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What do you miss in Sheffield that used to be here but now is gone?


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In the late 70s /early 80s the Moor was a top shopping street: Habitat and Hamleys were briefly there. That's all gone now.

 

I miss:

- Redgates - fab place

- The Morning Telegraph, a quality paper

- coffee and cream double decker busses (not old enough for blue and cream)

- The old South Yorkshire Transport logo (as seen on the background of this page (why change it for the stupid "T" thing)

- The Co-ops on Scott Road and Gower Street

- Coulson's on Scott Road (Spar)

- The Hole in the Road

- kids menu of chips, beans and sausages in BHS on Haymarket (the plate had circus animals on the edge)

- Lidos at Longley and Millhouses

- The old tramp at the bottom of Waingate at Lady's Bridge who used to shout at the sky

- Wards

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Originally posted by Carmine

I recall those busses...I even remember getting on the number 54 near Rivelin Park for the staggering fare of 2p!

 

I was a bus freak and can remember getting on the number 8 circular and wanting to stay on it until I got home again (sad, I know). That was only ever time I had to pay more than 2p on the bus - it was 4p.

 

It was publically owned, on-time, ran to timetables, and got you about. Now everything is private, but more subsidised than ever. Do we pay less tax? Long live the People's Republic!

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Originally posted by fhain29

I was a bus freak and can remember getting on the number 8 circular and wanting to stay on it until I got home again (sad, I know). That was only ever time I had to pay more than 2p on the bus - it was 4p.

 

It was publically owned, on-time, ran to timetables, and got you about. Now everything is private, but more subsidised than ever. Do we pay less tax? Long live the People's Republic!

 

By the time I was 12 I had bus drivers demanding adult fares of nearly a quid...crypto-fascists!

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Originally posted by Ned Ludd

The wonderful glasshouse in Weston Park, commemerating the Festival of Britain but allowed to fall down thanks to the neglect of our wonderful City Council

 

They raise piles of sh*t to the sky, whilst all the time allowing the stuff that's worth saving to detereorate into piles of sh*t...so in the end all we have is sh*t...

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