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hi i lived on adsett st right next to the steel  works i think it was no 35 opposite the bottom  of draper st  my name was peter yates ours was the big yard we always had a big bonfire in the yard my grand parents lived on draper st no 26 they were called nellie and john brown alxo i remember the prince of wales pub when the sutters had it i had a saturday job cleaning out the fireplaces out anc making the fire if i remember right they had a mynah bird

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the oldhams lived at the corner house opposite prince of waleson the dead end end

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my friends had the PoW in the late 60s until it was demolished Roger and Sylvia Shaw

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On 06/10/2019 at 20:09, gaz 786 said:

Sure that bird was owned by Dennis cornthwaite it used to swear like a good un we lived on Clevedon St thi k you lived near askhams? 

I worked with a Bill Askham at Sandersons in the 60s.

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Can you remember Keith Broughton who lived next to the "Prince" on Addsetts street and the Sheldons who lived on Bland Street I think?

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i think i remember keith the person i remember had a nickname snakey if that helps

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no relation buller rigby but all  my family lived in grimesthorpe my grandparents lived on draper st and was called brown

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16 hours ago, yatesace said:

i think i remember keith the person i remember had a nickname snakey if that helps

No, I never knew him as snakey.

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I lived at number 5 from birth in 1943 until moving to Shiregreen in 1958. 

 

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Hi long shot here..  but did anyone live on adsett street Grimesthorpe near number 4 ?.we think thats  the house my grandad lived at for awhile back in the early 70s. Was a Tall fella dark hair name was Francis Roy humpreys.. the house apparently had an gas explosion with a door flung off and hit him in side of face/neck . I’ve heard caused by whites demolition hit a gas pipe .just that I never got to see him has he Sadly passed in 75 year before I was born. So if any one knew of him plz tell 😀. I’m tying to gather some information ect ... so any information greatly appreciated Thanks guys n girls 

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i lived at no6 and my sister at no4, the flemmings at no8 and the butchers at no10 an old lady lived at no2 but i cannot remember her name, i was born there in 1938 and left the area in about 1970

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