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Yorkie. Had forgotten about the drain until you mentioned it. Yes I have been through it many times. As you say 'happy days'

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Between the Parkway and Pipworth road school was Crabtree farm with the fields at the back going down to the woods.

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Seem to remember between Pipworth School and the farm there was a Council works depot. Used to walk along a path on to the fields at the back of houses on Pipworth Road and the back of the school. You  carried on walking and got to the woods. Many happy hours spent in there with friends eating blackberries, raspberried and in the autumn sweet chestnuts.

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This from picture Sheffield shows what the section between  Prince of Wales Road up to the Mosborough link rounabout looked like.  

You can just  see the swimming pool  in the valley which means that the photo was taken after 1924 {I could be wrong about that} The farmhouses are there but no Sheffield council yard which stood between Pipworth School playground and the farm houses.

There are some decent photos of the baths on picture Sheffield and also some of an area called Corker Bottoms which was was at the bottom of Beaumont Road North down to the Nunnery pit, it  more ore less followed the line Parkway to the Woodbourn area and the Nunnery slagheap and Cowlishaws

Seeing this picture is quite sad because of just how idyllic the area looked

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s24489&prevUrl=

 

 

Edited by Odd-jobs

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