walking through town today saw workmen laying what looked to be an american style walk of fame plaque near the fountain in the bull ring to David Topliss, have i missed an announcement??

dreamt it?

made it up?

There was a post on here sometime ago, it's to celebrate famous Wakefield people

That'll be his Wakefield Star - a series of them are being laid to celebrate the famous folk of Wakey.

There's a joke in there about that Wakey bird from Big Brother or the one from X Factor but I just can't put it together...

how long till some little chav thug destroys them

what a positive post.

whats wrong wi that?
i posted on the last thread it was a great idea on how to remember some local greats.
but have you been in our town centre lately its chav thugs or immigrants everywhere you look.

so get over it

It isn't a very positive post, but its what a lot of people were thinking.
The city centre is inhabited by a great number of people who i am not very proud to see in it.
FWIW i think the post was bang on.

I think you are 100% spot on.

woohoo i was right!

thing is im only 27 and when i was a kid if i even thought about destroying or marking any property id of got a thick ear.
it now seems the norm to put a "tag" on anything you can. or to cheek off the older generation it does my head in

Hmm - I'm a fair bit older than you and in my experience, vandalism and disrespecting your elders is certainly not a new thing; they were considered perfectly valid hobbies whilst growing up on Lupset in the 70's.

im a Crigg lad and if i dared to speak against some of my elders a thick ear it was

Indeed - it was considered an occupational hazard where I grew up and in many ways, an acceptable risk.

Thesedays however, in the position of the adult who would once have been dishing out on the spot justice, we have the fear of being stabbed or kicked to death by the recipient of said thick ear, so many adults will turn a blind eye to antisocial behaviour; thus, it continues unchecked and inevitably escalates.

That kind of shenanigans seems to be at its worst on estates and out of the way places though, away from police presence and cctv cameras; Wakefield City Centre doesn't seem a terrific amount worse to me now that it ever has been - just that some of the people hanging around there look a bit different, since we do seem to have a fair sized population of Eastern European immigrants.

Lupset was the place to be if you were growing up in the 70's.


Majority of the Wakey South Standers came from there too in that period.

It certainly kept you on your toes and helped you develop a keen sense of danger, together with the ability to either fight or run really fast.

It was a jungle out there...

I grew up on Lindsay Ave in the 1940's and we respected our elders and property in those days, Lived alongside McDermots ,Greens, Lovells Fryers . And we hadsome great names playing for TRINTY Then

Pussyville compared to Streethouse

Went to look at a new housing development a few years back in Streethouse. All of the show homes windows had been put through and there were a group of young scallies watching use intently as were looked on from the car. Safe to say we turned round and didn't bother looking around.

They don't call that Streethouse I think they call it Snydale villas or something like that - I wonder why

Went to school with kids from streethouse and sharlston

I lived in Kinsley and Grimethorpe, now that was a tough upbringing

All you lupset wallers, can you remember seeing "dean of ossett" plastered everywhere on rd signs and walls or is this something I dreamt? Seem to remember seeing it everywhere but not having a clue who it was? Anyone know? Lupset in the 70's loved it.

That rings a bell - there was quite some rivalry between Lupset and Ossett, hence the regular meet ups to fight it out on the fields that bordered both (which incidentally, have now been turned into a Country Park, with the beautiful vistas of Lupset on one side and the M1 on the other) so maybe Dean was tagging all over Lupset as a display of provocative bravado?

I agree with you by the way - it was a great place to grow up, despite appearances.

Lupset, Sharlston, Streethouse - yer a avin a laf . Growing up in Sandal during the 70's was a tough place to be.