hya everyone new on ere so i hope this works was reminisin the other night and was thinkin about the old wierd lady who lived on normanton springs in the 70s n erly 80s she came runnin at you with a big stick if you passed her house all the kids was scared of her :gag:youl know who i mean if you went to city school or woodhouse west end school she wore a dirty old brown coat all the time and her windown n net curtains was filthy lol xx think she was called prudence anyone remember her ??????????????????????

Prudence was her surname, her first name was Rosie, she was the sister of a friend of mine, and as i am sure you realised at the time had serious mental health problems.

well now i do and bless her a lot of kids ( not me ) used to tease the poor woman i was only 7 maybee 8 and you know what kids are like at thet age :twisted: bless her i did used to fight her corner actually and stop them from doing it i am a lot older and wiser now but back then i was petrified of her . it must have been awful for the poor woman thanks i never knew she was called rosie x

Do you remember she had a little brown terrier dog ? She walked miles with him, as he became old he could hardly walk, but she wouldn,t let her sister in to take him to the vets. Many times the police were called out by her neighbours and they would fetch her sister to try and calm her down, problem was she wouldnt let anyone in the house, not even her family. She wouldn,t even let the doctor in it was a tragic situation really and went on for many years. Her sister is still alive.

god yea i do remember the dog bless brings back lots of memories actualy i cant believe her sisters still alive cus i remember her being oldish when i was about 7 and im nearly 40 now yes it must have been horrible for her when your kids though you dont think of the situation behind it awww poor woman she did get some stick from the kids i always just ran streight past her house because i was scared xxx

Her sister is 89 years old and lives at Hackenthorpe. Rosie used to walk the dog all around Frecheville and Normanton Springs, I lived on Wardlow Road and remember her from being around 8 years old. Cant remember when she died, do remember her taking an axe to her sister though. Her sister used to live on Wingfield Crescent.

I lived in the Springs until January 1966 but can't remember this person. Did she live there at that time?
Do you remember what her house number was?

I lived in the Springs until January 1966 but can't remember this person. Did she live there at that time?
Do you remember what her house number was?

sorry dont remember the number but her house was at the bottom of coisley hill i think its called there was like a cinder path that ran up 2 city school she lived pretty close to that on the main road its still there but a lot have the houses have been demolished on that road they was demolished in the late 70s i think xx sharon

I lived in the Springs until January 1966 but can't remember this person. Did she live there at that time?
Do you remember what her house number was?
Hi When i was 13, 70yrs ago my uncle Fred[croft] lived in a row of cottages on the "springs" he kept chickens ,pidgeons, pigs, across from the cottage, it was a lovely spot in those days . Cheers Arthur.

sorry dont remember the number but her house was at the bottom of coisley hill i think its called there was like a cinder path that ran up 2 city school she lived pretty close to that on the main road its still there but a lot have the houses have been demolished on that road they was demolished in the late 70s i think xx sharon

I know where you mean.
The path led up to the old rail line when I was a child. I think they opened it further after I left so kids could get to the school quicker.
Still can't remember the poor lady...maybe she wasn't so bad during my time.
Sad to hear so much has changed in the springs...it was a wonderful place to grow up. We had green fields to play in as children and when we became teens we had the city which was only 20 minutes away on the bus.
Only family I recall from that row of houses was Evans as my sister and I went to school with 2 Evans girls. I still have Sheffield street directory and map from late 60s era which shows unfinished route for new road going thro Scowden's farm and on towards Tinsley (I think that's where it went?????)

When I was really young my dad had an allotment where they built Normanton Grove. Across the road was Netherwheel Cottages and near them was vacant land called The Croft.....could that be the place you refer to????? It was part of the local Scowdens farm.
There were several rows of houses in the Springs but these were the only ones I recall ever being called cottages. There was also rhubarb fields (eaten many a green stick of it dipped in a bag of sugar) and 2 orchards. Old Man Clarke used to chase us kids away if he saw us trying to steal apples and pears. I took a trip recently via Google Earth and was pleased to see some of the green space is still there tho it looks different on Google Earth than when I was a child. But lots of houses are now replaced with new ones.

I lived on Wardlow Road and remember her from being around 8 years old. Cant remember when she died...

Rosie died in January 1998; she was 79.

Prudence was her surname, her first name was Rosie, she was the sister of a friend of mine, and as i am sure you realised at the time had serious mental health problems.

Now I remember Pru very very well !! It is Ok for people to say that kids (of which I was one in the mid to late 1970's) used to torment her but that was not always the case. Pru used to lay in wait for us as we came down the path from City school and chase us, sometimes with carving knives and even an axe. Many times these were unprovoked events. Pru also used to watch us go to the little shop across the road (that was in the front room of one of the terraced houses) and lob empty milk bottles across the road at us and we were petrified of her. I am not saying kids didn't torment her because they did but not all those kids that happened to be chased by her had done so. The worst thing that Pru ever did was paint her little dog all over with blue emulsion :o

I know where you mean.
The path led up to the old rail line when I was a child. I think they opened it further after I left so kids could get to the school quicker.
Still can't remember the poor lady...maybe she wasn't so bad during my time.
Sad to hear so much has changed in the springs...it was a wonderful place to grow up. We had green fields to play in as children and when we became teens we had the city which was only 20 minutes away on the bus.
Only family I recall from that row of houses was Evans as my sister and I went to school with 2 Evans girls. I still have Sheffield street directory and map from late 60s era which shows unfinished route for new road going thro Scowden's farm and on towards Tinsley (I think that's where it went?????)

well hello i lived on the scowerdons farm estate in the 70s had to walk past normnton springs to get to school it was a lovley estate when i was a child cus it was all new but it became verry run down in the late 90s most people have moved from there now it is currently undergoing a massive demolition prosess horrible place now im glad we moved off when we did so since you left a new estate has been built and then demolished again xxxx

poor rosie i remember he well i was so scared of her she would wait and throw stuff at us her house is still there, springslass you talked about the grove (normanton) well that is a cul de sacif you stand on the end of it you look up there is four cottages on the right hand side looking upwards towards the springs, the cottages end at the begining of hessey street thats where i recently moved from. across the raod in the 70's there was mrs knights shop the houses are all still there although alot of new ones have been built behind them.
how long is it since you left if you dont mind me asking springslass how old are you?

I left in 1966 to come to Canada at the tender age of 17 to join my sister and her family who had emigrated the summer of 65. At that time Canada was welcoming many from overseas to expand the population. I still have a brother living in Sheffield and he keeps me posted on what's happening back there......but this forum keeps me up to date on a lot of other stuff he doesn't report.
We used to live next door to the shop at 15. I was born in that house, went to Woodhouse West Primary then on to Brincliffe Grammar in 1959, left in 1964 to work at Firth Vickers in Cost Office on Shepcote Lane until I came to Canada in January 1966.
Never been back....so my memories of the old Sheffield haven't been usurped by the modern Sheffield.

poor rosie i remember he well i was so scared of her she would wait and throw stuff at us her house is still there, springslass you talked about the grove (normanton) well that is a cul de sacif you stand on the end of it you look up there is four cottages on the right hand side looking upwards towards the springs, the cottages end at the begining of hessey street thats where i recently moved from. across the raod in the 70's there was mrs knights shop the houses are all still there although alot of new ones have been built behind them.
how long is it since you left if you dont mind me asking springslass how old are you?

i lived on hessey street when i was a baby , i lived at number 11 my cousin lived at number 15 next door because there wasn't a thirteen , my other cousin lived oppossite . do you know the bathams or totty's ? i also had family on the scowerdons .

hi we lived at no11 my sis and I.was just browsing for some history on the springs when I came across your comments on the forum the bit about prudo as she was called was after you left,but I have great memories of the old place.I left in 1966 to come to Canada at the tender age of 17 to join my sister and her family who had emigrated the summer of 65. At that time Canada was welcoming many from overseas to expand the population. I still have a brother living in Sheffield and he keeps me posted on what's happening back there......but this forum keeps me up to date on a lot of other stuff he doesn't report.
We used to live next door to the shop at 15. I was born in that house, went to Woodhouse West Primary then on to Brincliffe Grammar in 1959, left in 1964 to work at Firth Vickers in Cost Office on Shepcote Lane until I came to Canada in January 1966.
Never been back....so my memories of the old Sheffield haven't been usurped by the modern Sheffield.

Hi rog s,
Welcome to the forum.
We know each other very well. How is Wendy your sister?
Please send me a pm and we can catch up on the years....
Christine

eyup Chris everyone ok, Wen on hols in Cypress, hope you are keeping well, found a good book about the old place its now called Shirebrook valley and the wood Wickfield plantation

What a memory jog! I remember 'Prudence' very well. particularly the time she threw a full milk bottle across the playgroung of Woodhouse West School!

i remember that also i may know you x
or maybee she did it on loads of occasions ahahaah

i remember that also i may know you x
or maybee she did it on loads of occasions ahahaah

Hi Sharon. I can't remember a Sharon but it was a million years ago! I was at Woodhouse West from 1974 - 1978 then moved to City School. I'm Andrew. I love in Blackpool now.

hya wel i was sharon brown then i was in the same class as oooooooo paula blackwood ,ruth bartles ? carl phelen ? im racking my brains now thinking of names i think at that time i may have only just come up to the middle school so i prob dont know you but hello anyway lol xx

Yes, just looked at your profile and you're a bit younger than me, so I would have been leaving the school as you were coming. I only get to Sheffield a couple of times a year, bit love coming back.

i bet its strange cus everytome i bet yer come somthings different it confuses me and i live here lol x

It is a bit strange seeing things change. Sad too, looking at my old haunts changing and disappearing.
What job do you do that you hate so much?! I hate mine with a passion! I work in a call centre - worst job in the whole universe!! x

oooooooooo i used to work in a call centre HATED IT !!
i now work for somerfields on the manor its as rough as they come and i hate the job but i love the people i work with which is half the battle lol bet its brill living in blackpool x

I actually hate living here! It's quite run down and tacky. perhaps I'm just getting old.I only came here because jobs were hard to find elsewhere.
I used to do night security on the manor when they were building the tram stops - not a nice experience!

awwww god i remember when they was building the tram it dunt seem 2 mins ago where do all the years go lol x

i remember her well i was born on victoria road in 1970 my brother in 1968 and we went to woodhouse west school she scared the life out of us and the stories we were told about her

i went to woodhouse west at the same time as you then i was born in 1969 do you know me ?

i dont know whats your name pm me if you dont want to post it on here :)

i remember being terrified of her she was scarey i was born 68 and went to wws and city

Prudence , that brings back memories ,and does anyone remember Fred Hardcasle up Bishop Hill.