The Street Where You Were Brought Up.

[ukdobby]

14 hours ago, St Petre said:

Adkins Road (behind the Fortyfoot pub) is Parson Cross, I had relatives that lived on Pollard Avenue, two roads away. Nearby Herries Road divides that part of Parson Cross from Shirecliffe.

Do you recall where Tony Kay used to live ? as my ex-sister in law used to live next door to them in the early 1950s.

Southey Hill.

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On 02/06/2022 at 13:41, DUFFEMS said:

Upper Valley Road Meersbrook from mid 50's, spouse also there from birth. It was a typical mainly working class families area with good schools Carfield Infants/Junior/Secondary up the hill, we had good lungs walking up Kent Hill even accounting for the Sheffield smogs!

All the kids played togetether, all ages, the big 'uns looking after the young 'uns and never any real arguments. During the scool holidays we went out to play in the mornings, came home for dinner (not lunch) then back out again until tea time (not dinner), back out again until bed time. We were always scruffy when we came home as we'd been miles, Meersbroook Park and Graves Park being our stomping grounds.

The families we recall: Storey, Lingard, Travis, Ducker, Maynard, Memmott and Horsefield.

Regards,

Duffems

Carter Place in the 40s.  Everybody out on the street, kids, dogs, chatting neigbors, coalman, fishmonger.

 

This picture was taken after everybody got a TV.

 

Duckers, the Whittakers, Asqiths, Colemans and Drews.

 

[St Petre]

And 'up' Ditchingham Street is the definitive word ...oh wait.. that was Ditchingham Road,

[St Petre]

On 04/06/2022 at 13:11, St Petre said:

Adkins Road (behind the Fortyfoot pub) is Parson Cross, I had relatives that lived on Pollard Avenue, two roads away. Nearby Herries Road divides that part of Parson Cross from Shirecliffe.

Do you recall where Tony Kay used to live ? as my ex-sister in law used to live next door to them in the early 1950s.

Having said that, I was looking at some old and new maps (2000s and 1950s) and it seems that Southey Green ran as far westward as to Halifax Road-which I thought was PC--, so and I wondered where the bpundaries of SG were. The north side seemed to blend in with Parson Cross, the east side blended in with Longley (which to me was part of SG) and the bottom  was Herries Road was the boundary between Shirecliffe,

Edited June 6, 2022 by St Petre
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[Enfield]

Just now, Enfield said:

Ouseburn St, Darnall, our house was at the very bottom on the left.

[Cody's Granddad]

Born on Fowler Street, lived at 56 Groves Street then moved to Woodseats for about 18 months and then Andover Drive from 1963 to 1978.

[DarrellW]

Yes The first house was in Sharrow St.Stone pavings and cobeled roads.Hot summers melting the tar between the stones.Whhen we were playing marbles.Messy getting  the tar off with Margerrene HaHa.Cold tap over the stone sink and the outside toilet.Great Times.Running and Eventually cycling round the lump (Rented property)Sharrow lane county School, Failed 11Plus.Finished up on the Dalewood Estate,

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4 hours ago, DarrellW said:

Yes The first house was in Sharrow St.Stone pavings and cobeled roads.Hot summers melting the tar between the stones.Whhen we were playing marbles.Messy getting  the tar off with Margerrene HaHa.Cold tap over the stone sink and the outside toilet.Great Times.Running and Eventually cycling round the lump (Rented property)Sharrow lane county School, Failed 11Plus.Finished up on the Dalewood Estate,

T'other way Darrell 🤣. Lanark - Bocking  Lane -  Randall St, Highfields.

 

Happy Daze  .

[francypants]

I was brought up in three areas of Sheffield before moving down south in 1966 at the age of 11.

My earliest memory is of living on  Yarmouth Street,  Carbrook  from being a baby until I started  Carbrook C/E School.

At the time I was living with my aunty and uncle and two older cousins because when I was born my mom was really ill with TB  which was very contagious and often fatal in those days and she wasn't allowed to look after me and my older sister ( my sister was living with another aunty and uncle )          The house was a typical small two up/ two down terrace with coal fires and despite it being only a stones throw from the steel works and constant daily  'smog ' I remember people striving to keep their houses as clean as possible.   Large tin bath hung up on the outside wall, placed in front of a roaring fire in the kitchen on bath night.  I remember with me being the youngest I was always first in the tub and it was constantly topped up with hot water from the copper in the corner.   Outside toilet down the bottom of the yard ( horrible spiders ! )  and in winter a small paraffin lamp inside to try and stop the pipes from freezing.  Coats and shoes on just to visit the loo,  potties in the bedrooms at night.   Several houses sharing one big yard,  as children we called all neighbours  aunty and uncle.   Bonfire nights were magical with everybody joining in, sharing all the fireworks and homemade parkin,  bonfire toffee, toffee apples etc and potatoes on the bonfire.  Yes there must have been arguments/ disagreements with people living virtually in each other's houses but as far as I can remember,  they just got on with life.

     When I was about  5 years old  my mom  had finally recovered from TB and was strong enough so I was allowed to go and live with my mom and dad ( as was my sister ).  We lived on Merlin Way at Firth Park.    Small two bedroom house but it had a front and back garden which we spent hours in.  I especially used to love digging in the soil and making roads for toy cars.    We had hot running water,  a downstairs bathroom just off the small basic kitchen and an inside toilet off the back porch.  In winter we still had to use paraffin lamps in the toilet.   Merlin Way was a small road and there were virtually no cars back then so we often played outside on the road with our nearest neighbour's children.  Their toys always seemed better to play with and vice versa  !!    We had a budgie called Billy until it laid eggs  ..... then it was renamed but I cannot remember it's new name.   Spent hours during summer sliding down the dried grass Donkey Hill in Firth Park on pieces of flat cardboard and making dams in the stream at the bottom. My sister and I went to Hucklow Road School but the only things I can remember about there is my sister used to play the violin and in May we all used to dance around a maypole in the school playground.

      A few years later we moved up to a three bedroom house on Oaks Fold Road, Shiregreen right opposite Concord Park.   It was a wonderful park as were all the parks back then.  Excellent swings, roundabout, rocking horse and slide all kept brightly painted. Tennis courts, putting green,  outside giant chess board, bowling green.  You could also hire equipment  such as tennis rackets, putters etc. from a hut in the park.  Full  golf course and Woolley Woods to play in which were covered in bluebells in spring.  We rode our bikes in the park but had to keep an eye out for the Park Keepers !    Played skipping with a rope right across the road and hide and seek with our many friends.  Occasionally unknown to my mom and dad I'd go with friends to the bottom of Shiregreen and play on a bridge called Basket Bridge over a railway. Naughty naughty !!

At the time I was at Woolley Wood School just round the corner from our house and my sister ( four years older) went to Hinde House Comprehensive School.  We both went to ballet classes at Velma Furniss Dance School on Oaks Lane Shiregreen.  I didn't go for long because I hated it but my sister loved it and passed her bronze and silver medals. Instead I went for a few years to a teacher in Attercliffe called Miss Merrell for piano lessons.  It was whilst living at Shiregreen we had the Sheffield Hurricane in  1962.  Remember waking up and there was a full garage in the middle of our road and loads of uprooted trees in Woolley Woods.  In 1962/63 we had a really bad winter with snow for weeks and weeks.  Playing in Concord Park in the mega snowdrifts was wonderful for us children I will never forget it.   In 1966 I moved down south with my family.  I never liked living down south so ended up coming back to Sheffield without my mom, dad and sister to live with my aunty and uncle who had looked after me as a baby.

Well that is a small part of my early childhood in Sheffield.

 

 

 

Edited June 8, 2022 by francypants

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