Grimesthorpe Part 3

[cat631 10]

Hello Brian. After what Terry has said I may be completely wrong about the bell tower being in Owler Brook School but sent the school an email on Friday. If I get a reply I will let you know.

The bottom of Wensley Street is opposite the Reform Chapel, the school is on the left as you go up the hill.

 

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http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=107518&page=267

There is a bell tower at Owler Brook School but it's not the one from Owler Lane Secondary School. The link should take you to 'Anyone From Grimesthorpe' part 1.

Post No. 5324 and posted by DOMMI, Dave Watkinson.

[PeterR 10]

Hello Brian. After what Terry has said I may be completely wrong about the bell tower being in Owler Brook School but sent the school an email on Friday. If I get a reply I will let you know.

The bottom of Wensley Street is opposite the Reform Chapel, the school is on the left as you go up the hill.

 

---------- Post added 29-05-2016 at 15:13 ----------

 

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=107518&page=267

There is a bell tower at Owler Brook School but it's not the one from Owler Lane Secondary School. The link should take you to 'Anyone From Grimesthorpe' part 1.

Post No. 5324 and posted by DOMMI, Dave Watkinson.

 

Hi all,

 

The bell I saw was a feature on the grass outside the bottom side of the new Owler Lane schools a couple of years ago and which seems to have been removed as I mentioned in my post number 1115 of 11 May page 56 on this thread. I wondered if anyone knew where it now is.

This is the pic of the Earl Marshall Secondary, as it was previously called, which I took in 1999.

The bell tower can be seen atop the roof on the right between the trees and can be seen to be square shaped rather than round as is the one on the Owler Brook school pic which has been referred to.....

 

http://s1255.photobucket.com/user/peterlaurence/media/Owler%20Lane%20Schools/OwlerLaneSecModandIntermediateschoolsin1990s.jpg.html

 

I, like brian1941, never heard the bell ring. I left the school in 1958.

 

 

Peter.

Edited May 29, 2016 by PeterR

[brian1941 11]

Hello Brian. After what Terry has said I may be completely wrong about the bell tower being in Owler Brook School but sent the school an email on Friday. If I get a reply I will let you know.

The bottom of Wensley Street is opposite the Reform Chapel, the school is on the left as you go up the hill.

 

---------- Post added 29-05-2016 at 15:13 ----------

 

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=107518&page=267

There is a bell tower at Owler Brook School but it's not the one from Owler Lane Secondary School. The link should take you to 'Anyone From Grimesthorpe' part 1.

Post No. 5324 and posted by DOMMI, Dave Watkinson.

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Thanks for your text Cat631, i have looked at Dommi pics from part 1

bell tower 2008, it doesn't look like the one in the picture Peter R

sent today. Would still be nice to know where it is.

I now know where that School is up Wensley St - thanks for that. Brian.

[PeterR 10]

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Thanks for your text Cat631, i have looked at Dommi pics from part 1

bell tower 2008, it doesn't look like the one in the picture Peter R

sent today. Would still be nice to know where it is.

I now know where that School is up Wensley St - thanks for that. Brian.

 

Hi Brian and all,

 

Originally from cat631s post, the Earl Marshall School bell tower is in situ top of the end of the roof between the trees on the right on my 1999 photo of the school.

See 4th pic down.

 

Also photo of the same bell tower on land at the new schools. I think it was off Rushby Street.

Please scroll to the bottom of the pics to find it.

 

 

Peter.

Edited May 29, 2016 by PeterR

[fleetwood 10]

Forgive me if I have the wrong end of the stick, you are talking about the bell tower at Owler Lane School but showing pictures of Grimesthorpe School. I have tried to follow all the posts and quotes (and there's a lot dedicated to this subject) but am really confused. fleetwood

[bantycock 10]

Forgive me if I have the wrong end of the stick, you are talking about the bell tower at Owler Lane School but showing pictures of Grimesthorpe School. I have tried to follow all the posts and quotes (and there's a lot dedicated to this subject) but am really confused. fleetwood

 

I would love to look around Grimesthorpe school I was one of the last pupils in there before they sent us up to white ways .....if anybody has access pm me ;-)

[PeterR 10]

Forgive me if I have the wrong end of the stick, you are talking about the bell tower at Owler Lane School but showing pictures of Grimesthorpe School. I have tried to follow all the posts and quotes (and there's a lot dedicated to this subject) but am really confused. fleetwood

 

Hi fleetwood,

 

Sorry you are confused and hope this clarifies things.....

 

On my post of 11 May on this thread, number 1115 page 56, I asked if anyone knew the whereabouts of the bell tower which was originally on, what was in my time known as Earl Marshall Secondary School, but also known as one of the Owler Lane Schools. I had seen this bell tower a few years ago on display on the grass outside the new schools on the site but the last time I drove past it seemed to have been removed.

 

In later posts there was some confusion between the aforementioned bell tower and a bell tower at Owler Brook School on Wensley Street.

 

Regarding the pics, although the majority are of Grimesthorpe School, the first four are ones I took myself of Owler Lane schools from the Earl Marshall Road side in 1999 and the last one, not taken by me, is of the Owler Lane schools bell tower on display on the grass outside the Owler Lane side of the new schools. I was unable to separate the pics in the folder, hence the guidance given on my last post to find the pics in question.

 

Regards, Peter.

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Edited May 31, 2016 by PeterR

[fleetwood 10]

Thanks PeterR - For taking the time to clarify, still not totally clear but I believe it's my fault for not absorbing.

[cat631 10]

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/s26603_zpshqqqzz0j.jpg

This is where Owler Lane School's bell tower used to live.

 

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/Owlerlaneschool_zpsjrbodsam.jpg

It was rebuilt here but has apparently gone missing.

 

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/1474689819_zpszbcfgfah.jpg

Could it be hiding in the bushes?

 

To clear up any more confusion, Owler Lane School became Earl Marshal School but is now called Fir Vale School.

Owler Brook School is in a different location and I haven't a clue why it's called that. Never having seen nor heard of an Owler Brook in Grimesthorpe.

Edited June 2, 2016 by cat631

[stpetre 12]

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/s26603_zpshqqqzz0j.jpg

This is where Owler Lane School's bell tower used to live.

 

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/Owlerlaneschool_zpsjrbodsam.jpg

It was rebuilt here but has apparently gone missing.

 

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/1474689819_zpszbcfgfah.jpg

Could it be hiding in the bushes?

 

To clear up any more confusion, Owler Lane School became Earl Marshal School but is now called Fir Vale School.

Owler Brook School is in a different location and I haven't a clue why it's called that. Never having seen nor heard of an Owler Brook in Grimesthorpe.

 

Owler Brook primary school is located to west of Wensley Street and between the east end of Lloyd Street and above Dunmow Road.

[brian1941 11]

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/s26603_zpshqqqzz0j.jpg

This is where Owler Lane School's bell tower used to live.

 

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/Owlerlaneschool_zpsjrbodsam.jpg

It was rebuilt here but has apparently gone missing.

 

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/1474689819_zpszbcfgfah.jpg

Could it be hiding in the bushes?

 

To clear up any more confusion, Owler Lane School became Earl Marshal School but is now called Fir Vale School.

Owler Brook School is in a different location and I haven't a clue why it's called that. Never having seen nor heard of an Owler Brook in Grimesthorpe.

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Thanks for them pics Cat631, i do like the 1st picture it really takes me

back in my time there. On the left just in front of the vehicle down the

rd was a gate and through there was the school canteen.

But i do like the pic. thanks. Brian.

[PeterR 10]

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/s26603_zpshqqqzz0j.jpg

This is where Owler Lane School's bell tower used to live.

 

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/Owlerlaneschool_zpsjrbodsam.jpg

It was rebuilt here but has apparently gone missing.

 

http://i1380.photobucket.com/albums/ah188/Subby631/1474689819_zpszbcfgfah.jpg

Could it be hiding in the bushes?

 

To clear up any more confusion, Owler Lane School became Earl Marshal School but is now called Fir Vale School.

Owler Brook School is in a different location and I haven't a clue why it's called that. Never having seen nor heard of an Owler Brook in Grimesthorpe.

 

Hi cat631,

 

Good pics of where the bell tower used to live. Not seen these before.

It may well have been hiding in the bushes when I drove past last time I was in the area. Watch this space

 

Peter.