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  1. This is that section now
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  2. One of the best features in one of the culverts on the Bagley Dyke (photo by me) 4ft Waterfall down into old brick pipe, its quite a beautiful sight! It is under/inside the Upwell street Viaduct.
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  3. I think that the ones marked on the old map in the post actually are in the ‘timepix’ database? You can search the map and bring up the images, clicking for a full size image of each.... https://www.timepix.uk/Collection-galleries/Attercliffe-Sheffield (I won't paste the actual images in here, as don't want to flout any copyright restrictions, but here are the links) https://www.timepix.uk/Collection-galleries/Attercliffe-Sheffield/i-h6Zf8F6 https://www.timepix.uk/Collection-galleries/Attercliffe-Sheffield/i-K4fXCJZ This photo actually shows your 'arches' in the bottom of the brick buttress https://www.timepix.uk/Collection-galleries/Attercliffe-Sheffield/i-7S44fnP/A Just a guess, but these arches may have been incorporated into the brick buttress as 'weep holes', to allow the ground water in the steelworks above to permeate through the wall and into the canal? I wouldn't imagine there was much by way of pipework drainage built into the groundworks, so this would allow the water to escape and possibly prevent any issues with the wall buckling under the pressure of waterlogged ground? (Just relating this to an issue I had with my garden wall, albeit on a far smaller scale?!) These 114 photos of Attercliffe on Timepix are a great find! I'll be bookmarking this site and checking back when they load more of the 'rp' reference point photos on there. Always some new discovery, from an unlikely topic of conversation?! Thanks!
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  4. I went to this, fascinating presentations by two very knowledgeful chaps. Wessex Archaeology are taking bookings for tours of the excavations this year, I've booked a place, and they are also inviting people to book and assist with he excavation.
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  5. I found this photo on Picture Sheffield showing the police box in its current location and a newer model of telephone box on the Surrey Street pavement. The film showing at the cinema on Barker's Pool was Masquerade in Vienna, released in 1934.
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  6. Not sure if this counts? Located in a stream towards the bottom of Carter Hall Lane near Town End, past Charnock Hall school. Photo taken from Facebook..
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  7. Interested Members and casual readers of this site will, hopefully, forgive me if I re -raise this subject but I’m personally unaware of any previous reference on the SH site. Continuing but in fact, recent, research into a family member who as a BEF member was evacuated in “Operation Dynamo” during May1940 has led me to what I consider are some very interesting facts concerning my now deceased relative and also other Sheffield men involved the many crucial battles leading up to the perhaps better known Dunkirk evacuation of some allied 300,000 troops in those early months of WW2. It may not be widely known that several Territorial Army units of the Corps of Royal Engineers (aka “The Sappers” ) were mobilised as part of The British Expeditionary Force ….particularly soldiers from Sheffield’s own long -established Volunteer( TA) RE unit….in 1939 carrying the designation 228 Field Company RE …it’s HQ for many years at the imposing Somme Barracks which still occupies most of the plot bounded by Glossop Rd, Gell St, Hanover Way in The City. (I believe ‘Somme’ is now an empty, though historically/architecturally ‘protected’ complex…it’s still operational successor unit, 106 Fd Sqn RE having relocated to a purpose -built site on Greenhill Parkway … almost incredibly now some 30years ago) Apart from the unit War Diaries ….to my knowledge not readily in the public domain.. I know of no dedicated account outlining the efforts of these particular Sheffield men ‘at Dunkirk’. However, in the course of tracing the likely part of my uncle in those historic and Nationally -critical events I have personally pieced together such information as currently appears to be available in print… to identify those brave ‘part timers’ who undoubtedly helped to, famously, ‘save an Army’. Whatever other tasks were allotted…228 Fd Coy members were also very probably ‘simply’ fighting as infantry soldiers (always and indeed, still, a basic training and skill requirement) as the needs arose in those frantic, terrifying days but there are also accounts of them carrying out some of their more Corps-specific roles such as route denial using demolitions …rail and road bridges being critical at various points on the routes back to the coast to both the Allies and Germans alike had to be blown ‘at the right time’ ie when all ‘friendly’ troops had crossed and before pursuing enemy formations got the chance to use the bridges…ie denying him that tactical assistance. (There appears to be one account where Sheffield Sappers actually blew one bridge with German panzer( tanks) already on it…..very edge of the seat, ‘movie’ stuff…particularly for those Engineers close enough to initiate the charges! ) As well as dealing with direct offensive action, the Sappers also faced the ever- present risk of accidents ….handling explosives and initiation systems is hazardous enough without being under the pressure of enemy forces bearing down on them…which any serving or ex -Sapper will readily recognise! Inevitably there were casualties and I have found records of the following Sheffield men of 228 Coy RE dying in the course of those vital, time and life -saving operations: Sapper Albert Crapper (Sheffield ) Lance Sgt Kenneth France (Sheffield) Capt Wilfred Middleton (Sheffield) Sapper Cyril Morland (of Wombwell) This short list isn’t comprehensive….there would probably be more ‘local’ fatalities and certain many more wounded men including those from Sheffield but anyone with a deeper interest …maybe with relatives lost out there in 1940 would be advised to go into the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Web site ( for WW2 and either enter a search for their own relatives or for general interest in the subject….go straight to the War Cemetery records for Aire Sur La Lys Communal Cemetery where the name men above were buried along with many more. For those unfamiliar with the CWGC site…each cemetery has a Register of those personnel buried there and several views of the relevant parts are available ‘at the press of a button’ …probably the most useful ‘page’ giving personal details of the casualty including ( usually) their place of origin and details of NoK. Hope these notes are of interest and maybe even assist someone with connections to that epic race to save ‘our Army’ ( POSTSCRIPT My relative was lucky to escape with what remained of the BEF and get back thanks to the vital services of The RN Abe other less professional but no less courageous mariners arriving in Sheffield with uniform in tatters still carrying his Service Rifle!) ’We will remember Them’
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  8. I am told the print is in storage in London When time and opportunity permits, I'm going to find out who can help to bring the print to Sheffield for display in a Sheffield gallery.
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  9. Mansfield Road fire station was built in 1963. They cut the top off the tip to make a base. Some of the waste I think was put on the other side of the road to make it higher than it was. There was a tunnel under Mansfield road to the other side. That place, where the TA centre is, was in fact coke ovens. The rest of the tip was pulled down the hill and flattened by huge earth moving excavators in the 1960's. Big, MASSIVE trucks with big wheels and huge scraping buckets on the back. Something like this:
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  10. Ponytail, I definitely remember that experience as a very small child, from shopping with my Mum at Firth Park in the early sixties! I hated the smell of the raw meat and the strange (to me) sawdusted floors of the two butchers (Friedrich and Watson)... so I used to wait outside. They had pottery pigs and cows in the window display. I asked Mum why those pot animals were there, and that was my introduction to the reality of where meat actually came from. I was mortified and have never eaten it knowingly ever since!!
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  11. Posting this for no other reason than I am having a clear out and this is going. That night, I was commuting back home after a 12-hr day shift. Had a small radio with me & seem to remember I had just arrived at London Bridge station on final whistle! Note the Leeds scorers.
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  12. If you fancy a day out with a difference this month! then pop down the M1 to Market Harborough STEAMPUNK DAY! SUNDAY 24th MARCH Come and enjoy the FREE alternative science fantasy event, there might even be some tea duelling!!! ' Don't know what it is, come down and have a look!!! ' It will be a day of Steampunk enthusiasts showing off their amazing creations & sharing their passion for the Artform. ( We are looking for creators, magicians, artists and stall holders to join us inside the Market on the day, if you are interested, for more information please email :- harboroughmarket@harborough.gov.uk )
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  13. Block plan of Hadfield's Ltd., East Hecla Works. 1962.y13768 Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 274 VL.
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  14. Nellie Gunstone who worked all her life in heavy industry as a borer - pictured retiring from Hadfields in 1979. s22761 Audrey Watson behind a lathe at Hadfields. 1942. a00681
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  15. New Inn Carbrook St There is not a lot of old Carbrook left these days, except for the New Inn. This was an ornate building typical of the early 1900's I take it that the ornate WS is William Stones Main entry updates
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  16. At our allotments last weekend, some kind soul had dumped a pile of rubbish on one of our benches, mainly comprisIng of old plant pots, takeaway cartons and cardboard boxes. In the process of breaking these up and disposing of them in our bin at home, my wife discovered a couple of sugar tongs in the bottom of one of the boxes, black and dirty, but she rescued them from the bin. She cleaned them up with a silver cloth and they came up nicely. Although of no great value, they are interesting only in as far as where they were made? The ‘claw’ pattern tongs are marked ‘G C & Co EP’. The ‘spoon’ pattern tongs are just marked ‘EPNS’ (Electro Plated Nickel Silver)? There are no makers marks on these. Although neither are silver, I tried looking for the ‘G C & Co’ hallmark, to see if they were Sheffield made? Sadly, the only reference I could find was a ‘Green & Cadbury Co.’, based in Birmingham, if in fact that is who the mark belongs to? Does anyone have any ideas of who the ‘claw’ pattern tongs could have been made by? Obviously the ‘spoon’ pattern tongs will not be traceable. Thanks in advance…
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  17. In 1857 George Cutts retired from the firm of "Cutts Brothers" and started business at 53 Arundel street at "The School of Art" works, with about 50 staff, which was opened on Easter Monday 1858. In October 1861 he removed the firm to 33 Broad street ("The Park Silver Plated and Britannia Metal Works") previously occupied by Joseph Wolstenholme. In November 1870 "George Cutts and Co" loaded a shipment of E.P. goods in two casks onto the Midland Railway. They were intended for sale in Canada and were misdelivered to the wrong shipper in Liverpool, hence missing the selling season in Toronto. Abraham Griffiths, an American merchant, sued the railway for the loss of profit. In September 1873 he purchased the business of George Tagg, general stamper. George (of 13 Glen Road) died aged 61 on 19th April 1881 leaving £6,638 6s - the executors were his wife Ann and sons WIlliam and George. After the 1889 bankruptcy John Batt was operating as George Cutts from the Broad street premises, in April 1890 advertising for a good scratch brusher. It appears that very soon after this, Batt started operating as John Batt and Co. and the Cutts name was dropped.
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  18. Yes, Biddulphs was a brand name. As was Reeves. Advert from (Liverpool) Evening Express, 9 August 1913
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  19. Thank you Ponytail and Edmund. Very informative
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  20. LECTURE AT PORTLAND WORKS WEDNESDAY 20TH MARCH Dear Supporter, Sales have gone very well for our first lecture of the season next Wednesday from 7pm to 9pm about Sheffield Castle. 36 tickets have sold and we have a licence for up to 60 people so if you would like to come and haven't bought your ticket yet, please click on the link below. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheffield-castle-past-present-and-future-tickets-844637081247?aff=oddtdtcreator (From an email received in the past few days from Paul Iseard, Chair of the Friends of Portland Works)
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  21. New Inn, No. 211 Carbrook Street 6th September 1989. s22100 Not sure where I've seen it: The New Inn was previously owned by another Brewery before Wm Stones took it over and the pub was rebuilt to obliterate the old branding. Now closed and used as offices. https://whatpub.com/pubs/SHF/709/new-inn-sheffield https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/sheffield_s9_newinn.html https://www.movehut.co.uk/property/587051-former-new-inn-public-house-211-carbook-street-sheffield/
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  22. That was interesting, so thanks for posting. I went to school there until I was 8 when we moved from Stradbroke to Walkley and then went to St Joseph's Walkley. I had my picture taken as an innocent 7 yr old on First Holy Communion day, in front of the door in the 2009 picture.
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  23. That was the best I could think of but the B looks to be in a circle and there was usually an S for Sheffield. I think you have the most likely there though.
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  24. Could T H B be TH Blake. https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6954
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  27. Hello Tozzin, I am new to this forum and joined precisely because I stumbled across this post of yours whilst researching my family history. I am the Gt Gt Granddaughter of John Tasker, Gt Gdaughter of John Henry Royle Tasker. I am thrilled to see your post here and just how much information you have gleaned. However, there are a couple of immediate points I need to address. John Tasker Senior, was indeed born in Devon In 1818 but all his younger siblings were born in Sheffield from 1820 onwards. His father, also John who is the John listed in the 1825 directory at Pond Hill and his father’s brother, Richard, 8 years John’s senior, were members of the South Devon Militia who came to Sheffield for Military reasons: 1812 Sheffield Food Riots: "The Royal Buckinghamshire Militia and reinforcements of Hussars were sent from Nottingham followed on April 25th by the South Devon Militia." (source: https://priorieshistoricalsociety.blogspot.com). although John returned to Devon and was then engaged in military action at Waterloo in 1815, he married in Devon in 1818 the year our John was born. Richard, however married a Yorkshire lass and stayed in Sheffield. The fact that both John the elder and his brother and both went on to settle in Sheffield has resulted in many instances of confusion, as both had several sons and each named one John. The two lines really are only defined by the fact one was primarily engineering the other accountancy as time progressed. The brothers line did indeed produce a son who served as mayor, but not John Tasker of Shoe & Boot/ Telephone/Electric Light fame, it was the other line of the family. in 1851 John Tasker the focus of your post was living at 88 Division Street, now The Frog and Parrot, from where he ran his shoe and boot business, emlpyong 6 men. He exhibited that same year at The Great Exhibition. By 1861 he was residing at 32 Angel Street where his business was indeed as a Gutta Percha Dealer, employing 4 men. 1881 he and his much expanded family were living at his family home, Crookes House, his profession noted as a Strap Manufacturer, Gutta Percha & India Rubber Dealer. Employs 8 men, 1 boy and 2 women, I believe at the Angel Street premises. 1891, still at Crookes House with Emma, his profession is: Managing Director & Principle Owner, Sheffield Telephone & Electric Light Company, India Rubber Merchant & Engineer. You also mention him moving to 23 Taptonville. He in fact purchased Crookes House where he remained, cared for after Emma’s Death by his daughter, Catherine Emma, until he died. After his death she married her cousin, further complicating the two sides from a genealogical point of view. 23 Taptonville was the home of John’s son (John Henry Royle’s brother) Robert Charles at the time of the 1881 and 1891 Census. By 1901 RC had remarried and was residing at 13 Brocco Bank. thank you so much for contributing this original post. It is so heartwarming to realise I am not the only person keeping his memory alive. There is a lot more I can add but will leave it here. Except to say that the company who purchased the Taskers Engingineering Co when my three uncles Sold the business have the photo of the John Henry Royle (as above) alongside the logo, one of the founder’s four sons. This is not a photo of John Tasker 1818.
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  28. Did Malcolm Nunn do his Anniversary Walk this year? Over the years I've thoroughly enjoyed walking the route of his "Walk and Talk" unfortunately not able to partake the last few years living out of the area. Does Malcolm still do a showing of Laurence Peacock's images and the original talk he used to give? Peacock's glass slides were donated to Sheffield Local Studies some years ago and Malcolm sorted the surviving glass slides, identified them, comparing them to the "Talk" Peacock used to give. The surviving images are available on the Picture Sheffield website along with other images taken at the time. https://picturesheffield.com It's very satisfying to see people are still interested in the story. From a personal view I think anybody who is interested in the Sheffield Flood of 1864 should read the original book. It's a complete very detailed account including the aftermath. My parents aquired a copy many years ago when they discovered a copy in the loft of a house they moved into. It is available as a free download.
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  29. My 5x great grandfather Thomas Cadman sold his pub the Red Lion in Elton Derbyshire and moved to Sheffield with his son Joseph and family to live on Sheldon Street where died in 1837. 4 x great grandfather Joseph Cadman ran a carting business from his home on Sheldon Street, this newspaper article about the theft of a cart from his premises on Sheldon Street is from the 1842 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent. After Josephs death in 1857 his widow Ann Cadman married George Swindon in 1860, the Sheffield Water Works Inspector, who gave warning the Dale Dyke dam at Bradfield was about to burst 160 years ago today the 11th March 1864.
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  30. The police box in Surrey street was installed during August 1928. A 1932 article in the Telegraph refers to three telephone boxes "which adorn the pavement outside the Town Hall" , so I'd suggest that the police box was originally in a different location to the one we all recall (or the date on the photo doesn't refer to the date it was taken). The OS map revised in 1935 shows the P.C.B. (police call box) in its final position, with the three T.C.B.s (telephone call boxes) spread out along the causey edge.
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  31. Pounds Park, named after the City's first Fire Officer, John Charles Pound (c.1833 - 1918). Opened 3rd April 2023, on the site of the former South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Command HQ, Wellington Street Fire Station, Wellington Street. a07750 a07751 Dedication of a Plaque in Pounds Park, 27th May 2023. Tom Hunt, Leader of Sheffield City Council and Gordon Smith, great-grandson of Sheffield's first Fire Officer. a07901 John Charles Pound (c.1833-1918), Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, c.1870s 08453 Pound was born in Sittingbourne in Kent c.1833. In the 1850s he was a fireman at Lambeth; He relocated to Sheffield c.1870. In the 1880s he was living at Balm Green with his wife and seven children. His first two children were born in Surrey – the remainder in Sheffield. During his time at Sheffield he applied to join Birmingham and Glasgow fire services but presumably was unsuccessful. He resigned from the Sheffield Fire Service in September 1895. He died on 25th October 1918 and was buried in the Sheffield General Cemetery. South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Command HQ, Wellington Street Fire Station, Wellington Street. 1st May 1987. Now the site of Pounds Park. t11830
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  32. A few further photos, looking down Boston Street towards the church, No. 2 Works of Matthias Spencer & Sons Ltd. on the right, also fronting onto Arley Street. Further along Arley Street (between John & Denby Streets) the main offices & works of Matthias Spencer & Sons Ltd. Is it possible that the H.L. Nowlin & Sons surgical instrument premises, shown as earlier photo, on corner of Boston Street and Arley Street replaced the Angler's Rest pub around 1939, as the pub was about to be demolished? Also does anyone know where on Arley Street was that photo of TC Harrison's commercial vehicle yard, between which streets and on which side of the road?
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  33. Leadfarmer's post above highlights two solutions to the challenge facing the UK cinema industry in the early 1980s. It was a time when the effects of the writers' strike in Hollywood were beginning to be felt. Although there were some quality films coming through, there was a lot of dross and people were deserting the cinemas all over the county. The chains responded by reducing their estates. Rank closed several screens in one go, whereas ABC reduced their numbers gradually. The result was that in some towns where there had been two competing chains, customers now found there to be only the one cinema in their town. At the same time home video began to take off and the local video hire place became a common sight. The Gaumont advert above shows that Rank took advantage of this new craze by opening their own store. Following the ending of the ABC Saturday morning Minors' presentations (see the picture of Les Allen at the last Minors' Show above), it was felt that some steps needed to bring back the younger element, hence the family oriented showing advertised above of the first Star Trek Film. (It could be argued that this was not the most exciting of film for a younger audience) It was during the children's holidays that the cinemas made their money from sales of food and drink.
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  34. Reminds me of the 1960s song ” He made the night a little lighter wherever he did go the old lamp lighter of long long ago”. sorry about that!🙄🙄🙄
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  35. Recently when walking along the canal towards Tinsley, I noticed a line of six brick arches which are on the tow path side opposite the Spartan Steel Works, until recently the archways have been covered by shrubs. Thanks to the volunteers from the Canal and river trust doing a great job clearing and maintaining the tow path they have revealed the arches. So the question is: Anyone know what these archways were for.
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  36. I’m no wire drawer, but I have studied a lot of industrial buildings in Sheffield as a buildings’ archaeologist. I would expect these to either be arches between foundation piers or windows to a now filled in basement. Ventilating heat from a workshop is a good suggestion, but I have never seen low level vents that look like this. Usually heat is dispersed by having open sides / unglazed windows with shutters and/or roof vents. Just guesses though.
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  37. Bit earlier than your son's time at the Nursery. Denby Street, Nursery School. 1949. s06594 David Bocking took many photographs of children at Denby Street Nursery for Picture Sheffield 10th & 12th November 2004. Playground, Denby Street Nursery, Highfield. c00480
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  38. It’s a revision point….not sure what that means!
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  39. Where ever you go, and hear talking or you get chatting to someone, you know straight away if they have Yorkshire in them, by the greeting or expression voiced. Been places many a time, and heard someone say 'Ay Up! 'ow you doin'? and hearing them talk Yorkshire. Or 'Ow Do mate'! which is mostly what I've heard expressed by men to greet someone they know. Still nice to know our regional sayings haven't been wiped out! Heartshome 💖
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  40. Lah di dah or La di da. The former would be the Sheffield posh accent! A Victorian word imitating the perceived Posh accent.
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  41. Our “lovely “accent is an accent peculiar to Sheffield and NOT Yorkshire as a whole . As a result of wider communications, education and cultural changes it is on the “danger “ list with many of our youngest now speaking a form of Estuary English! Can I respectfully point out the heading of this part of the forum is….Chat…..and I was doing just that!🤤
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  42. A Dutch friend of ours is also reyt fluent in 'Sheffieldish' after spending so much time here over the years. I still find it an amusing to hear his combination of Nederland accent and Yorkshire dialect.
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  43. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324906582234
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  44. Na den Heartshome On a trip to the Ancient City of Ephesus in 2001, the Turkish Guide showing us around the site said you're from Sheffield in England aren't you. How do you know that! You speak English like my Lecturer. The guide said he spent 2 years at Sheffield University.
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  45. James and John are my 2nd grand-uncles (my connection is via Henry, their father and Alfred Edgar, their brother). I understand that Anthony, James's son was a Pitman's Shorthand instructor - attached is the 1911 White's Trade Directory for Sheffield, whcih you may find of interest.
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  46. https://maps.nls.uk/view/91793289#zoom=7&lat=1743&lon=4531&layers=BT 1938 - 1953
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  47. Whilst it may look a disgrace to you, its a wonderful haven for wildlife, and its a nice place to walk through with the dog. The long building that was up against the fence to the main dual carriageway used to have birds nests in the roof, maybe even. owls nest, and there are/were all sorts of birds to see. It was also an interesting historical place to walk through. I used to like searching for the large metal rings anchored into the ground where I assume the balloons were tethered to, and some of the floor tiles of some buildings were still in place if you knew where to look. It was also my playground as a kid, so maybe I'm sentimental. In addition, I once lifted a corrugated metal sheet and found snakes warming up underneath in the sun.
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  48. This is outside 24 Gray Street. Obviously this wont help you to locate it because that part of Pitsmoor has been leveled rebuilt and leveled and rebuilt since this photo was taken.
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