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Anyone use 'grufted'? 'Fair grufted' meaning with dirt ground in eg on clothes or skin.

My grandma (b.1886) used to say 'dear chavel' for expensive food and 'lundy' for anything awkward to handle.

The first hint of ozone and seaweed on walking up Seaview Rd, Skegness. Seems to have gone these days. The smell of cabbage on the lower corridor of King Ted's.

Was Eli Woods Roy Castle's sidekick? Children's Hour was full of interesting things - Norman and Henry Bones, Jennings at School, Larry the Lamb, Violet Carson and Gwen Catley, The deepwoodlanders ....... I liked Eric Barker's gentle, ruminative style eg his sketch with Derek Guyler of two old codgers talking at cross purposes on a park bench. Then there was In all Directions with Peter Jones and Peter Ustinov, 'wrun for it Dudley!'. What about Crowther's Crowd ? Worker's Playtime which seemed to end with either Joseph Locke or Cavan O'Connor (I'm only a strolling vagabond ...).

My mother told me Donald Pleasance's family lived on the Common in Ecclesfield. My Great Aunt remembered them coming into her shop for bacon. Must be in the thirties or forties.

I left in 1948 from Mr Wild's class.

The young lad was Gordon Spavold . He died in hospital after falling from the pylon. He was known to be 'naughty' and lived on Kinnaird Avenue (I think -- the road opposite the old Essoldo anyway). I knew him. One day while playing outside his house he suddenly asked if I would like a book and went inside and came out with 'Enquire Within ...' I've no idea why. I'd be about 10 or 11.

This is probably too early for readers of this thread but a great aunt had a grocery on the Common (married name of Briggs) from the 1930's to the end of the war. We used to go at Christmas. She and my Grandma were born in Oliver cottages (Wragg wheel) and my mother on High Street. She used to collect milk from a farm on Walet End and worked for a while at the Coop.

Does anyone use 'pan' meaning to 'wear in' such as, 'I'll have to pan these shoes'?

I remember 1947. One could walk to Hartley Brook School all the way from our house, just below Sheffield Lane Top, on top of the banks of snow piled up at the sides of the roads; and the icicles and frozen milk ....

Cat631 Sorry. Thanks for the corrections. It's so long ago for me. Unfortunately I lost track of Terry when we left King Edwards in 1955. The sound of the bugles is one of my enduring memories of Sheffield, mostly around Sheffield Lane Top. Did they march on Hatfield House Lane?

A friend, Terry Eckersley, was leader of a Boys' Brigade troup (are those the right words?) and used to swirl the baton. He lived in Grimesthorpe. This was late 40's and 50's.

I say Onvelope and have done for 60 years and so does my mother. I'm from Heeley Green and my mother from Ecclesfield so I think it is (or was) fairly normal. Envelope is an alternative that seems to have become more prevalent. My pronouncing dictionary has both.

Does anyone use `reesty' to describe say butter or bacon , ie fats, that have gone off?

Whittle is in the dictionary as dialect meaning to worry or fret