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we now have a 47 in screen and box for 150 channels, back then we had a 47 in box and a 9 in screen to get 2 channels lol

my grandson said "grandad tells us about the bad old days when you were young! you know like when you had to walk all way across the lounge to turn TV channel over !

I rember drinking in the kings arms top of comercial street revolving door snooker table to rear, the first place I had draught double diamond, we come out, round the corner to the bell in the square then across to the elephant

one of my favs was tosspot ( he`s a reight tosspot )

sweatshop boy named a lot of good old pubs , and if you made it as far as the royal lancers you must have done the 2 over the road the owl and the don inn, the owl was john smiths the don was tennants ( whitbread ) my dad was landord of the don in about 1959

I stopped john on monday on city rd to have a chat and bung him a few quid in the collection, he said he has been nominated as a torch bearer but he himself would rather pass the honour to ben parkinson the most injured surviving british soldier, (which shows the man he is) or he would like a compromise with the final four nominees sharing the torch bearing over the last few miles. brilliant

hy all I would like to know where the saying ( he`s got monk on came from ) meaning having face on or upset

its megson ( from a good source ) will be anounced later today

hi the barton brothers have been retired quite some time they were not actually bros barry who played guitar is still around but sadly jim the tall one who did impersonations, died a few years ago his brother does the pub circuit as a singer called steve black

hi everybody, I went to crookesmoor school 56 to 61 lived at the weston park hotel end of summer st then the boomerang fawcett st we used the ponder for football ect I remember when the houses were demolished there was a factory still left for quite a while at the bottom end ( down near the back of the old infirmary )

hi, I used to knock around with malcom billard still see him occasionally, the shop I rember at the top of the canada was collombines I think and joe beers fruit shop at the bottom of mushroom lane

talktime, bottom of barnsley road firvale £5 usually some phones are more difficult and are £10

hi, reading this thread really brings it all back brilliant, made me think of a word my dad used to describe anyone who big headed or fancied themself, larey

hi, I too came from the netherthorpe area and the ponda was our stompin ground and as kids we always assumed it derived its nickname ponderosa from the popular tv series bonanza which was a western set on a ( big spread ) and the ponda was our big spread at the time

hi yamdave , I think the guy you mean was graham , lived on edward st flats if you pm me your name I bet I know you, the other kids I knocked around with were steven thorpe, paul cleaver , george baldwin , the grubbs and the woodwards

hi , yamdave I was born at the next pub up from minskys ( actually the original bathfield ) but took its nickname from its polish landlord our pub was at the junction of summer st and weston st the weston park hotel, the shop on powell st was owned by the barnes , brian barnes was my age I was born in 1951. we too were relocated to gleadless valley at ploughwright mount but only for around a year when my father took another pub the don inn on peniston road , we later opened the boomerang on fawcett st,

hi,docmel the tunnel under crookes valley road ( accessed from the canada ) bromley st to mushroom lane. I was informed as a lad housed some type of over flow pipe / pump for crookes valley dam , when we wee kids we found the steel doors open one day with no one around we dashed home for torches and went exploring we followed a long thick metal pipe with turn wheels at intervals, we were absolutely bricking it ,at the end we could see daylight and found ourselves looking up a circular stone shaft about 10 / 12 ft diam with a steel ladder up the side it was about 30 ft to the top but as kids it seemed much higher. at the top we were met by strands of barbed wire after we struggled past this it was about a 9 ft drop to the ground and we were directly behind the park keepers hut at the bowling green , the shaft where we emerged was hidden by thick bushes

just picked up this thread its great, made me think about when I was young the first thing I noticed on waking in the morning would be the smell of charred newspaper where my dad had lit the fire ,put the tin up put newspaper over to draw the fire then went to put kettle on and forgot the paper my mam used to go berzerk

hi pop t, I presume you mean John cole headmaster he left crookesmoor to become head of beck school shiregreen and is now at shirecliffe primary

hi, to all ex crookesmoor wallas I also rember pop edwards and brecken ( and his war weapon ) he`d probably be arrested today, having said that it taught us some respect today there`s no deterent therefore no respect, anyway did anyone remember andrew wallace we all used to be a bit envious as he was learning drums and had his very own drum kit which he would bring and play at the xmas concert all you could hear was those b****y drums happy days

hi, you could try a guy on london road his name is alan 0114 2401165, he works in the wavelength music shop he`s very good , has a guitar tuition room over the post office london road charges around £15 per hour. acoustic or electric does one to one tuition which is much better than group

hi , plain talker small world innit have`nt seen eric for few years he lived at norton lees ( nearer meersbrook ) I knew him from the days when my dad had pubs ( which incidently you posted a reply to one of my earlier post`s regarding the weston park hotel summer st ,) and also in relation to this thread my father worked for a short time at james neil`s in between running pubs and made many friends from twist drill in the pub at lunch time. my cousin rita edwards had the rising sun on pear st where many twist drill lads called

hi, plain talker when you said earlier you knew a barrel maker called cooper it wouldn`t be eric cooper by any chance would it?

hi re/ the bathfield pub I was amazed to read from fellow forum members that its being demolished when it was built the original bathfield stood on the opposite corner of powell st / st philips road it was known locally as minskys after the landlord further up was the pub where I was born the weston park hotel corner of summer st / st philips road between the bathfield and the star & garter the weston was demolished when I was 6 or 7 my dad then took the don inn penistone rd now demolished the he was the first landlord of the boomerang fawcett st which is now student flats , well at this rate not belong before we run out of pubs altogether !

hi the building is still standing but in bad state of repair , my cousin rita edwards ( now deceased ) used to be the landlady