cisco Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 does any one remember the walker family of grimesthorpe road in the 40s-60s lived next door to the vicarage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemini2 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Hi Cisco, Try the anyone from Grimesthorpe thread, you might strike lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cisco Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 ok will take a look cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marydennehy Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hi, I'm looking for relatives of a Florrie Walker - she was housekeeper to my Grandad Michael Franchetti - lived at 27 Manners Street - off Rutland Road up until his death in 1956. Grandad was 76 - think Florrie was older. Ring a bell with anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cisco Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 Hi, I'm looking for relatives of a Florrie Walker - she was housekeeper to my Grandad Michael Franchetti - lived at 27 Manners Street - off Rutland Road up until his death in 1956. Grandad was 76 - think Florrie was older. Ring a bell with anyone? no sorry i dont know a person called florrie walker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kool o3 Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 where did she live in grimesthorpe do you now my uncle might be abel to help u out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
castley Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 cisco I believe i knew the walker family. I did most of my school years with their son , Freddie . Freddies dad died sometime in the early fifties and I think he had a buisness of some sort. There were two or three others, atleast one sister and I think two brothers. Freddies mum liked corgi dogs and there was always one around. both Freddie and I attended Burngreave boys school and were good friends until we left. Freddie left at christmas 1952 and I left at easter 1953 and I don`t think we ever met again. One thing is Freddie went to work for British rail . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorothymwalk Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Hi there - I am not sure if it is the same family we are talking about as my connection is quite early on. My husbands grandfather and famly lived at 843 Grimesthorpe Road after the first world war until about 1937 when they moved to the manor. There were several children - John Alfred (Alf), Florence Alice Elizabeth who married an Herbert Edward Spiers in 1922, William Edward b 1904 my late father in law, Bertha Elsie who married a Fred Gilbertson, later a Robert Daniels and lastly an Arthur Pratt, Robert Arthur who died there in 1921 aged 11, Winifred emily, Arnold George b 1919 and Edith b there in 1922 died 1927. Their father was William Henry and he had served in the war plus he had been a soldier before the war - they had previously lived in Zion Lane, Attercliffe. I have been googling 843 Grimesthorpe Road but it shows up at the Earl Marshel Hotel and further up the road is the school so it is possible theylived in a house that is no longer there? Any help, information or memories will be apprecaited. Thanks Dorothy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 (edited) Hi dorothymwalk - welcome to the Forum!.. No 843 was on the north side of Grimesthorpe Road, opposite the junction with Botham Street. Most of the properties in the area were demolished in the 1970s, but I have arrowed the location of No 843 on this 1914 map. Here is an aerial view from bing.com showing the area as it is now. Edited December 3, 2011 by hillsbro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howden Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 There is also a map on the Sheffield History website that shows the house numbers. You have to register on the website to view the map . It is from 1958 (map number 63). Here is the link http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/4008-os-maps-of-sheffield-and-district-1950s-over-300-of-them/page__view__findpost__p__22814 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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