Jeffrey Shaw Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Everybody still knows it as the Manpower Services Commission building, although the MSC itself is long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassett one Posted November 2, 2022 Author Share Posted November 2, 2022 but it would be unwise to leave it empty,so manpower must decide what to do,i think we all agree on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingJ Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 7 hours ago, bassett one said: but it would be unwise to leave it empty,so manpower must decide what to do,i think we all agree on that? No - it is the property of SCC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Christ he thought it was still a Manpower building 🤣🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassett one Posted November 3, 2022 Author Share Posted November 3, 2022 well if it belongs to scc ,they need to use it or sell it as we have no money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ01 Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 1 hour ago, bassett one said: well if it belongs to scc ,they need to use it or sell it as we have no money Could they sell it to the National Lottery & then apply for a grant from the National Lottery to buy it back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeHasRisen Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 15 minutes ago, MJ01 said: Could they sell it to the National Lottery & then apply for a grant from the National Lottery to buy it back? 🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) On 02/11/2022 at 17:13, Jeffrey Shaw said: Everybody still knows it as the Manpower Services Commission building, although the MSC itself is long gone. Do they??? I doubt anyone under 40 knows it as that. Neither will the thousands of fresh face students coming into the city every year. Good grief us Sheffielders really love clinging on to long defunct names don't we. It's Cole Brothers all over again. Given the manpower services commission was disbanded by 1987, I would suggest that more people know it as simply Moorfoot or that big red building given the revolving door of government departments throughout the 90s and the council moving in as far back as 2011. Edited November 4, 2022 by ECCOnoob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 13 hours ago, ECCOnoob said: Do they??? I doubt anyone under 40 knows it as that. Neither will the thousands of fresh face students coming into the city every year. ^This. I came here in 2003 and - like 'Cole Brothers' - picked up on 'Manpower' as a local name but it was hardly the only name used for the building, and not even used that regularly as far as I recall. 'Moorfoot' or just a vague, dismissive gesture towards it were the usual ways of it being referred to in conversation. Manpower and Cole Brothers now are names that are certainly in my head and occasionally come to mind when I think about either building but I'd never use them out loud and I can't think of the last time anyone I was talking to used them either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassett one Posted November 4, 2022 Author Share Posted November 4, 2022 when do scc workers move out of the old manpower building? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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