[Highnote]

Anyone still around from Springfield School.Mr Kinman Headmaster,with teachersMr Allen,Mr Boyes,Miss Benson,Miss Ludlam,Miss Crossland and many others,oh Mr Wood a veteran of WW1.Any other memories.Harlan Senior known then as Ginger.

[George]

yea i went to springfield school but a bit later but my family went there and st silas school as well

[tiffy]

I believe my Mum went to Springfield school - you would have known her as Irene Thorpe.

[yorkshirelas]

Can anyone remember my father Albert Mitchell or his sister Elizabeth Mithcell. We had a family reunion recently and Springfield School was mentioned.

[Grayson]

My brother, sister & I went to Springfield in the 50's. I was one of the first, 1st years to go to Tapton. My brother is Tony Grayson and my sister is Pamela. They still live in Sheffield but I don't.

[suzyoo]

hey i was at spring onions in the fifties, my brothers and sisters went there before me.
i knew a girl called s grayson, i went to tapton too. did you have black hair? it was a good school, the dinner lady (at springfield) used to ration out the toilet paper as i recall. the headmaster and his wife were mr and mrs holdsworth. we had to go right up abbydale to some playing fields to do sports, and she took us to her house as a surprise one day.

[Grayson]

Hello suzyoo

Yes I did have black hair and I remember Mr Holdsworth but not much else at Springfield. At Tapton I remember Mr North the headmaster, Mr Wainright, Mrs Taylor and Miss Church. We lived in Ecclesall Road.

[JackD]

I went to spring-onions from 1943-1953, my dad went there as well.
Also my brother and two sisters, the younger Linda went onto Tapton.
Have'nt been been able to contact anyone from my years there.
John Dukes.

[willybite]

hiya all my name was wibur or willybite at school
i went to springfield school from 1943-53. i remember john dukes how are you ok i hope i see you live in chesterfield, a school pal went to live there barry bartholomew remember him? my daughter lives there as well we often visit the family i have seven g/children three boys and four girls daughter is forty six this year and son is forty four.
i met your brother some 50 years ago he came in my local pub i think he worked with a mate of mine his name was jack barber, he worked at shearstone peters and dunne opposite hendersons relish factory.
do you remember these teachers i was in each of their classes
miss tate
miss radford
mrs draper
miss barratt
miss hall
mr hewson
mrs taylor
mr price(1)
mr price(2)
mr allen
mr boyce

[bigsteve]

which springfield school? i went to springfield junior on carver st (nr west st) in the late 70's when there was Mrs.Roe, Mr.Knowels, and Mr wareham (wacker wareham) hehe them were the days. When kids had respect for the teachers.

[bigsteve]

ooops just read it was 1936 -1944 little b4 my time hehe

[willybite]

hiya anyone remember miss tate's class it was the first one at springfield school it was the one at the corner of cavendish street and bolton street i remember at the side wall were either one or two bunk beds one of the things we were first shown in this class(it was 1943) was to be given a tour of the air raid shelters which were built in the school yard under the older girls playground upstairs, then there was miss radford later mrs brown she married one of the teachers who taught in a junior or senior class.i can remember a little from all my classes at school really i dont understand as during lessons at school i had a memory like a sieve.

ps mister brown i think took over mr hewson's class

[willybite]

hello i remember john dukes i think he lived on or near broomspring lane i lived on bath street just below the school i see you live in chesterfield did you know barry bartholomew
lived there as well i met his brother at a school reunion some years ago and he told me
i have a son and a daughter she also lives in brimington. she has a family of four two boys two girls my son has two girls and a boy.i worked with ray clarkson at laycocks for some years have seen paul davison a few times over the years.my nickname was wilbur or willybite at school

[Highnote]

If you lived on Bath St did you know or can you remember the Savage family? Charlie and Nellie and their three children Peter Rita and Stewart,,went Springfield school.

[JackD]

Hi Willybite, cant say i remember you by that name you'll have to let me know your true one, i used to live on Gloucester st at the top of Broomspring lane. Eric Bower lived acoss the road an Jimmy White lived a bit further on, and Servor Khan lived at the end of the street, Servor died last year whilst visiting his family over here, he maried a German girl and lived over there.Yes i remember all the people you mentioned particulary Ray Clarkson here are a few more i remember;
Ernest Parkes.
Ted Kenyon.
Alan Turton, last saw him when i was in Aden.
Richard Turton.
Terry Rome.
Peter Serles.
Peter Rose.
David Duckinfield.
Maureen Harrison.
Brenda Wells.
Terry Paramore, and his sister Pat
Doreen Coyles.
Terry Constantine.
? Frost.
Bob Young
Not bad after 56 years.
John (Jack) Dukes.

[willybite]

willybite here hiya i've been a user of s/f for a few days but can't always get things right when sending letters on the web site, i think i shall ask my 9 year old grandson to spare me some of his time he uses it as second nature mind he's been at it longer than me. i tried to answer john d about class mates at our school 1943/53 i remembered some more names john, there were ray jackson.barry bartholomew,fred wright,doug jaffrey,brian green,ron ives,terry frost, ron gregory,harry mills, terry polky terry oats,barry green, mick crossley,
fred knight,gordon fell. also highnote asked if i remembered the family named savage i do very well they lived in the yard opposite where i lived their neighbours were next door gordon hall then bill born,wife and daughter barbara, at the other side of the entry was an empty house then bob endersby,wife daughter pamela and son,not foregetting old mr hancock's many rabbits

[Highnote]

Bob Endesby had been a POW in Germany for many years,captured in 1940 I think,walked with a stiff leg as a result of war wounds,whilst in captivity the British surgeon wanted to amputate his wounded leg but the German surgeon said no he could save his leg,and did. A very good friend of my dad and Charlie Savage,before the war he was an exibition high diver at Butlins in Skegness,can you remember Bob being repatriated and the crowd on Bath St waiting to welcome him home?Peter Savage and I went home from Springfield School in the afternoon and could not believe the crowd, we could hardly get to Petes house.
We had some very happy times with the Savage family during the war.
Did'nt Norman and Raymond Bartholomew live on Bath St?

[willybite]

hiya highnote have just read your note about bob endesby he did have a stiff leg but i only knew that he had been a pow. as for norman and raymond bartholomew also dennis and barry they did for a time live on bath street up the yard where bill harrison the bookmaker stood they lived at 8ct 3 i lived at no 6
next door to frank broadhurst at no 7 my gran lived at no 8 no 5 was spud smith who lived with his mother after the war.during the war at no1 was old mr mrs hudson no2 lived ginny curtis nee bentley with her mum no 4 cliff sheldon no 9 sam drabble and wife n o 10 mrs peat. no 11 mrs fiander and son alfred( tops) no 12 mrs blyth and elsie also mrs yeardly.in fact i could name most of people on bath street at that time willybite

p.s when i remember back i think norman & raymond bartholomew lived at the end of bath st i think it was the last house before dean lane,then they moved in a house in our yard,then it was fitzwilliam st, then it was off to manor park on harborough avenue, i remember as barry was a mate before we left school.their house on bath st was where the weatheralls lived later( ron, brian, joan i remember their dads name was john)

[willybite]

hiya john dukes willy bite bill(y) white here sorry i've not answered your enquiries not knowing me by willy bite, i dont know if you remember but a fad went round at school something like a secret code of talking you took the first letter of first word and swapped it with the first letter of the second word e.g. willy bite
you would have sounded like don jukes .some kids could put whole sentences together but not this one, a few years ago i was in the darnall liberal club and i saw someone from schooldays when i said if it isn't gordon fell he said it's michael crossley isn't it when i said no its billy white he said i always mixed you both up, sadly he passed away along with a few more over the years
ernest parks,terry paramore, terry constantine, fred wright, doug jaffrey, all r.i.p i worked at laycocks with terry constantines brother tony he was into spiritualism and used to tell us some stories, which he must have been good he turned out to be a medium.ps you woudn't have known him from school as he went to st silas. all the best talkers of that earlier fad i now remember were in the year above us. any-way john all the best

p.s there were five gingers in our class terry paramore, terry constantine,sheila marshall, sheila moorhouse she left our school age 11, me.

[willybite]

hiya highnote
have been thinking about the families who lived on bath street whose children went to springfield school there were my mother and her three brothers jim,jack,walter.and sister ann. howarth. broadhurst's annie irene,maureen,frank. elsie blythe, brian brooke,charlie eckardt,lewis hancock, ridges arnold,francis,connie,ken,frank, ron,doug, jean went to maud maxfield's school,apart from jean and doug ridge, all were older than me. in one of your letters you mentiond mr wood i remember seeing him chatting to my dad on the corner of cavendish st and broomspring lane, i though oh no what have i done now, when i reached them my dad introduced me to mr wood,it appears he was dads sports teacher at western rd school and they were just talking about old times.i didn't have mr wood as a teacher he had retired two or three years before, we had peter price who i think took over his class. another two names have come to me one was robert oakley, the other was billy houseden.