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  1. I remember Marvel was yellow and Cavell was blue, I think, (I was in Cavell). I know there were 5 houses when I started at Abbeydale and I understood that Fry had just been created that year (1957) yet it has been mentioned as existing earlier than that so I don't understand. What is strange is that there was only a first year Fry when I started and no 2nd, 3rd year, etc. There is probably a simple explanation. It's true that there are not many AGGS girls on Friends Reunited. I did contact one person although we didn't remember each other. I just thought it would be fun to exchange a few general experiences but she wasn't really interested as we weren't in the same class. Does anyone remember the Christmas parties? I'm not sure if the following happened every year but I remember that we all brought our party dresses to school. The senior art pupils had created huge paper angels which were fastened up high on the walls. There was dancing and some games in the big hall, then we all did the "Dambusters" march and went in a chain down to the dining room. Each table had logs holding candles, the lights were out and there was a lovely spread (we all brought food). Looking back someone had gone to a lot of trouble to make it look lovely. Maybe I was just an impressionable child!
  2. I worked on the dialysis unit at Lodge Moor for 6 months in 1973-74 (before your time) before moving to Scotland. I can't remember too much detail but I know it was really tough for the patients as they were preparing for home dialysis so had to do almost everything for themselves. I remember visiting one of the home patients in the portakabin in his back garden. The nurses did 4 x 12 hour shifts per week and left each evening when the final patient had gone home. I'm not very helpful I'm afraid.
  3. I have been doing some interesting family research lately. I look in the census for say 1901 or (now) 1911, find the addresses of my ancestors, then find if the house is still standing by looking at Google maps. They are often Victorian terraced houses and have maybe had attic conversions/renovations but it's good to see where your ancestors lived with their huge families! My grand-dad lived on Rosedale Road, Ecclesall when he was about 7 and I have been able to find the exact house and save a photo from the internet. That house is now student accommodation for 5 students with broadband Internet access! My grandparents' Victorian terraced house in Nethergreen had a grate under the front door mat which could be removed to deliver coal directly into the cellar. There were 4 houses per yard and little individual gardens too. There was a sort of scullery extension (which also contained a bath) and an outside whitewashed toilet with half sheets of Radio Times (1950s) on a hook on the door. I visited back-to-back housing in the ? Broomhall area in the 1960s as part of a social science lesson - a few had been left standing and cleaned out but you could imagine how awful it was to live there with no proper water supply and really poor sanitation. My grandmother lived for a few years in a bigger Victorian semi-detached house on Carterknowle Road and I remember in the 1950s seeing a row of bells attached to wires in the kitchen meant for calling "the servant" in earlier times!!
  4. I lived in a prefab in Totley - moved there in 1947 away from "sooty" Sheffield when I was 6 months old - lovely view and big garden. To begin with, they were pleasant fresh little homes for young families after the war but they did degenerate and become damp. Still we had a good quality of life there.
  5. I remember the foot x-ray machine, not particularly in Coles but in a shoe shop on Fargate. My ex-husband, a US citizen, remembers seeing the machines in NY in the early 50s. We were just discussing them last week and how we didn't realise how dangerous they were at the time.
  6. We used to go to Meersbrook park to watch the parade for Whitsuntide but only because that is what my mum had done years before. We didn't have new clothes for Whit by the 1950s but enjoyed having those little pom-poms on elastic with sawdust inside.
  7. Thanks for the link Ceegee - my Mum was at this school in the 1930s and she loved it and although I went right next door to Abbeydale Girls Grammar in the 50s, there was so much foliage around the Grange buildings that I never spotted the old houses.
  8. I used to go to the Teenage Club on Saturday mornings at the Gaumont in around 1960-61. There would be a film followed by some local group(s) playing. I remember Dave Berry, (?) Ray Stewart and I was very proud one time as my brother appeared with one of the groups (can't remember the name of the group), playing the guitar. I seem to remember a Stringfellow brother organising it but could be wrong.
  9. I remember the fair at the farm grounds in the 1950s. There were some bizarre attractions like a tiny bearded lady which would be totally unacceptable now.
  10. Thanks Rivelin6, have just checked Amazon and think I can get it there. I'm not in Sheffield but Switzerland. Good to know about Sheffield Scene though - thank you.
  11. Interesting! my grandparents lived in Nethergreen for many years in the 40s-50s and I know my ancestors on the Samuel side were builders who did work in that area in the early 1900s. My parents were married in Ranmoor "chapel" in 1942. Will try to obtain the book.
  12. I moved to Abbeydale Girls Grammar School from Totley county school in 1957. I have some good and a lot of bad memories. Some of the teachers were strict and impatient and I underachieved a lot of the time. Miss Lucas and Miss Tomlinson (both nice) had actually taught my Mum too when she was there. Miss Woodland would bring her dog into maths lessons. I thought that the Fry house was for the academically gifted but maybe it was a rumour. As mentioned by Sharrovian above, I have also lived in Switzerland for the last 33 years.
  13. I went to Heeley Baths with Totley County School in the mid-50s. The water was quite warm and as we were getting dried, a lady came with a hot orange drink which cost 6d or something like that - tasted odd but was comforting. She handed it over the cubicle door. Does anyone remember that? I also had lessons with Mr Wall who made me spend ages doing lengths wearing flippers (I would kick them off in the deep end and he would have to send in a big boy to retrieve them). He got me diving off the top splash but I still hate swimming to this day.
  14. Hello Susan and Ian Watson, I wasn't at Cherrytree but I do remember you from Totley County. Stuart Raw was also in my class. I'm Gillian (Gregory). Maybe you remember me. I seem to remember Miss Clareborough not showing much understanding or kindness towards you but she wasn't that nice to anyone was she? I became a nurse, moved from Totley in 1968 and had lived in Italy and Scotland before coming to Switzerland in 1977 and have lived there ever since - just retired and have 2 boys in their twenties. All the best, Gillian
  15. I went to the Mojo just once to see a Hamburg group, The Rattles which I had already seen at the Esquire. This was about the time that the Beatles had been to Hamburg. I was scared of the Pitsmoor area (comments from my parents) and didn't stay late.
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