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I should coco said:
I can understand no wanting to upset our wonderful war time allies and why the cannons were moved, but the monument itself is very much at risk:

https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/south-yorkshire/the-crimea-monument



I agree wholeheartedly.

Sadly the trees planted on Western Road in 1919 to commemorate fallen pupils of Westrn Road School, are not deemed worth protecting either.

We really do have a shit-house coucil with absolutely no sense of history or civic pride.
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The trees on Western road hwere replanted years ago, simply a case of replacing them once again.
 
Silent Blade said:
Alex Scott left Everton before Bill Dearden came to us. Terry Darracott

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I can remember Darracott with a lot less hair. Bit of a Max Wall look-a-like.
 
Danny_Blade said:
How did we allow the Luftwaffe to get so far beyond the cliffs of Dover all the way to Sheffield? Forgive me I'm only 26 but from the WW2 documentaries I've seen we were pretty much ahead of the game technology wise with early warning radar stations dotted all along the south and east coasts, detecting and tracking enemy aircraft allowing the RAF to intercept them.

Such a shame seeing all these pictures in this thread of utter devastation and the loss of our beautiful grand old architecture, but even if Sheffield wasn't hit it wouldn't surprise me if our council would've knocked most of them down in the years to come anyway.
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on the south coasts ;) they come straight across not via dover like the Manchester to frankfurt flight
 
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Wapping Blade said:
My grandad (died before I was born) was a policeman and ARP Warden in Sheffield so I bet he had some stories.

My dad was born in 1934 and lived at Wadsley during the war. He remembered barrage balloons and AA guns at the reservoir on Ben Lane.

My mum lived at Lees Hall and when I was young they still had an Anderson shelter in the garden and there was shrapnel in the house wall.
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We had an Anderson shelter at the bottom of the garden and also lived at Lees Hall, on the Thorpe house estate.
My grand dad was tram driving during the blitz in Sheffield.
Must have been difficult times and I do remember putting up shutters at night to keep out the light.
The present generation have no idea what that period was like,first jelly at school sent from Australia.
John Street stand demolished kop end due to bombing.

I could go on but will not bore you.

UTB
 
snootyfenooty said:
Don't doubt the date as that's Claywood flats just being topped off on the left but whats with all the smoking chimneys? I thought we were well into the clean air zone thing by then, that's surprised me.
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I'm fairly sure it's the end of 1969.
 

Kentblade said:
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We had an Anderson shelter at the bottom of the garden and also lived at Lees Hall, on the Thorpe house estate.
My grand dad was tram driving during the blitz in Sheffield.
Must have been difficult times and I do remember putting up shutters at night to keep out the light.
The present generation have no idea what that period was like,first jelly at school sent from Australia.
John Street stand demolished kop end due to bombing.

I could go on but will not bore you.

UTB
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My mum was on Thorpe House Road, just below Lees Hall Road.
 
Kentblade said:
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We had an Anderson shelter at the bottom of the garden and also lived at Lees Hall, on the Thorpe house estate.
My grand dad was tram driving during the blitz in Sheffield.
Must have been difficult times and I do remember putting up shutters at night to keep out the light.
The present generation have no idea what that period was like,first jelly at school sent from Australia.
John Street stand demolished kop end due to bombing.

I could go on but will not bore you.

UTB
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It is far from boring, it is our history. As I get older I appreciate the importance that SUFC as played in my life, and SUFC is the people who were part of it at any given point in time.
 
Sean Thornton said:
I think Claywood was inhabited from around 1968 Mick. Girl I kbews family moved on there from Hyde Park . Could be wrong though.
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They opened in early 1970 Sean. We have a Park Hill Flats group of Facebook and some members lived on there. I did have access to the camera in 1968, but it was strictly controlled. It was only from September 1969 that a new tutor gave us free reign. After saying that I have so many I'm not always sure where they were taken or exactly when. Sometimes I was pissed. :)
 
Houses on and around Shrewsbury Riad, Duke Street, Bard Street Berna
Mad Mick said:
They opened in early 1970 Sean. We have a Park Hill Flats group of Facebook and some members lived on there. I did have access to the camera in 1968, but it was strictly controlled. It was only from September 1969 that a new tutor gave us free reign. After saying that I have so many I'm not always sure where they were taken or exactly when. Sometimes I was pissed. :)
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I'm amazed, looking it up Gleesons built them in 1967 - l take it that's the start date - did they really take three years to build to habitation? They may well have done but Park Hill took less than four years. I was their when Hugh Gaitskill opened them.
 
Mad Mick said:
They opened in early 1970 Sean. We have a Park Hill Flats group of Facebook and some members lived on there. I did have access to the camera in 1968, but it was strictly controlled. It was only from September 1969 that a new tutor gave us free reign. After saying that I have so many I'm not always sure where they were taken or exactly when. Sometimes I was pissed. :)
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I lived on the Norfolk Park went to Norfolk School 69-71 had a lot of mates lived on Park Hill / Hyde Park
 
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Neuschwanstein said:
It is far from boring, it is our history. As I get older I appreciate the importance that SUFC as played in my life, and SUFC is the people who were part of it at any given point in time.
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I’m still on Thorpe House Road still digging up bits of the Anderson shelter at the top of the garden. I don’t know if anyone’s uploaded the more detailed map of bomb hits before.
 
Sean Thornton said:
Houses on and around Shrewsbury Riad, Duke Street, Bard Street Berna


I'm amazed, looking it up Gleesons built them in 1967 - l take it that's the start date - did they really take three years to build to habitation? They may well have done but Park Hill took less than four years. I was their when Hugh Gaitskill opened them.
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Thats another interesting point Sean. Park Hill was opened in 1961 but tennants started moving in in 1959. It was built in stages. The pavement area first and finally Talbot Street I believe. To be fair the same thing could have happend with Clay Woods, although it could have been a bit dangerous around there with all the scaffolding etc.
 

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