lindy

Hi Sheshe - I went to Grange Grammar School from 1959 to 1962 when we move to Frecheville and I went to Thornbridge Grammar. I remember that Grange Grammar school seemed quite strict but I enjoyed it.

Hello Texas - my dad, uncle and grandfather all worked at Jessop Savill on Brightside Lane. My grandad had a framed certificate on the wall when I was a little girl to say that he had worked 50 yrs there!! My dad worked there from aroung 1940 until he died in 1966 aged 44 yrs!!.

Hi rmcmum - I went to Hunters Bar from 1953 so I am a few years older than you, but I remember Mr Wigglestone, but not Mr Gadd. I remember a Miss Padley in the infant school. I thought she was lovely. Was your house about opposite Endcliffe Methodist Church? We were at the bottom of Neill Rd below Hickmott Road.

Hi rmcmum - I lived on Neill Road from 1948 to 1962 and went to Hunters Bar School. We lived at no. 27.

My grandparents lived on Wincobank Lane, Annie and John Wood, next door to Mrs Timmins. My other grandma worked at the Firth Park Hotel even when she was in her 70s. She was unfortunately knocked down by a car on Owler Lane and killed around 1964. My cousins lived on Popple Street, Mavis and Noreen Brown. They all attended the Chapel on Upwell Street.

Thanks Gaye - I have made a note of the date. Lindy

Gaye - I went to Hunters Bar school in the 50s and would love to be invited to a reunion.

Hi, thanks Greybeard and Trever, those photos of the cottages brought back a lot of memories.

Hi, I moved from Sheffield (Gleadless) to Tankersley, just off jct 36 4 years ago and I love it. Its quite rural, loads of birds and wildlife and people are friendly.

Yes, thats right, the Timmins on Wincobank Lane had a son, John and a daughter, but I can't remember her name. Its his parents I remember as they were friends of my grandma and grandad, but they were quite old when I was a little girl in the 1950s. There was also a church on Wincobank Lane, just below where gran lived and she used to take me to the shows they put on there. I remember seeing women doing the can can. I had never seen anything like that before!! Towards the bottom of Wincobank Lane there was a little road with really old cottages and a shop. I think that has all gone now. Does anyone remember these cottaes?

Hi Lololola - my mum didn't have a sister, she was the only one. Her parents were quite old. Mum had a best friend called Renee, who lived on or near Wincobank Lane too.

My father in law, Eric Jones worked there as an electrician until the time of his death in 1975.

My grandma and grandad lived on Wincobank Lane. My brother and I spent a lot of time there in the 50s when we were children. Grandma used to take in lodgers, mostly actors who were at the Little Empire. Grandma and Gdad's name was Annie and John Wood, there was also a Mr and Mrs Timmins in their yard. My mum was Phyllis Wood and she lived there until she got married to my dad, Roy Highfield, who lived on Owler Lane.

Only just read this thread. There was a bakery on Ecclesall Road, opposite the alms houses, called Hadfields, This was in the 1950s. I went to school with Patricia Tory, I think her father was a stone mason or something like that. They always had great slabs of stone at the back of the house.

My dad worked in the steel works and whenever I smell an oily rag kind of smell it reminds me of him when he had just come in from work. The smell of tar on the roads reminds me of when I was a little girl and the weather was like it is today we would sit on the edge of the pavement poking the melted tar with a stick.