david weston

Bildeborg, your request for information is poorly explained, hence the puzzled responses. If it's of any use to you, there was a Mr.Glentworth who was head of legal matters with Sheffield Corporation Transport Dept. in the head office on Division Street next to the City Hall during the 1960's/early 70's. He lived in Dore village.

Did your Nan ever mention a communal carer who lived in one of the flats called Elsie Richards ? If they're the flats I'm referring to, on the left going towards the school, they were only built in the 70's I think, so what on earth was behind their early demolition ?

The difference between the 1st and the 17th is just 16 days, not 'long before', and regardless, both dictatorships had earlier planned and agreed on carving up Poland between them under the Nazi-Soviet Pact, so that doesn't answer the question; they were both EQUALLY guilty.

A neighbour of ours who although he had served in the war, said that he had always been against it. He always posed the question, 'why was war declared only on Germany when the Russians also invaded (eastern) Poland on 17.9.39, two weeks after the Germans, dividing the country between them ?' Few seem to be aware of this, or have an answer to it.

Roy Calton that is.

Relations late of (old) Carwood Road, Pitsmoor, wish to hear from Roy.

Don't think they would deliberately ditch their target audience in the west. I'm unsure if the license requirement was the reason, anyone know where to find that out ? There's an old saying "Know your enemy!", it's far more difficult now.

Trying to find old 50's school pals from All Saints' and Burngreave schools. The ones whose names I can remember are, the boys :- Trevor Foster, Keith Green, Malcolm Simpson, John Hill,David Miller,Brian Hill and Stuart Hodgson. The All Saints' girls were Maureen Harley, Christine Doan, Margaret Johnson and Christine Blackett. Anyone else who knows these names and was in the same classes please send private mails, thanks.

Amid all this discussion of football in its present state, has anyone heard of a 'back to basics' type group which I believe originated in Holland. From what I know they propose that all teams should be composed of players with a passion and loyalty for their team and city. They would have to be either born and bred in the city they play for or must have lived there a minimum of 5years before consideration for the team. This would make the game truly representative of the club's location. (How many players in, say Manchester United or City have any real connection with Manchester ?) They also propose international caps on wages and majority % supporter ownership of clubs. I heard this once on a local radio station where the caller described football today as a business not a sport with overpaid players moving around like musical-chairs and poorer, passionate supporters unable to afford the stock market based ticket prices. Would you get brilliant generals changing sides in a war ?! Worth a thought if the game isn't going to go the way of much else in the quick-buck business world ( bankruptcy )?

There were many districts far poorer than Fir Vale, That area had a majority of bay-windowed houses as opposed to terraced housing; poor districts having the reverse. That said, it sounds a good enterprise. Will it include the most shocking deaths of that newly-wed couple on their way from church at the main junction, along with the opening of the new tower of the church by Princess Margaret ?

A relation of mine was out there sometime in the 50's, Edwin 'Tim' Young of Danville Street. I remember him speaking of Waddi Alfa. Not sure what reg he was in, sadly now deceased.

Just wondering if any other oldies remember a large number of the ex-London, Feltham trams (pronounced ' Feltam' ) being transported by low-loaders through Sheffield on their way to further service in Leeds in the early 1950's. The original route had been via the Great North Road (A1) but, following the survey, a road under a bridge somewhere had been resurfaced and lessened the clearance there. The new route took them through Sheffield and over the Woodhead Pass, the long way round to Leeds.What a diversion and what a sight! The Felthams were, I think, the largest cars to run in Great Britain with the exception of the massive Mumbles trams running in the Gower Peninsula in south Wales. The Feltham at Crich is one of the few, pre-production experimental versions being the only one with central doors which restricted it to non-conduit areas of London due to it being unable to accommodate the 'plough' mechanism beneath ( the conduit being a slotted central rail from which the cars picked up under-road power by means of a 'plough' ) Due to this, it was soon sold off to Sunderland where it ran for many years. This is not really relevant to this discussion, but you could say, correctly (and win a bet !) that London trams once ran "through" Sheffield ! If anyone is furthur interested in this, I have a letter from Geoffrey Hilditch, GM of Leeds at the time, explaining the 'migration' and the problems adapting the Felthams to service in Leeds.

Most of it has been very well said, but I have a few things to add. Firstly the Supertram blue; it's way out and shows sloppy research. Wasn't one of the first new routes of the Supertram from Commercial Street to Meadowhall, taking all the trade away from the city center shops; that was clever ! 'Suzy Q' mentioned Alderman Sidney Dyson. I'd like to inform her that he was the prime mover for the extremely unpopular scrapping of the trams and the most hated man in Sheffield at the time. One wag said that far from travelling on the last tram, he should have been dragged behind it ! There are many tram photos on 'Sheffield Libraries, Picture Sheffield.com' Both C.T.Humpidge and Blackpool's CE, Walter Luff were far sighted. Luff bucked the trend, got his way and kept the trams, to the resort's and it's visitors' eternal gratitude. Re at junctions. The trolley wheel changed direction on the wires by the pole catching a hanging bar which switched the overhead points as it was knocked, the pole being at the correct, swing angle from the roof as the car was half-way into the turn. The car which ran in Blackpool was Beamish museum's Robert's Car 513. This has replacement control boxes in all-over chrome, the originals had black 'pillars' topped with the brass control 'table'. The 'cow-catcher' mentioned was a slatted wooden arrangement beneath each end of the car which would drop onto the track if anything hit it's front, vertical gate. The beautiful old tram system in Lisbon runs on Sheffield track, the points have 'Edgar Allen Sheffield' cast into them and can be seen to this day. The electricity supply to the (Sheffield) system was in sections, I think of half a mile. Should there be a problem on one stretch, the whole system would not be affected, that is what the green section boxes were for.The Firvale to Osgathorpe Road steep section often caused the the control switch on the tram to trip off when too many were climbing at once. On the stretch passing Firth Park going from the city, West Riding and Yorkshire Traction buses would often overtake the tram on the inside with inches to spare and I'm sure sometimes a mischievous race took place.I think Sheffield's bus drivers were forbidden this practice. Also on this same stretch, drivers would often leave the platform to go part-way up the stairs to wind the destination indicator as the tram continued unattended! Re Rotherham. I think the only place where an 'inter-city' service had two different track gauges was Bradford to Leeds where the cars had wheels which slid in and out as the tracks, which were connected, widened or narrowed. Thos.Ward's were selling tram side windows for garden cloches in the weeks following closure. Sheffield trams had 3 braking systems; air, rheostat and manual I believe. A car could be raised off the track by strenuous turning of the manual brake handle which operated the brake blocks which pressed down on the rails. I know this because a friend and I did it in Tinsley depot after the closure of the system. The watchman let us in saying " Go on then, but don't get s****ed up !"

Wanting photos of 1940's/50's electric milk delivery vehicles as used by the Co-oP. Nothing on 'Picture Sheffield', so where should I look please?

Don't know if this Dolly was from Dryden Road originally, but she lived on Norwood Avenue at least until the 1990's.

Wanting to find family or friends of Mr.& Mrs.(Dolly) Hodgkinson of 24, Norwood Avenue, Southey Green.

Wishing to find any relatives or friends of Mr.George Franklin who resided on Norfolk Row in the 1940's.

The last Sheffield trams ran on October 8th 1960. The horse tram was not the official last tram which was No. 510, a modern Robert's car of just a few years old which ever since has been in the NTM collection ( see below) except for being run in Blackpool during that resort's tramway centenery. 510's sister preserved tram, No.513, runs at the Beamish Museum in the north east. The horse tram was brought out for one or maybe more Christmas time attractions the year, or years, following the official closure, running on the still un-resurfaced tracks from around what was Walsh's Store to the bottom of The Moor and back. This is all from memory, but the National Tramway Museum at Crich (pronounced Crych ) in Derbyshire will give you factual details, and I would think photos, and they have the horse tram in their collection. In actual fact, I think the last tram to enter Tinsley sheds and cease drawing power was a different one from 510, but that remains the official one; no doubt some enthusiast will know more.

Mary Kenny has done an informative book on Joyce. There were more than one 'Lord Haw Haw' as intelligence couldn't distinguish, one was called Littler. Norman Bailley-Stewart was the subject of a book called 'The Officer in the Tower'. Oswald Mosley and his wife Diana are defensively reviewed on the IHR site ( all revisionist opinions ).

Can't get through. Is e-address correct ?

It is not anti-British to debate the consequences of WW2 as is happening now with current wars being hotly debated, in fact, the war was supposedly fought for that very reason so that even seemingly unpatriotic views could be voiced as in the famous quote " I detest your views, but I will fight to the death for your right to hold them !" (Voltaire I think ?) In the past we had no access to other information, much of it censored. Since the advent of the Internet just about everything is now available for research and there are many surprises for those who wish to know what you call the 'real truth'. I have given you facts as with the G Book of Records entry, not a 'muggle up mix' as you claim. You say that Churchill " wanted to push on into Russia" , but we can't find any reference to that; do you have one ? Also your admiration for certain nationalities but your obvious dislike of the French is odd; you say " of course, no-one really cared about France, we would have gave him that. " Are you aware of the casualties in the British Expeditionary Force and those at Dunkirk, all of whom died fighting for this France you say no one cared about ? Let's just agree to differ and leave it at that.

Still illogical Flyer, we draw the line at Poland's 1919 border for one aggressor going easterly, but we physically help the other come across the line the other way up into historic, central Europe ! Germans of the time would argue that they had a right to regain parts of their nation given away to neighbouring countries by the misguided ( according to Lloyd George and others ) Versailles Treaty. It has been called 'The brothers' war' and Britain won, but at some cost in lives, bankruptcy and the disbandment of its empire through the strings attatched to the U.S. Marshall Plan. Churchill spoke of the prospect of a' New dark age' and we are now fast going into one, but not the one he meant. This imminent one is due to the same criminal bankers who benefitted most from Germany's defeat. It would be ironic if Uncle Adolf had the last laugh when we are all queuing at the soup kitchens and gang warfare rules our 'open-door' broken society as could so easily happen!

I'm being told that the pact which 'Flyer' refers to was hurriedly signed just a few days before Britain declared war on Germany and that it was a promise of support against only ONE potential aggressor, Germany. Stalin's crimes were well known but he was the one the western democracies allied with even though he was equally guilty in the rape of Poland. The question is, why this distinction when the British establishment, largely aristocratic, had watched the Reds murder their class in Russia ? This alliance becomes more questionable when we read in the Guiness Book of Records (Human World section ) that, at a conference later in the war, Stalin told Churchill that he had 'Liquidated' 12 million Kulak peasants. This is one allied leader admitting genocide to another! Far from keeping Poland free, the 6 years of war ended with Poland and half of Europe under the communists, the start of the nuclear cold war and the possibility of WW3. Stalin was guilty of Katyn, the Gulags etc and 40,000 Poles never returned from transit to Russian concentration camps. The answer cannot be that Germany was a worse threat because, at the time, there had been no atrocity allegations against Germany but plenty about Stalin.

You respondents may be able to answer a young person's querie. Why was war declered only on Germany when, as part of the Nazi Soviet Pact, the Russians also invaded the eastern half of Poland two weeks later on 17.9.1939 ? The Russians then went on to attack Finland in December of the same year. Also, Poland was not a democracy and had previously entered parts of Czechoslovakia. He says Britain also occupied Iceland and that both Germany and Britain were guilty of violating Norwegian neutrality. I can't answer. Thanks.

Looking for an old 1950's childhood friend, Michael Harvey, son of Charlie Harvey, landlord of the Norfolk Arms pub on Saville Street. Michael went to All Saints' School then to Marlcliffe College, Hillsboro.