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Numpty's Dusty Ruts. said:
This is going against the grain a bit (quite a lot really!), but I always liked it. I liked the "wedding cake" too. Sorry!
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Although I prefer old style buildings - the egg box, or any public building built with public money should have lasted many times longer than what it did. Same with the fire station near to Coles - it's public money - we should spend the money better - that's my main point - sorry. Dare I mention the world stupid game?
 
Fulwood Blade said:
Although I prefer old style buildings - the egg box, or any public building built with public money should have lasted many times longer than what it did. Same with the fire station near to Coles - it's public money - we should spend the money better - that's my main point - sorry. Dare I mention the world stupid game?
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The problem, in simple terms, is floor to ceiling heights. Modern offices have suspended floors and ceilings to contain all the services like computer cables and air con. So you need big floor to ceiling heights. With older buildings that are worth preserving, you can do a facade retention scheme, where you retain the frontage but build modern offices behind it.
When the egg box was built they probably didn’t predict how much floor to ceiling space would be needed forty years later and there’s no real architectural reason to try to retain any of it. It was probably cheaper just to knock it down.
 
Fulwood Blade said:
Although I prefer old style buildings - the egg box, or any public building built with public money should have lasted many times longer than what it did. Same with the fire station near to Coles - it's public money - we should spend the money better - that's my main point - sorry. Dare I mention the world stupid game?
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Totally agree Fulwood! For what it's worth, I think they should have dynamited Park Hill flats and created a big city park behind the station. I like what they've done but it could have been so much better. Many years ago, Mrs Numpty, myself and the kids saw one of the Norfolk Park tower blocks dynamited, and it was awesome! Council missed a trick because they could have sold tickets and made a killing!!😁
 
BushBlade said:
The problem, in simple terms, is floor to ceiling heights. Modern offices have suspended floors and ceilings to contain all the services like computer cables and air con. So you need big floor to ceiling heights. With older buildings that are worth preserving, you can do a facade retention scheme, where you retain the frontage but build modern offices behind it.
When the egg box was built they probably didn’t predict how much floor to ceiling space would be needed forty years later and there’s no real architectural reason to try to retain any of it. It was probably cheaper just to knock it down.
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What I heard, which could of course be a load of old bollocks, is that the whole thing was falling down - floors not level, cracks appearing, everything looking tired and in need of a complete overhaul, so it was probably not possible to save it even if someone had had the insane idea to preserve the god-awful thing.
 
BushBlade said:
The problem, in simple terms, is floor to ceiling heights. Modern offices have suspended floors and ceilings to contain all the services like computer cables and air con. So you need big floor to ceiling heights. With older buildings that are worth preserving, you can do a facade retention scheme, where you retain the frontage but build modern offices behind it.
When the egg box was built they probably didn’t predict how much floor to ceiling space would be needed forty years later and there’s no real architectural reason to try to retain any of it. It was probably cheaper just to knock it down.
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It got blown up in Threads; I saw it on the telly. Woolworth's went too - they knew something, I tell ya.
 
This is a guy from Radio Sheffield doing interviews. This was a peoples march for jobs in about 1981, and not football coverage despite the clue.

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Fulwood Blade said:
One of the interesting things about pictures like these are the lack of cars.

My dad, who was a very keen photographer, even back in the 50's he had a Leica camera and took his own photos (and developed them) all over Sheffield. He took one of Margaret Street (near to the lane, when it had houses both sides) and there was only one car in the street - it was his! Only reason him and my mum could afford a car was because he was a car mechanic. My mother tells the story of 1955, when they could only afford 1 gallon of petrol per week for it.

It was hard in them days.
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I was born a bit after that, but even as a kid, growing up in the 1960's, there were very few cars about compared to now. I remember a game we used to play as kids where we would create a sort of bingo card of colours and try and be the first to spot different colour cars. Most of them were black! But we'd sit out on the front step and sometimes you could wait a couple of minutes before the next car came along. Reminds me also of these books:

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The "I-Spy" books. They did them for all kinds of things, birds, trees, insects, etc. But my favourite was the cars one. You used to take it out with you and when you spotted a car in the book you had to fill in your log.

"Where did you see your Volkswagen Beetle?" "What colour was it?" "What date and time did you see it?" etc.

When you'd completed the whole book you could send it off to "Big Chief I-Spy" and he would send you a feather and "order of merit". Good, cheap, clean, educational, healthy entertainment for young kids.

And what are young kids doing with their spare time these-days? Wasting it playing games or watching porn on the computer! That's what!

And what am I doing with my spare time these days? Errr...

I'm not playing games on the computer. 🤔
 
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I should coco said:
Neither have I and a wonderful bit of nostalgia, especially the SISU fans talking about tickets for the semi.

I guess the old lad who saw us won it in 1925 is long gone. There could still be a handful of people who saw that and are still alive, but I'd guess none of them still attend the Lane.

What a night!
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Guy was called Les. He sat near me in the South Stand until he died in his 90's. Very dapper and well spoken, always had a twinkle in his eye. Super fan.
 
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BushBlade said:
The problem, in simple terms, is floor to ceiling heights. Modern offices have suspended floors and ceilings to contain all the services like computer cables and air con. So you need big floor to ceiling heights. With older buildings that are worth preserving, you can do a facade retention scheme, where you retain the frontage but build modern offices behind it.
When the egg box was built they probably didn’t predict how much floor to ceiling space would be needed forty years later and there’s no real architectural reason to try to retain any of it. It was probably cheaper just to knock it down.
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Genuine question. What is a suspended floor?
 
XM657 said:
Genuine question. What is a suspended floor?
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Technically, it’s most floors, for example the upper floors in a house are ‘timber suspended’ in that they’re made from joists with floorboards on top but in this case I was referring to a ‘raised floor’.
Most commercial buildings are built with concrete floors of one type or another and then they fit a secondary floor above, this is the bit you walk on. There is a void between the two ‘floors’ and this void is used for all the cables for phones, computers, electricity etc.
Like this
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BushBlade said:
Technically, it’s most floors, for example the upper floors in a house are ‘timber suspended’ in that they’re made from joists with floorboards on top but in this case I was referring to a ‘raised floor’.
Most commercial buildings are built with concrete floors of one type or another and then they fit a secondary floor above, this is the bit you walk on. There is a void between the two ‘floors’ and this void is used for all the cables for phones, computers, electricity etc.
Like this
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Thank you, learn something new everyday, I can see all the advantages to build like that. Are the pedestals adjustable and what kind of distance generally between sub floor and FF?
 
XM657 said:
Thank you, learn something new everyday, I can see all the advantages to build like that. Are the pedestals adjustable and what kind of distance generally between sub floor and FF?
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I’m afraid I’ve no idea if they’re adjustable. The void is usually around 200mm.
 

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