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I lived on Ranskill Rd what is your name mine is Jones ---------- Post added 16-01-2014 at 17:22 ---------- I was in Mr Arnold class in 1954 I did not think it was him who threw the rubber. He was very stern teacher .I was ok because I played in the football and rugby team

Ranskill rd was always known indian village If you looked from wincobank you could see the end of two houses painted cream in the shape of a tent with smoke behind them it looked from afar like indian camp

Hi Sue did you ever get in touch with John his mother was Billy niece who worked in the shop

I think you could be right i think i can remember a son but not his name How do you know this did you go to the club

I was a member till they closed it down My father was the treasurert here and also something to do with the football team after he stopped playing

Hi Sue What i do know that a Bill who owned the shop was great friend of our family he also lost a leg in some accident.A while a go a John Mather made contact with me is he your brother?if i can help in any way please get in touch

Hi Susan I have few not a lot of the road mostly family in the back yard There is a soft book out with a picture of Ranskill rd playing fields known local aw or tins The book called My Family and others Morticians and other stories from off the Common by Ann Sapcote a former pupil of Coleridge Rd School hope this helps. Bill Mather who owned the shop was big mates with my father and went horse raceing togher.knew all the Mathers Someone else from the Mather family got in touch with me sometime ago but cannot remember what site could have been with family tree on Friends

hi Wistow ring a bell with me i think my old mate Dave Curtis mothers maiden name was Wistow will find out if it was If i'm not mistaken they lived with her mother before she died

hi have had my house up for sale with Haybrook in Rotherham they worked very hard to sell mine but i have took it off the market and they have not charge me a cent would use again its the HIP thats the money grabbing thing nothing to do with Haybrook

That's correct we used to imagine that was a plane that was shot down in the war Still have the scars from falling down them hills.Not many kids knew of them did you live in Darnal?

my first love was Kathleen Claytor she lived of Princes of Wales Rd.The other was Margaret Allan she lived Amberly st or near on the Cliffe about 1956 love to hear from them both

Have been told by my elderly brother-in-law how indian village got its name. If you walk to the canel and stood on the bridge over it and looked towards ranskill rd which had a row of houses on each side the bottom 2 gabelends was painted a light colour so from afar they looked like tents thus indian village

Hi Bluebird Nobby Curtis his brothers Dave Dennis and John I lived in the next yard to them knocked about with Dave for years still see him lives at Brinsworh The Pikerings i think there was 2 families 1 live on Ranskill Rd the other on Peacock Row The 1 i knew was Kieth

yes it was hillsborough it was a very hot day and it seemed to last for ever no one from our school had a drink .the Queen and the Duke stayed overnight in their train in Tinsley Park Woods .The next morning we waved to them as they passed by over Shepcote Lane the bridge is still up My sister lived in a cottage in the woods and saw the Duke walking about the next morning .My brother-in-laws always said he came to borrow some milk bu he was only joking

hi popT i lived in Ranskill rd a gypsy family came 2 or 3 times a Grandfather his grandson and his granddaughter they lived in the old type gypsy caravan pulled by horse never sold anything just potted about the caravan was magic everything they needed was in it and no trouble at all got water from the club he drank in the club never any bother

hi freebee hi was born in Ranskill rd cannot recall a Freestone had they any children I born in 43 and left in 60

hi Chris if you went up shepcote lane you would find tuffnells on your right bang opposite was the lane that to Ranskill rd that went past Peacock row and the club at the side of tuffnells is a lane the leads to Greenland rd the was called Lowend 5 or 6 house there If you got to the traffic light and head for the airport on the left is the steel firm where it finishes is roughly Ranskill rd

hi chris what was your families names i was born in Ranskill rd in the early forties

HI Coleridge Rd school won it in 1958 i have a photo of the team with the Shield Len Badger was in the team too he was fullback i was halfback

Hi Treatment i used to go to Billy Mathers shop when i was younger you had to have coupons for for most thing in them days My father was a big friend of Billy the used to go hore racing together i think he also had battery driven van to get stuff for the shop from market .There was also a Jack Mather a very good snooker player he won a big tournament of some kind his father was Jake he used go to the bar at the club order three pints of beer, when the third arrived he had drunk the other

Burns Hotel opposite tramsheds when i was young you could get up and sing on the stage. Tinsley Hotel higher up ,had my first pint of mild in it at 15 then staggered home to Ranskill rd

Ranskill Rd and Peacock Row was the Indian Village 1 shop 1 co-op 1 newsagent and of course a workingman's club.It was surrounded by 2 muck hill made up of waste from the pit and 1 we called the red hill. could that be the reason for its name Only 2 road in 1 took you to Tinsley the other to Greenland Rd,or you could walk as the local said over locks Fond memories of days gone bye Rannie Lad