I am a newby to this forum but have been facinated by some of the topics.
While searching I found the talk about the flats I also lived there for about 2 yrs someone mentioned the Massers we lived above them on Egerton Row.
There was mention of a collapse whilst they were being built it was our flat & it caved into the Massers killing ten workmen (or so the story goes.
There was also the Browns,Wards & Thistlethwaites.
I too went to Springfield School my teacher was Mrs Spencer her husband ended up being my head teacher at Beaver Hill Comp
Thanks for the memories:)

hi btlb
we moved into the flats when they were first built. 68 i tnink. one of the concrete panels did fall . just one guy killed . i knew massers, and chris clark, anne kelly. .. the flats were a disaster from the beginning. all electric. they had the least efficient heating system you could get. hot air blower. lots and lots of people having elec supply cut off. the bills were frightening. t/c mate happy hunting:)

I used to deliver meals on wheels on the Broomhall Flats twenty years ago. I remember Egerton Gardens and High Petre but have forgotten the other rows on there. Those flats were so confusing, the numbers didn't run consecutively at all, number 2 could be on the top floor, number 20 on the bottom floor of the same row! How we got round with those meals I'll never know.

I occasionally worked in the Housing Office on Fridays when we would open for rents and repair reporting. The building was used by the Sheffield Works Dept. and was an incredibly small room for 3 people to work. You had to go outside simply to change your mind! I do remember the super sarnies that we had on the morning shift, enormous breadcakes full of sausage, bacon, egg and tomatoes.:love: Not exactly professional to be served by a local govenment officer with tomato and egg on his mouth, but they were so tasty.:hihi:

i lived on there for my childhood and went to springfield school my dad and grandad use to go to the domino pub all the time tony and buller ridley i realy enjoyed my hood and was so sad when they knocked them down my bessy mates at school were waye an sharon forsith junior wakler lisa nelson marcel philips and malica michel white i so wish i could speak to them all again

I used to deliver meals on wheels on the Broomhall Flats twenty years ago. I remember Egerton Gardens and High Petre but have forgotten the other rows on there. Those flats were so confusing, the numbers didn't run consecutively at all, number 2 could be on the top floor, number 20 on the bottom floor of the same row! How we got round with those meals I'll never know.

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there were three levels/ landings on each block...
XXXXX gardens,
XXXXX row and
high XXXXXX

so you'd have had "High Monmouth", "Monmouth Row" and "Monmouth Gardens" as an example.

the blocks' names were, (if i remember correctly) Monmouth, Petre, Victoria, Egerton, Gell, Headford, (although I may be wrong on those two,) and, I think Cavendish.

PT

*mine of useless information mode ON*

there were three levels/ landings on each block...
XXXXX gardens,
XXXXX row and
high XXXXXX

so you'd have had "High Monmouth", "Monmouth Row" and "Monmouth Gardens" as an example.

the blocks' names were, (if i remember correctly) Monmouth, Petre, Victoria, Egerton, Gell, Headford, (although I may be wrong on those two,) and, I think Cavendish.

PT
fitzwilliam and wellington, too!

ah, so there were more blocks, (I had less to do with Broomhall than Hyde Park, Kelvin and Park Hill so my memories are a bit sketchier.) I thought i'd listed too many!
lol

PT