MadSnail Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 What a fantastic forum! I'm into family history and a lot of my relatives lived at various Attercliffe & Darnall addresses. I myself didn't live there long – about five or six years, 1944-ish to 1950 –but I have some good memories of the place. Dad kept a shop at the corner of Shirland Lane and Britnall Street and I went to school at Huntsman's Gardens.( I remember being a bit handy at mabs which we played on the cobblestones of Bodmin Street. ) I passed the "Scholarship" exam and also an Art Scholarship so at age eleven I went to the Sheffield College of Arts and Crafts in Arundel Street –opposite the bottom of Surrey St. Now, long gone. I visited Sheffield a few years ago and was amazed by the changes. Bodmin St looked like a bomb had hit it, Hunstmans Gardens had disappeared, and the view from the bottom of Britnall Street revealed a bloody great Sports Stadium! The Baths building was still there, but no longer functional, and the aqueduct across Worksop/Darnall Road was still there. I must have gone under that dozens of times but I can never remember walking across the top. We played by the canal further up between Shirland Lane and Staniforth Rd. I'm coming on another visit soon and hope to take a closer a look at what's left of my Attercliffe and other places. If anybody can help me stir the memories, that would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40summat Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Hi MadSnail and welcome to SF. Put the words Darnall and Attercliffe into Search on the left of this page and it should bring up some good stuff. I have been fascinated by some of the things written here about the area, forummer Bluebird was very helpfull to me when i was researching the area, You'll find some very knowledgable folk on here. Also try this site for Pictures http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/database_search.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrislindley Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Hi, im looking for my uncle Jack who moved to oz before i was born my father was called Alfred who married Beryl Sedgwick. If you have any information regarding this please get in touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helbco Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 hi chrislindley - can you give a bit more information - was your uncle's name lindley also? Do you have any idea where he went to? When did he move to Australia? Is Jack his real name or was he a John or James? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsleydiva Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 What a fantastic forum! I'm into family history and a lot of my relatives lived at various Attercliffe & Darnall addresses. I myself didn't live there long – about five or six years, 1944-ish to 1950 –but I have some good memories of the place. Dad kept a shop at the corner of Shirland Lane and Britnall Street and I went to school at Huntsman's Gardens.( I remember being a bit handy at mabs which we played on the cobblestones of Bodmin Street. ) I passed the "Scholarship" exam and also an Art Scholarship so at age eleven I went to the Sheffield College of Arts and Crafts in Arundel Street –opposite the bottom of Surrey St. Now, long gone. I visited Sheffield a few years ago and was amazed by the changes. Bodmin St looked like a bomb had hit it, Hunstmans Gardens had disappeared, and the view from the bottom of Britnall Street revealed a bloody great Sports Stadium! The Baths building was still there, but no longer functional, and the aqueduct across Worksop/Darnall Road was still there. I must have gone under that dozens of times but I can never remember walking across the top. We played by the canal further up between Shirland Lane and Staniforth Rd. I'm coming on another visit soon and hope to take a closer a look at what's left of my Attercliffe and other places. If anybody can help me stir the memories, that would be great. What addresses in Darnall and Attercliffe? I was born and bred in Darnall and lived there for 17 years. Grandparents lived in Attercliffe so we spent a lot of time there too. Went to School at Whitby Road Infants and Junior, passing 11 plus to Owler Lane Intermediate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadSnail Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 Lindley A 30Peel O'Cnnr 93147364 A E & H F 5CrossingVwByfd ..95262353 . . . . J 17PinedaleEVicPk 93616297 J 5MoonstonePI Gsnls ……0433637498 J 5Coronado Rd Iluka Mobile Service ……… 0412970310 J 5Coronado Rd Iluka . 93042673 Mobile Service 0408 808 552 J B & G F 11HarrisPlmyra…..93397919 JD&TE 14CootamundraWayMdaVIe…9454 6970 J K 38PaltaraWayWann …94053838 J M 32BaswndeanPdeBsndn…93783982 K 4KurrajoNAppAtwi ………… 94986025 As you can see from the above, you wouldn't have too many J.Lindley's to ring here in Perth. Trouble is, there's another 20 million Aussies living a couple of thousand miles to the East ! You do need more info on whereabouts he went. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbrook lad Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 hi madsnail nice to see an expat on this forum try loggin anybody from attercliffe this will, stir a good few memories from dow attercliffe,carbrook,darnall, do you miss the good beer and the fine people from the old eastend regards aj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrislindley Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Hi yes his name is Jack Lindley he moved to Oz around 1956 ish give or take. Not sure where he moved to as he moved 10 years before i was born. I would like to trace my family as you can guess and any information would be gratefully recieved. Many thanks, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandorasbox Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 I too went to college of arts on arundel street ,but have never left sheffield .I left school in 1960.the school had then moved to nether edge, brincliffe college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloomdido Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 My parents were both from the East End. They used to drink in the 'Railway' and 'Top Common' pubs. My Ma was born in the Railway Cottages and my Father's sister emigrated to Oz in the 50's. She was called Laverne, married to Albert and they had three sons. I have an Aussie staying with me at the moment. He's from Adelaide though. My best mate at Juniour school emigrated to Perth back in the 70's and I managed to find him on t'internet quite by accident whilst looking at a local history site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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