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Or, "He had a good run."

Am gunna gi ball a kick................I'm going out to enjoy myself .

Which brings us to the SHILLING, which I always understood was an Austrian coin although the two shilling piece was called a FLORIN, and the slang word for it wasn't a HERMAN it was a BOB, Which in turn is also apparently an old Anglo/Saxon word for a pig ? ....

And yet we called it Pounds Shillings & Pence.... - another bit of high class MUMBO JUMBO. Any one know why we called a six penny piece a TANNER ?

We did our times table but the only money bit I remember was at the end of each table. 12 x 12 = 144, 144 pence = 12/- or 12 x 8 = 96, 96 pence = 8/- Thought that was the reason the tables went up to twelve, but after all those years of swatting , they've only gone and went decimal dint di ........... ---------- Post added 04-10-2014 at 16:39 ---------- Also I never could under stand why it was L. s. d. ? Apparently L and the D were Latin and the S was Austrian plus I believe the nearest we ever came to a decimal coin was the two bob piece..

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I know what a ton £100 or a grand £1000 was and a fiver or a Tenner are self explanatory but what is a pony ?

Love street is named after the Lovetots, William de Lovetot is credited as the founder of Sheffield...

I don't really know enough about this subject to pass a comment, but I do worry that the break up of the UK into smaller units is only going to make us all even more vulnerable to outside influences that will tear this nation apart....

But isn't it amazing how so many of these saying have out lived there origins but there meaning is still instantly recognizable.. Chip off the old block, not worth his salt, I'd rather be hung for a sheep as a lamb, What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Gander,and many more, all from a bye gone age but there's no mistaking what they mean ...

Your having a conversation with someone and in order to express a point you suddenly come out with this one liner that you understand and strangely they understand, but neither one of you knows what it really means. The one I came out with the other day was "paying through the nose". I know what it means they knew what it meant but where on earth dose it come from ?

You see just how much this part of her history has been brushed over when you realize she spent more of her life round here than she did in Scotland... As for feeling sorry for her, I think she paid us all back in full by inflicting her son and the whole Stuart line on England... And why did she come to England in the first place ? to escape being assassinated by the Scots...

Was it Turf that had a sort of do it your self cigarette card on the inside that you had to cut out ? Yes Players and Senior Service where called "best fags", because they were a bigger cig than Parkys or woodbines ..

Hi Willy. Yes that was what we called Skelly's walk and it was scarey at night especially if you were under the railway bridge when a train went over. So what was he doing under a railway bridge at night your thinking ? well it only happened the once I can tell you. (and I nearly ruined another pair of trousers an all) My Mum worked at Skeltons in the mid fifty's, and I remember her coming home very upset one day because one of the grinding wheels had broken, but I can't remember if it had badly injured or killed the man working it.. From what I could gather you sat in a saddle and had to bend over the top of the wheel he was using... Never drank much at all round Heeley for some reason, we where always up Woodseats...

Happy days Willy, happy days.... I remember one time in about 56 going down that stretch of Gleedless road all swish in a brand new black and white plaid cowboy shirts, (the best Bunny's could sell,) new black trousers 16" bottoms and a pair of black leather slip on shoes with silver chains across the front, I felt like the bees knees. I was on my way to the Heeley Colly and I was about half way down that very steep bit of Gleadless road strutting me stuff when for some unknown reason my right shoe swung across the front of my left and I went base over apex.. The road at that point must be almost vertical because it seemed like a hell of a long way down before I hit the ground, I ripped the shoe practically in half, took both knees out of the trousers and most of the buttons off the shirt, grazed my hands and scrapped my nose. It was a very different young fellow me lad that limped back up Gleadless rd to the one who'd just strutted down it I can tell you..

Hi Willy. Was that gennal the Scellys walk one ? I remember once calling in pub down there that was the weirdest pub I've ever been in. Be about late fifties / early sixty's and it was just a small terraced house front room with a bar one table and a couple of chairs. The lady went into the kitchen to pull a pint from a barrel on the kitchen table. Was that the Moor view before it was extended ?

There were some strange fags knocking about back then, and I'm not talking wacky baccy either. I remember us all being curled up laughing when one of my mates asked for 20 Du muria ? or something, they were apparently in a red and white striped box with a lid and I'm not sure if they weren't different colours an all, any way they didn't have any, but if they had had he'd have been sat on his own that night I can tell you. And then there where some oval ones as well, were they 'Passing clouds' ? There where also some Black and whites one's and some very long ones called 'Joy sticks' I think... I never got past Park Drives at work and 'Player' on Holiday me sen....

I've got to hold my hand up and say I didn't make it last year due to other commitments. I can only speak for myself here but personally I have always enjoyed them and hope they continue.. One of the big problems must be letting people know because not every one has stayed in touch or has a computer, and after 20yrs + we are starting to dwindle a bit.....

Ah do Willy The only aftershave I remember back then where Life buoy soap, anyway thad gerra funny look if tha walked in pub wearing perfume. As for haircuts, a where a Crew cut man mi sen and a bit of drippin on it worked wonders as long as it dint get too warm so it started running down thi foreead..... She's got teeth like stars, thi come out at neet....

We moved there in about 53/4 from the top of Alexander Rd and I left when I got married in 64..

There was a space of four terraced houses on Carter road opposite where I used to live where we played football. Can't see that having been clearance work, but I must admit I don't know for sure, just always took if for granted it was a bomb.....

He's a bit of a rum un that lad....He couldn't stop a pig in an entry.....gi yore wi thi flannelin .........an she's no better than she ought to be..... ?

Barmy, tuppence short of a shilling , Crackers....

What about "he's round bend".....or Loopy.... crazy

You know I just could not believe it when Star trek introduced a race called the Klingon's !!!! ....... My grandma was very partial to the words PARTIAL and FUNNYOSITY. You were a right funnyosity if you weren't partial to a plate of tripe and onions...