GlassyGee

Are you going to that gig? Do they still play the old Chuck Berry songs? (His namesake.) I don't know any of the latest singers or songs. I like the "Blues" and even some 'Bluegrass". My iTunes collections are all over the globe, from Nina Simone to early Tom Waits, with some kick-ass Rock 'n Roll in between I've taken a liking to Teddy Thompson so I guess I like some 'country', too. Well, the early rock was based on 'country' and the blues. Enjoy the concert!

Happy to hear that's he's still singing the same old Rock songs.....somebody told me that he'd gone 'Neil Diamond'. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

We were asked to 'cheer' for them at a sort of battle of the bands in Sheffield at one of the cinemas. I'm sure we were still in school so it must have been the early 60's. When Dave & the Cruisers came on, my friend and I stood up and screamed as loud as we could, only to be told to 'sit down & shut up' by the kids in the row in front! Talk about embarrassing. Groupies...we were not. I don't think the band won, they were up against all Sheffield bands (and their fans) like the Gray Cats..Stray Cats? My brother and I went to the City Hall to see Jerry Lee Lewis...mid 60's? Great show. I didn't go to another concert until The Rolling Stones-Steel Wheels Tour in 1989-now that was worth waiting for.

I remember Mrs. Hardy. I think she was a substitute teacher. She certainly wasn't used to teaching senior's judging from the books she handed out; Smudger Smith and Ginger Bates at the Dump? Really, these book belonged in the junior school. When Bob Clarke ran the Beighton Miner's Welfare, Dave (Sugar) Grundy and the band would practice in a room above the club. I remember Frank, Alan Taylor and two more fellas who's names escape me but they could have been the original Cruisers. Pat (Clarke)and I were often invited to watch/hear them practice. We were thrilled. We were lucky to be part of the Sixties music experience- I still Love Rock 'N Roll!

Do you have a sister by the name of Linda?

Nice to meet you Helen. I didn't know your mum & dad had 4 children. Sorry to hear about your dad. I remember him from when I'd go to your auntie Linda's house. I'm not sure how many years between them but 'Jack' was quite a few years older than us. I remember you mum having beautiful red hair, very pretty.

I have a lovely photograph of us 'bridesmaids' at the wedding of Linda & John. Just called your auntie Linda, my best and dearest friend, and I now I know who you are-the lovely little flower girl, Jane! We must all meet up again when I visit the UK in 2012.

Well, well. I was a bridesmaid at your auntie Linda's wedding. Your dad was older than us, but I remember him-and your Mum. They were 'courting' when we were still barley teenagers!

Yes, it's me. It sounds like we were in the same class? I hear from Mick Unwin, occasionally. We were friends on facebook until I opted out. (I got tired of some 'friends' posting their political & religious views-think, The Rapture; and yeah, they're still here!) Mr. Kirk was very nice. Looking back, I'm not proud of the tricks we played on him; like switching on the Tape Recorder, (Reel to Reel) before class. At the start of class, he went to use it and hit the switch then spent the next 15 mins trying to figure out why it wouldn't work. Mr. Head was what they would call 'cool', today. He gave me lots of encouragement in art class-which I ignored, and yes, I regret that too. But, that was the field I went in to, finally. (Graphic Design, not Fine Art.) I saw where Susan Money won an art competition; one of many, I'm sure. She was a very talented artist and a sweet girl. Mrs. Finney, ummm, she was quite mean towards the girls, (or was it just me?). Do you remember the music stands suddenly collapsing in the middle of a percussion class? Mr. Fitz once threw a stick of chalk at me during a History exam. He missed, but he scared the living daylights out of me. June & Eddie are/were involved in the Beighton Historical Society, they have done a lot of hard work in an effort to keep Beighton from looking like a dump. Are you still living in Beighton? Retired?

Yeah, we were lucky to have grown up in a small village, although I didn't realize it at the time-especially when we missed the last bus and had to walk home! Who didn't go to Cleethorpes on the Manvers Queen? (Did I get the name right?) I remember some kids by the name of Cutts. A boy, older than me, gave me a lift home from Swallonest on the back of his motorcycle. I was dressed to kill, high heels, handbag, umbrella and even carrying an extra pair of shoes. I don't remember wearing a helmet-what a sight that must have been! We would stop in the "Oak" after a netball game-oops, I may have been underage... This was when they still had a 'best' room. How is it every fella never forgets the price of a pint? Funeeee!

Sorry, I don't remember a 'Williams' family on Woodhouse lane, we lived on Sothall Green then Grange Road, when I was going to school. Did you know the Purdy's? Michael was in my class, a 'smashing lad', we could always count on him to stall the lesson by asking the teacher a plethora of questions. Mick emigrated to New Zealand, (via Australia, I think). I didn't recognize any of the kids in the Old Beighton Photos, but did see some familiar places, especially the flooded road over the railway tracks. We kids were 'drawn' to floods, all we needed was a pair of 'wellies' and a good excuse as to why we had to go out to play in the rain. The Ochre Dyke was another favourite. My sister actually fell in the swollen Dyke and was heading for a tangle of tree branches backed up at the entrance to a small bridge. The water was already running over the bridge at this point and she could have been trapped among the branches and debris. I ran on ahead of her and grabbed her coat collar as the strong current carried her downstream. Needless to say, mother was livid when we arrived home soaked to the skin. It didn't occur to me at the time, but the river Rother must have been one of the most polluted rivers in the UK! And we used to play in it. Anybody out there with more 'Beighton' adventures?

'ello Mature 5011, I went to school with most of those kids you named. Linda 'Bishop' is still my BF! Beighton was a great place to grow up. Did you attend a 50th reunion in Mosborough? I left the UK in 1967 but try to go 'home' when I can. My mother still lives on Victoria road. Sadly, several old school mates have since passed away; Maureen Turton, Sandra Lancaster and my dear friend Pat Clarke. I don't know hardly anyone anymore and Beighton has changed so much-not for better. Do you remember Mr. Kirk, the geography teacher at Beighton School? I don't know how he survived us! We took every opportunity to disrupt class; he was such a pushover! Now I wish I had paid more attention instead of plotting how to avoid actual school work:( It's nice to see familiar names up here, although we're all in our sixties and becoming more invisible to the younger generation. Are we the 'crinklies' now?

A friend just sent me this site. June, do you remember Jean Gill? She was my little sister and also a good friend of Marilyn Lancaster's. We grew up in Beighton, went to Brookhouse and were a members of the Youth Club. Mr Durham was wonderful, how he tolerated us gobby girls, I don't know. Jean and I were both on the Youth Club Netball Team. Barry Durham and I were in the same class, he was a very nice person and a very good reader!! Hope he's doing well. Umm, Molinaris(sp) Ice Cream...yummy!