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I got caned while at Ecclesfield Juniors as several of us were throwing snowballs at the headmasters office window Just a couple of whacks across our freezing cold hands While at Colley a certain Mr Seamore took his cane out from a rack .. whacked it down on his desk and told me "unfortunately I'm no longer allowed to use this" and he gave me detention instead, Mind you if he'd have caned me I was ready to throw him out the window JJ..

Theres a picture of the shop in one of my old Ecclesfield books, to be honest I only remembered the shop when I saw the pic JJ..

There was a small motorbike shop at Ecclesfield,near the end of High Street (up from Marishels chippy,next to the jennal down to the park - now houses) we used to spend ages looking at bikes through the oil covered windows when we were kids JJ..

This is a friends Dog "Jennie" the other day in snow, we had a walk over the fields at the back of Ecclesfield Church JJ..

Very good,makes a differance from the usual whited out shots Ive been taking JJ..

Johnson Ln is just off the common and mill rd/nether ln cross roads so its a busy area for traffic,although Johnson ln itself is a quiet little road, Not sure about some of the locals (1 family in particular) Ecclesfield overall is OK,like other places it has its good and bad points, JJ..

Its a scam,Never pay anything up front like that, Sadly,reporting the site probably won't do any good JJ..

I do remember that band playing at the school "panto" or whatever it was, pretty rocky to say they were all mods JJ..

"Mr Duke the crazy canadian" I remember him,very tall ! Sounds like I was in the same class as you Mr pearce's form,any idea what happend to him ? JJ..

Very good,I love the area and loved he photo's, JJ..

Just point the bike at the nearest set of trees and go, theres trails everywhere, Have a go at the tpt that goes over to dunford bridge from Wharncliffe thats a good one to begin with, JJ..

Doh .. I read it as 1st of november JJ..

Of course the path on the Canal does go from Town right through and beyond Rotherham,but the path I mentioned is on the opposite side of the old Cooling Towers area, I went today to check it out, On the end of Alsing Road Just under the Viaduct is an info board,the path goes from there,Its an old path thats been cleared that goes inbetween 2 metal fences for most of the way with the rail way line on the left and the Blackburn Meadows site on the right, Part of the path is a bit smelly (due to the sewage plant) but not too bad :D It leads onto the Canals (on the corner where the orange things are at the wier) Not too long and to be honest Ive been on better scenic paths,but its a new one on me JJ..

Very good, If there was a post of the month .... JJ..

Great photo's, wish I could spend a lifetime there JJ..

HI all, I read briefly in the Star a few weeks ago about a footpath that'd been cleared on the site of the old Tinsley Towers site, the pic showed the path going inbetween 2 fences and the people involved had been clearing the path of bushes etc to reopen the path, It was said it stretched for some 2 miles, Has anyone heard of this ? Is it the one that starts just under the viaduct ? Im hoping top pop down there on Thursday to have a look and wonder where it is/where it goes to etc, Thanks, JJ..

"Mr Umbeely....Mobile building across the yard" Was that the teacher who was killed when he went back to his home in africa ? I remember him as he stepped in to teach us Economics a few times, "Mr Evans.......Top floor on 3 story block." Last I heard he was a total baldie,I remember his bushy ginger hair, JJ..

Jeez what you been drinking ? I take my camera everywhere I go (never leave the house without it) for me photography is just something I do, There was a scene on "The Girl In The Picture" (crap film with that Gordon Sinclair bloke in) when he's walking home and goes beneath a motorway bypass,he looks up and the view changes slightly and pulls back to reveal the scene now on the wall,sort of from the eye of the photographer to the framed picture in one go, It really got me thinking about the art of photography, JJ..

I have an old Lumix fz-18,I can't realy fault it apart from the video at least the new version has "hd" video and is stereo, Ive a mate who's got the fugi (15x zoom one,currently at around £120) and he wishes he'd saved and got a better one, Il be buying the new lumix by xmass (hopefully) JJ..

Sounds similar to a call my Dad got last week, hmmm .. I shall ask him about it, JJ..

I have a Baby Monitor on a timer,so soon as it goes dark I can hear everything that goes on near my bikes,when the neighbours dog barks it nearly makes me jump through the roof, Hope you get the bikes back, JJ..

The big picture looks like a sun dog,I photographed a couple last month, You can sometime see them when it starts getting icy, JJ..

"any chance it could be a satellite or maybe the space station?" Honestly ? .. you've obviously never seen a satellite or the stn I took a few long exposures (architecture) and there's nothing but clouds in the northern sky from my location, It sounds more like a light display from a pub/club,its always hard to tell from reading a description on the net, But my money would be on the dreaded lanterns as per JJ..

Il keep my eyes open JJ..

I was in Colin Pearce's form almost all the way through Colley, I think I left in 85/86 although it could well have been a year earlier (unofficially) Mr Dolby was our PE teacher,I used to see him jogging round Ecclesfield every now and then, JJ..