grinder

With all this talk about lack of foot fall in the new Market hall and the proposed building of a China town at the bottom of the Moor plus the lack of parking for football matches at Bramall Lane I wonder if some enterprising group or even the council will consider building a multistory car park down there ?

To be honest I didn't even know Rag men had trumpets ! The only one I can remember walked around pulling a small cart shouting "Donkey stone for rags oh"....

Gollapin.......Something you did with your dinner when you wanted to get back out to play footty...

Fizzog........Wasn't that your face ?

Bottled it....... lost his nerve...

Trousers at half mast.......Showing too much sock ..

And wasn't there some thing about a rag mans trumpet ?.......

I've heard of Sir Francis Chantry.............

Sorry pensioner moment, of course it's Francis.......

Sheffield's been around for quite a while and over the years has grown from a village into a city, and in doing so it has encompassed many of the surrounding villagers around it.

So taking the present day City limits as the boundaries who in your opinion are the top five most famous born and bred Sheffield people ?.....

I'll start with Sir Francis Chantry and Sir J Charles Clegg..

Hey I have just remembered I also had a real army pistol holder, It was made of stiff leather and had a flap to hold the pistol in.

I've forgotten how the flap fastened down, would it be a press stud ?

Anyway it seemed massive at the time and was left handed so not much good for the old western quick draw !!

In fact to be honest by the time Id got my pistol out the war would have been over ..

But I digress.........Sorry

I had one of those replica ones Texas in the sixty's made some where in the far east I should imagine...

The only thing I can remember having as a kid that was really ex Army was a Pith helmet, bought off a stall in Blackpool round about 1949...

Pointless really....

Don't forget the old tongue twisters.....

Around the rock the ragged rascal ran.

She sells sea shell on the sea shore.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper

where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.

I enjoyed that.

( Smiles and wipes chin)......

Itintinttin!!!!!!!!!!!

That's the tin that Rin tin tin poos in.....

Mary had a little lamb

she also had a Bear,

I've often seen her little lamb

but never seen her Bear.........

47 was the year for snow 63/4 was more of a freezer, it snowed in 63 and the temperature didn't go above freezing again at night till about March 64.

Unfortunately many of us still had outside toilets back then so it must have been a bumper year for the candle makers.

I know my nans had a leak at the top of the filler pipe that ran to the tank in her outside toilet and you have to remember that the toilets back then had their tanks about 7 or 8ft off the ground.

The pressure from the leak meant that no matter how thick the ice got there was still a fine spray of water running down it so eventually the whole back wall and the toilet bowl it self was encased in a solid block of ice.

I loved those clogs even though they could hear you coming three streets away, they were surprisingly comfortable and warm but I haven't got the foggiest where they were bought.

They may well have been cheap back then but I bet it would cost you a fortune for a pair today.

A most valued gifts this Christmas was a pair of bracers, haven't wore any in years though at that time everyone did, in fact I don't think you could get a pair of trousers with belt loops till the 50s...

Did anyone else ever have a pair of clogs ?

I had a couple of pairs with the wooden soles and thin iron sort of horse shoes on the soles and heels.

I think my Mother must have got them cheap down the market because I can't remember any one else wearing them, but they were great for sliding till the irons came off.....

What about the old Jerking suit, sort of battle blouse top with short trousers to match ?

You know reading this back I must have looked a right dip stick back then, talk about Billy no mates.....

That one was on Judge dread's naughty song "Big Six", there were a couple of other similar naughty versions of nursery rhymes within the song, he also released other songs like big seven etc. with similar risque lyrics

He passed away in 1998, aged only 52.

 

( edit to add, the line in the judge dread song was '"knickers all tattered and torn")

Yes I just wonder how many unprintable versions of Mary had a little Lamb and Jack and Jill there are out there as well.......

I remember one of my mates dad back in the 40s used to do his gardening in a pair of flying boots !!!

I have never been so envious of anything in my life as I was of those boots, you had all on getting a pair of wellingtons back then in 1947 let alone a pair of fur lined boots.......

Don't forget "What in Thunderation" and "Bloody Nora"....

Another rude one, (Don't look Ethel !!!)

Little miss Muphet sat on her Tuffet

Eating her Kurds and corn.

It wasn't a Spider who sat down beside her

but little Boy Blue with his horn........

Mine was a pair of Bracers.

Haven't worn any since I was a kid but when I saw some down town I really fancied a pair, till I saw the price !!

Any way I was dead chuffed to find a pair under the tree and not had em off since, Thanks love.

My worse was a box of wine gums,

I love wine gums but had just stated with tooth ache and to have to sit there looking at the box over Christmas was agony.....

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Originally Posted by raymondo1952 View Post

the mantel piece on a fireplace was called a cornish,

 

surely, its a cornish thats called a mantel piece.

Yer pays yer money yer takes your choice......

The support across the top of a doorway or a fireplace is also called a Mantel...

Apparently they were called a Cornish because the early ones were made from Cornish slate, although some say it is just a miss pronunciation of Cornice....

I prefer the slate one myself...

Owen More went out one day

owing more than he could pay

Owen More came back that night.

Owen More.

Hi Willy.

I'd been in the CG a while before Charlie B became foreman Morris Rodgers was the foreman when I went in,a real gentleman in ever sense of the word.

There were two Georges, Edwin, Arthur, Harold, Stan, Bert, Alan and Tom who's place I took when he moved into the tool room, in about 1961/62...

Socks were worse, I owny had to wear em once to stick me big toower through em....

But at least thi were gray, lasses wore white ankle socks !!!!!!

Barmy, after a game o togger on field thi must a been loppy ....

Knowing the kids today Willy they'd probably pay extra for them......

Mind thi, if tha sang em at reight time arf on em ud tell thi " wiv ad sum body" !!

Or "goo an play on thi own part"...

remember one programe i saw on my first tv around 1950 it was called men of champagne.

 

hiya griinder j,praps thy remembers arv jus thort on warrabart oops a daisie, an daffie down dillie,.an remember wasselin fort new year like hole in the pocket,hole in the shoe please can you spare a copper or two,if tha ant gorra penny aipny will do, if tha ant gorra aipny god bless you.

An if yer made too much noise playin, sumbody ad come art an gi yer a reight gob full an tell yer to play further darn rooed....

Sum on em were dead common round our way....

It's a different world now,when it snows nobody gets hot aches or chilblains any more, strange.....

An all the lads wore short trousers with bracers and long bicycle stocking turned over at knee, most wore a shirt an tie and maybe even a cap !!!!

I bought one a couple of years back but haven't had the nerve to wear it yet.

I had a commando type hat in navy blue, a sort of a short square ended woolen scarf tucked inside it's self and then turned up again, it was rather like having a tea cosie on your head, but it kept your head and ears lovely and warm..

The Balaclava was named after the battle in the Crimean war. many were knitted by the public for the troops in the terrible winter there ....