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Sorry again! just tend to look at the messages sometimes not who's sending them, thought you were just a user.

Very sorry Rather new to the site so did not realise it was an official request! But I was angry with the man he's giving me sleepless nights. It was bad enough when I was on the dole. My family think I'm nuts just talking with this guy. They get this idea into their heads that a bunch of JSA staff are going to come round to beat me up!

The only way to get rid of them is to make certain any holes are blocked up. Plaster mixed with poison will stop them eating it away. Bear in mind that mice follow trails, block it and they are lost (look for black droppings they will lead you to holes). Cats are crap at catching mice, if your cat catches them then you are over run with them. PS remember a mouse can even get in a beer can hole, so even small holes should be filled.

The farmer who owned Windy House Farm was strangely enough called Alexander Slagg! He died in 1885 aged 74. His grave can still be seen in the churchyard of St John's near Parkhill.

There are two types of slagg (not women) the run off from steel production and the slagg from making coke from coal. Since the Woodthorpe pit was miles away from any steel works nobody would have spent money transporting steel slagg. The coke ovens on the TA site tipped the rubbish where Mansfield road fire station is. It built up as high as the tower on the Station. It was over a century of slagg. The council blew it up and then got big excavotors working to push the rest down the valley during the sixties. The shafts are still there and open up from time to time. There's an air shaft near the electric sub station on the fields and it was 100ft deep.

AS I SAID I'M NOT ON THE DOLE. YOUR KIND BURRIED ME A LONG TIME AGO I DUG MYSELF OUT. I'M MEERLY DEFENDING THE POOR. THEY CAN OF COURSE TELL ME TO GET STUFFED... IF ANYBODY OUT THERE WANTS A JOB KEEP OUT OF JOBCENTERS THEY MAY CAUSE DEPPRISSION. BESIDES WITH THE BUST AROUND THE CORNER YOU MIGHT GET SUED UNDER THE TRADE DISCRIPTIONS ACT:hihi: IF YOU RESPOND AGAIN PLEASE DON'T QUOTE ME IT'S MAKING IT HARD WORK AND WE KNOW THAT EVERYONE WHO HAS SIGNED ON DOES'T LIKE THAT

I typed in caps only to distinguish between the Manger's word and myself. Sorry but I have very slow hand speed and it shows in the typing. I never expected the man who clearly does the 300 page application forms for benefits to respond! I rather suspect he thinks all jobseeker claiments have a detailed knowledge of the working of the government. I congratulate him. He was clearly trianned by Sir Humprey Appleby type of guy! All of my knowledge is personal experiance. As I said he hasn't a clue about the fact that I nearly committed suicide because of West Street staff.

APPARENTLY MANY PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR A LIVING DON'T PAY TAX! AT LEAST WHEN THE TAX MAN CHASED THEM AND PROSECUTED THEM THE DEPARTMENT MAKES MONEY. WHEN THEY CHASE DOLE SCROUNGERS AGE 61 FOR NOT WANTING TO DECLARE A NEST EGG (in last weeks Gazette) THEY DON'T. IT'S SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS. BY THE WAY HOW MUCH DO THE TV ADVERTS COST? SEE ALSO POST REPLY TO JSA MANGER

I GOT IT FROM SHEFFIELD COLLEGE THE SAFF AT JSA SAID YOU NEED TO BRUSH UP YOUR SKILLS

There's a FIRST a bus driver with a sense humour:D

Wonder if I can take the credit for getting him his job in insurance. Because when he was playing football on the fields with the team after school hours I chucked a stone and by a lucky shot it him on the head:hihi: Teachers pet! Well he was messing around with the smack ruler game on hands and I wacked him one back and he burst into tears. That got me six of the best from the teacher on the hand all because he was a mardy bum.

The science classes were great. They had lots of big microscopes brillant. Paul Hodgkiss or Mason was a bit mucky. So the biology teacher got him to put his hand in some agar in a dish. Then she checked around to see who had the cleanest (Me!) and I did the same. Sealed the lids and a week later about Paul's was full of gung and mine had 1 tiny spot! I loved the fillms they used to show aswell on the Bell & Howell 16mm projecters. There was one about water, looked like it was made by Disney. It had two cartoon atoms in the same style as 'Mr DNA' in Jurassic Park. They sang a song: 'If you take two atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen, what do you get? Terriably wet!' And then there was Mr Turton's pride and Joy the latest video recorder and big colour TV. The video was huge! It even had a timer like on an electric cooker! Philips I think it was.

Yes just checked myself it's not there. Either I confused it with Waltheof Road or it's been removed. The demolition pictures were not on when I first looked, so they could have changed the site. You probably will have to pop in to Local Studies in the Central Lib. I know for a start that there are at least 4 ariel pictures of the Manor in 1930 that are not on the site now. One has the the roads around Standhouse. Could scan that one and send it by e-mail?

It's got to be ALONE AGAIN NATURALLY by Gilbert O'Sullivan!!! Death of your mum got to get it the tears flowing even if she's not dead.

I have read many of these coments and it's no wonder the rich are getting richer and the those in need poor. Somebody mentioned that JSA is a 'Safety net' benefit. CRAP You have to be activily seeking work and fit for work. If not you could finish up with nothing to live on for at least 26 weeks (possible more). So if you get the sack (or leave a bad employer) nothing for 26 weeks! I know what those in work are going to say next. I know somebody... Right you don't! JSA discriminates all the time against people signing on. Some are chased to death, told to do things and some are not. The Employment Service has spent a fortune on technology to keep records of JSA claiments details on jobsearch. And the reason they did this was so they could pick on people who would not punch the staff in the face. It's likely that most staff are least fiddling the system or have for relations, the rest or deppressed or are NAZIS. (they went on strike in 1997 when a member of staff was sacked for being one). As for work. Human beings were designed to do specfic tasks and the vast majority of us are doing the wrong things when we go to work. So you can expect that many people are sick. Most employers do not want people who are sick, mostly because they slow down production. Pay is not related to work. If it were then nurses on intensive care wards would be payed more than then typist in the same office. To the rest of you who think the benefits system is easy try this: If you tell JSA you are seeking Self-Employment they will say you are not available for work. If you limit the hours of work, you are out. If you go outside Sheffield (if you live there) you could lose benefit. If you have a disability that's stops you doing a lot of Jobs, they can say your not seeking work. If you are only looking for certain types of jobs (which must people are) they can stop money. If you wearing the wrong clothes or your hair is too long...well you know the rest. You can appeal they say. But what they don't say is those doing the appeal have no special skills, though there might be a doctor on it. As for the origianal thread. The Universal Declation of Human Rights in Article 22,25,27 States that 'If you are elderly, ill, or disabled or cannot work, then you lose your dignity as a human being and your ability to enjoy TV, music or other aspects of culture, if you have no money'. Therefore these articles make it clear that it's up to our government to provide enough money for a reasonable standard of living. Keeping in mind what I said earlier, I those accuse the government of breaking these articles when it talks about cutting benefits to nothing.

Don't know about the rest but if Hollywood make a movie about Bing and it's a hit then I suspect his records will shoot up in value. I think it's only a question of time before a 'Bing' biopic comes out.

My pleasure! By the way if you check out Picture Sheffield on the web by Sheffield Libraries/Archives. They have a picture of the tip. Look under 'manor'.

What you wouldn't know is that the houses and roads were built on the the same strip field pattern of the 13th century farmers, the planners simply copied it to lay out the roads.

Woodthorpe pit, it was at the bottom of the field just above St T. School It closed about 1921. The TA site was a coke oven plant to it and had a rail track link to the pit. It ran under mansfield road where Applegarth joins it. The House on the corner of the junction with pit lane is the Manger's old house and all those old ones are ex-miners homes. The water coming up there is the source of the Car Brook.

Are You kidding! There were 3,553,000 pupils in secondary schools in 1971 according to Nat. Sat. By 2003 there were just 985,000 in secondary schools. That's the Pill. And employers did not benefit from this? As for the politics the other parties are not bothered either. Then they wouldn't they only worry about every 5 years.

I like to go back to the 16th Century and see Sheffield Park, The Manor Lodge and Sheffield Castle. I'd travel up the Walnut tree path from the Sheaf bridge and see massive trees with 16 foot wide trunks and view some of the 2,000 Deer in the Park.

Sent you a private message on the name. You are right about Terry's name! Ray and Steven sorry to shock you. I think one of them was killed by their father. Steven once showed me the scars from previous fights he had with sharp points. Marie's mum is still on the Manor she's in that last Boot House waiting for a house to move into! Nearly four years now since demolition started. Robert Horton gave me a big hug last time I saw him. I think he said he had been married about 3 or 4 times! Did you leave in the easter or summer? I left summer and I remember what was left of us in the youth club and being told to get off the grounds fast or be put on detention as they teachers had got wind of a fight with Ashliegh! Marvelous parting words!!

Mr Brown and Blair took credit for the drop in school leavers caused by the pill. They stopped fueling high employment by 1997. The big shock is yet to come. By 2020 the baby boom kids like myself will be flooding the pension market and unlike unemployment we will all be going on it! What's the Brown doing about that nothing! In fact he's making it worse by increasing the school leaving age. At least they could pay for the pensions with tax at 16!

I think most of their trade came from the bus stop people. They had a newsagent and sweet shop in the top half of the shop and toys in the other. You had to go through it to get to the ladies hair saloon on the top floor. I would go with my mum when young and she had to buy me toys! On the stairs were some shelves and on them were old stock that they just forgot about. They were boxes of Hornby dublo and Triang trains etc from the 50's or 60's. My mother persuaded Joyce (who worked there) to get Mr Barnard to sell them and I bought some of them. Wish I had kept them they be worth a packet with mint boxes!

Remember the Woodwork teacher Robinson! Still got a bedside cabinet I made in the class. Naylor or Dalton (can't think which) was my form teacher after Mr Lancaster. We were in library for registration best seats in the place. Mr Radford was head of our year I really liked him. Best bloke in the school. Anyone remember the East Wing roof coming off in a gales and landing in Gleadless somewhere. Also the fights with Ashliegh that seem to occur at the end of terms.