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Hi Alan. So good to hear from you! If you would shoot me an email I'll communicate with you in that manner. My email address is: sequencerman2005@yahoo.com.au Hope to hear from you! Rod

Hi Graham. I DO remember you, rather vaguely but it's starting to come back to me. We were in the same cottage (#9) at the same time under the care of Miss Bower. We also attended the same school, Crookes Endowed. I was Rodney Fearnehough. Would you respond ASAP?

Thanks Sue. You're right. The Platters performed their concert at the Sheffield City Hall on 14 March 1957. My God, that's almost 64 years ago! How can that be? I'm only 46! Anyway, to get serious, the article in the Sheffield Star regarding the stolen shoe would have appeared the following day, 15 March 1957. So, I can actually pinpoint the exact date! The problem is, I live in Townsville, Australia. Is there anyone from Sheffield who could offer any suggestions as to how I could obtain a copy of that newspaper item? Thanks in advance.

Hi joep. Yep, it's been 14 years since I initiated this thread but I do drop in to the forum periodically. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the names you give above. Perhaps if Skippy is still around he may know. Keep in touch.

Hi David. Your name sounds very familiar. I wonder if we knew each other? The name of the 4th house was Arden ...another forest.

Hi Susie. The Platters Tour WOULD have been in 1957 because I was still at school at the time and showed off the lifted shoe of the Platter to my schoolmates. I left school the end of the 1957 school term so it couldn't have been 1959 or 1960. Did you find the actual tour schedule for the Platters' 1957 Tour? Anyway, thanks for the post.

The Everly Brothers, 16 April 1960. Not 'amazing' or 'mind-blowing' or any of the other superlatives used here for the exaggerated head-banging stuff that has turned so many people on. Just two guys - Don and Phil - and their backing band - members of Buddy Holly's Crickets - with, if I recall, on-stage plug-in amps, singing some beautiful ballads in their two-part harmony and also belting out some GENUINE 1950's Rock and Roll!

Hi. Are there any former pupils still alive (😉) who attended Crookes Endowed School? I was a kid from Fulwood Cottage Homes who, along with a few others, was 'bussed' to the school every week day morning and returned in the afternoon to FCH. I left Crookes Endowed in 1958. Some of the teachers I remember were Mr. Shaw, Miss Ramsden, Mr. Grant and the headmaster, Mr. Glossop. Anyway, I'd love to hear from you.

I notice that after my above post on March 20 this thread came to a grinding halt. Was it something I said? 😟

I was the apprentice to Jones and Robey Auto Trimmers. We would get regular auto upholstery work from Kennings. That would have been around 1958-1960.

Thanks. I'll see how this goes first. The daughter of Clive Richards, Michelle, responded to my similar initial post several years ago but I didn't participate in the forum again until some years later. Had I responded pretty much immediately to her post I would now have had contact with Clive for about 5 years. It's most frustrating and I'm hopeful that Michelle (or 'Mish' as per her screen name) will venture on to the forum again. She only submitted one post ...the being to my inquiry back in 2012.

Hi. It's been several years since I put out feelers for a couple of old friends from the 1950's. I had no success then but perhaps I will now. The first is Ernest Hill who was my house-brother in Cottage #9 in Fulwood Cottage Homes during the early 1950's. Then there is Clive Richards who I pall'd around with post-FCH (circa 1957) in and around the Conduit Road area of Crookes. A few years ago it would appear that the daughter of Clive responded to my initial post on this forum. Unfortunately, I was not made aware of this post until some time later and by that time I had missed the opportunity for a further response from her. Drat! Anyway, should anyone be able to supply me with any information regarding these two names, please respond to this post. Thanks!

Hello World My goodness, it's been 14 years since I initiated this thread. I'm the boy who stole the Platters shoe and I'm still around to talk about it. I never did find the newspaper item of this incident ...not that I've really gone out of my way to do so. I guess I've mainly bumped up this thread to let others know that I'm still around and did, in fact, recently team up with 4 other musicians to form a band. Someone once said, "You never grow old with Rock and Roll" and perhaps there is some merit in that quote. I also organize a music group (the Millennium Singers) each year to perform public Christmas events in my adopted home city, Townsville, QLD, Australia, where I've resided since late 1989. The members of the group are not necessarily professional (some are 'semi') but they simply have a desire to sing. I've organized this group (in one form or another) for the past 18 years. Actually, here's a video montage of the group in action from Christmas 2018 at the Gregory Street Amphitheater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRwxC_GNVM The guy on the far right is the kid who stole the Platters shoe and is also a former pupil of Crookes Endowed School.. Anyway, should anyone care to reminisce about the old City Hall days and the visiting celebrities to that venue - or even to offer any updates on this thread title if that's possible - please feel free to do so. Cheers. Rod

Hi. I'm wondering if my contributing to this thread will bump it up to the top of the pile. If so, is anyone that I've associated with in the past 10 years or so still around and willing to share their FCH memories?

While I'm aware that several threads on this particular topic have previously been initiated, I've been gone from the forum for pretty close to a decade (besides a brief visit back in 2017) and am wondering if anyone from 'the homes' is still around to share their FCH experiences? I spent several years in Cottage #9 with Miss Bower as the House Mother. Kids that I recall as 'house brothers' were Graham Hanson, Ernest Hill, Roger Bradbury, Tony and David Wales, Norman Meltzer, George Archer and Kenneth Bolton. Hearing from - or even about - any of these 'kids' would be great. That should do it for now. Meanwhile, does anyone have anything to share about their tenure in Fulwood Cottage Homes?