RobinLondon

I have contacted my sisters and the brother but they are unable to remember anything more about your family. Sorry.

I will email my two sisters and my brother they may remember things. I also suggest you make contact with a lady on this site who lived above Mrs Laws shop on Greaves street and who talks on this site on the subject of greaves Street. On here she goes by the name of skippermoomo

I am the youngest of 4 siblings. We all lived on Greaves street. I am the youngest and was born at 116 in 1948 and left there about 1961. None of us know of a Bramall family but do slightly remember a Brammer family.

That's correct about throwing money out of the window......................poor women.

When I think about it I have got Bramhalls name mixed up with Palmer. Now I feel sure the house next to the Parazone shop was Mrs Palmers. And now though I remember the surname of Bramhall I cannot remember where in Greaves street the family lived.

Yes I do remember Mrs Bramall and playing in her house. One of her neighbours or perhaps it was the Bramhalls had a big black dog called Peggy which would lay on the pavement in the hot weather and would not move to allow people to walk round it. Now the Parazone shop was I think the Keatons who had a son my age called Barry. The bleach bottles had a label depicting a large black woman wearing a turban & smiling while hanging out washing. We kids called her "The Ozone Lady." The yard by us that you mention was the Smiths and the Chamberlains. I remember a joiner called Eric who had a workshop in there but don't know his surname. Looking back he must have been the only adult we called by the christian name. Yes coffins were made there and my sister Molly played in them. That yard had a horse trough and numerous stables from when there were no or very few cars and lorrys. I spent goodness how many hours down the years playing in there. A neighbour of yours would have been the Potts. Even to me as a child Mrs Potts looked thin and gaunt as though undernourished. I remember they used candles when they couldn't afford to put a penny in the electric meter.

So that was just below Bentleys corner shop. Were there some very old cottages there with pitch roofs. Probably one up and one down and possibly back to backs?

I'm Robert Bloomfield and played with your Trevor sometimes. Was 136 a back to back like 116 was? I remember many of the family names you mention. Hallams kept coal in the bath in their slop kitchen. You have missed Wrights shop off your list it was opposite Bentleys. I remember Beatie Hogg and being told off if you asked for mushy peas and hadn't brought your own basin or indeed newspaper. Do you remember my brother Richard and sisters Molly and Frances? We were all sent to Morley Street school because it was too far to return home at dinner time as my mother didn't want the bother of feeding us. I Google Earth Greaves Street recently but it is so changed now I cannot make sense of the pictures, I have lived in London for over 30years but I'm still a little Sheffielder. Please remember me to your Trevor.

I was born at 116 greaves street in 1948 and left when a teenager but dont remember a Mrs Sharpe.