Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[bornablade]

Great picture, Silent. The lad on the bike could be me.

Others have mentioned the Berni Inn and Brocklehurst Motors and from the deepest recesses of a once bright(ish) mind I’ve come up with some other names which, if nothing else, tell us what a thriving shopping centre Meadowhead once was and many others like it:

Clements. Thos Clements, to give it its full title. A sort of general grocery store, next to The Norton. I think it became a Pricekene in the seventies.

Tauntons Chemists. On the corner of Hunstone Avenue.

Cranns fish and chip shop. On the other corner of Hunstone Avenue.

Cranns shop, next door to the chippie. It was quite big inside but I can’t remember what it sold. There was a cafe on the floor above.

Pembertons Newsagent and Post Office across the road. I spent many an early Saturday evening queuing outside for a Green ‘Un, peering down the hill towards Woodseats for a sight of one of the vans.

Mitchells. It’s still there, of course, as a wine merchants. It was an off-licence back then. Mitchells had another business there but I can’t remember if it was a butchers shop or a greengrocers.

There was a Barclays Bank branch, some sort of insurance brokers, a travel agency (I think). There was also a tobacconists next door to Cranns and a haberdashery shop next door to that. I seem to recall a flower shop as well.

Brocklehurst Motors became an Alan Pond petrol station in the seventies. I had a summer job there for a couple of years.

Was Crann's other business a launderette?

 

[1066blade]

Yes. Sheffield closing time was 10.30 every night but the more enlightened burghers of Derbyshire set closing time at 11.00pm at the weekend. That's why we nipped over the border for the extra half hour.

Me and my mates used to leave the Nelson about 11.00 and drive out to the Marquis of Granby to carrying on drinking AND swimming! WTF!

 

[Woodwaaard]

drive out to the Marquis of Granby to carrying on drinking AND swimming! WTF!

Did the MoG have a pool, or did you mean The Rising Sun?

 

[Maidenhead]

Here's one I took from my favourite Greek restaurant in England

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Here's one I took from my favourite Greek restaurant in England

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Parthenonas?

 

[Maidenhead]

Parthenonas?

Yep

We always pay it a visit when we stay over in Sheffield

 

[Robby Blade]

Did the MoG have a pool, or did you mean The Rising Sun?

Yes, it was The Rising Sun. Pubs shut and swimming bath opens, unbelievable but true, a couple of hundred pissed up teenagers doing silly things. The Marquis had a disco that was pretty good also.

 

[1066blade]

Yes, it was The Rising Sun. Pubs shut and swimming bath opens, unbelievable but true, a couple of hundred pissed up teenagers doing silly things. The Marquis had a disco that was pretty good also.

Thanks for refreshing my ancient memory banks RB, you're bang on. Used to go to both, once pulled a bird in the disco and then took her to the baths, she swam in her bra and knickers - classy or what? Happy days.

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[GrayBlade]

Dem Blades!

 

[bornablade]

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Taken from the Norton car park?

 

[Silent Blade]

Taken from the Norton car park?

Not sure

 

[Snowman]

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Was a Humber dealership. Dad had a Hawk and a Super Snipe. Was in the posh end of town for a young lad in the early 60's.

 

[Bert]

Was a Humber dealership. Dad had a Hawk and a Super Snipe. Was in the posh end of town for a young lad in the early 60's.

Super Snipe .....Bert drove one for a while. Leather bench seats, automatic, valve radio etc.

 

[Snowman]

Super Snipe .....Bert drove one for a while. Leather bench seats, automatic, valve radio etc.

Felt like you could hold dance classes in the back it was that big. Remember my dad getting very upset when he damaged a front wing driving into a wall in Cornwall because his attempt to flick his cigarette end out of the window failed.

 

[Dnblade]

Anyone remember the Bowling Alley in the Norton/ Bernie Inn?...i remember my Grandma working there for a while.
Yeah i remember Brocklehursts Garage...and also around there we used to go down and use the Swimming Baths at Rowlinson a lot at one time as kids.

 

[Silent Blade]

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[Rusty view]

I remember drinking down in the east end in the seventies and just before shift change (10pm) the lasses behind the bar would start pulling pints to load the bar up with beer ready for the stampede.

If only our catering staff did the same for Half Time.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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I see the article refers to our keeper as Ron McAllister.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

If only our catering staff did the same for Half Time.

Agreed!

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Dem Blades!

You wouldn’t get away with waving a sword about these days.

 

[GrayBlade]

You wouldn’t get away with waving a sword about these days.

Or wearing those dicky bows. Definitely offensive weapons.

 

[cmbillm]

Was a Humber dealership. Dad had a Hawk and a Super Snipe. Was in the posh end of town for a young lad in the early 60's.

I remember as a lad living on Warminster Road, 1963, my dad took the family to Brocklehurst’s to look at a new car... the one he fancied did’nt have an actual radio but it had a slot for one to be fitted.... and that was a key selling point! That, and Doc Pace, and Dr Who, and Sat’dy lunch at Atkinsons with a string band playing...all too much for an 11 year old lad.

 

[sitwell]

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The caption should be Hamilton pisses himself at Faulkners hair.

#nooffencetoanyofhisfamily

 

[bornablade]

I remember as a lad living on Warminster Road, 1963, my dad took the family to Brocklehurst’s to look at a new car... the one he fancied did’nt have an actual radio but it had a slot for one to be fitted.... and that was a key selling point! That, and Doc Pace, and Dr Who, and Sat’dy lunch at Atkinsons with a string band playing...all too much for an 11 year old lad.

I remember the band playing in Atkinsons on a Saturday lunchtime. I think it was a trio all dressed in dinner jackets and bow ties. Different era.

 

[Kentblade]

Anyone remember the Bowling Alley in the Norton/ Bernie Inn?...i remember my Grandma working there for a while.
Yeah i remember Brocklehursts Garage...and also around there we used to go down and use the Swimming Baths at Rowlinson a lot at one time as kids.

Went to Rowlinson 1952 to 1957, no swimming baths in that period.
UTB

 

[Kentblade]

I remember as a lad living on Warminster Road, 1963, my dad took the family to Brocklehurst’s to look at a new car... the one he fancied did’nt have an actual radio but it had a slot for one to be fitted.... and that was a key selling point! That, and Doc Pace, and Dr Who, and Sat’dy lunch at Atkinsons with a string band playing...all too much for an 11 year old lad.

We must have crossed paths, lived Warminster Crescent 1941 to 1962,
UTB

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

I remember the band playing in Atkinsons on a Saturday lunchtime. I think it was a trio all dressed in dinner jackets and bow ties. Different era.

I love this thread! I thought I was the only person left in the world who remembers this. I had my first bottle of proper Coca Cola (in glass bottle!) there. There was a piano, drums (I recall the drummer using those brush drumsticks) and something else - it's the drums I remember best. I must have been about 6 or 7, 1964ish. Top stuff!!!

 

[Dnblade]

Went to Rowlinson 1952 to 1957, no swimming baths in that period.
UTB

Must have been built after your time there KB...I'm on about very early 70's.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Must have been built after your time there KB...I'm on about very early 70's.

I left in 1970 and the swimming pool, along with a whole other raft of improvements, was being built in preparation for the introduction of comprehensive education. It became "Rowlinson Campus" and the new complex was officially opened in October 1971.