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luxury we never had glassin our windows we had 2 nail bits of old carpet over broken glass just 2 keep cold out

yep there was one on attercliff rd it was just past attercliffe baths and roughly positioned where the entrance 2 don valley stadium is

be nice 2 here your thoughts on the bates situation ive posted a thread

does anybody on here remember the swop shop on staniforth rd in the early 70s it sold anything u could imagine as kids we would scrounge anything outof our houses and take it down there 2 raise sum spending money it was on the corner and next 2 them was a fabric shop then jennings hardware and at the end of the block at the corner of woodbourn rd was was mr anthonys shop where most folk got there gen groceries and u could also have a slate there which i remember my parents sending me down and often been told" 2 put it on slate while thurs"which was pay day for my dad happy days

after watching yet another shambles at hillsbro yesterday i thought it mighnt be interesting 2 get peoples views on the ken bates situation having watched the owls 4 35 years i have seen some good sides and bad but i have 2 say this is the worst by a long way no skill no passion no idea a lot of people say dave allen is a sheffield lad and a wed ite thats all wel and good but is he really capable of taking wed forward i think not love him or hate him kb has the exp and football knowledge 2 bring in people from an higher level ie a manager and coach which in turn will attract better players the money issue with bates is unclear but can the owls really get any worse on or off the pitch

has anyone seen the bullet holes in the front and back of the wicker archers my dad showed me when i was a kid and u can actully see all the shrapnel and bullet holes in the walls as u approach the bridge coming from town towardsthe wicker if u look under the bridge on the left hand side u can see where a failed bomb becme stuck but didnt go off my parents told me this attack was o a large convoy of petrol and oil if this had exploded the whole town and a lot of war proucing arms factorys would have been destroyed

during the past couple of years the generall trend is 2 milder wetter winters then spring and summer generally showery and cool the current weather will last at least 8 moredays before it starts2 settle down low pressure over the uk at this time of year leads2 very unstable air and thunderstorms inland because the sun is getting quitestrong at this time of year causing massive convection and strong showers as 4 the global warming theory it actually has a negative feedback which isthe warmer the planet the more evaporation from the oceans this in turn causes more cloud cover which cutsout the sun causing a cooling also the moreevapration u get means an increase in precipitation stick that extra rain in the poles and u have an increase in snowcover which in turn reflects the suns heat ie u have an ice age set up

when i lived on attercliffe in the early 70s there was a craze 4 getting prams ripping the wheels off making a wooden frame with a bolted piece on the front they usually had 2 large pram wheels on the back and small ones on the front which were turned with a rope on either side there was usually a bit of old carpet nailed 2 it 2 form a seat everybody seemed 2 have one and they weregreat fun having said that they were quite dangerous at the same time as this there was a craze 4 clackers remember them 2 balls on ropes which u flicked up and down at great speed which was ok until they hit your rist and brought tears 2 your eyes funny all these dodgy and sometimes dangerous things but everybody wanted them or was it just us on cliff

does anyone no a website where i can find the sheffield stararchives thanks

knocking the horeshoe down was probably one of the best moves everin sheffield just makes u wonder where all that motley crewhave gone

in the early 70s i was at woodbourn rdjunior school and remember an almighty bang and the floor shuddered we went outside at break as normal and i remember seeing helicopters overhead and thought nothing ofit when i got home it was all over the news that one of those massive gas tanks on effigham rd had exploded killing quite a few people apparently one man had been blown over half a mile away does anyone have an idea what year this was

worst 2 pubs in sheff cannon and hen and chicks also any utd pubs

pat roberts is my uncle normans sister there mother wascalled alice and there dad was called tippler your right they did come off alford rd and there local pub was the forge

very good thanks

ive been racking my brain trying 2 remember when the lido closed i remember having some realy good times there as a kid but the main thing i remember was how cold the water was it alwaysseemed 2 be icy cold even on a hot summers day even the small pools were always freezing but i think they were fed by the local steam ithink we spent so much time there because it was a fairly cheap day out and money was tight the thing was u could play footie all day or swim or whatever seems a bit sad these days if u dont give u kids 25 quid then they cant find owt 2 do

i would say the roughest pub in sheff is the cannon in town i was in town yesterday and after glancing in as i walked past i must admit i never realised how terryfying that place is anybody better that

does anyone remember the scatchy twins what used2 hang around pondstreet in the 70 s they were 2 old ladys twins infact who im was told at the time lived rough around that area the name scratchy was obviousley aimed at ther hygene and rampant body lice i only sawthem on a couple of occations but what struck me even tho they were filthy there make up was put on as tho with a trowel which gave them quite a sad and folorn appearence

i currently live on the wensley estate which is between firth park and paigehall i movedon here in 1976 when these werebrand new houses the waiting list was massive and the estate was lovely i moved of here after getting marriedbut came back in 1990 since then this estate has become like the bronx cars being fired drug dealerseverywhere even the local community centre was burnt out the local council seem 2 be using it as a dumping ground 4 all the lo life they can find a lot of people on here cannot wait 2 get of but where can u go house prices r sky high and a lot of people r just 2 old 2 get a mortgage i think the local council are a disgrace and being very selective where money is spent and where problem familiesare being housed

a mate of my dads frank sampson worked at fb for many years in the maintainance dept he told me it was the best job he ever had especially when doing the night shift when him and his work mates went in the local pub the gate then it was back 2 fb and get your head down no wonder these steel workswent under

when i was at woodbournroad school we had planets4 our house groups

as a small child living on attercliffe i have strong memories of being taken down 2 banners with my mom 4 my school uniform i remember how itchy and uncomfortable these clothes were but that was all she could afford ialso rember wanting some platform shoes levi staypress trousers and a starjumper i got none of them 2 me banners always seemed packed and bustling shame 2 see how its demise has continued over the last 20 years

is there anyone on this site who can remember any of these famlies who came off attercliffe my grandad bill brand lived on don road my uncle norman roberts whos family came off the cliff later lived on the wybourn has did other members of his family i also had an uncle of attercliffe harry tuckwood whos son as now got the sicey hotel in sheffield

any waltheof pupils on here 75 2 78 ilrft in 78 pop was headmaster and matt wasdep head cheers

does anyone remember a guy called jess who took over ripon st rec and built a large youth club football pitch and loads of rides and slides i think he came from london and gave all the local kids somewhere 2 hang out he took kids on swimming trips camping and formed a football team ripon st rec even made the star when the lord mayor came 2 open it and im on the photo playing snooker aged 10 i often wonder what happend 2 jess he married a student about 1975 and moved back down south after that the whole thing collapsd and vandels smashed everything up he realy was a top man who gave a lot of kids some with real problems somewhere 2 hang out bearing in mind attercliff was pretty run down at this time it just shows what a good job he did one final point he once told me when id been in trouble with the police that what happens isnt always your fault heb said "you r wot u r because of where u r " this stook in my mind and 32 years on i still can see him as it was yesterday anyway where ever he is god bless him

anybody on here come of attercliffe i was born on attercliffe and lived just of staiforth rd on chelmsford st i attended woodbourn rd school