[pedro1]

Originally Posted by Fast Runner

Welcome Peno glad to have you on board nice to hear that Shiregreener's
are good people I quite agree with you, everyone helped each other. I
remember my mother baking Christmas cakes and decorating for other
neighbours, there was a real community spirit. Most of the people who
live there now have the same values as the older generation.
People with the least gave the most charity to others.

I think there`s still a community spirit. My mum bakes for the people who run the second hand shop and for the ladies who run gingers. She also cleans for shillitoes.

[Timbuck]

Originally Posted by Ted Hills

For Coral Water/ Mrs. Easley lived at 105 Ronksley Road so unlikely to have known people at the other end. I also remember a delightfull Irish woman who lived next door at 103 but can't recall her name but was she a character.
Ted Hills

Ted... I think I remember this Irish lady.."She was one of the main members of the "English and Scottish Folk Dance Club" ran by "Derick Hardwick" at St Christophers in the 50's ...If She didn't turn up on the club nights it was a dull night.

[pedro1]

Originally Posted by Jon

Anyone stand on the basket bridge watching the trains like me and my grandad did?

Yes jon. I used to go with my dad and my brother. I take the grand kids now. Can you remember the tip that used to be there? Me and my brother used to find allsorts on it inc gas masks from the war i guess.

[pedro1]

Just wondered if any of you older generation knew my moms family. They`ve lived in the same house since the shiregreen was built. They were the Armitages and lived on Hartley brook road opposite perkyn terrace. They were a large family. There was my grand parents who i`ve never met as they died really young, My mum Valerie Armitage, her sisters Mary and gloria and her brothers Ray, Edric and Tony. Also when my mum Married my Dad they took over looking after he brothers and sisters. My dads name was Arnold Ellis.
If anyone remembers them let me know

[yodelmiester]

Auntie Val...

We lived across on the corner of Perkyn...You know my older brother better...Philip.

[pedro1]

Originally Posted by yodelmiester

Auntie Val...

We lived across on the corner of Perkyn...You know my older brother better...Philip.

Yes of course i do

[Chitts]

Originally Posted by Ted Hills

For David Price, my sister (Fast Runner) and I are trying to put a face to your name, it's so frustrating as you appear to know who we are but we cannot place you.You say you knew me from Church, what was the connection: choir, servers, Sunday School or youth club. I was at some point involved with all. The people I did hang around with early on were Brian (Cherry)Williams, Doug & Michael Thompson and later Sue & Janet Ellis, Roger Storie, Alan Chittenden, Faye Longmore, Ian White,Bob Wood and Vicky Hall as well as many more I can't readily recall. I knew the vicar Philip Cawood very well but fell out big time with his successor the Rev Scott. I also worked closely with Mr. Henry Cooper when he ran a Sunday afternoon club for teenagers. Both at the time and in hindsight those were great times community spirit was well and truly vibrant loved every minute. Do let me know where you fitted in and roughly what dates we are in.
Ted Hills

ted,came across this site by accident . few more names -it was faye longmire , roger storey , ,and a few more bob and any wood , diane brooker , trevor chetwyn , john jackson , roger pinder , roland rodwell ,tony armitage , john tingle , john waterman , lynn kelsey , pat sanderson , my brother derek , - great times at the youth club , all the great bands at the saints club , gordon lister and family , the exchanges with st lukes in gt harwood [near where i now work ], trips to whirlow grange , the y c footy team and you taking cine of the games, the whelchair push for youth action , and of course the walk down the pennine way in the 'flaming june ' when england won the world cup and we listened to it stood in a river under the bridge in mal ham . ah happy days , and i still want to be a footballer when i grow up ! I,VE STILL GOT BITS OF THE OLD Y C SCRAP BOOK SO WHEN MY DTR SHOWS ME HOW TO DO IT , I'LL TRY AND PUT SOME PICCIES on who says there's no future in nostalgia alan

[Ted Hills]

Chitts-Thanks for those names I've been searching my memory box for ages to put names to the people I have on my ancient cine film and you mentioned Lynn Kelsey and suddenly it all fell into place. I do remember the Pennine Way treck very well although I'm hazy on names other than Ian White and Roger Storey. Do you remember how we got to Malham by public transport buses all the way from Firth Park with several changes on the way of course. Do you remember 'stealing' a Penine Way sign somewhere over the top of Bleaklow and Ian travelling the last leg by bus to Edale. Do you know what happened to all the old crowd you mentioned as well as Sue & Janet Ellis andVicky Hall. I've also got footage of the Star Walks with YC members sloging it out. Great memories
of happy days, thanks for bringing them to life again. Ted

[pedro1]

Originally Posted by Chitts

ted,came across this site by accident . few more names -it was faye longmire , roger storey , ,and a few more bob and any wood , diane brooker , trevor chetwyn , john jackson , roger pinder , roland rodwell ,tony armitage , john tingle , john waterman , lynn kelsey , pat sanderson , my brother derek , - great times at the youth club , all the great bands at the saints club , gordon lister and family , the exchanges with st lukes in gt harwood [near where i now work ], trips to whirlow grange , the y c footy team and you taking cine of the games, the whelchair push for youth action , and of course the walk down the pennine way in the 'flaming june ' when england won the world cup and we listened to it stood in a river under the bridge in mal ham . ah happy days , and i still want to be a footballer when i grow up ! I,VE STILL GOT BITS OF THE OLD Y C SCRAP BOOK SO WHEN MY DTR SHOWS ME HOW TO DO IT , I'LL TRY AND PUT SOME PICCIES on who says there's no future in nostalgia alan

My uncle is Tony Armitage. Could he be the one you remember?

[Chitts]

Very probably - brother called brian - knocked me out for 3 days when we were playing football for the youth club - somehow sat on my head from a corner - big lad ! Anyone dig for old bottles on the tip behind basket bridge - used to get sixpence selling them on to someone at school , what happened to the horseshoe pub - fireman sam was the landlord and then bob clark , who sadly died young . - remember buying packers of two woodbines from goulds and then smoking them on the way home from cubs - couldn,t get them to light at first - thought you had to blow rather than suck !

[awoollen]

Originally Posted by Chitts

Very probably - brother called brian - knocked me out for 3 days when we were playing football for the youth club - somehow sat on my head from a corner - big lad ! Anyone dig for old bottles on the tip behind basket bridge - used to get sixpence selling them on to someone at school , what happened to the horseshoe pub - fireman sam was the landlord and then bob clark , who sadly died young . - remember buying packers of two woodbines from goulds and then smoking them on the way home from cubs - couldn,t get them to light at first - thought you had to blow rather than suck !

i used to go to school bob clarke lived up the banking from me on windmill lane i often wondered what had happent to him sod loss

[terryob]

to ted hills re- the leaflets about old shiregreen you have, are they available to the general public, would be interesting to read

[Ted Hills]

For terryob -unfortunately the leaflets are handwritten personal documents produced by the late Pam Easley and now in her daughters possession. They are the result of many years of painstaking research into the history of not just Shiregreen but most of the surrounding area. In some ways it is a bringing together of information which already exists in various books and archives. Pam was a stickler for detail and everything is beautifully hand written with plenty of photos to illustrate. They are also produced on larger than A3 format paper which makes them difficult to copy cheaply. I'll make some enquiries about copying and report back. Ted Hills

[Chitts]

Re Thundercliffe Grange . we used to parade there from beck rd methodist church led by the B B and a guy i think called mr hodge who could shout from one side of sheffield to the other . for some reason we stopped on street corners and sang hymns in the hope that someone might listen to us.cant imagine what the poor kids at the grange got out of it . my nan used to work at the penguin from the day it was built [ vi hathaway ] and brought me footy progs from the guys who went on the penguin special coach to the matches . more over to my side , at hartley brook shops there was queenies , gillotts and hopkinsons . I used to deliver groceries on the shopbike like granville and give girls i fancied a ride in the basket ! .anyone remember the bus only going along beck rd , not all the way round , miss wadsworth at beck rd school and the 4 o'clock gang, ecclesfield fair behind the pub , hulleys ice cream factory and the orchards on the allotments at hartley brook and arthur wood who took over the paper shop on bellhouse rd . alan

[Weazel2006]

just thought id shout hi and say im from shiregreen......friends welcome i dont know anyone around here yet.

[nuttycow13]

Originally Posted by billyhill

I started teaching at Shiregreen Middle School in the late seventies.. Kids include Andy Matthews, Gary Fothergill, Rowding Family, Flint Family, Walches etc Teachers were Pete Inman, Bernard Priest, Gwen Marsden, Mike Mahoney, Jim Friar, Dave Hutton etc.

i was there with those kids back then, i can remember first time in mr priests class and getting prodded under the shoulder blade for talking, also the board rubber and chalk being thrown at pupils.

[nuttycow13]

i remember mrs furniss on oaks fold rd, at the back of concord park. she used to teach me at shiregreen school, took the all class to her house and gave us all glass of orange, At the end of the year she gave us all a ladybird book on british wildlife and still had until a couple of year ago. This site is brill

Originally Posted by suewho

Only found this site 2 days ago, curtesy of my brother. Find it fascinating not stop reading it yet! Just had to come in on the Shiregreen thing. I was brought up on Shiregreen, first going to Woolley Wood Junior School then Shiregreen Sec Mod, left in 1964. Loved the place then, it has so many memories for me. Anyone remember Gibbon Chipshop on Nethershire Lane? My mum worked there for years, we always got free chips when she was at work, the down side was every morning when we got up, the house stank like a chip shop from her overalls from the night before! I remember going to play in Concorde park and the woods, where the lads would build a tarzan swing and us girls werent allowed a go. Does anyone remember Miss(Valerie I think) Furness, used to do dancing lessons on Oaks Lane/Shiregreen Lane? Only went for ballroom, but it never did me much good, I have two left feet now. Oh how young and innocent we all were in those days, compared to today, don,t know who was better off? I heard someone mention Joe Gould, I remember him well, and his mother, who always frightened me, I used to think she was a witch. Used to get sent there to fetch 10 Park Drive for my mum and dad, at about the age of 8/9, that wouldnt happen today. Love to hear more if anyone remembers anything from around that time.

[Chris76]

I grew up on Lower Shiregreen during 60's/70's. I went to Hatfield House Lane School, now Firth Park. I remember Gould's shop on Bellhouse Road. There was the old lady, Joe and Grace. I think Grace used to work on buses, as well as help in the shop. I remember it being very old, small and cluttered.
Is anyone on here used to go to Hatfield House Lane 1966 to 1970. Mr. Whitfield was the head teacher at that time. Miss Meehan, music teacher, Miss Mills and Mrs. Ellis (as was) PE teachers, Miss Wallace, needlework, Mr. White, Physics, Mr Senior Chemistry and Mr Briars, Biology, to name a few.

[Peno]

Originally Posted by peterw

I lived at 22 Deep Lane during the war, and my grandparents Billy and Louisa Wood lived on the other side at 23. My brother Philip is 14 years younger than me and he went to a school on Shiregreen. Can’t remember which, but the Headmistress was Miss Glossop who was also head of Hunter’s Bar Infants School while I was there.

My Aunt and Uncle lived at 20 Deep Lane along with Jean and Brian during the war and up to the early 70's. I have happy memories of visiting Deep Lane. My cousin Brian only recalls the Hendersons is that your family name? . For a short while we lived at 600 Bellhouse Road across from the Wilsons who lived on the odd side of Deep Lane.

[nuttycow13]

hiya my grandparent lived They were the wardles on Beck road and the Biltons on Beck close.