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  1. Hi Alavert, I played for Shiregreen Amateurs between 1965 and 1971. The captain during this time was Dave Gillott and Dave was also the administrator of the Club and main organiser. We played home games in Concord Park, usually pitch number 23. Who is your Dad? Sorry- predictive text - Hi Lavery
  2. Can anyone remember and give details of the Ironmongers, Neville Watts, who I think were at number 8 Fitzwilliam Street, just below the Raven. In particular, if anybody can give information on the vans they used it would be great and if any photos were available, that would be awesome.
  3. Hi Stych, if your name is John, then I remember you. I lived opposite you at 40 Bullen Road, name is Gill as you will have noticed and Pep Saxton lived next door to us. I still live in Sheffield. You are, I think, a few years older than me (I’m 73 now) and it’s good to hear about your family. I have a younger sister, Elaine, and I think that the Gibson family lived bang opposite us. Anyway, I’m also married, have 2 children and 2 grandchildren. It’s good to catch up and I wish you all the best in the future.
  4. Hello Robert Farish, good to hear from you all the way from South Africa. I remember you at Meynell and I used to play a lot of kick about football with Fred Porter after school on the playing field on Foxhill Road near to the’Back Edge’. Have you seen the earlier thread on Meynell Road Football Team 1962/63. Paul Barker wrote a thread in February in which he included a team photo. You are in the photo along with Fred, Stan Pearson and others you mention. You might not remember me because I was in the year below and played in the team run by Garbutt and then left the School in 1963 to go to Hartley Brook School in Shiregreen. Some names in my team were, David Hetherington, Colin Headley, Glenn Bramhall, Gordon Bradshaw and Billy Kenny, amongst others. Do you remember any of these guys? Are they are still around?
  5. Hi Paul Barker, thanks for your post on 23 February. I remember all the guys in the football team and the goalkeeper, who I think is Colin Headley. I still have a photo of the school football team a year later, taken in April/May 1963. It includes myself, John Gill, John Reynolds and other players’ names I remember are: Garbutt (Teacher), Roger Brammer, Glenn Bramhall, Billy Kenny, David Hetherington, Colin Headley, Gordon Bradshaw, Charlie Fleming? and Dennis Hill. It’s a small world Paul, because I left Meynell in 1963 to go to ……Hartley Brook School! I hope the names have brought back good memories for you and any other readers and if any of the players mentioned are still out there, give us a shout.
  6. Dp59 and Tbt, I have been fascinated by the memories you have recalled and posted on here and recall much of the memories mentioned. I also remember the names of the people you have mentioned and really liked Mr Appley at Foxhill juniors. In class, He used to tell us stories from Jim Corbett books (about man-eating Tigers) and taught us a game called Newcombe, which we played in the schoolyard. It was a version of volleyball but we all loved to play it. Do either of you remember Newcombe? I also went to Meynell Road, starting in September 1960. I’m a little bit younger than you guys, but, I was in Fairhurst’s class for a time. He was very eccentric if I remember and had a likeness of Mr Punch With his long chin. I’m sure it was him who used to walk around the classroom during lessons speaking to himself saying something like ‘ scrag my brappers and scrupledinch’. I never knew what it meant, does anybody remember this? I was also in Fleming’s class for a while. He had anger issues and his methods would not survive as a teacher today. You definitely listened to him though in case he chose you to recite what he had just said.! Scary guy. If you remember any of this please confirm so that I can satisfy my nostalgia- or see a Doctor 🙈.
  7. Tbt and Mick Badger, do either of you remember the Parkers lorries that used to load the huge paper rolls and deliver them all over the country. Funnily enough my father used to drive for Parkers and I often went with him when I was off school. As a boy, I’ve spent ages in the loading bay at Dixons sat in my Dad’s lorry cab waiting for it to be loaded and then we’d often take a full load to Liverpool docks in the late fifties and early sixties. Another regular trip was to a place called Garstang in Lancashire. I think that Parkers Transport must have had a contract for many years to collect and deliver the huge paper rolls made at Peter Dixons Oughtibridge. I seem to remember that the toilet rolls brand were called ‘ Dixcel’. Would this be right.? Tbt, yet again we have a common interest in a thread. - I lived at 40 Bullen Road Foxhill and we have recently corresponded in the Meynell Road School thread. My Dad would sometimes park his lorry outside our house during the fifties and early sixties. As a near neighbour, you might remember this.
  8. Tbt, sorry but I don’t remember anyone called Tommy or know of Keith Moore. You’re right about old Pep, he loved his beer and I’ve watched him spread loads of English Mustard on his sandwiches. I think that the beer-off was Marsh’s and when you went in there it was like Aladdin’s cave - you could just about buy anything from there. The policy was that if someone asked for something they didn’t have, then they would get it in for the next time, thereby building up a huge stock, but it must have made the business a little ‘gold mine’. Happy days.
  9. Tbt, I hadn’t realised that you lived so close to me. Check out my username and we lived at number 40 from 1954 to 1963 when we moved to Shiregreen. I remember the Jakemans and Shirley in particular. She was a little older than me. We lived at number 40 and the family family next to us living at 38 were called Ringrose, Joan was the daughter and they were really kind people and would occasionally look after my younger sister. Next door to us at 42 was old man ‘Pep’ Saxton who used to scare me to death, especially when I tried to get my ball back from his garden. I think that the Cooks lived at 44 but moved and then the Garfitts moved in. I’m thinking that if you lived at 34, then the Woodhead family were your neighbours at 32. Is this right? Did you go to Foxhill Junior School and then Meynell?
  10. Hello Tony, I remember you and think that you’re a few years older than me. I also lived on Bullen- number 40 between 1953/4 and 1963 when we left. I used to play on the back edge also but was more usually playing football on the recreation park on Foxhill Road (opposite Wilcox). Footballing mates were Dave Colgate, Peter Woodhead often and sometimes Terry Connerton and I think, John Atherton and Freddie Porter. I remember John Stych and the Gibson family, the Taggs and Malcolm Cooper. Hope you’re keeping well.
  11. Yes Tony. I was at Foxhill Junior School at the same time as you. I can remember a lot of names in class, as I remember yours. A few boys names were, David Hetherington, David Badger, Steven Buck and David Scholey. Some of the girls were, Patricia Cowluck, Patricia Burns and the Brearley twins, Christine and Ann. I could go on with many more and I have early class photographs. My name is John Gill and I hope you’re keeping well Tony. I left Meynell in May 1963 to go to Hartley Brook School as we ‘flitted’ to Shiregreen.
  12. Hello Zakes, my father drove Neville Watts’ van in the early fifties. I see that you worked there yourself and would be delighted to know the make of the van and the colour, to satisfy my nostalgia. I was very young and my memory is unclear, but I seem to remember that the van was cream coloured in the top half and orange in the bottom half with mid-brown coloured mudguards. Can you (or anyone) help.
  13. I’m wanting to contact Gary Parker the son of Barry Parker who used to run this haulage company, (formerly of Malin Bridge) which, I believe, folded in the early nineties. Can anyone out there help?
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