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The headteacher when I started there in 1953 was Mr Aizelwood. Mr Darley came later. Mr Edwards was my form teacher in J3 ad J4 - he became headteacher at Owler Lane. Steven Garbutt was in my year. he lived on Little London Road. Raymond Oakley and Mick Grant are a couple of years younger. I chat with Mick on FB.

Hi Brian, of course I know Keith Fairfax and John Fairfax. Keith lives now on Warminster Road. He was my neighbour for thirty years.

Your nickname fooled me big time there MG. Give Kevin my very best regards. I hope to speak to him soon.

Hi, maybe you know me, Chooling? Aizelwoods was the painter and decorators at the corner of Derbyshire Lane and Cliffefield Road. Chris Sanderson's dad ran a motor body paint shop opposite Genn, the Butchers, on Derbyshire Lane. The house was in the yard at the junction of Derbyshire Lane and Norton Lees Road. Kevin Battersby used to be a good friend, even though he was in, Clive Morgan, my brother's class at Meersbrook Bank - the year below me. Please send me Kevin's email/phone number if you can. I have tried to contact him without success previously. Best regards, SAM

Hi recall the Howsons. I correspond regularly with Tony Jepson and his wife, Jean. Tony Strange died when he was 19. He lived opposite me when I was a youngster. ---------- Post added 14-12-2015 at 20:14 ---------- Brian J, are you Marjorie J's brother? ---------- Post added 14-12-2015 at 20:15 ---------- Brian Godfrey lives in St Tropez in South of France.

I am very sorry indeed to hear this news. I remember Chris as a teenager

The only time I worked for Midland Bank was as a vendor providing training in employment law in the 1990s. Maybe I know you from the time you lived on Dykes Hall Road. I lived on Wisewood Lane for three years in the early 1970s. :-)

Thank you for the message. By the way, when I see your photo, Hillsbro, I feel that I know you from a different existence. Did you ever work at BISRA?

Hello Hillsboro - I have spoken with my cousin - I showed her the map for which you had provided the link - she pointed out Birley Mount - it is the large house almost in the centre of the map provided - access was along its own drive (a letter P label is alongside the driveway) - Birley Mount itself is the rectangular building to the left of and adjacent to the letter "B" of the words Birley Mount - Can you open the following link which shows the house, drive and garden as described by my cousin using your map? https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/eddff538-a49c-4c8e-9859-544a4cbebfa3

It sounds as though you were all abused as children. You may well be able to get compensation for the abuse.

That's interesting. I had no prior knowledge of that. Most for the thread is about 1957 - 1959 so we were ignorant of that fact.

No, I agree with you fatrajah, I don't know any other schools than Carrfield and MB in that locality ---------- Post added 23-07-2015 at 21:33 ---------- The prefab buildings in MB park were the health clinic

Hi, what year was that? I don't recall a St Wilfrid's on Meersbrook Park Road

John Coulson from Pearson Place went to Carrfield School not MB. Linda Railton, Harry Lomas, Stan Seggar and Steven Hardwick were in my class (we left in 1959) ---------- Post added 21-07-2015 at 19:04 ---------- Sorry to hear about Martin Tricklebank. Bryan Seggar's sister Lynne, who now lives in Dronfield Woodhouse, told me about Bryan some years ago. ---------- Post added 21-07-2015 at 19:10 ---------- Martin lived on Cliffe View Road next to the entrance to Meersbrook Park when he was at school. I recall that he went out with Margaret Jenkinson at some time in the 60s. ---------- Post added 22-07-2015 at 13:06 ---------- I recalled last evening that David Jepson was in my class (left 1959). David died when he was about 19 or 20 years old in hospital due to what his family feel was medical negligence. David's brother Vincent was in the year above me. I am in touch with older brother Tony, who lives at Middlewood, who also went to MB. Tony's now about 74 years of age. I am in touch with Melvyn Goddard, who is a couple of years older than me. Melvyn lives now in St Tropez. We both passed the 11+ and went to Rawlinson Thinking of Martin Tricklelbank reminded me that John Fairfax was in the year above me and Keith Fairfax was the year below me. Keith lives on Warminster Road (opposite to where I lived with my first wife). John Crossland was a big mate of John Fairfax and Martin Tricklebank.

Hello Joan, I have just seen this post. i hope that you are well. it's a while since we last corresponded. I am living in Swansea with my second wife, Galina. Clive has not spoken to me since Adrian died in 2009. As you know I too went to MB school (1953 - 1959). I recall a lot of the names mentioned earlier in this thread. Raymond Oakley was a big mate of my brother, Clive. In my year, there was Tony Gardner, Andrew Jordan, John Taylor, Susan Heeley, Christine Castrey, Susan Aspinall, Steven Garbutt, John Everitt (who went on to King Edward VII), Stevan Hardwick, Stan Seggar, Karen Jerzynski, Geoff Torr (who died in 2009), a girl called Francis, Ann Jones, Kathrine Milner, Stuart Hukin (who still trades from his parents premises at 25 Thirwell Road), and Susan Pryke, amongst others. Rosemary Peacock who was in Clive's (your) year married my friend Jim Voss - they live near Wetherby. i hope to see them again later this year. Also, in your class was Ann Ingham, Kevin Battersby, and Andrea Small. My first wife, Val Thorpe, was in the year above me. I think that in her class was Melanie Pringle, Pamela May, Helen Needham, Margaret Stafford, Christine Byrne (nee Wragg), Shirley Damms, Margaret Orwin (nee Jenkinson), June Housley (nee Spotswood), Elaine Perry (later of dancing school fame), and Ian McGowan. ---------- Post added 21-07-2015 at 15:22 ---------- Clive had a bad temper as a child and his motorcycle accident on Shoreham Street left him with physical and mental issues. He suffers from multi-mini-strokes and this caused him to take early retirement quite a few years ago. ---------- Post added 21-07-2015 at 15:34 ---------- Hi MG, I think that John Everitt and me were punished for dropping you in a puddle in the playground after you and, my brother, Clive had been teasing us. i think that we only wanted to make you think that we were going to drop you, but I recall that you struggled and we could not hold on. Is it too late for me to apologise? I am sorry that Clive didn't recognise you when he was working in that radiator repairers. He had taken a job as an apprentice at Laycocks and because the money wasn't good he left to take the dead end job repairing radiators. He met his wife, Sheila, there. As i recall it you were big mates with Clive at MB school. Clive's health is not good and he won't speak to me since my younger brother, Adrian, died in 2009. Since reading your thread i cannot stop thinking about newspaper delivery. Did you deliver newspapers as a teenager? Other than that I cannot think why "newspapers" have come into my mind. ---------- Post added 21-07-2015 at 15:41 ---------- I recall Linda Roper. I think she was in my class. ---------- Post added 21-07-2015 at 15:46 ---------- Chris Sanderson lived at the junction of Norton Lees Road and Derbyshire Lane. His dad ran the body shop on Derbyshire Lane. He had an older sister, who had nice blond hair. Graydon Timm, Kathy's brother, passed the 11+ (as i did) and went to Rowlinson (as i did). Graydon lives near me here in Swansea. He is a retired University Lecturer - he did well in his career. ---------- Post added 21-07-2015 at 16:46 ---------- Quite a few of the people mentioned in this thread are on Friends Reunited. Ray Oakley, Joan K and Mick G for example. There are some interesting photos on that site too. http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk Kevin Battersby and Ray Oakley are also on FB

The Birley Mount Cottage was apparently in the grounds of the main house known as Birley Mount. My cousin, Mollie (b 20 Aug 1918), who visited her grandparents as a youngster, told me that the Mount was huge (intimidating) house. She recalled that it was a mansion. She was born on Leppings Lane opposite the Forge.

Thank you very much for the two photographs and map, Hillsboro. I am coming to the conclusion that James Hill lived at/and worked Gate farm and continued to work as corn miller at Attercliffe Windmill. Have you been able to find anything about Birley Mount. Apparently it was an imposing house - I met a cousin who had been there as a girl. I have found its location on an old map, but I still don't know what it looked like.

Hello Mary. I thought that only the Allen brothers worked in the forge. Are you an Allen. What was your dad's name? ---------- Post added 11-07-2015 at 18:18 ---------- Hello stpetre. Yes JC Allen's forge (The Wadsley Forge), which my grandfather Charlie Allen managed, was on Leppings Lane, where Law Brothers garage is today

Does anyone have any information to add to the following: My grandfather was Charles Edmund Allen (1889 - 1954). He and his brothers owned and ran the Wadsley Forge (aka J C Allen's Forge). Prior to 1924, the forge had been owned by Charles father, Joseph Clifton Allen (1858 - 1924). JC Allen died at home, Birley Mount, Wadsley Bridge, six months after the death of his wife, Sarah Helen (nee Hill) (1859 - 1924), had died. JC Allen is listed as owner of Bruce Works, Mowbray Street (111 Vale Road), in 1905. Recorded in: Whites Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham. Charles and wife, Alice Allen (nee Allen) (1893 - 1979), lived at 53 Carlton Road, S6. Prior to moving to Birley Mount JC Allen had lived at 14 Carlton Road, S6. Sarah Helen was the daughter of James Hill (1817 - 1886), corn miller of the Attercliffe Windmill, which was built near to the present day Amberley Street. James was the son of Cllr George Hill (1787 - 1858), who was elected with 90 votes to the inaugural Sheffield Town Council. George had moved at the beginning of the 1800s, from Ouston Ferry in north Lincolnshire, where he was born, to settle in the village of Attercliffe, which was rich farmland at that time. George's Son, James Hill, appears to have moved later to "Gate, Wortley, Oughtibridge (1881 census)" to run a corn mill there, although the 19th century records are ambiguous on that matter, and I cannot find any trace of a windmill at Gate "farm?". But this does seem feasible as members of the next generations are recorded as living in Bradfield and Wadsley Bridge The Attercliffe windmill (of which I have some pictures circa 1920) was dismantled in the 1930s (probably as a result of a fire). I have letters dated 1840 and 1841 between James and George, when James was on a tour of UK to improve his education and life experiences - on arriving back at Sheffield Victoria Station (bottom of the Wicker) it seems that James proposed to walk home to the windmill at Amberley Street. By the way, the Attecliffe windmill had 10 acres of fields going down to the Don, where the family ran the ferry (before the Janson St bridge was built). James Hill's brother was Ernest Hill (1834 - 1917), who married Sarah (nee Styring) (1841 - 1941). Ernest started the firm called Ernest H Hill Ltd (aka NestHill), which still manufacturers air pumps today; and the Sheffield Motor Company, the first car distributors and garage in Sheffield. Ernest worked with a Scottish born Dublin based veterinary surgeon, called John Boyd Dunlop (1840 - 1921), and helped to develop the very first reliable pneumatic tyre. NestHill developed the very first effective pneumatic pump to inflate bicycle and car tyres.

Yes, Parkers was the name. Correct. Well done for reminding me. I can sleep well tonight now

In the 1950 and 1960s, when I was a child, my grandparents used to buy me and my brothers new clothes from a Gents outfitters in Hillsborough. The shop was opposite Woolworth's shop. I can visualise it but I cannot recall the name. Does anyone recall this shop?