Intake Sheffield Any history

[Benbow]

Hi Crooksey

 

The Shire brook ran between Lister Crescent (I was born in number 37 in 1939) and Seagrave Crescent, I spent many happy hours as a young boy exploring the dyke (as we called it then), upstream and downstream much to the annoyance of some inhabitants of Seagrave and Lister Crescent (if they found us there!).

 

The brook did divide Yorkshire from Derbyshire and living in Lister Cres, I was born in Derbyshire which meant that I had to go to school in Derbyshire although almost all our activities took place in Sheffield.

 

I spent some enjoyable evenings at the Rex cinema (I must have been one of the snobs as I preferred it to the manor). I think that someone earlier mentioned the gods in the Rex and being a snob I have to point out that the Rex had stalls and a circle which in those days cost threepence more, 1/6 stalls 1/9 circle (I only ever sat in the stalls). The Rex was luxury whereas the Manor wasn't quite the same and it had a billiard hall attached. As I recall the Manor had three levels, upper circle where if you were courting and sat at the back the screen was the size of a 9" TV, but hey, who cared! The middle circle, the most expensive where you took the girls to impress them and the Flea Pit, which as far as I can remember was a black hole way down below. I never went down there and I don't know anyone who did so it may have been a figment of my imagination. The Manor prices were a bit cheaper than the Rex.

 

I remember the council estate being built at the bottom of Lister Crescent (it always had been a cul-de-sac) and it became huge. I was grateful though as it became a source of income for me as I delivered papers on the estate for Plumbs the newsagents for many years. I also had a Saturday morning job delivering meat for the co-op butchers at Gleadless Townend, I think that the butchers name was Gregory. The paper round and the butchers job each paid me 5 bob a week.

 

Happy days,

[Diddles]

I live on Lister Avenue and when we first moved in nearly 30 years ago, that bloody stream caused us all sorts of problems. When my kids started school we were told that they had to go to Frecheville school as we lived in Derbyshire, but when we went there we were told that because we lived nearest to Seagrave Crescent then we lived in Yorkshire and the kids had to go to Gleadless School. We also found out by chance that we received our water supply from Yorkshire Water but had been paying water rates to Severn Trent for years! Even today we get problems when there has been a lot of rain, as the stream overflows (due to it being blocked up with rubbish where it goes underground) and floods the road.

[mickr]

Once more about the name Intake - if you look in the Oxford Concise Dictionary you'll see that although it does give the definition 'an airway into a mine' it also gives another one of 'land reclaimed from a moor'. Could that be the adjacent Birley Moor? When I worked at Orgreave Pit in the 60's airways were called 'updraught' and 'downdraught' - maybe that's just the term for mines entered by winding gear and not drift mines??

[mikep57]

have a look at this:

 

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s11711

 

it says it Fox Farm at Intake, theres some good un's of The Rex on there aswell :-)

 

Dont know whether Sheffield Librarary Service who supplied the pic of fox farm know but even if someone owns an original painting, the copyright for selling reproductions may still be owned by the artist, Mr D higgins who lives on Arnold Ave, Gleadless

[Burash]

To albert T Smith Hi I am a ex pat of Frecheville my grandparents lived at intake the intake Terminus in the late forties finished at the bottom about fifty yards from the

Shire Brook the pit mound just before the Noahs Ark was a walk down one,I had tried

to go down it ,I believe it was connected to Handsworth pit,I also investigated the

west Birley Pit close to the Terminus,in the early 50s I used to see a steam train pull into the old pit yard.there are old photos in the Noahs Ark cheers Burash

[maurice f]

I lived at birly vale in the late 1930 on the left side bottom of the hill from fretcheville there was a lane led to flttons brickworks

[Burash]

To maurice f .I knocked around that area circa 1948 to 54 did you know that

a tunnel went under the Birley Moor road from the " Land Sale " to the Sheffield

Coal Co office on the left side of the hill coming down..You can probably still see

the Bricked up portal approx 6ft. high by 3 ft. wide

[maurice f]

maurice f burash the tunnel you talk about could be at the back of our house we used as a airade shelter in the war we also had a rag bone man acros he had stables

Edited February 4, 2009 by maurice f

[Burash]

Mauricef yes the Brother and sister of the rag and bone family I was aquainted with

I think the family name was Gartside and the chap was called Walter ? I researched about the East and West Birley pits during 1985, along with Alan Rowles and I believe

there is a copy in Woodhouse Library reference section called " Winding Up "

it is a paper back but has good information in it ..Tom lived in the first bugalow at

the start of the Land Sale and the tunnel was in the wall behind his property.

regards Patrick [ Burash ]

[maurice f]

Hi I lived at birly vale befor fretcheville was built we came from near a farm right at bottom of the estate allsopps farm our house on left coming down from the est we had dert leading to flettons brickworcks there was also a raggand boneman he stables went selling fruit on saturday he was garside there was tunell went under the road wich was our airade shelter across the road was a narrow road that went down to the loded with coal me and my mate would hang on the back for a lift