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Try in central libray for book called old beighton think there two of them and I think brookhouse may be in there. It was built in the 1950's I attended for a short time then went up into what we called the seniors in the old beighton board school

Nothing to do with the book but was this person " Spike" involved with the scouts? I was in King Edwards hospital up rivelin and a guy called spike Johnson did the cubs up there

The rehabilitation centre was the artificial limb centre and was only a small part of the Handsworth site think it was part of then DHSS. Also on the site was Remploy cardboard factory The rest being the training centre run by the dept of employment for unemployed to change careers. As you say he was an instructor he probably worked for the employment training centre rather than the artificial limb centre. The dept of employment did late become Manpower services, although I worked there on maintenance for a number of years and remember some of the names of instructors sorry do not remember the guy you asked about. Hope this helps though

In the 1950's you could just book travel di it quite a lot for a number of years The coach livery was as described, but the firm consisted of two brothers Ceil G Littlewood from burngreave Sheffield and Fred N Littlewood from brinsworth not sure of number coaches but on one trip there was at least 7 two of Fred's and the others Ceil's plus hired in coaches

The road was called eckington rd and the site was an anti aircraft gun site during the war. After the war the buildings were used for displaced people for a time eventually it was all pulled down. Now an housing estate ---------- Post added 14-09-2013 at 19:53 ---------- Kevan Peckhams or was it before or after them?? the shoe repair shop was up across from the Cumberland head pub Peckhams down near the picture house

Booth and Fisher were from Halway near Killamarsh. Grant and Mcallin beighton two tone green, Littlewood bros Cg and FN plum/wine with silver grey, Sharpe bros beighton cream and maroon, Burdetts Mosbro, Furness just to mention a few more

I think you will find it was the Littlewood bros CG littlewood from Burngreave and FN Littlewood from Brinsworth. Both companies ahd same livery plum/wine with silver grey they went from where the Nelson Mandela building is now. it was a regular Friday night from 8.00pm arriving at Torquay 8.00am saturday morning. The return trip was 9.00am saturday back to sheffield. The sheffield drivers finished at Bath and a local hire driver took the coach to Torquay and then back to Bath. At the time coach firms were strictly regulated and in fact SUT objected to Littlewoods getting the licence to run the service. I travelled several times this way to Devon and only saw SUT on tour not as a service run.

I wouldnt know Derek, the levicks were on my mother in law's side

Thank you Lawrence for the condolences in respect of my late wife I mentioned your post to Edward the younger brother

If we take 50+ yrs as 59 that only takes it back to 1953, Brookhouse was built then. It was used as part of Beighton school well prior to that time my older sister can remember going there then going across to school rd. The only aspect the libraries got wrong was that the building shown said it was on school rd (which it was not)and referred to it as the same building as the actual building on school rd which it was not. Yes the rectory was to the left of the building nearer the top of the hill and was taken down to build Haddon Court and a new rectory built behinf the church hall ( that is between the church hall and the church it self)

Yes lawrence my mother in law was a lovely lady, Mary was Josie's younger sister

I would suggest the operative word is " Church " hall, steeples are usually asscoiated with churchs rather than schools. Therefore it seems logical for a church hall to have a steeple. The building on High st was never built as a school, but as a church hall. It was used as a school for a time maybe as an overspill to beighton board school. Certainly in the 1950's the infants used the ground floor part of the Beighton Board School on school rd, while the juniors and seniors used the upper and the wood huts. Later Brookhouse School was built for the juniors, leaving the infants in the lower part of Beighton Board School and the seniors in the upper and the wood huts Yes the old school on school rd is still used as the infants

quite a co-incidence i was looking recently at the same pictures. I emailed sheffield library archives for them to amend the text as it was wrong. The building shown was and is the church hall on high st, it was used as a school at one time. But is not the building referred to in the text. The beighton board school on school road was built in 1880 as a single storey and had the second floor added in 1896. The steeple on the church hall was removed during alterations after the WW two and after it was no longer used as a school.

Well Done Nice to see Sheffield Council having to back down over something in Beighton

Thanks for confirmation knew John frogratt very briefly and worked with Denis later for a short while

Will email you alright

There was a freddie Harris lived in Elm Cottages who had a sister Margret and I think his Dad was called Tommy This was late 1940's early 50's You nearly got me with Beighton Swimming Baths until you said Sand quarry LOL You remember the camp being used after the Army left? All gone now fields covered in houses

There was John froggat from eckington worked at Renishaw Park and a Denis Clayton from renishaw also. This was early 60's Wonder if the ones named here the same people

My late wife's family lived in eckington at that time on ducksett lane called Moyle Did u know them??

My wife worked at Tiffany's late 70's early 80's and it was owned by Mecca then

I worked for the ministry of works from 1965 to 1972 and worked in both these buildings. The one on the corner of staniforth rd used the upstairs for DHSS am sure it was still a Burtons downstairs at the time and the one near the adlephi was also used by a goverment department again could have been DHSS or Unemployment as it was near to the old labour exchange further down the common opposite where the Police station is now

Yes remember it and took then girl friend to it. Remember the roller coaster and if my memory serves me right they also showed a fighter plane could have been a spitfire diving straight at the screen. Over 90% of the audience including moi ducked it was so life like that it seemed to fly right out of screen

I would say it was it was 1988 because my beloved late wife worked at Sainsbury's when it first opened and for many years after

I think a little bit of embellishment there 1066, during the miners strike the college boilers were contiunally supplied with coal and thus the heating and hot water was maintained. The only firplaces I can recall having fires in were the ones in the pillared hall, but that occurred anyway when ever there was a do on to give atomsphere

It seems you do not know anything correctly First the house has always been owned by the family, part of the grounds and part of the house was leased to West Riding County Council just after the war to create Lady Mabel College of Physical Education training ( Lady Mabel was a memeber of the famliy and on the council) The famlit retained the west front of the house as an apartment which they used mostly for the Leger and August the 12th shooting. With the demise of WRCC the lease passed to Rotherham Borough Council but with cut backs in higher education Rotherham could not sustain it and it was leased by them to Sheffield Polytechnic for 3 yrs. When the polytechnic moved out, Rotherham was still bound by the lease to maintain the building until the family did then sell it to Hayden Ballie who went bankrupt. The deterioration in the building all occurred from that point, even after the present owner took it. Thanks to Bertielil and others for confirming the sale of Whistle jacket.