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HighfieldBlade said:
Anyone remember the dairy on Broadfield Rd near to Heeley Baths? Memory is crap, but I thought they had a life-size plastic cow in a display window. Did I imagine this? 🤔
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Yes they certainly did. Express dairy. I used to spend ages mesmerised by the crates of milk shuttling across high up on the conveyor above the archway. Before X box and streaming thingies, you understand...
 

SW12 to S12 to S18 said:
This might be of interest, 1966, Midland Station and the Hope Valley stopper in platform 7.

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Great memories. I can almost smell the steam! As a kid I used to spend a lot of time at Millhouses engine sheds or Totley Cutting. I now live at Retford so have the East Coast Main Line on my doorstep, though it's very quiet at the moment! I gave up collecting numbers a long time ago. Nowadays I do my 'spotting' with a camera.
 
XM657 said:
That's what it says on the caption for the photo. Like you I'm assuming 'young Harry'.

Like you SB I have my doubts. As said getty images says H.J., maybe its one of those photos that despite you know who it is they just don't look who they are.
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Is this the same player as in your photo?
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Bert said:
Due to lockdown a crisis of enormous proportions has descended on the Bert residence. He's unable to go to Cuba and replenish his stock of home made cigars, $5 for 100.
His smoking jacket hangs in his study unused.
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Not wanting to pry Bert, but has the Meerschaum broken?
 
HighfieldBlade said:
Anyone remember the dairy on Broadfield Rd near to Heeley Baths? Memory is crap, but I thought they had a life-size plastic cow in a display window. Did I imagine this? 🤔
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Found this picture but you can't see the cow. It was housed in the curved Art Deco far end of the building.
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Found this one as well. But still no cow!!
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Kop sufferer said:
Anorak alert ... Good old 46485, class 2
2-6-0 built 1946, weight 47 tons 2 cat. The 9c shed plate means in is from Reddish engine shed, Stockport
Anorak alert ... Good old 46485, class 2, 2-6-0 built 1946, weight 47 tons 2cwt. The shed plate 9c indicates it is based at Reddish engine sheds Stockport.
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Pre- quartz or digital timepiece, on boiler.


.:tumbleweed:
 

broomhillblade said:
Great memories. I can almost smell the steam! As a kid I used to spend a lot of time at Millhouses engine sheds or Totley Cutting. I now live at Retford so have the East Coast Main Line on my doorstep, though it's very quiet at the moment! I gave up collecting numbers a long time ago. Nowadays I do my 'spotting' with a camera.
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Tenuous. The nephew of former Blades manager Teddy Davison worked at Millhouses depot for a while.
 
Kop sufferer said:
Anorak alert ... Good old 46485, class 2
2-6-0 built 1946, weight 47 tons 2 cat. The 9c shed plate means in is from Reddish engine shed, Stockport
Anorak alert ... Good old 46485, class 2, 2-6-0 built 1946, weight 47 tons 2cwt. The shed plate 9c indicates it is based at Reddish engine sheds Stockport.
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Be careful you might get "Anoraked" on here. You got me bang to wrongs I'm afraid, Went once train spotting, around 1949, give me a ball game anytime.
Despite that there's no denying the magic of a steam engine in steam. Would have thought a young lad like you could see that?
 
On 11.12.16 Bert in fit of boredom decided to input a picture. Who would have expected it to be the monster forum hit it has become. Well done and to SB for making sure everything is correct.
 
Andingmen said:
If I remember correctly, S&E had their dairy round the back, on the site of what later became Esporta and soon to be(?) Home Bargains, I think.
I think maybe their office fronted onto Archer Road, just along from Laycock's
I've got a photo of the old site and entrance gates somewhere, I'll put up later.
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The old S&E site was home to a dairy, butchers, bakers, garage with a mot testing station and a large grocery warehouse. In the garage were stables from the horse drawn era. The "Pork Factory" was on 4 floors and supplied sausages, roast pork, pies etc for about 70 shops, 60 coop ones and 10 private shops illegally. Full of thieving fuckers. The dairy was quite run down with a floor so uneven it was a daily occurrence for a pallet of milk to tip over. Again, full of thieving fuckers. One day we got back off the round to see the manager litterally burning the books before the police arrived. Worked at the dairy for a few years in the mid 70s. Started at 6am and finished at 11am seven days a week. Got super fit working there and digging over gardens in the afternoon soon got me the deposit for my first house.

Not sure how many worked from the Archer Road site, but it had to be a few hundred.
 

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