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Google British Phone Book.Com. Enter your mother's surname and Sheffield as the location. This might provide information of interest.

According to the Sheffield Area Phone Book 1973: Rockfield Securities, Bankers Agts - 6 Claremont Place, 10.

Kashul From FreeBMD A Joseph Rippon married Jessie Milner reg Jun 1937, Kettering, 3b 385 If you check this name combination for births registered in Jun 1942 there is something which may be of interest. FWIW

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Spot on mikeG. If memory serves it was at one time owned by a Mr Franks(?) who lived on Stephen Hill Road. Later he ran a coach hire firm. After it closed you had to go to the shop on the corner of Lydgate Lane and Rygate Crescent, just before the Hallamshire Hotel, now demolished, or down to McGrail's at Broomhill.

My regards to Brenda, say from Bob who worked in the sales office with Mr Booth on Home Sales, then with Mr Beeley on Exports. Good to see she made such a successful career for herself. I think her predecessor as Cashier would have been Eric Ward. I'm afraid I don't remember Jenny Bell, must have been after I had left. Time flies moment: it is 50 years ago this month that I was called into Robert Bell's office and told that despite Mr Antill's assurance that "no one will lose their job as a direct result of this merger" I and many others would be made redundant end of March 1964, and RC is long gone, having been swallowed up by Stanley Tools years ago. Hope you are having having a happy an enjoyable retirement.

Lensman - you are right about Rankin living at Baslow, somewhere on Eaton Hill I believe. The Austrian lady was in fact Mrs Humphrey, she taught geography as I recall. I don't ever remember seeing Mrs Fuchs at the school, although I left in '59. Well remember Mr Barlow and Mrs Wostenholm being an item, they got married in '61. Maurice was his first name and he was quite well known to my late wife's family when they were at the Windsor Hotel in the late fifties. Tricky Dicky and the lady wife (though not legally) were regulars, with TD loudly announcing that he was there as the guest of the landlord and cadging free drinks all night. MB was always in attendance, sipping a shandy, waiting to drive them home at the end of the evening as by then they were both somewhat navigationally challenged. Once asked my wife why her father allowed TD to get away with it, she just smiled and said it probably had something to do with unpaid school fees as her two brothers were at Gregg at that time. Thanks for mentioning Rankin with Maxine Wragg, confirming that memory wasn't playing me false and I had seen them together. As I remember, around mid '65 I was returning to work one lunchtime and spotted a red Mini parked beside the Bradford Woollen building at West Bar, with Rankin in the driving seat and Ms Wragg sitting next to him. I did wonder about their relationship.

According to the 1970 Sheffield telephone directory: Elsworth Ltd., Saw Mfrs, Herries Road South, Sheffield 6.

Oh yes indeed!!!

I was in Mr Humphries' form around 58/59. One day Tricky Dicky held a class inspection, decided he didn't like the standard of writing in some of the English work books and had what he considered to be the worst offenders pinned up to the blackboard. After he'd gone, Humphries walks in, sees the books and asks the question why? On being told, he stalked off to see RA and on his return said, "I have told Mr Arnold that I am only concerned with the quality of the work not the handwriting," and the books were removed in short order. A top man. And yes his wife, who was German, taught geography. They moved to Bradford at the end of the 59 summer term. The maths teacher you are thinking of was Mr Pearson. If memory serves he arrived at the start of the 56/57 year. I was in Form 3 at the time, which was then in the old stable building at the back of the assembly hall. Mr Pearson took us for maths and RA decided to sit in on one of his lessons. Poor old Pearson was a bag of nerves and eventually fainted. After he had been attended to, RA proceeded to rush around the room testing for possible carbon monoxide poisoning, though leaving us all sitting there while he did so! I was in the same year as Roger Sherwood, all the way through from Form 1 to Form 5, thought he had retired years ago. Must be over 20 years since his salon over looking the old Hole in the Road closed.

Sept '59 Cole Bros - junior salesman linen & bedding dept. 63/- (£3.15p) per week, Mr Evans the department manager. Left in Feb '61.

I spent a week at Hollowford in December '62 sponsored by my employer James Chesterman & Co Ltd, who, I think, had made some financial contribution to the Centre. Deep snow and very cold. We were taken up onto Kinder, which had be curtailed due to the weather closing in and a mini blizzard. So cold that our outer clothing froze. Also had the night trek and ended up sliding headfirst down the Winnats it was so icy. Climbing on Stannage in a snowstorm was an experience too. I recall that one of the instructors was a vicar but can't remember his name. One evening was taken up with a long-winded discussion on West Side Story for some obscure reason. Otherwise a cracking week.

Note on door confirming that it has closed. Not taking enough to cover costs, according to the notice.

Redfyre - that's worked fine. A very interesting site, thanks. Chairboy -The name Tom Wells does ring a bell. If memory serves (which isn't that often now) and I'm thinking of the right person, he wore glasses when batting. His opening partner would have been Brian(?) Pickering as I recollect a rather ample gentleman but nonetheless a good bat. I've been struggling with the name of the wicket keeper around that time. For some reason the name Burnett or Burdett keeps coming to me.