hi dinnerlady i did not live on shirland lane i lived on Baker Street I went to a dance above burtons at the bottom of Staniforth Road only once Bossyboots I did not like it.Bit to old for me
Hi Dinnerlady, We lived at 33 Bodmin St. next to Huntsmans Garden. I went to school there from 1937 to 44 & loved it. Dad used to do a few electrical jobs for Harry. I remember Harry getting us out of bed around 6 a.m. when on holiday & walking with us down to a cafe where we had a mug of hot tea spliced with scotch supplied by Harry. We kids thought it was great but I don't know if mum would have approved if she had known
Hello Gosling
I went to Huntsmans Gardens about the same time as you, I left at age 11 in 1945.
Do you remember Mrs Taylor? She was Ramsden before she married.
Wonderful memories of my years in Attercliffe.
I remember the names but lost touch with them.
Joe Ashton was in my class, he is the only one I met in years.
Sheila Jolly, Maureen King, Margaret Dove..
Anybody out there remember Margaret Wain?
Apologies for coming in on your Attercliffe discussions, but I'm sure you lads and lasses can help with my failing memory. Although since 1942, I've worked ( at Edgar Allens, Hadfields, Tinsley Wire, and married a girl from the side of the Plumpers pub 55 years ago), my memory has blanked out on a certain section of Attercliffe road. I'm trying to recall the section between Lock-House lane ,(opp. tram sheds) and Broughton Lane. I can recall the pub at bottom of Lockhouse Lane and the then Wraggs the Roofers, bottom of Broughton Lane, but nothing in between. I've got a vague memory of Metro-Vickers somewhere. Was there a Tommy Wards Scrap yard near the tram sheds.? Thanks
Hi Wain, Can't remember your name - the memory isn't as good as it used to be. My sister Betty was in Miss Ramsden's class & didn't get on with her at all, my teacher was Miss Hoyle. They were good days.
Hi Gosling
I loved Mrs. Taylor (nee Ramsden) She is the teacher who made a difference in my life.
Now Miss Hoyle was a different story.
She scared the living daylights out of me. She told us that she had eyes in the back of her head. and when she was playing the piano she could see exactly what was going on in the classroom behind her. Of course I believed her. When she played that piano I did not move a muscle.
The picture in my mind of Miss Hoyle is of the back of her head!
I wasin Attercliffe Baker Street 1944 and lived there for 21 years went to Huntsmans Gardens school till I was 11 what a place do you have memories just the cinemas the pubs the shops open until turned 10 o clock on a Saturday you could buy anything from down the cliffe.
HAD relations down cliffe SHARROCK aka big norm was the dad paul mike and diane not to mention AUNTY GLADYS
hi buddyshuddy; freddy davison was he dugies brother who died last year?
hi,he may well have been duggies brother,i remember his mother having a child in the late 40s. I left attercliffe in 1953 to go to the new hackenthorpe estate and totally lost touch with all my pals.
sorry mate i dont remember them but i lived down the cliffe from 1944 to 1965 went to huntsmans gardens school till i was 11years old anyone remember Miss Glossop she used to throw the blackboard rubber.Does anyone remember Pete Hatton Barry Fairhead Ann Smith Graham Westwood Michael Holmes Raymond Thompson Margaret Haywood Mick Christian Paul Sheldon to name just a few who were around at the same time I need to get the old memory into top gear could do with a jolt.
Gordon, I remember you, went to school with your brother Len.
Edith and Lewis Lant of Lant's fish and chips, Attercliffe Common? Or my Dad, Ian who went to Coleridge Road School.
hi discovery
lived on carltonville road 1939/1964 many happy memories of lants fish/chip shop best on common went to carbrook county inf/junr then to coleridge road with your dad happy day down carbrook/attercliffe what a great place to grow up regards aj
Glen Pickard was mentioned on here some time ago by Mick Redfearn an Attercliffe lad who passed away a few weeks ago in Chetwynd British Columbia. Apparently Glen emigrated to Canada many years ago and set up a small airline in that country. I went to school at Hartleybrook Secondary modern and Glen was one year above me that would make him about 62/63 now. John Curtain was about the same age as Glen and was the Rugby team captain at Hartleybrook (we had a very good team) won the Price cup. Others in the team wee Dennis Topham, Dave Simmonite, Keith Smith, Bugsy Megson, Mick Lee, as to what happened to to John I regret i have no idea.
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does anyone remember john townsend, glenn pickard, john curton, or david downes, they were all mates of mine at sometime.
does anyone remember john townsend, glenn pickard, john curton, or david downes, they were all mates of mine at sometime.
my husband was in the same class as john townsend and glen pickard at hartley brook school the last time he saw john townsend a few years ago he was working at a large car dealership in sheffield glen pickard came over to uk a couple of weeks ago to see his mother (glens in the process of moving to miami) he says he is coming back over at christmas time for a few days
Hi I dont know if any-one is interested, but just been going through my wife's old books. She used to belong to a historical group. Point is I've come across 2 books relating to Attercliffe, printed about 1981. You may already have these,, 'Growing up in Attercliffe £2.50 and Sheffield's East Enders' £3.95, but if not, just get back to me on here and i'll give you the book numbers. Possibly the libraries will have them. I'm not an ex Attercliffe lad, but very proud of working at Edgar Allens, Hadfields.,ESC etc. since '42.
I dont remmeber John Townsend but remember Glen and Paul Howe (the tank). A good prop forward in his day. When you see Glen tell him that Mick Redrearn has passed away. In Chetwynd BC where he was Town Clerk. As I understand it they met up again in Canada but lost contact. Mick and Glen were both old hartley brook students.
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my husband was in the same class as john townsend and glen pickard at hartley brook school the last time he saw john townsend a few years ago he was working at a large car dealership in sheffield glen pickard came over to uk a couple of weeks ago to see his mother (glens in the process of moving to miami) he says he is coming back over at christmas time for a few days
Hi I dont know if any-one is interested, but just been going through my wife's old books. She used to belong to a historical group. Point is I've come across 2 books relating to Attercliffe, printed about 1981. You may already have these,, 'Growing up in Attercliffe £2.50 and Sheffield's East Enders' £3.95, but if not, just get back to me on here and i'll give you the book numbers. Possibly the libraries will have them. I'm not an ex Attercliffe lad, but very proud of working at Edgar Allens, Hadfields.,ESC etc. since '42.
hi jogi just catching up on foram answere to your post from pub bottom lock house lane (tinsley hotel) up lane a firm called sheffield hollow drill then tommy wards scrap yard then metro vics the pheasant inn(stumble inn}large open space were fairs and circus used to come carbrook church then ferns garage bob hewit barbers plumber shop then broughton lane.if possible i would like book no,and authours regards aj
Hi Carbrooklad. Thanks for the details Lockhouse Lane Broughton Lane. Just the job.The book details are: 'Growing up in Attercliffe' by Alfred Green. ISBN 863210 907490 00 X. The publishers were New City Paperbacks, Urban Theology Unit, 210 Abbeyfield Rd.,Sheffield S4 7AZ The other is 'Sheffield's East Enders', By Keith Farnsworth ISBN 0 86321 073 2 Sheffield City Libraries. Dont miss 'em. Cheers. Most of my memories are centered betwwen Tinsley Tram Sheds and Plumpers road having married into the Savage familiy.(Bryan cremated last week. (he spent all his working life at Tinsley Wire as maint. joiner). Cheers.
