Arthur Ritus

I only remember he talked of being claimed against all past tense, he didn't say how much was paid, no doubt sorted through insurance. He did say the reason he was claimed against was because he had cleared half the car park and would not have been held liable if he had not. Presumably some barrier tape across the uncleared section and a warning notice would have kept him liable free. Perhaps it did not go to court, as is often the case when insurance companies are involved they settle in their own way which is really the same as being held liable just different set of judges. I do have to think if he was clearing all the car park and the customer arrived whilst he was halfway through how would it have been any different? i suppose he would have been present to give verbal advice. All said i cannot find any record of it on the net except for some one elses thread on here https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=453661. The next time i am in there i will ask if the current tenants know anything of it. There has to be the extremes like if i chucked water on the path to freeze and make slippery quite rightly i should be liable if it caused an accident. The water company is responsible for damage caused by its leaking pipes (i personally have claimed against them for damages caused by flooding to the house, not court just off their insurance company) so if that leak then froze and caused and accident is it not the same?

I was listening to jeremy vine on radio 2 once about this matter when the landlord of the Strines pub phoned in. He said he was sued by a customer who hurt himself falling down in the carpark on the snow. The landlord not expecting much custom due to the conditions cleared only half of the car park knowing it would be plenty of room. This customer for some reason went and parked in a part of the carpark that he hadn't cleared and walking from his car to the pub slipped and fell. The reason the landlord was held accountable was because he had cleared only half the carpark, if he hadn't cleared any at all he would not have been. He said in future he would not clear it at all. I would always put some salt down after clearing snow if its still a bit slippy for similar reason as by clearing the snow you are acknowledging a problem but not correctly resolving it.

I don't know now as i very rarely catch a black cab but 25 years ago when i did the meters were more mechanical and i used to notice that it went on a digit every time we went over a bump. I think if i had to get one now traveling on herries drive i would have to sell my house.

Perhaps they have seen the railway spelling Oughtabridge and thought a n was something between the i and a, in shape anyway. It cant be a typo as i is nowhere near n on a keyboard, which kinds of points towards something handwritten being incorrectly read. Possibly the message was written and strapped to the leg of a carrier pigeon which stopped of for a paddle smudging the writing.

He had 2 sons both older than his daughter, when she was little he used to call to her "babby knut". Hope they are all well in whatever they are doing now and have my condolences, even if not close to their farther he was still their dad.

I think some of our griping is that before the tram we had a single vehicle service but now we have to swap vehicle. If we had to swap buses but that changed to tram it would have been easier to accept. For us in wadsley bridge, hillsborough park area we would have to use the tram for just one stop to then swap to bus which is ridiculous really, especially if only going to oughtibridge. The service wouldn't be as bad if there was a greater overlap of the two vehicles so nobody had to use one for a short journey ie. the bus always ran to the hillsborough interchange.

Anybody know what happened to the treetonweb site? It seems to be no longer accessible. It is a shame it had a lot of my family history on there.

Fire, Floods and pestilence - nibiru is coming watch out for the horsemen. Modern equivalent is they probably are on noisy mopeds so listen out for them. Armageddon is coming you have been warned. On a lighter note only 58 days to Christmas! oh perhaps Armageddon might not be so bad after all.

Looking at the BMD index a Pauline Berry married a Peter Smith in Sheffield in 1967 vol. 2d page 195. The electoral register lists a couple of that name still living in Sheffield but you will have to pay to get an address, worth a shot you never know. You could change your title here to include a possible married name and spouse someone might know them. I wasn't being a busybody its just i know a couple of Pauline berry's but its there married name so not the right ones. Good luck.

To get to Oughtibridge from the leppings lane area in the evening we have to:- Get a tram for one stop to the park and ride then get the SL1 bus, the cost and waiting for connection makes it silly walk to the tram park and ride which is about 1/3 the distance to get the SL1 bus, might as well walk rest of way which is vetoed by h.w.m.b.o., won't go socializing in walking shoes Walk to the Hillsborough bus interchange to get the 57, same distance wrong direction plus could probably walk to Oughtibridge in time it takes bus to go all around the houses. Get school bus from leppings at 8 in the morning sleep on coronation park bench until pub opens. Get taxi - preferred and probably cheapest.

Decent human social behaviour? or are you saying that is manageable by the cleaning rats but beyond football supporters? ---------- Post added 24-09-2017 at 20:51 ---------- No Football = antisocial business There's more respect in war

Went to mo's earlier the state of penistone road is disgusting, no other event could get away with it. Its an embarrassment, the club have always shown they don't give a **** about the local area but the councils attitude to letting them get away with it can only be described as corrupt. If the ground won't clean up their crap then the council should do it and take the ground to court for costs plus some for good measure. They won't perhaps frightened of losing free season tickets. Several gerations of my family have lived here for many years, even during the violence of the seventies the area and its residents wasn't treated with such disrespect as it gets now. The only things cleaning up around here are the rats, puts the club and council people into context.

Clay wheels lane sums it up. A traffic light in someone's garden, ok theres a block of 4 houses that use that drive but really About 30 years a go my old dad whilst driving on Penistone road used to say he wished he had shares in the traffic light company as there were so many springing up. There must be about 10 times as many now, it really is ridiculous.

No bike thefts in the whole of Sheffield for a whole year, wow the police must be doing a great job out there. A great job at making it very difficult to report a crime.

Don't be too hard on this person, we have to let the minorities in society have there say as well. Hopefully the fact this guy has been caught and will face the full extent of prosecution by the court will deter others from seeing it as a lucrative no consequences occupation to get into.

If they went through the tram gates they will really be in bother. The roads around there are so slow i am surprised no one followed them on foot, hardly be a high speed getaway.

The Victoria line was previously electrified so it shouldn't need as much work to re electrify. Why did we have to have dual voltage for the tram train on railway line when no electric trains use it? As platform heights aren't an issue couldn't ordinary trams with a wheel change have done?

I have never had any look with waterbased treatment on planed wood, its just not absorbant enough. Water based ok for rough sawn finish that can soak up the water. I am still Looking for some treatment for wood railings/ gate myself. I have used many different treatments but none that i would recommend. At the moment i am going over it with a teak oil, it soaks in and gives reasonable protection but needs doing very regularly (several times a year). In its favour there is no old scabby finish to fetch off like a varnish would leave so recoating doesn't take long and its not very expensive - I think some of the oil based treatment must be made from black rhino horn, i usually have to have a sit down and a brandy after seeing the price. You wouldn't mind paying it if you knew for sure it was the holy grail of wood treatments but it's difficult to justify as an unknown, obviously the people selling it say theirs is the best but they would.

Your ideas have made me think, the biggest problem for railway energy usage (apart from aircon. and heating of the carriages) is acceleration and de-acceleration. I understand putting electrification under bridges and through tunnels for all that length is a big issue (the third tunnel through woodhead for example:nod:) so why not put electrification just at either end of the Stations. A side note at this point if you are already thinking this is daft, Rotherham council were once looking at a tram system of their own which spun a big flywheel on the tram at every stop, the momentum of which carried it to the next stop - same as those toy cars we used to have (before batteries went into everything) not so crazy now heh. Using the hybrid trains the "green electricity" produced from flatulence or whatever would be doing most of the work getting up to speed with the diesel generator just maintaining where putting up ugly pylons upset the dictating minority. Correct me if i am wrong but at the present there is no regenerative braking even on the electrical powered trains, it just warms up some resistors on the roof? (appreciated by the local tree penguins - warms their feet in winter). Perhaps overhead cables coming into stations could be used to dump some regen. back into the grid. Failing that a big spring at the front (if not too expensive we could have one at the rear too), the previous train waits for the next one to hit it launching it down the track, i call this the Newton Accelerating Force system, or NAF system for short. Will also improve crash situations, and will eliminate the passenger use of the w.c. at stations. Seatbelts may be required.

The decision will be taken based on an unbiased report by a Dr. Ernie backander Beeching (ceo BP, major share holder of dunlochelin tyres, acme car parts and firstcoach buses) a non council member. With that fine background we can have nothing to worry about. Really you must have more trust and confidence in your government officials, after all they have your best interest at heart. ; p.s. My condolences to him for the loss has has recently encountered, terrible accident that in which he lost his wife and 3 children also leaving him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Still at least he doesn't blame the tram driver, it wasn't his fault that he had the seizure and went through the lights that fateful night. pps. anybody know where i can get a cheap moped.

We have just had our roads planed Bickerton/Vere/Leake/Farndale etc, i don't know if there is to be some more work done but it seems crazy. Rather than take a complete layer off to be replaced and fill any pot holes they have only scratched the surface in places (road markings still there) and fetched chunks up which must have been loose making more deeper potholes and more uneven surface. As the old tarmac around the Manholes has been left any new tarmac placed will leave the manhole tops that distance bellow the surface. They did a better job on the footpath manually digging around the grates etc. Before our roads were planed i was going to comment on how bad some of the manhole covers have been left after resurfacing. Already quite a hard thump as you go over them any getting pounded by heavy traffic will get worst.

Have you seen where Ulley is and what the catchment for foot traffic is, if people didn't drive there then it would close. Despite the crap beer it is a shame to loose the country pubs. Not sure how well it is served by buses. Their beer is so awful it doesn't even make a decent shandy, a fizzy orange is a welcome alternative just a bit expensive. I did use to walk from Swallownest many many years ago, all i can say is it was a nice walk, not sure if it was the beer or all the peas i ate on the way home but usually ended up with a dicky tum.

Park perhaps? there's the friends thingy there whatever it is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-40555012 Best news i have heard for a while, their beer is awful! I don't know where I will get together with my friends from over there now, (I usually go in car but my excuse is "i might have to go on motorcycle if car breaks down") any recommendations ? Probably Elmwood.

i don't get it, why would any company buy a car park that they cannot charge for? How do they get a return on their capital plus maintenance, insurance etc. Unless they expect to make back there money in fines for parkers exceeding a specified time, but its hard to believe that many people will make such a mistake if its clearly signposted. I thought the "fines" were supposed to be the car park owners recuperating their loss revenue, if its free for everybody then there's no loss to recuperate. Or does the council pay the company to run the car park, there's some sense that a part of the business rates paid by the shops in Hillsborough pays for a car park that their customers use.