Glenn Fox

You always get one miserable unsatified B*"@$&d, I work for the local council and is just the same there! Moan,moan, moan, look on the bright side at least it had windows, old Eddie bedstead never had any!!!!

I have a mate who can do it with video I will have to ask him if he can do it with 8mm, but if you look in the yellow pages there are people that can do it, at a price obviously.

when my mum was little she told me about the little toys the POW's used to make for the kids and pass through the fence usually they were made from pegs and matches, and if you walk around Dugdale there are foot prints in the concrete roads that the guards and there dogs have made and there is also a spanner set in the concrete aswell, we used to try and break it free when we were kids but it never moved, it could still be there!

It was Michelle that perished in the fire, she was in the same year at school and became a friend after we left. She was a really nice lass and will be sadly missed by many people.

Here Here mate,our lass don't understand the affection for what she sees as a dump and s***hole. my mum and dad still live in the house that I was brought up in, it seems to be missing the dozer at this moment in time but who knows what the future holds, it will be a sad day when all child hood memories will be extinguished for real.

I used to work for a Peter Trickett who lives up Wharncliffe side but I know he was from Ecclesfield originally, he is a joiner by trade and served his time at the undertakers there making coffins, he had a company called Credland and Wheatley, he must be around 65 ish now havn't seen him for a while but I think he still lives in the same place, could he be any relation?

I worked with a Martin Gillott, 20 years ago he was about 42 then so he must be coming up for retirement, we worked at DL storage and Handling together, he lived off Foxhill Rd. then, maybe he still does. I worked also with a Dennis Fletcher, who lived off Doe Royd, used to see him from time to time in the PX Hotel, I also had a mate called Ray Johnston who married a Fletcher he lived on Foxhill rd. But the last time I past his Bungalow it was up for sale, I havn't seen him for a while so I don't know why, or when the move is for.

What about pigs trotters at dusk? or cheese and cunninghams picillili at dinner time? I used to knock about with a Philip Littlewood some years ago for a short period of time, He was called the Unknown on the CB radio, could this be the one you are reffering to? see I could tell you was not from Cross stock born and bred, you have some woosey shiregreen blood in them theer viens.

sorry but when we were kids that field was known as the first field, obviously it depended which end you started counting from, which means you started counting from the Shiregreen end first, which makes you a traitor to your roots favouring shiregreen first. My mum and dad live rite at the end of the field and have done for over fifty years. The Jews grave yard was on the fifth field if memory serves. My mate from school, who I saw on Sunday could tell you quite a great deal about setting fire to fields when we were kids.

Trouble is with Ma is that she was the eldest, and kept em' all in check and was worse than auntie T when she got going and never got the credit cos' mi father always either kept her in check or couldn't keep his snek out! I once saw auntie T and mi mother nearly come to blows it is the only time I have seen auntie T back down, i don't know if it was a respect thing or what but when it was mi grandfathers and grandmothers golden wedding anniversary it was a case of light the blue touch paper and stand well back, Auntie T was giving mi Uncle John a good hiding on the path at Margetson cres so there was no respect thing there!!!! Rueben Shaw now thats another subject for another day!!!!

Well according to mi ma, Auntie T was never a scrapper until she married Gez, and when they got married they used to knock lumps out of each other and that is what turned Auntie T into the hard pitbull we know and luv today. She has turned into a bit of a recluse these days it must be a couple of years since I last saw her, I don't go in the PX much since I stopped DJing there. Some people find her hard to get along wih but we have never had so much as a cross word. I must admit all my mothers brothers and sisters are a bit they same when it came to scrapping especially Lee, I think he has calmed down about now with age, but his reputation still goes before him. I must admit, I did look up to him when I was younger, he has bailed me out once or twice down Ecclesfield over the years, Had a few words in shell likes, i think.

My Auntie was called Theresa Culf or Theresa Ganley before she was married, when she split from hubby, she batted for the other side, so to speak.

I wouldn't know but they are my half sisters, they are my mothers kids to her first marriage. I never had a lot to do with 'em my sister Rachael tried to make contact with them a few years ago but never came to anything I'm afraid.

My Auntie lived in the steel houses for a short while she was moved out so that they could pull them down, she was moved into some newly built houses just after but she didn't like them as far as I'm aware so she exchanged to a bigger house I think. It was a long time ago and memories fade.

If you know people off Falstaff do you know Dawn, Julie and Michelle Ward?

I remember old Annie Cave, Mrs Cave always denied taking snuff even though her house reaked of it and she had spilt most of it down her overall that she always wore. I think she was about 90 when she passed away. only seems like yesterday she still lived there.

Being as you know everybody (as bad as our old fella) can you remember the Lomas's off Fulmere? I see Jess ( Annie Foggs son in law) as finally got round to putting up his extension. the only building I know with a preservation order on it before it was built it as took him that long to get round to start it.

Don't you mean he should have been in an institution!! I always thought he should especially when I was growing up, life was a little hard growing up on the Cross and he just made it worse.

Aye up we don't want to know what your old'uns got up to it's like imagineing mi ma and pa at it, ERRRRRRR!

I think it was Thusdays I not sure mi father showed it to me after I was telling him about the forum and who was on it, He then went on to tell me about your old fella and what he did for a living. I have threatned to take the laptop over next time and show them what some of the subjects go on about.

I had the pointed with the buckle, the pointed with the buckle and zip up the front the pair with the double buckle(several dozen pairs) and side tong, bowling shoes, first pair of pods, boxing boots, antique leather ankle boots, red ones white ones, now my feet are shaped like budgies feet. I spent all my spare cash at Rebinas. The rot seemed to set in not long after they opened the shop at Orchard square. I recently gave an old pair to someone doing a car boot they were apparently the first thing to be sold and they fetched £10, not bad for a 20 year old pair of shoes.

Was that you in the star this week? a picture from 1966 (I think) of you in the rounders team?

Mike trevorrow taught us at yewlands (I left in84') I bet it is the same teacher?

I see you live at Stanington, do you know anybody called Derrick Stancliffe? he used to star walk all over the area I am trying to track him.

yes I had a sister her name was Rachael, she came through yewlands 4 years after me she is 36, I am 40, a year above your oldest brother. I do remember you all now. Didn't your old fella drive a coach for Law bros. and have a brother called Derrick? My mate from school married your neighbour Lucy I think her name is, She had a couple of older bros. and a gorgeous older sister who I think was a year or two younger than me. Have i got the correct McGowan's? I had one or two relatives knocking about but never had much to do with 'em. I was the one if there was any trouble I usually wasn't far behind. I went to all the schools at Mansel and obviously yewlands. I am trying to locate Craig Maxfield and Dean Lomas, any ideas they lived near you and both worked at foggy's as paper lads, Craigs parents may still live on Chaucer, but Dean I think has moved away.