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Yep-Bang on Alfie..Saab 95 estate with Avon Ice Touring STs on all 4 wheels..Great in Snow.All you inexperienced 4x4 drivers just remember that you too will slide when trying to stop in a hurry on snow/ice.

bang on Magneteer

What I can't understand are those people who carry the poo bags,use them and then leave them hanging in trees or stuffed between the cracks in a dry stone wall? Why?

Perhaps those shools who have performed satisfactory in SAT testing in the past but who have more recently made huge improvements should be looked at.Yes SATS are not a perfect measure as they can overlook "added value" but it's generally those that do badly in such tests who think they are a wholly bad idea.Whose made such an improvement in an area where property prices are reasonable?-Rivelin Primary -What a school!!.Go go go Rivelin!

That explains it then Hillsbro..my Gran's family, I believe, are originally from the Lincoln area.I remember visiting my Gran's cousin many years ago whose house backed onto the River Witham...

or in Barnsley a bread cake being a tea cake-pronounced "tear cake"

If my ma had too many of something she'd say " I've got enough here to cobble dogs with..." Is that a Sheffield saying?.I've never heard that said by anyone else...

Great news! I'm now at work after a drive round Bradfield and an on foot inspection of the park at Rivelin.Hopefully the couple I startled after appearing from down by the river have recovered..

I'm off to work shortly-will detour around Bradfield area Sorry not much more help than this. Realise most relatives will be out and about but kids when out all day are somtimes found at friends houses,paricularly where friends parents are out of the house for long period.just a thought. My thoughts are with you-sure they will turn up.

Great reading your posts guys (& girls perhaps)I've always been interested in buses ,particularly from the STD days but just can't seem to graduate to Bus Spotter standard.. My great uncle got me interested originally-His name was Frank Foster,garaging at Herries Road. I remember getting on his Daimler (white stearing wheel?) towards Rivelin Dams-think it was the 54-in the 60's I eventually took my test in a Leyland Titan PD3-such a thrill to drive but with no pwer stearing of course and no syncro on first or second-it was a challenge .It certainly would be with a full load!.I don't remember looking forward to anything else quite as much as I did to my PSV driving lesson!.

If you go to most other cities you will notice how traffic lights should be! Traffic Lights in this city; the number of them and how they are phased just advertisers us as a 1 horse town... Many major arterial routes aren't designed-or so it seems-to allow traffic to progress but to stop it as often as possible adding to both congestion and pollution. Wadsley Bridge jcn Fox Hill in the early hours in particular-often go red on the main route (Halifax Road) ONLY to allow access/egress from a side road to what was the bowling alley- now with a huge locked gate across-Why? And I'm not bothered if lights are and old topic...I wanted my own moan on the subject.

I always looked forward to Friday nights going to Wycliffe on Langsett Road. A delapidated old building but we had some great nights there.The adults who ran it deserve medals for their efforts in putting up with us-Mr & Mrs Crookes were two of them...

I loved school dinners both at primary and secondary-I remember always being hungry. My first experience of kidney...In thse days the dinner ladies were very keen on kids eating all that was in front of them and I was spotted putting it on someone else's plate..It's the only time my ma ever went to school to argue my case.. However,I could never understand those who went home for dinner or brought sandwiches..

But oh-Treacle sponge and custard..If "seconds" was called on TS&C you would kill to get to those steel trays first... Seconds were always called on carrots though at Morley Street and only good old John Guite would put his hand up...I remember his plate just being a curved orange dome.He will never need glasses that lad!

But didn't you feel cheated on those days you had soup before a main course which meant NO PUDDING!! .