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anlabystreet

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  1. its now got its own website..the burton street project i think they call it...with old photos of places long gone...all designed to bring a tear to the eye and a gulp to the throat..gulp!!...in fact i can see out house on one of them through all the smoke from the gasworks and andrews toledoers...ahh those were the days..i didnt count sheep at night...i counted the hammer machine knocks at daniel doncasters
  2. you need a lot of money to pick up any of their "bargains"..
  3. about half way down on the left hand side opposite the shop...number 39
  4. burton street school is reached by going up bamforth street..turn right at the chapel...which is now a woodwork shop called donald foxes i think...then turn left..its the school where the full monty was filmed
  5. the instructors name at sutherland road baths was scott
  6. i remember ridgeway and napier...especially ridgeway who loved to embarrass you in front of the class before giving you the slipper just because you made a hash of chopping the wood up wrong in the woodwork lesson...i wouldnt mind but it was ony firewood after i had done with it anyhow..
  7. burton street was the school just past the chapel up bamforth street...you probably went to that one on clubmill road...the hightlight of my week was when my brother pushed me in the barrow to the gasworks to fetch the coke....i can always remember that hissing sound when you went in and how the sulphur would sting your eyes...it was great going in the barrow ..not so great coming back falling off the top of the coke..
  8. yes thats right...i was in there twice over a four year period from being six years old...i was in cottage 1 with a witch for a house mother..chain smoking winnie edge ...she was the image of the wicked witch of the west in the wizard of oz..she used to gratuitously love hurting the kids..whenever she approached her hare lip used to tremble and it was frightening...next door at cottage 2 was a woman called thornton..she was ok...at the time i couldnt understand why winnie was so vile but now i can...no man could have ever looked at her so she took it out on the little boys she was supposed to be caring for...and the superintendant ( a bloke called brooks) knew what was going on but he chose not to say anything
  9. i remember those second hand shops at grimesthorpe..i once bought this state of the art fishing reel from there ....first time i used it at damflask and caught this fish all it did when i turned it was go click click click and wouldnt reel it in...
  10. surely somebody on here lived round there before they demolished the houses
  11. John Vollum...I remember him..he was always screwing his eyes up as he talked to you...he lived about half way up on the left hand side.he bought a house up on jenkin close
  12. i LIVED ON LIMPSFIELD ROAD IN THE 1960'S I REMEMBER TERRY TOMPKINS,MICHAEL HEMPSHALL,KEITH WALKER,KEITH CORTON AND A FEW OTHERS
  13. Did anyone on here ever live there.if so do they remember Winnie Edge in cottage 1.A truly frightening woman with an hare lip
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