Where did Pearl Street go

[sharrovian]

Hi Soulseeker, thanks for the reply, searching my memory I believe someone told me he lived up Millhouses Lane which is quite a way from Pearl St. so as I said he did well for himself.

[soulseeker1]

Hi Sharrovian, Brian and Pat lived most of their lives on Dobcroft Rd. and in their later years moved onto the estate behind the Big Tree at Woodseats.

[sharrovian]

Hi Soulseeker, many thanks for your replies, thinking about my school years I remember there were about 40 boys in the class and over 30 must have lived on Pearl St. and Franklin St.

[asawin]

I remember John Blackwell. My eldest brother Mark (and Michael Thompson, who lived next door to us) on Croydon St, were friends of his, i believe in the 60's and 70's. Building go-carts out of old prams and whizzing down Croydon and Stemp St. i recall they got upto at one point.

 

Hurtling down Croydon and Stemp St on our go-karts made from old planks of wood, pram wheels and rusty old nails. Why do I get the feeling I should know you?

 

PS Only the very brave let rip down Penley St, that being the steepest of the three if i remember right.

[Janus1938]

There was a large Static Water-tank at the top of Pearl Street where a bomb had dropped destroying several houses and killing an ARP warden. My mother and father and myself were asleep in a Morrison Shelter in the cellar under our house in Summerfield St. I was only 3 or 4-year-old but I remember the awful boom - like a earthquake - everything shook and my ears hurt. (For those too young to remember, a Morrison Shelter was like a steel four-poster bed. made of angle-iron surrounded by heavy steel mesh.) By 1945 it was full of stinking stangnant water and floating debris.

[jonjo2]

There is a book called "Pictures in & around Sharrow" by J.P.Turley published by ALD print & Design, 279 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, S11 8ZF and there is a picture of Pearl St in it. (when I bought it £3.50 was the price)

 

hi

i just bought the same titled book, £4 from amazon, after reading of it from here

[dawn19run]

I lived in Pearl street from 1935 -1961, i was born there .i went to St Matthias School , i was then Rita Ford,have 2 brothers ,Roy & Raymond ,also a sister ,margaret , we lived at No 67,above ,Cliff street.I left Pearl ,when they built ,the Lansdown road flats ,went round the corner to Club Garden road ,did'nt want to go on any Estate. my own son went to St Matthias ,then on to Graystones ,i would love to hear from anyone who new me, ( those were the days ). i only see Sheffield now,when i visit ,i now live in Gt Yarmouth ,Regards Rita Collins . (nee Ford )

 

I went to St Matthias school many years ago just before it closed,we lived on Cemetery Road next to Twist drill,my teacher was Miss Talent Headmisstress Miss Benson (theyre the only ones i can remember sadly)I loved that school the smell of Hyacinths always takes me back there as we always seemed to have them in the classroom,they did the most delicious school meals i seem to remember,im going back 50 years,i left there just before it closed in 1962?

[vera parker]

Nr Montague St, Napier St and Pamona St.

 

Yes I remember Pear street I used to live at 82 Pomona Street, I am one of the Hardwick family I went to Pomona Street School later to Greystones

[Quietman]

Brian Chapman married my sister Pat Walker , Brian Went to Sharrow Lane , Pat went to Greystones, Brian passed away a while ago but Pat is well and lives in Woodseats.

[sheilawragg1]

I am glad to see so many people with names I remember, and some I don't,. I also went to Pomona street school and later on to Greystones. Iwould have been at Pomona st. from1952 - 1958 then at Greystone 1958 -1963, my name then was Sheila Smith and I lived on Ecclesall road below the Star Pictures