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Hi there, I'm trying to find any information on a badge I dug up while gardening in Heeley Initials read "H S C" and the back text reads "Fattorini & Sons Bradford". My first guess is that it is a badge from scout or girl guides group ?? but I'm struggling to find anything that matches online. Does anybody recognise this badge and know what it might be from? And what year? Purely for interest becuase it is such a pretty thing. Thanks in advance, Anna

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Could be a Girl Guides summer camp badge. Their emblem is a clover/shamrock I believe.

It was the refuse tip in tiers, I could see it all from my room window, over the fifty years I have lived here, the trees have grown and the tiers are no longer in sight but Deer are now being seen regularly in the area.

it's now a Starbucks - see https://sheffield.camra.org.uk/rhp/ for details

It looks like a Scouts camping badge

A couple of Times newspaper reports: The first one is about the crash at Totley, questioning if the speed restrictions at junctions are sufficiently low. The second report is from 1892 about the building of Totley tunnel and the new rail route to Manchester.

The Lots were sold for a total of £1,900. In 1933 the magistrates refused to renew its licence and it went onto the Compensation List to revert to domestic premises.

Went to the ABC MINORS every Saturday morning for Flash Gordon (still have nightmares about the 'clay men') and cartoons and if it was your birthday you took your birthday card up on stage (can't remember what the reward was) I believe the adult in the pictures was Uncle Charlie?? My friend took an old battered birthday card up there for weeks. They also sold individual badges with letters on them, if you had the whole set it spelled A B C M I N O R S.

I used to sit outside the Gaumont every night/day for hours on end from mid 1975 to 1981. (I did go home in those years) Nobody recognised me at all most of the time. Waiting and waiting for the shows or films to finish. So boring I used to fall asleep some nights/days. I was (if you've not guessed it) a Black Cab driver. At the time buses ran anywhere and everywhere for 10p. Then the British Steel strike and bad weather and, and, and... Oh! Those happy days.. I'm lieing.. Took my family there to watch all the 3 Star Wars in one sitting. Can't remember the year, but, it wasn't as boring as sitting outside with the cab. And I really hate Star Wars..

Hi Richard, I can help with St Stephens Tavern, 11 St Stevens Road - now long demolished. This was for many years in my family. In 1891 it was kept by William and Jane Hinchliffe, followed by Edwin and Eliza Birks, followed - after 1900 - by my Grand parents Joseph and Edith Hudson. In the large pub yard my grandfather stabled his horses, kept pigs and ran coal and milk businesses; my grandmother Edith Mary Hudson ran the beer house whilst grandad worked at his carting business etc.

Hello again, I somehow couldn't get back on the forum (I don't think I was banned) a year or so ago but have now succeeded in clambering back on board. Mr. Fulford's dark room I have only vbague memories of now. Fairly small I'd say, dark (!), an demitted a distinct aroma which was, I guess, the smell of he chemicals which he used. It occurs to me, if a photographer took a 10-year old boy on his own into his dark room these days, I don't think it would be well thought of! People ar esometimes too suspicious; Mr. Fulford certainly did not do anything wrong, he just explained the workings of the equipment to me. My Mum and Dad knew I was there and were not worried.

Barry Mullen was my brother-in-law. After a career for some years as a solo singer touring the WMC's of South Yorkshire & South Wales he and my sister Ann went on to be managers of the Burgoyne Arms, The Elm Tree at Sheffield Lane Top and the Bath Hotel on Burgoyne Road. Barry used to sing a lot of Roy Orbison songs and he was big friends with local comedian Bobby Knutt and had earlier been rivals with Joe Cocker in talent competitions held at the Black Swan on Snig Hill. Barry sadly died in 2002 aged 64 but my sister is still alive and living in Southey Green.

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Oh no I can't open them and my Dad PC 124 Frank Roberts used to be the Town Hall Policeman for some time and talked a lot about PC Judd. Yes my Dad used to take his mash into the green box to make and also his sandwiches. My Mum used to take me down to watch my Dad directing traffic. When he got bored and cars stopped to ask the way he used to direct them wrongly to see if they came round again !!

It was the "Mona Lisa" above the "Genevieve" in Charter Square they had cabaret & the "Birds of Paradise" dancers. It was very small & I was working downstairs when Billy J Kramer was appearing in "Mona Lisa" no tickets were sold and the staff from "Genevieve" were asked if they'd like to go upstairs to watch him! You couldn't make if up.

New video - this time looking at one of Sheffield's true hidden gems; Stoneface Creative's little woodland sculpture park at Storrs Wood. Artist Andrew Vickers takes us round this incredible location - which holds many of his sculptures - and tells us about his life, work and the amazing hisstory of his bond with these woods. There's also breathtaking memorials to war victims, victims of the Great Sheffield Flood, David Bowie and more. Definitely somewhere for everyone to visit when the current situation has blown over!

My dad was Tom Scales... 1903 1965 We lived in number 5..

That's a great find! I'm sure someone will know what it is..

Yeah it would be pretty bad. I was doing some family research about Joseph Tomlinson & Sons Ltd. and I found an advert for the sale of manure from Tomlinson’s.

We once went there with the Manor Memoires people. Bet the residents never thought that they would be in that situation again! I once saw a documentary on channel four about how some of the residents never got the plague and some became ill and recovered. A person who recovered put this down to eating bacon! However they tested the DNA of modern residents, who were the descendants of those that survived, and that revealed that from those that had got sick and recovered got one part of a two part gene inherited from one of their parents. And if they got one part of the gene from the father and one part from the mother they were completely immune to the black death. It seems those that had survived the original plague of the 14th Century developed this gene in response to it. The residences many years later when it attacked again had one or two parts of the genes. Those families that had not inherited the gene of course did die in the epidemic. Ironically those that have inherited the gene from both parents are also immune to the AIDS virus. Which uses the same way of invading the white cells as did the black death. Neither of the two virus' can invade the white cells due to this genetic mutation.

I photographed this at the South Yorkshire Transport Museum some time ago and completely forgot about it. Cabs, horse buses and hearses.

Is this the church in question?

I don't know about shops, but Vono certainly made beds, and a lot more besides at various times: Vono at Graces Guide

Hi Athy, What I remember of Miss Parkin, I think she was our teacher in J2, was her winged glasses. These days with the fashion for designer glasses I think she'd be quite trendy. I don't really remember Mr Lancaster very well, I think he was a little guy who always had a roll-up in his mouth? The whole school appeared to run on a regime of petty rules, I doubt whether they'd get away with it with the modern generation of kids? It was common to give the kids a slap if they stepped out of line, I got many, but again that's how things were in those dark days!! Cheers, Wazzie Worrall

Hi Athy, Wasn't that teacher called Mr Ireson, he was the deputy head, when he left Mr Dyson took over his role? There was also a Mr Cook while I was there, he later became an Education lecturer at Totley College. The other teachers I remember are Miss Grandage, Mrs Marshall, Miss Melcalf and Miss Parkin. Miss Parkin left when I was in about J.3 and moved to the West Country. The caretaker was Mr Lancaster, his grandson - Rob was a good mate of mine at Hurlfield. When Mr Lancaster retired, Mr Stothard took over. The caretaker always lived in the first house on the left hand side of Ridgehill Ave. Cheers, Wazzie Worrall

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Hope this helps: At St Silas church on 28th January 1911 Leonard Lawrence Lobb aged 22 and living at 7 Aberdeen Street, the son of Henry (“Harry”) Richard Lobb, married Nellie Ryalls aged 21, of 20 Egerton Street, daughter of James Ryalls. When they completed the 1911 census they were living at the Aberdeen Street address (3 rooms) and Leonard was a warehouseman and packer of engineers tools. At the 1901 census Harry Lobb (42, Iron turner born in Manchester) and his wife Jane (35, a Sheffield lass), were living at 12 house 2 Egerton Street with their offspring Harry junior (16 also an Iron Turner born in Manchester), Albert (14 an errand boy, though girl is written), Leonard (12), John (7),and Fred (4). In the 3rd quarter of 1907 Leonard’s younger brother Albert Edwin Lobb (dob 26th July 1886) married Edith Ryalls, and in 1939 he was a knife packer living with Edith at 35 Wath Road. Albert Edwin died aged 78 at Winter Street Hospital and was buried on 4th January 1965, in the same grave as his brother Leonard. The grave was used for Albert's wife Edith, who died at the Royal. aged 88 and was buried on 18th February 1976. On 8th February 1916 at the Sheffield Munitions Tribunal "Henry Richard Lobb, 51 Crookesmoor Road, a machinist, lost 298 1/2 hours while employed at Hadfields. Defendant said he had been ill, and had sent in several doctor's certificates. His foreman denied receiving any certificates. Sir William Clegg said it was a very bad case, and imposed a penalty of £3" Leonard Lobb, a grocer, died aged 37 and was buried on 5th August 1926 at Abbey Lane. His widow Nellie Lobb (dob 27 May 1889) was re-married to Ted Davy (dob 1 Nov 1888), in the 1st quarter of 1929. Ten years later they were living at 7 Sheldon Lane, Stannington. Ted worked as a motor engineer. Ronald Lobb ("mother maiden name Ryalls") was born in the 2nd quarter of 1920 in Sheffield. His brother Lawrence was born on 8th September 1912 and baptised at the Sheffield Parish church on the 22nd, the family were living at 30 Allerton Road and his father Leonard was a warehouseman. Lawrence married Gladys M Crownshaw in 1934. Ronald's sister Nellie was born in the 3rd quarter of 1915, and married Cyril Crownshall on 2nd March 1935 at St Philips. A Ronald Lobb joined the Royal Artillery in 1937 (service number 876571) though it's not certain that this was the Ronald we are discussing - however he is not found on the 1939 census so could well have been on military duty. A Ronald Lobb married Edith Harrison in Sheffield in the 2nd quarter of 1945. A Henry R Lobb married Alice Longley in Sheffield in the 2nd quarter of 1934. On 5th April 1939 Mr & Mrs Ronald Lobb atttended the funeral of John Robert Watts, governing director of John Watts cutlery manufacturers, at Fulwood church. They were listed as family mourners, John Watts died aged 80 at 8 Oakholme Road.