cornishmaid

Thanks very much re the photos, shall take a look now and no doubt get myself all homesick even more !!!

I only found this forum quite recently whilst researching about Sheffield . I was born on Derbyshire Lane and lived in and around the city until my late twenties, I`m now 61 years young . One parent is from Sheffield , one from Cornwall which is where I now live with my disabled husband Paul . I love living here, have two of my adult offspring and some grandchildren living very close but my heart is and always will be in Sheffield . Sadly, Paul is very ill, is facing surgery in 6 weeks time but can no longer travel and I cannot leave him because he needs my care and I dont want anyone else to look after him but this means that I cannot fullfill my wish to visit Sheffield again , or for the immediate future at least . I managed a day trip to see my great Aunt last year, she will be 100 years young in July, but I wont be able to make the party because of caring for my husband . This forum has brought everything alive for me, especially that very special Sheffield humour , found nowhere else I assure you ! It is now giving us both so much pleasure every day and so sorry if I have been a little slushy but I did want to say thank you so very much for bringing a little bit of Sheffield to us in Cornwall

Starship Nothings going to stop us now .

That sounds like my kind of evasive tactic !

My cousin, Simon Hinkler, one of the founder members of The Mission , born and bred in Hackenthorpe, think some of the other members were from Sheffield too . Simon now lives in Mexico , not the best of places right now !

I lived on Tunwell Avenue from 1947 when I was born until I was about 8 years old , went to a school called, I think , Monteney ? I remember a shop called Rusbys where we used to go with thr ration books and back then, it was all quite new and nice. Reading some of the posts, I think it would be a shock to my memories to go back !!

Thanks so much for that , what a great photo , I do miss Sheffield !

You`re right, that jogged my memory, it was oposite the Peace Gardens . I havent been back to Sheffield city centre for about 25 years, dont think I`d recognise it now ! We visit my great Aunt who still lives in her own home in Sheffield she is 100 years old in July but we havent been into town, must go on our next visit and see if my memories are the same as the reality !

I had bird `flu a couple of years ago, dont want that again, its a killer

Most likely, Dad ( Henry ) died young aged 47 but Mother is still going strong at 90, I`ll ask her !

People who ask how you are, dont wait for a reply but launch into a tirade of their medical problems , I`m not interested .

My Dad worked at Laycocks, I think Archer Rd, I was about 8 or so, so this would have been around 1955 onwards, his name was Henry(Harry) Styring . I remember the parties well , I can recall getting the pressie from Santa, often an annual and the noise !!

Maybe start rooting round the garden looking tasty morsels to chomp on ? Seriously though , is this just media hype or should we really be worried ?

Can anyone remember this department store that used to be on The Moor ? I used to be taken there to have my hair cut as a child and would be sat into a toy car in an effort to keep me confined ! They also had an Xray type of shoe measuring device, long ago banned !

Does this mean that the other 30 million of us will die ?

Two of my uncles worked for The Star in the 50`s 60`s and 70`s, they were Vincent Buffrey and Fred Hinkler . Freds son Simon, my cousin was a founder member of the band The Mission.

I lived at Parson Cross froma tiny baby until I was about 9 , so that 1947 until 1956 . My parents had a new ( then ) house on Tunwell Ave,no 117. I remember the house really well and also the first school , Monteney which I hated ! there was a shop called Rusbys just off Wordsworth Ave, if I remember rightly where sweets were rashioned . My family name was Styring, my parents were May and Henry and I am Kate but known back then as Kathleen and I have an older sister Christine . Dad was a member of Thorncliffe Operatic Society and so our home was always full of people and music . We were the first to have a tv on our road and the house was packed full for the Coronation .

I grew up on Tunnwell Ave, parson cross in the late 40`s until about 1956ish , went to Monteeny (sp) school and used to go sleding in the fields at Ecclesfield and I`m sure we called them The Shrogs ! I remember the cobblers shop in the main street, it smelled lovely .

Oh thats brought back memories ! I used to go to the stables in the early to mid 60`s and remember a horse called Jigsaw, a lovely big pybald lad. I lived at Coal Aston at the time, my name is Kate

Hello , my Father worked as a manager/supervisor I think, at Laycock Engineering in the 60`s, his name was Henry Styring and we lived at Coal Aston at the time .