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I've just reported an Openreach driver, in a large van, who was also tailgating me and probably because he was concentrating on his phone for ages. They thanked me.

Johnny Cuthbert born in Sheffield on 9th July 1904. Died in Boston on 29th August 1987. From October 1933, he was a one-time licensee of The Mill, Spilsby Road, Boston - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4609782

Hi hillsbro - It was Annesley based 64431, withdrawn two years later. Fitting that it was from Annesley as my grandfather was a signalman there, among other locations.

School holidays often saw me off on the train to my Gran and Grandfathers, at Linby near Hucknall. Sometimes I got left there to stay for a week or more. It once took hours to get there because of engineering work. I took my first ever photograph on Victoria Station in 1954 -

Stickney - 19th Mar 2003

Doncaster - 12/04/1991 Knightsbridge - 30/03/1991 Reading - 25/06/1991

Lovely shot. Where was the vantage point? The moon on 6th Nov 2006. I don't think it's altered much since then. :-)

Nice shots all!

Thanks, Richard Well done! Stickford - 1st Mar 2004

Photobucket is cheaper. I think it costs me about £8.50-£9 to store photos at full-size. My last WD 2tb external drive cost £69.

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08695 at Crewe - 05-JUN-1987 (5 secs @ f4 200ASA Minolta SRT101 - scanned from a 6x4) Boston "Stump" - 06-DEC-2007 (2.5 secs @ f3.1 Fuji FinePix S9500)

Nice shots! Keal Plantation near Hagnaby - 29-Sep-2003

My grandparent’s house was lit by gas until 1953. Milk was delivered by horse and cart. The radio ran on accumulator batteries - no TV, no phone. The toilet was a plank of wood with a hole in it with bucket beneath. Disposal was on a plot below the allotments. Bathing was done in a tin bath in front of the fire. The shops were a couple of miles walk, or cycle ride.

Thanks for the comment. ...and I see you are also in Lincolnshire. I don't plan to go back to live in Sheffield, but I do get there about once every year. I've actually lived in Lincolnshire longer than I lived there.

Two models I have. The single-deck has R.C.Moore at the front wheel and U.W 5.14.1 - Speed 30mph at the rear The double-deck also has R.C.Moore, at the front wheel and forward of the rear wheel is, Seating capacity 56 - Lower deck 26 - Upper deck 30, Speed 30mph - U.W. 7.8.0. The driving mirrors are still in the boxes. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/Extras/Dscf1510.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/Extras/Dscf1513.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/Extras/Dscf1512.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/Extras/Dscf1517.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/Extras/Dscf1521.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/Extras/Dscf1519.jpg

I first lived here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1141785 then here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2177831 here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1226951 finally here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2180421 I went to nursery here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1011700 I went to the infant, junior and senior school here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1206782 My first job was here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/983944 and this was my favourite chippy - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1232146 I got married here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1171946 My ancestors were born in this area, married in this church and buried in this churchyard - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/598269

Just caught up with this thread again. I know it was normal practice for the Flying Scotsman to run with two tenders back in the steam days, but did the A4s? I guess the one coupled to Sir Nigel Gresley has had to be used because of the lack of places to get water these days.

I remember Bill Fiddler and Ernest Applewhite at Townhead St. They both went to Leadmill Rd when it closed. They both lived up the Crookes/Crookes School Road area. I think Bill lived near St Thomas Church.

That's a hell of a long name.

I was born in 1942 and my wife was born in 1945 and we both agree that there was no permanent fog in Sheffield. The pavements were quite adequate, especially Fargate. We think that the closure of Fargate and the Moor to traffic killed the heart out of Sheffield.

It's about someone who sees a skull sitting atop a corner cabinet and asks it what it is doing there. The skull replies that it had the misfortune of not having heard bells ringing at its death and so it's consigned to this unhappy state.

A 1902 map shows the Bole Hills, to the west, to be divided into six plots of land; with the footpath from the Cocked Hat cottages running from Tinker Lane through the eastern side of just the first two of them. The footpath emerges northwards from these at a point parallel with Loxley View Road. The footpath then enters undulating ground known as Bole Hill Quarries. The fields have no indication of ever being quarried, so I'm assuming it was extended to that area following the year 1902. The acreage of the six plots was, from south to north, 1.742, 2.806, 1.078, .996, 1.239 and 2.890 The map also shows a quarry at the back of the Cocked Hat Cottages and another at the top of Stannington View Road.

Hello David, I've sent you a PM.