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This is my class at Crookesmore School,1960. I'm second from the left at the top (with the lapel badges). The teacher was Miss Sant, who afterwards became Mrs Copley. It's a funny thing, but I don't remember ever being in a 'boys only' class. However, pictures don't lie, so I must have been. The other thing to notice is the huge stone columns which held the school up above the playground and made it quite dark in places.

On a nice sunny day in September 1995, I took my lovely Mum for a day out in Derbyshire. We went to tour Hardwick Hall, I treated her to an English Afternoon Tea, we visited Stainsby Mill, ( once operated by Gt Gran's relatives ) then I drove to the hamlet of Astwith, where Mum remembered the family visits to her Gran and Grandpa staying in the Farm House there, where 4 generations of their family had been tenant farmers. We had a leisurely drive round the local country lanes to end the afternoon, it was so peaceful and beautiful, a day I will always treasure, as I lost my Mum in March 1996.

Navigating Victorian Sheffield via long gone pubs - a new sport ... 1852 Number 1 John Chicken, Yellow Lion 21 Elias Shirt, Wellington Tavern/Duke of Wellington (1822-1862) 53 Mary Brown, Lodgings (not a pub, but then ...) 2 Matthew Osborne, Union (1845-1854) 20 John Wilson, Sportsman (1849-1852) 38 Samuel Wilson, Barleycorn (1839-1852) 52 Joseph Martin, Red Lion (1852-1862) 64 Thomas Barker, Chequers (or Old Cow, beerhouse) 1849-1854 (All data here from my spreadsheet; anyone interested, check against A-Z)

Wembely 1991 Owls 1 -0 Man Utd League cup final.