So where woz I?

[Kit Karson]

where woz I?

[billy meikle]

Re: So where woz I?

germany i was going to say ulster but that large antenna ?

[Kit Karson]

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Nope Billy

[stephenfrank]

Re: So where woz I?

It is no joking matter Kit, if you don't even know where you were. You should see a doctor immediately, you don't mess about with alzeimers.

[KevinMoran]

Re: So where woz I?

where woz I?

Taking the picture?

[Dave Burgess]

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Piece o piss Kev. Cenotaph, Barkers Pool Sheffield.

[Kit Karson]

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Knew you'd get it DB... First time I'd been to Shiny Shef and it wasn't raining... Flurry of snow.... Snake was shut... Tram system in Shef is brill... Conductors... Clean friendly and reliable... Bit like me really. It was food market day, the smells were slurpalishous. Big sausages sizzling and foods of the known world enticing your chops to indulge.
well worth a visit.

probably the equal of Manc for friendliness...

brought to to you by the "Northern cities flat cap and whippet tourist board"

The memorial is flanked at the back by a Yates's and Wetherspoons...

[Dave Burgess]

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Shiny Sheff changed a lot over the years Dave, unrecognisable from my childhood and youth I would say. As a kid, all wuz black from the crap being blown out by mile upon mile of heavy industry, now all gone and everything cleaned up. Georgian and Victorian back streets weer I wuz brought up, all gone, ta bi replaced with massive housing estates on the outskirts, many of which unfortunately av bin turned into modern day slums by fukkin soap dodgers n dregs that reside in em. Like the owd battlecruisers in town weer I served me drinking apprenticeship. all gone to bi replaced by posh wine bars n eightin joints, many former big banks.
Probably nostalgia n an age thing, but I preferred the old city which I suppose is ingrained into my fabric, but it,s full of great memories. An idea of just how big the city is which a lot of people don,t realise, is the fact that befoor I left Shiny Sheff, I lived just within the North West boundary, and our son lived across town just within the South West boundary, mileage covered to get there n back by jam jar, 32 miles.

[peter dearden]

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you were at macdonalds.

[Don the Mod]

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Shiny Sheff changed a lot over the years Dave, unrecognisable from my childhood and youth I would say. As a kid, all wuz black from the crap being blown out by mile upon mile of heavy industry, now all gone and everything cleaned up. Georgian and Victorian back streets weer I wuz brought up, all gone, ta bi replaced with massive housing estates on the outskirts, many of which unfortunately av bin turned into modern day slums by fukkin soap dodgers n dregs that reside in em. Like the owd battlecruisers in town weer I served me drinking apprenticeship. all gone to bi replaced by posh wine bars n eightin joints, many former big banks.
Probably nostalgia n an age thing, but I preferred the old city which I suppose is ingrained into my fabric, but it,s full of great memories. An idea of just how big the city is which a lot of people don,t realise, is the fact that befoor I left Shiny Sheff, I lived just within the North West boundary, and our son lived across town just within the South West boundary, mileage covered to get there n back by jam jar, 32 miles.

It was the same here Dave, without the shit spewing from factories. We had the huge pressed steel plant making car bodies for the car plant across the road. Two giant thread mills, Robertsons Jam factory, Brown and Polsons/Knorr, Lot's of Engineering Co's, a Distillery and much much more. All employing thousands upon thousands of people. You could literally jack a job in and start a new one on the same day. The unemployed were real life workshy and skivers.

[Dave Burgess]

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Good owd days eh Don. Sadly missed, particularly by our generation, no elf n safety, bags o work, unemployment just fer the glass back few. Totally different lifestyle than todays, and I know which one I prefer.

[HappyJack]

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And overtime, don't forget overtime.
First 4 hours @ time and a quarter, then time and a half, then double time on Sundays and the like.
All gone because of being in the greedy Common market and now the EU.

[stephenfrank]

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And overtime, don't forget overtime.
First 4 hours @ time and a quarter, then time and a half, then double time on Sundays and the like.
All gone because of being in the greedy Common market and now the EU.

Used to work for British Rail at Wilmslow Station around 1969, used to get double time on a Saturday morning cleaning the signal box. There was a bloke in there, but the union wouldn't let him clean, so me and another bloke did every other Saturday. The signal box was about the size of a bathroom, took about 10 minutes to clean, then it was cuppa, bacon sandwich and read the paper until time up. Happy days

[trubrit2411]

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Right .....Now we know why British Rail went broke. He scoffed half the pork pie production at Tittertons and then was instrumental in bringing down British Rail.
Now wonder Beeching got it in the neck employing blokes like Steve lol

[stephenfrank]

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Right .....Now we know why British Rail went broke. He scoffed half the pork pie production at Tittertons and then was instrumental in bringing down British Rail.
Now wonder Beeching got it in the neck employing blokes like Steve lol

Didn't help Food Fare either tone. Worked for them, and the manager foolishly said, any badly dented cans, and broken packets of biscuits could go into the lunchroom to share around. I worked in the storeroom and spent most of my day denting cans of food and smashing packets of chocolate biscuits. They had a flat roof like the old blocks, in summer we used to climb up there to sunbathe and I'd accidently dent some cans of strawberries and carnation milk, made a nice snack, plus those big chocolate biscuits, Penguins I think they were called. One day the manager must have spotted us going up there, he suddenly appeared and wasn't happy with the huge pile of empty cans and packets in the corner. Another short career in the retail industry. Think that's why I joined up in the end. there was no where else left.