Swingboats at Moscar top

[tedog]

Does anyone remember the swingboats at Moscar top ? must have been the early 60s when I was taken there as a little kid, would love to know more about them.

[hillsbro]

I don't remember swingboats at Moscar Top but they were certainly a long-standing feature of the valley. There were some swingboats at Hollow Meadows, just opposite the entrance to the track that led round Rivelin Dams (the "ravine"). There was a refreshments hut beside the road, with swingboats in the field behind, operated by the old gent who had the hut. They were there in the 1950s but had gone by the mid-1960s.

 

Going back further, I have a postcard (dated 1910) showing some swingboats beside the double bend - see here. Note that the card is captioned "New Road, Rivelin". Rivelin Valley Road was new in 1907 but my mum, bless her, who was born a decade later, called it the "new road" all her life..

[tedog]

Thanks for that, yes it was just passed Rivelin, my parents called it Moscar top but they were probably mistaken.

[bullerboY]

Funny one this,a few weeks ago i was talking to a man in his 70s on the Tanyard at Wickersley and it turned our that his parents owned these Shamrocks.

[fatrajah]

I remember them being behind the refreshment hut at Hollow Meadows. This was in the late 1950s. A glass of pop was 4d from the refreshment hut.

[mikeG]

I used to cycle from from Crosspool up Sandygate Rd to Redmires past the POW camp towards Wyming Brook then down the ravine to Hollow Meadows where we'd have a go on the Boatswings as we called 'em.

[rabitter]

on our bikes on way to castleton we used to call at hut for a mug of tea and then up to swingboats for 15 mins ride.think it cost 3d each

[hillsbro]

...think it cost 3d each

Your memory is good, rabitter - that was the cost in the 1950s. But after I'd bought a bottle of Tizer and some crisps, somehow there was never enough left from my pocket money for the swingboats..

[david weston]

If you can find the threads under 'Rivelin Valley' ( not the similar ' Rivelin Valley and Loxley Valley' ) for 12.9.2012, there are some comments there re the swingboats .

[Allen]

on our bikes on way to castleton we used to call at hut for a mug of tea and then up to swingboats for 15 mins ride.think it cost 3d each

 

We did the same...

Often cycled to Castleton with my sister and Dad.

Can't comment on the price...Dad paid.