I'm trying to find out where Reginald St/Rd was circa 1950s . My understanding is that it was cleared for slum removal during the late 50s , early 60s . Does anyone remember this road ? Better yet , anyone remember any families on this road ?

Hello. In a 1968 Kelly's directory it says; Reginald Street went from 101 Pitsmoor Road To Fowler Street and no family names are listed. In an up to date A to Z, Fowler Street is no longer there.

Hello. In a 1968 Kelly's directory it says; Reginald Street went from 101 Pitsmoor Road To Fowler Street and no family names are listed. In an up to date A to Z, Fowler Street is no longer there.

Thanks cat631
That is a definite help , appreciated .

Bit early,but no names listed for court houses,

1925
REGINALD STREET
-----(101 PITSMOOR ROAD)----
COURTS 1,3,6
----CROSS MACRO STREET----
23 SURGERY------GROCERS SHOP
COURTS 7,9,11
COURTS 13,15,17,19
------FOWLER STREET-------
--------------------
2 HINDLEY
4 COUPLAND
6 SILCOCK
8 STANLAND
12 WHITE
12 WHITE
14 THOMPSON
16 GODFREY
18 SAYLES
20 ROBERT
24 WALL
26 CRAGG
28 PICKFORD
COURTS 2,4,6,8,10,12,14.
72 HALES
----------FOWLER STREET---------------

Dont know of any Kelly's directory details, but I remember Reginald Street well enough. It ran down from the bottom of Pitsmoor Road (Bank) to the bottom of Fowler Street, more or less parallel with Macro Street. Roughly the first third of it was a steep hill, then it levelled off a bit. At the top end on the right hand side was a bombed site, levelled off and covered with the usual ashes. The other side was intact, in fact the whole street was, right down to Fowler.
At the bottom of the steep bit, at the corner of a little street to the right, lived a family name of Brookfield, I went to school with Alan, the son.
Another family, just down the street, name of Watts, sons name Roger.
Family name of Lines,(possibly Lyons),sons name Roy. Other names down there were Egglestone, Green, Angus. All good old boys.
It was a dark and doomy street, like all of 'em around that way. But it wasn't the worst.

Hi Texas,
I remember all those names, and I think there was a family called Shipway who lived there as well.My mother was born in a house on Macro Street, in a Court, which also had an entry/exit on Reginald Street. Used to sledge down the top bit in wintertime.

regards Capricorn.

Entry in 1954 Kellys again has no names listed for the people living in the courts and only listing actually on Reginald St is for a grocer at number 23 - Mrs Dorothy Osborne.

Entry in 1954 Kellys again has no names listed for the people living in the courts and only listing actually on Reginald St is for a grocer at number 23 - Mrs Dorothy Osborne.


Forgive me , I've become too Canadianized .....what are courts , Townhouses ????

Roy

Hi capricorn11, I remember Alan Shipway and his sister Brenda, we were in the same class at Pyebank, Miss Glass's class (a lot of sibilants there).
Very quiet kids if I remember right. Alan was very protective of his sister or seemed to be. She was a nice looking girl.

Forgive me , I've become too Canadianized .....what are courts , Townhouses ????

Roy

To keep it simple, houses sharing an address, main address plus how many others could be squeezed on to the same land,
I'll stand to be corrected if anyone has more knowledge.

look on

http://www.picturesheffield.com/

put in courts.

Clocker,

Courts are hard to describe. They were usually found in slum areas and were sometimes part of "back to back" houses. Now I'm confusing you even more.

"Back to backs" have one house facing on to the street and another, sharing the same back wall, facing on to a court, known locally as a yard. You can get to the houses in the yard by going up an "entry". In the yard where I spent my first 13 years there were 9 houses sharing 6 toilets.

The addresses for the houses in the yards showed the court number first followed by the house number, I lived at 14ct 9hse in Brightmore St in Sheffield.

I know it sounds really rough and ready but the community spirit helped a lot, at Christmas we used to move all the furniture out into the yard and have really wild parties. We had a burglar living next door to us but no one minded because he'd said that he wouldn't steal anything from anyone in the yard. We also used to have a "bookies runner" sat on the steps of one of the houses taking bets, believe it or not, but he became an MP later on!

Hey clocker, I'll try to describe a court to you. First get a copy of any Charles Dickens novel, especially the ones with the gloomy illustrations. Then get the style of the drawings in your mind and listen up.
The entrance to a court was usually through a passage way from the street, perhaps two cars wide. The court would be approxamately 50yds wide, and perhaps the same in length. Courts would vary perhaps, given how much space was available when built.
So it was like a big yard. It could either be paved with stone slabs or bare earth, or a combination of both, depending on the wear and tear over the years. Stand in the middle of the yard and on all sides would be houses, a door and window, a door and window etc;etc. In other words terraced, the description 'Town House' hadn't been invented when these babies were in vogue. The houses could be three stories, maybe four.
Usually there were a couple of steps up to the door. Washing would probably be strung out across the yard. Usually there was a grate in the middle of the yard where you would pour any unwanted liquids. Some didn't get much sunlight.
The ones I remember were like this in Woodside Lane.
And while we're on a Dickensian theme, Merry Christmas.

Texas , I did a search on picture sheffield and I do see what you mean about gloomy . They have a few photos of Reginald St. and it looked quite dismal . My memory is poor but I think I seem to remember living in a similar house , I believe Woodseats , just prior to leaving for Canada . I do remember the outside toilet and the newspaper torn into squares for ....well , you know .

Thanks to all who have responded .