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I have been collecting sheffield famous people for some time. I wouldn't say many of them were legends, and some were only students here, or moved here for a while. In all cases they became involved with sheffield :- 1. Michael Palin ( Monty Python ) 2. Marty Caine ( Comedienne / Celeb ) 3. Anna Walker ( T.V. presenter / News Reader ) 4. Paul Heiney ( T.V. Presenter Thats Life/Big Break ) 5. Herol Bomber Graham ( Boxer ) 6. Prince Naseem Hamed ( Boxer ) 7. Sean Bean ( Actor ) 8. Howard Wilkinson ( Football Manager ) 9. Roy Hattersley ( Polititian / Media Commentator ) 10. David Blunkett ( Polititian ) 11. Seb Coe [Now Lord Coe] ( Athlete / Politician ) 12. Bobby Knutt ( Actor / Celeb ) 13. Brian Glover ( Actor ) 14. Bobby Knutt ( Actor ) 15 Derek Dooley ( Footballer S.W.F.C. & England ) 16. Helen Sharman ( Cosmanaught ) 17. Peter Stringfellow ( Nightclub, and Promotion Geezer ) 18. Charlotte Hudson ( TV Presenter & new bit of scrumpet on watchdog ) 19. Joe Ashton ( Polititian / Political Commentator ) 20. Donna Hartley ( Athlete ) 21. Michael Vaughan ( Yorks.&Eng. Cricketer ) 22. Brendan Ingle ( Boxing Trainer ) 23. Johnny Nelson ( Boxer ) 24. Ryan Rhodes ( Boxer ) 25. Jamie Reeves ( World's Strongest Man ) 26. Joe Scarborough ( Painter ) 27. Jimmy Jewel ( Comedy Actor & Music Hall Star ) 28. Leslie Ash ( Actress, Celebrity and football wife ) 29. Judge Pickles ( The Most Famous Outspoken And Troublesome Judge ) 30. Sir. Malcolm Bradbury ( Novelist, Screenwriter and Literary Critic ) 31. Lindsay Dracass 16year old UK Eurovision entry for 2001 32. Ann Lee Pop singer 33. Justin Wilson Formula 1 Driver 2003 Season 34. Linda Smith (Comedienne) And BBC Regular and also Historic Figures From or Associated With Sheffield 1. Sir Frances Chantrey 1781-1841( England's Greatest Ever Sculptor ) 2. John Stringfellow ( 1799-? ) World's First Powered flight 1848 ( 55years before Wright brothers ) 3. Ebenezer Elliot ( 1781-1849 ) Poet & Political Campaigner 4. Samuel Plimsoll ( 1824-1898 ) Inventer of the Plimsoll Line on Ships in 1876 5. William Fowler ( Engineer & builder of the Fourth Railway Bridge & Wicker Arches ) 6. Benjamin Huntsman ( 1704-1776 ) Inventor of crucible steel 7. Sir R.A. Hadfield world famous developer of alloy steels 8. Alderman J.G. Greaves Mail Order Entrapreneur & City Benefactor 9. James Montgomery ( 1771-1854 ) Poet, Hymn Writer & Journalist

I have to resort to ******* in bushes/near the bins on a regular basis these days. All the old toilets are bricked up. I'd like to get arrested for it. Don't know what the fuzz would say? what are you supposed to do..after 5-8 pints?. Crikey imagine being a sixty year old bloke waiting in -2ºc like tonight for 25 minutes.for a bus like I did tonight! Many years ago there were public toilets all over the city at every mile. Although only for males. They are still all visible but closed. I feel very comfortable using pub toilets if I need to, even if I'm not out drinking. However I use the pubs where the staff are likely to recognise me, because I use them at night. The other thing is all pubs will make a decent tea or coffee. If you feel guilty.

I would like to visit bethlehem in the year -1bc, and find out if there was a Mary and Joseph. On completing this task. I'd like to find out why a couple of Jews would name their child Joshua, with the greek version of Joshua which is of course "Jesus". After this I'd travel to Austria to the childhood of a young fella with an eye for art and find out what the deal is between him and his mother, ...... Next I would try to spend some time with John Lennon in december 1980 and persuade him to spend the year in a different country, or maybe start wearing a bullet proof vest. Next to september 1970 to make sure that Jimi Hendrix was sleeping in the recovery position, and later booking him into a drugs recovery clinic. summer 1974 next, where I'd be spending a noisy evening cutting down an oak tree in epping forest, and covering the ground with old matresses so that marc bolan could have a much softer landing 20th Feb 1980 I'd be there with plug and bon scott, and I'd drive him home after the drinking session, and stay all night to make sure he didn't choke on vom. Afer this, I'd go to seattle in april 1994, and find Kurk cobain's house, remove his shotguns, and bury his ammunition. Maybe I'd have a jam with him, maybe make him some cheese on toast with hendos relish? might just have done the trick.. After this in march 1982, I'd spend some time making sure Randy Rhodes never got on that plane. In 1990 I would be sabotaging a helicopter on the 27th of august, which would prevent the loss of Stevie Ray vaughan. Jeff buckley, Christ, I'd be in the missisippi waiting, with ten other boats in case anyone fell in. on the 29th of may 1997. No there'd be 20 boats and and ice cream van so he was refreshed..

I went to hillsborough, and I knew lots of people who went to wisewood. Our road straddled the catchment areas. The wisewood lot were told all sorts of nasty stuff about chaucer, and that how privilaged they were to go to such a good school. And lots of parents went to a great deal of trouble to get their kids in to wisewood. I can't compare because I never attended wisewood but Iwent in the place on a couple of occasions for concerts, and was quite surprised how small it was. The chief advantage for going to Chaucer, was that after a few years the truency rates soared. There were only 8 out of 30 in our form in the 4th year. This meant very good pupil teacher ratios. And I did quite well there. It was quite rough in the lower school but fantastic in the upper school 4th & 5th year.

Is there any mention of gig venues? I play in a couple of bands and apart from the eccelent Classic Rock Bar, and the grapes there doesn't seem to be that many venues any more. Are the council expecting to shove live music onto a corner of the city centre?

Sounds like you were lucky to get out before they had stolen your money. My brother keeps nearly getting sucked in to this that or the other. I don't think he's gullable, just over confident. He doesn't see the downside to anything. The last one was a time share and offer for a free holiday, which he confidently told me "it's not a time-share, it's a holiday investment programme" after driving to doncaster and being lectured for 4 hours, about a foreign free holiday, which it turns out you might have to take anytime within a 10 month timescale at 48 hours notice, and you would have to spend 1 day of it attending a seminar and visiting properties on resort for sale, and in addition you would have to take their expensive holiday insurance and pay for transfers and tax etc... He didn't sign up because he couldn't afford £1500 a year for the next 25 years to enter the scheme, which they were only told about in the last ten minutes! The one before that was a pyramid selling scheme. Which had another name, "it's not a pyramid scheme it's a global investment scheme". It's a pyramid scheme I insisted, come around and see the video about it , there are loads of millionaires already. By this time I had my head in my hands!

In Derbyshire, especially chesterfield they call sheffielders Dee Daas because of our accents. They also use Yourn for "you all" this is very interesting because it reflects old english, before the language became simplified and we just got You. Also a breadcake there is a cobb. There is much debate as to where the term snap came from, and I understand from history programmes that It goes back to the heavy industry and mining of a century a go, long before snap tins. Where the wife would prepare the family's main meal and snap a bit off for her husband, the breadwinner, to put him on at lunchtime so he could have enough energy to make it through to tea time. * Gennel (pronounced Jen-nell) sheffield (Hillsborough) term for alley between houses. Not passage which is part of a terrace. * Chayyze - Cheese * Mashin Tackle - Kettle * A - Potta Teeyer - Cup of tea (stocksbridge accent) * A - Potta Teeyer - Cup of Coffee (still called tea) * Chukkin your guts/Chukkin up/Honking up/to Vom - To Vomit * Giggs - Eye glasses (not sure if this is sheffield or just slang) * Ten Denk - a ten pence piece (not heaard this since school) * Scosh - School * Togger - Football * Tail - Penis (jarvis cocker kept jonathon ross entertained with this one!) * Areighhht/reight - Means Hello ) or OK? or yes thankyou sir and how are you too (similar to AYE in scots) this word is expressed very agressively the accent being on the (gh) and the beggining of the word is quiet. Southerners hearing two locals having an exchange like this thinks that there's a fight about to start. They'd be wrong. Just thought of some more.. * Coil (pronounced Coy-Yil) - Coal * Coil Oyil - Coal Store (coal hole) * Tap Oyil - The Pub's Tap Room (Tap Hole) * Best Oyil - Pub Lounge (Best Hole) * Bog - The Lavatory

AT the south end of archer road, after the railway bridge, and the old railway station house, there is a road which leads to the back pedestrian entrance of Tesco. It's open to the public, but little known. It's also part of a riverside walk which goes right through Millhouses park. And while you're at this end, If you venture a further 20 yards to Abbeydale road, you are on a main arterial road into the city, where you can catch lots of busses from and into town, which serve abbeydale, dore, totley etc..

In the past I know busses had to stop at certain busstops, but I wasn't aware that they had to anymore. I agree that there are many miserable bus drivers, but I suppose it can be dangerous sometimes, and they really don't get paid very much, if the adverts are anything to go by, so you're hardly likely to attract the most expert of the local population in the public relations field, attracted to the vocation of local bus driver

if you want a breadcake in barnsley you have to ask for a teacake. If you want a teacake in barnsley you have to ask for a teakake with currents in it! If you want a breadcake in chesterfield you have to ask for a bap. This is amusing because baps is also an old word for a ladies boobs, as I'm sure you all know. If you go south a bit to Leicesester, and you want a breadcake, then you have to ask for a roll. Is it any wonder that you are having a rissole - fishcake confusion event?

Yeah wot iz a chav. Vegetable? music genre? Old Person? Scouser? Baggy Jeans wearing person?

You people are all right. with your interesing comments and observances. I am not against Charity shops. But my question was really; are there too many of them? I agree about book recycling. and as a vociferous reader myself, I have given lots of very new books to local charity shops. And been treated just like a scummy fly tipper by the octogenarian staff, even though I tried to point out to them the couple of brand new hardbacks, in the box of 30 other books, which I gave were recently purchaced for sums in excess of 10 quid and still in the best seller lists, and the'yd do well to put them in the window to make the same display as the bookshop 3 doors up, I was ignored. This won't put me off however. And the next box will be ready in about a month. p.s. the woodseats charity shops ARE frequently closed on normal trading days. I walk past them 3-4 times a week, and the messages in the window and the lights off confirm this. p.p.s. have just been for a walk down woodseats. It was 3pm sat afternoon, the most busy shopping time of the week. 5 shops 4 open.

What the hell is a numpty?

I was at Chaucer Comprehensive. A great place to be a pupil in the 80s, especially after the trauma of the 2nd year. Incidentally, as there was so much truancy that the pupil-teacher ratios were pretty high. Also there were some very good teachers, I have met a couple of them since, and they remember those times with relish. Although I cringe when I remember some of the things they had to put up with Anyway all the forms were split into the names of four of the great local steel making firms. Osbourne/Hallam/Firth/??? and when I think about it now, that was a great plan and I'm pretty proud to have been in such a well thought out system with great respect to the heritage of sheffield. I am often troubled however to find out that we were never taught about chaucer himself or the Canterbury tales. It's astounding isn't it I only even heard about it in my 20s. In my scholasic days I would have assumed that Chaucer was an old king or the owner of the cornfield that the school was built on in the 60s

I think I can explain about hillsborough school. I went there too and the Houses : Dixon (red) Willis(blue) Warner(yellow) Winyard(Green) t'was a long time ago, sorry if i confuse the last three.. although they were local streets. The reason they were local streets in the first place, and also school houses, was because they were the first names of the family who lived in the hillsborough house, which still stands as the hillsbourough library. they were a landowning family who laid out hillsborough park, and caused it to be there. When I was at his school 25 years ago, we were all sorted into houses, but rarely was it used for anything other than splitting us up for sports.

The cinema called the woodseats palace, was demolished to become a fine fayre. And now it's a weatherspoons pub. see this link > http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/cinemas/cinepho14.html Now ten years ago it was a freezer food store called kwik save, before being a short-lived convenience store open late for groceries. If you go around the back, there is an electricity sub station, which still says Fine Fayre on it.....

if you want to know the open / close dates and capacity of any old sheffield cinema just visit the lost cinemas of sheffield website :- http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/cinemas/cinemas.html The Rex Mansfield Road, Intake 1939 1982 1983 1350 Always Super market car park Last open suburban city in Sheffield

I said too many charity shops. I live in woodseats and there are 5 or 6 of them. Half are closed, In hillsborough there were always loads. And at crookes there's a fare few as well. I dare say that in town centre, there would be plenty of need for normal shops. I know that they put up notices to ask people to stop putting junk outside, but they still do it, even next to the notice! My mate says that it costs st. lukes, £1500 per year to get the junk taken away.

Don't you think that there are too many charity shops? People are using them as a dump Every weekend people who are too lazy (or don't have a car) to go to the local municipal dump site, leave their broken lamps, toys, incomplete jigsaw puzzles and bags of worn out clothing on the pavement in front of them. These piles of bags get tripped over by pedestrians and blown by the wind into the street in a matter of minutes.What they imagine the charity will be able to do with a broken toy, burst suitcase or an incomplete jigsaw, which has been kicking about the shop front and pavement all sunday with all the local dogs pi**sing on it, is anyone's guess. They Never have enough staff Because charity shops rely on volunteers, the only people who work there are either retired, or people with a genuine intrest in the charity. Unless the unemployed are compelled to work there, there will never be enough staff, and that's why half the shops have "looking for volunteers" signs, some are hardly ever open. They often take up the most prestigious parts of the high street, preventing a legitimate business from opening with the added benefit of paying full council rates and supporting families with decent livelyhood. The fact that an empty shop unit, after a year becomes a charity shop, means that shop letting rates on the high street remain very high, If there was a block on the quantity of charity shops, then these rates would fall, as landlords would have to take a lower rent, enabling more people the chance to start a small business. The stuff in them is mainly junk All the best stuff goes to London and places where there are loads of young students, whereas the 23 charity shops in my district, all sell dead people's clothes and tony blackburn records. Even Jarvis Cocker wouldn't buy it. What do you think?

I do spanish at norton, and have just looked up in the student guide, and sorry they don't Only Do them only the following :- French,German,Greek,Italian,Spanish,Urdu,Arabic,Portuguese,Farsi and Russian

I would like a bar/pub with partitions in like in the old days all pubs were. And the bar in the corridor. This way you can have different stuff in each room. YOu can have a loud jukebox or Dj in one room, and in the other rooms you can still hear it but you can talk. Also what's wrong with carpets. Carpets make the acoustics of a room much much better. Any music sounds warm and not harsh, and there's less reverb. The worst acoustics I ever heard was at the brown street bar, where they had a massive wall of windows on one side and live bands playing. They sounded like they were playing in a fish tank the reverb was so bad. One room for smoking instead of one room for non smoking.! A roaring fire is great in winter. And a nice terrace is great in summer. I would like them to ristrict any tv to one end or one room, as I think it ruines the atmos, and draws your eye all the time when they put them in all the upper corners. The juke box should be like the one in the Vine, and the barstaff nice friendly people, who aren't just massive fat beer monsters who pour drinks holding the top of the glass where your mouth goes. I don't want too many tables as it stops the rotation of conversation in a larger groups. And finally I don't want all sort of crazy irrelevant crap on the walls from the firkin factory, some local historical photos can be quite interesting

I only usually use a bus at weekends If going into town to drink at night. There are loads of busses to and from woodseats for us, but where do they get the drivers from? Some of them drive so badly with last minute breaking and nearly get it on 2 wheels around the corner around homebase. I'm no wus, but these rides are like a fairground death bus. Often if there's someone a bit frail getting on they don't give them any extra time to sit down. And another thing. The fare is £1.10. But sometimes they try to charge more, and they have usually got the location wrong on the ticket machine. If you try to argue with them most of the time they're ok about it, but sometimes they look a bit angry. There is one chesterfield based bus company though that's fantastic, If there's only a few left on the bus, he drops you off anywhere you want in town on any bus route! and he's a right friendly bloke.

Do$ch are a local rhythm and blues band. They are very good. Singer sounds like Alex Harvey. you can contact them at their website http://www.dosch.plus.com/

Does anybody know if it's possible to catch a train from Prague to Munich and how much?

Well for some time I have had a website for remembering rebels and also one for the limit, people have sent in their memories, and I have added them. But this year I have been working with a few people to develop rock reunited, where we have links to websites with pictures of rebels/limit/buccaneer/kgb/roxy rock night. http://www.rockreunited.co.uk