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ECHO BEACH Afraid youve got me there, your memory must be much sharper than mine. I dont recollect either of the two incidents youve mentioned. However, I did move up one year, from the B stream to the A stream so possibly I wasnt around. Like you mentioned regarding your report with Mr Stenton, I also was ****** off with my report. I came top of the class....and almost every comment on the report had comments like "Could do better" "must try harder" etc. Needless to say, my report went into the bin before I got home from school ! Only Mr Sharp gave me any credit whatsoever for my efforts

echo beach, Yes I remember the Chris Fowler incident well but I wasnt there at the time to actually see it. I, m guessing that I was relaxing in the field awaiting your return LAUGHTER No I wasnt on the 99 bus, maybe I wasnt bright enough to think of that one. Cant remember it either, I was there from 1957 to 1961

Ah, nipper7444, Stuart Herriot, yes, I remember your supreme running ability. I was not so keen on that "running lark" so all the time I was at Frecheville I only ever did one cross country run........and its all thanks to you and your fellow greyhounds! After doing the first run I figured out that you and a few others raced off in the lead leaving the rest of us straggling behind, so I figured out that if I gave it everything I could, I would be behind you lot....but well in front of the stragglers so that as I went over the brow of the hill at the top of Fox Lane....I would be out of sight for a few seconds which gave me time to nip into the field on the left side and hide. There I would sit and have a woodbine until you all returned and then pick my chance to rejoin you all, If anyone spotted me, well, I was just having a pee. This strategy served me well until, maybe the third year ( not too sure when) but Stenton put me down for the cross country in the annual school sports, maybe he had cottoned on to my fiddle but I dont think so. Anyway, I tried explaining that I was crap at running but his reasoning was that he knew I never came in first or anything like that but I was never exhausted which he thought meant that I had stamina and staying power, yes, he understood that I was a plodder but if I was to really try he thought I could do well. So, come the big day of the race.....I got my running gear on, five minutes before the off.....I went to the loo......and didnt return until you had all set off, Oh! Damn I, m too late! so at that point I changed back and kept a low profile, nothing more was said about it. I wasnt always alone with the woodbines in the field, cant remember who came with me, possibly it was Fuffer Fox.

Yes jackanne, memory is spot on but please dont ask me what I did last week as I probably wont be able to remember. ---------- Post added 09-12-2013 at 23:28 ---------- MY MEMORIES OF GLEADLESS SHOPS PART TWO To the right of Flemings, as others have already said was what we called the cafe, it was a cafe that also had the best range of sweets in Gleadless and was also one of the few shops that sold ice cream.The cafe bit didnt seem to last for long though.Next door was Huddarts hardware, they also sold wood etc. Not too sure, but I seem to think these two shops were built around the same time as Flemings garage was extended, maybe around 1954 or so. Across the road again, starting with the row of shops at the bottom of Norton Ave......this is where my memory fails me, the top shop was The Meadow, sold a limited selection of groceries but was a good place to buy eggs because they had a box with "EGG HOLES" in the top, when you bought eggs they would stand the eggs on it and switch on a light underneath, this shone through the eggs and they could pick out the bad ones, you used to get quite a few of those then. There was a butchers and a ladies/chijldrens clothing shop on that row but details are wooly, however, other people brighter than me have described these. Austins and Eves sounds about right to me. The bottom shop, nearest to Briarfield was Simpsons fruit and veg with the bit nearest the corner selling fish, as with all fish shops in those days there was nearly always flies hovering over the fish. At the bottom of Briarfield Rd up some steps was the well discussed Stans barbers, someone was asking if the "young man"Jeff was Stans son....If hes the one Im thinking about then no, he wasnt. There was a boy left Frecheville school about 1959 ish and he went to work for Stan, I think he lived on Lister Crescent. Across Briarfield Rd was Artie Elliots post office, he moved there around 1954 give or take a year or so, from the old Gleadless post office which was near the Heeley and Sheffield pub. Next shop was at the bottom of Smithfield Rd, Mrs Roberts groceries. Across Smithfield Rd still on White Lane there was a row of houses, maybe three or four and at the end of the row, set back a few feet and up half a dozen steps was a shop no one seems to have mentioned, it was Battersbys, again, a grocers, he also had a fridge for ice cream. past there was a row of old cottages, I dont know what they were like inside but from the outside they were the nicest houses in Gleadless, they looked really old and I suppose they were possibly the last survivors of Old Gleadless As Derrek has pointed out on the triangle where the toilets are was a wooden hut, the Bug Hut, originally they used to have dances in it( before my time) but then it became a car repair workshop and yes he, s right Easthopes kept the Red Lion and Keens or Keans kept the Old Harrow

Mmmm, well, the shops that I remember are more 50s to 60s but here goes. yes, Nutts milk and the first shop, the chippy was owned by Ron Brown who, I think built some of the houses on Charnock estate, he then sold to ( I think) Lawlers. Next door was Prices, fruit and veg. Next one was Wilkinsons hairdressers, gents on the right and ladies on the left, it was a husband and wife team. Then there was Smiths hardware and at the end of the row was Mary Walkers grocery shop, I think the next owners were called Barthelomew. Over the wall next door was Barkers petrol station and next to that where G T news was/is was plumbs newsagents but it was only a very small shop, the building is now almost double its original size but originally the shop was divided, shop on left hand side and their front living room on the right and a garden with a privet hedge round it stretching about 20 feet towards the road so the shop was full if more than 2 or 3 people went in Between the shop and the gennel was Plumbs garden with a picket fence round it where Mr Plumb used to grow bedding plants to sell in front of the shop. On the other side of the gennel was Beckets grocery, then Woodheads haberdashery and the third shop was Madelys chemist, however, I think this shop used to be Curleys radio shop, I know Derek has previousy posted that he thought that Woodheads was the radio shop and he, s probably right but I dont think so. Now, so far noone seems to have mentioned the cobblers, that was across Ridgeway Rd, on Gleadless Rd, the first building was the cobblers shop but I dont have a clue what his name was, beyond that was an old farmyard and inside the yard in the outbuildings was The Astron Ironworks, they were into welding/ fabricating/blacksmithing. Also near there although not strictly Townend , behind the cobblers was a row of about three old cottages on Victoria row and beyond that was Seagrave nurseries who grew plants etc and then sold them on Sheffield market. Across Gleadless road was, as others have said, the Coop, two seperate shops, grocery on the right and butchery on the left, as has already been said, much of the goods were weighed out into blue bags, sugar, flour currants, sultanas were just a few, butter was weighed out and wrapped in gteaseproof paper. We used to take empty jamjars and sell them back for a penny each but I cant remember what they did with them, I seem to recall treacle being weighed out but cant say for sure,,,,,, it would seem to be a messy process if they did. Anyway, we must have been "posh"at our house because our treacle came in a Tate and Lyles tin. Across Ridgeway Rd again was Flemings petrol station, now, that wouldnt have looked like a great business plan to set up a filling station just after the war, after all, petrol was on ration and on top of that.....nobody could afford a car! but within a few years, everybody seemed to have bought a car and Mrs Fleming was driving around Gleadless doing her shopping in a huge American car, boy, as a schoolboy american cars really had style.....to be continued