twinky1 Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 Originally posted by Unregistered [/i Years later it was extended to run down Colley Road and up to a terminus on Colley Crescent, probably as the number 79. [/b] Yes, you are right, I lived on Colley Crescent from being 12 to 22 across from the terminus stop and I can remember the number 10 went down the hill to Colley road and the 79 went up the hill over to Tunwell, My parents still live there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I thought so. Where is the boundary between Parson Cross and Ecclesfield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinky1 Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Originally posted by Unregistered I thought so. Where is the boundary between Parson Cross and Ecclesfield? I always thought it was at the end of Colley Road, where the P.Office is. Post code S5 includes Parson Cross - S35 includes Ecclesfield and I think anything past the post office (not behind it) is S35. Unless anyone else knows different!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanbro Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I was five years old when we moved on to Parson Cross. We lived on Milnrow Road and the houses on Wordsworth Avenue (at the bottom of our back garden) were only just being built. We used to play on the planks between the houses and climb down the brand new incomplete empty sewerage man holes and play at hide and seek. We also used to play at cowboys and indians. The first school I went to was Chapeltown Lound Infants School, and then I went to Mansel Junior School. We used to go down to the brook between Holgate Road and Deerlands Avenue with our wellies on. One day I was walking with me dad on Milnrow when we met Tony Dalli. My dad could speak some Italian and they had a short friendly conversation. We used to go to the youth club at the corner of Wordsworth Avenue and Remington Road. A travelling fair used to visit this site, which we enjoyed immensely. I went to Ecclesfield Secondary Modern School at the time and they used to have a fair at the side of the school towards Wordsworth Avenue. I remember going to the fair in my new 'teddy boy' petrol blue drapes and crepes. I thought I was Jack the Lad! We moved to Colley Crescent when I was fifteen and I bought a motorbike when I was eighteen. It was a Matchless 250 with a Red and white petrol tank and it was quite heavy to handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinky1 Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Originally posted by Alanbro We used to go to the youth club at the corner of Wordsworth Avenue and Remington Road. A travelling fair used to visit this site, which we enjoyed immensely. I went to Ecclesfield Secondary Modern School at the time and they used to have a fair at the side of the school towards Wordsworth Avenue. I remember going to the fair in my new 'teddy boy' petrol blue drapes and crepes. I thought I was Jack the Lad! We moved to Colley Crescent when I was fifteen and I bought a motorbike when I was eighteen. It was a Matchless 250 with a Red and white petrol tank and it was quite heavy to handle. No offence Alanbro but I think you may have been a little before my time - but I also went to a youth club on Wordsworth it was called The Tanner Hop, mid/late sixties -I also remember the Fair, it was on the spare ground just down from the Wordsworth Tavern and the one in Ecclesfield used to be at the side of the Ball Inn. I notice you are from Rother Valley, I used to live over there when it was called Brookhouse, not far from the colliery....happy days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetdexter Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 I used to deliver newspapers on Milnrow Rd and Wordsworth Ave .This would be 1953. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Originally posted by twinky1 I always thought it was at the end of Colley Road, where the P.Office is. Post code S5 includes Parson Cross - S35 includes Ecclesfield and I think anything past the post office (not behind it) is S35. Unless anyone else knows different!! Seems correct ! - I wonder if S5 is the most densely populated Sheffield postcode. It was all fields in 1937 - from the Five Arches to Ecclesfield, the full length of what now is Wordsworth Avenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 The OLD Wordsworth Tavern (pre 1966) What a dive. I bet no one has a photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinky1 Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 Originally posted by Unregistered Seems correct ! - I wonder if S5 is the most densely populated Sheffield postcode. It was all fields in 1937 - from the Five Arches to Ecclesfield, the full length of what now is Wordsworth Avenue. It may well be - it not only takes in the Five Arches to Ecclesfield it also includes Shiregreen and I think Firth Park. As for The Tavern, I have no photo's but I do remember it well, it used to be my Dads local. My friends and I used to come from the youth club and hang about the Tavern off licence - can you remember John,( he had Downs Syndrome) he used to help out on the counter?. Was it 1966 when it was knocked down? I thought it was later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanbro Posted January 15, 2005 Share Posted January 15, 2005 To Twinky 1 Dean Marshall and the Deputies started life at the Tanner Hop as you call it. They went on to become Jigsaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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