Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Silent Blade]

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

I remember going to Rowlinson baths a few times before Dronfield Sports centre opened in 1973 (I think)

 

[Brian Deane]

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.

Still have nightmares of going there as part of PE in the late 70's early 80's (79/81) IIRC.

 

[bornablade]

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!!!

So right about those brush drumsticks.

Downstairs in Atkinsons is Muffin the Mule - kids mechanical rocking horse. It was there in the 1960's and still going strong today.

Atkinsons have had their money's worth from that old steed.

 

[Klanger]

I used to live in Dronfield and we often went over the border to get an extra half hour. I think Steel works pubs pretty much had their own opening hours If they were on site and they opened to suit the shift. Wasn't there a pub in Sammy Fox's? I started supping in the 60's, but in the 40's I think pubs closed at 10pm.

Worked at Laycocks, Archer Lane, in the mid 70s, we finished at 3.30 on a Friday but the social club across the road opened then. Pub opening times were 11.00 to 3.00 at lunchtime

 

[Kimmy Blade]

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[Kimmy Blade]

 

[Kimmy Blade]

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George Best photo bombing a picture of Tommy Fenoughty

 

[Tony]

Used to live dahn Carbrook in the mid sixties. Quite a few Carbrook Hall drinkers would leave at 10.20 and head for the Barnley border for the extra 30/40 minutes drinking. Nice to see our wonderful Councillors have agreed to have The Hall knocked down. It's only 6/700 years old so I guess it's outlived its usefulness. If the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey were in Sheffield they'd probably have knocked them down to build a market or a Hole In The Road. ( Okay I know it wouldn't be called the T of L if it was in Sheffield.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Used to live dahn Carbrook in the mid sixties. Quite a few Carbrook Hall drinkers would leave at 10.20 and head for the Barnley border for the extra 30/40 minutes drinking. Nice to see our wonderful Councillors have agreed to have The Hall knocked down. It's only 6/700 years old so I guess it's outlived its usefulness. If the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey were in Sheffield they'd probably have knocked them down to build a market or a Hole In The Road. ( Okay I know it wouldn't be called the T of L if it was in Sheffield.

It's not being knocked down, it is being converted into a Starbucks drive through coffee shop (if planning permission is granted). It is a grade two listed building and cannot be just knocked down and neither is it 6 or 7 hundred years old. The bit that is left of the old Carbrook Hall is an annex added in about 1620.

 

[Tony]

It's not being knocked down, it is being converted into a Starbucks drive through coffee shop (if planning permission is granted). It is a grade two listed building and cannot be just knocked down and neither is it 6 or 7 hundred years old. The bit that is left of the old Carbrook Hall is an annex added in about 1620.

A Starbucks? Whoopppeee, that makes everything okay. Building was erected in the 12th Century and renovated in the15th. Much demolished in later years but some of the earlier parts still exist, including the old cellar tunnels which apparently were used to transport mary QofS to Sheffield Castle. Went down as a kid when Edna O'Brien was landlady. Said there was so much beneath the pub that should have been excavated.

 

[blade.i.am]

I used to take the Stars on Brocklehurst Ave from Pembos Paper Shop.
Brocklehurst Ave and surrounding area was pretty tasty early 70s

Lived on Norton Park Road back in the 70s. My paper round also included Brocklehurst Avenue, The Meads and Henly Avenue. Probably about 74-76.

 

[blade.i.am]

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.

Opened by Harold Wilson. My only memory being him coming into our science lab looking very red-faced. My first year there.

 

[Lane Ender]

Lived on Norton Park Road back in the 70s. My paper round also included Brocklehurst Avenue, The Meads and Henly Avenue. Probably about 74-76.

Wasn’t long before I got the Meadowhead round.

 

[Lane Ender]

Opened by Harold Wilson. My only memory being him coming into our science lab looking very red-faced. My first year there.

I’ll know a lot of lads who you knew at Rowlinson all Woodseats lads even though I went to Jordanthorpe

 

[Cerberus Blade]

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This photo will make a friend of mine very happy!

I’ve known Tom for many years and see him socially occasionally. Sorry to report that he’s not so good on his feet these days and needs a walking frame. But he’s still 100% Blade and loves to reminisce about the old times.

 

[Silent Blade]

This photo will make a friend of mine very happy!

I’ve known Tom for many years and see him socially occasionally. Sorry to report that he’s not so good on his feet these days and needs a walking frame. But he’s still 100% Blade and loves to reminisce about the old times.

Tom sat next to me and my dad when the Blades beat L**ds 3-0 in August 1971

 

[torridon]

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.

Friday night discos in the Marquis for us local 15 year olds were a godsend, pints of cider and pernod and blacks were the tipple of the day for us back then! We didn't get out much

 

[shorehamview]

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.

Both shut now, the Marquis has been flattened for a long time, the Rising Sun is closed with ambitions to build either a boutique hotel or possibly a Premier Inn type of building. Can't see the need for either to be honest.

 

[Grappler]

Lived on Norton Park Road back in the 70s. My paper round also included Brocklehurst Avenue, The Meads and Henly Avenue. Probably about 74-76.

The posh houses opposite my old school!

 

[I should coco]

The posh houses opposite my old school!

You can take the lad out out of Gleadless Valley........

 

[Woodwaaard]

New The posh houses opposite my old school!

To the best of my knowledge, the three roads that you've highlighted aren't opposite any school
Which school are you referring to?

 

[Grappler]

To the best of my knowledge, the three roads that you've highlighted aren't opposite any school
Which school are you referring to?

Gleadless Valley, now demolished and a housing estate. We used to go wandering off down those roads, it was like another world.

I remember someone telling me that the cover for the first ABC single was taken in one of the houses around there

 

[I should coco]

I remember someone telling me that the cover for the first ABC single was taken in one of the houses around there

Some reet ruff lads round there and I'm not surprised, as they'd take anything that wasn't nailed down....

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

It's not being knocked down, it is being converted into a Starbucks drive through coffee shop (if planning permission is granted). It is a grade two listed building and cannot be just knocked down and neither is it 6 or 7 hundred years old. The bit that is left of the old Carbrook Hall is an annex added in about 1620.

What’s going to happen to all the ghosts?

 

[GrayBlade]

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Lived on Norton Park Road back in the 70s. My paper round also included Brocklehurst Avenue, The Meads and Henly Avenue. Probably about 74-76.

The posh houses opposite my old school!

Gleadless Valley, now demolished and a housing estate. We used to go wandering off down those roads, it was like another world.

I remember someone telling me that the cover for the first ABC single was taken in one of the houses around there

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Don't you mean Mossbrook Infant and Junior Special School

 

[Woodwaaard]

Don't you mean Mossbrook Infant and Junior Special School

From memory, Gleadless Valley was quite a "special" school

 

[Grappler]

From memory, Gleadless Valley was quite a "special" school

While other schools like King Edwards and Silverdale made the front page of the Star for great exam results, we made it for going down to Newfield Green on the last day of school, and one of our lads pulled two petrol bombs out of his Adidas bag!

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

From memory, Gleadless Valley was quite a "special" school

True. It would have been my Secondary Modern if I had not passed the 11 plus. We used to get "harassed" by a group of lads from Matthews Lane on our way home until one night I stopped, turned round and smacked the ring leader straight between the eyes. He threatened to get his "big brother" to sort me me, but we never had trouble from them from that day on. Aah. Happy days.

 

[Mad Mick]