brownnut Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Anyone remember Buck woods behind St. Pauls church East Bank Road always went there for our bonfire wood in the 1940s-1950s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Remember them well also rolley woods and the quarry which you can still see on the steep part of Gleadless road.Lived with my grandmother just opposite St.Pauls during the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trastrick Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Anyone remember Buck woods behind St. Pauls church East Bank Road always went there for our bonfire wood in the 1940s-1950s. For a while, we lived on Hartopp Road. At the top of the road was the football field, then Buck Woods. It had been scavenged for wood so much that there wasn't a branch that remained within reach of the ground, and the remaining trees had trunks that were too thick to chop down, remember? Coming up from Heeley there was Cat Lane Woods, Far Lees Woods, then Rollin Woods. There was a lane running up through there called we the "Pearl Drive", because it was composed of crushed oyster shells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runningman Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 The Sheffield Deer Park boundary ran through Buck Wood. My Grandfather dug for coal there during the 1920's strike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trastrick Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 The infamous Ball Gennel ran from the Ball Inn on Myrtle Road and eventually finished up in Buck Woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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