Grenville Squires
Hello, I’m Grenville Squires. I’ve been an Estate Officer for Sheffield Homes for the last 28 years and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it as it’s been so varied.
I’d like to tell you a story about one day when I was walking along the landings on the Park Hill distributing black bags – we give tenants 3 bags a week. I noticed a man had collapsed inside his front door and it was locked. He was in such a position that if we smashed the door the glass panel would have cut his neck and if we kicked the door in we would have broke his shoulder. So I thought “how are we going to sort this out?”
After a bit of thought I went into the next doors flat, got into their kitchen veranda and swung around with 60 ft of fresh air under my posterior and dropped down onto the other kitchen veranda. I went into the flat, pulled the gentleman out of the way and put him in the recovery position. I found his key and opened the front door just as his wife and the ambulance man arrived, who said to me “You’re lucky you got to this man when you did” and he was starting to go blue round his mouth and was cutting his own air supply off.
It all got a bit embarrassing after that because for the next 4 years, no matter where I was, whenever I saw this lady she told whoever she was with “Ah, there’s that lad that saved my husbands life – isn’t he a goodun!” It was a bit embarrassing!
That’s just one story I’ve got after 28 years, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.
