tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post1148273859744481283..comments2023-10-15T00:20:43.111-07:00Comments on Sarah Maid of Albion: Urban Planning and IdentitySarah Maid of Albionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11685494924450312124noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-27719728775870168002009-10-06T03:45:45.004-07:002009-10-06T03:45:45.004-07:00Good grief, Mister Fox - have you been following m...Good grief, Mister Fox - have you been following me around?<br /><br />I moved to Birmingham (not there now!) and lived in such *cough* desirable areas such as Nechells and Washwood Heath.MrsJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-39737789192474263472009-10-05T21:48:33.616-07:002009-10-05T21:48:33.616-07:00I don't know where you mean by the ther sideof...I don't know where you mean by the ther sideof the city but if you mean the Burngreave area, good luck! <br />You don't have to walk far under the Wicker Arches before you are faced with a travel shop and then a bookshop both named after Malcolm X!<br />This area is nothig like places I have lived and worked in like Handsworth, lozells and Aston in Brmingham but it is intimidating none the less.<br />I walked up Spital Hill and farther to reminisce about whereI sed o work but as I progressed andas it was early evening, I used my experience of such places and got a bus back to the city centre.<br />Groups of "youths" were beginning to gather and a honkey on thiose streets is a target when it is darkning(pun intended). <br />The shops named after Malcolm X are proclaiming their hostility to us. Our authorities have been giving iour country to immigrants without any moral or legal justification and we have a moral and legal right to retake these as they are rightfully our dscendents.mister foxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-68424537485451366412009-10-05T15:27:14.154-07:002009-10-05T15:27:14.154-07:00Mister Fox, I've had a book for many years abo...Mister Fox, I've had a book for many years about the gang wars. It's now sadly out of print, but you're right about the policing methods that put an end to it - which would not be allowed today!<br /><br />I originally bought it to check none of my family were in there (they weren't). My gran was a buffer girl.MrsJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-90608484055664785442009-10-05T14:53:19.599-07:002009-10-05T14:53:19.599-07:00Mrs.J,
I meant to post this link after "enjoy...Mrs.J,<br />I meant to post this link after "enjoy the notoriety." It is a remarkable story of the "Sheffield Gang Wars" 0f the twenties<br />They had not the style of Chicago gangstrs, you know, machine guns in volin cases and all that, but the solution inaugurated by chief constable Colonel Hall-Dalwood was remarkable. He formed a "special squad" made up of big hard men who went round beating the gangsters up!<br /><br />http://thegreenarrow.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=mrfox&action=display&thread=3860mister foxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-24951565092240147112009-10-05T14:45:24.553-07:002009-10-05T14:45:24.553-07:00Woodhead Road - the opposite side of Sheffield to ...Woodhead Road - the opposite side of Sheffield to me. My first husband was from that area, and I'd better not say any more in case you ARE my first husband. :-)MrsJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-68638556756311856042009-10-05T13:46:46.565-07:002009-10-05T13:46:46.565-07:00Dr.D, Mrs.J, was right about my meaning. I person...Dr.D, Mrs.J, was right about my meaning. I personally don't give a hoot for Ozzy Osborne or Joe Cocker, but they are prt of modern localhistory and significant to a lot of people.<br />My viewson modern mass entertainment are oft expressed.<br /><br />http://thegreenarrow.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=mrfox&action=display&thread=4159<br /><br />http://thegreenarrow.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=mrfox&action=display&thread=4496mister foxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-49531971647065241792009-10-05T13:40:23.207-07:002009-10-05T13:40:23.207-07:00I went back a few weeks ago and got some photos of...I went back a few weeks ago and got some photos of where I lved on Woodhead Rioad an had a couple of pints in he very friendly local shithole The Railway Hotel on Bramall Lane.<br />It is said that when Sean Bean comes home from Hollywood after watching his beloved united he goes for a couple of pints with locals in the Railway!<br />I enjoyed the Cathedral but generally Sheffield is an ugly city. You go there for the warm, friendly people not architecture. Manchester is the opposite! In facy whhen I used to drink in the Minerva even the Angels (Blue) were welcomung!<br />Here Mrs.J, enjoy the notoriety! Incidentally, its a fantastic panoramic view of the city from Sky Edge.mister foxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-37751545828868274612009-10-04T03:37:24.446-07:002009-10-04T03:37:24.446-07:00Dr.D said: "In speaking of historic things, I...Dr.D said: "In speaking of historic things, I thought that there was a striking shallowness in some of the examples given: "... despite its local importance as the venue where Ozzy Osborne began his career," and a similar reference to Joe Crocker. I really do not think that these are the enduring English values to be cherished, on a par with Hastings, Runnymede, Parliament, Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury, and a host of other things too numerous to mention.<br /><br />Indeed, Dr.D, they aren't. But to someone who was there, who experienced this as part of their personal life and was greatly influenced by them, they are irreplaceable, and on a personal level, deeply upsetting. As I said in my previous post, I suspect the incumbent government like to keep us without a firm foundation. At the moment, they can't get away with wholesale destruction of say, Oxford, but a little place like the Minerva - well, I'm sure some people signed a petition, but in the end, a piece of my <b>personal</b> life was consigned to landfill. These things are of local importance, as Mister Fox said.MrsJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-11904592313558558752009-10-03T14:44:37.378-07:002009-10-03T14:44:37.378-07:00Wow, that was a shock reading about Sheffield (the...Wow, that was a shock reading about Sheffield (the town in which I was born and bred). The Minerva was one of my favourite haunts and in addition to Joe Cocker, I saw local band McCloskey's Apocalypse there. It's an example of how even small things affect our state of mind as I now feel saddened and weepy at the demise of a pub I once knew so well.<br /><br />Sheffield suffered greatly in the 1960s from 'progress' and I thought the tide had turned when they demolished the 'egg-box' extension to the town hall - obviously not. These days I am feeling more and more unsettled, disoriented, which I suppose is what the government wants me to feel, because this also makes me feel powerless. Many places, both of recognised historicity and just the plain old familiar are changing - and changing too fast. I feel like the chap in the Bible who built his house on sand.<br /><br />Perhaps it's my age, but I feel that people of any age need stability and familiarity. They need surroundings and people around them who are known and with the soulless buildings and rapid demographic changes we just don't have this.<br /><br />I don't think our current planners will ever recognise the problem - we need a paradigm shift in both local and national politics. We need to value our indigenous heritage - both recent and distant. We need a change in leadership.<br /><br />BTW, it's Ecclesall Road (no 'h'). I lived on a road leading directly from it. thank you for your article, Mister Fox.MrsJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373165199675890724.post-11583790313638055632009-10-03T11:55:51.822-07:002009-10-03T11:55:51.822-07:00A couple of thoughts come to mind as I read this. ...A couple of thoughts come to mind as I read this. <br /><br />First of all, I certainly agree with the general line of thinking expressed by Mr. Fox. To destroy the traditional environment is to significantly modify the country in ways that will adversely affect the native population forever. It is a removal of your heritage that is clearly calculated to facilitate the introduction of a replacement population.<br /><br />In speaking of historic things, I thought that there was a striking shallowness in some of the examples given: "... despite its local importance as the venue where Ozzy Osborne began his career," and a similar reference to Joe Crocker. I really do not think that these are the enduring English values to be cherished, on a par with Hastings, Runnymede, Parliament, Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury, and a host of other things too numerous to mention.<br /><br />England is the land of the Robin Hood legend. Isn't it time for us to see the young people of England return to something like that, to rise up in resistance to the evil government, to live outside the law by living wild in the countryside, not so much to rob the rich for the benefit of the poor, but rather to strike at the oppressive government for the sake of the nation? If the youth have any sense of national pride left at all, this would seem like the only natural outlet for them. Rather that waste themselves on drugs in the streets, why not fight and try to do something? The IRA managed to hold on for many years, surely the youth of England could at least do that! They actually have a much stronger cause because their country is being taken from them and they are being reduced to second class citizens beneath blacks and muzlims. What does it take to stir them up?Dr.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18360786634583725263noreply@blogger.com