Old factory - Shirecliffe tip?

[Aryan]

Does anyone remember the old Derelict factory close to Shirecliffe tip? on the flat land just beyond the tip? I remember it in the early to mid 80s. It was a big factory with a large chimney and it had been empty for some time. We used to go there when we used to wag school (Herries) we used to call it the black factory because it was so scary. My Mam would have gone mad if she knew we used to go there!

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[Jahnell]

Yeah that one past the graveyard? Where all the Graffiti artists used to go? I believe the real name of that was NeepSend Power Station.

[old tup]

Our old cottage was on the power station land across the river Don right at the side of where the new college is standing now,on the bend at the bottom of Liversey Street!.Our old boy was foreman joiner at the power station and my mother worked in the canteen,I remember the rent for the double cottage was 15shillings a week,thats 75p in todays dosh,all we paid on top was for electric,a good deal in anybodys money!.It was built in the late 1700s for a schoolteacher in those days it was all meadowland,just below it was a tilt watermill the water feeding by a goit from the weir below the old stone bridge behind Bassets!.A millpond powered the tiltmill the water draining back into the Don by two goits near to the footbridge leading to the power station entrance,the power station was built in 1902,there is information on the net about it if anyone is interested including photos!.

[Jahnell]

Nice info. Remember that place well

[Cycleracer]

My Dad worked at that Power station in the 60s and remember going to the Christmas party there every year.

We always got a present from Santa and I actually met that Santa years later by chance his name was Stan Whomersly a good magician to he was knicknamed Stan the magic man.

[old tup]

Hi Cycleracer I also went to the Christmas parties they were very well attended in those days,every kid received a present from Santa and the grub and jellies went down a treat!.I have a 10x8 black and white photo of me on stage with Stan the Magic man performing a trick for the kids,this was in the 50s,I look a right berk with a silly party hat on but you didn,t care because you were enjoying the occasion so much!.Happy days so long ago!.