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What it boils down to is that for various reasons , all over the world , millions of animals are killed in different ways to satisfy one human need or another [food , pest control....etc...] every day. Some people have found a way to kill a few of these animals and have doubled it up as a Sport. This is what seems to get up the Anti-Hunting noses---the fact that people get pleasure from killing the fox.They're too short-sighted to see that when they go "yum-yum" over their fish or meat , that they're getting pleasure from a creature's premature death. I have absolutely no interest in hunting or fishing or any sport but it seems to be stupid to ban one section of society for killing animals. Personally , I'm sure it's a class thing and the English disease of hating anyone who gets pleasure from something they don't get pleasure from.

Seem to remember one on Frog Walk , near the wooden bridge that goes over the Porter. I'm sure I met Miss Poppins there once , about 1958?

Well . most countries have some sort of medical test before they'll give you a work permit. Years ago I went to work in Saudi and we all had to have a full medical beforehand. On top of that we had to go to this place on Victoria Street in London to get verification that our doctors were bona fide doctors. After about a week in Saudi we had to have another blood test and an X-ray---presumably they didn't quite trust the U.K.doctors. I can't understand why we haven't had a system in operation here all this time. Are the authorities so thick that they've only just realised that there's more illness and disease in developing countries than in Western Europe? Perhaps they didn't like to ask .

What about all those horrible people who eat beef and chicken and lamb. Imagine the poor cows queuing up , smelling death in the air, almost like an animal's Auschwitz ! All those chickens , not allowed to live out their natural span ---and the lambs. Imagine the poor rats dying slowly ,poisoned by us Humans. Yes , we must all meet the same fate ! And---all those people who will now have to shoot foxes ,should be chased through the woods and shot and maybe tortured a little to teach them a lesson. We must stamp out this cruelty , to animals at any rate.

As usual and as expected the government has created another fine mess. If you pass endless laws , banning this , banning that and banning the other , there comes a point where you can't practically control it all and people either just flout the law or it goes underground. If something that is popular is banned , then the cracks begin to show straightaway--to wit. Prohibition in America. In the old Communist countries there was a vast network of corruption , bribery , fiddling and black--marketeering as people tried desperately to get round the myriad rules and regulations. When people reallyget angry and act together , the government soon cave in. e.g. the Petrol Tax protests a few years ago.The Left---whether Totalitarian or Liberal always seem to think they can control people's behaviour by passing laws and banning things.I wonder if they'll ever learn ? When you consider the things that need doing in this country , it's amazing that anybody 's got time to spend banning even more things.

The arcade ran from Pinstone Street [The Moor really begins at Debenhams] to Union Street. The top of it came out almost opposite the bottom of Cambridge Street and at the bottom was the [in]famous El Mambo. It was usually called "Barney's Arcade "because probably Sheffield's best-known tailor's shop was in the arcade---Barney Goodman's. For years at the top there used to be a blind man[ we nick-named him Blind Pew] stood , selling trinkets from a tray. A friend told me he'd died fairly recently. Tha Arcade did have a few shops---I vaguely remember a jewellers and maybe a hairdressers ? Didn't want to be too fussy about the Moor and Pinstone Street but loads of people think it begins at the Peace Gardens but , not so. Don't make Pinstone shorter than it already is ! Obviously THe Moor was a lot longer in those days as it ran past where the Manpower building is now and joined up with London Road and Ecclesall Road.

Well the parks are still there----I think.

Kiwi----I think Chad's a bit older than Big Brother. When Chad says ,"Wot..no ---- ?" he is having a dig at the wartime shortages and rationing. Since rationing went on into the early '50's with various products ,Chad lasted ,I think , until the mid--'50's. I suppose , having him looking over a wall symbolised the "outsiders"who were short of evrything and couldn't afford to buy stuff on the Black Market.

Yeah , Seth was one of the few characters left on Emmerdale that gave it its Yorkshire/ Rural feeling.There's a great comedy tradition in Northern life and Seth represented it in Emmerdale. Sadly , now that he's gone , Emmerdale could be set almost anywhere. If they swapped it round one night with Eastenders or Coronation Street , I don't think many people would notice the difference.

Pauline mentions a Schukers garage in that area. Round about 1958 I worked in the Wholesale market , then at the bottom of Dixon Lane , for a couple of weeks , in the school holidays. Just before Easter a lad who worked at the Market , called Terry Schuker [ or Schuler ] had been killed by a runaway lorry at the bottom of Duke Street. He had been delivering some fruit and so on to a vehicle on Broad Street when it happened. I knew him slightly . I understood he had been a very good Rock n' Roll dancer . Anybody remember the incident ?

There was another "famous " blue bag. You used to be able to only get one type of crisps---plain ! ...But... to make your life exciting , they used to put a little blue bag of salt in every packet---for those who were sophisticated enough to want salt of course.

Greybeard I must say I am a little disappointed. Surely , if you're the real Sherlock , or some kind of re-incarnation , you would have found a way into the library , closed or not. Rumour had it , amongst the ragamuffins of Norfolf Street that in days of yore , there was a secret passage from behind the juke box in the Brown Bear into the Art Gallery. I have ordered a Hansom Cab , so on with the cloaks and off we go to solve the mystery of the Two High Streets and The Case of the City Council that Went Mad.

Greybeard---thank you. I never knew that Bard Street was once called High Street and that explains , too , how "High St. Lane " got its name. However , it's still a bit of a puzzle about whether Glaham meant "Park ", the area or the name of a house. Magnifying glasses at the ready ! Dr. Watson

What's a bit confusing is that Glaham , gives the address as "The Park......etc..." , which does make it sound like a house name on the High Street in town-----whereas if you said "They lived in the Park area : on a street called High Street " it would alter the whole meaning of it. Where's Sherlock Holmes ?

I vaguely remember a High Street or High Street Lane , on maps of around 1950 , shown at the Broad Lane end of The Park district. Maybe round about the year in question , there were houses on High Street Lane and this has been mistakenly transposed into High Street. Just checked a map from about 1980 and High Street Lane is on there----a tiny street , running off the bottom end of Bard Street.