Hi

I was wondering if anyone knows someone (locals living nearby?) who might have photos of how the large expanse of the old allottments and wild undergrowth looked before the estate was built in 1981/2 (?)

I was a kid playing in that fantastic area in the 70's and was thinking of it the other day.

I'd be grateful if anyone knows where I could find any, maybe taken from the houses nearby or even amidst the many little animal & bike tracks.

Cheers

i sent most of my childhood in those woods and remember everything from the letters stuck to the tree's informing of the building to the houses being built. I don't have any pictures of the time as we didn't have a camera and i suppose not may people did back then. Try the devoloper of them .... Ackroyd & Abbot springs to mind for some reason but not sure if was them or not.

Wait a minute, where's Chancet Wood?

if you dont know where it is you wont be able to supply information will you

Wait a minute, where's Chancet Wood?

Sheffield 8- Between Meadowhead (behind the little petrol station near Graves park) and towards Bocking Lane, stretching northwards(?) almost to the wooded hilltop above Abbey lane school...if this helps?

Thanks aelfeah. Still an area I'm not familiar with though.

I used to live on greenhill avenue my house backed onto the chancet woods. I spent hours in the woods making dens and picking bluebells for my mum. I remember there was 2 allotments where 2 guys used to keep animals- ferrets,goats,chickens etc. Any body else remember the allotments?

I used to live on greenhill avenue my house backed onto the chancet woods. I spent hours in the woods making dens and picking bluebells for my mum. I remember there was 2 allotments where 2 guys used to keep animals- ferrets,goats,chickens etc. Any body else remember the allotments?

Hi Meg

By the time I was playing in them, they were abandoned by the allotment tenders and was thankfully overgrown with nettle-thronged rabbit runs, wild hedgerows and eerie 'tunnels' made from wilted trees that had grown into one another

my nannan and grandad used to live on greenhil avenue.my sister and i spent some good times picking bluebells and playing in the woods.

where abouts on greenhill avenue did yr nannnan and grandad used to live?

my nanan used to live at 75 greenhill avenue.my auntie shirley and uncle dennis lived next door.

I remember back in the 1940s and 50s there was a path at the lower end that led to Abbey Lane, we used it late on a Sunday night after visiting my Aunt and Uncle who lived in Humphrey Road and having missed the last bus from Holmesfield, we caught a tram although it was a bit dodgy in the dark.

my nan and grandad (Ted Moulds) used to have one the gardens in chancet wood,right up untill the compulsory purchace.
At one time they lived on the gardens and a dry stone wall built by grandad is still there. I do have somes photos but only of my mum and chickens etc.

I was there before the estate was built , i always thought it was a pity and sad . I used to play with Adrian Thackeray in the woods where the allotments had been. Do you remember a tramp called John who cared for all the animals and lived in an old shed?

I was there before the estate was built , i always thought it was a pity and sad . I used to play with Adrian Thackeray in the woods where the allotments had been. Do you remember a tramp called John who cared for all the animals and lived in an old shed?

Yeah I remember a scary 'woodland' character called John.

If it's the guy I'm thinking of, did he have blonde hair and a scar, always having a dog with him? Quite an intimidating youth to us pre-secondaries at that time...in the woods!

I can't remember what he looked like , i just remember him being there , its all over 30 years ago now