Hi
Could anyone give me the present address of Fulwood Cottage Homes as was (I realise they are now private houses ) I am looking to visit the site and local Fulwood church .

Thankyou

Dave

Fulwood Cottage Homes (the orphanage?) was on Blackbrook Road, Lodge Moor and is now a private housing development called Moorside. I used to live near Fulwood Church and remember the children filing back to the Homes on a Sunday morning - I'm talking about the 1950's :)

I lived on rochester drive in the 60s early 70s,we as kids referred to this place as 'The naughty girls home' A couple of my school friends mothers were house matrons on there,if memory serves me correctly the two friends who lived on there shared their homes with two or three of the 'naughty girls!!' Would imagine in this PC society they would be 'Young disadvanteged females with behavioral problems!!' rather than a more apt description of 'young lasses that dont want to behave themselves!!' I do recall they had a meeting hall on there which I think doubled up as youth club,place of worship,function room. My brother was in a band in the late 60s and played there a couple of times.

Thankyou for location of homes .
The reason for my visit is to take my 87 yr old Great Aunt. who was put in the home with her 3 sisters and brother in 1925.
She did indeed go to Sunday school at Fulwood
They were all there till age of 15.then went on to make thier way in life ..My Gt Aunt is a wonderful lady and has such memories,which I feel privledged to have shared ...We are heading there tomorrow so hoping for good weather .

Dave

Thankyou for location of homes .
The reason for my visit is to take my 87 yr old Great Aunt. who was put in the home with her 3 sisters and brother in 1925.
She did indeed go to Sunday school at Fulwood
They were all there till age of 15.then went on to make thier way in life ..My Gt Aunt is a wonderful lady and has such memories,which I feel privledged to have shared ...We are heading there tomorrow so hoping for good weather .

Dave

when people talk about fullwood church are we talking the little chapel next to the school ,I attended, I seem to recall all C of Es were bused off somewhere & yet elsewhere on this thread it is mentioned seeing two by two kids marching off to church,so what church did you all go to & where was it:confused::confused::confused:

Hi Flyer.
Until i visit tomorrow I am uncertain about anything .I live in Northampton and will be taking my Gt Aunt to revisit these places ..I have never been to this area before .I will let you known about the church etc on my return .

Dave

Ive emailed the link to this thread to someone i know who can help, he should be along shortly :)

Evening all,

Well, i'm a current resident of 'Fulwood Cottage Homes', now Moorside.
We often hear many stories of resisdents from the past, and a few years ago for the houses 100 year aniversary we held a little garden party for the residents past and present - it was a lovely lunch.

But back on track, I have a small book which might be of some use to you. It is 'for the Love of Children, A Story of the poor children of sheffield and of Fulwood Cottage Homes' by Marjorie P. Dunn, ISBN 0-9513824-0-3, printed by 'Print and Design Factory Sheffield'.

Unfortunatly I will out tomorrow (grrr work lol) but I will copy the pages relavent to the homes and leave them in a safe place for you (I will PM you the location). These should be interesting to you both and may give you some more information.

Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, I will try and answer as best I can.

I wish you and your great Aunt a safe trip up to sheffield, and hope you enjoy your time here :-)

Sedge

Evening Sedge and all

Sedge ,thankyou for the copies..We had a wonderful day .Aunty was in house 19 which is now number 42 ..we had agood look around and have a few photos.. Then went to the school.'Moorfield school' which in late twenties was girls only ..Then on to Christchurch Fulwood had a look inside and around the churchyard...
Weather was kind and we finished off with tea and a sticky bun .. All safely home ..

Dave

Evening all,

Well, i'm a current resident of 'Fulwood Cottage Homes', now Moorside.
We often hear many stories of resisdents from the past, and a few years ago for the houses 100 year aniversary we held a little garden party for the residents past and present - it was a lovely lunch.

But back on track, I have a small book which might be of some use to you. It is 'for the Love of Children, A Story of the poor children of sheffield and of Fulwood Cottage Homes' by Marjorie P. Dunn, ISBN 0-9513824-0-3, printed by 'Print and Design Factory Sheffield'.

Unfortunatly I will out tomorrow (grrr work lol) but I will copy the pages relavent to the homes and leave them in a safe place for you (I will PM you the location). These should be interesting to you both and may give you some more information.



Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, I will try and answer as best I can.

I wish you and your great Aunt a safe trip up to sheffield, and hope you enjoy your time here :-)

Sedge

I've just read this topic.
Can I just thank you Sedge for going out of your way to help these people, it's the sort of gesture I expect of Sheffield people and I'm glad to see I'm not disappointed

Evening all,

Well, i'm a current resident of 'Fulwood Cottage Homes', now Moorside.
We often hear many stories of resisdents from the past, and a few years ago for the houses 100 year aniversary we held a little garden party for the residents past and present - it was a lovely lunch.

But back on track, I have a small book which might be of some use to you. It is 'for the Love of Children, A Story of the poor children of sheffield and of Fulwood Cottage Homes' by Marjorie P. Dunn, ISBN 0-9513824-0-3, printed by 'Print and Design Factory Sheffield'.

Unfortunatly I will out tomorrow (grrr work lol) but I will copy the pages relavent to the homes and leave them in a safe place for you (I will PM you the location). These should be interesting to you both and may give you some more information.

Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, I will try and answer as best I can.

I wish you and your great Aunt a safe trip up to sheffield, and hope you enjoy your time here :-)

Sedge Hello I was in no 17 and would love to see the pictures of F,C.H. I now live in Australia but always on the forum Cheers

Hi
Could anyone give me the present address of Fulwood Cottage Homes as was (I realise they are now private houses ) I am looking to visit the site and local Fulwood church .

Thankyou

Dave Hi There .May i ask what your Aunties name is/was as i was in there from 1948 -1955.may know her .all the best you obviously care very much for her.

I lived on rochester drive in the 60s early 70s,we as kids referred to this place as 'The naughty girls home' A couple of my school friends mothers were house matrons on there,if memory serves me correctly the two friends who lived on there shared their homes with two or three of the 'naughty girls!!' Would imagine in this PC society they would be 'Young disadvanteged females with behavioral problems!!' rather than a more apt description of 'young lasses that dont want to behave themselves!!' I do recall they had a meeting hall on there which I think doubled up as youth club,place of worship,function room. My brother was in a band in the late 60s and played there a couple of times.
Hello Yes it was all you say except the naughty girls bit. Most of us kids in there came from broken homes or disadvantaged people.I was in there for a few years and didnt come across any Naughty girls just little kids being abused,read threads on orphanages and you can read all about it.very hard times.

Hello Yes it was all you say except the naughty girls bit. Most of us kids in there came from broken homes or disadvantaged people.I was in there for a few years and didnt come across any Naughty girls just little kids being abused,read threads on orphanages and you can read all about it.very hard times.

The other poster you're responding to meant something else. FCH became an institution for 'wayward' girls AFTER yours and my tenure. I remember visiting FCH with step-sister Wendy (who you know, of course) when we visited England (and Sheffield) in 1967. I wanted to show Wendy the place where I was all but raised. The cottages appeared to be unchanged then and the feeling at being there some 12 years after I'd been 'released' was a most surreal experience. I ran into a staff-member (a Miss Johnson ...? ...a tall, slender, 'matronly' looking woman) who had also been a staff member of FCH. She held some kind of an administrative position both in FCH and the girl's institution. Everyone at FCH would have known her as she did the rounds regularly. I could be wrong on the name but it's something like the one I gave. Anyway, she remembered my having been at FCH when I told her who I was.

Yes, I too would LOVE to see some photographs of the 'cottages' as they appear today. Could someone oblige and post them on the forum?

Hi sorry my mistake about the naughty girls,didnt know that.Miss Johnson ,i think was in charge of the sick bay near number 21. I want to go over and see all these places some time,I dont know many people now though.Cheers

Hi All
Thankyou for all your help and comments I am on holiday for a week as from tonight ,but on my return I wll put some photos of the home on this thead..My Gt Aunt was at FCH from 1925-1935/36 and has many stories to tell ..

Dave

f.c.h.Blackbrook road fullwood sheffield 10. from b.ali York

---- hi ya----
can ya remember them big bon fires we had on big field,
------------- spark`ling mem`orise.
--hi-hi-they were right bangers --wer`nt they.

---- hi ya----
can ya remember them big bon fires we had on big field,
------------- spark`ling mem`orise.
--hi-hi-they were right bangers --wer`nt they.

No but I remember standing in the middle and watching Sheffield in flame's the night of the blitz, must have been night one because i had run away one of the nights,Wood st was ablaze & we stood gawking until the fire crew cleared us off :cool::cool:

-------hi flyer-------
yes sheffield got hit quiet a lot,although i dont know much
about that---- what happened in wood st.
Was it a factory--warehouse.
Was anyone killed,

-------hi flyer-------
yes sheffield got hit quiet a lot,although i dont know much
about that---- what happened in wood st.
Was it a factory--warehouse.
Was anyone killed,
If my memory serves me right just a string of shops(Penistone to Langsett but I'm sure a lot of folk know Wood St quite well:thumbsup:

Hi
Could anyone give me the present address of Fulwood Cottage Homes as was (I realise they are now private houses ) I am looking to visit the site and local Fulwood church .

Thankyou

DaveFulwood Cottage Homes,Blackbrook Road ,Fullwod,Sheffeild. 10.B Ali

Does anyone know of a family called Marsden from Fulwood (not the cottage homes)

My half brother's father came from that area. His name was Levy Marsden and he married Rebecca Dodson in 1926, they had a son Jack. My mother talked about a person called auntie Charlotte but I don't know her surname.

I see this is an old thread but I haven't seen it before.

Fulwood Cottage Homes,Blackbrook Road ,Fullwod,Sheffeild. 10.B Ali

When the houses where renovated some 22 years ago the name was changed - for what reason I don’t know. The road which now encircles the houses is called Moorside and has been assigned the post code S10 4 Lima November (to avoid the address trawled etc etc).

Sedge

***EDIT***

And since Google launched the Streetview service in the UK, Moorside is partly visible (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=20+Moorside+S10+4LN+UK&sll=53.784579,-0.374597&sspn=0.008773,0.019205&ie=UTF8&ll=53.367366,-1.557548&spn=0.00886,0.019205&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.367286,-1.557503&panoid=DDX-qHC4xNgU9AXjMYejLw&cbp=12,313.65,,0,2.89).
When the service started there was the whole east section of road visible, now this has been cut down the the south east coner only - I assume this is a radius taken from the city centre out and the rest has just been cut.

My mum Pamela Hall was in Fullwood Cottage Homes until leaving school around 1940. She has often told me of looking after the young ones, having a large bag of sugar each at the table & making toffee to try & get rid of the stuff. She can't bring to mind the names of the 'mothers', but often comes up with little gems.

1940-45 was a rough time for most at Fullwood I was never allowed to see my sister or in fact talk to any of the girls,my nice kind house witch told us we would "catch"something by talking ,she was in fact straight out of the dark age's

I believe it was very tough, mum says the same about the 'mothers'. I'll have to pay a little better attention next time she brings it up.

1940-45 was a rough time for most at fullwood i was never allowed to see my sister or in fact talk to any of the girls,my nice kind house witch told us we would "catch"something by talking ,she was in fact straight out of the dark age's
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hi flyer,---- can you remember a friar tuck sweet shop---
it was on a corner of townhead street, church st--
over looking pinford st near where lodge moor bus stop was.
The sweet shop was built in the wall.
It been gone many years now and blood bank is built on that
spot.

Does anyone know of a family called Marsden from Fulwood (not the cottage homes)

My half brother's father came from that area. His name was Levy Marsden and he married Rebecca Dodson in 1926, they had a son Jack. My mother talked about a person called auntie Charlotte but I don't know her surname.

I see this is an old thread but I haven't seen it before.

There are two families I know of called Marsden in Fulwood.

Don't recognise either of the names you mention though.

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hi flyer,---- can you remember a friar tuck sweet shop---
it was on a corner of townhead street, church st--
over looking pinford st near where lodge moor bus stop was.
The sweet shop was built in the wall.
It been gone many years now and blood bank is built on that
spot.

no sorry all a blank

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hi flyer,---- can you remember a friar tuck sweet shop---
it was on a corner of townhead street, church st--
over looking pinford st near where lodge moor bus stop was.
The sweet shop was built in the wall.
It been gone many years now and blood bank is built on that
spot.

no sorry all a blank

1st mistake this yr

Hi everyone,

My mum was a 12 year old girl in Fulwood Cottage Homes in 1918. I don't know when she was first taken there but she left and went to live with her sister at age 16.

Her sister had also been in FCH but ran away. They both hated it. I have a pic of my mother standing outside one of the stone buildings. She is wearing black stockings (which they made there I gather) and a gym slip.

She told me that she remembers being taken to visit her mother in the workhouse on Sundays and that the visiting room was large with wooden benches round the walls; babies in nappies crying and other children visiting in the same room at the same time. Would this workhouse have also been in Fulwood.

In her effects there are two little letters from little girls who wrote to her from FCH. They are really sweet letters in childish round script.

Any information on the life there between 1906 and 1918 would be much appreciated or could anyone please point me to a site which would tell me what it was like for the children of the early 20th century?

looking for information on Brenda Briggs who was in the home from December 1941 to May 1943

looking for information on Brenda Briggs who was in the home from December 1941 to May 1943
my time but we were not allowed to talk to the girls,but what short of info are u looking for

my time but we were not allowed to talk to the girls,but what short of info are u looking for

she was my sister but was adopted in 1943 she would be 5 years old but i was only 2 years old

she was my sister but was adopted in 1943 she would be 5 years old but i was only 2 years old
I think the new rules apply(adoption rights )world wide only thing I'm not to sure on does it cover sisters, u have to do a little digging and don't take no for an answer

Hi There .May i ask what your Aunties name is/was as i was in there from 1948 -1955.may know her .all the best you obviously care very much for her.

I work in a Nursing Home and one of our ladies was a resident in this orphanage along with her siblings. She is a very well spoken lady and speaks very highly of her house mother. They were in the fulwood cottages, not because they were naughty but because of family problems She tells me lovely stories of her time in there, she met her husband at a dance at the city hall or somewhere like that, he was in the army. She had some more sisters in there with her but has lost contact with them. She didnt originate from Sheffield, but cant recall where she said she did come from. She probably was there around that time.

Hi there, this maybe a long shot but I wondered where you go the book from which you state in your post. I have been looking all around the net with no luck.

Thanks in advance

Hi there, this maybe a long shot but I wondered where you go the book from which you state in your post. I have been looking all around the net with no luck.

Thanks in advance

to whom are you talking, if you refer to "For Love Of Children"it can be orderd from W.D Smith

to whom are you talking, if you refer to "for love of children"it can be orderd from w.d smith
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hi flyer, it`s w,h,smith---
i thought miss milner taught you better than that. Hi.hi

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hi flyer, it`s w,h,smith---
i thought miss milner taught you better than that. Hi.hi

Whow now thats my first mistake this year, yours is I was never with Milner i was with Bull #2 my two brothers #3 with Milner :):):)

[QUOTE=flyer;6415015]Whow now thats my first mistake this year, yours is I was never with Milner i was with Bull #2 my two brothers #3 with Milner :):):)[/QUOTE

YES, YOU CAUGHT ME OUT THERE FLYER, EVENS NOW HI HI

Hi i was wondering if anyone may be able to help me, i am looking for information about my grandfather, his siblings and his cousins, who were placed into the cottage homes sometime in the early 1940's. His name was Dennis victor Sneath (known as Vic), siblings were betty, clifford, roy and sylvia and possibly mavis sneath. His cousins were shirley, frank and christine Compton.
Any information would be gratefully recieved. Thanks
Claire

Hi i was wondering if anyone may be able to help me, i am looking for information about my grandfather, his siblings and his cousins, who were placed into the cottage homes sometime in the early 1940's. His name was Dennis victor Sneath (known as Vic), siblings were betty, clifford, roy and sylvia and possibly mavis sneath. His cousins were shirley, frank and christine Compton.
Any information would be gratefully recieved. Thanks
Claire
Any idea what house #s that would be the same time as i went in #2 I would only know the boys never allowed to go over to the girls side, never saw my own sister for the 3-4 years she was in.

Hi i was wondering if anyone may be able to help me, i am looking for information about my grandfather, his siblings and his cousins, who were placed into the cottage homes sometime in the early 1940's. His name was Dennis victor Sneath (known as Vic), siblings were betty, clifford, roy and sylvia and possibly mavis sneath. His cousins were shirley, frank and christine Compton.
Any information would be gratefully recieved. Thanks
Claire
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HELLO CLAIRE, YOUR LUCK COULD BE RIGHT HERE ?.
I HAVE A LIST OF BOYS/ GIRLS NAMES IN MY BOOK OF YESTER`YEARS
BUT ONLY WHOM I KNEW.
I WAS IN F,C.HOMES IN 1940s AND ON MY LIST OF NAMES FOR GIRLS
I HAVE A BETTY SNEATH AND THE BROTHER OF ROY SNEATH.
>> WASN`T THAT LUCK << ANYTHING MORE YOU WANT TO KNOW. BRIAN

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HELLO CLAIRE, YOUR LUCK COULD BE RIGHT HERE ?.
I HAVE A LIST OF BOYS/ GIRLS NAMES IN MY BOOK OF YESTER`YEARS
BUT ONLY WHOM I KNEW.
I WAS IN F,C.HOMES IN 1940s AND ON MY LIST OF NAMES FOR GIRLS
I HAVE A BETTY SNEATH AND THE BROTHER OF ROY SNEATH.
>> WASN`T THAT LUCK << ANYTHING MORE YOU WANT TO KNOW. BRIAN

Hi Brian, I'm not really sure what i was hoping to find out to be honest. I suppose i am a little dissappointed that my grandfathers name isn't on your list, although betty and roy were his sister and brother. There were others too, as i mentioned in my previous post and his cousins the Compton's.
Unfortunately my grandfather died in 1992 and apart from telling my grandmother that he was put into a home as a child he never spoke of FCH.
The reason I am looking for information now is that I have recently found 2 of his sisters who were adopted, one of which was called Mavis, the other was only a baby (3 weeks old when adopted) so i'm not sure if she would have been at FCH. I don't really know anything about the place apart from what I have read on here.
Thanks
Claire

Hi ya claire, sorry their wasn`t much information i could help you
with, but i did see roy sometime last year at our school re-union.
We went to hunters bar school and roy said he wasn`t in the homes
very long. O,k bye brian.

P,S, DO YOU LIVE IN SHEFFIELD NOW.

Brian excuse my bad geography But is Hunters bar the same as greystones sort have had it in my mind greystones was at Hunters Bar nearly 70 years its been a long time

Brian excuse my bad geography But is Hunters bar the same as greystones sort have had it in my mind greystones was at Hunters Bar nearly 70 years its been a long time
HI FLYER, HUNTERS BAR SCHOOL WAS AT HUNTERS BAR, CAN YOU REMEMBER ENCLIFF PARK, AS YOU COME OUT OF THE MAIN GATE AND FIRST LEFT IT TOOK YOU UPTO BROCCO BANK RD.
IF YOU COME OUT OF PARK AND AROUND THE ISLAND AND TURN 3rd LEFT RD
YOU COME TO HUNTERS BAR SCHOOL.
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NOW GRAYSTONE SCHOOL WAS UP ECCELSALL RD NOT QUITE HALF WAY UP
MAYBE SECONE OR THIRD RD ON THE RIGHT BROUGHT YOU ONTO
GRAYSTONE SCHOOL JNR. HOPE THAT WAS OF SOME HELP.
I BET NOW YOUR RACKING YER BRAINS.
P,S ALTHOUGH NOT MUCH AS CHANGED UP THERE IN YOUR 70 YRS, I CAN
STILL REMEMBER FROM THE 1950s WHEN I WAS AT HUNTERS BAR SCHOOL.

OK brian but to get it clear in my mind Didn't that U.S.A plane(The Three Amigos) come down in Encliffe park i remember leaving Greystones and go looking for parts in my dinner break of course 9-10 yr legs can run a long way in an hour

ok brian but to get it clear in my mind didn't that u.s.a plane(the three amigos) come down in encliffe park i remember leaving greystones and go looking for parts in my dinner break of course 9-10 yr legs can run a long way in an hour
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hi ya flyer, yes a u,s,a plane did come down in that park and
they have an anniversary each year.
I passed there last year, i do have a bit of infofmation
somewhere in house, i`ll have a look round.

HI FLYER, INFO ON ENDCLIFFE PARK PLANE CRASH FEBRUARY 22end 1944.
A BIT OF THE STORY GOES AS.
THERE HAD BEEN A LIGHT COVERING OF SNOW AND SOME KIDS HAD MADE A ICY SLIDE
ACROSS THE RD AT ENDCLIFFE PARK WHERE THEY`D PLAYED TILL DUSK FELL,
THEY BECAME AWARE OF THE AIRCRAFT APPROACHING AND WAS IN DEFINITE TROUBLE.
THE ENGINES WERE THROBBING AND SPLUTTERING AND EVENTUALLY THE CRIPPLE
AIRCRAFT PASSED DIRECTLY OVER THE ROOFTOPS.
THE PLANE WAS TURNING IN A WIDE CIRCLE AND HEADING UP ECCLESALL RD, ONE OF THE BOYS PLAYING ON THE SLIDE SAID IT WAS AN B40 BOMBER.
AFTER 10 MINUTES HAD PASSED CIRCLE`ING THE PLANE CRASHED IN ENDCLIFFE PARK
WOODS AND WAS ON FIRE, A SMALL CROWD OF PEOPLE HAD GATHERED AND WERE
MILLING AROUND.
A POLICE CONSTABLE RAN IN FRONT OF THE CROWD SHOUTING TO STAND BACK AS
THERE MAY BE BOMBS ON BOARD, IT WAS SAID THE PILOT WAS TRYING TO LAND THE
PLANE ON THE PLAYING FIELD IN THE PARK BUT SPOTTED BOYS KICKING A BALL ABOUT
ON THE SNOW COVERED GRASS.
TWO YOUNG BOYS WHO WAS AT THE SCENE AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH WENT TO
HELP BUT WAS HELD BACK ,THERE WAS A SPILT FUSELAGE AND ONE OF THE CREW WAS
STRUGGLING TO GET OUT.
HIS FLYING SUIT WAS ALL HOOKED UP IN THE TWISTED METAL AND THE FLAMES WERE
BELCHING AROUND THE CREW MEMBER, THE POOR AIRMEN FELL BACK INSIDE THE
FUSELAGE TO BE CONSUMED BY THE INFERNO.
B40 BOMBER-- MI AMIGO--------
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HOPE THE STORY WAS OF SOME HELP FLYER.