geoffusa   10 #37 Posted February 2, 2010 Hi, just a bit of added info'= my aunt Floss Smith was a teacher at St Marys , South Road school.  Who was responsible for the jeans and winklepickers then Rob?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Passitthen   11 #38 Posted February 2, 2010 Who was responsible for the jeans and winklepickers then Rob?? Hi Geoff= must be some " genes" somewhere in the make up.  Hope your OK/ Take care buddy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
geoffusa   10 #39 Posted February 2, 2010 Hi Geoff= must be some " genes" somewhere in the make up. Hope your OK/ Take care buddy  Yes Rob, I'm fine thanks. Dave Harris sent me a lovely email regarding Keith (Chairboy). If it wasn't for CB I would never have found this site and all the old friends - including you- that we now keep in touch with. I have a feeling Keith may be keeping an eye on proceedings so we had better not get any facts wrong!! Best wishes, Geoff Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
bullerboY Â Â 10 #40 Posted February 4, 2010 anyone go to school with Tony Stones who lived on Crookes and Donald Brown who lived on School lane. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
TWhits   11 #41 Posted February 13, 2010 Hi, just a bit of added info'= my aunt Floss Smith was a teacher at St Marys , South Road school.  I went to St Marys in the 1960s and had a teacher called Mrs Smith. She and Mrs Davidson seemed to take us alternate years as we moved through the school! Would "my" Mrs Smith be your Aunt by any chance? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
xfox3x   10 #42 Posted February 13, 2010 Eddie was the third, and middle brother. He was my running mate for the last couple of years at school. He was a Motorcycle nut. I remember he "modernized" some of the neighbors houses by nailing hardboard to the inside doors :-)  Hi, just come across this thread. Rob O'Neill is my brother-in-law. Mick lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when he was in his teens. Eddie was a mechanic and had his own garage at Dinnington. He died a few years ago. Did you have a sister called Josie? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
skippy   11 #43 Posted February 13, 2010 [quote=xfox3x; Mick lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when he was in his teens.  He nearly bled to death around 1951 when I stabbed him in the wrist whilst running alongside him with his Jack knife in my hand, as luck would have it, his Grandmother or aunty lived around the corner at Crosspool, she bandaged him up, took the knife off us and sent us packing. That was in the days when every kid had a pen knife of sorts, we used them for peeling mangles [pumpkins] that we got from the first farm barn, peeling scromped apples, and sharpening canes for arrows or spears, those were the good old days, I think Robert was the youngest and had red hair ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
xfox3x   10 #44 Posted February 14, 2010 [quote=xfox3x; Mick lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when he was in his teens.  He nearly bled to death around 1951 when I stabbed him in the wrist whilst running alongside him with his Jack knife in my hand, as luck would have it, his Grandmother or aunty lived around the corner at Crosspool, she bandaged him up, took the knife off us and sent us packing. That was in the days when every kid had a pen knife of sorts, we used them for peeling mangles [pumpkins] that we got from the first farm barn, peeling scromped apples, and sharpening canes for arrows or spears, those were the good old days, I think Robert was the youngest and had red hair ?  Yes, Rob is the youngest and had red hair...but has very little left now! His daughter inherited the awful ginger colour much to her disgust. He was 60 last year. Two children and a grandson. Mick will be about 65 and has two children. Eddie had two children but died in his very early fifties. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
skippy   11 #45 Posted February 14, 2010 I think Mick is at least a year older than me, so he would be about 68 or 69 this year ? Robert was only 5 when we moved to the shirecliffe, so he wouldn't remember me. I married a redhead, so I'm not getting into that one, ha ha. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
xfox3x   10 #46 Posted February 14, 2010 I think Mick is at least a year older than me, so he would be about 68 or 69 this year ? Robert was only 5 when we moved to the shirecliffe, so he wouldn't remember me. I married a redhead, so I'm not getting into that one, ha ha.  I know Mick is on face book if you ever felt like contacting him x Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
garthai   10 #47 Posted February 19, 2010 Western Road (now Westways) was at Western Road, Crookes. There was Crookes Endowed School and Lydgate Lane. Where specifically in Walkley? Burgoyne Road, Bole Hill, Sacred Heart, There was a catholic school on Howard Road, was it St.Marie's? People in Walkley may be able to offer more detail? Myers Grove hadn't been born then.  I went to Crookes Endowed before moving to Tapton on Darwin Lane , approx 1959, my parents owned a shop opposite the Old Grindstone Pub Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
John Peace   10 #48 Posted February 19, 2010 Hi, just come across this thread. Rob O'Neill is my brother-in-law. Mick lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when he was in his teens. Eddie was a mechanic and had his own garage at Dinnington. He died a few years ago. Did you have a sister called Josie?   No I do not have a sister  I remember both Mick and Robert also. Used to hang out at their house with Eddie but I doubt they remember me.  Saddened to hear Eddie left us.  (But they are calling our row) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...