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Greybeard

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  1. Wonder if they would let me have a look at it. I'd be interested to learn where our lass gets to when she's 'out and about'.
  2. Hi Pop, I don't have any history for the farm, but these are the details of the gannister mine that was just across the road. "Spitewinter mine, probably the largest of this group of small mines, was situated about one mile due west of Worrall village and was abandoned on 19th July 1913. The entrance was a drift on the north side of Kirk Edge Road, by its junction with Coal Pit Lane. The entrance is now flooded to form a small permanent pond. On the south side of Kirk Edge Road Gannister was quarried at one time and even though the area has been landscaped some remnants of this quarry can just be seen to the north of Spitewinter farm. Spitewinter was owned by Thos. Wragg, of Loxley and in 1896, according to a government survey of that year, was mining coal only (hence the name Coal Pit Lane). Thomas Wragg was also listed as the manager here. Later the Oughtibridge Silica Firebrick Company owned this site and developed it for true Gannister as well as coal. The Gannister was taken to their Oughtibridge factory by road. There are various other old mine shafts in this area which are likely to be old coal workings. In the 1901 population census a Mr. Keith Helliwell, of Spitewinter, describes himself as "Corfe (sic.) haulier - underground-coal. There were also a small Gannister pit immediately to the east, on the south side of Kirk Edge Road and this too has been fully landscaped." From: The Forgotten mines of Sheffield by Ray Battye
  3. What has all this to do with the minimum wage ? Do you really equate the Labour party with socialism ?
  4. Any and every govt. ruled by ideology rather than common sense economics. The current lot are no better than the last, - selecting reverse while trundling downhill is pretty certain to wreck the gearbox
  5. Not so great for those who use their local library regularly and find the shelves stripped by one-off protesters. It's all a bit futile really, politicians don't listen to the people - they do as they're told by the executive and the accountants.
  6. New York....but they seem to be getting fed up of it. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/02/02/us/STORM-2/STORM-2-articleLarge.jpg
  7. Just one ASB recorded on our lane, - I bet that's the gander which gets out on the road occasionally. If you honk at him he doesn't budge and just honks back.
  8. Which libraries are going to close ? Has there been an official announcement ?
  9. Can anyone remember what the shop was on the corner of Alderson road ? ISTR it was a wallpaper/paint shop...perhaps a branch of Blaskey's ? And the big house at the bottom of Sharrow lane, next to the jewellers - a doctor's house and surgery ?
  10. Hope it's as lively as the one in Cairo, I doubt anything short of a revolution will make this govt. back-track on it's determination to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
  11. People living south of the Meers Brook would have been living in Derbyshire until 1933, but historic Heeley was always in Sheffield.
  12. Exactly ! Every time some halfwit Chancellor opens his mouth on budget day he opens yet more holes in the system for the sly and the crafty to slip through. You have to believe that or admit there is a more sinister reason for creating all those loopholes
  13. And then, "After a brief career in television journalism, Miliband became a speechwriter and researcher for Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Harriet Harman in 1993, and then for Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown the following year." So...straight onto the political fast-track ladder with virtually no experience of the real world.
  14. Not surprising given the Tories have only five years to wreck the country....if they're lucky. As Cameron said when announcing the NHS privatisation bill - "It's a once in a lifetime opportunity."
  15. Dim memories from the late 40s/early 50s, - the post office on the corner of Woodhead road and on the opposite corner was a saddler/tack shop. I used to wonder why that was there because the only horse I ever saw round the area belonged to the rag and bone man and the Rimington's Tea seller. All the pubs as mentioned already, - the Cremorne in those days looked more like a shop and had just a public bar. Dixon's chippie was the best for miles around and did a roaring trade on Friday tea-time. There was a dentist in a building opposite the top of Woodhead road and I think the building was originally a police station. A wet fish shop opposite the bottom of Sharrow lane and on the corner of St. Barnabas. road a strange shop my mother called the 'Cheap Jacks'. This shop seemed to sell a lot of dry goods at cheap prices and had a peculiar smell. I only get sent there to buy salt and Oxo cubes. The bread shop we used was opposite the Library. A herbalist somewhere close to Dixon's used to sell us kids 'herbal' tobacco. It looked like the flock out of a mattress and smelled foul. There were lots of little shops at the town end of London road which always looked to be on the verge of collapse....they must have been ancient.
  16. I suspect many folk are....but how can anyone feel proud about something they had no control over ? National pride seems to be blind tribalism, a bit like that displayed by football supporters etc.
  17. Do you mean 70 years ? The first markets on the site of the castle were the Castle Hill Markets opened in 1930. The Castle Hill markets were built to replace the Fitzalan Market Hall in the Market Place (site is currently occupied by Primark).
  18. You forgot Spam, often on BOGOF at Morrisons.
  19. Did you write your credit card account number on the back of the cheque ? If you browse the 'money saving expert' forum you will see that hundreds of people have had problems with Santander. If the CC was with Abbey or A&L you could try a personal visit to the branches on the High street.
  20. The current inter-glacial climate probably has some way to go before it flips. During the last one, known as the 'Ipswichian' Hippos, Rhinoceros, Lion, Hyena and Monkey roamed parts the British Isles. http://www.essexwt.org.uk/geology/geology4.htm I wouldn't mind it that warm at all, at least my heating bill would be affordable. All you snow-lovers be careful what you wish for.
  21. So did the BBC....but over higher ground in the Peak District and Pennines. By this they usually mean ground over 800-1000 feet ASL.
  22. Cats aren't much good for tackling rats anyway....frightened of getting bitten. Cameron should complain to Boris, - he's in charge of London pest control
  23. The old workhouse was used as the cholera hospital, - just the top floors I seem to remember. The building was formerly a cotton mill, and I believe it was demolished shortly after the new union workhouse at Fir Vale was opened.
  24. The Met Office do mention 'outbreaks of hill snow' - but in the context of 'north western parts'.....so not here. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_weather.html
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