rosiebear

i remember the light at mortomley i went past them on the way to and from school, in the days when school didnt finish at five past three. i remember going to the pantomine it was ages after we stopped going that i found out it was something to do with the sheff.wed supporters club. we used to get on a coach i think outside the white hart pub. it was usually the lyceum or barnsley civic but im not certain.

im sure if you really felt you wanted to go to matlock that one of the bus companies runs a trip there im sure i saw it advertised, but maybe its something you want to leave till next year when the ground doesnt feel so shaky. im a lot older than you and my dad passed suddenly the week after my ann. and it sometimes feels wrong to celebrate. but back to the illuminations,ive often wondered who paid for the illuminations as there seems to have been a decline in the park since newton chambers/izal factory left chapeltown did they sponser any of it. i loved the park as an outing and remember the fun, some kids just never get the chance to apprciate the simple things,i spend time looking back and wonder where the decline began, it must have started somewhere. i was brought up on thorncliffe ave and lived close to the railway, the dam and the foundry, but knew better than to stray too far .

i also remember going to the illumination in the park, i left chapeltown in 1968 and can't remember going after that. the park seemed a great place for fun and adventures as a kid , i went to the whit sing in the park as well. how long would the illuminations last these days,and at what cost? there isn't even a bandstand anymore so im told. at least you could look forward to a special outfit at xmas and for the whit walk. im sure i went to the sunday school at the methodist church ,the one on lound side below the school.

I used to live in the houses belonging to Nwton Chambers, my Dad worked at Thorncliffe from about 56 till it closed down. I got into bother because" I said dad made toilet rolls and his job was a " radial arm driller something we were made to understand was important to him. Does anyone remember C.Kelly?