I am looking for people to talk to from Sheffield. And tell me whats happening with Sheffield Wednesday and The Sheffield Tigers :lol: or anything else that's happining there. When I was in Sheffield I lived in Chapeltown I rememember a few things about the place but would love to chat to someone from there.

Welcome scaja.

Where in Oz? My sister and her shower live in Nowra and my mother-in-law lives in Mulgrave. Anywhere near you?

Hi Scaja.

I have a brother in Werribee is that close to where you live?

Hi, I have just moved to chapeltown 6 months ago, but i have lived about 10 mins away for the last 17 years, so anything you want to know just drop me a line and ill help you out if i can
:D

Hi Maxt

I live in Canberra the capital. Nowra is on the coast and a nice part of the country,it is about 2-3 hrs drive from Canberra. I have been there a few years ago on a surfing weekend.

Mulgrave is no were near here it's in Victoria and a lot closer to Melbourne, looking on the map it would take you about 2 days to drive there.

Could you please tell me how wednesday are going the last I heard they were in the 1'st division.

Anyway keep in touch. :D

Hi scaja, I'm not a football fan but I think Wednesday went down into the 2nd division recently, that's the old 3rd division since they introduced something called the premiership.

Hi there, I also now live in Australia, just outside Brisbane, I used to live in Oughtibridge & was born in Stocksbridge. I know Chapletown quite well as my cousin & her husband used to have the Commercial hotel there for many many years. I was there 2 years ago & it has expanded a little since my last trip 20 years before.
I was also a Wednesday fan but that's going back to when they had players like Bronco Lane, Ron Springett (giving my age away now).
Life is a bit different in Oz to Chapletown hey? (We don't get much rain here). haha.

Never been to Australia,but a friend of mine worked on the Snowy Mountains project many years ago before coming back to the U.K.
Lost touch with him now though.

Quite a number of ex-pats(Sheffield and area) in Oz by the look of it. I went to Melbourne, Victoria, then recently to Gold Coast, Queensland just a few years ago. What a great place, not the least of which is the weather! We are still in winter, and I am in shorts(not a pretty sight tho). Have found a few ex Kiveton Park boys and girls over here. One in Melbourne, and three in Perth W.A. Anyone else?

Originally posted by Janet Olsen
Hi there, I also now live in Australia, just outside Brisbane, I used to live in Oughtibridge & was born in Stocksbridge.

....Life is a bit different in Oz to Chapletown hey? (We don't get much rain here). haha.

Hi Jane

We moved to a house near Oughtibridge 3yrs ago. Mostly we just drive through it but do use the surgery and post office in the village. There have been a lot of new houses going up since we've been here - both sides of Station road by the river are new estates and new houses down by the weir - there won't be a green open space left in the village before long.

I remember Stocksbridge, Deepcar and Oughtibridge before they built the bypass - it must have been pretty horrendous living with all that traffic. Much better now, - very few heavy-goods lorries trundling through.

When did you go out to Oz ? I was supposed to go out to Perth in 1957 to learn to run and eventually take over a fruit farm owned by my mother's cousin - but I jibbed.

We don't get a lot of rain here now either, - must be a fortnight since we had any, and we had temps up in the nineties for four days running last week.

GB

I used to live on Stockarth Lane Oughtibridge, which now has houses built opposite I believe & also behind which used to be allotments. I was born in Stocksbridge though & lived there until I was 11. I came to Oz in 73 to join my brother who played soccer for Brisbane City. Then my parents came out so the whole family was here. I returned to UK after 7 years for hols (in winter) & then had not returned for 21 years but did so in 2001. Oz is a wonderful place to live but I still love Yorkshire & say you can take the girl out of Yorkshire but you can't take the Yorkshire out of the girl. I still say Yorkshire is one of the best places on earth, I love it. The weather & outdoor life here is wonderful though, its wonderful climate is what keeps me here.
I live an hour from the Gold Coast & yes it has advantageds also disadvantages like everywhere. I also lived in Perth many years ago. Pity you didnt try a few years in Oz for the experience of it.

Hi. I have lived in Sheffield all my life, now 62. I live in Firshill not far from town. I go out for a pint with a buddy who lives in Chapeltown. We go to the Legion, this is just before the bridge coming from Ecllesfield. We also use a pub called the crown and cushion sometimes also the Acorn. You dont say how old you are.
Anythink else you want to no.just ask.

Nothing to do with this thread, so please accept my apologies in advance of what I'm about to type.

To all Ex-Sheffielders out in Australia.

I'm currently planning a trip to Australia next year, probably will be backpacking and slumming it in average hotels. I intend to get an internal airpass so I can fly between the major cities and maybe get a railpass to travel the not-so huge distances. Anyway, I would love to hear from you and if you can give me any advice on places to see, places to stay and maybe advice about places not to go to etc then I would be most grateful.

Thanks!!:D

PS Please PM me with any answers or advice.

Originally posted by Janet Olsen
. Pity you didnt try a few years in Oz for the experience of it.



Jane

I did get out to Oz eventually - had a fortnight in Freemantle courtesy of the Admiralty in 1964. Didn't find the natives very friendly...how they can getting fighting drunk on that yukky Swan lager still puzzles me :lol:

Anyway a couple of nights in Perth was enough - we settled for the much friendlier Jugoslavian and Italian quarters in Freemantle...glorious food and wine, gorgeous girls too, but we had to be careful not to be seen oggling them or Papa would chase you with a pretty big kitchen knife:o

The highlight of the trip was a Kangaroo shoot - but trying to shoot a bouncing roo from the back of a bouncing landrover at 40 mph with a Lee Enfield 303 is probably the height of frustration, - no wonder Oz is overun with them !

Didn't have the nerve to look up my relatives.

The whole of the site of the old Middlewood hospital is now a huge housing estate with one entrance off Stockarth Lane right at the bottom - but it's still all open fields on the left as you go up to Worral.

GB

Originally posted by Janet Olsen
Hi there, I also now live in Australia, just outside Brisbane, I used to live in Oughtibridge &

Another of life's little coincidences - as you can see, I live in Queensland now, but in my youth, I used to go camping for a week on a farm above Oughtibridge. The farm belonged to the cousin of the guy who ran the youth club. And that was "camping" - no fancy stuff. Cooking over a log fire, fetching water from a stream, sleeping in a home made sleeping bag(a blanket sewn up one side and along the bottom. And a walk of a mile or so to go to the pub for a drink. Well, we were just a little under age.

Big D, can you remember the name of the pub you used to walk to? I probably either drank in it or was working behind the bar.
Most of my family live on the Gold Coast & I visit every week & shop at Australia Fair.
What area did you live in, in the UK?
Don't you just love the weather here though?Wehave family from Barnsley coming to visit in 4 weeks time & intend taking them to Tamborine & of course down the coastline to Coolangatta.

Greybeard, what a lousy experience for you in WA, I also lived there for about 12 months & discovered that they do not like even Oz people from other states invading WA, they used to refer to me as that girl from the Eastern States because I had gone from Qld to live in WA. But it is a beautiful city I was there again just for a short trip a couple of years ago & have to say Perth really is a lovely city& yes they still love the Swan Lager, give me a pint of John Smiths anyday.
Yep I know what you mean about the kangaroo shoots, thank God they don't make it compulsory inOz.

No, Janet, I don't remember the name of the pub, but I do know that it was on the left on the way down the hill, and I don't think it was too far from the main road. Go on, tell me that all the pubs were on the left on the way ....

Yes you must take your visitors to Tamborine Mountain, it is beautiful. We are between Robina Town Centre and Pacific Fair, a great area :D :D :D

Pub was prob The Hare & Hounds, had more than a few in there myself, I'm originally from Wharncliffe Side but used to drink in Oughtibridge and lived with my dad in Stocksbridge for a while, so drank/drunk there as well, live in Longley now but keep in touch with the old areas

Well looks like Speeder beat me to it Big D & whats even worse he is right, it would have been the hare & hounds(trust a Yorkshire man to always be right) We were truth be known probably all in the same pub at the same time & all too blind to see so to speak. Just wish that when my visitors come they would bring some John Smiths with them. Always used to drink Tennants before I left the UK. Don't like the beer in oz though even after 30 years. I used to work in a pub in Oughtibridge called the Travellers Rest, also used to drink at the Blue Ball at Wharncliffe Side & friends of the family had the Middlewood Tavern for many years & yes nearly all those pubs were on the left hand side. At least you live in a nice area of the coast, I lived at Ashmore when it was first built our house was one of the first to be built there, we paid $26.000 for it, imagine trying to buy a house at Ashmore now for that price hah. Great to hear from you & Speeder thanks for your help on that one.
Regards Janet.

If you have been in Oz for that long, I would have been in short trousers when you left our fair city(only 34 you see)

Speeder, I have seen many a Yorkshire Man in short pants downing a pint in a pub in Yorks.
Its good to see not much has changed then in the 30 years since I left haha.

The Hare and Hounds certainly rings a bell. I suppose the same applies now but at that time, we drank in a pub only because of the beer they sold, so we didn't necessarily drink at the best pub in an area cos the beer might not have been much good. We usually liked Stones - got used to it where we lived - but hated Tennents. Those were the days - when we went into a new pub, to us, the first thing we did was look around to find what the locals were drinking. Best, mild, pints, halves, as they usually knew the best beer and the best way to drink it. Don't have that problem now, as all beer in Oz is sold everywhere more or less, and tastes the same. Ah tjhe old days.

Janet Olsen,
I think you may need a little more than $26,000 for a house in Ashmore now:P :P

I often wonder if living in Australia is better than living in Sheffield.


Many people have done well down under but many have also returned home.

Which is better and why ?

J DEE
My biggest like about living in Oz is the weather, I didnt realise until I went back to the UK just how much time I spend outdoors.& even if I am indoors all the doors & windows are usually open & our winter here in Qld only lasts a couple of months & I do nothing but complain about how cold it is when it gets down to -1 or -2. I do miss things about the UK such as the friendly pubs & the closeness of family. Life here is more laidback somehow, but I think Yorkshire is still one of the most beautiful places in the world & I get a lump in my throat whenever I return to the UK & stand somewhere like the Yorkshire Moors. You do miss having the things like schoolfriends & people that you grew up with around you though. But having been here 30 years I have learnt to live with this weather haha.

hi i was born in sheffield
now live in mudgee nsw i still have relies in sheffield ihope to start tracing family history if anybody can help it would be great my family moved to oz in 1970 if you would like to email me at dswilde@hwy.com.au it would be nice to hear from you
dave

I wonder if I'm the exception...I am an Australian but I moved to England in my late 20s, eventually moving to Sheffield where I have been for over 30 years and I love it. Never mind about the weather, OK sometimes it is foul (and I came from Rockhampton, right on the Tropic of Capricorn).

But I found what I wanted here, married and settled down and have been very happy. Involved with Sheffield life and the community, and interested in its history.

Waltheof.

My hubby also comes from Rockhampton (The Caves) & I lived in Moura for a while.
Funny isnt it, I took my hubby to the UK for the first time 3 years ago & he also fell in love with the place. Not to mention the beer (John Smiths) I on the otherhand coudnt stand a winter in the UK as much as I love Yorkshire.
I remember one Christmas in Moura it was so hot the bitumen was bubbling on the road. Can't win its either boiling bitumen or snow.
Its great having the best of both worlds really isnt it? If I won lotto (millions) I would have winter in Oz & summer in the UK.
Janet.

i too was born and bred in Sheffield. First time on this site and geeze, didnt realise that I missed so much stuff,,, and also didnt realise that I had FORGOTTEN about so much stuff. I came over here 10 years ago and live just outside of Brisbane. Was born in 1966 and went to City School. Lived also in Intake and Gleadless and my mum owned the Birley Hotel and Frechevill for a fair few years.

Hi scaja i was bourn in gleedless, moved to walkley then to wath on dearn then back to park district. Now in the blue mountains

Waltheof.

My hubby also comes from Rockhampton (The Caves) & I lived in Moura for a while.
Funny isnt it, I took my hubby to the UK for the first time 3 years ago & he also fell in love with the place. Not to mention the beer (John Smiths) I on the otherhand coudnt stand a winter in the UK as much as I love Yorkshire.
I remember one Christmas in Moura it was so hot the bitumen was bubbling on the road. Can't win its either boiling bitumen or snow.
Its great having the best of both worlds really isnt it? If I won lotto (millions) I would have winter in Oz & summer in the UK.
Janet.

Hi Janet,
I am from Sheffield and have been in OZ since 1970. We live in Albion Park just south of Wollongong. I love Oz, love the weather, the lay back attitude etc although I must say that it has changed a great deal since we arrived. Generally I think that life is what you make it wherever you live!
My husband almost went to work in Moura in the early '80's. The mines in
this area were laying people off and jobs were on offer in Queensland. We went up for a look but decided against it as we had teenage children and
there didn't seem much for them to do there.
Dors.

[QUOTE=Dors;
My husband almost went to work in Moura in the early '80's. The mines in
this area were laying people off and jobs were on offer in Queensland.

As my other half says, I knocked the job back in Moura thank god, because it blew up a few months later & a few blokes were killed, I could have been one of them had I accepted the job.
We are having my wifes cousin & husband coming from Chapeltown this Tuesday, there son in law is Bright Sodje who played pro rugby league, his brother is Akpo Sodje who plays for Wednesday, so I suppose I'll get an earbashing listening about both codes for a few weeks.
Hope you're keeping fit and well Janet, the St George/ Illawarra Dragons are looking forward to a good season with their new coach Wayne Bennett.
scaja, you can keep up to date with S/Wednesday by vising their website, or by going on the Star website.