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A few years ago i went on a family holiday to Amsterdam. We went into a Italian resturant. Before our meal they brought us bread rolls with a pot of garlic butter. My son, (a true Sheffield lad in his early twenty's) doesn't like garlic so asked the (very) Italian waiter "'scuse me pal, as tha got eny plain buh'er?" and to everyone suprise the guy understood him and he got his garlicless butter!

Or rather... Duss thaa agree? - thaa duss, duss thaa?

I have always puzzled as to why us Sheffielders are called "dee dars". I've been told it's because we use "Dee" and "Dar" in speach. For example we would say "nah den dee what dar doin'?" (to mean "excuse me old bean what are you up to?") when really we would say "Nah then thee what thaa doin'?" ???? Anyone agree??

Thanks for that - the only one i remember from that list (apart from my dad at number 12 ) is Mrs Bond the old lady that lived in the bottom house. But i was only 3 in '68 and i think Mrs Bond was still there when we left when i was about 12

Did anybody on here live here in the late 60's/early 70's. It was around that time the the road was renamed from "Rake Road" to "Vickers Drive". I was born there and lived there upto about '78/'79.

the video shop was called video city

I remember going to Firth Park with my mum on a saturday after watching Banana Spilts on telly first. We always had fish and chips from Paragons - heaven. i also remember the fruit and veg man, finefare, kenyons. Does anyone remember crompton and moores electrical goods (just down from the finefare) I remember the little sweet shop at the side of Wildes fish mongers on the gennel. In the early 80's my Dad bought the fish shop and ran it for a few years as Bill's Fish Shop. He wasn't a fishmonger - he'd been made redundant from the steel works (Firth Browns) and trained himself fishmongery! Also remember the donkey hill and cardboard box sledging - playing in the "stream" in firth park (YUCK) - the really dangerous slide in the park and kids getting shoved off the top of it, before it was replaced with the one that went down the banking. I lived on Vickers Drive from 65 - about 1980 - does anyone remember playing rounders on the road there, or sledging down the hill in the winter - or Mrs Holmes on vickers road????

My Dad worked at Firth Browns from as far back as i can remember (the 60's) to around 1980. His name was Bill Staniforth. As far as i can remember he worked in the Heavy Machine Shop. His Dad also worked at Firth Browns, also called Bill Staniforth. Anybody remember either of them?