What is that? - PICTURE
ANN Beedham is trying to identify this instrument made around the 1940s, possibly at Hadfield's steel works.
It may be some kind of heat/pressure control. Does anyone have any idea what it is?
•Contact: Ann at ann.beedham@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk
ANDREW Metchick would like to contact Sean Mosely, who he worked with at Daniel Hill chip shop, Upperthorpe, from 1989 to 1993.
•Contact: Andrew Metchick on 07501 158352.
DONNA Nugent writes from Australia in the hope of tracing her cousins.
She says: "My mother (Betty) Edith Elizabeth Cook was born on January 18, 1929 and spent her early years in an orphanage.
"She was in the orphanage until she came out to Australia and married Bruce David Carter. They had five children, Aubrey, Sally, Mary, Therese, and Donnamarie.
"My mother's parents were Norman and Beatrice Cook. She had two brothers, Norman and Leonard Cook, and both, I believe, went to war. Also, many years before she passed on she found out she had a stepbrother named Eric Pittman. I believe he has passed on.
"One of these brothers (Norman or Leonard), I believe, had four daughters and one of the girl's name was Helen. Helen travelled out to Australia many years ago and visited my mother in a small country town of Augathella Qld Australia.
"My mother passed away in 1999. She never spoke much of her early years in England as it was very traumatic for her. She did write to her family but since she has passed on we have lost contact with her relatives.
"This saddens me deeply as I know all of my father's family and all of my husband's relatives but always draw a blank to my mum's side. I'm sure she has wonderful nieces out there who would like to meet their Aussie cousins."
•Contact: Donnamarie Nugent, "SouthSide", Roma.4455 Qld Australia or email southside@hwy54.com.au
LADIES of the former Davy United are invited to an annual reunion at Daby Sports Club, Prince of Wales Road on Tuesday May 19 from 11.30am to 2pm.
MAUREEN Jessop is trying to organise a reunion for any nurses who trained at the former City General Hospital, now the Northern General in the 1950s.
She says: "Our Nurse Tutor was Miss Revill and the Matron was Miss Jobling."
•Contact: Maureen Jessop on 01629 583858 or email maureen.brian3@btinternet.com
To make an appeal in Contact Column write to Fiona Firth, Contact Column, The Star, York Street, Sheffield, S1 1PU or email fiona.firth@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk
Read more in our nostalgia section and see previous Contact Columns.
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