Anyone Come From Shirecliffe

[millsie]

Hi Skippy, you must be getting on too. My brothers Ralph, Brian & Harry went to Shirecliffe school, a did one of my sisters, Mary (yep, & kids!). I was a affectionately called a 'clever dick' otherwise known as "pob-head" by them and went to the City Grammar in Leopold St. as it was called then. Last year I went back with family and actually stay in part of the old school complex, as it is now the Leopold Hotel. Very nice people, recommend it, not the cheapest but get a very good deal if booking midweek on the net. Found dozens of old school friends from '54-'59 who still keep in touch and have monthly lunches. Took me 25 years to save enough to take my family over there, but since the kids grew up and are both working in London, I seem to get back every year or two lately. Nice to have free B & B, called payback!

Good talking to you mate, take care, might bump into each other one day on our travels.

Travel safe

Millsie

[bullerboY]

Hi millsie.I knew your brian so I must know you,I lived on Crumpsall Rd,You must have been in the same class as David Cooper.The butcher was Ossie Bennett,yes Skippy is getting on a bit now but I am a wee bit older but unlike you lot in Ozz with all that sun all we get is rain.You lived on my paper round mornings and evenings.

[millsie]

Hi BullerboY, thanks for the email, nice to contact some of the neighbours. Unfortunately, Brian died a few years ago at the age of 71, miss him as he as a lovely bloke. Such a shock as he was so fit & healthy. As I have said, I went to Longley infants on Herries / Raisen Hall Road (opposite the Forum) and then on to City Grammar where I knew an Earnest Cooper, not David.

I used to deliver papers for Wilcox / Quail too, they accused me of not delivering a newspaper and sacked me! Trouble was, he was right, just missed the house and wasn't going back as he wanted me to.

I used to hang around with Jeff Price & Trevor Beard but lost contact with them now.

Just received a call from my friendly travel agent, I'm coming over to UK on 28th this month and will definitely call in on Sheffield. Mills family are still mostly in the area, but both my kids are presently working in London, hence free board.

Might see you around, take care

Millsie

[skippy]

You lot in Oz with all that sun, all we get is rain.

 

Best ten quid I ever spent Buller, ha ha.

I remember Jeff Price, good soccer player in his day.

[millsie]

Jeff was indeed a good player. I believe one of his brothers (Peter I think) died in a road accident a few years ago. We all used to play in the top wood Sundays, beating the players was bad enough but the trees & tree stumps were the worst!

Most kids a bit older than me had to do National service, probably like bullerboY and that gave them a bit of adventure. No NS when I was 18, liked to travel, so after finishing my apprenticeship at Dormer Tools, saved 10 pounds to come out here for a couple of years.

That was in 1965, still here!

Sheffield has improved a lot though, my grand-kids love visiting there, especially Rails, the model train shop up Chesterfield Road. Just confirmed my booking, leave to visit UK May 27th, hope United win at Wembley, be good to have 2 teams in Championship again.

See you, Millsie

[bullerboY]

Hi millsie, I knew all the Prices and Trevor Beard,I din't know Brian had died,wasnt he married to Ann Trotter once upon a time. Shirecliffe is definatly not the place it used to be the shops there are a mess now and they have built some really strange houses there.We had a fifty yrs reunion at Longley School a few years ago and I am in touch with a few of the old boys and girls,what names do you remember?

[bullerboY]

Millsie,peter is still alive and living up Lane top he was a well known Sheffield Councillor and is still active in cycling,Ken died a few years ago and he was a weight lifting champ,i dont know where Jeff is these days. Yes that tenner was the best money you ever spent.

[millsie]

No, Brian married Doreen Hogg. Alan was married to Ann for a short while, didn't work out at all. I am a bit confused, the infants school cnr. Herries Road & Raisen Hall was Longley wasn't it (opposite the old Forum)? That's the one I went to. Mr Mason was my last teacher there. At 5, I had a crush on Miss Broadhead because she had a very shiny face ( I later learned that she probably had other attributes!). There was Ann Allerton, Eileen Boot & Pat Fox whom I met up with on a visit in the 80's, Ann Gregory (you probably knew her bro & is Tommy & Janet), Tony Allen, Keith Marshall, Brian Gee, Billy Taylor, Roger Goodison & Michael Edison to but name a few.

[millsie]

Sorry bullerboY, it was Ken who died. Peter actually responded to a Genes Reunited contact a few years ago and he advised me re Ken, and that Jeff was an accountant who I think moved somewhere in Derbyshire.

[bullerboY]

Hi millsie,I wasn't sure whether it was Brien or Alan,I used to go out with Ann around 1956 unfortunatly she has now gone about 4 years ago.I knew Eileen Boot,Pat Fox has also gone she married Tony Marsh who lived down Raisen Hall Rd I remember Brian Gee and Roger Goodison,Mick Edison was in the same class as me.The teachers I remember were Mason,Constadine Talbot,Miss clareborough,Mrs Biram,the Headteachers were Miss Driver and Miss chapell,Yes you have the right school opposite the Forum.Ann used to be a stunner I was nuts packing her up.