Hi there I've just started on this site today..I'm looking to find out what happened to my old Shiregreen mates..Brian and Mick Mills, Terry Ashton, Allan Garlick, Hodgey the drummer, Roy Archer(Dan), Ken Irwin..we all went on holiday together to the Isle of Man in the late fifties..I was a bit of a pratt in those days I remember ...still am ! according to the wife.

If Mick Mills was the "ginger nut" who went to Shiregreen Sec Modern school, he was in my class, if the same person I would also love to hear any news.

Yep he's the one all spots and a red spikey haircut..last I heard he was a bus conductor....but they don't have have them now.

I went to Shiregreen sec mod as well but I was in the class one year in front of you What about that Head teacher Mr Lamb???The human rights people would have had him sorted if he was teaching today..I can still feel my hands stinging from the many canings I got from him..didn't do me any harm tho'

Good to know it's the same Mick I knew, we all left school in summer of 1958, I have been living in Scarborough for last two years, but just before we moved, I heard from a friend about some sort of reunion, and Mr Lamb, now in his 90's attended!
Don't know if the old boy is still going, but nice to think so.

Mick mills ..left school and started work at Newton Chambers Chapletown..He worked alongside me in the Machine shop on a horizontal borer until he was 21 at least..He married a well endowed girl from Parsons Cross her name was Gwen Muxlow daughter of Bill Muxlow (Known as Burglar Bill)..I last saw Mick and his wife ouside The La Plata club in Hillsborough back in 1970 he was dressed in bus conductors uniform at the time and I've not seen or heard from him since...but for the last 35 years i've lived in a pretty little village called Norton, near Stockton on Tees.

I think I remember seeing Mick on the buses, here are a few memorys for you: Miss Fincham, never did one so small frighten so many!: walking to Firth Park to get tram to Sutherland Rd swimming baths: putting your hand up to ask if you could have big roll of penny tickets: trying to fill a poor dovetail joint with thick smelly hot brown woodglue:sitting crosslegged on floor at assembly singing hymns: singing forty years on! god! its a bit more than that now is'nt it: sago pudding with a dollop of jam: freezing in winter in huts: Mr Page cracking you with a piece of wood for making the lousy joint! the memories go on.
I am sure now though, that retirement is definately the best shift.
There is a Norton near where I live, next to Malton, don't think i've been down your end.

Sutherland road Baths...Oh yes a steamy place in the winter..
I remember a Brylcreem Machine on the wall.. and co's we didn't have any pennies for it we found we could suck on the spout and get a mouthfull of Brylcreem...Yuck!!!! and spit it out onto our hands and rub it on our heads.

Crikey, the Brylcream machine, yes i'd forgotton that, be no good now though, no flamin hair left!

While looking for my old mates I think I've come across Little Malcs shoolchums if Im correct I can list his School photo....But for now I'll give a list of his classmates in 1953....come on Malc own up are you in this class stood between Pam Fisher & Charles Fiander .....
Miss Summerset's Class 1A 1953 Back Row L-R Peter Sarson - Raymond Kenyon - Stewart Bowles - Frank Wilgoose - Denis Loveday - Sydney Johnson - Roger Shelly - John Jowett - Alen Watson - Douglas Eccles. 2nd Row L- R Keith Maslen (me) - Terence Burbeary - Maureen Whitehouse - Doreen Johnson - Janet Booth - Hilary Bright - Eunice Stavely - Christine Benton - Pamela Fisher - Surname Smith - Charles Fiander Frount Row L - R Angela Simmonds - Brenda Dale - ? Carter - ??? - ??? - Janet Jackson - Miss Sommerset - Barbara Goddard - ? MacDoald - Betty ? - Dorothy ? - Sylvia ? can anyone name the rest of them Keith Maslen

Originally posted by Timbuck
While looking for my old mates I think I've come across Little Malcs shoolchums if Im correct I can list his School photo....But for now I'll give a list of his classmates in 1953....Miss Summerset's Class 1A 1953 Surname Smith

Is this Jim or Barbara Smith, twins who lived on Ronksley Crescent although I thought they would be in the same class together.

Jim was a professional footballer and manager, now at Portsmouth.

While I was trying to locate some of my old school mates,I came across a site called "Friends Reunited" and on this site I found a reference to Shiregreen Sec Mod School on Bracken Rd...When I was there I remembered most of all Mr Lamb..I was scared to death of this bloke because if you disobayed him or didn't pay attention to him he went nuts and he became very violent, I was caned by Mr Lamb myself many times for things like, being late, talking in class, not paying attention ,daydreaming etc..On his first day at the school I saw him come into the classroom to supervise dinnertime( we had school dinners in the classroom in those days) We were all chatting and messing around waiting for our turn to go into the main hall and collect our meals...When in came Mr Lamb He shouted out to the class "SILENCE" we all went silent ( this bloke was different to the other teachers) a lad called Alan Jones had a deck of cards on his desk top..Mr Lamb said to him you put those cards away lad..Jones started to gather the cards together, but took his time doing it in Bravado because Jones was a big lad for fourteen. Anyway the next thing I saw was Mr Lamb diving across the desks at Jones..He grabbed him by the jacket and beat him across the face several times with his fists and hands..I didn't have much of an appetite that afternoon...I never forgot that day...now 50 years later...I found another Pupil at the same school who remembers a similar event a couple of years later after I'd left school and Mr Lamb had been Promoted to headmaster...and this is what he says...

Anyone remember when the head, Mr LAMB caned ROD BEST for talking while he was taking assembly ref [ myself DAVID LOCKWOOD and[ CHIMP] PHIL MASLIN for smoking in the yard. He broke the cane on the top of the stage as i recall ,and little ROD BEST had to go to hospital with his hand, Old LAMB gave him 20 strokes, you could hear a pin drop in the school hall, everyone was gob smacked. I ran my hand under the cold tap before i paid a visit to his study for my sins.NEVER FORGOT THAT.!
A few years after leaving good old Shiregreen Sec.i joined the army as a ROYAL MILITARY POLICEMAN, and i went back to see the HEAD and i reminded him of the incident, to which he replied. " NO PAIN " NO GAIN"
John barnett.

The Kids today don't know how lucky they are.

Re the friends united site, yes, I have seen the photo from 1953, no, honest, i'm not on this picture, I was in Miss Summerset's class in 1954, the year after, have still got a photo somewhere.
I left school in 1958, and was head boy that year, the closest i've ever come to fame! the last teacher I had was Mr May, great guy.

Hey Malc I was in Miss Somersets class that year as well..with Tony Thicket ( to become Head Boy), Winifred Kimpton, Clarence Cowley, was I in the class before you?...I think I was...must have been I left Christmas1954.

Hey Timbuck,

I used to live in Norton - just behind the duck pond, on Darlington Lane

Say hello to the place for me

Hi Bella..The Duck pond is doing quite well today, the council have done it up,and the fountains working now and more ducks than ever are in it somedays as many as 80 mallards a couple of Canada geese and two swans. i'll try and send you Photo.

Allan Garlick

odd surname... Does Allan have a relation called Claire? She's 16 or 17.... I worked with a claire garlick!

Originally posted by Timbuck
Hi Bella..The Duck pond is doing quite well today, the council have done it up,and the fountains working now and more ducks than ever are in it somedays as many as 80 mallards a couple of Canada geese and two swans. i'll try and send you Photo.

Thanks

*smile*

I lived about opposite the catholic church, on the little green, behind the big green

I left in 98. Would love to see a photo of the ducks and the swans .........(Swans he says!! gosh, that really IS done up)

I visited Sheffield this last weekend, saw my mate Ian Bilson, he remembers both you and brother Eric, were you in B B at Hatfield Lane? Brian Woodriff who wrote the two books on Shiregreen lived just below you, I think it was last house going towards English Steel ground. By the way, he is in the process of completing a third book, should be interesting.

Each Time you mention Ian Bilson it jogs my memory I certainly new him..but I still can't place him..where did he use to live???.
I was in the Life Boys at Hatfield house Lane..Then I joined The Boy Scouts at St Christophers Bellhouse Road..I was Patrol leader of the Stag Patrol..and my Second was a german lad called Gunther Wurtsbach , but everybody Knew him as "Ginta" He was Killed some years ago in a motorcycle accident.

Ian at that time lived on Crowland Road, went to Hatfield House Lane chapel, his uncle, Donald Hazell played the organ there, Ian was also a football ref, he's still living in Lane Top area, I think he will be about one year younger than you. I'm trying to persuade him to register on forum, he would be an asset to it, as unlike me, he has a damn good memory!

Originally posted by caprice
odd surname... Does Allan have a relation called Claire? She's 16 or 17.... I worked with a claire garlick!
Alan Garlick will be about 63 years old if he's still around, Claire could be a grand daughter..or maybe a daughter..I need more info.

Did you know the Helliwells on Hatfield House Lane? They lived there from the early 1930s to the early 70s That's my family.

Originally posted by Funke88
Did you know the Helliwells on Hatfield House Lane? They lived there from the early 1930s to the early 70s That's my family.
The Helliwells family, yes I remember them Especially "Christine Helliwell" she was a friend of my Cousin Wendy Gill...if You walked down Hatfieldhouse lane a bit and then turned left down an allyway Helliwells were halfway down on the left...I used to fancy Christine, but she had her sights on sombody else.

Originally posted by Timbuck
The Helliwells family, yes I remember them Especially "Christine Helliwell" she was a friend of my Cousin Wendy Gill...if You walked down Hatfieldhouse lane a bit and then turned left down an allyway Helliwells were halfway down on the left...I used to fancy Christine, but she had her sights on sombody else.

Yes she did, my dad!
That's hillarious. lol

Originally posted by little malc
I visited Sheffield this last weekend, saw my mate Ian Bilson, he remembers both you and brother Eric, were you in B B at Hatfield Lane? Brian Woodriff who wrote the two books on Shiregreen lived just below you, I think it was last house going towards English Steel ground. By the way, he is in the process of completing a third book, should be interesting.
I knew Bryan very well as he only lived next door but one ..He was a very well educated lad , During his National Service he was a Russian interpreter. Bryan was 3 years older than me and I used to play around with his younger brother Keith..He Keith unfortunately died a few months ago, but I was lucky enough to meet up with him again last year, and talk about the old days.

Originally posted by Belle
Hey Timbuck,

I used to live in Norton - just behind the duck pond, on Darlington Lane

Say hello to the place for me Just to let you know Belle..There are more ducks than ever this winter on the pond.. Also about 20 Canada Geese.. it's fast becoming a popular wildlife centre.

hi there a bloke near me called terry ashton hes about 70 is this him?

I lived in Shirehall Rd. the house was brand new, I was a baby 1933, we stayed there until 1940, moved then to Hatfield House Lane. Names remembered ,Thomas, Webb (the chimney sweep), the Ebbs twins. My name is Miller, anyone around still who remembers me?

hi there a bloke near me called terry ashton hes about 70 is this him?Yes the age could be about right I guess about 68 or 69
do you know where he used to live.... the one I'm looking for is from Hartleybrook.

To Janner I live on Shirehall rd now, did you say you were a baby when it was newly built 1933? I am trying to get a rough idea when my house was built. Could you tell me what number you lived at? if you remember? I was once told that Marti Caine lived on Shirehall rd, not sure if this was true or not. Cheers B54

I lived in Shirehall Rd. the house was brand new, I was a baby 1933, we stayed there until 1940, moved then to Hatfield House Lane. Names remembered ,Thomas, Webb (the chimney sweep), the Ebbs twins. My name is Miller, anyone around still who remembers me?I remember Webbs the chimney sweeper my friend "Freddy" and I used to go to his house cos' he had a talking Jackdaw in a cage and it used say all sorts of things...Mrs Webb was always very nice to us young lads.

Timbuck, I think the number of the house in Shirehall Rd. was 264, my parents said they moved into the new house with a minimum amount of furniture. When we arrived home after a weeks holiday in 1939 ther was the parts of an anderson air raid shelter in the front garden.

The webbs had a daughter , Babara , I think. We somehow inherited their dog, it was a black labrador called Judy. The Webbs house was a bit of a mess but a wonderland for small boys. Mr Webb used to tell us stories of his time in the Navy.

While looking for my old mates I think I've come across Little Malcs shoolchums if Im correct I can list his School photo....But for now I'll give a list of his classmates in 1953....come on Malc own up are you in this class stood between Pam Fisher & Charles Fiander .....
Miss Summerset's Class 1A 1953 Back Row L-R Peter Sarson - Raymond Kenyon - Stewart Bowles - Frank Wilgoose - Denis Loveday - Sydney Johnson - Roger Shelly - John Jowett - Alen Watson - Douglas Eccles. 2nd Row L- R Keith Maslen (me) - Terence Burbeary - Maureen Whitehouse - Doreen Johnson - Janet Booth - Hilary Bright - Eunice Stavely - Christine Benton - Pamela Fisher - Surname Smith - Charles Fiander Frount Row L - R Angela Simmonds - Brenda Dale - ? Carter - ??? - ??? - Janet Jackson - Miss Sommerset - Barbara Goddard - ? MacDoald - Betty ? - Dorothy ? - Sylvia ? can anyone name the rest of them Keith Maslen

I knew a Paul Fiander from vauxhall rd Wincobank was Charles his brother.

I lived in Shirehall Rd. the house was brand new, I was a baby 1933, we stayed there until 1940, moved then to Hatfield House Lane. Names remembered ,Thomas, Webb (the chimney sweep), the Ebbs twins. My name is Miller, anyone around still who remembers me?

you mention a chimny sweep on hatfieldhouse
i deliverd milk i would only be about 15 or 16 he gave me his cycle what
he carried his brushes on a great big situp and beg
awoollen
the year would be 1945 to 46

awoolen, I lived at 108 Hatfield House Lane. You & I must be about the same age,I'm 75 in Nov. Mr Webb used to work in an abbattoir as well as sweeping chimneys, they had a pet snake, it went missing, when Mrs. Webb went to ues her sewing machine , it would'nt work, the snake had got into the machine & was mangled. Did you live on Hatfield House Lane?

awoolen, I lived at 108 Hatfield House Lane. You & I must be about the same age,I'm 75 in Nov. Mr Webb used to work in an abbattoir as well as sweeping chimneys, they had a pet snake, it went missing, when Mrs. Webb went to ues her sewing machine , it would'nt work, the snake had got into the machine & was mangled. Did you live on Hatfield House Lane?
sorry i am two years older
i lived on bevercotes road firth park live in rotherham now