debsp

hi mikey, yes i do still live in sheffield, i lived at meersbrook for 14 years but have moved to crystal peaks now. i went to what was then bluestones infants and then ashleigh which is now no longer there. my mom and dad got married at heeley church and i can still remember all the terrace houses that were accrss the road (obviously they were married b4 i came along!!)

it did used to be called the piggeries, my mom was born at the top of myrtle road in the 1940's (sorry mum!!) and it used to be a farm with you've guessed it - pigs!! it was as someone else said - sheffield uniteds training ground and has just been derelict land since then- i have a few photographs of my mom as a child in her front garden with the ball inn pub behind her and it looks exactly the same now as it did then.

I was born in Heeley in 1966 (cambridge place) both my parents were born there as well - dad on kent road (tony gill )mom on walden road- june marshall, my grandad was a coal merchant- edwin marshall. My parents both met at Tyzacks on Valley Road which strangely enough is where I bought my first house - right opposite!!! Apparently a few houses on Valley Road were fish and chip shops as well as houses and sold the food from the front windows!! I also remember the little terrace house on Heeley Green that was between 2 shops (one of which was the Herbalists where as a treat mom would take me for a drink (I think it was Vimto or Saspirella) out of the pump on the counter. And Tingles drapers - when I was little that place used to amaze me with all the wooden drawers. Does anyone remember Deans shop on Cambridge Road and Jims fish and chip shop????