Pete R

I was at Burgoyne Rd Infants, Juniors & Senior School 1960-66 The houses were: Drake, Grenville, Raleigh & Hawkins. I was in Drake house (the one with the empty trophy cabinet!) Nostalgia: It's a thing of the past

Hunter was red, Brierley was blue!

I haven't seen Keith since our family upped sticks and moved in 1966, I would like to see how he (and the rest of the class) are getting on

There was a greasy spoon cafe in the old sheaf market, (back in the 60's) as I remember it was painted green and it backed on to the old sheaf street, years before park square was built. does anyone remember any of the old stallholders at the sheaf market? and the old dear with those old weighing scales in the covered market? Nostalgia: it's a thing of the past

I remember back in the seventies you could take learner drivers round the Norton aerodrome, there was a series of roads, juctions and roundabouts all marked up, the hours of fun we had in our plastic pig driving round there. (sigh) happy daze.

For our pains we used to live on the edge of Wincobank hill, the tinsley viaduct was still being built (they were halfway accross in april 1966) it was a house with the worst aspects/views, looking out over the don valley, we had a sprawl of steelworks (Hadfields, Millspaugh & Howells tube works), Blackburn meadows power station whose steam belching cooling towers blocked out the sun until midday, and blackburn meadows sh*t works was unbearable when the wind blew from the east. Looking at the tinsley viaduct wasn't all that bad compared.although i think wincobank should have been twinned with Chernobyl. Childhood, the best years of your life, it ruined me

The landlord used to have another brew called 'Rogers rocket fuel', something akin to R & O, In the early 90's the landlord moved to a pub called the clubhouse in Buxton & off into obscurity

Yes, he lived further up Hoole St from me, in fact he was in the same class at Burgoyne Rd School 1960-66

Yes I remember those two, I worked in the paint shop with Geoff Neal, Dave Pratt & Lewis Holmes, I also remember: Graham Brunt, Dave & Phil Bratley, Eric Hancock, Stuart Dracott, Les Skelton, Jack Cave, a little burmese fella called Ron (can't remember his surname), Do you remember Roy Creane the mad irish fella? There was the JCB dept with Gordon Gregory, Ian Titterton, & Bob Neal the bloke who drove the low loader.

I worked there from 1976-86, I remember scottie, there was him, a bloke called Alf Beech and another called Cyril Bucklow, when they got talking between the three of them they could spin a yarn and you wondered how we won WW2 without them. other names remembered, Len Mitchell (Tiger), Ernie Mace, Des Walker, John Vessey, Bob South, Bernard Sanderson to name just a few!

was it the bath hotel on the corner of whitehouse rd/burgoyne rd?

anybody out there who worked at T C Harrison between 1971 and 1976?

The name jose loy doesn't ring any bells but if she left in 1959 I wasn't there until sept 1960. Here's a few more names from that era: Mrs Wilson (reception class), Miss Ling, Mrs Nicholson & Mrs Lowrie (Lowey?). Mr Cohen was a little hitler, but he would put the fear of god up anybody when he strode past with his immaculately clean & squeaky shoes. The house names were Drake, Raleigh, Grenville & Hawkins (don't ask me to match the names to the colours!), I lived locally the next street on from the school on Hoole St.

Is there anybody out there who worked at kennings truck centre on penistone rd, in the 1970's and 1980's until it's demise in 1986?

I attened from 1960-66. I remeber cohen, simmonds and tom davy (he was a top bloke, too nice to be a teacher), I also remember an old battleaxe called Mrs Clarke and a god botherer called miss penrose

I went to burgoyne rd school from 1960-1966, does anyone remember Mrs Lowry the headmistress from the infant school? and who could forget Mr Cohen the napoleonic headmaster from the junior/senior school. that bloke put the fear of god up me more times than I care to remember!