Children's homes or orphanages in Sheffield

[crazy1955 10]

hi alan my grandparents lived on windmill lane near firthpark we lived on the flower estate till 1970

[freeshia 10]

my late husband was in the fulwood cottage homes alan whitehead in about 1945 1950s and so was his sister norma about 1950 they hated it ,she said they used to lock her in a cuboard all day for not eating the horrible porage

[flyer 10]

my late husband was in the fulwood cottage homes alan whitehead in about 1945 1950s and so was his sister norma about 1950 they hated it ,she said they used to lock her in a cuboard all day for not eating the horrible porage

Up untill 45-46 we had dire warnings about crossing the green to the girls side my sister was in but never got to see her in 5 yrs, now Ms Bull who was our house witch had said we would catch a case of the viles if we talk to girls,I heard she got moved to the girls side I'm sort of hopeing she came down with it and died a very painful death:hihi::gag:

[brian1941 11]

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Flyer you could have been in homes when i was in but then i dont know

your name, i went in during the 40s till 53/4.

 

what sort of jobs do you do around the house and was you ever made

to scrub the outside toilets at the front and the urinals round the back.

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Well flyer, did you ever do any of these things mentioned.

[flyer 10]

buffing the floors was one of the main jobs I just can't remember the rest but they all had to be done

[brian1941 11]

Hi ya Brian1941,

 

The home my sister was at was definitely across town, she occasionally brought a small boy to our house, in S5, for tea. I believe. the home was only for very young children.

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Hi alanMn, After my last mail to you regarding the home for smaller children there was a home on southly hill for young kids.

It didn't cross mine mind at the time but yes there was a home and my

half sister had a small boy in there, it was part of the scattered homes

orphanage when they was all moved out fulwood cottage homes to make way for the girls approved school and was renamed " Moorside"

PS, i lived on southely hill from 1970 well into the late 1980s and i passed

the home every day, and it was sheffield 5 and when i can think of

the name of the home i'll put it on thread.

[brian1941 11]

Hi ya sputnikboy,----- I can guarantee its Roger Bradbury we use to have snowball

fights i can assure you, but i will double check on the hill brothers when i see their

Ronnie whenever, but i didn't know anything about them been in cadets its only

that i had the photo for years now.

[crazy1955 10]

i know that home on southy hill i lived around the corner from it on launce road from about 1970 to 74

[crazy1955 10]

rest of my family stayed there till the 80s then moved up foxhill

[flyer 10]

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Well flyer, did you ever do any of these things mentioned.

 

you got me to thinking what work did the house mother do,now she did put on a little food , dinner was had at school so for night she would throw in the oven dish's of rice or lentils ,if you timed it perfect you could ask to scrape the dish ofen got a NOyou Maint or baint (she must have lived in brom at one time) morning porriage was cooked and cleaned up by the kids, I never remember a time when i wasn't hungrey, so today making up for lost time:hihi:

[brian1941 11]

buffing the floors was one of the main jobs I just can't remember the rest but they all had to be done

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Hi flyer, Yes buffing the floor was a hard job as specially useing them

floor dummies can you remember them,

All rooms dowstairs and upstairs was done with that heavy thing, but the

bathroom and kitchen floor was tiled and we had to get on hands and

knees and scrub it, we didn't have mops in our house but we did have a

rubber map to kneel on.

The mother use to say when you leave homes she didn't want us to have

housemaiden knees. So she cared -- Huh?

[brian1941 11]

i know that home on southy hill i lived around the corner from it on launce road from about 1970 to 74

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hi crazy, What was the name of that home on southly hill then please.