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Post by Humph on Dec 11, 2019 10:09:53 GMT
Not unless it was a ghost ambulance !
My mother drove everywhere as if she was on an emergency call out. Dad wouldn't let her drive his car.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 12:01:09 GMT
Funny how paths cross. I lived in Sheffield for 10 years until 2001.
Last time I was there it had all changed at the end of the Parkway leading traffic out to the north side of the city. Probably wouldn't recognise the place now, I wonder if the car park above the old bus station and market is still there ? Whenever I saw that I'd get flashbacks to the opening scene of the Full Monty with the paa paa paa paa paa paa music *Shudder*
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Post by Humph on Dec 11, 2019 12:14:34 GMT
I never lived there, grew up in Edinburgh. But, I still have relatives there from my mother's side of the family. I can remember being bought a dog from a stall on Sheffield market when I was a child.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 22:24:30 GMT
Funny how paths cross. I lived in Sheffield for 10 years until 2001. Last time I was there it had all changed at the end of the Parkway leading traffic out to the north side of the city. Probably wouldn't recognise the place now, I wonder if the car park above the old bus station and market is still there ? Whenever I saw that I'd get flashbacks to the opening scene of the Full Monty with the paa paa paa paa paa paa music *Shudder* I was born and dragged up on the edge of the Peak District north of Sheffield. I couldn't wait to escape the place. It's only redeeming features were the Wapentake, the Nelson and the Wednesday student lunch at the Mucky Duck. Cheap Newcastle Brown with pie, chips & peas while watching the resident stripper get down to her originally white but now grey knickers. Last time I set foot in Sheffield itself was when I had to register my dad's death 6 years ago. Trying to find a parking place within mum's walking distance of the Town Hall was a complete pita. Ended up in a multistorey NCP next to The Crucible that cost me about £7 for an hour and had parking bays sized for Fiat 500s not XJs. Every sidestreet shortcut I used to use is now either No-Entry or blocked off by tramlines and one way systems. The city centre is a horrible, horrible place if you need to use a car now. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 6:56:05 GMT
The city centre is a horrible, horrible place if you need to use a car now. I don't ever remember it being anything but. Going into the centre was usually a bus or tram ride. If I needed anything which did not include delivery requiring me to take the car I'd go, early, to Meadowhall. |
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 12, 2019 8:44:00 GMT
It's only redeeming features were the Wapentake........ The city centre is a horrible, horrible place if you need to use a car now. ...I've never had the misfortune to live in Sheffield, though I have friends and family there, and it was the closest "bright lights" in my early youth. It was the Buccaneer for me, which I think pre-dates the popularity of the Wap, and thus ages me. TBH, most town/city centres are now a nightmare for parking, unless you know them. We are equidistant from a number of larger town/city centres here, and I have "free spots" within easy walking of the centre which I use for parking when we visit. I used to do the same in Sheffield, but there is little available now, so on our infrequent visits we now use the tram (which is free for ALL old-age perishers passes, unlike most trams systems, which are only for local people). I'm certainly not on the doorstep - it's a two-hour return trip for my walking sessions, but at least my friend lives right on the edge of the Peak District, so he's virtually on the way. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 8:47:56 GMT
I'd have ended up at Sheffield University if I'd tried harder at my A Levels. I had to settle for Nottingham in the end.
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Post by Avant on Dec 12, 2019 9:16:50 GMT
You got the better deal, Al. Nottingham has a better reputation for teaching students to think for themselves, rather than just regurgitate what they're lectured on.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 9:19:13 GMT
It probably depends on the particular department. I preferred Sheffield's approach to the subject I studied. I did study a very niche, almost inconsequential subject.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 12, 2019 9:42:46 GMT
It probably depends on the particular department. I preferred Sheffield's approach to the subject I studied. I did study a very niche, almost inconsequential subject. Whilst both were well regarded in the engineering field at the time, Nottingham generally quoted (slightly) higher qualifications for entry (though Sheffield wouldn't have been on my radar, as I was rather too familiar with the place - not a disparaging remark, simply a desire to discover somewhere else). |
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Post by Humph on Dec 12, 2019 10:01:45 GMT
Sheffield can be a bit of a curate's egg of a place. As you say T&E, the surrounding countryside is stunning. In the city itself, there are parts where there are some impressive buildings and houses, but punctuated by some really deeply unpleasant areas too. That of course can be said of many cities.
I still prefer places that are built on hills to those which are flat. Living on the Cheshire plain I think the geographical features I miss the most are the changes in elevation I enjoyed when living in Edinburgh and Bath. Also, I still don't take to brick and much prefer stone built buildings.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 10:18:16 GMT
It probably depends on the particular department. I preferred Sheffield's approach to the subject I studied. I did study a very niche, almost inconsequential subject. Whilst both were well regarded in the engineering field at the time, Nottingham generally quoted (slightly) higher qualifications for entry (though Sheffield wouldn't have been on my radar, as I was rather too familiar with the place - not a disparaging remark, simply a desire to discover somewhere else). Well indeed. My first job when applying for University was to draw a 100-mile exclusion zone around my parental home. Still ended up as close as it was possible to be really given that stipulation. As it turned out my Mum left the country shortly after I went away. Looking back I'm surprised I didn't apply to anywhere in Scotland, and I now can't remember why that was. Wales was out of the question because it was Wales, and Belfast was still a bit bomby and shooty still. I suppose it was the paucity of institutions offering the stupid course I wanted to do. I remember being tempted by Aberdeen, but they were closing the department and I'd have been the final intake for the subject, which seemed a bit of a bummer. Got to go through all this in a couple of years with my eldest. Blimey, seems like I was doing it yesterday. |
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 12, 2019 10:48:05 GMT
Looking back I'm surprised I didn't apply to anywhere in Scotland ....I got an offer from Heriot Watt (that well-known 50's B-actor, Humph) which, in some ways, I rather think would have been a good option. Didn't like my course at Nottingham (I was told in retrospect that it was regarded second-only to Cambridge in Mech Eng at the time), and parted company after two years. Eventually got an offer to return and carry on, but real work beckoned, and then overtook. (I was only 17 when I went to Uni - a little more maturity might have helped). In a family of four, there are now 5 degrees, 3 first and 2 second - I'm the only one without. Having had my interest piqued by IT at Nottingham, however, I managed (with a little initial indirect path) to make a very successful, enjoyable and lucrative career of it. There's a certain mild regret at flunking the degree, but the time at Nottingham served its purpose. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 11:08:59 GMT
Were you in a Hall of Residence at Nottingham TNE? If so which one? I was in Derby Hall for a year, then out into Lenton and shared housing.
Used to Work at the Grove Hotel on Castle Boulevard, if you remember that.
I remember Heriot-Watt offering the country's only degree in Brewing at the time I was applying. I'd have liked to have done that if I'd done sciency A Levels.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 12, 2019 11:50:17 GMT
Were you in a Hall of Residence at Nottingham TNE? If so which one? I was in Derby Hall for a year.... Moi aussi (but two years, A-block and C-block). Frank Barnes was the Hall warden, then, and I believe for quite a time after, so you may have come up against him. I lived in Lenton for some time when I returned to Nottingham at the end of the 70's, 'tis now very much a student ghetto. (though I've just this morning posted a card to a friend that lives there). Having been effectively deserted by domestic help, I am currently attempting to make making the Christmas Cake, a task for which even my multi-faceted education and experience has left me ill-prepared.  |
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