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Our SIL often appears at our place all dressed up when he is on call with the funeral home. Other times he is a la scruff. Today .. Sunday he was on duty... Whilst there new house is being built we have one room full of their stuff and he came looking for the pot to cook pasta in, a pair of shoes and his fishing gear. Couldn't find shoes or pot so he has gone with one of my pots... but before he could take them he got a call from one of our hospitals and he had to go pick up a dead body. Had just finished his cup of tea when they rang. He loves his job.

LK, my father buried an old sink in the garden and the mint stayed put in that. My mum always made our mint sauce to go with our little lambs. Actually in those days she would purchase a forequarter of mutton from the butcher at the top of the road. The trips the women in our street used to make. My friend (since we were 5) and I often comment about her mother who would be forever going up the road to the shops. She would only get one or two things at a time. She always came over to our place for parsley and mint... we would hear her shoe's on the driveway as she went past the kitchen window. I guess we were lucky in that we only lived about five or six houses down from the top and it was quite a long street.

Persie

.Nasturtium... good to plant in a container. Same with mint.

Nasturtium....they grew everywhere


..........dont plant them, they take over your garden :-S

Mnemonic 'spring forward, fall back'......happy spring!


The front garden was FULL of the ladybirds today

Don't forget your clocks folks!!! Well, those in the UK of course.......


If I'm going to lose sleep I need to go to bed tooty sweetie.......night xx

I seem to remember, it was you that needed the tape :-P

Only if JB tapes yer mouth over.....

I is a very good listener, Ill av you know :-P

Bet the poor chap couldn't get a word in edgeways..........

The gang were either busy or working away last night.....me and JB, had a nice talking evening

Weren't 'the gang' around last night Ginns ??

Anyway - I is here if you is desperate !! :-D

Dea Xxx

Hello wall..............wheres the gang?

While sorting out the front garden today...........there were hundreds of ladybirds all over the plants

How early is that!

Yeah, Ive read those Jonesey


While Googling, I came accross Sexy Rexy, it was a jeans shop in the 70s/80s where me and the mates used to go as kids.....ace jeans, all Levi or Wrangler

Some interesting recollections and comments about the Rag and Tag market here:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-709996.html

Hmmm, I seem to remember my parents talking about the Rag & Tag


We have the problem of cars skidding on the tram tracks when its wet.......nothing changes really!

Hi again Gin,

Your comment about Castle Market started me thinking so I have done a bit of research.

I don't think that the market my father took me to could have been Castle Market as according to what I have now read that did not open until 1959. Both my paternal grandparents who had lived in Sheffield had died by then. My grandmother died in August 1954 and I am guessing that it was probably during the trip back "Oop Norf" to attend her funeral that my father took me to see the penknife stall. From what I have read it was most likely the Rag and Tag market which apparently stood in Commercial Street not that far from Wicker.

I remember the trip quite vividly not just for the penknife stall but also for the clip round the ear I received for going missing for a couple of hours in the company of my 2nd cousin Brian. We stayed with my fathers cousin's family in Tinsley and Brian, their son, who was a bit older than I took me with him to play football at a park/playing field nearby. Unfortunately neither of us bothered to tell our parents we were going so when we returned apart from a severe telling off we both got a clip to remind us not to do it again.

The trams that Sheffield has today are a far cry from the bone shaking vehicles that were there before. If ever you want to see examples of the earlier ones they have some old Sheffield trams at the Crick Tramway museum. My father told of the dangers of riding a bike in Sheffield and getting your bike wheel stuck in the tramlines or of skidding on the wet metal rail.

The trams still rattle along, but they look a little different these days!

My dad worked at Steelos.....not sure if that was the correct name or spelling but thats what he called it.

Castle market is still here Jonesey!

Yes those were the days. Trams rattling along the Wicker and if my memory serves me well there was a flea market nearby which my father took me to to show me a stall that sold nothing but folding penknives. My fathers cousin lived in Tinsley not far from where Meadowhall shopping centre now stands. Her husband worked at Steel, Peech and Tozer who I believe had the largest smelting shop in the world.

As you say Steel City is much changed