Living in the slums

[darylslinn]

We lived in a two up two down house on Aizlewood Road until 1979, with the toilet at the top of the yard and a tin bath that resided at the top of the cellar steps.

No central heating but a gas fire and gas geyser in the kitchen..... needless to say moving from there to a new build at Intake was like moving from a cardboard box into Buckingham Palace.

The thing I did miss was the people who lived in the other five houses in that yard, we all knew each other and noticed whether anyone was missing or not been seen around.

We were lucky I suppose, people have lived in worse.

[carbrook lad]

grown up in a back to back in carbrook,Sheffield and the houses did have lavs outside but the house where not as bad as the photos,the people who lived in them looked after them kept them clean and would still be in them if they could have been mondernised,but the council wanted the land to build offices and shopping parks on the photos seem to be taken when, they started to knock them down,remember going down the cliff in the seventies and it did look run down,and not like i remember it.

 

hi nomoney grow up on carltonville rd from 1939/1968 houses were good kept clean great people and community spirt look after neighbour good shopping area 4 picture houses live entertainment plus 28 pubs from weedon st to stanforth rd plus skating rink what a great place to grow up move my parents to Greenland rd but never the same still have a great love for the eastend and still think Sheffield is gods country

[ukdobby]

I lived at No.8 Cricket inn road , opposite the Durham Ox pub up until the age of nine. a real slum.Its the middle one in the photograph. Cannot beleive that was my bedroom above the kitchen. ihttp://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s22654&pos=28&action=zoom&id=25118

 

Was that anywhere near Hyde Park flats,my best mate in the 70s lived in a small road of terrace houses bang across from the flats.

[bantycock]

hi nomoney grow up on carltonville rd from 1939/1968 houses were good kept clean great people and community spirt look after neighbour good shopping area 4 picture houses live entertainment plus 28 pubs from weedon st to stanforth rd plus skating rink what a great place to grow up move my parents to Greenland rd but never the same still have a great love for the eastend and still think Sheffield is gods country

 

It was known locally that Grimesthorpe was gods little acre but laterley looks like the devil got the upper hand ....

[willybite]

An article (in the form of an interview arranged via the Forum in 2010) gives a glimpse of Sheffield life in poor-quality housing - here it is: http://www.24dash.com/news/housing/2010-03-09-reform-and-revolution-3-1950s-slum-clearance. The worst part was having to go down two flights of stairs and across the yard to the loo in the depths of winter. I'm the littlest one in the 1951 photo!

 

hiya i lived on bath st in the 40/50/61 then i got married, i remember a lot of how people lived in the old days,like every friday was the cleaning day inside and outside like, out side the front of the house had paving stones and still recall the way the family would wash the front and donkey stone the step and the flag that held the bin,the outside lav also had the same clean, also in the summer the pealing and scraping of potato's and shelling peas sat at a stool outside, these houses were a room,bedroom and the attic.

[Janet Olsen]

Brilliant read

[hillsbro]

...these houses were a room, bedroom and the attic.

Yes, willybite, that sounds like the house I was born in. The ground-floor room was where everything happened - there would be a Yorkshire range with a fire-oven (or a gas oven if you were posh) and the coal- or gas-fired "copper" in the corner to heat water for washing and for the tin bath. On wash day in summer the tub and mangle would be wheeled outside and there would be much exchanging of news and light-hearted banter. The step was always donkey-stoned as you say, and it was a brisk walk across the yard to the (shared) outside loo that was kept spotlessly clean with its high cistern & chain, whitewashed walls and nail on the inside of the door for the squares of Daily Herald which were the nearest thing to toilet paper. Memories!

[nomoney]

My father worked in the steel works as a molder and earned good money but worked long hours,my mother you used to take him a hot meal with a sweet usually a suet pudding of some kind and a hot drink and pass it through a window,i knew some days he would go to work, and work for two or more days and sleep there,yes the good old days, but a different kettle of fish if you where a widower,pensioner or unemployed no benefits like people get to day

[Kateykrunch]

Sorry, but I just can't help myself.....I dont know what you lot are all on about!!, bliss, paradise, there were 3 of us lived in a rolled up newspaper int gutter....(sorry!) x

[backwardben]

slums in brightside we cooked on the fire, they was slums and as for the loo it was a shared loo all the yard used it. we did not have electricity it was gas light,and our first cooker was in 1963 ,

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