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Gone but not forgotten And in case of the Meadow still serving the local community although in a different way It is a shame to see old beautiful pubs standing boarded and falling into ruin The architecture alone is worth saving Ball inn has a beautiful facade as has duke of York and wellington Industry next to meadow is now a house but hardly recognisable as a pub E

Seen ones on picture sheff thanks Was hoping to get older ones When it was bought twenty years or so ago by the church they say outbuildings were used as garages but originally could have been stables Name of Meadow inn suggests coaching inn Apparently a mile sign used to be at the height of a coach further down road towards attetc life which would suggest it was on coaching route Many of stones in garden behind are remnants from these outbuildings ---------- Post added 17-02-2016 at 20:51 ---------- I saw a photo once with landlord standing in doorway surrounded by bunting it was celebrating something but cannot remember what Could have been coronation of Elizabeth but bit due Thunk it was in a book on old sarnall ---------- Post added 17-02-2016 at 20:53 ---------- Sorry about typing Mobile keyboard too small No glasses on to check autocorrect ---------- Post added 17-02-2016 at 22:01 ---------- For any one in darnall and surrounding area who reads this and may be in need of help The place we are talking about is also a foodbank distribution point on Tuesdays and Thursdays and a citizens advice drop in centre on Wednesdays All details on front door Always willing to advise and help those in area and surrounding areas Call in

Can anyone please provide info for us The Meadow Inn Main Road Darnall Anyone got old pics Any idea when built Was it a coaching inn It is now our church Living Waters Christian Fellowship Would love to know more of the buildings history please We have gone from serving spirits to being REFRESHED BY THE SPIRIT Thank you

Well some of comments from likes of Ben Holland ransom Shipley didn't leave much to the imagination Today they would be in so much trouble Many a time Ben Holland blackboard rubber narrowly missed me I think that's why my hair is white today it's the bloody chalk dust ---------- Post added 08-02-2016 at 16:56 ---------- Can't believe I got no comments re the school brass band that played in assembly every Friday from 65 to 70 Thought my off key notes may have raised a few memories ---------- Post added 08-02-2016 at 17:04 ---------- The forum has opened my eyes as what I thought of some of the teachers was also felt and thought by others Can't really say my years at Waltheof were the best times I had The friends I had made up some way I guess and the stuff we got up to I once got pushed through the wall outside Holland classroom by Andy Taylor I went right into void backwards It was only painted board as I remember but it caused a right stink We both got done and had to pay for repairs ---------- Post added 08-02-2016 at 17:14 ---------- If you remember the following people I heard that their profession lived up to their school abilities or not David Keating Doctor Philip Buczko army people trainer Steven hobson prison guard Keith earl male nurse Christine Bennett artist Anyone have any more ---------- Post added 08-02-2016 at 18:02 ---------- Andy Taylor was sailing charter boats round the Caribbean for clients But I know all that's posted is not always true ha ha

I remember a youth club disco thing on barnidiston road Could have been In a church hall or some other building it was called ace of clubs or spades Went with a guy called Lee Evans his parents owned the shop at top of high hazels road Must have been mid 1960 's ---------- Post added 08-02-2016 at 11:11 ---------- Out there does anyone know of any of the old teachers from 1965 to 1970 that taught at Waltheof that still are around There must be some Some may even read these posts to see what we thought of them Wonder if they want to contribute

Don't remember that will look on u tube Thus web thing is clever at times ---------- Post added 07-02-2016 at 12:48 ---------- Is this him steve ---------- Post added 07-02-2016 at 15:26 ---------- Don't assume it is but it's frank white

Thanks for post I just got the record on u tube I love how you love me Magic memories Cheers mate ---------- Post added 07-02-2016 at 11:36 ---------- When we went in pubs it was normally darnall green Or rose and crown Mate lived at back of crown so either easy to stagger from ---------- Post added 07-02-2016 at 11:38 ---------- You will remember the meadow pub on main road That's a church citizens advice centre and a foodbank distribution centre too

That's it you star Jimmy Crawford Got the autograph somewhere I remember it well It's changed a lot but still feels like home in many ways when I visit Thanks for right name Terry 457 Now I might get results from search Do you remember er him opening it I was there inside as my nan worked there

Was on darnall today and remembering old places Anyone remember Carousel coffee bar milky coffee and jukebox Herbalist who sold sasparilla and real licorice Tobacconist where you could get gaulois disque bleu ---------- Post added 05-02-2016 at 22:47 ---------- I remember butcher bentall too and a brill Chinese we used to get savoury rissoles from Also lomas' fish and chips My dad worked on Ronald road after leaving cravens in Knowles betting office as manager ---------- Post added 05-02-2016 at 22:50 ---------- Also really faint memory Laundrette on main road opened by a pop star got his autograph but can't remember name He was sheffield singer not mega famous think Jimmy ? ---------- Post added 05-02-2016 at 22:55 ---------- I know I am prob the old timer of you lot Ha ha I can remember the last tram to run in sheffield Put an old penny in tracks under its wheel outside old castle market Boys brigade run by Mrs Jordan Whit walk round darnall in uniform always out of step too ---------- Post added 06-02-2016 at 10:15 ---------- Waltheof people In the school was that open air bit near library off all the corridors Seem to remember that it was called the quadrangle Did anyone ever go in there In all my five years I never did and cannot remember seeing anyone in there What was it's purpose ---------- Post added 06-02-2016 at 11:42 ---------- If any of the waltheof or darnall people remember bowden woods back in early sixties can they remember the demolished open air swimming pool that used to be in there My mum took me to see it once and I recently saw an old pic of it in a history of darnall book ---------- Post added 06-02-2016 at 14:04 ---------- Am I alone on this site or what I find it through a fluke and I seem to be only one posting stuff Any ex waltheof people out there from 1965 to 1970 Especially those that came in 65 and left in 70 And those from Acres Hill Junior to waltheof especially Been lonely too long Write something ha ha ---------- Post added 06-02-2016 at 17:01 ---------- Anyone from those years still in sheff or darnall area Or did you all move on to new pastures ---------- Post added 07-02-2016 at 11:05 ---------- Singers name who opened laundrette was jimmy bradford Have tried to find out any info but all I am getting is rubbish Nearest is jimmy nails real name is jimmy bradford but he is too young Any recollections You gotta be from darnall over 62 I reckon to remember

Darnex sent u couple of private messages Am still not sure I am doing it right though Just sent one Fri morn around ten twenty Please let me know if you have it Thanks

If u recollect school band every Friday in assembly from 65 to 70 then you will have seen me ha ha But thas all you get Also the road safety champions I mentioned I was captain of team ---------- Post added 04-02-2016 at 22:36 ---------- Darned Hope u got my message Ok Dufflecoat ---------- Post added 04-02-2016 at 22:36 ---------- Darnex Predictive text is a pain ha ha

Thanks for your comments re John He died June 2013 but had been seriously ill for quite a number of years ---------- Post added 04-02-2016 at 18:43 ---------- Have posted reply to you tleaf hope I did it right

I left in July 1970 night nurse and guess as you were in johns year you won't even know me as I was two years older than John and Lynne guess you knew carol burns too My name is Russ Duffy But that I think will mean nothing to you I am glad I heard from you Starting to feel all from that era were not looking at the site Spent much time with John in later years Lynn hunt and Tina both live in Spain and we're friends of us both I will have known you by sight but names never my strong point Some of stuff on this sight news to me but guess I just took bullying from teachers as par for course Despite all that I think it was a good school Do you still live in sheffield area I've just come back after a long time away Thanks for contact It's great to hear from someone ---------- Post added 01-02-2016 at 22:58 ---------- Ps nice nurse Nice tat if it's yours Needle a little scary though ---------- Post added 01-02-2016 at 23:06 ---------- Many people used to float in and out of our music evenings at johns house every night Music was normally pretty heavy stuff from pink floyd king crimson deep purple moody blues yes etc ha ha good times I think ---------- Post added 01-02-2016 at 23:18 ---------- I remember at school that was the description people would give of the tb jab needle Scary ha ha Massive needle with big hooked end ---------- Post added 01-02-2016 at 23:28 ---------- Hope to hear more of your memories nice nurse Would assume you may just be pulling my leg when you said you were quiet and then followed it up with a laugh But I don't know I got into a few scrapes but not as many as some ---------- Post added 02-02-2016 at 15:05 ---------- In 1968 or 1969 waltheof won the all sheffield road safety quiz Quite an achievement as we beat all the top grammer schools to do it Mr Cooper and Pop were over the moon I think it was first time it had been staged too We got a massive trophy Does anyone remember that ---------- Post added 03-02-2016 at 13:25 ---------- Nice nurse who else was in same class as you and John and Tina I may know John had many friends and Tina brought ma y of hers to johns I may recollect some names

Thanks for comments nice- nurse and Steve 32 Did u hang around in johns house during those times you may know me or me you Nice nurse would you happen to be Karen ??, ---------- Post added 30-01-2016 at 21:57 ---------- If u knew John and we're in his class nice nurse what about these Anne shaw Linda shaw Jeanette mc kenzie These are people I remember coming to his house ---------- Post added 30-01-2016 at 22:04 ---------- John was not a well man for many years and not the same person we remember He died a week to the day after my dad and never got to see his granddaughter which his daughter Rebecca had I saw him many times in the last few years and we had great laughs about the old times He never lost his sense of humour even through all his illness Depending on who you are your real names may even been included in our reminiscences Thanks for your comments ---------- Post added 31-01-2016 at 17:06 ---------- Teachers from my era as far as brain cells allow memories Mr Mawson Year one Miss Could well art ? Salt woodwork Curtois science Atlas metalwork Shipley maths Dw smith french H smith geography and history Barnes music Holland tech drawing Ransom pe Others Dale Cooper Marshall Miss Sarson of course And the man J j postletwaite

I knew a Terry Bull as He was head boy in my last year Amazing athlete and trampolinist ---------- Post added 30-01-2016 at 15:06 ---------- I was a couple of years older than John but we all used to go to his house to listen to music We shared same birthday and mates I knew him from him being prob 14 right through to when he passed in 2013 but there was a break when I moved away ---------- Post added 30-01-2016 at 15:07 ---------- I am just 62 John I think would have been 60 ---------- Post added 30-01-2016 at 15:08 ---------- I was a couple of years older than John but we all used to go to his house to listen to music We shared same birthday and mates I knew him from him being prob 14 right through to when he passed in 2013 but there was a break when I moved away ---------- Post added 30-01-2016 at 15:11 ---------- John was famous for being in a band called quinceharmon and they did a record which was title tune to one of the on the buses films I found a copy and framed it for him He told everyone about it It was his five mins of fame ---------- Post added 30-01-2016 at 15:40 ---------- Other people I knew in my year Linda Taylor now sadly passed Hillary gibbs Sharon Taylor Andrew Taylor Susan Highfield David keating Steven buczko Leslie brooks George chambers Charlie coe In johns age group Lynn and Tina hunt whose dad ran darnall working mens club Francis wall Lorna wall Bit older Richard Fletcher Any bells ringing ---------- Post added 30-01-2016 at 16:39 ---------- I knew Keith earl very well He did have many run ins with teachers However He is an amazing christian guy now living down south and working as a male nurse in a mental institute He reformed to being a good guy