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Here from the 1966 "Twikker" is the route of the Rag Day Procession that year.

I only just saw your post, Russell. Sadly, Bert took his own life by hanging, on 13 January 1964.

Yes, in the 1970s Blaskeys had 12 wallpaper shops in Sheffield including the Firth Park branch on Bellhouse Road. The business was founded in the 1890s by Jacob Blashky (1849-1933), a Russian-born Jewish wallpaper hanger. His granddaughter Sonia Blaskey lived near my brother at Totley until a few years ago.

I came across the Gowers name when researching the history of Dykes Hall, Hillsborough (after which Dykes Hall Road was named). The house was demolished in 1927, the last owner being Robert Bell Gowers (1858-1934). Described in census returns as a "butcher and cattle dealer" he was the brother of Edwin Gowers who founded the Gowers groceries chain. Here is a1909 photo of Dykes Hall.

This is perhaps the best photo that I managed to take with the simple, point-and-shoot camera - 45273 on 18 September 1965.

Here is another, slightly sharper photo of 45073 taken on the same day.

Here is "Black 5" No. 45073 on the turntable on 22 April 1966. It is a rather blurred photo, but all I had was a very "basic" camera!

Yes, it might have "had its day" as a pub but it was a shame to lose such an old building with its historical links. See here from Samuel Harrison's book about the Sheffield Flood.

No, I'm afraid not!

Here are two photos of Southern Street (from the "picturesheffield.com" website). The photos are subject to copyright and highe-quality scans unfortunately cannot be viewed online.

It was, sadly, demolished a few years ago. It survived the Sheffield Flood of 1864 but not the "developers".

Yes, there is an entry in the Probate Registry index that reads: "Herbert Alonza Burdall of Oakeswood, Tedgness Road, Grindleford, Derbyshire.. Died 23 April 1983. Probate Leeds 26 May. £1,268,706".

Strictly speaking, the term "Burdall's Buildings" only applied to the former soldiers' quarters near to Penistone Road. In the 1930s after the Army had left the Barracks, they were rented out as flats - a three-storey tenement block and some two-storey blocks (the former officers' quarters). Here is a 1930s aerial view and a large-scale 1950s OS map