Hi folks,
I used to live on Chelmsford Street at 136 and attend Woodbourn Road School which is now a Mosque I believe. Can anyone point me to photographs of either the School or Chelmsford Street please?
Additionally, close by on Woodbourn Road there was a Fishmongers near the junction with Worthing Road , this same junction having a fairly large shop which sold everything in the food line as I recall and stretched around the corner it was on.
I am particularly interested in the Fishmongers as grandparents used to live nearby and would like to know it's name and street number if possible. I assume it is no longer present? Any photographs of shops around this junction would also be very welcome to add to the family history. I do know that Chelmsford Street was demolished when the new sports centre was built in that area.
All the best from an ex-Sheffielder now in Toronto, Canada soon to revisit briefly in Sheffield and Rotherham.
regards,
Mike Fisher

Hi folks,
I used to live on Chelmsford Street at 136 and attend Woodbourn Road School which is now a Mosque I believe. Can anyone point me to photographs of either the School or Chelmsford Street please?
Additionally, close by on Woodbourn Road there was a Fishmongers near the junction with Worthing Road , this same junction having a fairly large shop which sold everything in the food line as I recall and stretched around the corner it was on.
I am particularly interested in the Fishmongers as grandparents used to live nearby and would like to know it's name and street number if possible. I assume it is no longer present? Any photographs of shops around this junction would also be very welcome to add to the family history. I do know that Chelmsford Street was demolished when the new sports centre was built in that area.
All the best from an ex-Sheffielder now in Toronto, Canada soon to revisit briefly in Sheffield and Rotherham.
regards,
Mike Fisher
I lived at no 15 chelmsford st.Our house was just up from the cobblers at the bottom.:)

I helped flatten the area,
I remember a lot of the door and window lintels had Viking's heads,

1973 dir.
128 Woodbourn Road S. Burley, fishmonger

Thanks for the quick reply Brooksy, I'd forgotten the cobblers, jogged the old memory.

Mike

I helped flatten the area,
I remember a lot of the door and window lintels had Viking's heads,

1973 dir.
128 Woodbourn Road S. Burley, fishmonger
Thanks so much for that. As soon as I saw Burley I remembered the name!

Mike

[QUOTE=Mikefisher;3302069]Thanks for the quick reply Brooksy, I'd forgotten the cobblers, jogged the old memory.

Mike[/QUOTE I Remember the swap shop as well.

Mike,
I have sent you the Attercliffe map via email.

Cheers,
Chris.

Thanks Chris. It hasn't shown up so far, stuck in the Net I guess.

Mike

Thanks Chris. It hasn't shown up so far, stuck in the Net I guess.

Mike

Mike,
If you have a look at the 'Does anyone remember Dolphin Street ?'
thread, and then scroll down to number 46 (shown on the right side of the posting) Jazzer has added a link to Photobucket showing this map.
I will send you the map again if you like. I am sending via Yahoo so not sure if you qmail accepts from them or not. If you can't receive it by qmail, just set up a Yahoo account and I will send it there.

Chris.

Mike,
If you have a look at the 'Does anyone remember Dolphin Street ?'
thread, and then scroll down to number 46 (shown on the right side of the posting) Jazzer has added a link to Photobucket showing this map.
I will send you the map again if you like. I am sending via Yahoo so not sure if you qmail accepts from them or not. If you can't receive it by qmail, just set up a Yahoo account and I will send it there.

Chris.

Many thanks Chris, got it via Jazzer's link. As you say it could be a spat between Yahoo and gmail causing your post not to be accepted.

Mike

Mike

The whole area is now unrecognisable. I have some pictures which might interest you, old and new. My auntie lived on Chelmsford Street, my grandama on Cottingham Street and we lived on Westbury Street. It was that sort of place.

PM me and I will send you some stuff. When did you live there by the way? We might know some of the same people, you never know.

Mike

The whole area is now unrecognisable. I have some pictures which might interest you, old and new. My auntie lived on Chelmsford Street, my grandama on Cottingham Street and we lived on Westbury Street. It was that sort of place.

PM me and I will send you some stuff. When did you live there by the way? We might know some of the same people, you never know.

I lived on Cottingham Street up to 1966, number 141, what was your Grandams name, I might have known her

Hi Whiteley

Sorry for the delayed reply, I've not been on for a bit. She was called Bailey, and lived at 154, next to the Mackenders, and 2 doors from the Smiths. Our family moved there in the 1930s and left in 1981.

There's a great picture of Cottingham Street in Jack Wrigley's book East End Camera. If you can still get a copy that is.

Hi Whiteley

Sorry for the delayed reply, I've not been on for a bit. She was called Bailey, and lived at 154, next to the Mackenders, and 2 doors from the Smiths. Our family moved there in the 1930s and left in 1981.

There's a great picture of Cottingham Street in Jack Wrigley's book East End Camera. If you can still get a copy that is.

Have just spoke to my mum, she remembers Jessie Bailey who lived on Chelmsford Street, would thet be your auntie. My mum was born on Cottingham Street, she's now 87 and my grandma and grandad lived on Fearnehough Street. We have relaitive on Ripon Street as well, like you say, everybody used t live close by.

Yeah, she was my auntie. She's dead now. She lived on Chelmsford Street after she got married, across the road from the little chapel. I will ask my mum if she remembers you. I remember those heads Retep mentions, viking or whatever they were. There is a building near the Staffordshire Arms, off Carlisle Street, which still has them. I was scared of them as a kid, although not as scared as I was of Sam Birley and his wife.

There were loads of shops down there, considering it was such a small area. Anyone remember Bellamy's at the top of Cottingham St, Clare's Cafe, Bob Gaydon's Butchers, and 2 chip shops, Harrys and Becketts? All long gone of course.

Hi Whiteley

Sorry for the delayed reply, I've not been on for a bit. She was called Bailey, and lived at 154, next to the Mackenders, and 2 doors from the Smiths. Our family moved there in the 1930s and left in 1981.

There's a great picture of Cottingham Street in Jack Wrigley's book East End Camera. If you can still get a copy that is.

Been and bought East End Camera today, what a great book, it brought back a lot of great memories seeing the old pictures. Thanks for telling me about it.

Here's Woodbourn school as it is now.

http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s138/mackenzieD/WoodbournMiddleSchool-1.jpg

Thanks for the photo of the School. It looks a lot cleaner than my day!
What is it used for these days, do you know?
I have heard it is used as a Mosque or even has an Indian restaurant in it but that part doesn't appear that way.

Cheers,
Mike Fisher

There were loads of shops down there, considering it was such a small area. Anyone remember Bellamy's at the top of Cottingham St, Clare's Cafe, Bob Gaydon's Butchers, and 2 chip shops, Harrys and Becketts? All long gone of course.

I remember Clare's cafe down Woodburn Road on the corner of............I've forgot,anyway the Woodburn pub was down there,full of lorry drivers like mesen.The coalmen used to come into Clare's and have a hock sandwich with fat running down their chins,cleaning 'em up a bit.
I only ever had cheese on toast in there:hihi:.

Mike

The whole area is now unrecognisable. I have some pictures which might interest you, old and new. My auntie lived on Chelmsford Street, my grandama on Cottingham Street and we lived on Westbury Street. It was that sort of place.

PM me and I will send you some stuff. When did you live there by the way? We might know some of the same people, you never know.

Hi I lived at 57 westbury street until 1950, do you have a photo of the street?
I have a photo of the Dday party,but have been trying to get a photo of the street.

Thanks for the photo of the School. It looks a lot cleaner than my day!
What is it used for these days, do you know?
I have heard it is used as a Mosque or even has an Indian restaurant in it but that part doesn't appear that way.

Cheers,
Mike Fisher

It's now a community centre, called the PMC:- Pakistani-Muslim Enterprise Centre, and has a Mosque built onto the school down by the junction of Jessel St, and at the top end, by Cottingham Street is an extension that was built to house a restaurant.

(I think the intent was to give people training in being chefs and waiters/ hospitality so that they could set their own businesses up eventually)

I cannot remember what it is now called, but when I and the ex-mr PT used to go in, it was called "Taste of Pakistan", and the food was very nice, and quite inexpensive.