did you attend this fine school in the above years, were you in the classes 1b, 2b, 3b. and 4b, when mr g.b.thomas was headmaster few teachers i remember are pop naylor mr derwent. mr lound. I remember walking to little wembly in tinsley park wood passing cutty meadows rolling mills, to play football, walking to malby street showers,also attercliffe baths over coleridge road bridge down old hall road. after reading these threads on this forum we all have a great affection of carbrook, attercliffe and darnall, and the way we were we were brought up. the friendships the heartaches, but most of all our love for the old east end of sheffield with all its muck and grime, but what great values we were taught, sorry for reminising but i still have a passion for the old east end.

did you attend this fine school in the above years, were you in the classes 1b, 2b, 3b. and 4b, when mr g.b.thomas was headmaster few teachers i remember are pop naylor mr derwent. mr lound. I remember walking to little wembly in tinsley park wood passing cutty meadows rolling mills, to play football, walking to malby street showers,also attercliffe baths over coleridge road bridge down old hall road. after reading these threads on this forum we all have a great affection of carbrook, attercliffe and darnall, and the way we were we were brought up. the friendships the heartaches, but most of all our love for the old east end of sheffield with all its muck and grime, but what great values we were taught, sorry for reminising but i still have a passion for the old east end.
Hi Carbrook Lad, I'm a Pitsmoor lad but just incase you may know this guy. Roy Skinner he would have left Coleridge Rd School in 1954, he also lived on Coleridge Road. I worked with him on and off through our apprenticeship at ESC from 1955 to 1961.

hi sparkytom,
yes i remember roy skinner he was in the same class,most of the boys that left school at that time went into apprenticeship at the big steel works,or down the pits.
how long ago did you leave and do miss the old place do you ever visit ,
regard aj

Hi AJ,
We left the sunny shores of UK in 1964 and have never regretted it. Well I tell a lie, obviously we went through the pangs of home sickness and being so far away from family and old friends. We have returned quite a few times for extended holidays and watched the changes to Sheffield, particularly the Attercliffe area. We last visited 12 months ago and we were billeted at Brinsworth. I borrowed a bike and went for a ride along the canal and then down Hawke Street and had look around the steel works that used to be ESC. Would have loved to have had a walk around inside the steel works but I don't think that is done these days. Because some of the works had been split up and opened up I was able to venture all the way to where Roy and I started work as office boys before we were old enoough to start our electrical apprenticeships. Over the next 5 years we worked together quite often in various departments and were in the same class at Rotherham College of Technology.
Although it is sad to see the Sheffield we knew being pulled down I think generally it is for the better, but I also think we did the right thing in moving to Australia, even if only for our kids sake.
GL

hi GL
so glad to here you have settled down now it sounds an ideal life .
did you carry on your trade as a sparkey,most of us in engeerneeing wernt so lucky thanks
to maggie thatcher,it mst have been a sad site to see esc broken down into seperate units.
if you biked from brinsworth you would have had a shock to see the old east end ,i also went to rth tec for city&guilds eng hnc etcleft sheffield in 1982 to get work,my wife and i
live in a market town just out side doncaster,but are in the process of down sizeing and will hope to move to the outskirts of sheffield now we have both now well passed retiement
age we are doing our best to spend the kids inheritance regard aj

i went to coleridge rd left in 1959.i remember thomas headmaster fred knowles.phillips.wild. pop naylor.i lived on janson street below lambpool pub.cheers trev

i went to coleridge rd left in 1959.i remember thomas headmaster fred knowles.phillips.wild. pop naylor.i lived on janson street below lambpool pub.cheers trev

hi trevordnc
what a great reminder of the teachers from this fine school.
spent my time on carltonville rd till 1962/3 what a fine area to grow up in left sheffield in 1982 when i got made redunant live in
a small market town near doncaster but wife and i are looking to move back to wards sheff and spend kids inheratance regard aj

hi carbrooklad
i agree it was good to grow up in carbrook had some great times in rec back of school.remember chipshop on corner of your rd.cant remember name bloke that had it his son took it over.mom used to send us for fish&chips on sat dinn to lants further down but i couldnt be bothered to walk down their so went to carltonville instead.mom was not best pleased as she did not like them from their.9got a scutch om earhole for my trouble.
cheers trev

went to Coleridge road school from 1963 till when it closed in 1965 I was in Fred Knowles class and POP Naylors. Harry Stribley was the headmaster. I played football, Cricket.Swam and ran cross country for them. Top School bar none

went to Coleridge road school from 1963 till when it closed in 1965 I was in Fred Knowles class and POP Naylors. Harry Stribley was the headmaster. I played football, Cricket.Swam and ran cross country for them. Top School bar none

hi sharkw
what a great tribute to this fine school, was a little after my time,
1954 when i left but glad you had chance to enjoy all these activities best regards aj

Can you remember the "Little Wonder " chipshop on Attercliffe Common ?

hi sharkw
yes i remember it well used to call in on way home from pics pavillion or ranch house (known as globe) as they always had cowboys on most of the time.happy days.
trevdnc

Hi Trevordnc. I spent most of my teenage years down Attercliffe, standing at the back of the 'Bendix' in the winter,where the steam pipes blew hot steam out and we would be chased off by old man Savage,the piano tuner who lived over his shop,when we got a little 'boistrous'

hi sharkw
yes we also used to do that.i remember old man savage.godards fruit shop rutherfords bread shop.yu remember naylors pop shop.i used to go to roller rink over top of websters market.
when we got older used to go in filesmiths amberly broughton lambpool.i lived on janson steet on corner of higgit rd.

Yes Trev I used to "frequent" those pubs + Salutation, Gate, Hilltop, Tramcar,Golden Ball ( phew the list goes on ) but going back to Coleridge road school I think we were the only school to play all their football matches away, but Coleridge Road football team was a team that was feared by all the other schools, I later went to join the Youth club and spent many a happy hour there Playing Table Tennis snooker and they had a formidable five a side footbal team of which I was proud to play for .

hi sharkw as i said ealier i left in 1959 so yu wud be about 5yrs younger than me.like yu say they had a good football team not that i was a player.when i was there they used to readout reports on the matches at assembley.surprised to know that fred knowles was still going he was getting on when i was there.remember when they used to say have half bitter in each pub from tinsley to staniforth rd.and see if yu were still standing (lol).

hi sharkw
sorry a bit late with reply,yes i remember little wonder chippy like trevordoc
used to call after pictures,what great memories you two have opened up tried all pubs
from stanifoth road to tinsley never made them all in one day.recall bendix shop with steam pipe old man savage shouting abuse about the youth of the day regards aj

hi c/lad i remember walking from carbrook school to showers.was 21yrs old before i had hot water from tap.wat memorys.ps i pm yu as i dont like useing full name on forum cheers trev

hi treverdnc
thanks for pm have replied did youknow barry renolds lived near paper shop,
next to lampool fine pint in there, also any of the bowers just round from you
would be nice to see an old class registerfrom 1954 to see a few more names
to jog the old memory caus im an old gezer now .regard aj

hi aj.sent another pm.yes i new barry his mother was a big woman i think he had a brother who was deaf not sure though.he was older than me i tnink he is about 66now.cant place the bowers but memory aint wat it was.as regards to old geezer that makes two pf us (lol)
cheers trev

hi trev
sent another, pm thats the same lad i went to school with did you know mick broughton lived by con club the one with the bowling green at rear any of the bennet of ravenswoth rd
these odd names keep comming back but as you say two old gezzers trying to remember what we did a few years ago and a mispent youth on cliffe regards aj

hi aj yes i remember mick.thanks for pm.will pm yu later as her indoors wants to know somat
cheers trev.

i went to coleridge rd left in 1959.i remember thomas headmaster fred knowles.phillips.wild. pop naylor.i lived on janson street below lambpool pub.cheers trev

do you have a brother called stuart and did you live on the corner of higgitt road?

Trevordnc
How long did you live at the Lampool Pub at the end of Janson st i lived in Ravensworth Rd, i left Coleridge Rd School in 1951 iUsed to use the side door with a couple of mates and have a couple of halves and we pretended to be half P____d it was great fun standing under the old gas lamp swaying about then into the Herbal shop round the corner for a vimto ext with a fag on, and that was after we had deliverd the Star
cheers DTM

I was at coleridge rd, left in 1964 Good times, anybody remember Little Wembly near ranskill rd, my mate Alan Blades from Janson St just below Lambpool [hope Ive spelt that right] dont know whats happened to him. Anyone want to jog the memary email me on hrowls@hotmail.co.uk

Hello anyone out there that remembers the good old days in Coleridge rd school. We would love to catch up. Victor Warner / Carole Travis