Old Street Furniture

[vox]

I saw this at the end of Cornish Street - still working. Not the usual style of old street light.

I know there are still quite a few old cast lamp standards still in use around the city but they'll all go eventually so I thought they should be recorded for posterity.

I'm guessing there may be a few other things as well.

Google Streetview

[vox]

These are on Birkendale.

Someone may correct me, but were these originally gas lamps which were converted to electricity by replacing the top section?

Google Streetview

[Bayleaf]

These are on Birkendale.

Someone may correct me, but were these originally gas lamps which were converted to electricity by replacing the top section?

Google Streetview

Don't know if they were ever gas, but they were certainly converted from the old single bulb type by replacing the top section as you describe.

[ukelele lady]

Last week I was going to ask if there are any "telly wag poles" left

in Sheffield but driving home I discovered there are still plenty in

use.

[Stuart0742]

Last week I was going to ask if there are any "telly wag poles" left

in Sheffield but driving home I discovered there are still plenty in

use.

Now there's a word I have not heard for a long time "Telly Wag"

[RichardB]

These are on Birkendale.

Someone may correct me, but were these originally gas lamps which were converted to electricity by replacing the top section?

Google Streetview

I think No. 30 is the "white house" at the bottom right. I was born at Jessop Hospital but lived there until aged about 4 (circa 1966).

[vox]

Now there's a word I have not heard for a long time "Telly Wag"

Me too.

Why on earth did we call them that?

Was it just around here, or all over the place?

[DaveH]

Here's one for you, a street name plate that got overlooked and was never "modernised"

This one is on what was know to all Norfolk School kids as "City Road Front" or "The Front" where they went at dinner time for the shops.

The sign is still there above one of the shops and bears witness to its former name of Intake Road.

[Stuart0742]

Me too.

Why on earth did we call them that?

Was it just around here, or all over the place?

I suppose it was a corruption of Telegraph.

[vox]

A mention of Tellywag poles in this poem by Bolsover poet J R Booker. The bard of Bozer

Just had a search around and found mentions by people from North Wales, Hereford and Lincolnshire.

[DaveH]

A mention of Tellywag poles in this poem by Bolsover poet J R Booker. The bard of Bozer

Bozer, a Derbyshire dialect term meaning Bolsover (as is apparent in the link)

So "Telly wag" is not a local as in Sheffield dialect expression then, - it spreads wider than that

Pity, I was going to add it to my collection of Sheffield Dialect words alphabetically under the letter T

Just after the local word "tear arsings" meaning speeding.

As in the courtroom conversation between the judge and the local Sheffielder prosecuting solicitorffending vehicle speeding alon

"Was the accused driving his vehicle at a speed in excess of the speed limit?"

"Yes m'lord, he were tear arsing darnt rooad" lol

[vox]

Bozer, a Derbyshire dialect term meaning Bolsover (as is apparent in the link)

So "Telly wag" is not a local as in Sheffield dialect expression then, - it spreads wider than that

I just added an edit to my last post mentioning some other places I found it in use.

I suppose they could all be ex Northerners though.

That happens a lot - while I'm typing, someone else adds another post.

Must type faster.

[DaveH]

I just added an edit to my last post mentioning some other places I found it in use.

I suppose they could all be ex Northerners though.

That happens a lot - while I'm typing, someone else adds another post.

Must type faster.

Not an expression to include in the Sheffield Dialect thread then :(

[Guest beemerboy]

I have an old sheffield lamp post in my back garden,1903 is its orgin,the best thing is when I aquired it was that it had never been converted to electric it still has the tall section above the crossbar I believe these were removed on conversion. when a neighbour found out that I had it he said that he had the original top which he had removed in the 60s and asked me if I would like it, would I not arhf. Did anyone know all the tops were copper and they painted them green so they would'nt get wieghed in!