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OUTSIDE toilets and the first wooden escalator are stars of a Sheffield website set up to keep memories of old Attercliffe alive across the world.
Andy Moffatt was born in Attercliffe in 1968 and even though his family left the area in 1980, he still holds it dear in his heart.
Now living in Torquay, he has created his own website dedicated to memories and old photographs of the Attercliffe area.
Andy's family left in 1980, when many of the old houses were being pulled down, and they moved to Barnsley where his parents took over the running of a working men's club.
"It was never quite the same there and I had a brother living in Torquay so I decided to move down in 1992 and see a bit more of England," he said.
"I mostly miss the community that exists in Sheffield. Every time I go back to visit people always seem genuine and down to earth - loud and with a cracking sense of humour! I also miss the place even though it has changed so much. Most of my local landmarks around my old town are still there and some unchanged."
Despite his love for the Steel City and one neighbourhood in particular, he says he has stayed in Torquay for so long because his daughter also lives there.
Andy says he is proud to be from a place steeped in history and has dug up fascinating facts about Attercliffe while constructing the website Outside bogs and sink baths - A Memory of a Cliffe kid.
"My house used to stand where the tram now goes by the canal on Chippingham Street, opposite the Virgin Media building, and I spent many a time playing around there," Andy said.
"Because of this I took a series of pictures in 1992 and finally turned them into YouTube videos detailing what is on the pictures and my memories of what we got up to as kids."
The former pupil at Huntsman Garden School mentions everything from the list of jobs at Attercliffe Library to Attercliffe Baths, the first wooden escalator at Banners department store and the ex-catalogue clothes shop Hitchens.
There was no heating and only an outside toilet but the thing he misses most is living in a place where community, friends and family really mattered. Oh, he does also wish he could still get hold of the world's best fish and chips too.
Visit www.70sheffieldlad.co.uk to find out more about Outside bogs and sink baths - A Memory of a Cliffe kid.
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