Hi i used to live in the Win estates until 1965 when i moved to Canada with my Mom and Dad. I lived at 123 Wingardens and 231 Wingardens. I was 12 years old when my family imigrated to Canada and have fond memories of playing football and pushing my bike up that bloody big hill. Probably not as big as i seem to remember.
I Was surfing this site and could not help but read about some of the places i remember.........like Hillsborough where i went to school. I am 50 years old now and my memories of my life in Sheffield are ones i will treasure for ever. Thanks for letting me share this with you maybe someday i will bring my wife and kids to see the things i remember .
Well i have gone on enough.
Thanks for the walk back in time .
Mike Slater
email addy is ninner@sympatico.ca........just incase anyone would like to write.

I wonder if anyone else in this forum is near to this place, if you are, give us a shout.

It was so nice to hear from you this morning while i am at work.
The question you have in regards to that bridge over the river Don. all i remember was that there was no bridge there when i was there in 1965, i sppoke with myn Dad and he said he does not remember one there and it could have been some kind of stucture for a water wheel even.I remeber playing down at the rivwer Don as a kid swinging on a rope from a tree over the river and back again right beside where your talking about.
Across the river was Bachelors factory i think it was a cannery or something that made peas or beans or something, all i know was it had a smelly odour.LOL. My Dad was the club secretary for the social club there from approx. 1962 to 1965 when we left to come to Canada. We used to go on trips to the seaside on a bus with the social club back then don't know if that still happens or not.?
The road at the top of the hill was called middlewood road as i remember and had a pub at the top think it was called the Bailywood or something like that.
I played for the football team that the social club organized , i think we had Orange and Black shirts.
Anyway thanks for writing back to me love to hear of my roots.
Mike Slater
ps : my dads name is Dennis and my Mom's Iris

Dennis, not sure you could see Batchelors from the river! Wasn't BICC between the river and the railway line? I lived in Foxhill, and spent my misguided youth nickin peas from the lorries that used to park at the side of Batchelors. Later (1964) I used to drive SUT coaches to Batchelors to take all the women workers home all over the place, little villages that I don't remember now, and didn't remember then, had to get one of the lasses to guide me.
Used to wander Beely woods on the school holidays, many fond memories of those times. Brian Brady, a.k.a. oldtimer@telusplanet.net

Hi i used to live in the Win estates until 1965 when i moved to Canada with my Mom and Dad. I lived at 123 Wingardens and 231 Wingardens. I was 12 years old when my family imigrated to Canada and have fond memories of playing football and pushing my bike up that bloody big hill. Probably not as big as i seem to remember.
I Was surfing this site and could not help but read about some of the places i remember.........like Hillsborough where i went to school. I am 50 years old now and my memories of my life in Sheffield are ones i will treasure for ever. Thanks for letting me share this with you maybe someday i will bring my wife and kids to see the things i remember .
Well i have gone on enough.
Thanks for the walk back in time .
Mike Slater
email addy is ninner@sympatico.ca........just incase anyone would like to write.

Noiw a drug ridden place I have been told.

The pub was called the Beeleywood wasn't it? (It's a long time ago now.
Names I remember of people living at Winn Gardens just after it was built.
Richard Humberstone. John Heane Robert Smart Cheryl Smart John Gould (or Gold). Thats over 45 years ago now Wonder what happened to them all.

Mum and Dads first house was at Winn Gardens after eight years of sharing my Nans house.

It was a brand new house when we moved in and backed onto the field which overlooked the river.

My few memories:

small row of shops at top of estate on Middlewood Road (was one a car salesplace?)

sound of forge hammer banging late into the night

strange set up of house - kitchen on ground floor, living room on 1st floor

The pub was called the Beeleywood wasn't it? (It's a long time ago now.
Names I remember of people living at Winn Gardens just after it was built.
Richard Humberstone. John Heane Robert Smart Cheryl Smart John Gould (or Gold). Thats over 45 years ago now Wonder what happened to them all.

I worked at the same place as Richards dad Eric for around eight years 60s and 70s and knew his mum Molly as well eric was a good friend and he taught me a lot about the job.

The pub was called the Beeleywood wasn't it? (It's a long time ago now.
Names I remember of people living at Winn Gardens just after it was built.
Richard Humberstone. John Heane Robert Smart Cheryl Smart John Gould (or Gold). Thats over 45 years ago now Wonder what happened to them all.

I knew Cheryl and Robert Smart (went to the tech school with Robert), and friends with the boy in one of the tower houses nearby at the bottom, he had a motorcycle. This would be around 1964/5.

Hi Phantom 309 & Carosio. The Humberstone's were nice people & I knew both Eric & Molly back in the mid 60's. Wonder what ever happened to them? The last time I ever saw them they were all still living at Winn Gardens.
Robert Smart was a nice guy, we used to have a lot of fun with Robert & his friend John Heane, they lived a few doors from Humberstones from memory. I have been in Oz for the last 40 years but holidayed in the UK in May this year & my girlfriend reminded me of these people when we were chatting about old times.
John's parents both worked at Middlewood hospital, nursing.
Would just be nice to know what happened to them all. Hope where ever they are they are happy & well anyway.