Salmon Pastures Attercliffe

[coyleys]

Can any one remember or went to Salmon Pastures College Attercliffe Sheffield for the building trade, i think it was part of shirecliff College???

[PopT]

I attended there between 56 & 60 to learn the Plumbing trade and so did Joe Cocker who was a Gas Fitter.

 

 

Happy Days!

[analogkid]

Yeah, I went 87-89 as part of a painting and decorating City & Guilds.

 

Good laugh as I remember, although it was effing freezing in the winter when we were decorating the little house that was there.

[peterdo]

I was an apprentice plumber there 1959 till 1963. I took the City and Guilds at Pond St . I was apprentice with SCPWD. I think there was a teacher called Mr Sedden or snedden, not sure though.

[vidster]

Took my day release there 91-92, learning Joinery and Carpentry.

 

I loved that place. It was always more personal than learning at the huge Shirecliffe College.

[coyleys]

I also took Joinery & Carpentry Day release but in 1968-69 when i worked for Ralph Hills, Loxley rd.

But what is it now i have heard they are redeveloping the site?

[Albatross]

I used to work there.

They are all gone now Shirecliffe Stannington Granville Norton Richmond and all those little places were all banded together under the umbrella of the Sheffield College. Since which they have all been firstly screwed up and then Shirecliffe, Richmond and all the small outreach centres like Salmon Pastures and Newhall Road have been closed.

The building and joinery trades are now done at Castle college South side (Castle North side is what used to be called Granville College) and the Heat and vent and plumbing etc. is done at Olive Grove Centre which is the old Ancon Clark site that was at the end of Olive Grove Rd.

The place is like a shoe box too many crammed into too little space and insufficient funding for the courses.

I went to Granville myself back in the 60s when it was a proper college.

[daisyd]

I attended salmon pastures 81/83 doing h+v, used to have some good gobbo fights with the brickies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ps i'm not a bird

[Plain Talker]

When I was doing the drama diploma at Shirecliffe College, way, way back in 82, part of the stage management sector of the course incolved kearnigng how to sesign and buils stage sets.

 

We went to the carpentry and joinery department, and learnt the carpentry skills necessary to build "flats" (the flat boards of scenery which are used in productions as backgrounds)

 

It was very interesting, and ensured that I at least knew one end of a tenon saw from another, and knew my way around a hammer.

 

PT

[jauntyone]

Yep, I went there to learn carpentry and joinery in the late sixties on day release. The tutor was a guy called Mr Albert White, what a charming character he was. Good college.

It was situated at attercliffe near two pubs, one called the washford arms and the other called the bulldog, just past there was a large tore called John Banners.

 

Hope this helps