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I left the UK in 1971 and possibly shopped at Banners as late as 1969 but even then it was changing but it was after that when the groceries department was installed. I think that floor coverings plus other things? were on the bottom floor (basement) can not remember what was on the ground floor but the 1st floor I think was ladies wear - Gran used to get her corsets and pinnies from there - but apart from that can not remember even where the toys where?

The name Battersby rings a bell - which years was this and what classes were you in - I left in 1962 and my last form class was Mr. Bradbury. There used to be an Art teacher (I think it was Art) but anyway she had long black hair and used to practice singing 'Blue Moon' in a Jazz sort of way at lunch time. There was also a craft teacher who was something like Hungarian and I was useless - he used to look at my work and say 'Oh my dear girl' and shake his head - he had good reason still messy and cannot cut a straight line

Wow Pegaso - who remembers nibbets! Do they still make them. I lived in the yard straight across from the Britnall Street entrace of the Cutlers and the walls there were a favourite play area. the yard had the fish and chip shop as the first builing in it - then a Pakistani family - then Mrs. Gordon's then US! then another house and finally the Parkers. I can not remember any Wilson-learys but which kids really paid attention to surnames then. Are you still in Sheffield? Was over there 18 months ago and drove back from Hull and came off the motorway at Meadowhall as I was low on fuel - only to find I had to drive to Prince of Wales Road on empty - but hey made it. So driving along Attercliffe and Darnell was a real experience - still full of people and I am sure the distances had condensed! :-))

No it was not her - this girl lived on the opposite side of Britnall Street and near the very end away from Britnall street, I cannot remember her name but do know it was not Valerie. So if your Valarie lived next to the telephone exchange she might have know Alf and Edith Walker, their daughter Joan Walker, although she is a bit older then me and may have been married by that stage and living on chapel Lane. On the other side of the telephone exchange would have been the Majors - Brian, Elaine and Marion not sure what order! Thanks Dorothy I am amazed that there were so many of us that I cannot remember names.

Hi there Tangerine - the name does not ring a bell but it should - mind you I knew the people on the part of Titterton that looked out onto the school - remember playing with kids on the left had side, as you go up Britnall Street but no names are coming - God I hate old lady lack of memory!! I remember a girl, perhaps a little older then me and walking with her pushing her baby brother Michael around the block in the pram - thought it was great as I was never allowed to push my baby brother!

Thanks for that - I do have memories of seeing golf clubs etc. in it so perhaps was aware of some golf connection. I would have been about 6 when it turned from a museum so no memories there - great that it has now to become a public building and it suits it'self to a cafe. My grandchildren cannot belive it was was the nearest open area to us used to love going their on our Sunday walks, better then following the Don down from the back of Attercliffe church and coming outsomewhere near Carbrook then walking back up the cliff - thanks for that information.

Ok not sure if this thread is still going but I went to Hatfield House Lane and left in Dec 1962 in the days when you could leave as soon after 15 that a holiday fell. Was in Mr. Bradbury's class in my last year and had been scared of him in the years before we got in his class but he was great. He made you sit boy - girl to stop gossiping (not sure what he did not stop though!). I remember once a friend had left her bag in the aisle and he picked it up and dropped it out of the window onto the terrace below - her bottle of ink smashed and everything was covered! Remember Mr. Jennings too - had him for Geography - he would mark my work well even if every other word was spelt wrong (dyslexia was not heard of then!) and we would play country, county, town and he would give the winner 3d for an icecream at lunch time. The only time he got mad was one day when the class was next door to him and we were waiting for our teacher to get there. A girl walked past and Michael Longley whistled - Jennings came in asking who it was, well he did not own up and no one snitched and he said if they did not own up he would cane all the boys - Michael did not own up, no one snitched and they all got caned! Can you imagine doing that these days! Lots of memories, not all pleasant but the majority were and that is what matters. My two younger brothers went there was well - bused it from the Cliffe. Dorothy Walker nee Sidaway

Kiwi - you sound as old as me! Yes I remember all those things, especially being about 6/7 letting go of the push chair my baby brother was in on the edge of the pond and yes in he went but as you say not too deep so no harm done. I too am in NZ and visited back in 1981 and went up to the park - it was freezing as it was Feb - surprised then to still see the same old buildings but I do not know if they are still there. Also remember one summer there were gypsies - proper ones with the old vans - camping on the fields behind the park. Does anyone know what it was originally, the house fasinated me but as far as I know was never open for anything?

I worked there for a coupl of years and I walked from Worksop Road across to Zion Lane and walked down that way but I think I was going in the back entrance as the lorries (SCOW men) used to come in another gate. I had to work an hour or two each day in the gate house and it was the first time I had heard a Welsh accent - I used to go weak at the knees! Lovely they were.

Thank God someone corrected him - I thought my old lady memory was playing tricks again :-0)

I posted earlier mentioning the Wesleyan Church in Attercliffe but after looking a little further then my nose! I discovered what I was really talking about was the Attercliffe Methodist Mission - took this from my brother's baptism certificate - he was the only one in the family baptised there. So anyone go there, remember it, have photos etc. it fronted onto Attercliffe Road and the back was via Chapel Lane which came off Worksop Road - the frontage was quite grand - surely there is someone out there who remembers it?

Sorry added my name to another thread about Attercliffe or Huntsman Gardens, forgot which - there is so much to answer and look at on this site - just so time consuming! my maiden name was Sidaway and the other names I remember were Parker, Major, Rodgers, Johnson, O'Neil and I know my husband's uncle Alf Walker lived on Titterton Street at the end after the telephone exchange. My brothers are Kenneth and Michael, Ken is still in Sheffield and coming for a visit in a few days. I am finding it hard to remember names of people who went to HG - Brain Cooper I remember but I know he died recently and for some reason I remember Colin Flemming but no idea where he lived - otherwise it is a blank! So if you can jog the old brain that would be good.

Just remembered the family who had the house before Rodgers were name Hodgkinson and one of the boys was named Alan - I have a photo of when I was about 4-5 taken with them when we were on holiday somewhere - no idea how they came to be with us?

Everyone seems to be too early or too late for my time at HG - Hillsbro I have been looking for a photo of the school for a while but came up with the same one you have via Sheffield Library archives - does anyone have one when there were actually pupils there? My maiden name was Sidaway and we lived at 66 Worksop Road in the bottom yard of Britnall Street, in the yard with the fish and chip shop in - I think I am right in thinking it belonged to Hewits, two sisters who were daughters of Mrs. Gordon who lived next door to us. One of them had a daughter who made my wedding dress in 1969. My two brothers went to that school and we all went to Hatfield House Lane after. I remember in the bottom yard were I lived there were a Pakistani family (or similar) next ot the chip shop then Mrs. Gordon then us, then two brothers who's names I cannot remember but they went coarse fishing a lot, then the Parkers at the end - June, Kathleen and Jacquline (she was a bit younger then me but the other two were a fair bit older). Then in the next yard going up Britnall Street and who's yard backed on to ours was Mary Rodgers cannot remember his name but they had a son called Derek, then not sure of the rest of the houses, but the top yard had the first off Britnall Street was the Johnsons, he drove a truck at some stage and she ended up buying the newsagents on Worksop Road, then there was a family again not sure of name, then a Mrs. Hill and then a family called Majors who kept boxer dogs and had two daughters called Marion and Elaine (I think!) they had sons as well one I think called Brian about the same age as me and Elaine but there were some older brothers as well. The house in the top yard fronted on to Titterton Street but there was a telephone exchange that seperated them from other houses and I know there was a girl called Sandra O'Neill - I think? How can I not remember all their names - anyway hopefully someone else may remember

Looks like you have lots of replies to this thread but do remember going to Wigfalls to pay the weekly HP payments with my Dad usually but sometimes I think Mum went - am I also right in thinking they sold other household items in particular thinking of lino? The one we went to was down Attercliffe Road/common (lived there all my young life and still do not know when it swops from one to the other!) going to town on the right past the Stainforth Road Junction. It is a vague memory so must have been in the mid 50's