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Looks like George William Rusling of 206 Brook Hill in 1911. In 1896 the Rusling Brothers plumbing business based at 32 Spital Hill had been dissolved and brother Charles Oakes Rusling set up on his own at 62 Spital Hill. By the time of his death in 1935 George was at 44 Leavygreave Road, though he died at 1 Rutland Park. In his spare time George was chapel steward at the Carver Street chapel and was one of the original members of the Sheffield Methodist Council. George's wife Ann helped in the shop and son George was also a plumber, in fact when George junior died in 1978 he had been a "Director of Plumbing"

A.V.E.C. (AUDIO VISUAL ELECTRONIC CONTRACTORS) LIMITED was a Private Limited Company, registration number 01598462, established in United Kingdom on the 19. November 1981. The company was in business for 24 years and 7 months. The business of the company by SIC and NACE code was "6312 - Storage and warehousing". It was "DISSOLVED VIA VOLUNTARY STRIKE-OFF" from the 18th July 2006.

Hanbidge advert from a 1929 tram & bus timetable.

Fuller's earth is a type of clay which as well as its ancient use for fulling was also used as a beauty aid and for household cleaning. It would have been a familiar site in the first half of the 20C. Therefore the saying is contrasting "this earth" (the real world) and "fuller's earth" (somewhere else, possibly a mythical place). I suspect therefore that your mother's saying translates to "I don't know where I am".

The electrified line was fully operational on 30/05/1954... delayed by several months following a problem with the new Woodhead tunnel.

So here are 2 picture I took of Neepsend gas works from the south side of the river Don. The pictures are dated 1974 and 2007. They are not quite from the same location due to the total change this area has undergone, from an industrial centre to an area of total devastation and neglect. The gasometer which dominates both pictures is the same one (Neepsend gas works??). There were several steel works in front of it but the one which was chosen as the subject of the 1974 picture was Sheffield Rolling Mills, still working at the time and interestingly still rolling steel by hand,- a very hot, dirty and dangerous occupation! A third of a century later and almost all the steel works in this area, including SRM, have gone.