Penistone Road - Hidden train carriages

[Olive]

Didn't take long for the trees to grow back did it! Thanks Hillsborough, I do love all your nuggets of local information.

[speleo1]

This snicket on langsett road next to the car wash is how you get to the pigeon lofts,inbetween the bus stop and the mini valet sign,

 

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[darylslinn]

And with all the trees having been cut back you can now see what remains of the pigeon lofts on Penistone Road. To be honest they look a right mess and one can only hope that they will get pulled down when the road widening is complete.

[HisOnlyStar]

Aww we got our dog from those pidgeon lofts. I was about 5 (I'm 38 now) a collie crossed with a Springer spaniel, she was only one in the litter that was black and white with short hair, all the rest were brown and white and curly haired.

She was shaking at the back and all the others were bounding about. She had a docked tail but it was too low so she basically had no tail at all.

I named her 'Pirate-Rog' 

My dad had her for 17/18 years. 

She used to go all round town and Hillsborough with him before she got too old and had to stay home; everyone knew her. People used to buy her things. 

[old tup]

We used to hang about up there as schoolkids just the other side of the advertising boards by the side of the pub,from the pigeon cote side the pavement on langsett Road was head high!.This we used for hours of harmless fun,we drilled a hole in a halfcrown coin,tied it to fishing line and threw it out across the pavement and waited!.Sure enough someone would spot the coin and bend down to pick it up,at the last possible moment we would jerk the coin away to be bombarded with bad language and cursing I couldn,t possibly repeat,this would be at nightime so we could dissapear into the dark in case of reprisals!.Another pastime we liked was tunneling into the hillside,we dug a  massive one I remember due to a near bad accident,one of the lads was an expert at making explosives and turned up with one to show his expertise!.He set it all up but with too short a fuse,he lit it and we bolted for the entrance,only we didn,t quite make it,a deep loud thump went off and everything fell in,luckily we all got out covered in black ashes !.When I think back at some of the stunts we got up to its a wonder I,m still alive!.