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If the main elements of your TV aerial are pointing up and down (vertically polarised), then you are receiving signals from Crosspool transmitter. Emley Moor transmits with horizontal polarisation (aerial elements side to side) Simples😀

The guys at Hillsborough Electrical situated on the main road at Crookes, (almost opposite the Ball Inn), repair small electrical appliances. You would have to take it to them but at least you wouldn't have to parcel it all up and pay a small fortune in postage. We've bought white goods from them in the past & they've been very obliging. Tel :- 0114 266 6397

Hi there Treeman893. From your photos, is it possible to estimate the depth of the water running over the invert, just inside the tunnel ? When I looked in years ago at about the same time that the chief engineer of the Derwent valley Scheme told me the tunnel was still in use and told me about the arrangements at the Ladybower end; the water was only flowing about 3 inches deep over the lip into the tank below. I've been doing a few back-of fag-packet calculations and the 10 million litres a day comes down to only 116 litres a second. Consulting a water hydrology textbook I used in a previous life, and assuming a flow speed of 1 metre a second and an invert of around 1.8 metres width; this would equate to a depth over the invert of about 6.5 cm. This is not too far off the depth I estimated all those years ago. If the valves at the other end were turned off and only the water that infiltrated into the bore was coming out that would equate to a depth of only about 0.3 of a cm, a mere trickle. Hope this helps.

Slightly off topic but still interesting was a tale my late mother used to tell. Just before the war she was in her late teens and hiking / camping was very popular among her friends. She told me that they were camping in a farmer's field near Derwent Hall. Just before they got down for the night and as it was getting dusk, they began to hear a very strange distant singing coming from higher up the dale. The singing gradually got louder but they couldn't make out the words. Eventually a column of Hitler Youth came marching around the corner, all holding maps. They completely ignored the girls and disappeared out of sight, still singing their marching songs. My mother and her friends were convinced they were spying out the land for the conflict that started shortly after.

About 15/20 years ago YW took a decision to first mothball and then close the Redmires Water Treatment Works. The exception being the covered service reservoir. The former filter house and other buildings were sold in 2012 for £98,000 by Reed Raines They stated at the time that in future the water from the three Redmires Dams would be sent down the natural watercourse, that is the Wyming Brook. This raw water would in future be processed at the enlarged Rivelin Treatment Works, together with the Rivelin Dams and (possibly) Rivelin Tunnel raw water. Before the closure took place a new single large bore pipeline was laid to take pumped treated water from the Rivelin Works to the Redmires service reservoir. It climbs up from Rivelin to the corner of Lodge Lane and turns right all the way up Redmires Road to the Redmires Service Reservoir. At the same time the several iron pipes under Redmires/Sandygate Roads taking the treated water into the city were broken into and plastic pipes inserted. A pipe that turned along Blackbrook Road was re-conditioned by a inserting a "mole" device that scrubbed the bore and sprayed a coating to protect it. This pipe runs to the tanks at Norton via the tanks at Ringinglow. All this work caused a great deal of disruption at the time. The work that has been carried out at Redmires has included heightening the dam walls presumably to increase capacity/ safety. Unless YW has found a clever way of routing the water from the 3 Redmires Dams to Rivelin Treatment Works without anyone seeing them I think that you can say that the Wyming Brook at least forms part of the "supply chain". P.S. I've just found another Reed Raines sales leaflet for the land comprising the former Treatment Works, it says "Sale Agreed" and the asking price was £277,000, I can't find a date though.

The supply to the Rivelin tunnel is taken from the Derwent Valley Aquaduct pipes that run from the Derwent & Howden Dams at a higher level up the hillside behind the fisheries office. There is no need to pump. Tappings off the two big pipes, ( the same ones you can see crossing the upper Ladybower Dam), feed a pair of big ball valves filling a tank in a stone building. This tank discharges over a measuring weir into the entry portal of the Rivelin Tunnel. The ingress from above he tunnel amounts to only about 5% of the amount going in . (10 million litres a day / 50 million gallons in old money). The water to Rivelin was fixed by Royal Statute at the beginning of the 20th century. Part of the gathering grounds of the Howden Dam lie within the Sheffield City Boundary. ST did try to have the flow suspended a few years ago during a severe drought, but when it was found that they intended not to use it but to send it all the way down their system and sell it to a southern water company, Yorkshire Water told them where to go. A few minutes ago I found a very detailed research paper written by ST looking at additional resources. In this paper, dated 2018 they dismiss the idea of asking for a reduction in the bulk raw water supply to Rivelin as not feasible. This paper is available on the t'internet but is copyright. During the last summer I had a look down there and although the Redmires water down the Wyming Brook was at a trickle the water issuing into the Lower Rivelin Dam from the Tunnel/Redmires mixing tank was at the normal flow rate.

Roses the bakers do a very nice Iced Finger. They have shops at Ecclesall Road, Crosspool and Millhouses. They also sell their produce through other shops. They are a decent size and very very tasty.

The Detailed academic research by Dr. Paul Brindley is based on asking people where they think they live. The published map tell people where our great and good have decided people do live !

You pays your money and you takes your choice !

Oh Dear Oh Dear, it seems that JBFox may be correct in his theory that he lives in Crosspool, that is if he lives on the bit of Forres Road above Cross Lane. Tearing the house apart last night looking for a lost document I came across a A4 print-out of a large scale modern map. It is titled:- Neighbourhood Reference Map: Crookes (86). I can't post it as it is labelled Crown Copyright. It has thick blue lines marking the boundaries of Crookes and adjacent districts. Using the Grindstone as a starting point the boundary runs up Lydgate Lane, turns along Tapton Crescent Road, up Ryegate Road a short distance then across country to the bottom of Evelyn Road, up this road to Ryegate Crescent and across onto Cross Lane. It runs down Arran Road to the tiny Islay Street, along there and then back up onto Cross Lane. It runs to a point just past Truswell Road with a couple of loops on the low side, and then up through the back gardens between Truswell Road and Avenue. It loops a short way into Crookes Cemetery before running through the the allotments and fields down to Jacky Bank. It runs along Bole Hill Road and back up the back gardens of all the houses in Tinker Lane. These houses are all in Walkley Bank District. It then strikes across the Bole Hills, takes in a bit of the Walkley Estate, meanders across to Heavygate Road, along Howard Road and back up Commonside, School Road. It then runs to the east of Blakeney Road and back up to the Grindstone. There is even a blue printed CROSSPOOL on the map above Forres Avenue. I lived at Crookes for 25 years and never knew that ! ---------- Post added 26-02-2016 at 15:27 ---------- Further to the above I have Just Googled Neighbourhood Reference Map: (86) and it comes up with a different version of the same map but without the adjacent districts been named. Enjoy.

The building you can see in the distance is the Norfolk Building of Sheffield Hallam University, previously called the eight storey building. I worked on the campus for a number of years, both as student and staff. I think it was the first permanent building to be erected in the fifties. Shortly afterwards the craft blocks were built in 3 single storey terraces along the hillside, (now demolished and built on) The next block was the 12 storey (now called the Owen Building), which fronted on to what became Arundle Gate. This was damaged by the crane toppling in the gale. Then the 5 storey block came along at the end of Pond Street (now called the Surrey Building). Around about 1990 the car park in front of the Owen Building was flattened and the Harmer Building was erected in the gap. The land was very unstable due to ancient mine workings and had to be stabilised by the pressure injection of a huge amount of cement slurry. After completion of this building a Atrium roof was erected between the Owen Building and the Harmer Building and the east external face of the Owen Building became the west internal face of the Atrium. At about the same time the old Students Union Building across the other side of Pond Street was demolished and the Sheaf Building was erected with a bridge over Pond Street to connect it to the main campus. There has been much further infilling of the campus since I retired.

If you want proof JBFox log into the sitefinder program at http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/search where you will find the location clearly labelled as a Tetra installation.

The mast immediately adjacent to the Crosspool Police Station is a "TETRA" installation and provides digital encrypted wireless communication for all the emergency services including the Police Service.. The other bigger mast up by the reservoir is the TV/VHF radio/DAB radio/mobile phone transmitter. Although not in use as a Police Section Office I would think that it provides a secure, possibly air conditioned, environment for the Tetra equipment, where technicians can work to service or repair the very important kit. I have worked on a similar radio base station, commercially and privately owned, and the blockhouse housing the equipment was as least as big as the building at Crosspool. It will probably house a battery back-up installation in case of power cuts. The mast is ideally located to cover a large area of Sheffield and I think that it and the building will be there for some time. Just my tenpennath.

I had some smaller tyres done last year by a firm based in Neepsend but I can't find any details of them now. However a firm based at Woodseats seems to be selling the identical product. Try Ultraseal Tyre Sealant on 255 7777 This stuff is for permanent puncture proofing and not just to effect a temporary repair unless you have a badly damaged tyre.

The street you mention was the steep top part of Meeting House Lane off Bank Street which was heated by buried electric cables. Unfortunately something went wrong with the system and I watched the fire brigade putting out the burning tarmac.