Anyone come from Lansdowne Rd area?

[sharrowyank]

I looked up Franklin St but most of the addresses are courts with just numbers. Give me a # and I will check. Did we all go to SHARROW LANE school ? I also see that the old SHARROW ST JOHNS church has been demolished. I was in the boy scouts there, the 139th. I am starting to feel very nostalgic. The milky bars are on me !

[hillsbro]

Hi Minimo - I was going to scan Franklin Street as it had been mentioned in the thread, but as sharrowyank noted it seems that all the properties were back-to-back or "court" houses, and Kelly's only indicated the court number without individual occupants (some "courts" are shown on the Lansdowne Road scan). So for Franklin Street, apart from "Court 1 to Court 18", only the businesses are indicated - Cecil Chapell, greengrocer at No 47, Alice Small, shopkeeper at No 53 (also at No 52), Hugh Dick, grocer at No 77, Henry White, builder in the yard of No 52 and the Franklin Hotel at No 118.

[Minimo]

Oh that's a real shame re Franklin St.

 

I and my siblings all went to St Barnabas on Cecil Rd. It was a grim black building.

I have a photo just showing a little of it from the road.

[Leipzig]

Hi Minimo

 

If you google "Sharrow Residents 1961" (include the quote maks) you should find electoral lists for the area for 1961 - 1962, hosted by http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk site.

[Plain Talker]

I looked up Franklin St but most of the addresses are courts with just numbers. Give me a # and I will check. Did we all go to SHARROW LANE school ? I also see that the old SHARROW ST JOHNS church has been demolished. I was in the boy scouts there, the 139th. I am starting to feel very nostalgic. The milky bars are on me !

 

I and my ex hub were caretakers of Sharow St Johns. the condition inside was appalling. it was full of dry rot, the electrics were shot, and the walls were inch-thick polystyrene sheets, after the walls were moved in by a metre after the dry rot was found (and treated with... creosote!). The caretakers previous to us went through the choir vestry floor as the floorboards had rotted, and replaced with chipboard.

it is a real shame. A lovely building like that,let go to wrack and ruin!

[Minimo]

Hi Minimo

 

If you google "Sharrow Residents 1961" (include the quote maks) you should find electoral lists for the area for 1961 - 1962, hosted by http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk site.

 

Unfortunately, 1961 is too late as all my family from the area had either died or moved away by then.

But I will have a look at the site you mentioned to see what else is there, thank you.

 

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I and my ex hub were caretakers of Sharow St Johns. the condition inside was appalling. it was full of dry rot, the electrics were shot, and the walls were inch-thick polystyrene sheets, after the walls were moved in by a metre after the dry rot was found (and treated with... creosote!). The caretakers previous to us went through the choir vestry floor as the floorboards had rotted, and replaced with chipboard.

it is a real shame. A lovely building like that,let go to wrack and ruin!

 

This happens far too often and is a real shame. What years were you there PT?

[Plain Talker]

Unfortunately, 1961 is too late as all my family from the area had either died or moved away by then.

But I will have a look at the site you mentioned to see what else is there, thank you.

 

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This happens far too often and is a real shame. What years were you there PT?

 

1993-4, minimo, as caretaker, and, I was in Girls brigade and what have you there, in the mid 70s as a child. it was a dreadful shame that it fell apart with the neglect, but by the time it closed, in its centenary year there were less than ten congregants, and the minister and the organist, and the main sanctuary which had been opened in 1906 because the 1889 building could no longer hold the huge congregation had been condemned as unsafe (roof falling in, galloping damp and dry rot, really, really sad).

 

This is how bad the building had become:-

 

I got a zap from a light switch one Sunday morning as I was opening the church up for the service.

 

The calor-gas heaters had been on overnight ( the central heating had been ripped out as being too expensive) so, because of the bottled gas, there was a lot of moisture on the walls and switches.

 

I turned the lights on and it all went "BANG!" with a big blue flash, and I was knocked into the wall.

 

I screamed so loud, that Janet, the Organist, heard me scream over the playing of the organ, and she leaped out of the organ loft and dashed to me to see what was happening. I was scared but not as badly hurt as I could have been. (thank goodness!)

[cookingfat50]

I have been challenged to start a thread for anyone who lived/lives in that area.

 

On another thread it seems to be that the 'Anyone from Grimesthorpe' thread has been allowed special privileges. I don't know if that is true, but I am hoping there might be some interest from ex or indeed present Lansdowners.

 

Anyone?

 

landsdown is occupied by a large population of Somalia's now

[sharrovian]

My first day at school was in Sharrow St Johns, should have been the school but it had been bombed and what became the seniors yard had a huge pile of rubble which we clambered over to use the toilets and then returned. This was 1941-42, I left Easter 1952.

[Minimo]

Clambering over the rubble??

 

Can you imagine the uproar if todays kids had to do that!