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Hi, you left PHS before me but the names you mentioned all ring a bell as most Tinsley people knew who lived in the village. (as it was called back then) I found this site by accident and the Park House thread caught my attention, I haven't given my old school much thought for thirty years but seeing all the names reminded me like it was yesterday, I hope some of your friends reply on here soon.

My Mom was a pea picker at Batchelors her first husband had just died and she needed to bring up her young daughter alone. Her name at that time was Marion Cuckson (nee Brace). I am not sure of the exact year but I do have a black and white faded photograph of all the Batchelors girls wearing coveralls, white shirts and white turbans, stood or sitting in rows on the kerb out side the factory in the sunshine. It looks late 1940s - early 1950s. She later remarried and had me, I can remember her doing the washing or house work and singing "A Batchelors Girl am I " I don't know if it was a popular tune of the time adapted to fit or a factory song made up within the works at the time.

Hi, sorry those two names don't ring any bells as I left PHS in 1973 but I do remember Jean Maskery and her friend Jean with the round glasses and Alan Ball as mentioned in an earlier posting along with Ian Watson, Kevin Copland, Gary Hudson and his younger brother Phillip, Henry Stojack and all the Kitchen brothers and Kay Mr Cliff once gave a friend and I the cane for fighting in the play ground, we actually was playing at " Kung Fu " but we got the cane anyway just in case As kids we got the job of delivering vouchers for one free drink of coffee at the "Marden Coffee Bar" rather than deliver them to all the houses in Tinsley we sent most down the canal but sold the rest of vouchers to the other school pupils. The coffee bar was inundated with school kids getting free coffee every lunch time for weeks, once we got the beverage we legged it three doors up to the chippy for a bag of chips to go with it. (Sorry Mr Marden)

" Put big light on" (the one that hung from a cord int middle ut "front room" that was never used unless you had "Proper folk" calling). "Well ill go to top of our stairs"- astonishment. "He's got monk on we thy" - not a happy bunny. " Thall get a lathering that not too old" - teenager pushing dad too far at tea time. "Shut thy cakeole -shurrup "- same teenager pushing mom too far at tea time. "Gu tut top shop fawme" - Run an errand to the shops. " Nowt as queer as folk" - odd fellow. "Throws his money away like a man we no arms"- difficult to do "He's a right taiter" - he is an idiot "Hes a daft apeth" - same chap as above "Tha needs a good fettling" - dirty boy in need of a bath "Sharnt tellthy again"- Last words before dad clips afore mention teenager "Gi thy mother yur keep" -once working a payment to mother for cooking and cleaning etc.

I was a bus driver for the SYPTE and my wife was a clippy ( conductress ) very politically incorrect now, bus conducting person. The bus inspectors had a signing in office in the hole in the road for drivers picking up the afternoon shift on the 24 and 71 routes. A day off overtime duty was to "sit spare int ol int road". Sitting spare was waiting to see if a driver turned up for his afternoon shift. If he didn't you took his bus out, if he arrived later you could choose to continue his shift or hand the bus back to him depending what time his duty finished. A spare driver was on doube time - day off rate, so the inspectors would send him home at 21.00 hrs. But a duty could finish with the whistle bus out of the High Street or Ponds Street bus station which was a good earner. I spent many a afternoon sitting spare int ol int road.

As a lad I lived in Tinsley and attended Park House School and left in 1973. I not only remember the teachers mentioned in earlier postings but remember a lot of the lads and lasses that attended back then. Girls: Christine Dunn, Angela Garett, Tina Hatfield, Carol Simpson, Dinusha Deslavage, Gulnar Sieade, Susan Thurston, Beverly Unwin to name a few. Boys: Conrad Kokoski, Gary Booker, Peter Hobbs, Ian Bluff, Alan Knight, Gary Wood, Gary Smith, Robert Brown, Robert Summerbell, Robert Kitchen, Edward Kitchen, Steven Smith, Alan Rafferty, Gary Suiter, Robert Scarrett, Alan Brown, Alan Cane and another Polish lad, who escapes my recall for the moment. (sorry) The school houses consisted of Sheffield park names, Richmond, Longley,Weston and Concorde. Football kit was Yellow, Green, Blue and Red depending which house you was put in. I moved away but continued to travel to school by bus. Later I would visit on a Lambretta scooter to keep in touch, Tinsley lads had scooters but one lad Gary Booker had a 125cc Suzuki GT it was faster than any of us. Tinsley was a great place to grow up, with Sheffield to the right, Rotherham to the left, it was great to play 5 a side on the local rec or Plumpers roundabout island !!!. Anyone remember the "Marden Coffee Bar" at lunch times ? I have not lived in Yorkshire for 35 years but I still remember Tinsley and smile.