TheBatt

Anyone remember the original Wordsworth Tavern?when was it knocked down and re-built?

I think Dawn was Roy's sister?? (apologies if I've got that wrong)

I know Dawns Surname was Smith and I think she was closely related to Roy

I didnt know him personaly but knew of him.

My wife is Andy and Brian's sister, Roy as you say is there nephew.Andy was offered a trial with Sheffield United the manager or boss of the blades at that time went to there house to ask him to attend trials but he refused.

there was a girl called Dawn who lived at Andys for a while dont know if she was related or fostered.She was a year or two younger than Andy.

Sadly not this time. I don't know any of these.

 

 

But I do remember Elaine Brown on Deerlands Close:love:

that name rings a bell.Did she have a younger brother called Norman?

Pop quiz

 

"Shereeleasamrina"

 

Ring any bells?

Name of Horace Ratcliffes bungalow .Oh and his four daughters

It isn't though. I measured it.

I'm just intrigued coz "Gennell" was a general name for these walkways, but we had "The Eightfoot" and it was a universally used name. Even Mrs Eaton off Fulmere Cres called it The Eightfoot, and she didn't like nicknames.

 

Perhaps Barry Pollard knows....

Could it be that Kenny Goodison only took eight paces from Fulmere cres to Wordsworth Ave (wiv dem long legs it couldnt av bin much more) just a thought

How did the "Eightfoot" get it's name?

Could it be eight feet wide? we were posher, between Chaucer Road and Knutton Crescent we had a gennell.

Surely you don't mean their Brian ?. He was spot on when they first moved in. In fact he was OK right up to his first nervous breakdown. After that he used to get really p****d when Joe's dog "Grip" used to beat him at cards whilst playing in the car park. Remember their Brian dragging Bill Smith and me out of the tap room to watch the dog, as Brian was sure it was cheating.

You couldn't say no to Brian at that time, as it wasn't in his vocabulary, and a refusal usually met with his tattooed hand grabbing your collar. He could be as quick as lightning, and thinking back now his hands were massive.

I never knew they had a son,but then again I lived a very sheltered life.

Memories of Joe include

 

 

Top landlord ,proper landlord Mrs Williams was a "lady" and neither deserved the waste of space they were lumbered with.

What waste of space are you on about?

I remember Pete Norman went to the serving hatch every day for 5 Park Drive

until one day he said no to him,Pete asked him why not? to which Joe replied

"There,s ony thee that bleedin buys em so ave stopped gerrin em" so then he

had to persuade Mark Atkinson to go halves with him for ten.

I knew Brian and Ena well from Beagle in late 70`s early 80s .The original ladies hairdresses was owned by mother of a lad I was at school with cant rememeber her first name but surname was Anderson

I think her name was Sylvia or Sybil but not 100% sure

Has that got owt to do with them metal barrels found in littlewoods that said "warning highly flammable" and so what was the first thing somebody did? drop a match in one which sent a flame about 20ft up in the air which singed the eybrows of everyone leaning over the barrel ?

Not that one, the one Ime on about is when the pensioners flats were been

built and about six houses on Knutton cres had to be evacuated,this was a gas bottle that they just turned the tap on then lit, then they scarpered. they think its tough on the cross now? they ve never lived.

I was chatting to Jinx (Rob Wilcox) on FB yesterday. He's gonna go down to watch the torch relay, so if anybody's gonna nick it, he's the first suspect!!

I wonder if he remembers his and wriggos own version of the olympic flame

on the field behind Bernard Atkins house?

I lived 6 houses down from Pete Atkin, do you have a brother called Peter?

Ive worked out who you are, the only person who had a blue mini on Yew Lane

was my next door neighbour. And you havent got a brother called Pete

batt

remember ivan very well we used to live about 12 houses down from atkins and when my dad came home in his blue mini ivan used to run at the back of it to greet him when he got out

he used to pull his jowels back and it looked like he was smiling

my ma used to work at a butchers so ivan always got a treat for his trouble

I lived 6 houses down from Pete Atkin, do you have a brother called Peter?

the batt

sorry batt me who got it wrong.was such a long time ago its easy to get facts mixed up

Easy mistake to make cos Pete is about ten years or more younger than June

I never Knew the dog flick but I do remember David giving Peter a pup which

he called Ivan he had that dog for many years and he went all over the place

with the kids on our estate everyone knew Ivan, brilliant dog.

joto

bernard atkin had 3 children 2 with his first wife who died quite young

david and june ann he married again and had peter

remember he had a dog called flick who used to come with us where ever we went swear she thought she was one of the gang

Peter was the youngest to Bernards first wife who died when Peter was five years old .He married his second wife Irene who had two kids of her own,

Yvonne and Chris

Just goes to show I thought Wally died years back, must have been Alf I was thinking about.

 

Big Bernard brings back memories he used to whistle louder than anyone I ever heard. He dumped an old Hillman car in the corner of the field behind his house we played in it for years

and he dropped a bit of a bollock by putting a gate in his back fence as a short cut to the Beagle, problem was it became a short cut for all us kids off Yew Lane:hihi:

 

Debbie I was at Mansel with your sister Viv, she went to Colley and I went to Yewlands, last I heard from her back on Friends Reunited a few years back she was working for HSBC down south. Hope shes ok

I dont think the car was dumped by Bernard as no-one in the house could drive at that time but yes many happy memories of that car

Did they have a sister called Jacqueline? I think the older sister was called Pauline my memory isn't what it was for names.

older sister is called June living at Batemore I do believe ,shes still married to Mick Hague (lived on Dugdale I think

sorry to hear about wally ,wondered why i hadnt see him about

for a few weeks.

is the pete atkin aka jocky ?

r.i.p wally

No its Bernard Atkins(late dart player at the Beagle)son used to live on Yew Lane The one your thinking about lived on Knutton cres many years ago.

Bugger!!!!

Heres another bugger Steve just been told by Pete Atkin that Ray Beer died

on Monday

I remember one evening in The Beagle when there had been a break-in the previous night, sometime around 1971/72 I guess.

 

Joe Williams was wiping glasses, explaining what had happened to a couple of ladies who were stood at the bar. He mentioned how the burglar had got in though a toilet window, and that one of the one-armed bandits had had its cash reservoir removed. Half way through his story, Alf Beer, who was sat a few tables away, interrupted him and said that the M.O sounded suspiciously like that of his own son, Wally.

 

Five minutes later Joe was on the phone to Hammerton Rd, and a few hours later Wally was picked up in Colley Club, arrested and charged

 

Thanks Dad!!!

I remember Wally getting done for that didnt know his dad had shopped him.

I was once talking to Wally in the bookies on Margetson a few years later His dad walked in and set about Wally, apparently the five pence pieces he had been betting with had come out of their gas meter.

Does anyone remember the Cawthornes?

I went to Mansel junior school with Nigel Cawthorne he lived on Milnrow

Does anyone know if they still have the garden parties at Yewlands school?

Couple of memories that came back to me the other day.

 

The mobile chip shop that started up used to stop outside the Beagle,think it was Mr and Mrs Dimler off Dugdale Road that ran it lasted a couple of years and was was dead reight as it saved us the walk to Margetson shops

 

The plumbers van that had the company name on it

 

 

R. Sunter

 

Always made us adolescent lads giggle

I remember the mobile chippy,caravan wasnt it? quite nice food, dont remember the plumber though. best winter memory is the slide down the

gennell all the kids on the estate must have gone on it like glass it was

and I cant remember any grown up complaining about us . I bet the kids

wouldnt be able to do it now.

Links not working or me mate but I remeber going on Law brothers fishing trips but always from the Leppings Lane garage not Pond Street

Pond Street was always SUT for me

Will try the links later, what was your dads surname? I knew a Brian who ws a coach driver but he came from a family that lived on Chaucer road opp Mansel school

Do you remember going on a school fishing trip? You left your fish unattended

in your keep net and when you went back someone had nicked some of your

fish, Pete Taylor got blamed for it. Glad I didnt go .