Who is from Yorkshire?
Jun 17th 2013, 10:31 pm
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What a small world? I used to go to the open air pool in Longley Park in the summer. Church parade to the park on Whit Monday.
Jun 17th 2013, 10:59 pm
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i have only been an expat for 7 months and spent the best part of 40 years living in the North of the city, the last house being just off Wood Lane at Stannington. i moved away for ten years in the 90's and could not believe the changes when i came back, Attercliffe was the biggest shock of all i would say, gone all of the old steelworks and run down terraced housing and all of the new sports and shopping centers that replaced them. I did think though that Coles Corner was the old meeting place in town, or is that before the t'ole in t' road era?
Attercliffe has changed alot, it was a rough and dirty place when I worked there, the building where I used to work is long gone, they were in Biz for about 65-70 years.
I see Banners is still there, Wow that was a nice department store back in the day.
Jun 18th 2013, 1:12 am
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Thanks for the heads up with that pictures of Sheffield old and new, just spent a while going through them.
Jun 18th 2013, 2:41 am
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My dad used to buy things from Banners, but always tools and hardware (back in the day before B&Q, Great Mills, and Homebase), so I never even knew it was (is) a department store. He worked in one of the steel mills in Attercliffe, though I don't now remember which one.
Jun 19th 2013, 4:18 pm
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The building is still there, I think Banners has closed, Yes it was a really nice place to shop, clothes, camping gear, tools, TVs you name it, it was much like a nice Coop shop, Id have a walk around there sometimes on my lunch hour, I also shopped at Westons Chemist near the corner of Staniforth Road, they had a record dept... Oh and Burtons was on on the corner...
There were so many steel works down Attercliffe it would be hard for me to come up with a name, My sister was an office girl at Sanderson Kaysers at one point...
Jun 19th 2013, 6:59 pm
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Wow... Thanks for that...
The building is still there, I think Banners has closed, Yes it was a really nice place to shop, clothes, camping gear, tools, TVs you name it, it was much like a nice Coop shop, Id have a walk around there sometimes on my lunch hour, I also shopped at Westons Chemist near the corner of Staniforth Road, they had a record dept... Oh and Burtons was on on the corner...
There were so many steel works down Attercliffe it would be hard for me to come up with a name, My sister was an office girl at Sanderson Kaysers at one point...
The building is still there, I think Banners has closed, Yes it was a really nice place to shop, clothes, camping gear, tools, TVs you name it, it was much like a nice Coop shop, Id have a walk around there sometimes on my lunch hour, I also shopped at Westons Chemist near the corner of Staniforth Road, they had a record dept... Oh and Burtons was on on the corner...
There were so many steel works down Attercliffe it would be hard for me to come up with a name, My sister was an office girl at Sanderson Kaysers at one point...
My paternal grandparents lived on the west side too, on Rural Lane, #82.
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Jun 19th 2013, 8:00 pm
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We lived all the way across town, off Abbey Lane. My mother used to walk down to Woodseats with my little sister and me to buy groceries (she didn't, and never has, learned to drive) visiting the butcher, greengrocer, and Wood's minimart, for dry goods, but they fetched everything for you. Then Tesco opened, and it was never the same.
My paternal grandparents lived on the west side too, on Rural Lane, #82.
My paternal grandparents lived on the west side too, on Rural Lane, #82.
Jun 20th 2013, 12:00 am
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Well of course I'm from Bradford, this is old I guess, I didn't see it here? Made me homesick http://youtube.com/watch?v=k-nH3DN-ubE
Jun 21st 2013, 3:55 am
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Well of course I'm from Bradford, this is old I guess, I didn't see it here? Made me homesick http://youtube.com/watch?v=k-nH3DN-ubE
Jun 25th 2013, 10:46 pm
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Wow! I've just been to see where Bromwich Rd is. You were just a couple of hundred yards from the school I went to on Abbey Lane (1/71-10/74), and even closer to St Chad's church that we attended.
Jun 25th 2013, 10:58 pm
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