anybody on here come of attercliffe i was born on attercliffe and lived just of staiforth rd on chelmsford st i attended woodbourn rd school

Sorry Brooksy I lived on the Manor,but we all used to go down "The Cliff" when we were younger(too many years ago)we used to love going to Banners to shop and have a toasted teacake while was there.

I lived at Norfolk Bridge which was on the fringe of Attercliffe but I went to Ellesmere Road School. I remember Banners, Littlewoods, Cox's record shop, the skating rink and the Regal Pictures.

Many happy and eventful years spent ln attercliffe
Lived ln Beall St and Cottingham St Many moons ago

Sorry mate, i'm from Firth Park. Remember my mom used to take me to Attercliffe to shop at Banners. Do you remember the girls at the tills used to put the money in little containers and put it in a suction pipe? The container would go with a wooosh up the pipe and travel along pipes in the ceiling to the accounts office(presumably) and then come back to the cashier with the correct money. My Aunty Elsie and Uncle Harry used to live at Attercliffe, cant remember their address at the mo, but they used to send us to a little chippy just round the corner sometimes when we went visiting.

Originally posted by KIWI
Many happy and eventful years spent ln attercliffe
Lived ln Beall St and Cottingham St Many moons ago

I was born in Cottingham Street. Number 54, I think. The house got blasted by a land mine or bomb during the blitz. We escaped to the cellar of a neighbour's house - they were called Gleadall, I think.

my mum was born on alfred road,she was the youngest of 10,then when she married she moved to newhall road,she still says youll never find a community like the one they had "down cliff"

my parents and grand parents all came off don rd just down from alford rd. they were called brand and were a large family. my other family are tuckwoods and roberts who also came from the alford rd area.

does any oldtimers remember the antcliffe family -roundel street.
or the loomes family.

Brooksy -

my parents both came from Don Road/Newhall Road - dad's surname Smith, mum's surname Whiteley.

I was born on Stamford Street, which was off Newall Road. On a visit from Canada in 1978, I took my son down to where our house had been, and it was a parking lot. The church, the "rec", the houses all gone!

I was born in Kings lake st and my grandparents name was Fletcher..

I used to love all the Swop Shops in Attercliffe.We used to catch the 17 bus from near the Essoldo at Barnsley Road,Lane Top.Just to look in the Swop Shops,and ride Banners escaltor.Brilliant!!!:thumbsup:

Yes, Banners was good - we used to go there from Darnall - can remember the escalator. I used to like the lift too - in the middle of the shop with a sort of grill round the lift shaft so you could see it going up and down.
Our doctor's surgery was somewhere near Banners - a side road off Attercliffe Common, but I can't remember the name of the road - or the doctor either.
Much longer ago, my grandad went to Carbrook school - he remembered being brought out of school to see the first electric tram go along Attercliffe Common. Was the school converted into a night club some years ago? Is it still? Anyone know?
My great grandmother (other side of family) had a shop on Attercliffe Road - much nearer town (Wicker side of Norfolk Bridge).

Hiya ,
my wife was born on Edward Road, and her father was also their name was Moulds. Edward road was just around the corner from the Pavilion picture house. She went to Carbrook school which was turned the night club " Players Cafe " and then on to Coleridge Road school.
Attercliffe was a brilliant community

There was Dr.Cooper just of Attercliffe Road, we would see the doctor and if we had a prescription we would walk up to Raymond Hall's the chemist on Staniforth Road. He would always chat to you while you where waiting and seemed to now everything and everybody, a lovely man.

I didn't live in Attercliffe but I used to work at the Naval Ordnance on Janson Street (from 1964-69). There was a really good sandwich shop on the main road (Wisemans?) and a little park next to the school where we used to take our lunch. Often used to go to Banners, and wasn't there a Littlewoods nearby too? Sometimes went to a chinese restaurant round the corner on Staniforth Road.

Banners' shop was wonderful, with its huge wooden escalators.

I believe that banners had the honour of being the first store in the UK to have escalators installed, even before the "big-name ", famous stores in London. I remember the Banners Cheques, too!

It was a "tradition", for my mother and me to call into Banners on our way along Attercliffe Common, on our way to visit my Grandpa. He lived on the road that ran beside carbrook school.

I was definitely under the age of seven because my grandpa passed away when I was seven.

I remember being a very small child, (two, perhaps three) and the council had been "blitzing " a lot of buildings, sandblasting them after the clean air Act had been passed.

We went down the 'cliffe to visit my grandpa's and as we passed by Carbrook School, it was being sandblasted. I got some grit in my eye and made a fuss. (well, it hurt! and i was only a tot! lol )

PT

Does anyone remember the Attercliffe roller skating rink. Saturday afternoon was full of kids learning to skate, but evenings there was dancing on skates and some people were pretty professional at it. I thought I was too at 14 till a broken arm and a few days in City General proved otherwise

having grown up on attercliffe in the 60 s andearly 70 s it was sad 2 see how it declined in the late 70s. recently tho the area seems 2 be given a new lease of life, with alot off investment going in down there do folk think it mighnt take off again.

I Hope it is mate I worked at Tommy Clarks foundry in the early 70s .3 day week was all the rage & I also worked at an electrical windings firm across from banners cannot recall the name.I had my garage at the Wicker Arches in the late 70s .Haven't been down attercliffe for years.

its seems 2be picking up on all fronts, alot of the old pubs are being refurbished and quite a few new shops are opening. be nice 2 see banners turned into something decent instead of the dump it is now.

Are there any residential properties in Attercliffe ?

It could be a nice area to live now it's clean and green, certainly plenty of amenities available and shopping at Meadowhall.

Originally posted by Greybeard
Are there any residential properties in Attercliffe ?

It could be a nice area to live now it's clean and green, certainly plenty of amenities available and shopping at Meadowhall.

But for the most part it's still an industrial area, isn't it?

The only residential areas I'm aware of are of a mixture of older privately owned, and relatively new council / social housing estates.

They're all either a short distance up Staniforth Road or a long way up Worksop Road, so they're more Darnall than Attercliffe.

I wouldn't call it clean and green, or a nice place to live just yet...still too many brothels and adult entertainment shops up there!

This is not so much down the cliff as the bottom of prince but the old Davy United office has under gone convertion, Anyone know into what?

Abdul...have you done the five-weirs walk ? Or the canal bank from Meadowhall up to Staniforth Road ? I remebmer the area from the 1950s and it's clean and green now - believe me :D

Forgemasters seems to be the only remaining blot on the landscape and by Attercliffe I have the corridor between the canal and Brightside lane in mind.

Anyone remember the Attercliffe Radical Club.

It's still there derelict, I was thinking of trying to get some sort of action together to apply for next years BBC Resoration program.

What do ya think?

Originally posted by brooksy
having grown up on attercliffe in the 60 s andearly 70 s it was sad 2 see how it declined in the late 70s. recently tho the area seems 2 be given a new lease of life, with alot off investment going in down there do folk think it mighnt take off again.
i had forty years playing darts in that area so i know what you mean i retied from darts in 1990 with carbrookhall
when i first played we had three leauges
when i retired there was only seven teams

Originally posted by brooksy
anybody on here come of attercliffe i was born on attercliffe and lived just of staiforth rd on chelmsford st i attended woodbourn rd school
i was born at 55 stedfast street 1930 moved to firth park 1934went to carbrook school but not old enough for shiregreenl

Originally posted by brooksy
anybody on here come of attercliffe i was born on attercliffe and lived just of staiforth rd on chelmsford st i attended woodbourn rd school
i was born on steadfast street 1930 move to firth park
but play darts roud attercliffe years retied from darts 1990
my last team was with the carbrook hall them was the days

Hi There, I find the topic on Attercliffe great. I spent a lot of my early child hood there and then went back in my teans., I lived on Westbury St. and they used to have the anual fair and merrygo rounds there. Used to go to High Hazels Park and attend the Darnall Medical /aid parade. Dancing at the Astoria and yes John Banners was a good shop, and the little pie shop outside Attercliffe Baths. My Grandparents were all born on Alfred Road I think the name was Fulwood and Pope. Great memories these

Regards vera p..s. Anyone remember Huntsmans Garden School

H There,
Just interested in this . My relations lived in Steadfast St. at that time by the name of Pope. My /aunt was a Usherette at the Adephi for many years
Regards Vera

when did the adelphi actually close down, i grew up on the cliff and cant remember it being open.

was talking 2 a man called ron snoud the other day in the attercliff liberal club a reel gent always turned out in immaculate suits and ties. he was telling me that years ago you cudnt walk up and down attercliff and have half a beer in every pub because there were 2 many and u would have been drunk. were there that many pubs, i grew up down there but cant recall there being that many

Hi Brooksy

Sorry Ive been trying to find out when then Adelphi closed down can find all the pics but not come across the closure as yet. Got it somewhere in my books on Attercliffe just published will try to find out

Regards Vera

Talking about picture palaces. What happened to the Globe and the Pavilion? There was one on Staniforth Road who's name I forget. But for a night out nowt beat the old Palace theatre with live entertainment.

Originally posted by buck
Talking about picture palaces. What happened to the Globe and the Pavilion? There was one on Staniforth Road who's name I forget. But for a night out nowt beat the old Palace theatre with live entertainment.
i went attercliffe palace every friday night when i was courting
the reason was i had to book to seats for the adelfe
saturday night

I know that most of us that post here are shall we say in our prime and that "in our day" it seemed ok to use terms such as "nig nog" but I really do think that we now understand that that sort of name calling is unnecessary and very offensive.
I was born and brought up in Attercliffe and my Mom often used to take me to the Globe and Pavillion. I remember the times we went to see the hollywood musicals and how much my Mom loved them .Both of these cinemas were taken over and used only for Indian films but if this had not happened they would have had to close down because they were not getting the bums on seats for the mainstream films. Nothing stays the same for very ever, only our memories and even they fade.

dear kiwi how many moons is it since you lived in beall st?

my husband was born at home on beall st. in 1951,and moved to aust. in 1963and returned in 1968 and lived there untill the st. was demolished.

he went to huntsmans garden school, and would love to hear more about memories of attercliffe

just a thought my husband gary worked at banners does anyone out there remember the dinner and dance ,is there anyone who worked there that can bring back a few of the old names.

banners closed in 1980,but a few of the staff stayed to clear the shop,were you one of them.

Here's how much I'm in my prime. I was 9 years old when we went to see Broadway Melodies of 1939 at the Pavilion on the night of December 12th 1940. The air raid siren went and like normal we all ignored it cos we'd had lots of false alarms.All of a sudden the guns opened up and bombs began falling on the city. We were directed to an underground shelter and stayed there all night while an Irish cop gave us a running commentary from the surface. Attercliffe was fairly lucky that night though some people were kiled in Brightside.

Originally posted by rosiebear
dear kiwi how many moons is it since you lived in beall st?

my husband was born at home on beall st. in 1951,and moved to aust. in 1963and returned in 1968 and lived there untill the st. was demolished.

he went to huntsmans garden school, and would love to hear more about memories of attercliffe
HI Rosiebear,l do mean many moons ago however in 1951l was still living in Beall St and while i wouldn't have known your husband l probably knew his parents Beall St being a close community.l left Attercliffe in 1956 for NZ
Regards Kiwi.

Hi Kiwi, Nice to meet another emigrant like myself. I departed UK shores in 1968 to Montreal in 1968, then later moved to the US, where I have been a citizen since 1987. Have you ever returned for a visit? I took my son to see the house I was born in at Stamford Street, Brightside only to find it was now a giant parking lot. Later, in 1989 my cousin Ernie drove me along Attercliffe road and Common as they were turning it into a dual carriageway and knocking down many of the old buildings. Do I ever regret leaving? In some ways yes, but the country seems very crowded to someone with lots of space to enjoy. I have met many kiwis in my time and found them very easy to get along with, which is not always the case with your bigger neighbor.

what number on beall st did you live, my husbands parents and grandparent lived in numbers 10 and 12.

my husbands grandad was called george wilson-leary, and he had 2 sons and 3 daughters.

do you remember mrs cooke, browns who owned a shop, the grayson family.

Originally posted by buck
Hi Kiwi, Nice to meet another emigrant like myself. I departed UK shores in 1968 to Montreal in 1968, then later moved to the US, where I have been a citizen since 1987. Have you ever returned for a visit? I took my son to see the house I was born in at Stamford Street, Brightside only to find it was now a giant parking lot. Later, in 1989 my cousin Ernie drove me along Attercliffe road and Common as they were turning it into a dual carriageway and knocking down many of the old buildings. Do I ever regret leaving? In some ways yes, but the country seems very crowded to someone with lots of space to enjoy. I have met many kiwis in my time and found them very easy to get along with, which is not always the case with your bigger neighbor.
hi Buck know what you mean by space to enjoy. l was back in Sheffield a couple of years ago and was amazed at all the changes but it was great to hear that Sheffield accent again.
Your message about the air raids in Attercliffe brought back a few memories too.Kiwi

Originally posted by rosiebear
what number on beall st did you live, my husbands parents and grandparent lived in numbers 10 and 12.

my husbands grandad was called george wilson-leary, and he had 2 sons and 3 daughters.

do you remember mrs cooke, browns who owned a shop, the grayson family.
HI ROSIEBEAR a Mr Leary does ring a bell though after 50 years the memory for names gets a little hazy. l do remember a couple of names at your end of the street there was the Marriot's, Richardson's Pickles and of course l remember Browns shop in the middle of the street at yor end there was another shop l believe was Batties(the grouch)further along was the Petties,race BEARDSHAW'S (TIS I AT 29)The Waller's and Redford's. Theres more people l remember but due to a touch of senility l carn't put names to them.Have to ask my sisters they are still in Sheffield

my husband recalls the names you mentioned,in particular flo marriot and her daughter sandra, flo married my husbands grandfather ,brown baileys steelworks is now don valley stadium for athletics.

where huntsmens gardens school stood is now a new housing estate.

are your sisters interested in using the forum to share memories.

Hi Rosiebear l remember Sandra she had two brothers Raymond and ?? l had a couple of dates with there cousin Silvier l believe her name was, how is Raymond?

Ever go dancimg at City Hall, or the Cutlers?

Hey Rosiebear
I was delighted to see the name Huntsmans Garden School. I have often searched for pics of this school now you tell me it ain't there any longer. I attended there and would have loved a pic of it. for my album Guess what? I have a lot of my school records here for when I was 5yrs old. They are ancient now but good condition. We used to walk over the Canal Bridge to get there from Candow st. Such memories eh! First house over the Bridge lived (we called her Mrs. Goodwoman) she always had a packet of lollies for us. Long time ago now. I live in Australia now but just love this forum I have found
Regards Vera.

Originally posted by buck
Ever go dancimg at City Hall, or the Cutlers?
Used to go to the city hall dancing saturday nights quite regular.forget the name of the band(love a reminder)at the interval we would nip out to the pub for a drambui it didn' smell as bad as beer on your breath. We used to call the dance the city hall shuffle or creep because you couldn't move more than a few inches at a time it was that crowded

anyone remember the Ashworths who lived on alfred road?

I used to be a regular too when I wasn't at sea with the Navy. It was so crowded you wouldn't have fell down if you'd fainted. Didn't like the Cutler's crowd much, too uppity. At the City we used to risk eviction for jiving. Used to go down to the Black Swan in the interval, where I introduced my fiancee from a well to do Totley family to my auntie who was, as they say' on the game. Pat married me anyway.

PS I think the band was called the Bernard Taylor Orchestra but can't be sure. They weren't up to much anyway. Much better when Ted Heath's band visited.

Hiya Rosiebear,
In one of your posts you mentioned the Grayson family,do you remeber any christian names?My maiden name is Grayson & I know my dad was born down there?

at the moment my partener is working but i will get him to name tha ones he knows.

im sure we met one of the brothers at the dog track and his daughter is a kennel maid there.

i think the brothers have an engineering business and one has an interest in property dev.

i will try to get more info over the weekend.

my husband remembers three,stephen paul and susan,they lived in the end yard next to batiste shop.

Hey, Buck. I do indeed remember the roller rink in Attercliffe, or rather, my bum remembers it!!! Used to fall down at least every two minutes. I decided one time to go down the short flight of stairs to the 'training' area. It had a very worn flight of stairs, I seem to remember only five or six steps. The 'training' area was a long narrow room with a metal rail down the middle. I never went down after the first time, as I fell down the stairs, no damage done except my pride. Have never skated again! I was about 10 or 11 at the time, that would have been 1950 or so!
I also remember my aunt Beatrice would take me to the Palace on a Saturday night, saw my first naked breasts there, although I was sitting at the back, so they were hard to see. The next week I took my plastic binoculars with me, but aunty Beat wouldn't let me use them!!!!
Banners was where me and mi mam used to go for my annual Whitsuntide suit, I remember the vacuum tube, but I don't remember much else, although I know we had to have clothing coupons. Does anyone remember when they were discontinued?.
Here is a question for you. Do you remember a small stone building next to a river? It was not too far from Banners, on the town side, you could see it from the tram. I went there a few years later, I was on the table tennis team at our local youth club, (Meynell Road)we played a team from that building, I guess it must have been a youth club also. This would have been around 1953/4.
I spent a few months on a paving crew just before I went into the RAF in 1958, we worked a lot around Attercliffe and Darnall, I remember it was a hell of a trip to get there, and home, from Wadsley Bridge!
In 1963, I worked for SCTD (bus driver) and drove the #3 circular from Herries Road up to the lane top, Wincobank, Attercliffe, then up Prince of Wales road to Manor top, etc.
I have lived in Canada since 1965, and have never been back to Sheffield, the memories are fading these days, but it is still good to hear from the 'other' oldtimers on this forum!! Brian Brady.

Hello Oldtimer! I must say I got to be pretty good on skates and used to go down that little training area and race round it just to show off. It stood me in good stead when I lived in Montreal where I transferred to ice skates and did a lot of reffing for the kids on the outdoor rinks. I'd done a bit of figure skating in Attercliffe but in Canada that was considered a bit efffeminate so quit. I went to Attercliffe rink a few years before you, just as WW2 was finishing, and finally broke my arm in a fall, so changed over to bike racing instead where I only broke my front teeth.
I don't remember that building you spoke about. I spent 9 years in Canada mostly in Quebec, and a year in Newfie, life in Quebec got too complicated with the government insisting that my English kid had to be taught only in French, so came down to the "evil empire". I miss Canada, perhaps the only civilised country left on earth.

Buck whats this about Canada being the only civilised country left on earth?Have you never been to N Zealand (middle earth)Then you have never lived

Hey ! you lot, you left the best place on Earth.......we know because we are still here...lol

[Hey Old timer. Very interesting letter there from you. I remember all of that. The skating rink with with that that long strip you talked of i spent many hours in there on my bum It was known as The Mugs ally) remember] I left the Uk in 1963 for Aussie
Regards vera

Hiya
I haven't got any relations by those names but apparantly there were loads of Graysons who lived down Attercliffe(which we found out when researching the family tree)I'll mention it to my dad because he might remember them anyway.

Thanks

Originally posted by buck
Hello Oldtimer! I must say I got to be pretty good on skates and used to go down that little training area and race round it just to show off. It stood me in good stead when I lived in Montreal where I transferred to ice skates and did a lot of reffing for the kids on the outdoor rinks. I'd done a bit of figure skating in Attercliffe but in Canada that was considered a bit efffeminate so quit. I went to Attercliffe rink a few years before you, just as WW2 was finishing, and finally broke my arm in a fall, so changed over to bike racing instead where I only broke my front teeth.
I don't remember that building you spoke about. I spent 9 years in Canada mostly in Quebec, and a year in Newfie, life in Quebec got too complicated with the government insisting that my English kid had to be taught only in French, so came down to the "evil empire". I miss Canada, perhaps the only civilised country left on earth.

Originally posted by rosiebear
my husband remembers three,stephen paul and susan,they lived in the end yard next to batiste shop.

Would stephen and paul be the 2 lads who started working at Bradwell electrical about 1970

does any one remember pierpoints green grocers on attercliffe , my aunt worked there and as a kid it always seemed very busy. suppose most of attercliffe was like this at that time , happy days.

Sorry Kiwi, I fprgot the only other civilised place on earth. I've been to your big obnoxious neighbour, but never to NZ. Always scared down there of falling off. That couldn't happen to Canada.

Originally posted by buck
Sorry Kiwi, I fprgot the only other civilised place on earth. I've been to your big obnoxious neighbour, but never to NZ. Always scared down there of falling off. That couldn't happen to Canada.
Dont be too hard on our obnoxious neighbours across the ditch Buck they are always good to have a laugh at oops l mean with

Originally posted by brooksy
does any one remember pierpoints green grocers on attercliffe , my aunt worked there and as a kid it always seemed very busy. suppose most of attercliffe was like this at that time , happy days.


I remember it. Opposite the bottom of Staniforth Rd. or Shirland Lane, next to a bank I think. It was set back a bit from the building line and had a display area outside the shop. Used to go down Attercliffe quite a bit in my teens (1950s) to browse in the swop-shops. In those days Attercliffe seemed to be all shops and pubs from Broughton Lane up to Staniforth Road.

BTW - I used to work with a lad called Brooks, I think he said he was born in a house on Woodbine Road, and I knew a few people came off Alfred Road etc. and got moved to Shiregreen. They all seemed to migrate to Firth Park cub :D

Aye the 'Cliffe had it all in them days. t'palace, pies and peas, Banners. Better than t'Moor which was for the toffee noses of Ecclesall and Abbeydale.

i was born in the kitchen of a 2 up 2 down on coleford road,can't remember what number but there was a little shop next door called burgess' left when i was four but still have a few vague memories.

thanks for your post greybeard. you are right my dad ken brooks lived on woodbine rd and then moved 2 chelmsford st where we grew up. he worked all is working life in various steelworks in sheffield. my moms family came of don rd and were called brand, also i have family of atercliffe called tuckwood and roberts.

Hi Brooksy,

We were sort of mates for a while, your Dad and me, - did the same job at Alloy Steel Rods on different shifts, but I often had to sub as furnaceman so we'd end up on the same shift. He used to drop me off home, or after the morning shift we'd go up to Shiregreen club for a game of snooker and a few jars. A nice quiet, gentle bloke, but a wicked sense of humour with people who took themselves and life too seriously....used to wind them up something rotten - me included :D

Is he still around ?

no greybeard he died in 1991 off cancer, my mom died in march 1991 and ken died in october. i still see some of his mates from alloy steel rods, graham parkin and roy canistor. i used 2 go in attercliff libs and play snooker with him on a friday night and he always tryd 2 talk me out of my shot. nice 2 her from one of his work mates . im assuming your retired now do you go on the cliff much socially, theres still a lot of old timers in the libs who come of alford rd and that area.

Sorry to hear you lost both your parents that way and so close together Brooksy, it must have been a bleak time for you.

I'm semi-retired, still have a little part time job to supplement my works pension but draw my OAP next year....counting my blessings too !

Haven't been down the Cliffe socially for years...but I was trying to remember some names from the Alfred Rd area the other night and came up with three. Sid Weston, Brian Barker and Billy Flynn. I do remember Graham Parkin, - can't put a face to the other one, but I left ASR in 1980.

I thought the Attercliffe Libs had closed ? - I'm thinking of the club opposite the bottom of Woodbourne Rd. There used to be another club around there next to the swimming baths but can't remember what it was called.

Originally posted by Greybeard
Sorry to hear you lost both your parents that way and so close together Brooksy, it must have been a bleak time for you.

I'm semi-retired, still have a little part time job to supplement my works pension but draw my OAP next year....counting my blessings too !

Haven't been down the Cliffe socially for years...but I was trying to remember some names from the Alfred Rd area the other night and came up with three. Sid Weston, Brian Barker and Billy Flynn. I do remember Graham Parkin, - can't put a face to the other one, but I left ASR in 1980.

I thought the Attercliffe Libs had closed ? - I'm thinking of the club opposite the bottom of Woodbourne Rd. There used to be another club around there next to the swimming baths but can't remember what it was called.

was it called the aqua duct but everyone one called it akkerdock....now there's one there called the victory club i think

Quoted by Greybeard; I thought the Attercliffe Libs had closed ? - I'm thinking of the club opposite the bottom of Woodbourne Rd. There used to be another club around there next to the swimming baths but can't remember what it was called.

Greybeard

The club opposite the junction of Woodbourne Road was the "Radicals" (Roundel Street). Still standing but sadly derelict and boarded up.

The Attercliffe Libs. is still going strong, its a little bit higher up than the baths on the corner of Beverley Street. Could this be the one that you remember?

Thanks Pietro, ... that's the one I was thinking of. Never actually been in that club as we used to end up in the Non-Pots or a Wards pub I can't remember the name of just a few yards down the road. [not the Robin Hood]

The Midland, another Wards pub on Alfred Rd, was quite popular with the ASR lads too. Wards beer wasn't too bad once you got used to the smell of Porter Brook water :D

What happened to all the plant at Brown Baileys. My Dad and uncle worked there during the depression and WW2. My Dad used to take me in to see them pouring the ingot moulds, and running the plate mill.

Originally posted by TWIST
anyone remember the Ashworths who lived on alfred road?

I think my mum lived next door to them......Dorothy Hill her mum Charlotte and dad Harry.

I lived on Swallow Street in the early 70's.

No hot water....tin bath in front of the range...etc...

I remember Larnie.....the guy who delivered newspapers.

Banners....we went there all the time.

I remember the Wash house on the back street across from Banners.

@Buck

I remember the little trains at Brown Baileys crossing the roads.

It's all gone now!

Teenagers in the area going ratting on the Don with their dogs.

Chopping wood for the pensioners during the miners strikes!

Originally posted by Silverblade
I lived on Swallow Street in the early 70's.

No hot water....tin bath in front of the range...etc...

I remember Larnie.....the guy who delivered newspapers.

Banners....we went there all the time.

I remember the Wash house on the back street across from Banners.

@Buck

I remember the little trains at Brown Baileys crossing the roads.

It's all gone now!

Teenagers in the area going ratting on the Don with their dogs.

Chopping wood for the pensioners during the miners strikes! my mum was the youngest,Susan...she remembers ur mum and ur gran,she seems to think ur mum was the oldest???

@ Twist

There was Charlie (oldest...still around) Dorothy (my mum who died nearly 18 yrs ago) Maureen (died around 22 years ago I think) Merle (still around).

I'll ask my eldest brother who he remembers.

I remember visiting.....there was a women in the house across I remember quite well and I remember a shed like structure on the back of the first house in the yard.

I played football on the spare ground on Alfred road when I was young....all the young blokes used to have a game on Sundays.

We've got a few pictures of people in that back yard including me as a baby (now 45).

does anyone remember the name of a pub which was just across the road from attercliffe baths. it was where the donvalley stadium is and was right on the corner cheers.

Originally posted by brooksy
does anyone remember the name of a pub which was just across the road from attercliffe baths. it was where the donvalley stadium is and was right on the corner cheers.

I think it was the "Salutation Inn" IIRC?

PT

Brooksy says: does anyone remember the name of a pub which was just across the road from attercliffe baths. it was where the donvalley stadium is and was right on the corner cheers.

Brooksy, is this the one that you remember? On the corner of Old Hall Road.

http://www.swineherd.free-online.co.uk/lostpubs/setthree/gballa.jpg


Perhaps you can help me? I seem to remember a horse trough somewhere near there, or his my memory playing tricks on me.

Originally posted by Silverblade
@ Twist

There was Charlie (oldest...still around) Dorothy (my mum who died nearly 18 yrs ago) Maureen (died around 22 years ago I think) Merle (still around).

I'll ask my eldest brother who he remembers.

I remember visiting.....there was a women in the house across I remember quite well and I remember a shed like structure on the back of the first house in the yard.

I played football on the spare ground on Alfred road when I was young....all the young blokes used to have a game on Sundays.

We've got a few pictures of people in that back yard including me as a baby (now 45).

wow i bet those pictures are interesting! i bet theres a few of my lot on there,ie cousins! let me know who ur brother remembers!who was the woman u went to visit? can u remember?

thats the one pietro thanks for the photo, if you could post any photos of woodbourn rd or chelmsford st would be sound. chelmsford st was just off staniforth rd and the next rd up from woodbourn rd. if you can remember that far back there was a swap shop at the bottom of chelmsford st as it came on to staniforth rd , cheers.

thats the one pietro thanks for the photo, if you could post any photos of woodbourn rd or chelmsford st would be sound. chelmsford st was just off staniforth rd and the next rd up from woodbourn rd. if you can remember that far back there was a swap shop at the bottom of chelmsford st as it came on to staniforth rd , cheers.

sorry for posting twice not all that computer friendly just yet?.

Hi Brooksy,

If I come across any photos I will let you know.

I knew Chelmsford Street in the early 70's, the large haulage firm, Harry Olivers chip shop on the corner of Worthing Road.

I had relations who where moved onto Chelmsford Street in the slum clearances from further down the "cliffe". They thought they had died and gone to heaven. No noisy works and an offshot kitchen too. They lived near the old church/chapel with the wooden cobblestones set into the road.

We would always walk down to see what the swap shop had in. There would nearly always be a boxed micrometer in the window. Then down to see what Jennings had in their many windows, thats if you could get near the windows for the stuff piled high on the pavement. This was before Jennings moved across the road.

Originally posted by Elwood
I was born in Cottingham Street. Number 54, I think. The house got blasted by a land mine or bomb during the blitz. We escaped to the cellar of a neighbour's house - they were called Gleadall, I think.
any relatoins the elwoods that used to live on wordworth ave justup from the 5 arches

Originally posted by Plain Talker
I think it was the "Salutation Inn" IIRC?

PT
sorry it used to the golden ball

Originally posted by KIWI
Many happy and eventful years spent ln attercliffe
Lived ln Beall St and Cottingham St Many moons ago
played darts for 40 years round the comman and area
many happy times as you say could go in any pub an
i knew someone

Originally posted by buck
Does anyone remember the Attercliffe roller skating rink. Saturday afternoon was full of kids learning to skate, but evenings there was dancing on skates and some people were pretty professional at it. I thought I was too at 14 till a broken arm and a few days in City General proved otherwise
i used like the mugs go racing down one side grab the railings at the bottom and swing back up the other side
do you remember the two older women with short skirts and red coates on the rink

Originally posted by chocoholic
Hiya Rosiebear,
In one of your posts you mentioned the Grayson family,do you remeber any christian names?My maiden name is Grayson & I know my dad was born down there?
i once worked with an albert in the late 50 s at firth brown tools he came from darnel i believe

Originally posted by buck
What happened to all the plant at Brown Baileys. My Dad and uncle worked there during the depression and WW2. My Dad used to take me in to see them pouring the ingot moulds, and running the plate mill.
my dad worked on the furaces

Originally posted by brooksy
does anyone remember the name of a pub which was just across the road from attercliffe baths. it was where the donvalley stadium is and was right on the corner cheers.
golden ball the one at bottom of bevercotes is the wharncliffe hotel

my next door neigbour joan had the gate pub on attercliffe and shes been telling me how busy the pub was when all the steelworks were opend. she also told me a lot of them who were on the nightshift would clock in then stop in the pub very late. how times have changed and as soon as the steel works went the pub went into decline and closed.

any oldies remember the old cliffe,washford pub..grey horse ?
mick tyrrell.albert chinn? boys brigade,scouts whitsuntide in high hazels park..petrified tree stumps now in sheffield museum........rhino whipping case attercliffe police cells......burgesses.buy a suit off the peg.....green dragon pub ?.wards house below robin hood the sportsman.cocker brothers spring manufacturers, the old trades hall......the horse meat butcher.vegetable carts at side of banners.the ladders leading out of brown baileys into the yard of the cocked hat pub ?the notorious attercliffe police station.every one fell down the stairs your hounour......the red phone box in brown baileys yard.etc.etc...etcmick tyrrell died of t b.1952.albert chinn is still with us.murders on stoke street.gang wars...cellar great gang.lost to history russian edna murdered in high hazels.sillito coming in and using the biggest coppers in town to break the moony gang/park gang.someone out there still remembers this.what a shame their memories are not recorded before its to late.wheres the sociality students ? they could write a book and make a small fortune out of sheffields history of the past 70 years.......

My dad used to tell me about Sillitoe (old Chief Constable). He reckoned that someone got charged with assulting one of his PC's but when the case came to court he asked for the charge to be altered to attempted suicide!

any old cliffers out there remember MICK TYRRELL, lived on washford road at one time next to the washford bridge.died t b 1952.married ivt and moved to woodthorpe road woodthorpe estate...drank in the washford pub and grey hoarse stoke street

Originally posted by Greybeard
Abdul...have you done the five-weirs walk ? Or the canal bank from Meadowhall up to Staniforth Road ?

I've been planning to do those walks for years :blush:

Maybe next summer, eh?

Originally posted by depoix
any oldies remember the old cliffe,washford pub..grey horse ?
mick tyrrell.albert chinn? boys brigade,scouts whitsuntide in high hazels park..petrified tree stumps now in sheffield museum........rhino whipping case attercliffe police cells......burgesses.buy a suit off the peg.....green dragon pub ?.wards house below robin hood the sportsman.cocker brothers spring manufacturers, the old trades hall......the horse meat butcher.vegetable carts at side of banners.the ladders leading out of brown baileys into the yard of the cocked hat pub ?the notorious attercliffe police station.every one fell down the stairs your hounour......the red phone box in brown baileys yard.etc.etc...etcmick tyrrell died of t b.1952.albert chinn is still with us.murders on stoke street.gang wars...cellar great gang.lost to history russian edna murdered in high hazels.sillito coming in and using the biggest coppers in town to break the moony gang/park gang.someone out there still remembers this.what a shame their memories are not recorded before its to late.wheres the sociality students ? they could write a book and make a small fortune out of sheffields history of the past 70 years.......

i lived next door to burgesses......left when i was 4......i also know albert chinn but i think it must be junior as he's not that old..defo same family though..other family's in our street were the cockers,belamy's and mappins...anyone remember them?

go 2 brooksys attercliff site pal loads of folk opn there.

hi its only me brooksy, instead of having various attercliffe post why not keep this going and have a good old chin wag amongst all the cliff folk. be interesting 2 see how many folk get in touch with eatchother keep it going u old banners users.

anyone remember littlewoods?? used to love going there after doing the shopping with mi ma at banners.......littlewoods used to have a cafe and me n mi bro always got a treat.....i think it changed its name to hitchens..........

Can anyone remember what it was like on Woodburn road
when the terrace houses were there

Originally posted by jan2002
Can anyone remember what it was like on Woodburn road
when the terrace houses were there

i can......my grandma used to collect on there for britanic insurance....i remember a butchers and a sweet shop that also sold toys

i used to work at kellets at the side of the school in the sixties,my mate lived behind the chip shop across the road was a good cafe and the woodburn pub

I lived on Darnal road during my teens, Then we moved to Attercliffe Road. We lived next to the swap shop at the bottom of Whitworth Lane. The Police station is now built on top of our house.. We moved from there to Weedon street, I was in the Army at the time. I came out of the Army after that we moved to Pye Bank. I used to love the Cliff. And all the activity. So badly missed in todays corrupt society

im currently working at a company in the yards belonging 2 spartan works on attercliffe rd acrossfrom the carlton. anyone who goes down attercliffe cant have failed 2 notice that nearly all the pubs have undergone major work and large investment. speaking 2 a bloke the other day from the council made me realise why, he told me that yorkshire water who own the land from the old yorkshirebank back towards town are going in the near future 2 sell all this land off for apartment development ete. this includes spartan works where i currentley work and the land along the canal, obviousley all this work being done on the pubs is geared up for this developmentand increase in in population.

Parents from Attercliffe. Ma used to live in the Railway Cottages (Now Centretainments) Used to drink in the Railway (Noose & Gibbet), Top Common and Excelsior and knew loads of people including 'Brenda' and her friend whose name escapes me. They used to dress up in Drag and they were soooo funny.

All you old 'cliffe hangers might be interested in a couple of the pictures on this web site.

http://www.cyberpictures.net/sheffield/s1.htm

Have to click on the pictures to enlarge them. Scroll down to picture 202, - it's a great shot of the 'Cliffe from outside the old Tram Car pub looking back up to Hill Top, and 196 shows an engine going over Wicker Arches.

Can anyone confirm the building in this picture

http://www.swineherd.free-online.co.uk/lostpubs/setsix/gladsa.jpg

is at the end of Brompton road wher Newhall Road joins the 'Cliffe...and was it ever a public house ? Looks like there might have been a snooker hall upstairs ? I'm pretty sure the No 5 bus terminus was a little further down Brompton Road.

My aunt had a shop on Attercliffe Common near Tinsley Terminus. Two doors away was a cobbler Donald Gooch(?). I sat for hours as a kid while he made clogs. I remember men coming in the shop to buy their "plug"or snuff - brown teeth for plug and brown moustache for snuff!

Originally posted by Greybeard
All you old 'cliffe hangers might be interested in a couple of the pictures on this web site.

(snipped)

Can anyone confirm the building in this picture

http://www.swineherd.free-online.co.uk/lostpubs/setsix/gladsa.jpg

is at the end of Brompton road wher Newhall Road joins the 'Cliffe...and was it ever a public house ? Looks like there might have been a snooker hall upstairs ? I'm pretty sure the No 5 bus terminus was a little further down Brompton Road.

I love that ... "cliffe-hangers. that's brilliant, LOL!!

Right, that pic to my (untrained) eye looks like the old attercliffe cop shop/ baths, on the very extreme right of the photograph, going off the line of the picture.

I personally think that it looks as if the pic is of the Darnall side of AttercliffeRoad/ Common, not the Brightside - side, looking back towards the city.

I feel sure that it's on that strip of Attercliffe Road/Common ,between leeds/Worksop roads, and Coleridge Road, the same section where the Salutation Inn was, across the front of the Don Valley Stadium, as it is now...

I don't remember "Glad's" cafe, but that junction definitely feels familiar.
i'ts such a pity that the name of the road, on the name plate, at the junction didn't show up very well on the photo... that'd have helped tremendously.

Mr PT is going to have a look at the pic for us, later on; (he is a former Wincobankian/ Darnallite, with a bit of Heeley thrown in for good measure,) he might know...

PT

mr PT has just had a look at the picture, and he says exactly the same as me.

that black-coloured building on the extreme right of the picture is definitely Attercliffe Baths, he says...

So it's location is probably the junction of brompton road, opposite the bottom of newhall road, we are in agreement, there, greybeard.

the white wall and the building directly behind it, (partially obscured by the traffic light) mr PT says, is definitely no longer there. (adjacent to the baths)

like mr PT. on a second viewing of the picture, I have the feeling that attercliffe road/ common runs behind the "glad's" building. the photographer's back must have been towards brightside,
I was mistakenly thinking thinking that the road across the foreground was attercliffe road/common itself. ( I stand slightly corrected)

PT

The picture looks as if it is the junction of Oldhall / Newhall Road The Attercliffe Nick Shop was not on the main road. That was on whitworth lane. 200 yards further up Attercliffe Common, Not Attercliffe Road. There is a Swap Shop / Barbers Then Whitworth Lane, Then The Gate Inn, Followed by The Salutation Inn, That in later days became a Gay Club. Could go further, But the picture is around that area. The now Attercliffe Police Station is built on the top of the House where I used to live

i once sold a telescope to that swap shop for 3 quid to take a bird out, one day later it was in the window for a tenner . the swap shop at the bottom of chelmsford st where i lived was much better, he didnt rip you off a much.

My dad, George Ward, lived in Beall Street in the 1930s. His parents were George Saville Ward and Lucy Addy.

Originally posted by Greybeard
All you old 'cliffe hangers might be interested in a couple of the pictures on this web site.


Can anyone confirm the building in this picture

http://www.swineherd.free-online.co.uk/lostpubs/setsix/gladsa.jpg

is at the end of Brompton road wher Newhall Road joins the 'Cliffe...and was it ever a public house ? Looks like there might have been a snooker hall upstairs ? I'm pretty sure the No 5 bus terminus was a little further down Brompton Road.

The photo of Glad's cafe would have had to be taken from the Tramcar Pub facing towards Newhall Road. Glads cafe was at the junction of Brompton Road / Newhall Road with Attercliffe common. The shop next door to the cafe used to be Gibbs & Ward (wool & haberdashery ) and the one next door to this was Gallons (grocers shop ). The no. 5 & no 1 bus stopped in Brompton road.
deecee

Originally posted by Rodgers
The picture looks as if it is the junction of Oldhall / Newhall Road The Attercliffe Nick Shop was not on the main road. That was on whitworth lane. 200 yards further up Attercliffe Common, Not Attercliffe Road. There is a Swap Shop / Barbers Then Whitworth Lane, Then The Gate Inn, Followed by The Salutation Inn, That in later days became a Gay Club. Could go further, But the picture is around that area. The now Attercliffe Police Station is built on the top of the House where I used to live

I agree with you Rodgers, The attercliffe cop shop was not on the main Road--the front of it was on Whitworth Lane and the back was on Howden Street. Whitworth Lane ran from Oldhall Road to Attercliffe Common.

deecee

Does anyone posting on here remember a family called Duggan from Woodbourne Road?

How about Elsie,Connie,Walter and Doris Hadfield from Ecclesall?

A long time ago I know but worth a shot, Barton also from Woodbourne Road Attercliffe?

Drop me a line if it rings any bells.

Can anyone tell me what is or was the name of the park at Darnall? Was it High Hazel's? Also is the Davy plant still in operation?

yep it is high hazels just off darnall , remember falling thro the fro zen boating lake there in the early 70s nightmare.the davy plant is still there but is now run by a company whos name escapes me.

Thanks Brooksy. Thought it didn't get cold enough to freeze back home, but remembered it did. Not like Connecticut though, that's enough to freeze you know what!

when does your winter officially start and how bad does it get. i am a member off quite a few weather forums and your part of the world gets quite a bit of coverage.

The weather here is generally close to the equinoxes, Winter will get going around Christmas, with a fifty fifty chance of snow. The worst months are Jan and Feb with temperatures dropping at times to -20 F and snowfalls up to 2 feet in 24 hours. March is somewhat warmer hovering around freezing with wet snow or freezing rain, the most dangerous time for driving. Spring is very short and wet, with summer starting to appear toward the end of May. Temperatures in the summer can get as hot as 95 F, but are generally in the upper 80s. Autimn is the nicest season of all, Sunny weather with low humidity, and best of all the famous New England foliage which brings visitors from all over the world

sounds a great place to live with a realy interesting climate, dont fancy moving back to sunny sheff then?

Just got back from 10 days in Ireland yesterday, haven't been in UK since 1989, but go visit my wife's home in Clare every couple of years. Get to catch up on Corrie, and Ennerdale, so probably need to get a life. Ireland has become too expensive to live, and I daresay UK isn't a lot different, but I'd still like to take a good racing bike out into the high peaks, and stop for a quick pint at the Foxhouse or Peacock on my way home. I also got to see ManU beat Arsenal in a nice pub on Sunday, just in time to find out Boston Red Sox had beaten the hated NY Yankees in the pennant race. What a day!

Originally posted by buck
Can anyone tell me what is or was the name of the park at Darnall? Was it High Hazel's? Also is the Davy plant still in operation?

If your referring to Davy Mckee's then I'm afraid it is no longer operating.

Originally posted by vhopkinson
H There,
Just interested in this . My relations lived in Steadfast St. at that time by the name of Pope. My /aunt was a Usherette at the Adephi for many years
Regards Vera
sorry i cant remember any names only the grocers shop round the corner used to sell coal you collected it in a barrow the name was thorpe

Originally posted by brooksy
when does your winter officially start and how bad does it get. i am a member off quite a few weather forums and your part of the world gets quite a bit of coverage.
in winter firth park is two topcoats warmer than shiregreen

sorry i thought this p[ost should be on another thread, named weather

Totley's warmer than either of them, of course, they can afford the coal.

Originally posted by buck
Just got back from 10 days in Ireland yesterday, haven't been in UK since 1989, but go visit my wife's home in Clare every couple of years. Get to catch up on Corrie, and Ennerdale, so probably need to get a life. Ireland has become too expensive to live, and I daresay UK isn't a lot different, but I'd still like to take a good racing bike out into the high peaks, and stop for a quick pint at the Foxhouse or Peacock on my way home. I also got to see ManU beat Arsenal in a nice pub on Sunday, just in time to find out Boston Red Sox had beaten the hated NY Yankees in the pennant race. What a day!

Buck, good to see you had a good time in Ireland, we love it over there, and have friends in Galway. you should try getting out to clare Island, that's a great place. There again I have never been to a bad place in the Emerald Isle. They also have peat fires...now there's something to savour.

Originally posted by owdlad
Buck, good to see you had a good time in Ireland, we love it over there, and have friends in Galway. you should try getting out to clare Island, that's a great place. There again I have never been to a bad place in the Emerald Isle. They also have peat fires...now there's something to savour. Your right Owdlad, I spent a few days in County Wicklow this year and it was fantastic.
Great scenery in the Mountains and fantastic beach in Britas Bay.
Hope to go back in the spring for some cycling.

does anyone remember the park and cricket pavillion on clifton street ; did anyone go to maltby street school , off clay street , it would be nice to here from someone

look in the attercliffe thread mate.........e further down the page:thumbsup:

i lived in clay street from 1960 to 1970 went to maltby street school anyone else from that time

Originally posted by Greybeard
Hi Brooksy,

We were sort of mates for a while, your Dad and me, - did the same job at Alloy Steel Rods on different shifts, but I often had to sub as furnaceman so we'd end up on the same shift. He used to drop me off home, or after the morning shift we'd go up to Shiregreen club for a game of snooker and a few jars. A nice quiet, gentle bloke, but a wicked sense of humour with people who took themselves and life too seriously....used to wind them up something rotten - me included :D

Is he still around ?
i played darts for shiregreen club in the 50s a 60s
we came runners up in ciu all england knockout in 66 i think

Enjoy reading all your memories of Attercliffe, brought a lot of my own back. I was born on Saville Street and enjoyed my trips up The Cliff . But Please!!! stop calling the railway bridge Norfolk Bridge. This bridge is in fact on Leveson Street, theres even a plaque on it saying Norfolk Bridge.

Does anyone know anything about an Auberon C Ward, a professional photographer working out of a studio in Attercliffe in the early part of WW2 please?

hi you all I was born down attercliffe in 1954 and I lived on short street just off carbrook street I had relations who lived on dunlop street they were called the holfords my dads sister and her husband lived on short street they were called the goddards thats when she got married she was a beaumont then my dad use to play the piano in most of the pubs he was called ruben allan beaumont one of the pubs he use to play at was the british oak on carbrook street and the other was the carbrook hall.I wish I still lived down there as the people was the best in south yorkshire what I miss most of all is all my friends who I grew up with.

can anybody tell me what the green grocers shop was called on weedon street and the two chippy's one was on weeden street and the other was on askern street I think also does anybody know if any of the people who lived down our way are still living ie the kids like gary carr,pip piper,steven mather,kay goodwin.billy otter,steven holford,linda holford,valerie holford,kim goddard,lesley goodard, janet holford, and anybody else who I cant remember does anybody recall old man street who use to sit out side is shop in the summer and watch you very carefully when you went in also can anybody tell me what he was called who had the barbers shop across from the tinsley hotel the one that was next door to the baccy shop.

the greengrocer was called streets and chipshop was called the phoenix i was born at 81 weedon street in 1954 three doors up from old man street

anyone remember who owned the chippy at bottom ofstaniforth rd near the canal. it was open till about 1976 and there was a sweet or newsagents shop at the side of it.

Originally posted by brooksy
anyone remember who owned the chippy at bottom ofstaniforth rd near the canal. it was open till about 1976 and there was a sweet or newsagents shop at the side of it.
No, but I remember looking over that bridge at the canal and the water used to be bright orange.

yes i remember the canal being realypoluted but as kids in the early 70s we mucked about in it. i work in the spartan works now which back on to the canal and have caught loads of fish, what a vast improvement it made when they banned the steelworks dumping there waste.

Originally posted by brooksy
anyone remember who owned the chippy at bottom ofstaniforth rd near the canal. it was open till about 1976 and there was a sweet or newsagents shop at the side of it.

Hiya brooksy
The chippy at the bottom of Staniforth Road was owned by Wilfred and Irene Ashworth, my wifes aunty and uncle
deecee

Originally posted by brooksy
yes i remember the canal being realypoluted but as kids in the early 70s we mucked about in it. i work in the spartan works now which back on to the canal and have caught loads of fish, what a vast improvement it made when they banned the steelworks dumping there waste.

In the late 40's and early 50's my mum and her sisters used to play 'Jump the Cut', on their way home from school, leaping across the narrow-ish bit of the cut (canal) near their home.

Till one day......

My aunt fell in, still wearing her best bib-and-tucker; her school uniform!!!

My goodness, did she get her backside rattled!

She absolutely Stank. Like something putrid, my mother said.

"Ginger Nut,
Fell in the cut
And frightened all the fishes
One came up,
And swallowed her up,
And that was the end of Ginger Nut!!"

(yes, in case you hadn't guessed, my aunt was a redhead, and my mother used to sing that rhyme to tease her!)

PT

some of my old school chums came from attercliffe.

susan melia- brother called Alfie.
I think their relation had a shop there.

Margaret burnside,john stead,julie millington.

No on has mentined Hitchens!!! Catalogue clearence clothes that got me through my young years!!!

I was born on Thames Road, which I think is now called Harry Firth Road, our house was knocked down and we got moved to Pitsmoor in the mid 70's.

Remember Banners also!

Whats it like now?

I remember lots of people going to hitchens in 70s as they once had a batch of prince of wales check in for a fraction of the price.
and some of the other trousers that were in fashion then.
you had to be quick though or they'd be gone.

i remember a lad called john stead, he used to hang about on ripon street reck when jess had it in the 70s. if i remember right didnt john stead have a blonde stripe in is hair, looked quite strange but an hereditory thing.

Originally posted by brooksy
i remember a lad called john stead, he used to hang about on ripon street reck when jess had it in the 70s. if i remember right didnt john stead have a blonde stripe in is hair, looked quite strange but an hereditory thing.
did he have a brother called andrew?

not sure but steady as he was called hanged out on ripon st with some lads called dewyres, not sure ive spelt that right.

Originally posted by brooksy
not sure but steady as he was called hanged out on ripon st with some lads called dewyres, not sure ive spelt that right.
if the family ended up living on price of wales road around 1975 i knew them quite well

Originally posted by brooksy
anybody on here come of attercliffe i was born on attercliffe and lived just of staiforth rd on chelmsford st i attended woodbourn rd school I used to work with two brothers called "gurnell" who nlived oin Attercliffe in the 50's/60's and maybe still do..the family all had ginger hair and they used to frequent the "Filesmiths" do's anyone remember them ???

Part of the Gurnill family now live on the Southy Estate. One of them has a pretty largish family now, I remember the Filesmiths when old Joe had it back in the sixties, Large fat fella, Wife had a mental illness, Used to sit behind the bar all day checking out the horses in the paper

slightly of topic but does anyone remember seeing a chap called divy smith riding about on a push bike around atterclffe. nothing unusuall there you may think, but this bloke used to wear a suit and dickie bow plus a russian style hat. this was in the 70s and in 1995 i was working on effigham rd and unbelievably he cycled past with a suit on , kipper tie and is furry hat. even more strange it was july and boiling hot, what a lad.

Brooksy.
I shared the same double desk as john stead at school.-(hartly brook)
He did have blonde hair, forgotten about a streak though.
He was very small and had two sisters -denise and edna.
Im not sure but i think before that he went to huntsmans gardens.(was that a school at attercliffe.)

others i remember living in attercliffe were christine kelwick,
kim megson,pamela wragg,alfie melia,elaine wilks, marolyn grayson, denise pratt, terry critchlow- i think, mick hurst.

Hi Peeps

I have been told to go to Banners on Attercliffe to get a football shirt framed (well just buy the frame) but going on what you guys are saying here, it doesn't even exist anymore??

If this is true can anyone tell me of anywhere else that might do this and let me know how costly it is because I wasn't wanting to pay much over a tenner for the frame itself!

Also, if I am in luck and it is still there, can someone let me know where exactly?

Cheers peeps - most kind x x x

Angel x

Originally posted by angelgirluk
Hi Peeps

I have been told to go to Banners on Attercliffe to get a football shirt framed (well just buy the frame) but going on what you guys are saying here, it doesn't even exist anymore??

If this is true can anyone tell me of anywhere else that might do this and let me know how costly it is because I wasn't wanting to pay much over a tenner for the frame itself!

Also, if I am in luck and it is still there, can someone let me know where exactly?

Cheers peeps - most kind x x x

Angel x

No, Angelgirl, the store that was *called* Banners is no longer in existence, but the building is still there, used by a number of companies in small units inside the store.

To get to Banners, catch a 52 mainline or terrierbus, towards Woodhouse/Handsworth,

Get of at the bottom of Staniforth Road, and walk about 25 yards or so back down the hill to the main road and the traffic lights at the junction..

Turn right at the furniture store which is on the corner of Staniforth Road and the main road..

walk along Attercliffe Road /Attercliffe Common, past the Littlewoods catalogue clearance shop (used to be hitchens)and the banners store is the large white building on the very next corner, (I think it is now called "Banners Superstore" or something similar).

Alternatively the supertram to the attercliffe stop will drop you on the back of Chippenham street.

Walk down, towards your left as you face the industrial units, opposite the tramstop, and the road will bring you out on attercliffe road with Banners on your right, just on the corner.

PT

I lived in Darnall when I was a nipper, near the fire station. My mum always took us ont cliffe. I used to love goig in woolies and having a glass of orange out of the "chiller fountain" & then going to peerpoints for some fruit. We also used to go to the pavilion pictures I remember once we went and the fee to get in was a glass jar

Jackdoff

remember the Lyric at Darnall, One time I used to live on Darnall Road. Next door to the Baptist Church. I was 7yrs old then Used to go to Whitby Road School, Did crafts in the Outbuildings at Darnall Rd. School. Then I went to Waltheof when I was 11. I was the first pupil to walk through the doors a Waltheof, The first to get the cane for not polishing my shoes. Takes you back does it not.

I also went to whitby rd, Mr Saxon was the headmaster and Mrs mustle was my first teacher. She was lovely. I went to hurlfield after whitby road. It does take you back, your right.

Old man Saxon. His office on the stairs, Everytime anyone was waiting outside they would be shaking wondering what for. We certainly had some sadistic teachers then. Remember Mr. Holland RE Teacher, I real bad guy, Fat an slovenly. Mr Grundy. I just about remember them all.

Other teachers I remember are Mr Ellis (Bogie flicker), Miss Clark, Miss Swithern, Mr Albare I can even remember a couple of the dinner ladies - Mrs Myers.& Mrs Charlesworth. But the best thing about school then were Sports day and bottles of milk in the morning break.

Which house team was you in? I was in Cravens.

Do you remember the tuck shop and Dundee biscuits? They were huge

Hi

Just wonderin on the off chance whether someone in this chat room could help me with some info about my Father, his brothers and sisters, Grandfather grandmother. Wood is the family name Grandparents married in 1905 and Thomas wood lived on Carbrook Street whilst his wife Mary Ellen (Ashton) sometimes called Nellie, lived on Fell Road.

The only information I have really is that at sometime the owned or ran a pub on attercliffe. The ended up at Tinsley sometime around 1948 (ish).

The had lots of Kids Boys - Tommy, John, Ernest, Arthur (died after Dunkirk), Billy, Girls - Nellie, Dorothy and others but not sure. I can't get details from any of them cos as far as I know they are all gone.

Ernest ( Dad) worked at Shepcote Lane rolling mills, as fork lift Trusk driver till he ran into the gatehouse, he didn't work after that due to disability.

Ernest would have been 80 this year so I guess I am clutching at a few straws. Still if anyone knows anything I would be grateful.

John Wood

slightly off topic but does anyone no what that big old building across from banners used to be. a few years ago it sold antiques but i came past it today and it was advertised as luxury apartments for sale. if anyone nos what it originally was let us no, cheers brooksy.

When you leave your native city to seek your fortune elsewhere, images of that city remain as you knew them. For me, money was pounds, shillings, and pence.Life on the Cliffe was Saturday night at the Palace with me mam and dad, followed by pies and peas from the stand next door, Woolies penny store, roller skating at Attercliffe rink, bar of Cadbury's at the Gaumont, and best of all going to Blackpool for a week to join half of Sheffield at the Pleasure beach, after riding there in a chara. Piles of smoke and spending money coming from the steel works chimneys. Up on Uncle Bert's back on Spion Kop at Hillsboro, and him not eating his supper cos Wednesday lost. (He'd be blooming hungry today ) So when I hear of supertrams and Meadowhall Mall, it all seems foreign to me though I'm very familiar with Malls after 35 years in America.

HI JUST JOINED MY NAME IS STAN WAS BORN IN 1957 AND LIVED ON CARDIFF STREET . ANY BODY OUT THERE WHO LIVED IN THE SAME AREA WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. MY SURNAME IS WARD .

hi stan,dont know you mate, but wellcome to the forum

Hi stan, same age as me, which school were you at.

just been chatting to a mate and he reckons there was an herblest near banners. ican remember a small shop near the horse and jockey but thought it was a paper shop. anyone settle the argument.

Yes there was an herbalist close to banners.

thanks rodgers, cost me a tenner by the way.

Sorry Brooksie.

I have just upset some members. I have opened a thread about Christmas. Thought I would wind them all up. Should xmas go. I love it, Been insulted already. ha ha

cant find your post rodgers where is it, i dont mind a good wind up.

Cheers Brooksie. I have just noticed you found it. Well, It shows just how easy it is to wind people up on the net. It also proves that we can be who we want to be in a forum. At the moment I have a housefull all drunk and merry. But enjoying themselves. As I said I do not believe in Christmas but I wish all the best to all those that do. I have friends that are not on the net. They were surprised just how easy it was to upset people on the forum.

Merry Christmas Brooksie

happy new year to you all. does anyone remember what they called a large cloths shop between banners and hitchens, ive been racking my brains but cant remember. i seem to remember it selling gents suits and had a island display area as you came in of attercliffe rd , cheers.

Brooksy, the name you are looking for is Ernest Burgess.

I remember my old dad buying his flat caps from there. If I'm not mistaken I believe they shut down around 1980.

thanks pietro, sometimes wish i was still living down there, happy days

My husband went to Whitby Road School and remembers "old man Holland" he used to rain down lumps of chalk on the class while shouting " you lot of closets" and Pop Golledge's walking stick cane, he used to get more leverage by raising his right leg along with the cane and slamming them both down together, quite a technique.

Big fat Mr. Holland, Spat when he spoke. Made you stand on a chair. He was supposed to be the RE teacher. He did not have a spark of christianity in him. I cannot say too much about this man on the forum. Grundy was also another ...

bit off topic i no but when iattended waltheof in the 70s the dept head was called matt . is name was marshall and he always reminded me of hitler, anyone remember him. im sure some of the attercliffe folk will because most went to waltheof or beaverhill.

Marshall

What a nasty creature. Had he still been a teacher now he would be facing prosecution. He would wait round corners just to catch anyone breaking the rules. When Waltheof first opened our class was the first to enter the school. If he caught us walking on the wrong side of the corridor, well woe betide. I once bumped into him some years after leaving school. I was in the army then. He was having a drink with old man Grundy in a pub at Darnall. I will not say what I did, It was not violent but I really showed him up.

hi rodgers, i went to a waltheof reunion a good while back and guess who strolled in "matt". as a matter of fact he new most of the folk there, especially the regulars for punishment.

He was a massachist that man. When was the re-union. I got a little upset when the school was set on fire. When did you attend Waltheof. As I mentioned I was one of the first to enter there from Whitby Road. At that time I lived on Darnall Road. Then we moved to Attercliffe, I lived on the corner where the Nick Shop is now. My Uncle had the Swap Shop. After the Gales we moved to Weedon St.

i attended waltheof from 1975 and lived on chelmsford st, this was just of stanifotrh rd across from georgie woods barbers. at the bottom of our street there was also the swap shop and next to that jennings diy shop.

I know it Brooksie. I was only at Waltheof for a year. I left school Late 61. I went into the Army in 63. I worked on the Railways for a while when I was 15 as a train recorder. After the Army in 77 I decided to take up legal work. I am no longer working full time now I had an heart attack some time ago. I do mostly voluntary work now. We used to knock around the Arab Cafes on Attercliffe Common. Mostly the one's close to Hilltop Dairies, Mind I think most of Attercliffe has gone now. A big shame but that is progress I guess.

i am pat roberts my parents are alice and tippler roberts i am cousin to your mother fay ......

Originally posted by jwbeatsonbnp
i am pat roberts my parents are alice and tippler roberts i am cousin to your mother fay ......

Any relation to freddy roberts ?????

i had a uncle freddy and his son my cousin was freddy roberts,,,,,,,they lived on the wybourne,,,,,,,,,,also there were pauline,,,mary,,carol,,pat,,,,,beverley
:clap:

Freddy Roberts, I know a Freddy Roberts that was related to Albert Chinn is that the same one.

Originally posted by jwbeatsonbnp
i had a uncle freddy and his son my cousin was freddy roberts,,,,,,,they lived on the wybourne,,,,,,,,,,also there were pauline,,,mary,,carol,,pat,,,,,beverley
:clap:

Snap Freddy was my Dad he's dead now tho.....

Originally posted by Rodgers
Freddy Roberts, I know a Freddy Roberts that was related to Albert Chinn is that the same one.

The same one...

yes freddy roberts and albert chin were my cousins

Pats dying of cancer now.......

yes i know,, shame

I was like one of the family to them all. I used to look after young Albert Chinn years ago. We are still very good friends

Originally posted by Rodgers
I was like one of the family to them all. I used to look after young Albert Chinn years ago. We are still very good friends
I bet you can remember jesse whiley and jeff chinn they were a couple of laugh's freddy / jesse /jeff a right three some...

I sure can. The last time I saw Old man Albert and Jeff. We were in the George 4th pub on Infirmary Road. Jeff decided to throw th beer over the landlord. Well he was a character I guess. The only bad one really amongst that lot was young John Chinn. Last time I heard he was down jail. Probably where he belongs. I bet I know you.

Originally posted by Rodgers
I sure can. The last time I saw Old man Albert and Jeff. We were in the George 4th pub on Infirmary Road. Jeff decided to throw th beer over the landlord. Well he was a character I guess. The only bad one really amongst that lot was young John Chinn. Last time I heard he was down jail. Probably where he belongs. I bet I know you. steady there mate ,john was in the white rails last week with tommy and albert,only one i havent seen in a while is dave chinn but ive heard he has an allergy to drink now so spends his free time fishing

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doesent it say reminice in the header? sorry if i stepped out of line.......

hi every one on the forum, this is not a reply to any one in particular but i would just like to say that tonight i have been for a drink with young albert chinn and he informed me if any one is following this thread that it was not jeff who threw the pint pot in the george forth pub but it was his brother in law brian,now that should sort things out, and no one can get summonsed for libel,because you might make a slip up and then your in for it,but human nature bieng what it is we all make mistakes, and thank god there will always be some one there to point us in the right direction

you should not NOT NOT NOT, be getting drunk,lol i read your post and was trying to pm you, when your mess came up E>S>P or what. by the way the george is closed ,where you been tonight.lol.

depoix did not say he had been for a drink in the George. I recal the episode he is on about. This was some time ago. By the way. Having been ill for a time I have lost track. How long has the George been closed. But to repeat in depoix's favour. He just said he had had a drink with Albert tonight.

My mum came from attercliffe her maiden name was white.She has 7 brothers and sisters.Her mum was called lily and her dad tom.She worked at a place called shentalls i think they called it.She later worked at the station pub i think the landlords name was harold.She also later on in years worked at the prize bingo at the corner of the cliffe across from banners.The owners had a daughter called tanya.In her courting days she went out with jack tickhill real name john who has a brother called lou.

i remember shentalls,used to sell beds and things,and the bingo hall,i still have a table i won there in 1969,you could save your wins and collect vouchers,i was engaged at the time and in our dinner hour,( we worked at cocker brothers ) we would have a drink in the sportsman then go for i/2 an hour into the bingo,the green dragon was open then ,and the robin hood ,and tsb bank,every thursday my girlfriend sue would meet me at the clock out and we would put fifty bob each into our account...god,thats thirty six years ago.....

My mum says shentalls sold food but there was a place called shentons that sold beds,She worked at shentalls in the 1940s it was her first job .Jack and lou tickhills mum had a cafe called lous or louis if anyone remembers it.My mums dad tom white was born and bred at the cliffe but moved to manor park when married and raised 8 kids.The prize bingo was owned by avril and william.My mum was the caller out it was in the 70s i remember going in some times when she was working.She use to go to the lyric bingo too and says it was the best bingo ever.

Dee40, that's right, Shentalls were one of the early "self-service" "super" markets, that came about, from the '50's onwards

Shentalls had a chain of shops across Sheffield, (Not sure if they were further afield)

There was a Shentalls on "The Pavement", (the shopping centre on Park Hill)

There was also a Shentalls on the parade of shops at the back of the John o'Gaunt Pub, on the Gleadless Valley, and the one on the 'Cliffe....

I am sure there were more, but, as I was only a child when "Fine Fare" took them over, I can't remember where else the shops were, if any.

Can anyone else remember where there were other branches of Shentalls, please?

PT

Originally posted by dee40
My mum says shentalls sold food but there was a place called shentons that sold beds,She worked at shentalls in the 1940s it was her first job .Jack and lou tickhills mum had a cafe called lous or louis if anyone remembers it.My mums dad tom white was born and bred at the cliffe but moved to manor park when married and raised 8 kids.The prize bingo was owned by avril and william.My mum was the caller out it was in the 70s i remember going in some times when she was working.She use to go to the lyric bingo too and says it was the best bingo ever. sorry my mistake, its so long ago my memory is playing tricks on me,we used to live on washford road when i was a kid at the opposite side of whatused to be the bulldog pub,i remember the barrows full of fruit when we went shopping down the cliffe,and as my dad was well known sometimes the stall holders would give me a freebie

I can only remember bits here and there from 70s upward but my mum fills me in on it all.She misses the cliffe mainly the bingos.She lost touch with a lot of people from there and often talks about it.She has happy memories of that place so do many others we talk to .Everyone seems to have come from round there.We have a friend called bryant who came from brightside road and johnson who came from alfred rd.

my family came of don rd, this was at the bottom of alford rd. my family are quite large and comprise of the brands, tuckwoods, brooks and roberts.

My family came off Don road too. We lived on Stamford Street, and we Taylors were a large family all over Brightside. We knew the Tuckwoods

hi buck, my cousin harry tuckwood is currently landlord at the sicey hotel near shiregreen. is dad was called harry and is mom betty, funnily enough we were talking to a chap ron snoud in the attercliffe libs the other night and he was on about them.

i remember walking past the ordinace building when I was little on my way to my Granddad's.He lived on Coleridge Rd. I often wondered what it was. I was quite taken with the flags. Gwyneth.

Originally posted by dee40
My mum says shentalls sold food but there was a place called shentons that sold beds,

I remember shentons wasn't there a pet shop next to it. I wanted a pet from there but all mum and dad wanted to do was look at the furniture next door!

Originally posted by buck
Can anyone tell me what is or was the name of the park at Darnall? Was it High Hazel's? Also is the Davy plant still in operation?
My Dad used to work at Davy's started when he was 14[1951] and took redundancy when Kaveaner bought them. Prince of Wales Rd never seems the same now. Kaveaner also bought out Markams at Chesterfield, stripped it like Davys now its a housing estate. Little bits of history keep disapearing on us. Gwyneth.

does any of you atterclffe folk remember the rec on ripon st, was talking to a mate the other day about it. it was run by a chap called jess and he built cable slides , football pitch even a sort of social club . there was snooker , table tennis and even a cafe. jess took us on trips ete, swimming and hiking and for a lot of kids on attercliffe this place was a godsend. jess left in the mid 70s and the place became a vandals paradise shame realy but there you go.

Brooksy, theonly Rec I remember at the 'cliffe, was "Carbrook Rec" on Terry Street, beside the Carbrook School. (We didn't go Via Ripon St)

It was there when my mum, and her brother and sisters were small. I wonder if it was built at the same time as the school? the Rec on Nottingham Street, (Pitsmoor) was a similar style to the Carbrook Rec, and it, too, set out adjacent to the school.

The Carbrook Rec is now the Don Valley Bowl...

PT

the rec on ripon st became more of a youth club lateron. it was always there but until jess and the sheffield council took it over it was pretty rank. the lord mayor of sheffield opened it about 1973 ithink and ive got a photo of me playing snooker with him aged about 10. if my memory serves me right the council gave 5000 pound for it to be developed , a lot of money then and jess did a great job helping the local kids.

anyone on here been in goodfellas, dog and partridge, if you annt its probably to late. was told in the carlton on attercliffe that its up for sale for 750,000 and the guy who owns the station, kings head and the other one near banners is buying it. never thought a lap dancing bar was a goon idea down attercliffe.

Hey Brooksie. Had some good times there my friend. All the pubs on the cliffe. If you walked from Carbrook street down one side of Attercliffe, You would be drunk before you got to Staniforth Road.. Then the next night we would try walking down the other side of the Cliffe, Starting with the strippers at the Dog and p. At that time we had to be careful, Strippers were ilegal. But we certainly had a good time.

hi rodgers, yes we still go down attercliffe at the weekend and the pubs are pretty full. the greyhound is our drinking hole basicly and after about ten oclock its packed. i remember my dad telling me in the 50s about all the pubs down there and how you coudnt have a pint in every pub and still be standing. good to see some investment in the area and when yorkshire water sell of spartan works hopefully with the appartments it will be a boom area.

Hi
I wasn't born in Attercliffe but my dad was, his name was Frank Grayson and his sister Betty Wade lived in Colleridge Road. His dad died when he was a few weeks old and his mother married again to a man named Marshall. Aunty Betty worked a little sweet shop on the opposite corner and I remember there was a great fish & chip shop further down Collereidge road. Does anyone remember my dad or his family?

My dad passed on now, He used to drink with a guy called Frank Grayson. They used to go to a pub called the Gate Inn and The Salutation. Not to mention many others down the Cliff.

Originally posted by brooksy
anyone on here been in goodfellas, dog and partridge, if you annt its probably to late. was told in the carlton on attercliffe that its up for sale for 750,000 and the guy who owns the station, kings head and the other one near banners is buying it. never thought a lap dancing bar was a goon idea down attercliffe.

Hi Brooksy, - last time I went in the D&P it was a pub !! :D , and the Carlton was a probation office ;) . Used to go in the Queens Head when the big Irishman had it and that Wards pub (can't remember the name) just down the road from the Robin Hood. BTW is the Robin Hood chippy still there ?

Used to go in the Greyhound occasionally when the Redfearns had it. If I can persuade the missus to drive me I might look you up in there...which nights are you always in ?

Originally posted by Grayson
Hi
I wasn't born in Attercliffe but my dad was, his name was Frank Grayson and his sister Betty Wade lived in Colleridge Road. His dad died when he was a few weeks old and his mother married again to a man named Marshall. Aunty Betty worked a little sweet shop on the opposite corner and I remember there was a great fish & chip shop further down Collereidge road. Does anyone remember my dad or his family?

Iwonder If that was the sweet shop that I used to go to when I went to see my Nan and Grandad. They lived at 485 Coleridge Road their surname was Burford.

hi greybeard i generally call in thurs after work and go in fri and sat. the landlord mark is sound and its generally a good night in there. let us no if you fancy a pint and a game of pool . cheers brooksy.

i lived on ripon street and and went to woodburn rd school then on to beaverhill any one remember reck back of ripon street

Hi Rogers & Gleighton

Can't remember names or places but my aunt Betty was always in the shop, she was small and round and always wore her slippers, we are talking 40 something years ago. Dad was a miner until 1942 then he worked in the steel industry, I'm not sure of the pubs he went into. My uncle and his brother (two brothers married two sisters) worked at a big steelworks near Coleridge road (Brown's ???)

Not quite in Attercliffe but does anyone remember a corner shop on Petre Street in the late 40's/early 50's? I seem to remember they had a big dog.

hi, Grayson.
My memories of Coleridge rd go from about 1964ish. I remember getting a book from a wool shop further past the corner shop & wasn't there a co-op near the spare ground? I remember going to a circus there when I was little.

Hi Gleighton
when I go home tonight I will look at a 1950-60's map I have, it may give me a better memory of the area. We only went to attercliffe to visit and as I was in my best clothes I was not allowed to go out to play so never got to know the area just bits from stories my dad told me. He was born there but they moved to Ecclesall road before the war.

Originally posted by brooksy
hi greybeard i generally call in thurs after work and go in fri and sat. the landlord mark is sound and its generally a good night in there. let us no if you fancy a pint and a game of pool . cheers brooksy.

Thanks, - not much good at pool as I have the use of only one eye these days but haven't had a pint in a pub for nearly three years now, so that will be great. I'll PM you to check once I can fix a date.

I'd join you too Brooksy, but its a tad too far.

mighnt nip over to yours then for a couple , do they do afterbird.

Hi Brooksy

I saw your first message that started this particular thread about Attercliffe and thought I'd put in my 5p-worth on this thread.

I wasn't born or bred in Sheffield (I came from Canada) and I lived (and still do) down in Bournemouth in Dorset but in 1979/1980 I was engaged to a girl who lived on Chippingham Street - just across the other side of the canal from where you say you went to school.

(I won't say her name as she might be a member of this forum - plus I've seen one or two who say that they went to the same school as she did and therefore might know her to this day. So, I don't want to end up along "a certain creek without a certain paddle" - as Edmund Blackadder would say!!) :))

Like others have already mentioned, I remember Banners on the corner of Attercliffe Road and Shortridge Street. I also remember at the bottom of Chippingham Street and Worksop Road the large black shed of Browen Baileys Ltd steel works.

Anyway, before my first visit to Chippingham street, this girl told me that the canal ran along at the bottom of her garden. I had mental visions of a lawn that ran down to a canal that holiday boats went along. When I actually saw it, I had to nearly dislocate my neck in order to see round the back of the outside loo - which was painted bright orange!! - and down over the back wall into a deep cutting that was full of dirty water, old bikes, shopping trollys and the odd burnt-out car!!

If that wasn’t bad enough, we ended up living on Middlewood Road in Hillsborough. (The site of the house is now a VW showroom - I think it’s called Gilders). It was just down the road from Middlewood Hospital. We used to sit in the bay window of the house on Middlewood Road on a Sunday afternoon watching out for the odd ‘patient’ walking down the road on their way towards Hillsborough and a few minutes later, watching the odd nurse or two running down the road like the clappers in the same direction after them.

They don’t make entertainment like that anymore!!

Needles to say, we weren’t together very long – but I’m still in contact with her mum and dad some 25 years after "the experience". They still live in the Hillsborough area.

Cheers

Patrick

steve whereare you , hows that job goin/////

i used to live in attercliffe francis street and went to huntsmans gardens school spent some very happy times in attercliffe going to banners with my mam also saturday morning pictures roy rogers hop along cassidy anybody remember sat pictures i think it was the regal cinema

Hi "Old Granny" ........... but I'm sure you're not! :D

What years did you go to Huntsman Gardens school?

Patrick
(in Bournemouth)

i would be about 8 years old the headmaster at that time i think was mr adams i first attended the infants their spent some very happy years there there was no messing about otherwise you would get a slap on the leg with a rule if u was late you had to stand in front of the school assembly which i think we all enjoyed

Originally posted by old_granny
i used to live in attercliffe francis street and went to huntsmans gardens school spent some very happy times in attercliffe going to banners with my mam also saturday morning pictures roy rogers hop along cassidy anybody remember sat pictures i think it was the regal cinema ....................

Hi there old granny,
I haven,t been in this site for a long time but when I just read you attended Huntsmans Garden school I was curious, I have asked lots of folk if they knew of it and I was always told it had been demolished I have been looking for a photo of it.
I attended there in the 40s maybe before your time? We used to walk all the way from Candow st. and call in Mrs Goodwomans for a few sweets she lived at the house next to the canal, such memories.
Regards Vera.

Originally posted by Plain Talker
Dee40, that's right, Shentalls were one of the early "self-service" "super" markets, that came about, from the '50's onwards

Shentalls had a chain of shops across Sheffield, (Not sure if they were further afield)

There was a Shentalls on "The Pavement", (the shopping centre on Park Hill)

There was also a Shentalls on the parade of shops at the back of the John o'Gaunt Pub, on the Gleadless Valley, and the one on the 'Cliffe....

I am sure there were more, but, as I was only a child when "Fine Fare" took them over, I can't remember where else the shops were, if any.

Can anyone else remember where there were other branches of Shentalls, please?

PT .................................................. ...........................
Hi Plaintalker,
I,m a bit late in coming in on your discussion, There was a Shentalls on the Manor Estate. I used to live on Pipworth rd and this was the shop where we had to get all our rations from Managers name was Mr. Rogers, don,t know how I manage to remember that But I did. Nice reading all the letters once again,

Regards Vera.

vera,

thank you for chipping in and letting me (us) know that there was at least a fourth Shentalls Store, in Sheffield. it's all good information; don't worry about it being "late", it's useful to know!

There was another supermarket chain that I can remember form my childhood, which was "Gowers and Burgin". They had the store just beside the John o' Gaunt Pub when I was a child.

PT

does anyone remember ainleys chippy off shirland lane area they were the best also anyone remember mrs hawksworth she was my girl guide leader about 1945 i used to love to go ropund her house as a young girl they were a great bunch of girls was born in atterccliffe my dad was an engine driver later on in years i worked at firth vickers and stayed there until i got married and left sheffield to live in leicester but my love will always be for sheffield and its folk none better