Peter pans cave woodhouse?

[alchresearch 214]

Where abouts in Woodhouse is this please ?

 

Bottom of Junction Road. Click the map link I posted.

 

Here's a bird's eye view of it: http://binged.it/GYW9yu

 

And a Google Street View

Edited October 15, 2013 by alchresearch

[kevvy 12]

Thanks for that.

[me-and-pippo 12]

I always thought it was a mine entrance ?

 

1920's map http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k265

[Phoenixcater 10]

FROM ALCOPEDIA ...

 

Contrary to popular belief, J.M.Barrie was not born in Kirriemuir (Angus, Scotland), but slightly further afield ... Turkey, to be precise, a town near Ankara called Yenikent.

 

In 1870, at the age of ten, J.M and his mum and dad, Mr. and Mrs. Barrieopolis, left their homeland to seek fame and fortune. Prevailing winds blew their coracle westward along the Mediterranean sea, round Gibralter, and up the River Don to Woodhouse, along with their new farinaceous culinary invention ... kebabs!

This consisted of cooked, slightly leavened bread which they called Pitta. This was baked in a hot oven in a pan, which was Teflon coated to prevent it from ageing.

Into this pitta, all manner of things could be stuffed. Being now in Yorkshire, sheep were pretty much in endless supply, and J.M's dad soon learned the gentlemanly art of 'rustling' (stabbing a sheep in the neck when it wasn't looking, and dragging off to the kitchen) ... the kebabs were an instant success!

 

Of course, some of the other local Woodhousians weren't quite as impressed (to the point of being very annoyed) as their sheep were going missing ... they called in the Feds, and a door to door sheep hunt began ...

 

 

 

Mr. Barrieopolis nearly displaced the content of his bowels as he saw the cops coming down Beighton road with a sheep divining stick as he was peeking through the yet to be invented Venetian blinds. They mustn't find any evidence or he'd be done for!

The only thing to do was to hide the pitta bread recipe in the shed at the bottom of their garden, along with the special tray on which it was baked ... the Pitta Pan. If the cops found them they'd put two and two together!

For even more security, he hastily fixed a bell to the shed door so he'd be able to hear if the Police were tinkering with it whilst he was pretending to be out.

 

It worked! ... the cops never found anything!

 

Of course, the young J.M. Barrie (he'd had to drop the 'opolis' to avoid playground bullying) was fascinated by all of this and wrote stories all about it in his colouring book.

Suffice to say, only just being eleven years old, and English not his first language, his spelling wasn't really up to scratch, although his stories proved very popular.

 

The 'Peter Pan' (which never aged, thanks to the Teflon coating) and the 'Tinkerbell' featured in all of his stories and he made a lot of money. As a grown up, he moved to Angus in Scotland, where he lived happily ever after (until he died in 1937).

 

 

As you can see O/P ... it's not the 'Peter Pan Cave', rater the 'pitta pan shed'. Hope this answers your question.

 

:hihi::hihi:

[katy0000 10]

Brings back memories, used to play on the seco and peter pans cave as a kid

[alchresearch 214]

The edges of the secco used to be surrounded by apple and pear trees. And there's also an old Victorian bottle dump nearby.

 

Did anyone ever go all the way through the Shire Brook tunnel under the railway?

Edited October 16, 2013 by alchresearch