pence a full house. Then after a year I put another 20 pence on and some were moaning at that. I found that you couldn't please everybody all the time. I did my window cleaning for 17 years. The most I charged at the end was only £2 for a full house.

The trouble with Toby Foster is he rambles on and I always switch off. I can't understand what he's on about as he rolls all his words into one long sentence. Also why is it when the weather is being read out by the women everything is rushed into such high speed in such a short time that you can't catch what is being said. The best person for reading anything out is Everard Davey because you can hear everything he says. My father used to say the same thing.

I was at Beever Hill in 1959 when I was 14 for the last year of my school life when I finished at 15. I remember representing the school in the discus throwing schools sports event. I threw the furthest but I was disqualified for stepping out of the circle. i remember Mr Hancock headmaster and where he lived because my uncle lived nearby at Aston in a bungalow.

When I was 18 in the sixties I went there at the weekends. Does anybody remember Harold Greenacre who waited on at the weekends? During the week he worked at the Sheffield abbatoir with his brother Albert.

This thread has brough back memories for me. I had three suits made by Barney Goodman two of which were blue serge. I remember the first time I wore one I felt like a million dollars walking through Sheffield. I also got myself an Isodore Newman suit in 1975, which I have still got. It cost me £100 made up with Reid and Taylor cloth. It was scottish cloth and said to be some of the finest material in the world. I got married in it in 1984 when I was 40 years old and it was still emaculate. Probably the same suit made up today would cost £1000 who knows. I have just been to look at it in the wardrobe and it won't fit me now but it still looks as though it is only a year old.

Does anybody remember a character called Welcome Gillette who was a rat catcher in Oughtibridge? A friend of mine used to work in the area some years ago and remembers a man they called Welcome Gillette.

Does anybody know the little old firm that used to be on Forge Lane. It had some very old men who were the owners there.

I went up there once to fish and I was afraid that if I cast my line to the other side I would have hit somebody at the other side. It is a small pond and I have not been since. I imagine that if there was a match there the lines would be tangled up.

In the early 70's I worked in the building trade, I must have been 26 year old, and the Magnet pub had the finest beer in Sheffield. Those days I was working out at Dore as a building labourer and I used to catch a bus at Southey into town and then walk and catch the no 50 bus to Dore. I started work at 8 am until 5 pm and after a hard day's navvying I used to arrive at the Magnet at 6 o'clock. I used to have 2 quick pints and then sit down. Then another 2 quick pints and go home to a big cow pie.

hi doseydoodah I have a 2 bedroomed lower flat on Firshill croft at Shirecliffe that has been recently modernised would you be interested?

Thank you for starting this thread which I have just come across. My husband has recently started with prostate problems and is having a very bad time. He has been to the doctor and was given tablets for an enlarged prostate but they will take a couple of months to work through his system. In the meantime he is up and down to the toilet trying to pass water and sometimes it is taking a couple of hours during the day. Afterwards he gets a pain in his anal region. At night he was going to the toilet a few times and without problems but for the past few nights he has had difficulty passing water before going to sleep. It is a real tormenting situation to be in at the moment and I wonder how other people cope with the pain.