Choirgirl

You must have been there when I worked in the Commissionaire's office and then Works office with Mr Underwood as my boss. I started in1949 and left around 1955. Yes,, we all started as "general dog's body, tea and coffee makers". When I started it was for the directors!! What's your name probably I will remember you?:

If you buy the latest edition of "My Kind of Town" there is an article in it about the Sheffield Flood, with pictures

Can anyone tell me when Summer Street was built? Can't find it on 1849-64 Sheffield map or on 1861 census, but it is on 1871 census. Thanks

Hi Michael P - I used to live on Gervase Ave. but only for about 2 years when I left to get married, but my parents were there for a good many years. We lived in the bottom half of a maisonette opposite the large school field which had a path going up to the main road. This field, I gather, is no longer there. It was built on. We moved there as part of the "slum clearance" near Weston Park. It was so lovely out there and to have a bathroom and central heating - we thought we'd moved to heaven!!

Hi - I didn't live on Powell St. - I lived on Summer St, but my best friend lived on Powell St. her name was Pat Pasley with her brother David and sister Margaret. I know she won't see this as she now lives in N. Yorks and doesn't have a computer. She married Keith Pearson from Mushroom Lane

Hi Pamela - what memories of Whitsun! Yes all the new clothes and the small amount of money given by neighbours and relatives. Weston Street Sunday School, of which I belonged went around the local streets singing hymns. We all walked behind the banner, May Queen and her Captain before going off into Weston Park for a large assembly of other church gatherings. I was Queen one year and I sat on a platform with other queens. It was so hot and one poor queen who had a crown of wax flowers found that they started to melt and drip! Poor girl. It was all part of Whitsuntide and the fun of it all.

Hi Manormaid - wow what a lot of people your father remembers, made me remember some I'd forgotten. I worked in Harold Underwood's Works Dept first as a junior then a typist. I also remember Nurse Ambler, she was very kind to me when I scalded my hand. She used to say "every day in every way it gets a little bit better"

Hi again Manormaid - have just remembered I keep in touch with another Mellowesite and was only talking to her at the weekend. She worked for Mr Wood-Smith one of the department bosses. Ask your Dad if he remembers old Woodie

Hi Manormaid - Yes I remember the Aluminium Shop. As I said as a junior I had to take post round and this shop was one of them. I'm afraid my brother is long gone so can't follow that up. I have very fond memories of Mellowes and the friends I had there. As they say "them were the days". Give my best wishes to your Dad.

Hi Manormaid - which shop was your Dad a foreman of and what years? As a junior I had to take post round all the "shops". What an ordeal for a 15 year old, but I soon got used to the whistles and catcalls! My brothers also worked for Mellowes, my eldest brother, Frank Cooper worked there for many years. He was an outside glazier and foreman.

I used to live on Summer St, just behind Winter St hospital from 1934 to 1945 and our next door neighbours were a Mr & Mrs Dunstan. As I was young you didn't call people by their christian names in those days, so I never knew them other than Mr & Mrs. Their address would be 32.

Hi again otters - rang a friend last night who still lives in the Sheffield area. We first met when we both started work at Mellowes and I rang to ask her if she remembers Charles Jarvis. She stayed at Mellowes a good many years after I left and she does remember "Mr Jarvis" has we had to call them then, no christian names! She says he was a real nice man and a gentleman.

Hi Otters - what was your grandfather's name as I used to work in the offices at Mellowes in the early 50's and might have known him.

I was born in Sheffield and lived there for 60 years so reading all these sayings from Sheffield and days gone by was a great reminder of my younger days. When I first came to live in Sussex 14 years ago I would say "I'm nesh". They hadn't a clue what I was on about so I had to explain. Since then I've come up with a lot of these old sayings and I think they wonder if I'm from another planet. I met one lady at a Club I belong to and said I would mash the tea. She said that brought happy memories to her as her gran, who was from Leeds use to say it. Others didn't know what I meant.

Hi Zakes - I worked at Globe & Simpson from around 1955 - 1958. I was in charge of the teleprinter, telex once they had been installed. Thoroughly enjoyed it.