bill castle

I attended this school from 1935 to 1941 and remember some of the teachers of this era. Head, Mr Corkhill, Miss's Marsden, Westren. Do any of you remember these days and the times after the Blitz, when we attended classes in private homes?

Hi Hugh. No the graves containing my mother and dad had no standing stone. As a youth, as a member of the church, I carried the cross from church to cemetery and back, for the annual Easter sunday procession. At that time there was a chapel some distance from the gates. It was still there when dad was buried in the 60's. In the winter; with snow on the ground, the coffins were lowed down Waller road on sledges. On one occasion the beares slipped over and the coffin went all the way down into the ginnel. Bill.

Hi Keith so sorry to hear your news. I live in hope that one day I will locate a contempory that I can converse with. Regards Bill.

Hi, I was part of the crew of MMS 1788 which founded in the North sea 1952. We were rescued by the Gorregan and taken to the Firth of Fourth, before landing. Were you on the Gorrigan at this time? Bill.

Hi Keith. If Norman was your uncle, and you left Waller road at the age of seven, in 1954, I should have known your mother, but cannot place her. i never had the ride you describe on your sledge. My main ride was from the top of Tinker lane, down across Bole Hill road, to the gates of the cematory. During the war, water pipes were laid at the road side at the first curve up from Bole hill. So many sledgers failed to take the bend, that the pipes were covered in blood. I had one lucky escape as when I shot across Bole Hill road, I passed under a lorry, as it passed by. Ball games down Waller road were a drag. As you say they went down as far as the Ginnel steps and were often seen no more. Waller road surface in the 30's was composed of large pebles and was not surfaced until later. The milk cart; horse drawn, used to zig zag up the road independent of the milk man, while he holding a large churn, delivered the milk. There were no bottles, and the milk was left in a basin on a shelf in the small porch attached to the back door of our house. I think your grandad's car was a black Jowet Javlin. At the time there were few cars about. A large Austin 12 at the big house Then a SS two door on Bole Hill road near the Pub, which was used as a Wedding car at weekends. What happened to your uncle Norman? Regards Bill.

Morning Keith. I knew the family very well. As a boy Norman and I cycled most days. We joined the 64th Sheffield company Boys Brigade in order to play football. Norman's dad was a File forger and an excellent player of the Trombone. Apart from playing in the Sheffield Sympony, he played in several Brass bands as guest soloist. He obtained a place for Norman and I, with the Darnall Silver Band. I played E flat Horn, Norman Trombone. During the war he obtained a supply of petrol while most cars were laid up for the duration, due to part time work with Sheffield schools, which allowed us to motor to Manchester for a Brass band contest. I remained a close friend with Norman, until I joined the Navy in October 1947. As I remember Norman took up his dad.s trade producing rail files after leaving school at 14. Regards Bill.

The Union workhouse was renamed Nether Edge hostpital where I was born on the 12th. December 1930. Later in 1941, I attended Nether Edge Grammer school, which used what had been the officers of the Workhouse.

The cemetary was in point of fact provided in three parts. Protestent entered via Waller road, Catholic via Rivelin valley road, and little known Jewish entered via a gateway set in the wall, lower down Waller road. As a boy dad took me blackberry collecting in that part. He said that all the best berry's came from that area. Both my mother and father are buried in the lower part of the protestant cemetary, and when I visited in 1990 it was difficult to locate the grave due to overgrowth. Mother was the last intered in 1972.

My family lived in Waller road from the end of WW1 and still live there. As a boy in the 30's I attended Bole Hill primary school, Miss Brient ran the babies class, with Miss Marsden the next in line. Miss Brient informed me that she had taught my brother before me, (he was 19 years my senior). Not the days of the contract teacher. I remember the eleven plus class was run by a Miss Westeren. I passed that year and spent the next five years attending Nether Edge Grammer. Does enyone know the Housley's. Windle's, or Ibbotson's, all lived in Waller road in the 30's - 50's?

When I was a boy in the 1930's Mr Binks used to cut my hair, short all over, with a quif left at the front, to poke out from my cap. Dad told me that Mr Binks learned to cut hair while cutting hair on horses during WW1.

In the 1940's when I attended Nether Edge Grammer, there were eight houses, four modern and four ancient. I was an Angle, colour white.