GOLDEN OLDIE

Thanks to everyone!!!

Thanks Ghozer. The update part is what I can't grasp!!! Do you have any tips to get me started??!!!!

Was it St.Agathas Mother and Baby Home? There is a link, if not on here. on Sheffield History Chat.

My computer is telling me that I need to update from Windows 8.1 to 10?? Please help!!! It seems I can't view my One Drive files until I do!!!

I thought it was great fun!!! So dreadful that it was compelling viewing!!! Just don't know how they got away with it!!!

Thanks everyone!!!

Could anyone with an old Kelly directory please print the shops on both sides of the road from the bottom where it joins Firth Park Road, in the late 1950s. Would be very gratefulful!!!

Anyone remember a pub/restaurant at the back of the City Hall where, for a short time I think, you could cook your own pieces of steak at your table? Bit like a fondue!! Was it the Red Lion???

Can anyone remember self catering holidays at Pontins in the 1970s and what they cost?

It seems that there was an low budget advert in the 70s for a furniture store called Williams. It was a South Yorkshire store. It featured a guy dressed in a green leotard. The slogan was 'As you walk through the door, your pounds worth more!' Does anyone remember this?

Does anyone remember watching the adverts for holidays that appeared on our television screens each Boxing Day? I think they were followed by sofa ads!! Can't remember if they were the 60s or 70s?

Thanks Mike G!!! For details please contact me on monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com or google Monica Mary Morton for the launch articles in the Sheffield Star!! (Not too early to think about Christmas presents!)

There were not many good memories of De La Salle College run by the Christian Brothers. (Known as the Christian Buggers) One of the brothers was nicknamed The Silent Assasin! There is a link I believe on this forum.

You were supposed to. It was the only girls Catholic grammar school in the Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham area, but well off parents paid for their girls to go there, even if not Catholic. Therefore it cut down the number of girls who had actually passed the Eleven Plus and could go. Tell me about it!!! My sister and I did manage to get places. That is one thing I have written about in the book.

Mike G. How wonderful, when tootling through the recent pages, to see you are reading my book 'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets - Growing Up in 1950s Sheffield' If anyone is interested google Monica Mary Morton (my maiden name) and read the launch reviews in the Sheffield Star. Of course most of you!! may be far too young to remember the 1950s, but you may have a relative who does!! Could be a good Christmas present idea!!!! (monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com for details) Monica xx

Notre Dame when I attended it in the 1950s was very different from how it is today. We were an all girls school, no male teachers and many teachers who were nuns. The selection process of the Eleven-Plus was an unfair system. If many of the pupils hadn't had places at school bought for them and many being non-Catholic anyway, there would have been many more opportunities for working class children to have obtained a place at grammar school. My book 'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets - Growing Up in 1950s Sheffield' has a very interesting chapter on Notre Dame, especially the sex education (or lack of!) The bottle green knickers were our gym knickers!!!! Other grammar schools had various colours!!! email me on monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com for details of the book.

My recently published book 'BOTTLE GREEN KNICKERS WITH POCKETS - GROWING UP IN 1950S SHEFFIELD' mentions the days out we had in those days. A circular bus journey to Rivelin Post Office, a whole days adventure to Millhouses Park, taking sandwiches and a bottle of pop, walking through the Brook from Sheffield Lane Top to Ecclesfield to the garden at Hulleys Ice Cream Factory, and of course Longley Park Open Air Swimming Pool!!! Google Monica Mary Morton (my maiden name) for the launch articles in Sheffield Star. I am distributing from home and the book is selling very well as presents for my generation who remember the 50s!!!!!

Anyone who remembers the 50s - even vaguely! may find my book interesting! 'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets - Growing up in 1950s Sheffield' Growing up at Sheffield Lane Top, Mum shopping at Firth Park, the , then, elegant Sheffield City Centre, El Mambo and the City Ballroom, buying a shillings worth of broken biscuits, primary school and those school dinners, playing out on the street, day trips to Rivelin and Millhouses, the rag and bone man and chimney sweep!!!! So much more!!!! (And those bottle green gym knickers!) Its selling very well and I think t will make a great Christmas present for the older generation!! email me on monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com for details!!!

Thankyou so much Zaci!!

Could any really kind person with an old Kellys Directory find an address for me? Certainly before 1960s. The names were Thomas and Maude Fenton and it was one of the last houses on Barnsley Road on the right hand side before the fields started? Would be so grateful!!!!

Having my book published 'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets - Growing up in 1950s Sheffield' has been a voyage of discovery!! Especially with a whole chapter devoted to the Notre Dame High School of that time!!! I have been contacted by so many people to include Deidre Hodges (as was) Head Girl in the 1950s and with a fascinating story of her own to tell. Her sister Prue was in my class. To answer 'Pattricias' query. No, you did not have to pass the Eleven Plus to go towhat was the only Catholic Girls Grammar School in Sheffield and district. A bone of contention for me as there were relatively few girls passing the Eleven Plus, certainly from my school, and many girls whose parents were well off enough to pay for their education there. Todays selection processes are much more fair. monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com

I have just had a book published called 'Bottle Green Knickers with Pockets - Growing up in 1950s Sheffield' I have read the post with interest as I have a whole chapter devoted to Notre Dame between 1952 - 1959 when I was there. Yes, I remember Elizabeth Gormley, Miss Jowett who taught us some of the most weird sex education anyone could wish for!! We learnt more about sex from Susan Johnstone who had a boyfriend who was a medical student! She brought some of his physiology books to school. It was the first time we had seen a naked man!!! Mrs Linstead was an excellent English teacher, Mrs Chapelle was very large and Mrs Hickey was lovely!! My book has pictures of some of the girls to include Pat Coyne, Andrea Wright, Ann Emmett, Angela Bailey? Even if you are too young to remember the 50s, you may have parents or grandparents who do and it would make a lovely present! For details contact me on - monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com

Helen Skelton has to be the most annoying presenter on television!! It used to be a lovely, simple little programme featuring Cannon Hall Farm and the owners, with lots of animals to coo over!!! Now its been altered from its original format and they have spoilt it!!!

There will be so many of you who will remember bottle green knickers with pockets!!!!!! So, I have just published my first book - 'Bottle Green Knickers with Pockets - Growing up in 1950s Sheffield' I have put a photo of it on the forum if you look for the link!!! I'm sure many of you, or your parents or grandparents!!would enjoy a journey through nostalgia!!! Contact me on - monica.dyson42@btopenworld.comfor details!!

Yes, have done. So far so good!! Thanks to you all!!!!