Beenicko Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 This is a photo of Grange Lane. The Sheffield Rotherham boundary line used to be halfway across the bridge. These days I am informed that the boundary line is the motorway which you can see in the pic. Can anyone confirm this? Bri. http://s180.photobucket.com/albums/x63/beenicko/?action=view¤t=GrangeLanemotorway50008.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beenicko Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Anyone know what shop or shops have taken over from Smithies and the carpet shop on Hartley Brook Shops? Hi Jon, I remember the shops you mention but it's a long time since I've been up there. I'll pop up one day and take a photograph. Bri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Hills Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I know there aren't many shops on Paper Mill Road now but in the 50/60's it was full of well used vibrant shops like the Co-Op,Westmorlands run by Doris and Sunny selling mouth watering cakes, Coups whose son Paul we went to school with selling fresh veg, can't remember what came next but there was a very well used chip shop then some small shops like a ladies hairdressers and a shoe shop then Potts the newsagent the very end shop was Avils I think. It had most items for everyday living at a time when not many had their own transport and they were friendly places where you knew the owner and they knew you and what you wanted,perhaps I'm looking through rose tinted glasses but those days weren't that bad compared to our current impersonal consumer age. Ted Hills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arfer Mo Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 I used to be the best mate of his only Son also called Charlie..I remember him (Charlie Senior) as a very hard working chap ..and he had no hair (not even eyebrows) ..and he used to keep hens in his back garden..and he was one of the first people in Shiregreen to have a TV...also remember his wife, She was a very nice kind woman who I liked a lot.Hi Was Charlie senior a bricklayer do you know l worked with a chap many years ago with the description you give, but forget the name Cheers Arthur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rab1 Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Shiregreen is a large area n I lived on the edge, Wincobank Hill. Top of the world. Panorama of Sheffield in the mid 60s. Sheffield was glowing with the furnaces down Brightside Lane n Carlisle Street. On Thursday nights You could hear the speedway at Owlerton. The top of Jenkin Road must be one of the High points of SHEFF. I Love this CITY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaunfl Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Shiregreen is a large area n I lived on the edge, Wincobank Hill. Top of the world. Panorama of Sheffield in the mid 60s. Sheffield was glowing with the furnaces down Brightside Lane n Carlisle Street. On Thursday nights You could hear the speedway at Owlerton. The top of Jenkin Road must be one of the High points of SHEFF. I Love this CITY. Yep must agree, been a refugee in rotherham for not far off 20 years and I still miss the place. From the top of Parkwood you could really see the " Full Monty" Sweet home panorama!!!:love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beenicko Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hey Rab, I'd forgotten all about the speeway but you are right, it could be heard Thursday nights on Shiregreen. Another sound I remember is Shardlow's steam hammer, or should that be hammers. Didn't they have two? Bri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_BLADESMAN_ Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hey Rab, I'd forgotten all about the speeway but you are right, it could be heard Thursday nights on Shiregreen. Another sound I remember is Shardlow's steam hammer, or should that be hammers. Didn't they have two? Bri. I remember the steel hammer(s). Used to scare me to death as a young un in Shiregreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I could hear the speedway and the hammer and the trains from my bedroom on Molineaux Rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyeyebrow Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I used to live on Woolley Wood road, opposite the big playing field until I moved in 1981... I loved living there ... near the wood and park..close to the shops at Nethershire, family nearby too, and not too far to the school... Wooley Wood, Beck Road junior school, Firth Park comp and of course, historic Brushes... I loved that school building and was very sorry to hear that it had been demolished... Does anyone here remember the art teacher Mr Bee and his yearly outings with the class to the London Galleries....??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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