wendywoo3

Patnicks was first...he was a Sheffield councillor and also had a similar shop on Abbey Lane....

Ah yes the shop opposite the beer off was a driving school. Weird thing...I was at Black Country Museum yesterday and there is a hardware shop there just like it but bigger...it brought it all back and then find it on here! My mum used to work there and me and my brother used to go to work with her there. we played at shop when nobody was about but told to go in back when customers came in! It sold bundles of firewood and firelighters...can smell it now. Sold some odd things and very little in the shop! That must have been in the early 70's?

Yes it was Spinks butchers oppposite Firth Park Hotel I worked there from age 14 till I left school. (sat job) It was passed down to Malcolm (think that;s right?) from his dad but he didn't take to butchery so his wife who had been a secretary up until then (Jean) took over that side and he did the bakery part. Yes best custards I ever tasted and breadcakes and apple pies, mince tarts....I can remember the smell of them baking as I was in back of shop...counting breadcakes for pub orders! My sister worked there before me and my aunty...a real family tradition . Next door was Bradleys.

I remember Mr Dowson. I think we were supposed to be scared of him but actually what were the names of the others...ahh Mr Francis...he was lovely! Miss Driver (NOW SHE WAS SCARY!) and Miss Howden? Now thinking back the women were more scary....they were all some sort of deputies werent they?

I saw him at the Arena. I was at uni as a mature student and worked at the arena to earn a crust...he was brilliant! I got to sneak in and take a peak!! He brought his own stage which was a huge oval shape that turned round with his musicians sat inside it in the middle of the room. He walked round the whole thing so everybody could see him! A real showman. Saw him again 2 years ago in London..still has the magic!

I remember the name Kay Toulson..same year as me so you must have also been in same year?

I lived on Earl Marshal Road 1966-1983 on and off and we would often go to the boating lake...sometimes on the walk up to see my nan in Firth Park. We were told a child drowned there which is why it got drained.....always seemed such a waste as lots of kids had fun there. Don't know if this was true or just a rumour?

Hey I remember the Sampan...they did excellent chip butties...just the thing you needed if you had been in town and caught the last NO; 34 back home!! I went past it last year (don't live in Sheffield anymore and was amazed to see it looking like a chinese pagoda?

I went to Grimesthorpe Juniors, 1968 - 1971 I think and then a year at Whiteways i can't remember many teachers Mr Langley - really tall man with dark glasses nicknamed me Wendy Wobbles (I was overweight) Miss Boyd.. later married and became Mrs Cundle....our classroom was in prefabs at the back she used to read to us on the grass round the back I was devasted when she moved away. She gave us her address to write..don't think i ever did Muskoka Avenue..I thought it was the other end of the country..many years later found it is other side of Sheffiled. I still have the Black Beauty Book she gave me when she left....a treasured possession..wonder is she is still around and realises she had such and impact? I have always had great love of reading since and passed to my daughters. Mrs Jackson....as well as Mrs Cundell the reason I went into teaching late in life...what an actress she was! Purple suits, black wigs and cartwheels down the classroom.

I went to Owler Lane infants about 1966 I started. I remember Mrs Oxpring Roberts and Mrs Perrot. My brother was in both their classes. Mrs Perrot - I always found her a bit daunting but years later 1985 I moved back to the area for a while and my daughter went to the same school...as I was one of the 'old' pupils I was invited to attend the then heads leaving assembly Carol something? I as a parent...IT WAS MY OLD HEAD! She started the same week I did I remember her saying to me we were both new to the school. Mrs perrot was still there and asked me to help in her class as a parent...weird,, then years later I worked as a nursery nurse in the now newly built Owler Lane infants still called and has the original old bell in the playground! Who should be there helping out...a very fragile old lady...turned out to be Mrs Perrot!! I also was in last year to go to Grimesthorpe Juniors as we had new Whiteways built for us....meant we nw had to stay an extra year..din't bother me I was in no hurry to go to Earl Marshal Comp!

I remember the painting. I was telling my partner about it recently!

I remember clackers well. Yes I hurt my wrists quite a few times. Always remember in Page Hall close to where I lived there were a pair hanging over the telephone cables so high up we kids were amazed how anybody actually got them up there. They stayed there for years...wonder if they are still there. Main road running up past Firth Park Hotel..can't remember what it was called now?