Prefab dweller Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 You have a very good memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreb48 Posted November 4, 2023 Author Share Posted November 4, 2023 4 hours ago, Prefab dweller said: You have a very good memory. Well yep it’s great for useless trivia and I’ve always had a memory for names . I was a Sub Postmaster for many years and it was a useful thing to have . Customers always liked to be remembered especially by name. I can actually more or less remember you moving in A new girl on the prefabs was a big deal back then !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max47 Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 Although not a prefab dweller my parents house backed onto those in Aldam Road so am aware of the history associated with them. I have read all the background to this section of the Sheffield Forum and do remember Dreb who started this a few years ago. I remember all the various comments posted about Totley including the local pubs, youth clubs and people. I was one of them. After finishing my studies in Sheffield I left the Steel industry in 1970 to work for a Swiss Chemical Co in Cambridge and have lived in the area ever since. Over the years I have travelled back to see Totley but how it’s changed with all the new developments. At the time it was a great place to grow up. No doubt Dreb will be scratching his head on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltman Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 7 minutes ago, Max47 said: Although not a prefab dweller my parents house backed onto those in Aldam Road so am aware of the history associated with them. I have read all the background to this section of the Sheffield Forum and do remember Dreb who started this a few years ago. I remember all the various comments posted about Totley including the local pubs, youth clubs and people. I was one of them. After finishing my studies in Sheffield I left the Steel industry in 1970 to work for a Swiss Chemical Co in Cambridge and have lived in the area ever since. Over the years I have travelled back to see Totley but how it’s changed with all the new developments. At the time it was a great place to grow up. No doubt Dreb will be scratching his head on this one. Did you live on Main Avenue by any chance? I'm sure that the garden that backed onto our prefab on Aldam Road was on Main Avenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max47 Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 No , I lived on Rowan Tree Dell. I think since the new homes were built when the prefabs were demolished this section became Aldam Way. I think the area you mention relates to Green Oak Avenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltman Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Max47 said: No , I lived on Rowan Tree Dell. I think since the new homes were built when the prefabs were demolished this section became Aldam Way. I think the area you mention relates to Green Oak Avenue. No,I remember now, it was Rowan Tree Dell. We (my mum and I ) lived at 89 Aldam Road, if I remember correctly it was probably the 3rd or 4th one down from Green Oak Road. Which steel company did you work at in Sheffield? Edited December 25, 2023 by Meltman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max47 Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 I worked for Firth Brown Tools on Carlisle Street Sheffield for around six years having left The Central Technical School in 1964 and continuing my studies at Sheffield Polytechnic. Unfortunately the company is no longer there having closed down I think in the mid to late 70’s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltman Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 I went straight from Abbeydale Grammar school to Firth Brown's laboratory on Princess Street in 1965. I had further education at Richmond college and then Sheffield Polytechnic. I once had to deliver/collect something from Firth Brown tools and had to walk through a shop full of women working at machines, the comments were a bit scary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreb48 Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 (edited) 20 hours ago, Max47 said: Although not a prefab dweller my parents house backed onto those in Aldam Road so am aware of the history associated with them. I have read all the background to this section of the Sheffield Forum and do remember Dreb who started this a few years ago. I remember all the various comments posted about Totley including the local pubs, youth clubs and people. I was one of them. After finishing my studies in Sheffield I left the Steel industry in 1970 to work for a Swiss Chemical Co in Cambridge and have lived in the area ever since. Over the years I have travelled back to see Totley but how it’s changed with all the new developments. At the time it was a great place to grow up. No doubt Dreb will be scratching his head on this one. Well there’s only one Max I can think of who went to TCS around that time . I reckon you’d be classmates with John Kay , John Parkin and John Cook 🤔 Edited December 26, 2023 by Dreb48 Extra info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max47 Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Yes, you are correct on this. I have seen the school photos on the Totley History site of which we are both shown although not in the same year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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