Plain Talker Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 Originally posted by rupert Nether Green School (1960s-70s): Falcons (me), Eagles, Hawks, Kestrels High Storrs School (1970s): Herring (me), Hoffman, Chadwick, Catclif That's how it was for me. I was at High Storrs from 1977approx, till 1980, and the houses names, at that time, were Hoffman (post '80 it was Smith), Herring (as I left it became Stevenson) Cary and Catliff. and yes, when Misses Cary and Catliff retired, their houses were merged with either Stevenson or Smith I was in Hoffman, which was green. (John, and Winter Mist... you both must be only about a year or two younger than me to remember those!) Bazzo, I went to Sharrow Lane School from 1973 to 1975, (when I transfered to senior school) and I have fond memories (!!) of the trek down Summerfield Street, from S-L Sch, to play games on the "Porter Field" behind Pomona Street school. ah, happy days. Especially when the rounders ball went into the river (snigger)! (incidentally, the houses at Sharrow Lane School were named after local streets when I was there,:- Grange, Thornsett, Priory and Kenwood!) Shawn:- just as an aside... you wouldn't recognise the brightmore drive flats these days! the council did them up, and clad them in sort of blue and green panels, and turned the balconies into enclosed utility room things, they look quite nice now. (they did the same to the blocks of flats on Martin Street. Another poster (Mojoworking) talked about Hemsworth School, on Constable Road...... When were you there, Mojo? I was there from 1968/9 to 1973-ish, and the houses then were named after "local" stately homes, Chatsworth, (red), Hardwick (Blue) Haddon (green) and the yellow house was.. er... er... oh! bloomin' drat! I've forgotten.. can anyone prompt me on that, please? (blushes!) Plain Talking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojoworking Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 Originally posted by Plain Talker I Another poster (Mojoworking) talked about Hemsworth School, on Constable Road...... When were you there, Mojo? I was there from 1968/9 to 1973-ish, and the houses then were named after "local" stately homes, Chatsworth, (red), Hardwick (Blue) Haddon (green) and the yellow house was.. er... er... oh! bloomin' drat! I've forgotten.. can anyone prompt me on that, please? (blushes!) Plain Talking I went to Hemsworth Primary (or Juniors as it was then called) from the day it opened circa 1957 until 1961. They must have changed the name of the houses since then, because as I said in my original post, they were originally named after painters, sculptors etc An earlier poster (fuzzy) said that school houses are a thing of the past, because "you can't have the kids being competitive now". If true, then it's yet another example of the PC brigade taking over the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 Originally posted by mojoworking I went to Hemsworth Primary (or Juniors as it was then called) from the day it opened circa 1957 until 1961. They must have changed the name of the houses since then, because as I said in my original post, they were originally named after painters, sculptors etc An earlier poster (fuzzy) said that school houses are a thing of the past, because "you can't have the kids being competitive now". If true, then it's yet another example of the PC brigade taking over the world Named for painters and sculptors, eh..? (rubs chin, musing) hmm. (bright light apprears over Plain talking's head!) Oh, yes....! as were most of the roads up there:- Landseer, Constable, etc. (were Raeburn, Orpen, and Mawfa, and Gibbons artists, too do you know?) Oh, yes, and I've also just remembered the name of the fourth house there.. it was Thoresby! I knew it'd come to me eventually! and I went to another secondary school(1975-77/8), apart from High Storrs, and that one didn't have "houses" Plain talking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojoworking Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 Originally posted by Plain Talker (were Raeburn, Orpen, and Mawfa, and Gibbons artists, too do you know?) Sir Henry Raeburn. (1756-1823), Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720), Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), not sure about Mawfa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 Originally posted by mojoworking Sir Henry Raeburn. (1756-1823), Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720), Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), not sure about Mawfa Wallop! Give that poster a shiny! (sorry, can't you tell, I watch far too much C-beebies with my granddaughter!) (thank you!) Plain talker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebird62 Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 DEAR BAZZO IN the 80's while i was still at phillimore junior school, we had shealds and colours. these were, sheaf was yellow and porter was blue, and loxley, rivalin and don but i can not think what these colours were. i was the prefect for sheaf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZZO Posted February 17, 2004 Author Share Posted February 17, 2004 Interesting response from juliediane saying that her old school Phillimore (where is that?) named its houses after Sheffield rivers. When I idly started this topic last June I mentioned that my old junior school -Pomona Street County (now Portercroft -if you please! just off Ecclesall Rd) named its houses after local rivers!! We seem to have come full circle -thanks juliediane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Originally posted by BAZZO Interesting response from juliediane saying that her old school Phillimore (where is that?) named its houses after Sheffield rivers. When I idly started this topic last June I mentioned that my old junior school -Pomona Street County (now Portercroft -if you please! just off Ecclesall Rd) named its houses after local rivers!! We seem to have come full circle -thanks juliediane. Phillimore school is MR Plaintalker's old school. it is in Darnall, in the east end of Sheffield. Plaintalker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little malc Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 When I left school in 1958 the houses were called Nightingale, Edison, Scott and Wellington. The school was Shiregreen Secondary Modern on Bracken Rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainbow2411 Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Owler Lane Intermediate houses where Shakespeare Milton Tennyson & I think Byron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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