Anyone remember Marcus St at Pitsmoor?

[Kidorry]

Hi Dan,

No wonder I recalled the Clark name - we were neighbours! The house you describe was 26 ct 2 hse, and the adjoining one, 26 ct 1hse, was where I was born and lived up to being moved out when I would have been 16 or 17. My prents were good frienda of Arthur & Elsie, I seem to remember my Mum and dad were very sad when they moved away, I guess around 1957. Thanks for that recollection.

Re the photos, I located one of both 26/1 and 26/2 taken from Fitzala Street (this was the deep drop you spoke of) but can't find that site now, but I'm sure it was the Sheffield Library or Archives. Must research that, and I'll let you know the reference if I can locate it again.

Regards, Alan

 

If you go onto Picture Sheffieldsite and type in Marcus street there are a whole lot of photos on there.

[leanda46]

If you go onto Picture Sheffieldsite and type in Marcus street there are a whole lot of photos on there.

 

Thanks for that Kidorry, I was able to find the photo I needed there.

[Kidorry]

Thanks for that Kidorry, I was able to find the photo I needed there.

 

You are welcome.

[frankthorpe]

owd ill https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh_sheffield/t00419.jpg Thanks to kidorry this was t'owd ill seperating the two halves of Marcus Street. We used to play football with himm and his many brothers and the Barnets in the Wicker; well Stanley Street, on red shale. Our mob came down the Bull Rocks chanting our war songs but I think overall the honours were even. When it snowed we sledged down from the top of Verdon Street in convoys till coming to an abrupt stop under the bridge at the bottom. It was quite a long ride. The up Champs past this picture

Champs https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh_sheffield/s13910.jpg

right back to the start. As Mirander's mother would say "such fun"

[Kidorry]

Those pictures bring the memories flooding back.

[kidley]

owd ill https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh_sheffield/t00419.jpg Thanks to kidorry this was t'owd ill seperating the two halves of Marcus Street. We used to play football with himm and his many brothers and the Barnets in the Wicker; well Stanley Street, on red shale. Our mob came down the Bull Rocks chanting our war songs but I think overall the honours were even. When it snowed we sledged down from the top of Verdon Street in convoys till coming to an abrupt stop under the bridge at the bottom. It was quite a long ride. The up Champs past this picture

Champs https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh_sheffield/s13910.jpg

right back to the start. As Mirander's mother would say "such fun"

 

Hi Frank

Your first link

 

This is where Michael Gott kept his goats etc or be-it a bit further down where there where a bit more grass.

 

https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh_sheffield/t00419.jpg

 

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Yes I lived just up the hill from that picture. http://www.picturesheffield.com/fron...=zoom&id=16754

A left turn took you into Marcus Street with waste land on both sides.

Those houses were just above Whitby and Chandlers, a firm that our yard overlooked.

Other people on this post are talking about the other side of Marcus Street which was split into two by another stretch of waste last viz- the "owd 'ill".

 

Hi

 

My Bold

 

The waste land just round the corner from champs hill on the left i won many a wars there in those old WW11 scrap lorries in that scrap yard there, happy days.

[sweetpea 1]

Hi Leandra 46 you mentioned my brother Danny Towers he married and has 3 sons kept on training at st vincents for a long while but sadly he developed asbestos related problems and died in oct lots of his ex boxers gave him a good send off .I am one of the twins and dont really remember Marcus street only from family .....

[kidley]

Hi Leandra 46 you mentioned my brother Danny Towers he married and has 3 sons kept on training at st vincents for a long while but sadly he developed asbestos related problems and died in oct lots of his ex boxers gave him a good send off .I am one of the twins and dont really remember Marcus street only from family .....

 

Sorry to hear about Danny I new him when he was learning to box R I P

[shaunfl]

The waste land just round the corner from champs hill on the left i won many a wars there in those old WW11 scrap lorries in that scrap yard there' date=' happy days.[/quote']

 

 

I spent hours in that scrap yard and went home caked in oil and diesel. I thought I was the only person that remembered it, definitely happy days !!

[Kidorry]

I spent hours in that scrap yard and went home caked in oil and diesel. I thought I was the only person that remembered it, definitely happy days !!

Me too with a lad called Oxley(forgotten his first name) in fact we played cricket on that stretch of Marcus Street between the spare ground.