Parkwood springs stories please

[mikebatty]

Did you know that the bowling green was built over a water tank?

 

nope,certainly didn't . Any idea what it was for . I can only guess that it may have been as a catchment for the water that came down from the woods after a heavy rainfall when the springs gave out . Water did run down Douglas road after heavy rain .

 

Just thinking about that . If the water which came down from the springs into the tank , that must have been even better and purer water than that from Sheffield water works . I hope that it was not just for the Hallamshire .

Edited December 19, 2011 by mikebatty

[bullerboY]

nope,certainly didn't . Any idea what it was for . I can only guess that it may have been as a catchment for the water that came down from the woods after a heavy rainfall when the springs gave out . Water did run down Douglas road after heavy rain .

I believe that it stored drinking water for the supply of Parkwood and Neepsend.

[mikebatty]

It is quite interesting looking at the discussion which is going on .

Someone is trying to ask a question , or make a point about their wishing to look more in depth about the history of parkwood springs . Everyone is talking around this guy . Not because they wish to ignore him , rather it is to look at what is being said or , by whom , from their past .It is their past that is more important to them , not what someone wishes to know about their past . Their past is a part of their lives - not someone else's .

[mikebatty]

Does anyone remember the fire brigade draining the quarry at the top of Pickering road after a heavy downpour . I certainly do .

I was always told that it was because it was seeping through into the old pit.

[bullerboY]

The mine at the Springs was owned by the Webster family who lived on Penrith Rd it was a drift mine and not a deep shaft one.Shirecliffe college was built on the site of the Prefabs on Standish Rd.The Gunpits was a football training ground and a Helicopter landing pad.Hope this helps.

[retep]

I believe that it stored drinking water for the supply of Parkwood and Neepsend.

 

There was a fair sized well at the bowling green, the water tank as far as i know was below on the rec, used as an emergency tank during the war.

[bullerboY]

There was a fair sized well at the bowling green, the water tank as far as i know was below on the rec, used as an emergency tank during the war.

The tank in fact was a supply tank the same as the one on Moonshine Lane only the one at the springs had a lid on it,the bowling green.

[retep]

The tank in fact was a supply tank the same as the one on Moonshine Lane only the one at the springs had a lid on it,the bowling green.

 

Do you have any proof of the tank under the bowling green, i remember the well, right hand side going in green doors covering it, can't imagine pigstys being allowed any where near drinking water, let alone 40 feet away.

[mikebatty]

The mine at the Springs was owned by the Webster family who lived on Penrith Rd it was a drift mine and not a deep shaft one.Shirecliffe college was built on the site of the Prefabs on Standish Rd.The Gunpits was a football training ground and a Helicopter landing pad.Hope this helps.

 

You have some interesting points there.

I remember there being a pit pony from the pit being put out to graze because it was blind . At this time the pits would have been nationalised , or one would assume .

I only remember the Gunpits as that . I remember my cousin playing football on the woods on Rutland road , opposite Woodfold .

None the less , you have some very historical interest points there .

[retep]

You have some interesting points there.

I remember there being a pit pony from the pit being put out to graze because it was blind . At this time the pits would have been nationalised , or one would assume .

I only remember the Gunpits as that . I remember my cousin playing football on the woods on Rutland road , opposite Woodfold .

None the less , you have some very historical interest points there .

 

Who's name would have been "Tommy"

 

Parkwood Ganister and Coal Mine-1938-1963.