Blackburnrod

i.e. 11+ starters in 1950

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My father Alan Goodfellow was head of Wisewood comprehensive in the late 50s and introduced O levels.This was the first comprehensive in Sheffield to do so.

About 20yrs ago near Preston a driveway with H15 ahd HER5

4 of us from the 1950 intake to King Teds GS joined the Sheffield Sports CC in1954 .After a couple of years Andy Middlemiss and Peter Booth joined the Central to further their road racing interest whilst I (Rod Goodfellow)and Pete Connelly stayed with the Sports.Eventually Andy returned to the Sports and is still there and lives in Dronfield. Up till Covid there has been an annual joint Sports and Central get together meal and ride.where Barry?Huckstep ex Central attended regularly.We also had a reunion visit to King Teds where we were entertained to coffee and biscuits by the Headmistress and toured the School

Nearly 50% of car drivers are of below average intelligence.

"The owner of the cycle shop that was a few shops passed the baths on Attercliffe Road was a member and I think his name was Murratt" This was Gem cycle shop.The son is Ted Murat who was in the Sheffield Sports CC in 1950s and still rides with the Sheffield district of CyclingUK.

Alan Goodfellow at Wisewood in the 50s. He introduced O levels to secondary modern schools in Sheffield having previously been second master at City Grammar on Leopold St..

When I was a Trainspotter in the 1950s Dore South Loop was known as Totley Cutting where we used to hope to see Beyer Garrets or ex LNWR 0-8-0s.

There was one on the north side of the A57 between Wyming Brook and Hollow Meadows.Its site is now part of the nearby private property,It was used mainly by cyclists snd walkers

My Dad,Alan Goodfellow, was the senior history master at City Grammar during the day, a special constable in the evenings ,and at the weekend was in the Air Training Corps improving the education of boys being prepared for the RAF.

King George VI opening Ladybower reservoir.

I started playing mabs when I went to Sharrow Lane Juniors in 1946 aged 7+. I can't remember where my first marbles came from, probably a pack of a dozen bought from Allott's newsagents. All the terminology alluded to in the original post was familiar to me. I was it seems quite skillful, playing in the schoolyard behind the toilet block, and on the cobbles of Franklin Street. By the time I left for King Teds after 11+ I had amassed over 800 mabs, which I gave to my mother, then a teacher in the Junior school. to distribute amongst her pupils. Happy days!

In 1942 I lived on Langsett Avenue and gathered clay from grave diggings in Wadsley Churchyard to make my touch burner which was fuelled by cotton rags. We had a house cleaner called Mrs Hague during my mother's pregnancy with my sister and her husband who worked in a brickworks made me a brick touchburner complete with a working chimney.

As a 15 year old in the early 50s I used the family hob when nailing shoeplates to my newly acquired cycling shoes. Years later I inherited the hob,but it disappeared during a subsequent house move.

Was this the shop that became Tony Butterworth cycles on Catch Bar Lane ?

Any memories.I visited a couple of times in the mid 50s.

My cousin Roger Jones was a buyer/sales agent or manager for that company in the 50s and 60s.

In 1974 I was a doctor who lived in Highley,Shropshire which was Leslie Whittle's home.Her father Ron owned the local bus company,Whittles Coaches.The village GP was pretty useless so Ron and his family persuaded me to become their private GP.I treated Lesley as a teenager on at least 2 occasions.When she went missing the police wanted to search every house and outbuilding in the village. Of the 4000 or so population there was only one objector-the methodist minister who made himself even more unpopular than he already was.He turned out to be blameless although he was the unofficial village layer-out of the dead which had obviously led to dark deed speculation. On a separate note my first news memory was King George VI opening Ladybower reservoir.

Buses with outside rear staircases on the Nether Edge route in 1946/7.I was told they were borrowed from Halifax.

The only name I recognise is Warner Baxter but I recall a girl of my year called Irene Brown who lived just off Sharrow Lane just above Wostenholme Road roughly opposite my hairdressers,Mr Noakes, he of the wax tapers used to singe cut ends. I have forwarded our conversations to my sister Diana (now Manitz) who has indicated she will contact you to correct some misinformation concerning her degree subjects. I am hoping to be in Sheffield at lunchtime Friday 18th and could visit the school for lunch.

I now live in Blackburn but visit frequently my son and grandchildren who live near Forge Dam and almost in view of High Storrs. I remember Miss Vick and also (her successor?) Mrs Currie whose son played for United.When I was age 9-12 or thereabouts my mother subcontracted marking arithmetic books to me,so I have probably seen your work! I also remember crossing Sharrow Lane to a tuck shop and buying slabs of Cowans Highland toffee to be eaten surreptitiously in J4, and visiting the first house in Southview Rd to get permission to go into the back garden to get the rounders ball back after a successful strike. I've remembered it was Maurice Ormesher not Michael.The only teachers I recall were J3's Mr Telfer and a supply teacher called Mr Willey who was very handy with a cane and had cyst on top of his bald head.He also had a speech impediment so that a number of us would stand in our desks to provoke him to shout "*hit in your sheets". On one occasion Michael Green was being caned on the hand and managed to grab the cane and pull it from his grasp, necessitating a visit to the headmaster whose name I cannot recall.

When my sister Diana reached school age my mother took her to the school but was told due to shortage of teachers she could not join.However my mother had trained as a teacher at Darlington TC then worked at Brightside infants till marriage to Alan Goodfellow (history teacher at City Grammar,then head of Wisewood comprehensive).Shewas told that Diana would be taken in if mother would come as a teacher to start a new class,so she did till her retirement.She moved to Bents Green and died of a heart attack in 1970. Diana went on to Hurlfield Grammar,Sheffield Uni (French and Spanish) taught at Ipswich Grammar then emigrated to Germany and taught English at Trier and then Ingelheim am Rhine where she still lives near her son and daughter. I left in1950 and went to King Teds along with Jimmy Green,then Birmingham Uni qualifying in medicine and surgery in 1962,followed by jobs in the midlands as a consultant anaesthetist till 1976 when I decided to find a 9-5 job for more time with family and because both my wife and I had become serious competitive racing cyclists. I took a job in occupational medicine with British Nuclear Fuels,moved to Blackburn, and was rapidly promoted to Senior Med Officer till 1993 when I was able to take an early retirement option and start my own business from which I finally retired in 2016. I was a member of Sheffield Sports cycling club,then Birmingham's Beacon Roads CC,then North Lancs Road Club.I managed to win a national championship and with my son hold the national 24hr tandem record with 501 miles which has stood for 28 years.Despite having a cardiac arrest 2 years ago near Fox House and being kept alive by CPR for 19 mins without a heart beat till the helicopter arrived with a defibrillator and then to Northern Gen Hosp for 2 weeks,I have made a full recovery and cycling up to 75 miles a day and have just come back from youth hostelling cycling in Scotland.(I have a life membership since a teenager and want to make sure I get value out of it! Boys I remember are Graham Jowett,Malcolm Hurt,Marcus Cohen,Michael Ormesher,Philip Lawson,Michael Green.

Have just found this.I would be interested in info about any further events. I was at the school from 1946 till left in 1950 for King Teds.My name is Rodney Goodfellow and my mother taught in the infant school from 1947-1962.Anyone remember either of us?