Hawksley Avenue, Hillsborough. 1960's

[bullerboY]

My Dad told me when i was a lad that a German Parachute land mine the size of a dustbin landed at the top near Middlewood Rd and rolled right down the Avenue exploding about half way down indeed where the more modern houses are situated. My Mum was a nurse at Middlewood Hospital and on a different shift otherwise she would have been in the house. The roof was blown off and her pet killed thats all. Dad was a crane driver at English Steel in the forge and ran home all the way fearing the worst.Italian POW's were kept at Middlewood Hospital and the grounds planted as a market garden. The local lads allegedly used to get up early and stand at Burtons corner to jeer the new influx as they were bussed in

There was an old guy in the seventies who lived in the house at the side of Warings yard who worked in the generator house.The little Imp swimwear factory was at the top of Hawksley ave.

[Banker]

I confirm that some houses were bombed and so was the school which was there before woolies...

I always understood that Hillsborough National School was demolished in the 1930s, and a quick web search brought up this page: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1076617 which gives a date of 1939. It was a crime to demolish the school as it was a lovely old building with Dutch gables - see http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/zoom.pl?picture=http://www.picturesheffield.com/jpgh/t01578.jpg

 

Interesting thread - I lived in Middlewood Road in the early 1960s and remember Howard's Dairy etc.

[bullerboY]

I always understood that Hillsborough National School was demolished in the 1930s, and a quick web search brought up this page: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1076617 which gives a date of 1939. It was a crime to demolish the school as it was a lovely old building with Dutch gables - see http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/zoom.pl?picture=http://www.picturesheffield.com/jpgh/t01578.jpg

 

Interesting thread - I lived in Middlewood Road in the early 1960s and remember Howard's Dairy etc.

you may be right but i feel sure it sufferd bomb damage.Iwas around Hillsboro from early fifties but lived on shirecliffe and always prefered Hillsboro and the many friends I had there.

[beechnut]

It's quite right that the National School was demolished before the war, though there might have been bomb damage around the site. My aunt was a pupil there and was sorry that she had to transfer to Malin Bridge as she liked the headteacher and his assistant. I suppose it was too small, with no room to expand and uneconomical to run. I didn't realise it was such a nice building, though - it was a pity it was demolished as Banker wrote. I suppose nowadays it would be listed and protected.

 

I remember the "Eagle Garage" near the bottom of Hawksley Avenue (it's now the Nationwide Autocentre). At one time it was owned by a friend of my dad's, Arthur Hinchcliff. I didn't realise that it was - as I imagine - named after Eagle House nearby. There used to be a figure of an eagle on the roof - you can still see the steel pin that held it there.

[bullerboY]

It's quite right that the National School was demolished before the war, though there might have been bomb damage around the site. My aunt was a pupil there and was sorry that she had to transfer to Malin Bridge as she liked the headteacher and his assistant. I suppose it was too small, with no room to expand and uneconomical to run. I didn't realise it was such a nice building, though - it was a pity it was demolished as Banker wrote. I suppose nowadays it would be listed and protected.

 

I remember the "Eagle Garage" near the bottom of Hawksley Avenue (it's now the Nationwide Autocentre). At one time it was owned by a friend of my dad's, Arthur Hinchcliff. I didn't realise that it was - as I imagine - named after Eagle House nearby. There used to be a figure of an eagle on the roof - you can still see the steel pin that held it there.

the eagle was made of wood and I presume it rotted,warrintons owned it until the mid eighties when bill warrington died,they also ran eagle coaches from there and I have the copper printing plates.

[PaymePal]

I also remember a fellah who used to travel around in a sort of bath-chair that he propelled with some hand pedal type of thing, he must have been an invalid i reckon, a weird contraption, used to see him near the park...

[hillsbro]

I also remember a fellah who used to travel around in a sort of bath-chair that he propelled with some hand pedal type of thing, he must have been an invalid i reckon, a weird contraption, used to see him near the park...

Yes - it was a hand-powered tricycle that looked something like this. He lived at Southey Green and in the summer could often be seen fishing in the park pond (until they stopped people fishing there).

[arrodbo]

Hillsboro, That is the chair you have shown your photograph.

The man who used to propel it around was called Don and I believe he lived up the CROSS,

he was an avid Wednesday fan and I am fairly sure he went to the Ritz cinema during the 50s and 60s

I have been away from Sheffield for decades but i can still visualise him with his blue and white scarf.

[bullerboY]

Hillsboro, That is the chair you have shown your photograph.

The man who used to propel it around was called Don and I believe he lived up the CROSS,

he was an avid Wednesday fan and I am fairly sure he went to the Ritz cinema during the 50s and 60s

I have been away from Sheffield for decades but i can still visualise him with his blue and white scarf.

I always thought his name was Eddie and he would always sit outside the Ritz talking to people,never knew what became of him.

[hillsbro]

Hillsboro, That is the chair you have shown your photograph.

The man who used to propel it around was called Don and I believe he lived up the CROSS,

he was an avid Wednesday fan and I am fairly sure he went to the Ritz cinema during the 50s and 60s

I have been away from Sheffield for decades but i can still visualise him with his blue and white scarf.

I just asked my older brother (who used to fish with him) and yes, his name was Don. He's mentioned in the "Did you ever live in Parson Cross" thread (post #107 reads "It did have pedals that he worked with his hands......his name was Don and he used to come into Hillsborough park and watch us playing football in the late 50's early 60's. I think he lived on Donovan Road behind the Five Arches pub.") He also cropped up in another thread a couple of years ago, and at that time by googling I found a picture of the exact type of tricycle that he had (I think the one I found this time isn't quite the same, though still powered by a hand-cranked system).