OT Habershon House

[Rothbiz]

Offers are being invited for Habershon House, the property in Filey owned by Rotherham Council which holds fond memories for the thousands of local people that have been taken on trips to the seaside as school children for over 100 years.
http://www.rothbiz.co.uk/2016/11/new...eading-to.html

[millmoormagic]

Offers are being invited for Habershon House, the property in Filey owned by Rotherham Council which holds fond memories for the thousands of local people that have been taken on trips to the seaside as school children for over 100 years.
http://www.rothbiz.co.uk/2016/11/new...eading-to.html

Thought this might happen, crying shame that future Rotherham kids won't have the priviledge to be honest...another sad indictment of today's society...

[millertop]

Yes I remember going there with school for a week
The kids of today only had three days didn't they?



What a shame but I suppose things move on.

[rileyev.the.third]

Yeah really fond memories of a week there in 1983 with all my Canklow mates.

Filey Brigg, Flamborough Head. Risk assessment probably wouldn't allow this today.

Real shame about it being sold.

[millmoormagic]

This has probably been done before, but what rooms were you in??

Guillemot myself...i think haha a long time ago!

[LincsMiller]

I attended "Filey Home" around about 1956, and my memories of the place are not at all fond ones. Even taking into account the general discipline of kids in that era , at the home its was taken a level higher. I vaguely remember the head dinner lady who made Rosa Klebb look like Mother Theresa. It didn't help that Id been sent with a new pair of shoes that were too tight and could hardly walk when getting off the bus outside the Odeon, I remember my mother going on one with a member of staff when she saw the state of my feet with burst blisters..Mm.. The good old days. I would imagine things improved as we entered a more tollerant era

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I assume this is named after the Habershon that founded the steel works JJ Habershon?

[Archiemiller]

I assume this is named after the Habershon that founded the steel works JJ Habershon?

Tha shud av been a police dog grist.!!!!!

[CTMilller]

I assume this is named after the Habershon that founded the steel works JJ Habershon?

I was just having a read about this, Grist, since my grandad worked for most of his life at Habershon's. (Steel turner; retired in 1951.)

Interestingly it wasn't actually called Habershon House until 1973 when it changed from being a children's convalescent home to an educational centre. I think they named it after Ivy Habershon who married into the Habershon family and who was very involved with running the house up to her death in 1962. That's the only real connection with the family; they hadn't owned it or anything.

My grandfather always spoke well of the Habershon family - especially Ivy who he knew a little. For many years they had a family day where all retired employees were invited to the Habershon home. OK, all very paternalistic by today's standards but for the first half of the twentieth century this was good practice and much appreciated.

[frogmiller]

This has probably been done before, but what rooms were you in??

Guillemot myself...i think haha a long time ago!

I too was in Guillemot!

What were the names of the other three rooms?