okismoki   10 #2005 Posted October 11, 2008 We lived at 7 Hillside ave from 1946 to 1953 I remember sledging on a curved piece from a anderson shelter from the top of Tunwell knowle down to the jews cemetery what was then Blind lane [Colley road] The makeshift sledge held about 8 small kids The german and italian prisoners of war made us wooden toys etc for cigarettes, We mixed freely with them no problems after they were freed many stayed here One of them was Karl Suck a friend and neighbour, I remember a large deep lime pit unfenced something to do with plastering the new houses I think it would be considered dangerous now. Oh well happy days despite no phone or car or tv and little money oh and sweets on ration. the karl suck you mention,did he become a butcher? is he any relation to eric suck who has the butchers on margetson shops?????i know eric has a brother,but for some reason,he has adopted the surname scott. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Richard PX5 Â Â 10 #2006 Posted October 11, 2008 the karl suck you mention,did he become a butcher? is he any relation to eric suck who has the butchers on margetson shops?????i know eric has a brother,but for some reason,he has adopted the surname scott. Â hi oki,i live in rotherham now for many years but parents told me about the shepards house fire what was in the papers but apart fron the dog who tragically died,did the mum die in the fire or was it another member of the family, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
okismoki   10 #2007 Posted October 12, 2008 hi oki,i live in rotherham now for many years but parents told me about the shepards house fire what was in the papers but apart fron the dog who tragically died,did the mum die in the fire or was it another member of the family, mum,dad,mums sister and one of the daughters if im right,all died in the fire. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Richard PX5 Â Â 10 #2008 Posted October 12, 2008 mum,dad,mums sister and one of the daughters if im right,all died in the fire. Â oh god thats really sad oki:( Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Dexman   10 #2009 Posted October 12, 2008 I was talking to my brother Terry last night and he told me around where the big island on Fulmere Crescent is, there used to be prisoner of war huts or something like that during the war. Anybody know or remember if this is true? I lived on Fulmere Crescent for 20 years and I never heard this before Or was he winding me up? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Unregistered   10 #2010 Posted October 13, 2008 I was talking to my brother Terry last night and he told me around where the big island on Fulmere Crescent is, there used to be prisoner of war huts or something like that during the war. Anybody know or remember if this is true? I lived on Fulmere Crescent for 20 years and I never heard this before Or was he winding me up?  Did Fulmere Crescent island exist during the war?  I thought that the area was all farmland pre-1947. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Bushbaby   11 #2011 Posted October 13, 2008 Did Fulmere Crescent island exist during the war?  I thought that the area was all farmland pre-1947.  Fulmere definitely didn't exist, but I have certainly heard about the PoW huts.  When the Italians changed sides, there were lots of Italian PoWs who couldn't be repatriated to an occupied country, so they were employed in various ways,one of which was as builders. They helped out on a lot of the foundation work for The Cross, so it would make sense that they were housed in and around this area Just think Dex, when me and you were scoring spectacular goals on the Big Island. we were possibly following in the footsteps of the some great Italian footballers!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Unregistered   10 #2012 Posted October 13, 2008  Fulmere definitely didn't exist, but I have certainly heard about the PoW huts.  When the Italians changed sides, there were lots of Italian PoWs who couldn't be repatriated to an occupied country, so they were employed in various ways, one of which was as builders.  They helped out on a lot of the foundation work for The Cross, so it would make sense that they were housed in and around this area.   Yes, it was PoWs that laid that part of Wordsworth Avenue (Deerlands to Ecclesfield) in 1947. I saw their inscription made in the wet concrete outside the Wordsworth Tavern, before it was covered in tarmac. PoWs didn't lay all the paving slabs though, as the house builder invited local residents to do that job for a bit of extra cash.  I never knew where the PoWs were housed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Jabberwocky   46 #2013 Posted October 13, 2008 If you take a walk around the junctions of Remington road and around that area youll see a little triangle of concrete in the middle of the road with the POW sign scraped into them. As far as I know all the junctions around there have it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Dexman   10 #2014 Posted October 13, 2008 I remember working around the Lindsay Road area just off the bottom end of Deerlands in 1977 and an old chap telling me about the Italian prisoners of war laying all the roads around that area so I wonder if they were the same Pow`s as the ones from the Fulmere Area. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Jabberwocky   46 #2015 Posted October 13, 2008 I remember my mother who lived on Holgate avenue at the time telling me that the people there used to trade coffee and chocolate with the POWS, they got things in their red cross parcels that they didnt need so they traded them for tea and fresh vegetables . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Unregistered   10 #2016 Posted October 13, 2008  If you take a walk around the junctions of Remington road and around that area youll see a little triangle of concrete in the middle of the road with the POW sign scraped into them.  The other week I drove between Yew Lane and Remington Road for the first time in 30+ years, down Dugdale Drive, and I got a big shock.  I could see across to Wheata/Rokeby and that church - someone's shifted Colley School. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...