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  1. Work has been going on some time and it really looks like they're making solid progress digging down to the castle ruins and bringing it to the surface.
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  2. Thank you so much to Rich, and Peter/Steve/Keith, for this thread. The reason being: Mr Hiram Cheetham is my Great Grandfather and I linked into this thread having searched the photo on line. It is brilliant to know where his store was exactly from this thread. His daughter Claire was born around the turn of the 20th Century in Darnall. She married my grandfather and their son Nigel, my late father, was born in 1935. My father was brought up with his three siblings at the top of City Road in a terraced house knocked down 20-30 years ago right next to the police station opposite the shops close to the roundabout. Any pictures anyone has of that house would be massively appreciated! Back to the shop. You can see the same lamp-post and telegraph pole in the original picture of my Great Grandfather also in the longer shot in the last link. It is definitely the same location as stated. I assume the original picture of my Grandfather was approx 1885 before the 'Oxo' building was built according to the map reference of 1893 when he was 25-30. The longer shot must be after the electric trams arrived so early 1900s (?) and the building is still there. The rounded Penny Bank building is absolutely typical of mid-war and survives to the current day. Now a question assuming Hiram Cheetham was a Greengrocer. So why three shovels outside his shop? Did the electric trams replace horse-drawn carriages that started a route at this intersection at the end of the 19th Century. Thus were the shovels there to be used for what shovels are famous for?
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  3. The watermarking on the Old-Maps website is much less intrusive and a reasonable job of removing it can be made using the free Photofiltre program - example below. Old-Maps link: Heeley 1950
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  4. I am not in a position to wander far from Hilldweller Towers, but I wonder if you are refering to a structure in the field over the wall on the left as you drive down what has at this point becomes Stockarth Lane. Just over the wall in front of it is a little five bar gate gizmo which gives the clue to what it is. The gate is the marker to show the line of the oil pipeline which forms part of a national pipline network connecting oil refinaries and depots all around the country. The pipe is of a considerable diameter and depth and contains oil products at very high pressures. Because it is not a contour pipeline the operating pressure is highest near the low parts of the line and following some ruptures and spillages, valve houses were installed at lower points to limit the escape of oil when excessive flows (escapes ) occur. I think that is what the structure which has a removable lid is. The entire original system was installed by the government in the 1950's, at the height of the cold war, to enable oil to be transported around the country in times of national emergency. I believe it is now operated privately. The little five bar gates are falling into disrepair in some cases but tall white steel poles with a yellow pent roof and a black stripe across it give guidance to the helicopters which fly over it on a regular basis. The only reason I know about this is because we once bought a bungalow at Lodge Moor which had the pipeline running through the front garden about 15 feet from the house and quite understandably I went into it further. A then young nephew and I had great fun tracing it's route across Yorkshire and Derbyshire by following the little five bar gates. I hope that I am not being indiscrete but the entire urban route of the line is marked by little roadside signs stating "Oil Pipeline" "In case of emergency ring so & so". There is even one sited in front of the struture. I think the Russians probably knew about it before it was laid. Co-incidently I remember my father and I talking to the gangs who were laying the pipes across the Loxley Valley in about the mid fifties. I took me about 50 years to find out what they were for. Hilldweller
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