{"id":8918,"date":"2018-03-04T17:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T17:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=8918"},"modified":"2023-09-22T19:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T19:10:58","slug":"sydney-sheldons-trans-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk\/?p=8918","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sheldon’s Trans-port"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was\u00a0the Tividale trickster\u00a0“gender fluid”\u00a0 or just trying it on with the law?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I always had my doubts about Mr Sydney Sheldon, he of the ruining of Barnett’s brickworks fame into a commercial free for all tip <\/a>come\u00a0flogging off of parcels of land for housing.\u00a0The demise of the area and urban creep owes much to his treachery, as does whatever grubby deals were done with Albright and Wilson amongst others during his time in control of a brickworks come entrepreneurial building operation,\u00a0and I am one to speak ill of the dead when they left nothing but illness behind them. He died a very wealthy man and everything happening around the rattlechain lagoon has its genesis from his actions.\u00a0This article from the excellent British newspaper archive reveals more of his highly dubious character and just leaps straight out like a drag race. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n

It appears that speedy Syd “the builder” had been caught by the rozzers doing a bat out of hell down the carriageway. A simple stop and fine you may think from this fine upstanding member of the Tividale community banged to rights- but not Sydney. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

It appears the Chelmarsh conman had a real problem with giving his details to the authorities- you might ask “what had he got to hide?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

When caught, Sheldon refused to give the court his date of birth and sex<\/strong>. The misdemeanour cost him \u00a310, as the September 1970<\/strong> article reveals.<\/p>\n

He<\/span> protested “I don’t see why on earth I should be turned into just another number and filed in some computer”.<\/span> \ud83d\ude06\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Technophobe prisoner number six was obviously in quite a hurry, but ended up stranded in the village of the damned.<\/p>\n

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So what exactly was his problem with authority and why the ridiculous reason for declining to give his gender? Was he a part time Rattlechain RuPaul with bricks in his bra, a woman within a man’s body\u00a0or some form of pioneer of “uman rights” years ahead of his time?<\/p>\n

The answer of course is none of the above, yet bizarrely with the insane manner in which the “uman rights” industry has been emboldened with politically correct bollocks, such a stance of refusing to answer such a question today in court may even be\u00a0given the time of day in some European court of utter madness. He<\/span> was just a conman<\/span> that had been caught out and he<\/span> didn’t like it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Like Samuel Barnett before him, who also came to untimely grief when speeding on his horse down the same road, he appears to have believed that he was somehow immune from anything- even the law. The reasons why such records including gender identity were and still are needed are set out below, and if that offends any snowflake today\u00a0then I really couldn’t give a shit.<\/p>\n

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But this wasn’t the first time that he had been in trouble with the law, or before the beak.<\/p>\n

He appears to have been embroiled into taking the law into his own hands when evicting someone from their allotment by causing criminal damage in 1959<\/strong> as these two articles also from The Birmingham Post reveal.<\/p>\n

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Found guilty , the trespasser was made to pay \u00a350. Ultimately it appears to confirm what I had already gathered about the man<\/span> from his dodgy business dealings with the brickworks when selling them off. There was little interest in this, and this “Trans- Christian Anderson” \u00a0obviously told people what they wanted to hear- apart from the law it seems.<\/p>\n

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Flytipping – especially of chemical waste <\/a>would flourish around his “business”. No wonder he didn’t want his details on the police national computer. I just wonder if his “transport” business had anything to do with the Duport group that tipped waste after selling off the land?<\/strong><\/p>\n