Just wondered if schools still split the pupils into groups or "houses"?
My junior school -Pomona Street County -named its four houses after local rivers -Loxley,Rivelin,Meersbrook and Porter.
Oddly enough they didn't adopt the Sheaf or Don which are both
more impressive than the piddling Porter and Meersbrook.
Pupils were awarded house-points for sporting or academic
achievements - and occasionally for outstanding bravery.
I recall one filthy winters day Mick Newsome -a tough 9- year old backstreet kid being awarded 100 housepoints for retrieving
a caseball from the fast-flowing river which ran alongside the
school playing field.The teacher had fortunately fastened a length
of rope around the plucky youngster -otherwise I think the
wide-eyed watching schoolkids could see him carried along in the the torrents that disappeared into the tunnels at Moorfoot.
Mercifully he emerged to rasping cheers carrying the ball in one hand and holding onto his sodden underpants with the other.

My school in the 70's had Norfolk, Graves, Firth and Weston

Don't think they do it now.

My high School back in bonny Barnsley had just got rid of the house sytem as I started there.
The house boards were still up in the 'house rooms' which were turned into dining rooms and extra classrooms.

The only one I can remember is York house and they all wore yellow ties.

Moon Maiden

Just remembered that my secondary school -High Storrs -in the Fifties had four houses named after Early Britons -Saxons,Picts,
Jutes and er I think Normans.
Anyone else recall their house names?

I was at High Storrs too, the 4 house names where taken from the head of the house surname back in the 80s.

we had Chantey, Nightingale, tudor (?) and another i cant remember :p

There were no houses when Iwas at school.

House system we had at Earl Marshall as was before the rebuild were Elliot, Chantrey, Firth, Bolsover. All godd local names

i went to ecclesfield comp and we had diamond, emerald, opal, topaz and sapphire i think.....correct me if im wrong!!!!

I was at Herries School in the seventies and we had Windscale, Caulder, Dounray and Jodrell. They had colours too, red, yellow ,blue and green respectively. Each year just before the summer holidays we would hold a sports day where the houses competed against each other.

I went to Hinde House and they had Sorby (yellow) Chantry (green) brierley (red i think) and Hunter (blue).
I was in Sorby

i went to City School, Stradbroke we had "houses" of Tudor, Lancaster, York cant remember the other one!!

Originally posted by mslotus
I was at Herries School in the seventies and we had Windscale, Caulder, Dounray and Jodrell. They had colours too, red, yellow ,blue and green respectively. Each year just before the summer holidays we would hold a sports day where the houses competed against each other.

Wierd choice of names!
Didn't Windscale get renamed Sellafield when the local folk and fish turned fluorescent.
Wonder if the Herries house colour was green..dohhh.

When Ecclesfield was a real school it had Wycliffe, Bronte, Strafford, Lady Mabel, Priestley and Fairfax.

At my Primary schoool we had: Lancaster (red) York (blue) Tudor (Green) and Stuart (Yellow)

Muffin wrote: When Ecclesfield was a real school it had Wycliffe, Bronte, Strafford, Lady Mabel, Priestley and Fairfax.

I went to Ecclesfield when it wasn't a real school, and our houses were Eagle, Kestrel, Hawk, and Falcon. I was in Falcon with all the duffers. I don't think we won a thing - we should have been called Hufflepuff.

Meynell Road Secondary Modern in the early 50's had Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and (Chang) Kia Shek. The houses then changed to Drake, Nelson, and two others I don't remember!

De La Salle at Pitsmoor in the fifties/sixties had Kirkman (Yellow), Clitheroe (Red), Lockwood (Green) and Ludlum (Blue).

Wonder if Clitheroe house was named after Jimmy that
mischievous scamp who delighted us in the golden days of wireless.Sadly he did not make a seamless transition to TV as
viewers found it difficult to reconcile the grey hairs on his legs with
the role of naughty schoolboy.

Originally posted by Ant
Muffin wrote: When Ecclesfield was a real school it had Wycliffe, Bronte, Strafford, Lady Mabel, Priestley and Fairfax.

I went to Ecclesfield when it wasn't a real school, and our houses were Eagle, Kestrel, Hawk, and Falcon. I was in Falcon with all the duffers. I don't think we won a thing - we should have been called Hufflepuff.


I went to Nethergreen Junior School back in the late 60s and we had Eagles, Hawks, Kestrels and Falcons too. Yes, I was a Falcon also and we never won anything either. I remember hating the Kestrels cos they just won the shield every year. I wasn't a duffer- I was just no good a sports.

[Clitheroe
that caught my eye, this is a true story.
we were in skegness & it appears jimmy clitheroe was appearing at the theatre accross the road from where we were walking.
My mom saw this schoolboy waiting to cross the busy road,she took his hand & said wait a minute love & i will take you accross.
'Schoolboy' J.C. looked at us & smiled then said thanx luv & they then proceeded to cross the rd.
At the other side j.c. said thanx & bowed to mum & she still had no idea who he was even when she saw the rest of us laughing our heads off & j.c. waving to us with a big grin on his face.
:lol:

just joined this forum. I left sheffield in 1967 & became a west australian then. Have visited sheffield twice since then & wouldn't want to live there, but many places there in u.k. are beautiful.
I went to st.matthias scxhool & then greystones sec.mod when they split the 3 schools up-st.matthias/pomona st/st.silas.
Have caught up with brian thompson formerly st.silas,michael walsh/michael cuthbert/anne cawthorne all from st.matthias.
Been trying to find others but not easy to do on the net :)
I lived as a kid on beeley st., near locarno & s & e co-op.
Then went to brightmore drive flats.
cheers shawn.

City Grammar School had 4 houses named for what we would now call ethnic tribes. The only 2 which I can remeber are Maori and Zulu.

Mansell primary had Normans (red), Saxons (blue), Danes (yellow)and Celts. I REEEALY wanted to be a Celt so I could wear green but the hat nominated me a Hufflepuff Saxon instead. That blood y stupid hat......

At Woodhouse Grammar in the fifties, we had Sherwood(which was green, could you guess?), Hallam, Rotherwood and ... something else! Most of us spent more time getting out of things than joining in though:P

At King Ted's in the '50s the School Houses had the names of stately homes, or dukes, I'm not sure which. There were eight of them. I remember Arundel, Chatsworth, Haddon and Wentworth - I'm not sure of the names of the others. I wonder if KES still has them.

Originally posted by Carlwarker
At King Ted's in the '50s the School Houses had the names of stately homes, or dukes, I'm not sure which. There were eight of them. I remember Arundel, Chatsworth, Haddon and Wentworth - I'm not sure of the names of the others. I wonder if KES still has them.

Hey there you Old Edwardian. I was at King Teds until 1979.
I don't remember houses at all and seem to think we didn't have them at all. Great school. Wish I was back there now.

Hi - thanks for that info. I was there '49-'55. Returned to Sheffield five years ago after thirty-two years of travelling. Sheffield ain't what it used to be - but where is - and there is still Carl Wark and that area of Derbyshire within twenty minutes drive. Must admit though, if I had the means, I'd be back on the West Coast (Vancouver Island).

Cheers.

I think Myers Grove was -
Canada
Australia
Ghana
India

Can anyone confirm that ? ( the brain cells are going rapidly)

I went to Hillsborough Junior school and we had local road names for team houses (dull or what!) They were Dixon (red) Willis (Blue) Wynyard (green) & Warner (Yellow). That was in the late 60s to mid 70s, anyone remember?;)

I was at High Storrs and we had two houses - Smith and Stevenson. They are named after the head of houses, e.g Mr Smith and Mr Stevenson. When my mum was there I think she said there was four, catcliff or something is the only I can remember her telling me.

I was at Hillsborough junior school in 1990 (only year 1) but I don't remember any houses.....of course that could be because I was so young

Originally posted by The Cycleracer
I went to Hinde House and they had Sorby (yellow) Chantry (green) brierley (red i think) and Hunter (blue).
I was in Sorby

I too went to Hinde House. I think that you have the colours for Brierley and Hunter the wrong way round. I'm fairly certain that Hunter was red and Brierley, blue. I was in Chantry.

The old Eckington Grammar school now demolished to mak way for Morrisons at Halfway. The house wereSherwood(purple) Peveril(green) Chandos(red)and Ferrers(yellow).Peveril always seemed to win everything in my time

Myers Grove in the sixties was commonwealth country names

India
Ghana
Canada
Australia

Prince Edwards had houses named after Welsh castles...Conway, Caerphilly, Harlech and Caenarfon.

I was at Rainbow Forge Junior in the 60's and our houses were called after birds, the only ones I remember were Eagle (yellow), Swift (blue, I think), Curlew (green) and Robin (red - never, why red?) but there were others (at least 6 all together and possibly 8). I was captain of Eagle in 1966-67 and we won! But it was my vice-captain that did the work (I never understood why I was picked, I was crap at everything and not particularly popular).

At Thornbridge (now Birley) we had Furniss, Buslie, Pictou and one other (the spellings are probably wrong) - I think they were the people that had owned the land before it was aquired to build the school.

Steve Cooper

The other house at Thornbridge was Morcar (red). Also I think the land owner thing was something to do with viking? settlements in the area.

Originally posted by slh73
Prince Edwards had houses named after Welsh castles...Conway, Caerphilly, Harlech and Caenarfon.
i moved to prince edwards in 1975 and was put in conway before that i was at athelstan school handsworth...we had york (red) glouster(yellow) lancaster (orange) can't remember what the blue one was....

Hemsworth primary school had: Chantrey, Landseer, Gibbons and Constable - all very arty. When I went to Gleadless Valley Secondary Modern, they took a more ornithological approach with Falcon, Kestrel, Hawk and Merlin. At the time no one knew what the hell a Merlin was (it’s the UK’s smallest bird of prey as it turns out). Hawk, on the other hand, was far too general a term and describes a whole family of raptors, not a specific bird. No wonder we ended up learning nowt, even the teachers were thick

I was at Rivelin School in the eighties and Myers Grove comp in the nineties. The houses there were rivers in the case of the former and peoples of the British Isles for the latter, if I remember correctly:

Rivelin: Don, Loxley, Porter, Sheaf

Myers Grove: Celts, Saxons, Vikings, Normans

As far as the colours go, I'm not that anal!. It was all too wierd and stank of aping public schools for the rich and inbred to me.

Ours were boring bird names:

Kingfishers
Woodpeckers
Something else I cant remember.

It would have been better to be named after something local.

I was a woodpecker, and we never won anything.

The two buildings were named Leslie and Scarborough, after the local artists Eric(?) Leslie and Joe Scarborough.

Should have realised that I dont really remember anything, before I answered this thread.

Sheffield Central Technical School. (Next to the City Grammer).
The Houses were.
Faraday (Red).
Stevenson (White)
Telford (Blue)
Bessemer (Green)

If I had a school I would name the houses after Rock Guitarists. There would be Hendrix [Yellow], Page [Red], Clapton [Blue] and Green [Green].

Originally posted by Gerry
Sheffield Central Technical School. (Next to the City Grammer).
The Houses were.
Faraday (Red).
Stevenson (White)
Telford (Blue)
Bessemer (Green)

Never heard of them.

Originally posted by Bushbaby
If I had a school I would name the houses after Rock Guitarists. There would be Hendrix [Yellow], Page [Red], Clapton [Blue] and Green [Green].

I meant I've never heard of these guy's.

Surely you jest? How is it possible that you've never heard of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Eric Clapton and Peter Green (founder of Fleetwood Mac)?

Originally posted by mojoworking
Surely you jest? How is it possible that you've never heard of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Eric Clapton and Peter Green (founder of Fleetwood Mac)?

I think I might have heard of Eric Clampton.

You've never heard of Hendrix?? Yeah, right. Just like someone else said on here they'd never heard of Westlife. Can't stand them myself, but as you can hardly switch on the TV, radio or walk down any street in any shopping centre without hearing/seeing some reference to them (obviously this person has never met any kids since moving to Planet Earth) it makes you wonder if they're living in a parallel dimension. Probably worth moving to if there's no Westlife there.

Originally posted by Terminator
You've never heard of Hendrix?? Yeah, right. Just like someone else said on here they'd never heard of Westlife. Can't stand them myself, but as you can hardly switch on the TV, radio or walk down any street in any shopping centre without hearing/seeing some reference to them (obviously this person has never met any kids since moving to Planet Earth) it makes you wonder if they're living in a parallel dimension. Probably worth moving to if there's no Westlife there.

Westlife? Never heard of him/her either, but you're welcome in my world.

Have The Beatles registered in your world yet?

Yes. I once heard of them.

For the information of the two guys who went to King Teds...they no longer have houses. I was there in the 80's and they had gone by then. As had prefects and the 6th form hang out room. Lydgate Middle had houses named after parks of Sheffield. Meersbrook (my personal house...luckily we were, often than not, top of the school and used to get a real kick out of watching Mr Hall pile on the coloured bricks on the chart in the hall) Norfolk, Endcliffe and Weston. Good stuff!

...and forget the Beatles...listen to The Hollies !!!

Don't think any secondary schools have houses anymore.
When i was at Havelok School in Grimsby we had 8 houses, I can't remember them all or there colours. There was York(yellow) Gloucester(red, I was in this one and was house captain and we never won owt), Winchester(pale blue), Lancaster(dark blue) Worcester, Salisbury,and Canterburyand one other.
I thought it was a good system but schools just don't seem to be able to cope with this system anymore, and you can't have the kids being competitive now. We no longer live in that type of world
:loopy:

Originally posted by fuzzy
Don't think any secondary schools have houses anymore.


What utter rubbish - and you say you're a teacher?

Originally posted by t020
What utter rubbish - and you say you're a teacher?

So justify this comment.

Originally posted by markham
So justify this comment.

Yeah, justify this comment.

Originally posted by t020
What utter rubbish - and you say you're a teacher?

Have never ever said i am a teacher, try listening on occasions instead of spouting all the time. If you can ever get your head from up your own arse.

Nether Green School (1960s-70s): Falcons (me), Eagles, Hawks, Kestrels

High Storrs School (1970s): Herring (me), Hoffman, Chadwick, Catclif

That's how it was for me.

Originally posted by rupert
Nether Green School (1960s-70s): Falcons (me), Eagles, Hawks, Kestrels

High Storrs School (1970s): Herring (me), Hoffman, Chadwick, Catclif

That's how it was for me.

I was at High Storrs from 1977approx, till 1980, and the houses names, at that time, were Hoffman (post '80 it was Smith), Herring (as I left it became Stevenson) Cary and Catliff. and yes, when Misses Cary and Catliff retired, their houses were merged with either Stevenson or Smith

I was in Hoffman, which was green. (John, and Winter Mist... you both must be only about a year or two younger than me to remember those!)

Bazzo, I went to Sharrow Lane School from 1973 to 1975, (when I transfered to senior school) and I have fond memories (!!) of the trek down Summerfield Street, from S-L Sch, to play games on the "Porter Field" behind Pomona Street school. ah, happy days. Especially when the rounders ball went into the river (snigger)!

(incidentally, the houses at Sharrow Lane School were named after local streets when I was there,:- Grange, Thornsett, Priory and Kenwood!)

Shawn:- just as an aside... you wouldn't recognise the brightmore drive flats these days! the council did them up, and clad them in sort of blue and green panels, and turned the balconies into enclosed utility room things, they look quite nice now. (they did the same to the blocks of flats on Martin Street.

Another poster (Mojoworking) talked about Hemsworth School, on Constable Road...... When were you there, Mojo? I was there from 1968/9 to 1973-ish, and the houses then were named after "local" stately homes, Chatsworth, (red), Hardwick (Blue) Haddon (green) and the yellow house was.. er... er... oh! bloomin' drat! I've forgotten.. can anyone prompt me on that, please? (blushes!)

Plain Talking

Originally posted by Plain Talker
I Another poster (Mojoworking) talked about Hemsworth School, on Constable Road...... When were you there, Mojo? I was there from 1968/9 to 1973-ish, and the houses then were named after "local" stately homes, Chatsworth, (red), Hardwick (Blue) Haddon (green) and the yellow house was.. er... er... oh! bloomin' drat! I've forgotten.. can anyone prompt me on that, please? (blushes!)

Plain Talking

I went to Hemsworth Primary (or Juniors as it was then called) from the day it opened circa 1957 until 1961. They must have changed the name of the houses since then, because as I said in my original post, they were originally named after painters, sculptors etc

An earlier poster (fuzzy) said that school houses are a thing of the past, because "you can't have the kids being competitive now". If true, then it's yet another example of the PC brigade taking over the world

Originally posted by mojoworking
I went to Hemsworth Primary (or Juniors as it was then called) from the day it opened circa 1957 until 1961. They must have changed the name of the houses since then, because as I said in my original post, they were originally named after painters, sculptors etc

An earlier poster (fuzzy) said that school houses are a thing of the past, because "you can't have the kids being competitive now". If true, then it's yet another example of the PC brigade taking over the world


Named for painters and sculptors, eh..? (rubs chin, musing) hmm.

(bright light apprears over Plain talking's head!)

Oh, yes....! as were most of the roads up there:- Landseer, Constable, etc. (were Raeburn, Orpen, and Mawfa, and Gibbons artists, too do you know?)

Oh, yes, and I've also just remembered the name of the fourth house there.. it was Thoresby! I knew it'd come to me eventually!

and I went to another secondary school(1975-77/8), apart from High Storrs, and that one didn't have "houses"

Plain talking

Originally posted by Plain Talker
(were Raeburn, Orpen, and Mawfa, and Gibbons artists, too do you know?)


Sir Henry Raeburn. (1756-1823), Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720), Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), not sure about Mawfa

Originally posted by mojoworking
Sir Henry Raeburn. (1756-1823), Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720), Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), not sure about Mawfa

Wallop! Give that poster a shiny! (sorry, can't you tell, I watch far too much C-beebies with my granddaughter!)


(thank you!)

Plain talker

DEAR BAZZO
IN the 80's while i was still at phillimore junior school, we had shealds and colours. these were, sheaf was yellow and porter was blue, and loxley, rivalin and don but i can not think what these colours were. i was the prefect for sheaf.

Interesting response from juliediane saying that her old school
Phillimore (where is that?) named its houses after Sheffield rivers.
When I idly started this topic last June I mentioned that my old
junior school -Pomona Street County (now Portercroft -if you please! just off Ecclesall Rd) named its houses after local rivers!!
We seem to have come full circle -thanks juliediane.

Originally posted by BAZZO
Interesting response from juliediane saying that her old school
Phillimore (where is that?) named its houses after Sheffield rivers.
When I idly started this topic last June I mentioned that my old
junior school -Pomona Street County (now Portercroft -if you please! just off Ecclesall Rd) named its houses after local rivers!!
We seem to have come full circle -thanks juliediane.

Phillimore school is MR Plaintalker's old school. it is in Darnall, in the east end of Sheffield.

Plaintalker

When I left school in 1958 the houses were called Nightingale, Edison, Scott and Wellington. The school was Shiregreen Secondary Modern on Bracken Rd.

Owler Lane Intermediate houses where Shakespeare Milton Tennyson & I think Byron

I forget what the houses were called at Gleadless Valley in the 60's, but as I remember the treatment meted out by the teachers when the mood took them they might have been called BELSEN, TREBLINKA, AUSCHWITZ and THE SCRUBS for all I know. God they were painful times.

I went to Colley50-54
The houses were,Rhodes,Wilberforce,Frobisher Delius.
All noteable Yorkshiremen
That would be Rhodes who played cricket for Yorkshire
Frobisher the explorer
Delius the composer
Wilberforce the politicion who was instrumental in the abolition of slavery

A long, long time ago at the Sheffield Central Technical School they had 4 houses.

I think they were Stephenson, Brunel, Telford and MacAdam.

I'll stand being corrected by the cogniscenti1

Originally posted by PopT
A long, long time ago at the Sheffield Central Technical School they had 4 houses.

I think they were Stephenson, Brunel, Telford and MacAdam.

I'll stand being corrected by the cogniscenti1

In 1950 they were Stephenson, Telford, Faraday and Bessemer. I was in Telford.
What's a cogniscenti1?

If your struggling with the spelling the word Grammar it's a waste of time explaining cogniscenti.

Originally posted by PopT
If your struggling with the spelling the word Grammar it's a waste of time explaining cogniscenti.

I see what you mean. That was just a typo, but if you're struggling with cogniwhatsit and can't help me I will have to check with a dictionary. Now do you mean cognoscenti? Where's the spell check dammit?
By the way how do spell pompous?

Originally posted by markham
I forget what the houses were called at Gleadless Valley in the 60's, but as I remember the treatment meted out by the teachers when the mood took them they might have been called BELSEN, TREBLINKA, AUSCHWITZ and THE SCRUBS for all I know. God they were painful times.

Speaking as a former pupil, I agree totally. The Best Days Of Your Life? - My Arse!

(BTW, I've already posted this, but the houses at Gleadless Valley in the early to mid-60s were: Falcon, Kestrel, Hawk and Merlin)

The old City Grammar was not very politically correct. They had Maori, Zulu and Kaffir!

Originally posted by Dunlop St
The old City Grammar was not very politically correct. They had Maori, Zulu and Kaffir!

Kaffir is a disparaging term, admittedly, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with Zulu or Maori

Originally posted by mojoworking
Kaffir is a disparaging term, admittedly, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with Zulu or Maori

Actually, Kaffir was not a disparaging term originally.

Like a lot of terms that are now, it started off quite inoffensive, and by the adoption and usage has become offensive. (eg "bint" for women - it's now taken to mean "piece of fluff" or "Slapper" when referring to women. it is actually arabic for "daughter of", just as "bin" or "ibn" is arabic for "Son of")

back to "kaffir":- there's even a plant that is called the "kaffir lily".

PT

Originally posted by zee3zee
I went to Hillsborough Junior school and we had local road names for team houses (dull or what!) They were Dixon (red) Willis (Blue) Wynyard (green) & Warner (Yellow). That was in the late 60s to mid 70s, anyone remember?;)

Yeah I remember!!

I was in Warner if I remeber rightly.

Such stupid names!!!

Intake Juniors in the mid 70's had:
Sheaf - Red
Don - Blue
Porter - Yellow
Rivelin - Green.

Up till about 5 years ago, I still had my little blue Don badge too!

I went to Hunters Bar school
and we had Loxley (Blue) Porter Red) Rivelin (Green) and Sheaf(Yellow)
Loxley, Porter and Rivelin all used to support each other because everyone hated Sheaf ! For some reason all the really elite kids who were good at everything used to be in Sheaf.
Ooh! the glory and celebrations when our team (loxley) one both the obstacle course and the sack race on school sports day!!
It made a change - we were the worst team in the school, we never won anything else!
Halcyon days!
Then i went to secondry school and everything was ruined!
Bah!

I went to Shortbrook Infants and our houses were
HILARY
BARNARD
ARMSTRONG and
CHICHESTER

I wonder who got the job of deciding the names....

I went to charnock school where the houses were named after famous people of days gone by
CHANTREY (red)
NIGHTINGALE (yellow) the best one - especially at the relay race on sports day
BRINDLEY (green or blue)
HARDWICK (green or blue) who cares which was which because they never won anything anyway!!

anybody else remember charnock school ?

when i was at woodbournroad school we had planets4 our house groups

when i went to maltby comp i was in rearsby (or sumit like it) but cant remeber the others
Litha

Hurlfield boys in the 60,s had Anson,Nelson,Beatty and rodney as their school houses.

I think Shiregreen Sec Mod was...North ,South, East,West...if it wasn't "Little Malc" will correct me( Because he has a better memory than me).

I went to Shiregreen Secondary Modern and we had Nightingale, Scot, Edison and Wellington.

at the central technical school the houses were ,Bessemer,Stephenson,Faraday , and Telford

Originally posted by Timbuck
I think Shiregreen Sec Mod was...North ,South, East,West...if it wasn't "Little Malc" will correct me( Because he has a better memory than me). I REMEMBER NOW NORTH SOUTH ETC: WAS THE JUNIOR SHOOL HOUSES, AND I WAS CAPTAIN OF SOUTH FOR A SHORT WHILE, UNTILL I GOT CAUGHT OUT FIDDLING THE HOUSE POINTS..SHAME SHAME SHAME ON ME..WELL I WAS ONLY 9.

Originally posted by mojo
Myers Grove in the sixties was commonwealth country names

India
Ghana
Canada
Australia

It was that way when I was there too (80's). Which one was red? I think I was in that one...

Also - Walkley Junior School...think it was Lancaster, York, Stuart and Tudor.

I think I went to the same school as you:--the one and only Pomona Street----more upmarket than St. Matthias but overshadowed by Hunter's Bar.
I remember Porter House was always the best , mainly as it contained,by pure chance the creme de la creme,including myself as it happens.I think you were in Rivelin as I recall?
Yes, although we were often beaten unmercifully and screamed at by Miss Lofthouse and although we had to crowd round the radiators in Winter --or freeze to death and although we had to play football [and indeed all games ] on a sort of red,sharp shale---they were halcyon days,wot ?
Many names come flooding back-----Mr. Renshaw,the cricket fanatic,Mr. Hughes reading out the number of local kids killed or maimed on the roads each week : Miss Havenhand,presidig over her little charges like an alert and malicious eagle ; Mr Wragg,prematurely grey through trying to get as many kids as possible off to Grammar schools.The caretaker,a nasty man---Mr.Theaker,who I think hated kids or at least regarded them as just a bloody nuisance----and the less said about the cleaning attendant at Glossop Road baths the better .
Must go now---no jaguar for me,unfortunately--we working classes have to make do with clapped--out ferraris.Still,musn't grumble---there's a war on----they say---them what knows.

Originally posted by headup
It was that way when I was there too (80's). Which one was red? I think I was in that one...

Also - Walkley Junior School...think it was Lancaster, York, Stuart and Tudor.

same in the 70s ,not sure but i seem to remember canada being red.
i used to go to walkley juniors in the 60s but cannot remember house names,i can remember a mr hill some sort of head teacher very anti beatles, always stopping the singing in assembly to tell us its "love" not "luv" probably another liberal :loopy:

Carter Lodge in the 60's.... Unicorn, Griffin, Pheonix and Pegasus..............all mythical beasts. Don't recall colours???

I think I can explain about hillsborough school. I went there too and the Houses : Dixon (red) Willis(blue) Warner(yellow) Winyard(Green) t'was a long time ago, sorry if i confuse the last three.. although they were local streets. The reason they were local streets in the first place, and also school houses, was because they were the first names of the family who lived in the hillsborough house, which still stands as the hillsbourough library. they were a landowning family who laid out hillsborough park, and caused it to be there. When I was at his school 25 years ago, we were all sorted into houses, but rarely was it used for anything other than splitting us up for sports.

I was at Chaucer Comprehensive. A great place to be a pupil in the 80s, especially after the trauma of the 2nd year. Incidentally, as there was so much truancy that the pupil-teacher ratios were pretty high. Also there were some very good teachers, I have met a couple of them since, and they remember those times with relish. Although I cringe when I remember some of the things they had to put up with
Anyway all the forms were split into the names of four of the great local steel making firms. Osbourne/Hallam/Firth/???
and when I think about it now, that was a great plan and I'm pretty proud to have been in such a well thought out system with great respect to the heritage of sheffield.

I am often troubled however to find out that we were never taught about chaucer himself or the Canterbury tales. It's astounding isn't it I only even heard about it in my 20s. In my scholasic days I would have assumed that Chaucer was an old king or the owner of the cornfield that the school was built on in the 60s

Hi,

At Whiteways Middle school in the 70s, we had Rivelin (Red), Loxley (Green), Don (Blue) & Sheaf (Yellow). I was in Loxley. It was great when we had sports day & football events. Loxley did very well.

Dean of Disco

at my old primary school we had houses,red (st.george) blue(st .andrew) green (st. patrick) yellow(st.david) the school was standhouse queen mary road manor estate.

North, South, East and er emm .. West. Not Sheffield though.

Originally posted by muddycoffee

Anyway all the forms were split into the names of four of the great local steel making firms. Osbourne/Hallam/Firth/???


The fourth one being Mappin.

I was taught about Chaucer (& Wordsworth) in history @ Chaucer in the 1st year (77-78) in history (due to the school being built on the junction of Chaucer Rd/Wordsworth Ave) and then in-depth in English lit in the 4th & 5th years?

Yeah at Athelstan we had names like York (Red) Gloucster (Yellow)Windsor was Green cant remember the others.

Are there any house captains amongst us?

When i was at school we had them based just on colours.

You had a house captain and vice captain. This privilige was for a year 6 and was great. We had a little pin and everything. Used to get little perks too.

I was captain of Blue and my pin must have been through the wash about 30 times. I remember being proper gutted when i thought i'd lost it!

Notre Dame 47-52

Red Our Lord
Green St Joseph
Blue Our Lady
Gold Blessed Mere Julie who founded the Notre Dame order of nuns.

Hazel

Originally posted by muddycoffee
I was at Chaucer Comprehensive. A great place to be a pupil in the 80s, especially after the trauma of the 2nd year. Incidentally, as there was so much truancy that the pupil-teacher ratios were pretty high. Also there were some very good teachers, I have met a couple of them since, and they remember those times with relish. Although I cringe when I remember some of the things they had to put up with
Anyway all the forms were split into the names of four of the great local steel making firms. Osbourne/Hallam/Firth/???
and when I think about it now, that was a great plan and I'm pretty proud to have been in such a well thought out system with great respect to the heritage of sheffield.

I am often troubled however to find out that we were never taught about chaucer himself or the Canterbury tales. It's astounding isn't it I only even heard about it in my 20s. In my scholasic days I would have assumed that Chaucer was an old king or the owner of the cornfield that the school was built on in the 60s

Chaucer School, and indeed Chaucer Rd, are both part of an extensive network of streets named after poets, in that area of Parson Cross. There are also, Wordsworth, Dryden, Southey, Launce, Tennyson and many more. Apart from the famous "Daffodils" I knew nothing of the works of these guys until years later. Most of the poetry I learnt as a kid, was written on the toilet walls at Tommy More's. (By one of the Talbots I think!)

stanley sheriff gurney grey. named after four scary women whose pictures were in the vestibule! think they were the founders of SHS:gag:

lydgate Junior still do it i think. i was there 5 years ago and the had.

Meersbrooke
Weston
Norfolk and another one which escapes me

Originally posted by slh73
Prince Edwards had houses named after Welsh castles...Conway, Caerphilly, Harlech and Caenarfon.

I went to Prince Edwards and remember them, (now let me think)
conway=blue, Caerphilly=yellow, Harlech=green, Caenarfon=red

Norfolk Juniors early 70's

Talbot
Lovetot
Shrewsbury

Cannot remember the last one.

a quick reply to elaine, i went to hurlfield boys school early 60's but do not remember any of the houses you mentioned we were just called intelligent, clever, stupid or just plain dumb

Mosborough Junior & Infants......

Cook (green)
Raleigh (yellow)
Scott (blue)
Drake (red)

Late 90's High storrs had 2 houses. Smith and Stephenson, named after the head of years

Late 80's early 90's Ecclesall Juniors had 4 houses but I could only remember 2. Jenkinson and Ellis

Originally posted by Nathen
Late 90's High storrs had 2 houses. Smith and Stephenson, named after the head of years


When I was there, way back in the 1970's, it was Hoffmann and Herring on the top floor, and Cary and Catliff houses on the bottom floor.

Then Mr Herring retired, and Herring house became Stevenson, and when Mr Hoffmann left, Mrs Smith took over as head of house,

Misses Cary and Catliff also retired and it's then, I believe that the school was divided into just two houses.


PT

I left Prince Edwards in 1957 when the houses were Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Britons. Interesting to see that the names had changed by the time slh73 and IronKnight were there. Thanks go to gillmarx for reminding me what the houses were at my primary school

Tony

Heading out of the city for a bit, Wath named its houses after ancient cities - Athens, Rome, Cathage, Sparta, Thebes and Troy (me).

Not sure if they still use them - the system was going strong along with the prefects etc when I joined in the eighties but had all but died out out by the very beginning of the nineties when I left.

Originally posted by IronKnight
I went to Prince Edwards and remember them, (now let me think)
conway=blue, Caerphilly=yellow, Harlech=green, Caenarfon=red

Nearly right IronKnight

Conway=blue, Caerphilly=green, Harlec=yellow, Caenarfon=red

I was Caerphilly.

:)

I went to Nether Edge Grammar which shows how old I am. We had Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and some other classics I forget. I was a greek. I must have been the palest skinned greek ever born.

Thanks Miss Smiley I could remember Conway, and Caenarfon I was in Caenarfon, do you remember the little strips of canvas (or what ever material it was) with the colour of the house one was in.

Originally posted by Steve Cooper
I was at Rainbow Forge Junior in the 60's and our houses were called after birds, the only ones I remember were Eagle (yellow), Swift (blue, I think), Curlew (green) and Robin (red - never, why red?) but there were others (at least 6 all together and possibly 8).

Blackbird (orange) and Kingfisher (Blue) were two others. {swift was purple]

regards

Tazz

duke hilary hutton and nuffield was junior school and comp was beuli , morcar , pictou and errrr was the other ....

Originally posted by nitelife40
duke hilary hutton and nuffield was junior school and comp was beuli , morcar , pictou and errrr was the other ....

Furniss

regards

Tazz

I went to springfield juniors school, broomhall, and we had:
cavendish - red
fitzwilliam - yellow (me)
devonshire - green
shrewsbury- blue
i think they were named after dukes or somet.

Originally posted by Chris M
I think Myers Grove was -
Canada
Australia
Ghana
India

Can anyone confirm that ? ( the brain cells are going rapidly)

this is correct re myers grove
Canada green
Australia blue
Ghana yelllow
India red

every shrove tuesday we played the grove game when the rugby teams from each house played each other at the same time

Originally posted by sheffexpat
Miss Havenhand,presidig over her little charges like an alert and malicious eagle ;

If it's the same Miss Havenhand that joined Nethergreen Middle in the early 90s then that description is bang on. I remember her keeping me in to detention for an entire month and making me write out pages and pages of the dictionary. I'm not telling what the offense was *looks meek*.

I can also remember her once dismissing my friend's shout of a swear word whilst playing rounders with "Everyone does it once in a while" and then tearing strips off him the following day for blaspheming.

I think she drove this beaten up old VW Beetle, IIRC.

On a separate tangent, can any of the younger forum members recall what the King Ted's houses were of the middle/late 90s? I can vaguely remember Loxley, Porter, Rivelin and Sheaf, but given the amount of attention I usually paid at that place I can't be certain...

Originally posted by slh73
Prince Edwards had houses named after Welsh castles...Conway, Caerphilly, Harlech and Caenarfon.
i was in conway:)

Originally posted by IronKnight
I went to Prince Edwards and remember them, (now let me think)
conway=blue, Caerphilly=yellow, Harlech=green, Caenarfon=red

you have harlech and carephilly the wrong way round

before i went to prince edwards i went to athelstan (handsworth)

red - york

yellow - glouster

blue - warwick

orange - lancaster

green - ???????????? forgot

Originally posted by kirky
i was in conway:)

So was I :thumbsup:

Pipworth Road Juniors was
Derwent - Green
Ladybower -Yellow
Rivelin -Red
Ewden -Blue

At Burngreave secondary modern we had
Bank
Hill
Mere &
Wood
and if you got on the wrong side of Hugesy (headmaster) we also had, Dog, if you wanted a crafty drag at play time you went to the, Sh*t,
BTW. Just heard of Eric Claptout.

Originally posted by P&A
i went to City School, Stradbroke we had "houses" of Tudor, Lancaster, York cant remember the other one!!

I too went to this school and the one you can not remember was Stuart (Yellow)

Carfield Juniors

Chantry - blue
Ruskin - yellow
Montgomery - red
Elliot - green

Although I might have got the colours wrong.

Originally posted by IronKnight
do you remember the little strips of canvas (or what ever material it was) with the colour of the house one was in.

No, I dont really remember much except when we all got into groups to compete against eachother. Those were the days, 4ft snow drifts, playing in the playground, sweets from Barnards (or was that when I lived at another house??).

:)

Eckington comp in 80's had:
Rother = Yellow
Bramley = Green
Phoenix = Red
Raven = Blue

I think the colours are right anyway, not sure what they were supposed to stand for, Im trying to forget.

Malin Bridge:

Jupiter - blue
Saturn - yellow
Mars - red
Venus - green

which became:

Longley - yellow
Richmond - red
Whirlow - green
Endcliffe - blue

Then Myers Grove:

Australia - blue
Canada - green
Ghana - yelllow
India - red

Ahh. I always think of Canada as being green, and Longley
as being yellow :)

--
mustgetbacktowork, mustgetbacktowork, mustgetbacktowork.

JGH

Originally posted by LoopyLou
I wonder who got the job of deciding the names....

I went to charnock school where the houses were named after famous people of days gone by
CHANTREY (red)
NIGHTINGALE (yellow) the best one - especially at the relay race on sports day
BRINDLEY (green or blue)
HARDWICK (green or blue) who cares which was which because they never won anything anyway!!

anybody else remember charnock school ?
I went to charnock school too!!
was in hardwick if i remember correctly(green?)
Never forget getting "done" for writing on my desk in mr Roberts class!!:blush:

i went to norfolk school and our house groups where

furnival, neville, shrewsbury and lovetot

i started off in shrewsbury but got moved into neville

furnival was RED, neville was BLUE, shrewsbury was YELLOW and lovetot was GREEN

Originally posted by hazel
Notre Dame 47-52

Red Our Lord
Green St Joseph
Blue Our Lady
Gold Blessed Mere Julie who founded the Notre Dame order of nuns.

Hazel

When I attended the houses were called after regions of France; I can only recall two though. I think Yellow was Compiegne (sp?), and Green was Picardy. Blue and Reds' names escape me.
Then I think they changed back to your original names and then changed again to the rivers of Sheffield.

City Grammar in the 1950s had three houses - the third one was Kaffir (blue badge) - and as mentioned earlier, Maori (red badge) and Zulu (green). I think this is right.

I went to park hill primary in the late 70's. We had Hawk, Eagle, Falcon and Kestrel.

Eagle were the worst house and never won anything.

Derwent, Ladybower, R____ and S____

Only people who went to my school will be able to fill in the missing letters........

Kirkman (Yellow), Clitheroe (Red), Lockwood (Green) and Ludlum (Blue). Are all palces in Lancs. Clitheroe used to be in yorkshire until some twit moved the boundry.

Originally posted by slh73
So was I :thumbsup:

was mr hill the head? miss kingdon was my teacher.

Originally posted by mikey
My school in the 70's had Norfolk, Graves, Firth and Weston

I guess you went to Heeley Bank too! I was a Firth (green) house captain in ,I think, about 1975/6. One of my few claims to fame, which is really very sad.

These are all so interesting.
My (convent) school had Matthew Mark Luke and John.
How dull is that - still it's what you expect in Hertfordshire!
I was in John

I was in Priory at Sharrow and Stephenson at High Storrs.

Originally posted by Wattsy
Yeah at Athelstan we had names like York (Red) Gloucster (Yellow)Windsor was Green cant remember the others.
lancatser was orange

I went to Bankwood and we had Tudor (Blue) Stuart (Yellow) Hanover (Green) and my house, Windsor (Red) At High Storrs i was in Smith house (which were better than Stephenson).

That would be Miss Angela Kingdom Kirky lad.

Mr Hill was Head - mr Miles 2nd in command

Mr Fillingham the games teacher - remember him?