What has happened to Wincobank?

Having lived in this area all of my 48 years I have seen what was a friendly close community slowly disappear and lose its identity. Some of the older generation still refer to it as the "Village".

Wincobank was a great little community with its own working mens club, community centre etc. where people really knew each other.

The only investment seems to have been the car lot where the Dallas Bar, formally the Engineers Arms was.

In the seventies most of the local kids would go to the 61st Scouts where Don Taylor, Ron Goacher, Mick Pears and Derrick Bonnington would organise loads of great activities in the scout yard on Standon Road.

In my early twenties loads of us would meet in the Wincobank Hotel most nights to play in the darts or pool league, organise the fishing weekend away, play cards or just generally get a bit drunk with no trouble.

Before the drinking times were changed we would leg it under the bridge to the Railway in Rotherham to get an extra hour on Friday or Saturday nights.

like every community in britain....there is no communities anymore.
thatcher got rid of those in the 80s...and it followed into the early 90s and beyond.

my uncle used to live up wincobank...near that water thing with the big fence round (bit vague lol) im thinking back to when i used to visit as a kid at christmass etc and we'd chuck stones in

Although where you are talking about is Wincobank Hill its more Brightside.

Where I'm talking about is the area around Fife Street and Standon Road.

*watches it go over his head*
lol
i know absolutely nothing aboutt hat part of sheffield tbh, apart from what ive remembered..above

like every community in britain....there is no communities anymore.
thatcher got rid of those in the 80s...and it followed into the early 90s and beyond.

my uncle used to live up wincobank...near that water thing with the big fence round (bit vague lol) im thinking back to when i used to visit as a kid at christmass etc and we'd chuck stones in
I lived for 14yrs in one of the new houses about 50yds away from the 'rezzi' you refer to, during the 70/80's. It was always known as Wincobank to me. Crikey I'm not your uncle am I?:D

What has happened to Wincobank?

Having lived in this area all of my 48 years I have seen what was a friendly close community slowly disappear and lose its identity. Some of the older generation still refer to it as the "Village".

Wincobank was a great little community with its own working mens club, community centre etc. where people really knew each other.

The only investment seems to have been the car lot where the Dallas Bar, formally the Engineers Arms was.

In the seventies most of the local kids would go to the 61st Scouts where Don Taylor, Ron Goacher, Mick Pears and Derrick Bonnington would organise loads of great activities in the scout yard on Standon Road.


In my early twenties loads of us would meet in the Wincobank Hotel most nights to play in the darts or pool league, organise the fishing weekend away, play cards or just generally get a bit drunk with no trouble.

Before the drinking times were changed we would leg it under the bridge to the Railway in Rotherham to get an extra hour on Friday or Saturday nights.
i played darts for the hotel in the 50s with the kelly brothers george a billy not forgeting
jim i knew 1 or 2 round that area in them days lived at firth park at that time
i went with a girl in
about 1946 lived opposite the school paulene darby her dad worked at a lees

I was born on Fife Street and lived there until the early 80's when I got married. My Parents and In laws still live there.
I think it went down hill when they built on Maycocks fields and the 'tip' in front of the houses on Fife Street. I don't go back very often but when I do I find the experience very intimidating, especially at the bottom of Fife Street/Standon Road. It has definately lost the village feel that it had. It all seems very run down.

Wincobank was ruined when they built on Maycock's field. It would have been ok if this housing was used for what it was intended for i.e old people and people with disabilities.

Used to play cards,darts and pinball in Winco hotel in 70s,remember landlord ToMorton(big owls fan),think Winco went downhill as the above says they built the houses on Jedburgh,parents still live on Standon but when I visit and drive on Jedburgh it dosn't look the kind of st I'd walk on at night.

There's another thread about Wincobank if you look back. My Dad was born on Newman Rd but he left when they pulled the back to back houses down.

I agree with the Maycocks field theory.

When the locals objected to it being built the council said that it would just be old aged pensioners and disabled peoples flats. I don't know what state the estate is in now? But there's certainly some very dodgy people who live there. My mate wife was attacked at work by someone housed there as part of care in the community.

I remember Tom Morton and also Sullivan's Chippy on Fife Street.

There's another thread about Wincobank if you look back. My Dad was born on Newman Rd but he left when they pulled the back to back houses down.
do you remember the fearnly,s duncan was a mate of my brothers and ivy
tom morton was the landlord of the hotel when i played darts there

Talking about the old shops on Fife Street can any one remember Sheila Brookes shop. We used to save money in a savings club so that we could buy fireworks. The old Co Op that we affectionately called The Stores that had two sides to it, the tins on one side and the fresh cheese and cooked meats. Mrs wadsworth had the News agents at the bottom of Standon Road. We were all scared of the bald headed man that had the 'beer off' (his name escapes me)There was also Oglesbys fruit shop on the corner of Picture lane. I cant remember the name of the butchers on Barrow road that always had saw dust on the floor.

On Barrow road was a handymans shop on the corner then going up there was an electrical shop,barbers and pork butchers,also wasn;t there a butchers at the top of the hill next to Quirks Gym.

do you remember the fearnly,s duncan was a mate of my brothers and ivy
tom morton was the landlord of the hotel when i played darts there

Yeah my Dad remembers the Fearnley's. We've spoke before about Wincobank on the other Wincobank thread:)

I grew up on Fife Street and left to move in with my boyfriend (now hubby) just as they started building those houses. When I went back to mum and dads house people had net curtains up, no one ever had nets up on Fife Street. I last went back about a year ago and I couldnt believe it, speed bumps all over the place, fences around the schools I turned around and left. My friend still lives at the bottom and she says its gotten better but she has had lots of trouble with kids etc.

There was loads of shops on Barrow Road but they were slowly pulled down in the late 60s early 70s the problem was nothing replaced them. Despite this the place still held a sence of community. There's a new hotel being built at the bottom of barrow road it seems that any investment is pulled towards Meadowhall the local communities of Brightside, Wincobank and Grimesthorpe are just a group of old houses you pass through to get to Meadowhall. I bet most people don't know they exist.

I remember the hotel, but Cliff and Alice were there when I supped in it.(1978 onwards)
Used to play football darts and pool there.
Old wincobank was sound, a great place to be brought up.
But from what I've seen its changed for the worst now
Wasn't the barber on barrow road called Ivor.
He once snipped the top of mi ear of (LOL)
We used to call the hardware shop the 'CAP' shop cos we got all our caps for the guns from there
Mi nan used to have the tripe shop on chapman street but that got pulled down years ago.
I was also in the scouts
Wasn't don taylor called 'rassom' for some odd reason
had loads o laffs at camp

I am a relative 'newcomer' to Wincobank, having lived the complete opposite end of the city for most of my life.

I will say that i am not planning on staying here for very long.

Although our house is lovely, the size etc, we dont like what goes on in the area.

On our road, car vandalism monthly (cars being scratched for no apparent reason), hoards of youths hanging around, cars flying up and down the road all the time.

I dont know if anyone else has noticed or been a victim, but on Tyler Street, where the opening to the station/park and ride is, all the cars which park on the road over the last 2-3 months have been scratched repeatedly, mostly every day.

Dont get me wrong, i have lived in other unsavoury areas for short spells (Manor, Parson Cross) but the housing market a couple of years ago forced us to look in areas we hadnt wanted to move to, just so we could buy a house.

But we cat stay where we are any longer with recent events, and are now looking to move.

I remember the hotel, but Cliff and Alice were there when I supped in it.(1978 onwards)
Used to play football darts and pool there.
Old wincobank was sound, a great place to be brought up.
But from what I've seen its changed for the worst now
Wasn't the barber on barrow road called Ivor.
He once snipped the top of mi ear of (LOL)
We used to call the hardware shop the 'CAP' shop cos we got all our caps for the guns from there
Mi nan used to have the tripe shop on chapman street but that got pulled down years ago.
I was also in the scouts
Wasn't don taylor called 'rassom' for some odd reason
had loads o laffs at camp

Is it Wacker?

Did you live on Newman Road?

yep
it,s wacker
Lived on newman road bang opposite newman drive

I lived for 14yrs in one of the new houses about 50yds away from the 'rezzi' you refer to, during the 70/80's. It was always known as Wincobank to me. Crikey I'm not your uncle am I?:D
My wife used to live on fort hill road which wasn`t far from the resevoir thingy.

I lived on Jepson Road from 1968 (when I was born) until 1990. I went to Concord Middle School back when it shared premises with Shiregreen School on Bracken Road, before it moved to Fife Street (and spoiled the bank we used for sledging!). Our house backed onto “the gully” and all the local kids used to play on the waste ground there. There was a big communal bonfire on Bonfire Night and the neighbours would take food to share, like bonfire toffee, baked potatoes and parkin. Ah, memories…..

All my family and friends moved away years ago so I don’t go back any more. Sounds like it’s changed a lot.

I went to Concord Middle School...

I was in the same year as you. :)

I'm from Canada, but my great Aunt and Uncle used to live in Winkobank. There names where Charlie and Lizzy Pedley. There daughter Doreen and her husband Ken Richardson and 4 kids lived down the road from them. I have been looking for them. I was in England last year, but had no luck. Any help in locating them would be greatly appreciated.

I agree with the Maycocks field theory.

When the locals objected to it being built the council said that it would just be old aged pensioners and disabled peoples flats. I don't know what state the estate is in now? But there's certainly some very dodgy people who live there. My mate wife was attacked at work by someone housed there as part of care in the community.

I remember Tom Morton and also Sullivan's Chippy on Fife Street.
Hi, I agree with you. My mother was born in Jedburgh Street in 1916 and my grandparents lived there until they died. They used to own a piece of land which backed on to Maycocks field. Grandad had two very large greenhouses on the land, two wells and a chicken run. It used to slope down to the gennel and my Uncle Jack rented a piece of land opposite which backed on to Standon Road. There used to be some kind of water hydrant at the back of his land which was used during the war I believe to put out fires. There used to be wild loganberries growing here. I have a photograph of Jedburgh Street which must have been taken at the end of the war because it is decorated with bunting. It is taken from the corner of Woodgrove Road. My Aunt's brother in law was John Ballinger who used to have the property on the corner of Jedburgh Street and Woodgrove Road, and used it has a shop. My father used to play the trumpet at the Wincobank Working Men's Club and we all used to go there. My cousin's grandparents lived in the end Talbot Cottage which is somewhere in the middle of junction 34. and her parents lived at Green Bank House which stood where the traffic lights now stand at the bottom of Meadow Hall Road. Such a shame it has all gone. Can't believe as children we wandered all over the road which is now junction 34! There used to be some public baths and a wash house in Merton Lane opposite a small steel works.The bus used to stop here to take passengers to Firth Park. I remember Wadsworth's shop on the corner of Standon Road and Pegs in Fife Street.

Pat

Hi,i have to say i enjoyed reading all the posts on this thread,brought back soooo many memories.My parents bought a house in wincobank in 1964,i was born in 66 and still live in the ole family home there.I used to drink in the Engineers or Dallas bar as it was known aswell.I still drink in the Wincobank Hotel and the Conservative club.:)

Just wondering, is the actual hill still there? Or is it now a housing estate? I lived at Firth Park, basically at the top of a hill and our house used to look out over the gardens to Wincobank and dad used to take me walking over there. Also there was talk of the ghosts of miners seen walking across the hill.

Yep Coddy,the hills still there.I dont think they are allowed to build on it because its an archaeological site,Iron age and Roman Fort.They even take school kiddies up there with park rangers to show them everything.There are alot of stories of spooky goings on,at one time from what ive been told there are mines running underneath the hill.Cant say ive ever seen anything tho :)