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My Grandad lived in Mulligans Mansions. He was called James Connell otherwise known as Jock Connell as he was Scottish. If you look further into the records he and his child Charlie were in the house when the house was on fire. I don't know why it was given that name as nobody in the family knew anyone called Mulligan. He liked a drink and was a gambler too and was so poor he used to take wooden stuff down to make a fire - bannisters or floorboards etc. This is what my Dad wrote in a letter referring to Mulligans Mansions. He said the place was terrible - very very cold and the children slept on beds with no blankets just coats on the beds. I have seen a newspaper article with a passage about the fire and young Charlie still in the house. My Mum used to say your Grandad lives up them steps when I was little and we used to walk on Chesterfield Road so I do remember steep steps. So now you can put a character to the house. I only met him twice once when I was little and my Mum had to tell him that I was his Granddaughter and he gave me a shilling! Then when my Dad came on leave from the army because his Dad was dying in the Royal Infirmary. He was quite a character and liked his women! He did befriend a married woman called Mrs Mangles which sounds a bit like mulligan? My Dad wrote in his letter " I know that I spent a few days leave at Mulligan's Mansion and I spent all I had on food for you all. I know there wasn't very much but I was only on seven shillings a week. You were all living there with another family. Ethel Rock had finished with Father and had got married and he was going out with Mrs Leach then. You had all been living with Fachars, his Sister in Swinton and had somehow got back to Sheffield. I don't remember him ever having a job and he certainly wasn't working then. I was in uniform on leave and had to sleep on rags on the floor." He mentioned that the next time he was on leave the family had all moved to Meersbrook Road and life wasn't any better there but worse conditions with damp walls and floor.

The Head of Myers Grove, at the time, was "Bill" Hill.... He was a founder member of Sheffield's SDP ( now known as the Lib Dems) He had some strong views and opinions on education in general and comprehensives in particular! His remarks were , I am told, something more like " seperating the Wheat from the Chaff"!

Thanks History Dude, 56 003 does fit my recollections of the newspaper cuttings I saw at the time and 1978 seems about right. I’m grateful to you all for resolving this for me.

There were several instances of loco's running through the buffer stops, but they were in the Tinsley shed, not the yard, which was at a higher level. At least one ended up on the Parkway.

STD was first made available in Sheffield in late October or early November 1966 with the opening of the new exchange on Charter Row. The STD availability was rolled out to the rest of the Sheffield exchanges over the course of the next few years. The last one was Woodseats in 1970. 0SH2 was indeed the Sheffield code initially but those sort of alphanumeric codes fell out of favour shortly afterwards. I don't think there was an interim code of 01742.

I can't remember seeing one with a crown on before but the map symbol is for an Ordnance Survey Bench Mark, They were erected / cut by Ordnance Survey leveling staff to provide a network of points at which height has been precisely measured above sea level. There used to be about half a million bench marks in Great Britain but they are not needed any more due to GPS mapping and many have now disappeared. If that is GR on it I hope it survives. EDIT How about a new post something like "carved broad arrow marks in stone".