Chitts   10 #313 Posted May 1, 2008 Re Thundercliffe Grange . we used to parade there from beck rd methodist church led by the B B and a guy i think called mr hodge who could shout from one side of sheffield to the other . for some reason we stopped on street corners and sang hymns in the hope that someone might listen to us.cant imagine what the poor kids at the grange got out of it . my nan used to work at the penguin from the day it was built [ vi hathaway ] and brought me footy progs from the guys who went on the penguin special coach to the matches . more over to my side , at hartley brook shops there was queenies , gillotts and hopkinsons . I used to deliver groceries on the shopbike like granville and give girls i fancied a ride in the basket ! .anyone remember the bus only going along beck rd , not all the way round , miss wadsworth at beck rd school and the 4 o'clock gang, ecclesfield fair behind the pub , hulleys ice cream factory and the orchards on the allotments at hartley brook and arthur wood who took over the paper shop on bellhouse rd . alan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Weazel2006 Â Â 25 #314 Posted May 2, 2008 just thought id shout hi and say im from shiregreen......friends welcome i dont know anyone around here yet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
nuttycow13 Â Â 10 #315 Posted May 2, 2008 I started teaching at Shiregreen Middle School in the late seventies.. Kids include Andy Matthews, Gary Fothergill, Rowding Family, Flint Family, Walches etc Teachers were Pete Inman, Bernard Priest, Gwen Marsden, Mike Mahoney, Jim Friar, Dave Hutton etc. Â i was there with those kids back then, i can remember first time in mr priests class and getting prodded under the shoulder blade for talking, also the board rubber and chalk being thrown at pupils. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
nuttycow13 Â Â 10 #316 Posted May 2, 2008 i remember mrs furniss on oaks fold rd, at the back of concord park. she used to teach me at shiregreen school, took the all class to her house and gave us all glass of orange, At the end of the year she gave us all a ladybird book on british wildlife and still had until a couple of year ago. This site is brill Only found this site 2 days ago, curtesy of my brother. Find it fascinating not stop reading it yet! Just had to come in on the Shiregreen thing. I was brought up on Shiregreen, first going to Woolley Wood Junior School then Shiregreen Sec Mod, left in 1964. Loved the place then, it has so many memories for me. Anyone remember Gibbon Chipshop on Nethershire Lane? My mum worked there for years, we always got free chips when she was at work, the down side was every morning when we got up, the house stank like a chip shop from her overalls from the night before! I remember going to play in Concorde park and the woods, where the lads would build a tarzan swing and us girls werent allowed a go. Does anyone remember Miss(Valerie I think) Furness, used to do dancing lessons on Oaks Lane/Shiregreen Lane? Only went for ballroom, but it never did me much good, I have two left feet now. Oh how young and innocent we all were in those days, compared to today, don,t know who was better off? I heard someone mention Joe Gould, I remember him well, and his mother, who always frightened me, I used to think she was a witch. Used to get sent there to fetch 10 Park Drive for my mum and dad, at about the age of 8/9, that wouldnt happen today. Love to hear more if anyone remembers anything from around that time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Chris76 Â Â 10 #317 Posted May 2, 2008 I grew up on Lower Shiregreen during 60's/70's. I went to Hatfield House Lane School, now Firth Park. I remember Gould's shop on Bellhouse Road. There was the old lady, Joe and Grace. I think Grace used to work on buses, as well as help in the shop. I remember it being very old, small and cluttered. Is anyone on here used to go to Hatfield House Lane 1966 to 1970. Mr. Whitfield was the head teacher at that time. Miss Meehan, music teacher, Miss Mills and Mrs. Ellis (as was) PE teachers, Miss Wallace, needlework, Mr. White, Physics, Mr Senior Chemistry and Mr Briars, Biology, to name a few. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Peno   10 #318 Posted May 3, 2008 I lived at 22 Deep Lane during the war, and my grandparents Billy and Louisa Wood lived on the other side at 23. My brother Philip is 14 years younger than me and he went to a school on Shiregreen. Can’t remember which, but the Headmistress was Miss Glossop who was also head of Hunter’s Bar Infants School while I was there.  My Aunt and Uncle lived at 20 Deep Lane along with Jean and Brian during the war and up to the early 70's. I have happy memories of visiting Deep Lane. My cousin Brian only recalls the Hendersons is that your family name? . For a short while we lived at 600 Bellhouse Road across from the Wilsons who lived on the odd side of Deep Lane. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
nuttycow13 Â Â 10 #319 Posted May 3, 2008 hiya my grandparent lived They were the wardles on Beck road and the Biltons on Beck close. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Chris76 Â Â 10 #320 Posted May 3, 2008 I don't know many people from Beck Road. I used to go to the Doctors on the corner of Beck Road and Bellhouse. I think one was Dr. Rapinet and the other was Dr. Hudson I think. I used to play down Deep Lane as a young girl and over the road towards Grange Lane I even used to go all day into Concord Park and walk to Chapeltown Baths on a Saturday afternoon. If I remember rightly the only person I know used to live on Deep Lane was the Hickey family, although I could be wrong. I know they lived down there somewhere. Linda Hickey was in my year at school. I'm from Shirehall Road,(low numbers) just off Lowhouse Road. My friend from school lived further up at 500 Bellhouse Road. Cheryl Lidster. Their family own the shop on Nethershire Shops now. Her dad used to be a coal merchant. Some of the old shops I remember were Mr. Peat the butcher, Styans bakery, just before the slope, Greenstreet the Chemist and I think Mrs. Evans was the name of the Post Mistress who ran the post office. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Fast Runner   10 #321 Posted May 3, 2008 I also remember Drs Hudson & Rapinet, no appointment necessary just walk in and you were seen within half an hour. (those days long gone !! ) I knew Dr Hudson's daughter Penny, went horse riding together at Thorpe Hesley. The surgery still stands today though not as a doctors surgery, last time I saw the house it was derelict, at one time the local Social Services were run from there. It was a great place to play with the fields and Woolley Woods within easy walking distance, we lived at the bottom of Deep Lane (odd numbers) so the playing fields were directly opposite. Happy child hood memories Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Chris76 Â Â 10 #322 Posted May 3, 2008 It was Dr. Hudson that could have saved my mothers life if she had seen him initially. Dr. Rapinet was treating her for mastitis for too long. She went to Dr. Hudson and he had her in straight away with cancer. Sadly it was too late and it had spread. That was back in 67. Yes round there was great for playing areas. Mind you I would hate to think my children now went out for 7 hours at a time like we used to do. My dad and brother in law used to work at Shardlows so we often used to walk down there to meet him from work.Long walk back especially when it was hot. Don't have to worry about heat these days. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
pedro1 Â Â 10 #323 Posted May 4, 2008 So when was Dr marcus there? He was the doctor when i went. I can`t remember the other 2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
pedro1 Â Â 10 #324 Posted May 4, 2008 Just realised, my doctor was on the corner of beck road and sicey ave. Think it`s a house now but you could just walk in to ours. There used to be these large speakers on the floor under the wooden beches in the waiting room with the radio playing out of them Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...