does anybody on here remember the swop shop on staniforth rd in the early 70s it sold anything u could imagine as kids we would scrounge anything outof our houses and take it down there 2 raise sum spending money it was on the corner and next 2 them was a fabric shop then jennings hardware and at the end of the block at the corner of woodbourn rd was was mr anthonys shop where most folk got there gen groceries and u could also have a slate there which i remember my parents sending me down and often been told" 2 put it on slate while thurs"which was pay day for my dad happy days

Sure do, I swapped a Pathe 9.5mm movie camera for an ancient 1938 Morris 8 which was parked up on the spare ground at the side of the shop! I ran it for about 18 months, it was the first car I ever had. This shop and all the others on the Cliffe always seemed to have loads of model aeroplane diesel engines in the window, there must have been a tremendous interest in them at that time. Happy days!

I can't remember the one on Staniforth road but did they used to be one of these on the Wicker or Attercliffe Road?

yep there was one on attercliff rd it was just past attercliffe baths and roughly positioned where the entrance 2 don valley stadium is

If I remember rightly, it was a corner shop and my dad bought me a piano accordion for £9.00 it was a big Pietro.
then he made my older sister go with me for lessons at the bottom of London road, we only stuck it for six months. then me and my mother took it back where we got it and got our £9.00 back.

there used to be a shop ,near to the woodburn hotel,it was called ike graysons,theres was claires cafe on the end of the road too.:)

Originally posted by brooksy
yep there was one on attercliff rd it was just past attercliffe baths and roughly positioned where the entrance 2 don valley stadium is

I remember the stretches of shops along that section of the 'cliffe, there very well.

My mum used to "drag" me and my sister along Attercliffe common from the bottom of Staniforth Road, via some shopping in Banners, on our way to visit her father, my grandpa, who used to live just beside Carbrook School.

To a small child of three or four, (and certainly no more than six, as grandpa died just after I turned 7) that walk seemed like forever. Me and my sister were whacked by the time we had traipsed all that way it seemed forever, to our little legs!

(I am sure that in reality, it was probably no further than about a mile from staniforth road to broughton lane... can anyone confirm/ refute this, please? it just seemed to be a long way to us as kids.)

I remember that, all the time we were walking along the road, I used to keep my sights fixed on the spire of the school frontage, as, once you had turned that corner of Attercliffe common, just by Banners' store, you had a pretty straight view there.

I knew that beside the school, was our destination. It seemed to make the journey shorter, having that focus.

I remember the Carbrook "Board" School building being sandblasted clean, in the '60's, sortly before it fell somewhat into disuse (around the time the community was scattered in the "slum" clearance of the late '60's and early 70's). The creamy sandstone had turned black because of the industrial and coal-burning pollution. I remember how, after the sandblasting treatment, it seemed to gleam, in comparison to the grimy, blackened walls of before.

PT

you arc correct it would be about a mile , dont u remember how busy it was ,it was as busy as town when i was a kid shame realy .

Originally posted by brooksy
yep there was one on attercliff rd it was just past attercliffe baths and roughly positioned where the entrance 2 don valley stadium is

I remember that one...it had a microphone and noise-sensitive lights on display in the window at one time. Cue lots of youngsters running up to the window and screaming as loud as possible in order to activate the flashing lights :D

Originally posted by brooksy
you arc correct it would be about a mile , dont u remember how busy it was ,it was as busy as town when i was a kid shame realy .

yes, brooksy, i remember how much life. and hustle and bustle there was along the'cliffe.

I remember the thatres (was one called the palace, or something?) that's no longer standing, although the Adelphi beside the old Burtons' building is still there, used as a nightclub, now.

I remember darnall's shops slightly less well, as we would only shop there occasionally. We tended to go through darnall on the circular, bus, route-number 2, down greenland road. That bus took us nearer grandpa's, dropping us by broughton Lane.

I remember the parade of shops which ran on attercliffe common, beginning with the pub on the corner of broughton lane/ the common... between broughton Lane and carltonville road, with the butchers, the post office, and the yellow-painted corner shop, just by carltonville road, which was a shoe repairers and became a shopeither selling and/or repairing tvs.

I remember the little back yard of my grandpa's tiny old terrraced house. I remember the remnants of the air-raid shelter from WWII, in the corner of the yard, beside the outside-lavatories.

I remember slipping through the hole of a cellar grate, as i walked along my grandpa's road, with my mum, because someone had stolen the metal grate for scrap.
It was lucky she had hold of my hand, and yanked me up as she felt me fall. I only went down the grate-hole as far as my knees.

I remember being about two or three years old, and being "made" to sing "Yellow Submarine", by the lady who owned the corner shop at the top of Ravensworth Road, for my Bassetts' sherbert fountain!

PT

yes I got my first grass cutter from there way back when

I remember that swap shop on staniforth I once sold an old car battery to him and a pair of tennis racquets. The shop near The Woodbourne pub was butchers shop called Gaydons I use to work with the butchers brother at Samuel Osbournes in the Wicker who in turn still has a butchers unit in the fish market in town

yep there was one on attercliff rd it was just past attercliffe baths and roughly positioned where the entrance 2 don valley stadium is
I think this was the first of these shops I remember taking a van load of nearly new stuff there in 1954 ihad started on my own as a joiner and ran out of cash ,he gave me a fifth of its value[ take it or leave it], it was saturday, a large cheque came on monday!

The swap-shops on Attercliffe Common always had plenty of model trains hanging vertically from metal strips in the window. My father used to take me down regularly in the early 60`s to see what had come in. He bought quite a few of those trains, which always worked perfectly. I still have every one of them and could never part with them, after all they were my Dad`s trains! I was just the excuse to justify to Mum why he had spent the cash!

I remember the stretches of shops along that section of the 'cliffe, there very well.

I remember the Carbrook "Board" School building being sandblasted clean, in the '60's, sortly before it fell somewhat into disuse (around the time the community was scattered in the "slum" clearance of the late '60's and early 70's). The creamy sandstone had turned black because of the industrial and coal-burning pollution. I remember how, after the sandblasting treatment, it seemed to gleam, in comparison to the grimy, blackened walls of before.

PT
That was my primary School (City Grammar was my big boys school). I was pleased to see the building is still standing when I went down to PC world on a recent visit, does anybody know what its being used for now?

Hey I remember Gaydons butchers just off woodbourn road. I had a friend who lived in the next yard! Their tomato dips and bacon butties where lovely.

Hey I remember Gaydons butchers just off woodbourn road. I had a friend who lived in the next yard! Their tomato dips and bacon butties where lovely.

Just read this and I remember a swop shop on stanniforth road called mary's spot cash