shaznay Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I used to love it when we went to the paddling pools at Rivelin, it was the next best thing to the seaside,it used to get absolutely chocka on a hot day. Also loved Millhouses lido, Longley baths, Clifton Park to name a few, Can you remember places you got taken to in the six weeks holidays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazyherbert Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Millhouses baths as we called them.My mother gave us the admittance money & a penny or twopence for the tram fare.We would walk it from the Wicker & back & buy some goodies with the tram fare.Can`t see them doing it today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat631 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I spent many happy days of the Six Weeks Holiday on Wincobank Hill, setting it on fire was great fun. Don't bother sending the health and safety brigade round, my late Dad sorted me out many years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheShe Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 My brothers, sister and I would take some dripping or jam sandwiches and a lemonade bottle filled with water to the fields that are now the Parkway. We would have a wonderful adventure and be (unknowingly) not far from home. We usually had a battle with the "Wybournites" on the burning tip and get back exhausted in time for tea. I got into trouble for their cuts and bruises because I was the eldest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treatment Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I used to enjoy going to the Theatre and seeing that man with the bent stick, Sir Harry Lauder was a great guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenorfolk Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Did anybody go bilberry picking? I remember going in my Dads van, we parked somewhere in the Strines area, and Mum would give us a bowl for picking the Billberries, then mum and dad would get the thermos out, stewed tea and potted meat sandwiches. The billberry pies mum made were brilliant, I wonder if people still go picking them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat631 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Certainly did Steve, we got on a bus in Pond Street to take us to Wyming Brook. If unlucky, the bus only went as far as Lodge Moor and had to walk the rest of the way. My wife and I went there last Summer, although the bilberries were still plentiful Ihe place had changed so much since my childhood. The picknickers in those days walked up to a farmhouse near the brook for pots of tea. I bet there arn't many bilberries in the I. O. W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenorfolk Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Yes I also remember us going to Wyming Brook, I must admit I don't know any other areas where bilberries are picked nowadays, thats the only place I know the moors above Sheffield, never seen any on the IOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazel Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 We too use to go to Lodgemoor and Wyming Brook, We would walk from Lodgemoor and sit on top of the craggs and lean over to get the best bilberries that were just out of reach. A blanket was taken for Moms and Dads to sit on, I cannot remember sitting down. We would beg a penny and buy a glass of milk from a farm way up a hill, still warm from the cow. Think we ate all we collected as cannot remember the bilberry pie. hazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazyherbert Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 We went up to high Bradfield to collect Billberries.Great.Black tongues all the way home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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