Did anyone go to Western Rd. school

[Debsy_websy]

Chairboy would it be possible for you to contact me privately please regarding someone you mentioned in one of your posts.

 

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You mentioned a David wright as being in one of the classes. Is David wright a member of this forum please

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[Jim Hardie]

Chairboy would it be possible for you to contact me privately please regarding someone you mentioned in one of your posts.

 

Hello Debby, I'm sorry to say Chairboy passed away a few years ago.

[Debsy_websy]

Ohhhhhh no I'm so sorry x

 

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Does anyone have contact with david (baggy) wright who chairboy mentioned in his post x

Edited November 2, 2017 by Debsy_websy

[Dahall01]

Can anyone help me? I'm trying to find out the names of the 65 fallen boys from the WW1 wooden plaque now lost that was in Western Road school now Westways. Can anyone help with this info?

 

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Does anyone recall the wooden plaque that was in the central hall with the names of 65 fallen ww1 soldiers?

[Rivelin6]

Hi Dahall01,

This is Lois and I went to Western Road/ Westways and do remember plaque. We as a group used lots of ways to find this information but nothing came of it. Even check at the Archives.

Edited November 8, 2017 by Rivelin6

[David Beddus]

I'm new here myself, just read through the last 22 pages. 

I went to Western Road Infants and Juniors, 1954 to 1960.

I remember all of the teachers and pupils mentioned earlier, in my time at Western Road.

In the juniors, JIB with Miss Hunter,

J IIB with Mr Barritt, most of the time at the Congs Annex,

JIIIA with Mrs Hobson,

JIVA with Mrs Exley.

 

In JIIIA and JIVA, I was in the same class as Geoff Worth (geoffusa) and the others mentioned earlier by Geoff.

Looking at my class photos for 57 to 60, I see a couple not mentioned: Jennifer Runyard and Ian Green in IIIA and IVA and I think I see Paul Simpson. Paul lived next to Clifford Alsop on Western Rd and I figure he must be a younger brother of Alf Simpson (jagmechanic) on posting #198?

 

My older sister Liz (Elizabeth) went to Western Road two years before me, also with Hobson and Exley.

We both went on to High Storrs.

My brother Jon (Jonathon) also went to Western Road starting in 1958.

My youngest brother Simon, started at Western Road, then probably called Westways, in 1970.

Fond memories and happy times, David Beddus

[David Beddus]

Anyone remember the home-made post box in the Western Road Juniors hall for posting Christmas cards to friends, during the run-up to Christmas?

 

Anyone remember the red Morris Mini car in the driveway, opposite the Mona Ave juniors entrance?  It must have been one of the first minis in Sheffield as they only came out in August 1959 and I left in July 1960. It looked amazing.

 

Anyone remember the green Morris Minor Traveller that parked opposite the Mona Ave entrance selling bread out of the back?

The miniature Hovis loaves were just the thing to keep you going until you reached home.

 

Anyone remember the steel containers of school dinners, brought in from the kitchen on Northfield Ave in a gray van?

Always smelled of cabbage.  I recall a large 6 or 8 burner gas cooker to the left inside the junior school entrance for warming up the lunches.  Mrs Brownbridge and Mrs Seedhouse rings a bell.

Where did we eat lunch?  In the classrooms?

 

All of the above in the 1956 - 1960 period.

[Mags]

I know this is an old topic but could anyone tell me about the trees that lined Western  Road.

I ask because I read an article in a newspaper a while ago that the council were going to chop them down. It went on to say that each tree was planted in memory of men who went to Western Road school and died in the war.

I didn't know this when I went to Western Road but I remembered the trees and walking past them to get to the annexe for history.

Would that be the same names that were on the plaque previously mentioned?

Were the trees chopped down ? Or did people protest?

Any information would be great as don't live near now.

 

 

[Rivelin6]

On 20/09/2020 at 22:19, Mags said:

I know this is an old topic but could anyone tell me about the trees that lined Western  Road.

I ask because I read an article in a newspaper a while ago that the council were going to chop them down. It went on to say that each tree was planted in memory of men who went to Western Road school and died in the war.

I didn't know this when I went to Western Road but I remembered the trees and walking past them to get to the annexe for history.

Would that be the same names that were on the plaque previously mentioned?

Were the trees chopped down ? Or did people protest?

Any information would be great as don't live near now.

 

 

Luckily they weren't cut down as Stag protested. Yes it was those listed on the plaque that apparently was destroyed or lost. 

[Keith Ramsell]

I was at Western Road 1940 to 1945, called Keith Smith at that time. Born with one finger on my right hand. Always in trouble: never knew why! I remember the ferocious Miss Exley and her cane. Air raid practice in the brick shelter. Friends? David Star, Grenville Thorpe, Barbara Littlewood, Peter Slater , Maurice Baldry. Lucky enough to pass the 11-plus to City Grammar despite spending most of my time reading Beano or Dandy under the desk! Now 87 ("Keith Ramsell") a retired Concert violinist and University Professor. Happy memories of the annual "ramble" down Rivelin!