Anyone from Gleadless?

[dustbunny]

I lived on spotswood Place, Carole58 did you live at the bottom end of spotswood before the patio's began. I moved off in 1974 but my dad still lived there

[carole58]

We lived in a tower house at the back of masonettes at the side of wyvern pub. There were no houses at the side of us only fields. The patios ran to the right of us. The cleary family lived in the first patio, the stones in the middle and the dodds at the bottom.

[dustbunny]

I lived in the block below our house faced the field and the wood, next door was the merrils other side was goodwins and the other was wilkinsons

[sezemeseeds]

Cleary's still live at the first patio still and the Dodds still at the bottom one. Only Fords I remember were stephen Ford. He lived in tower house down at the bottom. Do you remember the Gooden's? And the Carnalls?

[carole58]

We were good friends with the merrills, and lived next door to goodens, our house faced fields. Dont know any stephen ford. I just have three sisters. Still see susan cleary a lot. she lives close to where I live now.

[dustbunny]

Stephen & Richard Ford lived next door to my parents it would have been after Carole58 time there have been 5 families in that property to date.

[carole58]

We lived in the house from about 1965 to 1976, it was the block above the Merrills. Used to know the Crockers, Gibsons, and the Slacks. Not been back much since, now live at other end of Sheffield.

[JWPeatfield]

I used to live at the top of Leighton Road in 1962. My aunt and uncle and two cousins Janice and Sandra used to live on Gaunt Road.

[Yellowrose]

It is just possible some of you Gleadless Valley ex pats can help me. Someone has contacted me about a house exchange: she lives on Landseer Drive, near Herdings Park.

 

If you lived in a house similar to this, could you give me an idea about the size and layout of the downstairs of these 3 bed houses.

 

Also, whats it like there now?

 

PS I briefly lived on Abney Drive with my in laws in 1978, my partner grew up there (Mark Mannion, the good looking one!) and remembers the Hinchcliffes mentioned earlier in this thread.

[Darrell]

Originally posted by Plain Talker

oh, twinky,

 

Taggy's ice cream was just heaven!

 

whether in a cone, or a "sandwich" (i loved the chocolate, and the jam wafers that you could get for ice-cream sandwiches, it was sheer bliss.

 

Taggy's was the only ice cream my mother would eat.

 

I remember their depot was near anns road school, somewhere between gleadless road and richards road.

 

PT

"Taggy" was my mother's cousin. His real name was Jack Battle I understand the nickname "Taggy" came from his school days.

 

He and his sister Mabel lived together at 27 View Road with brother Ernest a few doors below. The dairy was in the back yard where the ice cream was made entirely from Jersey Milk.

 

They had a small shop on Gleadless Road which was run by Mabel and several vans which toured the area at weekends. In fact I believe they covered most of Sheffield.

A van or trailer was usually parked at the entrance to Graves and other Sheffield parks.