o/t what's your favourite street in Rotherham....

[LincsMiller]

I`m sure there`s a veiled compliment in there somewhere Lincs although my girlfriend always say`s I look ten years younger than I really am.
Domine Lane....is that you Lincs left hand side holding hands with the older chap...

I also remember the Public Baths and the old Post Office but don`t tell anyone...

Wow Casper, I worked exactly opposite the one on the right hand side, I once put all the bunting lights out, idling away with an old yard-stick for some unknown reason I poked it into an empty light fitting, it's a good job the stick only had brass on the ends or I doubt I would have been telling the story now. Middle of winter and no lights in half the market.

[LincsMiller]

Wow Casper, I worked exactly opposite the one on the right hand side, I once put all the bunting lights out, idling away with an old yard-stick for some unknown reason I poked it into an empty light fitting, it's a good job the stick only had brass on the ends or I doubt I would have been telling the story now. Middle of winter and no lights in half the market.

Ps...I don't think that's me, everything was black and white in my day

[sawmiller]

I`m sure there`s a veiled compliment in there somewhere Lincs although my girlfriend always say`s I look ten years younger than I really am.
Domine Lane....is that you Lincs left hand side holding hands with the older chap...

I also remember the Public Baths and the old Post Office but don`t tell anyone...

Casper - where do you get these images from - I had an artist ask me within the last week for old and current images of Rotherham and those 'overlooked street scenes' that they can use to work from?

[Casper64Frank]

Casper - where do you get these images from - I had an artist ask me within the last week for old and current images of Rotherham and those 'overlooked street scenes' that they can use to work from?

Hi sawmiller, not sure the link works but here it is.....two of them. There are others with all the Pubs that are now no longer there.

http://www.rotherham-images.co.uk/ga...therham(b).htm

http://www.rotherham-images.co.uk/ga....rotherham.htm

[Brin]

Park Street - born and bred on neighbouring street and played football from dawn til dust there. Rotherham trained on there too and we had kick abouts with the players.

History wise: Thornhill (later adding United to their name) played at the Red House Ground, devoid of either natural or artistic beauty. It was located off Henley Grove Road and Park Street

Ah Thornhill. Born in Mabrough myself just off Tenter Street a place easily missed as you pass over the railway bridge, Hartley Lane on the right hand side. Old railway houses. My dad was a signalman. Suppose I'm a proper towny being born so close to the town centre.

Other than that it's Badsley Moor Lane. My old schools and Herringthorpe where I spent a few years as a child.

[sawmiller]

Hi sawmiller, not sure the link works but here it is.....two of them. There are others with all the Pubs that are now no longer there.

http://www.rotherham-images.co.uk/ga...therham(b).htm

http://www.rotherham-images.co.uk/ga....rotherham.htm

Thanks Casper - links work fine - I will let him (the artist) know - bringing back many memories looking at these

[loyalmiller]

My favourite is All Saints Square. Reminds me of catching the bus with my mum and dad when I was a nipper and even nowadays if you look at it facing away from Effingham street you forget what a crap hole the rest of town is.

Brin, you're similar age to me and you might know a good mate of mine who lived on Walter Street, Nigel Eyre?

[lbj]

Brin - born on the allotment then - cabbage patch kid !

Played down there lots as Dad - had two allotments down there. We knew the signal men well for the signal box your side of Masbrough station....as I lived in houses overlooking it. They walked down our passage then down the embankment to the signal box.

Played "dens" on the "banking" and ran down the line all the time....busy but we saw no danger - we could tell when trains were coming.....but I can't believe I remember STEAM TRAINS!

We called one signal man "Merve the Perve" but just for fun....he wasn't
( as for as I know ) old Mervin - nice lad but too young to be your dad I suspect.

Near to your house there was a black
( dirty ) embankment wall facing the tracks.....some idiot wrote SUFC on it and I went down one night and changed it to RUFC....happy days...

[Brin]

My favourite is All Saints Square. Reminds me of catching the bus with my mum and dad when I was a nipper and even nowadays if you look at it facing away from Effingham street you forget what a crap hole the rest of town is.

Brin, you're similar age to me and you might know a good mate of mine who lived on Walter Street, Nigel Eyre?

Can't say as I do pal only a nipper when we left Hartley Lane in 64. Funny though how I recall getting a good spanking off my dad for going under the fence to get my ball back off the track that my sister had kicked over.

[Brin]

Brin - born on the allotment then - cabbage patch kid !

Played down there lots as Dad - had two allotments down there. We knew the signal men well for the signal box your side of Masbrough station....as I lived in houses overlooking it. They walked down our passage then down the embankment to the signal box.

Played "dens" on the "banking" and ran down the line all the time....busy but we saw no danger - we could tell when trains were coming.....but I can't believe I remember STEAM TRAINS!

We called one signal man "Merve the Perve" but just for fun....he wasn't
( as for as I know ) old Mervin - nice lad but too young to be your dad I suspect.

Near to your house there was a black
( dirty ) embankment wall facing the tracks.....some idiot wrote SUFC on it and I went down one night and changed it to RUFC....happy days...

No my late Father wasn't Merv thankfully by the sound of things. We lived at number 14 if that jogs anything in your memory bank. I too recall standing on the bridge on Midland Road and waiting for the engines to let steam hiss then the sound of the chuff chuff build up as smoke bellowed out of the train flue.

We'd get a good look at an engine as it pulled away then run across the road to the other side of the bridge to be met by black sulphur smoke bellowing up from the tunnel below.
Happy days indeed.