At the end of Eccles St is a big house that is said to have once belonged to St Thomas's church on newman Rd.
Can anyone help with background info, pictures of the old place.

Thanks Trek. :clap:

dont know much about its history but in the 60s when it was the vicarage i remember they had a lot of private fields at the back and they use to host the most fantastic garden fetes.
for the public.
probably now those grounds have been built on.

Hi Tara. Trekker, the grounds Tara mentions were there in the 80s, I'm pretty sure. Maybe they still are. I remember kids cavorting on the vicarage lawns in the seventies, to the annoyance of the vicar.

Can you recall any grave's ever bin on in the grounds?

Not to my knowledge. It wasn't somewhere we went as kids. Maybe there is some info in a Star publication on Wincobank I heard of recently? Good luck,Trekker.

i have a few old wincobank books ill ave a brouse through and see if theres anything connected with that old vicarage.

Thanks tara :thumbsup:

I remember the jumble sale, and I was in the choir for a while, cant sing though, wanted to wear the cassock and stuff.
Not many people went to church
There was a lad that lived near the church a few years older than me, went to a private or grammar school, I remember the bishop coming and he was confirmed.
He was a great singer, and very involved in the church, I cant remember his name.

Nadine, wasn't his surname Richards, Richardson or maybe Reynolds? Do these names ring any bells? I seem to remember a fair-haired lad, and yes, he did attend a private school. He was sometimes mocked by the local stone-throwing, chip-munching types as "posh". I think he had at least one sister too. I think also, that there was a connection here with Dr Wynne, whose surgery was on Newman Road. I think Dr Wynne married the boy's mother.

Sorry to but in timo but somebody told me about a surgery, would it have bin around 4 house's up on the left looking from the post office?

Yes, he did live near the post office and he did have fair hair, but he was a few years older than me.
Timo you are right, he did get mocked from everyone else and he was the only one I knew that didnt go to the local school, except for a girl that moved to our street, me and my friends knocked on her door to see if she wanted to come out with us, but she wouldnt have anything to do with us, so we took it personally, as she was about our age.
Anyway she had to pass us to get home from the bus and if we were around we were terrible and shouted names, I think she thought she was better than us and we didnt like it.

When I look at what everyone has done, I have been quite relieved that people as they have got older have done quite well for themselves.

Nadine, yes, the sister was rather "stuck up", but the fair-haired lad wasn't. He just came from a more affluent family, and they had the sense not to send him to the kind of schools you and I endured. Does the first name, Lee, ring any bells? I'm searching my distant memory bank, and coming up with the name Lee Reynolds, or Richards [I sound like a bloody medium, don't I ?!]. The family were definately not popular, and led a fairly isolated life I would imagine.
Trekker, don't apologise my friend, you have as much right as anyone else to comment. Re the doctor on Newman Rd, his name was Wynne and the surgery was about 4 or 5 doors up from the Post Office at the bottom. He was a great character; an Irishman with a lovely, friendly manner. He peered at patients over a pair of half-moon spectacles, and spoke with a distinct, southern Irish accent;"Here's what you must do, you must take two of da tablets twice a day. Da medicine will start to work, so it will" etc. The nicest and kindest GP one could wish to meet.

Timo, I do not remember his name at all, we didnt like anyone that was different did we,
Was there a Dr Clark down that way too.
I went to a Dr in Burngreave, my Dad didnt believe in doctors and I endured quite a few bouts of tonsilitis and flu etc with no treatment, but some of the neighbours kids used to get visited by I thought a Dr Clark from down that end of Wincobank.

I once got a rabbit from down that way, and wheeled it all the way home, hutch an all, in a wheelbarrow, and my poor Dad used to go out in all weathers to feed the poor thing, in the end we gave it away.
Is that old church still there?

Nadine, ta for private message. Yes, there was a Dr Clark in Wincobank, but I can't remember where his surgery was. The old church [St Thomas's] is still there- my sister got married there in the 80s. The Ingle family [of boxing fame] were closely connected to it as vergers or some such role. Great that we remember so many things; it is like turning back the clock in a lovely way.

Brenden ingle lives next to the church.

That church must be pretty old now, funny how your memory is, I think it is a small church, are all those houses around still there, or is the old church stuck between new houses now.
You wouldnt get many people in there on a Sunday, I wonder if that has changed.
I think we could hear the church bell from where we lived, I wonder if someone still rings it.

still stands amongst old house's.
Just a sprinking of new one's have gone up close by.

Does anyone remember the ferocious goat kept on a chain behind the church? We used to be fascinated/terrified of it.