O/T Best Cafs in Rotherham 70's and 80's

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Anyone from Rawmarsh remember Keith Hickling delivering milk & vegetables.
I worked at Kilnhurst Brickyard from 1967 to 1969, packing bricks from the press,
setting & drawing bricks, stoking the fires for the kilns to bake the bricks, to
driving loading shovel, JCB & forklift.
There is a bad S bend next to the brickyard, one morning Keith Hickling came round
the bend & lost some of his milk & veg, which spilled onto the road, I went over to
help him pick it up, & clear the road.

[Emptytivoli]

Old Graftons opposite Woolworths when the buses stopped there. Mum would take us in for a chip butty but couldn’t tell dad when we got home. Also cafe above / in Britains. Mum would meet her old school friend there every Monday morning so got dragged along on school holidays.

[Bradgate]

Anyone remember the Saspirilla cafe across from Millmoor used to go in there every match day at home.

My mother used to work there...she may have been the one who served you.. I was owned by a Mrs Bird who lived on Bradgate Lane, in Kimberworth.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Anyone from Rawmarsh remember Keith Hickling delivering milk & vegetables.
I worked at Kilnhurst Brickyard from 1967 to 1969, packing bricks from the press,
setting & drawing bricks, stoking the fires for the kilns to bake the bricks, to
driving loading shovel, JCB & forklift.
There is a bad S bend next to the brickyard, one morning Keith Hickling came round
the bend & lost some of his milk & veg, which spilled onto the road, I went over to
help him pick it up, & clear the road.

I had a house built of Kilnhurst bricks

Exceptionally hard stuff, went through many drill bits

[Brin]

I had a house built of Kilnhurst bricks

Exceptionally hard stuff, went through many drill bits

That during your safe cracking days?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

That during your safe cracking days?

Grist To The Drill. ��

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Anyone from Rawmarsh remember Keith Hickling delivering milk & vegetables.
I worked at Kilnhurst Brickyard from 1967 to 1969, packing bricks from the press,
setting & drawing bricks, stoking the fires for the kilns to bake the bricks, to
driving loading shovel, JCB & forklift.
There is a bad S bend next to the brickyard, one morning Keith Hickling came round
the bend & lost some of his milk & veg, which spilled onto the road, I went over to
help him pick it up, & clear the road.

I had a house built of Kilnhurst bricks

Exceptionally hard stuff, went through many drill bits

Kilnhurst bricks were a good brick Grist, we did engineer bricks that went to build Immmingham oil
refinery etc, normal house above ground bricks, seconds went for footings.
We also did handmade bricks, for specialist jobs, 2 blokes made the handmade, other bricks came
off the press.
Bricks to order for the older housing jobs, being 3inch & 2.78inch, normal brick being 2.58inch width's.
Brickyard went bust 2 times while I was working there, they asked me to go back, but I declined
it was a hat-trick I didn't want. [ Went bust again later ]

[rileyev.the.third]

My Aunty Margaret worked in the Whitehall for years, as a treat my Mum would take me for a milkshake, served in a proper milkshake glass, loads of froth on the top. My Mum always had a milky coffee, nowadays that would be a latte I suppose.

I liked the Omnibus cafe at the front of the bus station personally, mainly because it had a fruit machine in it ha ha.

[frogmiller]

I still ask my family "do you want onions and cream on that love?" when I make them a sandwich!

I did like a ham sandwich and an elephants foot! These french don't know how to do big profiteroles

[CAMiller]

I never saw that truck looking dirty - always spotless. It was vintage back in the 80s - it had a petrol engine as I recall.

They used to say when traveling through Rawmarsh and you got behind a long line of slow moving traffic, it was either Staves fruit and veg van on its stop start round, or a Clarks hearse.

Yes, I read somewhere that their truck only had 40bhp so it did tend to lumber around. I understand that they used to wash it every morning before the sun came up and they embarked on their round for the day.