Heeley Green, picture house.

[miami now]

Wow that sounds so like it was yesterday, lol, strange how certain things stay with us, we moved on to the Hackenthorpe when i was about 6, my sister was about 11, then we moved to the Gleadless Valley and I was there till i moved to Miami USA, but mum was there till she passed in 2007, and i would go back every year to visit, with my kids. I remember pulling up the tin tub, on Friday nights for bath night by the fire in the living room, mum would boil water on the stove, and dad always had the first bath,lol. Toilet was up the path outside when i tell my kids the storys they just cant picture that lol a toilet outside never heard of such a thing lol but memories i will never forget, my dads family the Warburtons had lots of relatives all in the area, but, he passed away in his early years only 36 in an accident at work (Firth Vickers) he was electricuted on the job. So mum raised us alone but never did we have a bad day. Yes those were the days for sure.

[sharrovian]

The Heeley Green Picture House was built in a mock Tudor style by M. J. Gleeson and the cinema opened on Easter Monday, April 5, 1920. For some years from 1930 it became a theatre staging vaudeville and variety acts but reverted to being a cinema on May 9 1938, it seated 869 and closed March 7 1959. Afer an unsuccessful bid for the property it re-opened on April 3, 1961 under the name of Tudor and closed finally June 3, 1962 and as previously stated became a bingo hall and later a snooker club.

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My grandparents lived at 279 Gleadless Rd. the house having been rebuilt since then but I remember as a child visiting on a regular basis, there must have been around at least eight houses in the yard each with its own outside toilet which were built in a line up the yard and all with their own lock and key, about four of the houses had a Jeffrey St address, the others were G-Rd., there was also a communal wash-house which was spotless and was used on allocated washdays. Across Gleadless Rd. was a bomb-site where I used to go and play, and oh I nearly forgot we used to call at Taggys on the way there.

[grinder]

Fond memories of the Heeley Green. As a kid used to go twice a week with Grandma or an aunt and a bag of toffees and remember hoping the film would never end so's I didn't have to go home to our cold little house.

 

You could sit in a box for the same price as upstairs, but not many did because you were off to the side.

 

I've collected most of the old films I saw there, the Heeley Palace and the Carleton, and now if I turn down the lights I can re-live the experience all over again on my big screen TV. Just need the red exit signs to make it complete, LOL

 

Later us kids from Heeley Bank School would all go, Janet Warburton, Janet Dungworth, Silvia Hough, Janet Beck, Maureen (Little Mo) Reaney, Pat Brownhill. Lots of Warburtons, Whittakers around Heeley and I think they were all related.

 

Those, as they say, were the days!

 

Wasn't the Carleton on the Arbourthorne, used to live up there in the prefabs till 52 then we moved down Heeley, and I went to Heeley Bank as well...

 

Thanks for that Sharrovian......

Edited July 6, 2011 by grinder

[miami now]

my Grandma Warburton lived at about number 2 Gleadless Road, a church was behind her and a pub to the side across the road and you had a little bridge and the River Don ran under it, and a over bridge for the railroad was a little bit down further going toward Heeley Bottom, we lived on Tillitsone Road, forgot how to spell it, im 60 now and was 5 when i lived there lol

[miami now]

Oh i forgot to mention the school was called Anns Road School that i went to.

[grinder]

my Grandma Warburton lived at about number 2 Gleadless Road, a church was behind her and a pub to the side across the road and you had a little bridge and the River Don ran under it, and a over bridge for the railroad was a little bit down further going toward Heeley Bottom, we lived on Tillitsone Road, forgot how to spell it, im 60 now and was 5 when i lived there lol

 

Hi Miami.

It's not the Don it's the Sheaf down Heeley and it's Tillotson road..

It could be any of two bridges, you being in America I don't know what you would call a "Little bridge"

There's a road bridge on London road and a foot bridge on Skellys walk, Sheaf bank...

Edited July 7, 2011 by grinder

[trastrick]

Oh i forgot to mention the school was called Anns Road School that i went to.

 

Yeah, went Anns Road too, Miss Haird was the Head and she and her sister Little Miss Haird ran it, when I was there. Still got the scar from a wild cricket bat swing in the schoolyard.

 

We lived in Carter Place, and in Toronto now.

[trastrick]

Wasn't the Carleton on the Arbourthorne, used to live up there in the prefabs till 52 then we moved down Heeley, and I went to Heeley Bank as well.

 

It certainly was, and when we moved to the Arbourthorn (Hartopp Road) it was an option. About the same distance to the 'green as I recall.

 

Always played B pictures though, film noir stuff, You had to go dahn't green (Palace, Collie, Abbeydale) to see a "big" picture.

[miami now]

Had an aunt that lived on Hartopp Road, her name was Aunt Dolly she had a daughter names Glynis, i lived just off Newfiled Green Road, on the Gleadless Valley across from the Shops, used to work at the Chip Shop when i was about 16.

[trastrick]

Had an aunt that lived on Hartopp Road, her name was Aunt Dolly she had a daughter names Glynis, i lived just off Newfiled Green Road, on the Gleadless Valley across from the Shops, used to work at the Chip Shop when i was about 16.

 

You're a lot younger than me then. I was an electrician when they were building Gleadless Valley over our childhood playground (Far Lees Woods, Rollin Woods) My uncle Ken Morris moved there. I left Hartopp in 1960 for Canada. Derek Warburton lived around the corner on Haliburton Road.