The old lady with the brass scales

[Vague_Boy]

good god i remember her having the brass scales at the old market bottom of dixon lane ... we are all showing our age now guys ....

 

I know, I know. I remember being weighed on those scales when I was about 4 or 5. It seems like a different world now.

[Plain Talker]

I have got a Terry Gorman print of the old market facing me, here are some of the names on the picture,

L Allen (Hardware), Mallerns (boiled sweets), Sadler (Cobler), William Atindale(Florist), Poultry market (horticultural in my day), The weighing scales, Massarellas (Ice Cream), Rex Amoid (Herbal remedies), W H Benson (Carpets), Leslie (Fabrics), G Tate (Kitchen Utensils), Elsie Turner (Greengrocer), Lily's Cafe. In the background there is the British Gas & Coke Co and the Y.E.B. There was also Turners Tools at the Sheaf Street end. As you left at the Sheaf Street entrance across the road was Sheaf Street Motors and a fishing tackle shop Collins I think? Anyone remember the man who was on The Generation Game who could juggle plates? I heard he lived up Grenoside.

 

Wasn't that "Potty" Edwards? There's a whole thread devoted to him in this section!

 

I also remember the lady with the scales, even though I was very young.

 

If she didn't guess your weight correctly, you didn't have to pay. I doubt she got many of her guesses wrong.

 

The sights and smells of the rag-n-tag were fascinating to me as a tiny tot of about two years old.

 

I remember trekking between the different stalls for the various things mt mother wanted to buy, the cardboard boxes that had been strewn on the floor as you walked through the puddles, and the rain drippping as you stood waiting to be served. (maybe my mum only took me there when it was raining? lol )

[alex3659]

Wasn't that "Potty" Edwards? There's a whole thread devoted to him in this section!

 

I also remember the lady with the scales, even though I was very young.

 

If she didn't guess your weight correctly, you didn't have to pay. I doubt she got many of her guesses wrong.

 

The sights and smells of the rag-n-tag were fascinating to me as a tiny tot of about two years old.

 

I remember trekking between the different stalls for the various things mt mother wanted to buy, the cardboard boxes that had been strewn on the floor as you walked through the puddles, and the rain drippping as you stood waiting to be served. (maybe my mum only took me there when it was raining? lol )

 

I knew potty edwards and his son Lol,He went all religious in the Billy Graham era ,he used to run the mini buses to the meetings at Uniteds ground.

He used to booze in the Norfolk Dixon Lane every lunchtime with the rest of the market lads.By the way Billy Graham was the biggest crowd at the lane.

[Choirgirl]

Hi Retired -I think the man who juggled the pots was called Edwards. It was fascinating to watch him, you could stand for hours and watch and listen to his banter. I think they also had a shop down the Moor.

[soul sista]

The old man who used to juggle plates was EDWARDS i think?Ihave fond memories of my mother dragging me round there showing my age now :

[welly]

does anyone remember the old lady with the brass scales that used to sit in the entrance of the old rag market

 

her name was mrs knutts,

[DOMMI]

Hi Retired -I think the man who juggled the pots was called Edwards. It was fascinating to watch him, you could stand for hours and watch and listen to his banter. I think they also had a shop down the Moor.

 

I am nearing the end of a book called, The POTTY EDWARDS, What A Way To Get A living. It is by Michele Lockwood-Edwards. It is a really good book with some very funny stories about market life in Sheffield.

[hillsbro]

I am nearing the end of a book called, The POTTY EDWARDS, What A Way To Get A living. It is by Michele Lockwood-Edwards. It is a really good book with some very funny stories about market life in Sheffield.

Yes - it's a good read and not expensive if bought via Amazon etc.

[pitsmoorboy]

hre name was mrs white she lived on the manor it wassaid although i dont know if this is fact that when she retired she kept the scales in her coalplace

 

I remember being weighed on those scales, does anyone know where they are now ?

[Walkley0 Mum]

I remember being weighed on those scales, does anyone know where they are now ?

 

About 2001 my then boyfriend helped a pal deliver some furniture to a house around the Durlstone Crescent area near Gleadless Common. They had to put the furniture in the garage and in the same garage were the ex Rag & Tag scales.

 

Details may be hazy but that's the story as told to me