Coming back with my booze for today i noticed trays of plants and flowers outside a few houses.
There was signs saying please take for free.What a lovely gesture.There are some really nice thoughtful people out there.
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Coming back with my booze for today i noticed trays of plants and flowers outside a few houses.
There was signs saying please take for free.What a lovely gesture.There are some really nice thoughtful people out there.
That has been going on our street since lockdown started - plants and garage clearance stuff out on the pavement for others to take. My old car crooklock (doesn't fit the car I now have) has found a home 200m down the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
On Saturday my partner organised her third plant stall - most from our garden and a few donations from neighbours - and this time instead of just telling people to take what they want she asked for a small food donation to go to a Food Bank near where we used to live (with the highest deprivation and infection rates in Sheffield). After less than 3 hours everything had gone and we had over £100 in cash donations and a dozen large boxes of food (tins, dried pasta, tea/coffee etc).
I think this sort of thing has been going on all over the country - aided by a rise in real community spirit and mutual aid, social media used properly, and a heavy dose of Thursday communal clapping. I just hope some of this survives the return to 'new normal'.
You can't fault that can you? it's brilliant!
My wife is a wonderful gardener and as a thank you to a couple opposite for providing such valuable help during this crisis she gave them about 30 plants she had propagated. You would have thought we had given them the crown jewels because we had a tray of homemade cakes in return. They are a treasure.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
Bit pedantic and off topic but I assume you mean Habershon Street.
Some nice people in Splott.
Knew someone would :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
lol Can't change thread titles can we? :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Yes it does give you hope .Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
As no one else has asked, I’ll put myself in the firing line !!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
Why would anyone want “FREE SIGNS” ????
LMAOQuote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
I always drop my h'sQuote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Gfys :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Good job no one noticed on the Menelaus street thread, init? :hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Gotta be honest, I’d never heard of that street.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Furthest I went down (whichever was last), was Greenhill or Layard street
I have a vague recollection of my nan pronouncing it "Ab shon" street. She used to live there with my gramp and mum, having moved away from Loudon Square en route to Arthur Street. Also my great uncle's future wife's dad had a bakery or similar on Habershon Street. That was the Sederman family.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
There was a lot of competition bakery wise in Splott in those times.Quote:
Originally Posted by IanD
There were bakeries on Splott Road, one by St Albans church, but the most famous and busiest was Janet’s Pantry on Carlisle Street
God, I miss that smell from Janet’s Pantry, always reminded me of school, no doubt the same for you Tony.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Dinner time from St Illtyds, one would go to Janet’s Pantry for small crusty loaves, the others would go to the chippy.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Rip out all the bread, fill the loaf with chips, frigging lush
Bloody starving now :hehe:
We used to do that, half a cob loaf and 6p of chips lol
Please tell me 6p of chips was a double dose. 3p was the going rate circa 1971. With curry sauce.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
I had relatives on Slott Road and my great grandfather was a master baker. My mother was always good for scrounging broken biscuits off her gramp and buns from Sederman's. No wonder she had dentures!Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
you may be right, 3p was for the half cob loaf lolQuote:
Originally Posted by IanD
6p:yikes: That’s over a shilling, 6d in mine & Bluetit’s time, a tanner’s worth of chips:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
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Originally Posted by IanD
We used to wait outside the CWS biscuit factory on Moorland Road, on a Thursday/Friday night to get broken biscuits off the women workers.
Great times.
On the money aspect, I can’t remember what I paid for a bag of chips last week, never mind 1962 :hehe:
Sorry 6d.! lol that was for the chips, 2.5p in new money. I think the half a small cob loaf (which as someone said, you ate the middle out of) was about 4d.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker