Could anyone tell me some history of longley /Southey green

[Poppi 10]

Was it all farmland before the council estate was built or what was there

Nobody seems to know

[lee75 10]

Heard it was a quarry many years ago.

[badgemush 10]

Yes there was a lot of farms.

http://picturesheffield.com/index.php Search for Southey Green Or Longley and there's some old pictures of the area's.

The quarry was at Wadsley Bridge, where Kilner Way is now

[lee75 10]

Yes there was a lot of farms.

http://picturesheffield.com/index.php Search for Southey Green Or Longley and there's some old pictures of the area's.

The quarry was at Wadsley Bridge, where Kilner Way is now

 

It doesn't matter how many times i did my garden over, I'm always digging rocks, stones & bricks up. What a nightmare it is.

[badgemush 10]

It doesn't matter how many times i did my garden over, I'm always digging rocks, stones & bricks up. What a nightmare it is.

 

Yes Lee75 got to agree with you there. mine was the same when I lived on Pollard.

[lee75 10]

Yes Lee75 got to agree with you there. mine was the same when I lived on Pollard.

 

That's where i live now Was digging for 9 hours last Monday then again the following day for 5 hours. And all for the kids....again!! I keep saying to myself that i would never do it again but then found myself to be doing it and and in the process doing my back in KIDS!!!!!!!

[bullerboY 10]

There were a lot of small quarries on the longley and Southey areas a hundred or so years ago in fact many Race horses were buried in these quarries when the Stubbin was a famous horse Stud.

[Daven 10]

I remember there being a farm at Longley. I worked at the Northern General in the mid to late 70's. Walking up the Herries Road drive I would be often be greeted by cows leaning over the wall on the left side of the drive.

[okismoki 10]

It doesn't matter how many times i did my garden over, I'm always digging rocks, stones & bricks up. What a nightmare it is.

bet the bricks were Wadsley Bridge Brick Co.....