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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Yes she was……her best pal was a girl called Roberta!
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Dana also played there not sure what year though.
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  7. 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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  8. Block plan of Hadfield's Ltd., East Hecla Works. 1962.y13768 Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 274 VL.
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  9. 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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  10. My 4th great grandfather played for the original side, his great grandsons wife May lived until 99 years old, I remember going to her house in darnall in the 80’s. He was the goal scorer of the first ever recorded goal in world football history, also the landlord of the barley corn public house and known as the Sheffield huntsman. A gentleman named M Hardy (also a relative of his) has already researched a lot on this as I’ve found a lot of information on him via his posts as before the internet we only had him in the family tree folder passed down from an aunt and only mentioned him and his sons being keen sports men and landords, amazing what you can find, according to my Mother, there are a lot of relatives bearing the name Sellars still in Sheffield, who know a lot more.
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  11. 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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  12. Thank you Ponytail and Edmund. Very informative
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  13. 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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