pianotuner62 Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 hi I wonder if anyone rembers me I used to live in Ripon Street. my sister is Linda Gallagher. I now live in Leeds still tune pianos and play top level chess for Leeds and Sheffield team Darnal and Handsworth. I remember Jack Stevenson and Ann Whiteley they were great to me and it's just as it was yesterday. I am John Gallagher and I still use my guidedog called Zarah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyedges Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 I've just seen a Retro article on the Star website about Attercliffe. Does anyone remember a Bank of Pakistan on Attercliffe Road probably located opposite where the Nat West is now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennpickard Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 two things: both my mother and grandmother had pianos and probably used your service John . Both houses were on Britnall St next to Huntmans Gardens School. Mrs. Hogg and Mrs Beardwell. No I don't remember a Bank of Pakistan where Nat West is. A Christian church was converted to a mosque years ago, Pakistani I believe, at Bodmin St and Attercliffe Rd ---------- Post added 22-08-2016 at 16:31 ---------- Hey Linda: you have started a great thread here with so many people involved. As I recall the skating rink and the dance were one and the same relative to the building, right next to the Adelphi ? They were n't on Zion lane, but they were very close and actually on the small road that ran past the Peace Gdns. to 'Cliffe. Dougie D. more than went out with Beryl, he married her. Don't believe it lasted very long, maybe a couple of years. I knew her before they married, she was from Brightside, very nice person. Don't know where she is now. She was good friends with Sandra Stevens, Jane McCormick, Wendy Tapscott all Brightside girls, on the other side of the River Don Talking about Brightside girls, does anyone know the whereabouts of Kathleen and Christine Hickey ? I went to school with both of them in the 1960s (Hartley Brook) and heard that Kathleen had been ill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KateTG Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Is it true that Dusty Springfield had relatives in Attercliffe and used to come and visit them in the early 60's with her brother? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beamish Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 (edited) I remember the Habib Bank of Pakistan. I think that is the one to which you are referring. If I remember right it was in a row of shops roughly where the Institute of Sport now stands. On the corner of Coleridge Rd. and Attercliffe Rd. heading towards town there was The Salutation Pub then The Pavilion Cinema and then one or two shops and then the Habib Bank. This would have placed it roughly opposite Hill Top Cemetery so not too far from the Nat West. Seem to remember it having a plain white front that looked nothing like a bank, more like a shop but with small windows. Chris Edited June 7, 2017 by Beamish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 ... On the corner of Coleridge Rd. and Attercliffe Rd. heading towards town there was The Salutation Pub then The Pavilion Cinema and then one or two shops and then the Habib Bank... ChrisThat's correct; the "United Bank Ltd (Incorporated in Pakistan)" was also nearby - here's a scan from the 1974 Kelly's Directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassett one Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 I worked at Mathews furnishers in the 1970s what a great shopping centre very busy back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymondo1952 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 I worked at Mathews furnishers in the 1970s what a great shopping centre very busy back then. Mathews was at the bottom of our street Brinsworth Street that is Mathews was a family business ,when this shop closed it moved to Darnall then shut down after a few years all together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassett one Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 yes it was nice place to work and they had the old zion church opposite for storage,it was burnt down years ago,the sarnie shop next door opened a night club on west street and there was the old fruit barrow men on street corners,banners dept store and shentons furnishers opp banners (always disliked by Mathews furnishers owners as he was a director there before hand,but what a shopping centre,never to be replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyedges Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 I remember the Habib Bank of Pakistan. I think that is the one to which you are referring. If I remember right it was in a row of shops roughly where the Institute of Sport now stands. On the corner of Coleridge Rd. and Attercliffe Rd. heading towards town there was The Salutation Pub then The Pavilion Cinema and then one or two shops and then the Habib Bank. This would have placed it roughly opposite Hill Top Cemetery so not too far from the Nat West. Seem to remember it having a plain white front that looked nothing like a bank, more like a shop but with small windows. Chris Thanks for that Beamish. In 1973/74 I worked at Barclays Bank opposite the Travellers (?). I used to have to take cheques down to the Bank of Pakistan. I'd no idea who they were for, I just did as I was told. Opposite Barclays and next to the Travellers there was a sandwich shop. Excellent bacon and sausage sarnies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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