Grimesthorpe Part 3

[hillsbro 32]

... the paloney was like a red sausage as it had this red skin and purchased one link at a time, it could be spread or served in slices. My question is, is this stuff still around if so did it get any better tasting?...

It's still around and you can even buy it at Morrisons but I can't vouch for the taste.

[fleetwood 10]

It's still around and you can even buy it at Morrisons but I can't vouch for the taste.

Thanks hillsbro - the old red Polony is still around, well I never.

[johnpm 18]

That part of area has always be fine i spent lots of time down that end,

enjoyed my days i the Boys Bridgade Reform Chaple in the 60.

Had a good friend in charlie wise he helped me out one year too get

me on a holiday to Jersey, i worked at firth browns as did he and i paid

him back weekly out of my wages. Very good chap he was.

 

Yes Brian, there were so many people at Reform Chapel who us youngsters owe a lot to. As well as Charlie there was his wife Amy, Les Cusworth & Ken Morris. They dedicated their lives to us.

[brian1941 11]

Yes Brian, there were so many people at Reform Chapel who us youngsters owe a lot to. As well as Charlie there was his wife Amy, Les Cusworth & Ken Morris. They dedicated their lives to us.

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Hi Johnpm, In the late 1950s/61 Charlie Wise and Amy invited me

to live with them for two week while my parents were on holiday in

Cleethorpes. Not that my parents didn't think i couldn't look after myself

at 16 they just didn't trust me being on my own.

The thing was i once enticed a pigeon into the house while they were

visiting friends in sheffield and it flew into the window to get out and

smashed. When they came home i first told a fib someone kicked a

ball at it and broke. Well there you go- always pays too tell the truth

haha. Charlie and Amy was always helpful in every way.

When i pass there old house on Hatfield House Lane they always

cross my mind.

[bantycock 10]

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Hi Johnpm, In the late 1950s/61 Charlie Wise and Amy invited me

to live with them for two week while my parents were on holiday in

Cleethorpes. Not that my parents didn't think i couldn't look after myself

at 16 they just didn't trust me being on my own.

The thing was i once enticed a pigeon into the house while they were

visiting friends in sheffield and it flew into the window to get out and

smashed. When they came home i first told a fib someone kicked a

ball at it and broke. Well there you go- always pays too tell the truth

haha. Charlie and Amy was always helpful in every way.

When i pass there old house on Hatfield House Lane they always

cross my mind.

 

There was pigeons all over reform chapel not so mny nowadays though

[johnpm 18]

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Hi Johnpm, In the late 1950s/61 Charlie Wise and Amy invited me

to live with them for two week while my parents were on holiday in

Cleethorpes. Not that my parents didn't think i couldn't look after myself

at 16 they just didn't trust me being on my own.

The thing was i once enticed a pigeon into the house while they were

visiting friends in sheffield and it flew into the window to get out and

smashed. When they came home i first told a fib someone kicked a

ball at it and broke. Well there you go- always pays too tell the truth

haha. Charlie and Amy was always helpful in every way.

When i pass there old house on Hatfield House Lane they always

cross my mind.

 

Your story shows that Charlie & Amy would always go the extra mile for us kids & trusted us too!

[PeterR 10]

Came down to Sheffield and stayed over the last couple of days.

Disappointed to see that Adsetts Street is now completely fenced off since I saw it a couple of months ago. Only the narrow pathway at the side of it is passable. Can no longer access the old cobbles and where no. 5 was.

To add to my upset, the old part of Shiregreen Cemetary, where my Mother and Dad rest, just downhill from the toilet block, is in a terrible state. It becomes harder to get the old feelings each time I visit.

[skippy 11]

It's very disappointing going back to nothing Peter, I got a big shock in 92 when I went to take photo's of where my wife was born and bred on Botham St, but came to a dead end when I got to Grimesthorpe school.

I then went over Petre St to have a look at the area where we lived when we got married, it was different, but the locals didn't seem to be as friendly as they were in the 60's, and it was the same at Crookes and Shirecliffe where I spent most of my youth, all my old mates had moved away from Sheffield, that's why I have never been back since.

[David Ra2 10]

It's very disappointing going back to nothing Peter, I got a big shock in 92 when I went to take photo's of where my wife was born and bred on Botham St, but came to a dead end when I got to Grimesthorpe school.

I then went over Petre St to have a look at the area where we lived when we got married, it was different, but the locals didn't seem to be as friendly as they were in the 60's, and it was the same at Crookes and Shirecliffe where I spent most of my youth, all my old mates had moved away from Sheffield, that's why I have never been back since.

 

I came back to the UK in 1998 and the area is far worse than then, there is litter everywhere, they had a TV programme on Channel 4 showing Page Hall in particular Popple Street "Keeping up with the Khans" which showed how multi cultured the area has become.

[skippy 11]

Gday Dave, I was saying on a facebook group about how I used to walk home to the Shirecliffe at midnight after taking Dor's home in the early 60's, and I was told that a lot of people wouldn't even walk through Page Hall or Firvale in the daytime these days. so it's definitely a different world now to the one we grew up in.

[brian1941 11]

Came down to Sheffield and stayed over the last couple of days.

Disappointed to see that Adsetts Street is now completely fenced off since I saw it a couple of months ago. Only the narrow pathway at the side of it is passable. Can no longer access the old cobbles and where no. 5 was.

To add to my upset, the old part of Shiregreen Cemetary, where my Mother and Dad rest, just downhill from the toilet block, is in a terrible state. It becomes harder to get the old feelings each time I visit.

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Hi Peter, I was down Grimesthorpe few weeks ago, i was stood near

the end of Adsetts St watching kids on bikes riding on that pathway.

I also took a short break just to get my breath back from the road leading

from Reform Chaple upto the old club.

Had a good look at Grimesthorpe Club and thinking the good nights

i've had in there with my family and friends, even some of the

committee staff were great.

I remember Cyril Seaman - Oscar Wild -Bill Hanwell - Reg Allen -

Billy Hawkins - Paddy - forgot his secone name.

[bantycock 10]

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Hi Peter, I was down Grimesthorpe few weeks ago, i was stood near

the end of Adsetts St watching kids on bikes riding on that pathway.

I also took a short break just to get my breath back from the road leading

from Reform Chaple upto the old club.

Had a good look at Grimesthorpe Club and thinking the good nights

i've had in there with my family and friends, even some of the

committee staff were great.

I remember Cyril Seaman - Oscar Wild -Bill Hanwell - Reg Allen -

Billy Hawkins - Paddy - forgot his secone name.

 

Cyril seaman lived at the top of stubbin lane Firth park after clearance don't think he ever went out after he moved from Grimesthorpe think it was 110 we lived at 98 Cheryl Hutchinson lived between us another Grimesthorpe family !