denlin

mh is right I have known Barracloughs since I was a child and I was born in 1951. They have never owned the garage across from the post office, it has always been where it is now.

opposite the post office was a petrol station, cannot remember it ever being a operational garage

send me a pm but ask your mam if its ok 1st:D

went to ecclesfield grammar but grew up with mal (i'm Linda) but shes a couple of years older than me. whos your mam?

marilyn? might know your mam:D

You must have known Betty and Alec Barraclough. They used to live opposite me before moving into the vilage in one of the two terraced houses which are opposite where the Eppic theatre used to be. Alec and later his son had and still have a garage business behind there. I have known the family since childhood. Alecs son and my brother have been lifelong friends:D

not doubting date Tonio but its scary that can't remember building that I passed everyday for 6 years. but then I suppose between 5-11 you only really noice the pubs you get taken to by your parents and mine used to take us to the travellers because it had a large beer garden and we used to call at the kiosk at the top of Hulleys driveway for an icecream on the way down:D

Thats funny I must have done that too but I can't remember that pub either and I was 11 in 1962 and just left juniors:shocked:

it's not an opticians now is it?

Peter Hurdley was the optician. I used to go to him for my glasses.

what kind of sweets are naggin' aunts, nephew?

there were 3 shops on st michaels. the other was bang opposite on the cross hill where hurdleys opticians moved to when they moved off st michaels. i can remember calling there for sweetson way to school in juniors which would have been 1958 onwards. the lady that ran it had a machine that dispensed sweets into a cone:D:D

opposite what used to be playground was co-op opticians:D

HI joto is my cousin and I was born in 1951. my parents (my dad and jotos were brothers), me and my brother lived on slitting mill lane until 1955 and joto and I were brought up not far from each other her sister is the same age as me so we did see a lot of each other as children especially at our grandmothers house nearby. I was a flower child in the sixties

darell did you used to live on wheata?

Our dad made us one many years ago:hihi: and dare I say it it was a transformer ( Not the robot type) In summer it had wheels and when the snow came undo a few bolts and take the wheels off it beceme a slegde having runners beneath:hihi: The best of both worlds:thumbsup:

Sky edge was part of my paper round from shaws on manor lane me being a wybourn lad . I remember the day well when I turned on Sky edge from manor lane the wind had been blowing most of the night before and was was still gusting strongly but thanks to my bag full of paper I was well anchored. The sight of prefabs that had blowen in was a very big shock and I remember looking for the numbers so I could deliver the papers . I walked past one that was flat and a gust of wind come even with my paper bag full I was bowled over and over and landed in the hegde across the road and hearing a great tearing sound as the prefab behind me fell in that scared me s--tl--s a man shouted ar-rite lad thay better get home. I went back to shaws with my bag still full and the look on his face as I told that I could not deliver them as there were no houses to deliver them to . He still paid me for the round and my paper bag was never agian as full as before the gale.:o:o

my brother was 2 wheeler:D

Morning Joto Hope you're well. It looks as though I've been adopted as an auntie as well. hope he's got plenty of money but then we keep getting disowned by rich people don't we? What page is the I'm bored section on? Speak to you soon by email

I did mean the one across from the old police station but I'm not that old that I can remember Ernie Whitham but maybe the older end still called it that when I was young and it stuck. I still call Ecco the village just as did when I was at school. It hasn't really been a village since they built the Minster Road estate and that was about 1964 because I was a bridesmaid that year for my cousin and she moved into one of the brand new houses and she still lives there.

Graham is a friend of mine from schooldays. His Mum was called Betty and his dad Jim. Graham had four sisters and a younger who brother still lives in the family home. Graham has 2 grown up sons now. I used to take him and Roy Bunker to the football match as when I was a teenager his sister was my best friend:D

Think the fruit and veg shop which was more like a tin hut was Whithams but wouldn't like to bet on it Its a long time ago:hihi:

Hi Joto Which of our lot thinks you act blonde, we come from a highly intelligent family. In fact I could write my own name by the time I left school and it was a good school. In fact it was so good it was approved!!!:huh:

In the early 60's I like Quicktocall spent sometime around the manor lodge and went down into the tunnel but I went about 150 yard before it was bricked up the tunnel was wet and in a very poor state the word was that it was unsafe and was to be filled in. ps Don't go up there at night the white lady will get you

The senior mistress was Miss Cross I think. I was recently in Burncross cemetery in search of my great grandads grave when I found Miss Cross's. My great grandads grave is to the left of the chapel as you come through the gates and Miss Cross's is straight up towards what looks like a single parking space next to a wall and is about 2 or 3 graves up. I was at Ecco from 1962-1966 and my maiden name was Theaker Linda Thompson:D