I was in the fulwood cottage homes in 1946to 1949 also was my youger brother david I left there and went to Blyth to join the merchant navy Does any one know of anybody there at that time W unwin

Hi mune10366

There are a couple of discussion threads already in operation on the FCH which ex-children sent there are talking on. You might find the following helpful:

Fulwood cottage homes,cottam family in Sheffield History & Expats

Children's home/orphanage in Sheffield History & Expats

Best wishes,

Lavender

HI just posted reply with sunshineyday didn't know you had own thread going . Is Unwin 39-1946 your bro' my school buddy we use to run away together i think he was in hell hole number 3 with very nasty Milner

Hi flyer
I am wilfred unwin and I was the in 39 to 46 and David was my brother Yes david was in 3 and I was in 7 and 1
The mother in 7 was Miss Feilds and the mother in1 was a miss Edge both was wicked David passed away last year and we had just found each other for the first time since I left the homes to go into the merchant navy I did go back to the homes just before David died and we went into number 5 to look aroun and it brought shivers down my spine and they told us that the belt of green between the boys and the girls homes can not be touched as it is a memoriel to all the children that had been in there I dint think any one was left when I was in there:thumbsup:
best regards W UNWIN

hi any info on fch greatly appreciated my grandfather was in the home in 1917 are records available i was told they had all been destroyed can anyone help thanks
keeley

Hi Mollymoon I can give you a phone number where vyou can get his records from The number is 0114233 I hope this is of help for you

MUNE10366

My Grandmother grew up in FCH ..sadly she's passed away now:( ..so im not sure on dates ..she was there with her sister and brothers..her name was Daisy Williams if anyone remembers her ...she worked most of her life at bassets where her nickname was Daz.

Hi Ms Tetley

Can you tell us any more details about your grandma - do you know roughly when she would have been there or her DOB, which would help date her?

There are a few threads now on FCH - we really should get them unified to make it easier to look for info and for people to talk.

Best wishes
Cottam67

Mune looking at some of my very old mail,my brother lived on Wisewood Ave,I think that was were you use to live, i cant pick up the name on Sheffield st map

Hi Adrian I cant remember the name of the road we lived in but I can remember I had a kind of arch and when you get through it the was a big hill that I played on I cant remember any naghbours at all when I was at sea I went to canada alot of times some of the places I went to was montreall Lasall
on the st Lurence
Wilf

Hi Adrian I forgot to tell you I also went toQuebec also nova scotia a place called halifax I realy liked it there but it was very cold
WILF

Mune, Halifax cold nay lad you're getting soft 40 below freezing is not cold (as long as you keep electric warmer around your b--ls),now up north it gets real cold with no flys to bug you.

Hi Hadrian WHAT Balls I lostb them in FCH HA HA HA

Wilf

Hi Guys.I was in number 17 The witch there was called miss Barnet.Left in 1953 aprox,My Brother Rex was in the merchant navy he was in number 8.My other Brother rodney was in number 9 i think.He left much later than us.There is a website called photobucket and there are a few photos there.I went to Greystones school then to Hunters bar.All the best :gag:

Hi Glen I was in No7 and that bitch miss feolds was the mother and the other bitch in No 1 was Miss Edge I was in in 1936 to 46 and then went into the merchant navy. Did Rex go to Blyth to go into the merchant navy I was on holiday at Marsk they took me to Blyth from there with not a penny in my pocket
Wilf Unwin

Originally posted by glen
Hi Guys.I was in number 17 The witch there was called miss Barnet.Left in 1953 aprox,My Brother Rex was in the merchant navy he was in number 8.My other Brother rodney was in number 9 i think.He left much later than us.There is a website called photobucket and there are a few photos there.I went to Greystones school then to Hunters bar.All the best :gag:

What? Miss Barnett a witch? I'm offended! I seem to remember her as the epitome of sweetness, caring for her charges as would a mother hen caring for its brood, rocking back and forth in her rocking chair in front of the fire, knitting sweaters and socks for her beloved foster children on whom she doted, the picture of "Whistler's Mother where butter would not melt in her mouth. And you call this saint a witch! I'm appalled!

There WERE rumors, however, that beneath her shawl she carried a huge club that she loved to wield at her brood at every opportunity. There WERE rumors that she was really a sadistic fiend. There WERE rumors that she was the devil incarnate. There WERE rumors that she ...well, there were ALL KINDS of rumors . . . . . . . . .

Oh dear. Now, BOTH pictures of Miss Barnett can't be true, can they?! :huh:

I/m sorry you guys I just can't have this, you souldn't be giving all this credit to Barnett ,Millner in #3 was much more nasty, she would beat the kids around the head senseless.And of course we can't forget the tender mercy of Field or my personal favorit M Bull with her long term cruelty.I still think my old idea is best ,we all gather at their grave site's and talk this over at great length I will suppy the many case's of beer needed for a discusion of this type.

Hi sputnic boy.Who are you trying to kid.remember what i told you about her falling downstairs ,i was lying in my bed clapping.Miss Barnet was a baddy

She once hit me on the head with a cast iron frying pan and it broke,i often wondered what was wrong with me ha ha:confused:

Yes i think he did go to blyth .I can remember so well going to marsk by the sea,it was the only time i was allowed to play .I used to sing in the concerts

Mune i forgot to ask if you knew frank Skinner,he was somewhere near you.also terry battle he was in number2 nick name Shazzam.I was his girl friend therefore was mary marvel:hihi:

Glen , I was in #2 with the tender Ms Bull I left in 46 V.J. night, is this before your time.

Am I wrong about stalag 17 being in the girl section, it was in 46 ,1-9 boys 10 was holding 11-20 was girls,On pain of death we was never let cross the grass. My sister was across the green but I could never visit.Maybe later on more boys than girls arrived and so converted.

Oops my 1st mistake of the year I'm thinking Glen was a boys name not short for Glenda, sorry for that but fm now can we call you Ms Glenda

Originally posted by glen
She once hit me on the head with a cast iron frying pan and it broke

Your head or the frying pan?

I often wondered what was wrong with me

Sure explains a lot to me! :hihi:

Originally posted by flyer
I/m sorry you guys I just can't have this, you souldn't be giving all this credit to Barnett ,Millner in #3 was much more nasty, she would beat the kids around the head senseless.And of course we can't forget the tender mercy of Field or my personal favorit M Bull with her long term cruelty.I still think my old idea is best ,we all gather at their grave site's and talk this over at great length I will suppy the many case's of beer needed for a discusion of this type.

We'll be there! :thumbsup:

Actually, we could start a "FCH Rogues Gallery". My 'numero uno' would be Miss Herring who had a penchant for punching in the face. It didn't take much to provoke her either ...just chattering like kids do when not supposed to be would set her off on a tangent. She would start snorting like a crazed bull, impatiently paw the ground with her foot, lower her head, and come charging at us. Then she would lay into us leaving wounded bodies all over the place. Well . . . maybe not quite.

Really though, just the mere sight of her would make me cringe. Even on the rare occasions when she would smile it more resembled a ..."So, you think this is a smile, eh? ...well just you wait until later and YOU'LL see whether it was a smile or not!"

By the way, her favorite expression for vicious punishment was "Paul Thompson" as in ..."You're about to get some Paul Thompson!" Then she'd beat you to a pulp. Does anyone know where this expression came from or did Miss Herring just make it up, perhaps? Oohh ...she wasn't just mean ...she made up nonsensical expressions too!

Y'know, I've come to the conclusion that 'cruelty to children' was one of the prerequisites for the job of house mother at FCH. So many house mothers seem to have been VERY good at their jobs too, it would seem! But isn't it good that we have the fortitude to have moved on and are now able to laugh about it? Um, I'm assuming that we're laughing about it . . .? :rant: How many of you are up to suing the home for compensation? :nod: Just kidding!

Sorry flyer I did register as Glenda but they also asked my nick name!!Yes it was a bit before my time I/ we went in there in 1949.Alot of those kids seemed to have been in there for years.:) :) :wave: :

Hi all you f.c.h.kids,I will tell you the full story.One night I was in bed ,Miss Barnett was getting ready for her weekend off and i heard her start to walk downstairs in her stocking feet. she started falling downstairs,a couple of us kids were awake and were thrilled to bits,we were clapping thinking of the consequences,we heard her slide all the way down bumping on every step,nobody got up to help her ,we were thinking of maybe broken legs or something,not so lucky,she got up and walked into the dining room much to uor disgust,needless to say she was back at work on Wednesday morning,bad luck eh!!

Hi Glenda, On the village school closing around 43 a few of us was the 1st to go Greystones school(most went Pamona? not right spelling) I remember it being quite an event 1st time we talked to girls & sat with them in class, quite mind blowing.

Hi all you ex f.c.h.kids.I would like to thank all of you.To be able to talk about the bad experiences that went on in that horrible place is helping me to finally move on.I have only just joined the forum, before that i had nobody to talk about it ,therfore i have kept it bottled up inside for years.I wonder if anyone knew what really went on inside those cottages besides us.It has left such bad scars,scars that never heal.How can these so called foster mothers be allowed to be so cruel to us kids that couldnt help being in there.I was eleven at the time and half the time couldnt understand why we were being punished.I had two brothers in there also,even at that age i used to worry about them and what was happening to them.A couple of years ago i watched a movie called After The Promise and sobbed the whole way through as all those memories came flooding back,i havent been able to watch it a second time as yet.so a big thanks to all of you.I feel now that i can talk about it and even have a laugh. :wave:

Hi Glen, When did you go to Hunter’s Bar School? I was there from 1935 to 1941, then won a scholarship to High Storrs Grammar. If you knew the Acaster twins, Man Gee Wong (who was really from Pomona Street but got moved to Hunter’s Bar during the war), Raymond Neill, Pat Bray, Michael Mower, Peter (I think) Hogg, Audrey Rimmington, Patricia Taylor, Edgar Wallace, the Robinson twins and teachers Mr Cooper, head Thomas Bingham, infants head Miss Glossop, and a Mr Midgeley, let me know via Expats and I’ll give you my e-mail.

hello peter,I dont know any of those names im afraid.I left Greystones for Hunters bar around 1951 or 1952 then left after junior 4 class which was Miss Giles.I am now living on the Gold Coast Australia,if you watch the Indy car races in October about 15 minutes from there.My brother Rex Fearnehough went to Hunters bar ,that would be a liitle bit before me i think. nice to hear from you:clap:

Hi I am new to forum! My name was Patricia Smith and I was in FCH around 1946,I was 6yrs but got friendly with a girl called Sylvia, she was a little older than me,used to talk me to Dc's in the snow, i had a bad toe, can anyone help please this girl was so kind!

Hi pat ,Munne gives the #0114233 to call give it a try

Hi Pat I did not know Sylvia sorry but did you know a girl in the fch called cristophine Mascery I dont know if I have spelt the name right but did you try that number that my friend Flyer told you about Hope you find out . When I was in fch my brother was in there as well bit I did not know he was my brother I cant remember many names of peole that was in fch but I can remember all the beatings I got over the years from the wiches and I have the scars to prove it I remember when we had to make our hankys for exmas to put a bar of chocklett in I never had visitors so when all the lads was up seeing visitors thats when the bitch field use to beat hell out of me As many of the lads had the same tratment . we could make a series better than the cathrine cooksen . Hellow Flyer are you keeping well I hope so I went to huntersbar as well but not very often alwas playing nick or helpping my self to jars of sweets of the counter of the shop opesit the school can you remember them days I ran away and hid in a shelter in a garden in the winter but gave myself up because I was frozen and starving .Then when I got back I use to get a good beating of the superindent I forgot his name Hoipe to hear from you soon Wilf

Hi Munne yes a lot of things I remember quite well after all its only been 66yrs I do in fact remember running away with you at least twice ,Ive now moved to a very small town by the lake for some peace and quiet and apart from a wonky eye (seeing double on this com)my health is good regards Adrian:cool::cool::cool:

hi any info on fch greatly appreciated my grandfather was in the home in 1917 are records available i was told they had all been destroyed can anyone help thanks
keeley

hi mollymoon there are some photos in city library ask for hildreth collection
also try sheffield archives shoreham street

terry needham

Hi Terry Needham.I remember you, were you in number 2.I was in 17 and my name was Glenda Fearnehough,also my brother Rex who joined the Merchant navy,(or should i say was joined) My other brother was also there in 9 his name is Rodney.Rex was in 8.I have just caught up with Brian Ali after all those years.I was there from in about 1949 to 1953 aprox. awaiting your reply

Terryneedham was you also F,C H #2 ? what yr did you arrive The Bull 1939-1946 forgive me if i've asked before my memory not what It was

Hi Adrian I cant remember the name of the road we lived in but I can remember I had a kind of arch and when you get through it the was a big hill that I played on I cant remember any naghbours at all when I was at sea I went to canada alot of times some of the places I went to was montreall Lasall
on the st Lurence
Wilf

think that might be the big arch what used to be on bamforth street.....the land used to be a brewery was demolished about 1920 i think and we kids used to play onwhat was left ...you could get in at te bottom from bamforth street and the top at high house road ....you me and flyer had one thing in common...we all lived off penistone road near daniel doncasters and we were all in fch

think that might be the big arch what used to be on bamforth street.....the land used to be a brewery was demolished about 1920 i think and we kids used to play onwhat was left ...you could get in at te bottom from bamforth street and the top at high house road ....you me and flyer had one thing in common...we all lived off penistone road near daniel doncasters and we were all in fch


sorry...thats two things....my maths is getting worse:loopy:

sorry...thats two things....my maths is getting worse:loopy:

but real good clay for making winter warmers for all us budding fire bugs :thumbsup::thumbsup::hihi:

sorry...thats two things....my maths is getting worse:loopy:
but your mind is much sharper ,I could never describe that piece of land I seem to remember calling it "Kimmers Hill", Brewery name?or more likely Penistone rd slang:D:D:D:D

hi all ex-homers i was in fch from may1943 till 1951 went to greystones junior then to pomona street also my brother len he was in no8 my sister catherine (now passed away) she was in 12 . i was in no5 miss jenkinson but was moved after running away was moved to miss fields no7 our len went to welesly naval school i went on british rail had digs at 285 graville road. i remember jimmy toaster jumping off the bus on oakbrook road he finshed in hospital after hitting tha wall remember the snow of 1947 . there is lots of pictures in sheffield city library (called the hildreth collection) you can veiw them there but cannot get much information from the archives on shoreham street. went to re-union in2000 had a great day . hope all ex homers are ok and a merry xmas to all
terry needham:thumbsup:

Terry I sit here wondering if we ever ran away together 43&44 being my prime yrs,if anyone was going I would often get asked because i was going anyway I think I stopped by 46 And a merry Xmas to you & all:thumbsup::thumbsup:

hi the girl called sylvia could be my sister in law as sylvia and her sister where in fullwood cottage homes about that time if you want more info get in touch

[QUOTE=acky;4468492]hi the girl called sylvia could be my sister in law as sylvia and her sister where in fullwood cottage homes about that time if you want more info get in touch as my wife is always talking about the homes we went there a few weeks ago and they are all private dwellings now

[QUOTE=acky;4468492]hi the girl called sylvia could be my sister in law as sylvia and her sister where in fullwood cottage homes about that time if you want more info get in touch as my wife is always talking about the homes we went there a few weeks ago and they are all private dwellings now
--------------CAN YOU GIVE ME YOUR WIFE`S MAIDEN NAME
IT MIGHT BE OF SOME HELP TA.

hi munne was w. unwin the lad who climbed a lampost outside greystones school fell and broke his leg


terry needham:thumbsup:

could be I know about everything else got bent Wilf & I where pals a long time I seem to think we got split in different class's at Greystone I don;t know if wilf remembers this,but in all his beatings he would never cry so a bunch of 13-14 a-holes got round him and started punching him to try & make him cry so there were some pretty nastie's around that were not house mothers :mad::mad::mad:

I was in FCH From 1948 To 1954 can't remember a lot about it other than being in house 6 i think.
I clearly remember a boy climbing the railings at the back of the house posssibly to try and escape but became impailed on the metal spike!! anyone remember this.
Also the summer camps at Marsk/ Saltburn when we had new shorts, and sandals with crepe soles!!
Went to Lydgate Lane Primary school the one with the playground on the roof!!

always nice to welcome a newbie on this thread,:thumbsup::thumbsup: gone before your time (1946)&holidays by the sea

I was in FCH From 1948 To 1954 can't remember a lot about it other than being in house 6 i think.
I clearly remember a boy climbing the railings at the back of the house posssibly to try and escape but became impailed on the metal spike!! anyone remember this.
Also the summer camps at Marsk/ Saltburn when we had new shorts, and sandals with crepe soles!!
Went to Lydgate Lane Primary school the one with the playground on the roof!!
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hi suffolk boy,
the lad that fell on that gate was tommy botham,
now lives in lincolneshire, he was also in no6 at some point.
would we know you by name,---- i`am barry cornthorpe
i was in no2 home.

I was in FCH From 1948 To 1954 can't remember a lot about it other than being in house 6 i think.
I clearly remember a boy climbing the railings at the back of the house posssibly to try and escape but became impailed on the metal spike!! anyone remember this.
Also the summer camps at Marsk/ Saltburn when we had new shorts, and sandals with crepe soles!!
Went to Lydgate Lane Primary school the one with the playground on the roof!!

Hi suffolk boy. I would have been a resident of FCH the same time as you (circa early 1950s). I tried to PM you but couldn't. Do you have a name? I was in Cottage #9 under the house-parent Miss (Rosemary) Bower.

Feel free to PM me your name if you'd rather.

By the way, suffolk boy, I DID manage to PM you ...I think.:)

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hi suffolk boy,
the lad that fell on that gate was tommy botham,
now lives in lincolneshire, he was also in no6 at some point.
would we know you by name,---- i`am barry cornthorpe
i was in no2 home.

Hi Barry
Thanks for the information, afraid the old memory not as good as it was.
My name is Mel (Melville) Deakin and I now live in Ipswich
Any more info would be appreciated. Do you have any photos?.

Hi Barry Cornthorpe have we contacted befor aways interested in #2 inmates I left(#2) in 46 miss Bull was in charge:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Ops sorry my mistake on reread i see barry is brian 1941 or brian is barry just get confused before coffee

Ops sorry my mistake on reread i see barry is brian 1941 or brian is barry just get confused before coffee
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FLYER,----------<< DONT BE CONFUSED>>
BRIAN 1941 IS REGISTERED AS THAT,
BUT MY FRIENDS--THE EX FULWOOD LADS SIGN THEIR NAMES
ON THREADS WHEN THEY PUT THEIR MAIL ON HERE.
NICE WHEN THEY LIVE NEAR BY, AND POP ROUND. BYEEEEE.