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St Petre when you gazed over the Don Valley down behind Bassets and Owlerton Stadium did you notice the cottage on the bend in Liversey Street just after the old stone bridge over the River Don?.Well that's where myself and my family lived from the 1940s until the 70s,it was a different place in the earlier days to what it ended up like eventualy ,when I was a kid there wasn,t even a road just a dirt track,I was born 1943 so I would imagine we are similar ages,I never forget the old place I even have a recurring dream of being stranded on a night out with no money in the middle of nowhere trying to get home back there only to find nobody there when I make it ,its all been done up and when I get in some stranger shows up and turfs me out!.God knows what that's all about it must mean something I don't know what!.

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46 minutes ago, old tup said:

St Petre when you gazed over the Don Valley down behind Bassets and Owlerton Stadium did you notice the cottage on the bend in Liversey Street just after the old stone bridge over the River Don?.Well that's where myself and my family lived from the 1940s until the 70s,it was a different place in the earlier days to what it ended up like eventualy ,when I was a kid there wasn,t even a road just a dirt track,I was born 1943 so I would imagine we are similar ages,I never forget the old place I even have a recurring dream of being stranded on a night out with no money in the middle of nowhere trying to get home back there only to find nobody there when I make it ,its all been done up and when I get in some stranger shows up and turfs me out!.God knows what that's all about it must mean something I don't know what!.

Whitey says he went to the museum with you as a kid and saw these, 

http://collections.museums-sheffield.org.uk/media/view/Objects/16964/66635?t:state:flow=ac5befee-527f-4fcd-9b23-bdc6d65b643f

http://collections.museums-sheffield.org.uk/media/view/Objects/23539/66555?t:state:flow=1053a889-0301-46fa-804d-49a43cc2e9d0

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Correct Retep we went with the school,I remember telling the teacher that was our house in the first painting he told me to be quiet and  stop showing off,when I persisted he got annoyed so I dropped it!.On the second painting the building with the goit at the side is not our place,its either the mill or a second cottage that was at the end of ours that was demolished in the very early 1900s!.I traced it on Picture Sheffield,on picture 2 looking downhill to the left is the tiny chapel after that the gravediggers house in Wardsend Cemetery occupied by the Grattans in my childhood!.How is Whitey by the way does he still carry that aqualung,thats what Park Drives do for you!

 

 

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39 minutes ago, old tup said:

Correct Retep we went with the school,I remember telling the teacher that was our house in the first painting he told me to be quiet and  stop showing off,when I persisted he got annoyed so I dropped it!.On the second painting the building with the goit at the side is not our place,its either the mill or a second cottage that was at the end of ours that was demolished in the very early 1900s!.I traced it on Picture Sheffield,on picture 2 looking downhill to the left is the tiny chapel after that the gravediggers house in Wardsend Cemetery occupied by the Grattans in my childhood!.How is Whitey by the way does he still carry that aqualung,thats what Park Drives do for you!

 

 

He sounds like a pervert when he arrives at the gate, ten minutes before he can even talk, must be carrying the aqualung that's doing for him.

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