seamuscleary

Does anyone know where I can see pictures of the old heeley that I recognise. I can picture where our old house would have been, would love to see our row of terraces again. Ours was the end one with a pink shed at the back of the garden. We were just around the corner from Ann's road school.

Granda used to live in Parsons Cross. He would come to us in Heeley most weekends and us children would take it in turns to sleep with him in the attic room. Our attic room had 3 beds and a skylight. Loved listening to the rain pelting on the skylight at night. He used to bring fruit with him every time he came. He always said to us, i wont have any part in rotting your teeth

The only bad memory i have of Heeley was the day that we left it to go back to essex again. I was broken hearted at leaving, the rest of the family were looking forward to what essex would bring us. As we left Sheffield midland station i knew that we would pass Heeley on our way to london. I sat in a back facing seet so that i could keep Heeley visible for as long as i could. When it went out of site it took me a while to recover, then i knew we had to move on and so i did. I missed sheffield and heeley for a long time. Every time i go to sheffield i take a walk down to heeley and it warms me to remember how things were then. The people of Heeley were very warm and friendly. It was like a community on its own. The Sally Army used to play and sing outside their headquarters frequently. We used to play regularly on the derelict land beside our row of terraces. There was an arch about half way up the terraces for us all to use to get to the back yards and the loos. There was a few children in anns school that i did not get on with at the time. They had a system at lunch time that you had to sit in the same place at the same table for lunch every day. There was this girl who kept on teasing me, one day i opened my mouth to say shut up or i will kill you. the sorriest thing i ever said, from that day on she would always say, well, have you got your knife. I wonder if this girl remembers this, it was a long time ago. She was a lovely looking girl too. Cannot remember her name. I do hope that she is doing well for herself now.

Before we got the house in Heeley we lived with one of our uncles in woodhouse. the other one lived in hillsborough. a third uncle lived in manchester. Anns road primary school at the time was an old victorian building, the school always had a good name, which i believe continues to the present day. The school was massive, when we were there, there was some renovation work going on. For a period of time we were all bussed out to another school to allow the work to be done. I dont know if anyone else remembers this or not. We had seperate entrances and exits for boys and girls then. The new school building must be different now. Its a shame to see that the victorian building that we went to is now disused and attacked by vandals with windows broken. I hope at some stage it will be used again for something. I think we lived in Heeley 1972-1973. Went back to sheffield a while ago and walked the short distance from the midland station down into Heeley. Was good to see it once more. All relatively new houses now. followed anns road around into gleadless road to see if i could remember where the old house was. When i found the road opposite where the house was all the fond memories came back. It had all changed, but in that moment Heeley was the beautiful place it had always been to me.

i remember heeley. did not live there very long, just over a year. Heeley holds many fond memories for me. Hardy's Bakery, The shops under the bridge. Heeley must have been very busy in the 70's as it had four banks and good shops. We rarely had to go into the city. There was a shop just over on the corner opposite the end of anns road. He sold a lot of things for a small shop, cannot remember his name. Our house was an end terrace on gleadless road not far from anns road. It had 3 stories, loved the attick room, it was massive. Then we got a letter from Sheffield Council telling us that all the houses in our section of heeley were being pulled down. I loved that house. The only thing with it was you had to walk carefully in the sitting room as you could have gone through into the cellar. our kitchen was massive. The large steel tub used to hang on the back of the kitchen door and would come down every saturday so we could all bath. Our toilet was at the bottom of yard, alongside all the others. there was a shed at the back of the yard, we loved sliding off the edge of it. My da bought some tar to do the path in the back yard, he hadnt a clue how much to order and got too much, there was enough in the lorry to tarmac the path behind the houses and some of the other yards too. I think the neighbours appreciated it being done. We had great neighbours and on the whole everyone got on well. Used to look after neighbours wee ones even tho i was only 9 myself. Loved living in heeley and never wanted to leave it.