Ot Which City would you like to have been born

[wendun]

I’m very happy that I was born in the front bedroom of a council house in East Herringthorpe and had a great childhood playing football from the minute I got in from school until it got too dark to carry on. Played hiddy, kick can, tiggy and mabs, learned how to scrap and made some lifelong friends along the way. Wouldn’t change a thing.
Thankful for where I live now too x

My mother was taken from the front bedroom of our EH council house to Listerdale Maternity Home for the arrival of yours truly owing to complications with the birth. Nothing I have experienced in later life matches the romance of those early years, footy off Valley Road, explorations in the Big and Little Woods, cries of "Green'Un" on Saturday evenings and the majestic volcanic splendour of the slag tips away in the distance. Magic.

[sota]

My mother was taken from the front bedroom of our EH council house to Listerdale Maternity Home for the arrival of yours truly owing to complications with the birth. Nothing I have experienced in later life matches the romance of those early years, footy off Valley Road, explorations in the Big and Little Woods, cries of "Green'Un" on Saturday evenings and the majestic volcanic splendour of the slag tips away in the distance. Magic.

Great stuff Wendun. "majestic volcanic splendour of the slag tips away in the distance". Love it :-)

[wendun]

Great stuff Wendun. "majestic volcanic splendour of the slag tips away in the distance". Love it :-)

Cheers, sota. You show a rare sensitivity which is what I expect from a fellow EH lad. Just because this is a footie forum there's no excuse for sloppy writing.

[CTMilller]

My mother was taken from the front bedroom of our EH council house to Listerdale Maternity Home for the arrival of yours truly owing to complications with the birth. Nothing I have experienced in later life matches the romance of those early years, footy off Valley Road, explorations in the Big and Little Woods, cries of "Green'Un" on Saturday evenings and the majestic volcanic splendour of the slag tips away in the distance. Magic.

I've eavesdropped on your exchange with Sota with great enjoyment, Wendun. Coincidentally I came across this picture on the Rotherham FB page which, to my shame, I incorrectly identified as Herringthorpe Playing Fields. My good friend Croglin, late of these boards, put me right and suggested the picture was probably taken from roughly where Farnworh Road and Cawthorne Road meet just above Valley Road and not a million miles away from Ridgeway. (The sportsfield, I'm told, was East Dene Miners Welfare - now The Lanes development) I suspect in the distance one can see "the majestic volcanic splendour of the slag tips" you mentioned...

I also enjoyed the Victor Waddington film.

[wendun]

I've eavesdropped on your exchange with Sota with great enjoyment, Wendun. Coincidentally I came across this picture on the Rotherham FB page which, to my shame, I incorrectly identified as Herringthorpe Playing Fields. My good friend Croglin, late of these boards, put me right and suggested the picture was probably taken from roughly where Farnworh Road and Cawthorne Road meet just above Valley Road and not a million miles away from Ridgeway. (The sportsfield, I'm told, was East Dene Miners Welfare - now The Lanes development) I suspect in the distance one can see "the majestic volcanic splendour of the slag tips" you mentioned...

I also enjoyed the Victor Waddington film.

Fantastic CT!!!! Much obliged. I have stood on that very spot. The footie off Valley Road I refer to was on that very pitch in your photo. Croglin is right although the photo has a foreshortening effect. The little path at the end of the line of bushes at bottom left is the entrance from Cawthorne onto what we called "The Fields". The junction with Farnsworth Road was about 250 yards from this spot over to the right, Cawthorne running parallel to Valley Road just in front of the line of houses and about 200 ft higher above sea level. A couple of hundred yards along to the left and I'd turn down to Valley Road, cross it and go to St Mary's RC Primary School. What a great photo and as you say the volcanoes are in the distance!

[WanChaiMiller]

"Far Away And Further Back" on Amazon Books, WCM.

Thanks.

[WanChaiMiller]

Id have been in my mid ***** in the mid 70s. New York always appeared glamorous where anything and everything was possible. Music, fashion, clubs. Musicians of the time all seemed to head there. It was shrouded in a sort of iconic mystery. I was probably seduced by the perception of its culture.

Its very different now. Ease of travel and social media make these places more easily accessible and real.

Of course it had no football cricket or rugby so would never have moved there. And I never actually had any desire to travel there.

History says NY was in serious decline through the first part of the 70s. But, to be fair, it was probably the first modern city state and followed by many others - London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur.

[CAMiller]

My mother was taken from the front bedroom of our EH council house to Listerdale Maternity Home for the arrival of yours truly owing to complications with the birth. Nothing I have experienced in later life matches the romance of those early years, footy off Valley Road, explorations in the Big and Little Woods, cries of "Green'Un" on Saturday evenings and the majestic volcanic splendour of the slag tips away in the distance. Magic.

...and if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you

[millavanilla]

When i look back..masbro..and towards town..before the dual carriageways..the streets..the shops ..the pubs..black soot covered buildings from steelos blowing over millmoor to everywhere in masbro and holmes ..king street..albert street..falding street..chapel walk..thornhill..amen corner..sarsaparilla shop..thornhill tavern..red house..holmes hotel..turners..george..carters..golden cup..stag..butchers..waltons herbalist shop ..there was a shop where you could buy some kind of chinese nuts..they were sweet tasting..anybody know what they were ?

[mikemiller]

I've lived in five different cities in England , most of which had a lot of positive aspects. I don't particularly like any that are too big though.
Berlin during the Weimar republic would have been interesting, but somewhat dangerous (although there were some entertaining cabaret acts!)
York looks quite good, if you keep out of the flood-alert zone.