Ot Which City would you like to have been born

[sota]

Oh bloody 'ell that would be fantastic!

[sota]

The power of Millersmad eh!

[wendun]

Going to bed now Wendun, my youngest just landed back in Sydney from Adelaide, I can sleep now :-)

May catch you tomorrow. I often come on MM around 5.15 AM and end my first stint at 5.50 when I go down for a coffee and the Today programme on Radio 4. I also pop on during the day but pack in late afternoon when I start the evening meal prep. I am very much a creature of habit; this Sunday was ruined for me as there were no football games on either Radio 5 Live or Talksport. I like to listen to a game, down a few and do the Times crossword with my wife.

[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.

[Lolmorgan]

And which era.

Putting Rotherham aside of course.

Always fancied New York in the 70s and 80's.

I would go for New York but 60s Greenwich Village.

[gm_gm]

Two places I wouldn’t like to have been born Glasgow or New Jersey full of loud mouth W@nkers....

[CAMiller]

Two places I wouldn’t like to have been born Glasgow or New Jersey full of loud mouth W@nkers....

Been watching the golf then gm_gm?

[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!

[CTMilller]

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!

I thought that might stir your loins as well, Soda! Isn’t it great how a simple photo can conjour up a whole landscape of memory of time and place. There are a couple of The Brecks that have come up on the Rotherham FB page. Fifty or sixty years just roll away and you’re right back. Possibly the impact is even greater for those of us who’ve been away from the area for a long time.

[wendun]

I thought that might stir your loins as well, Soda! Isn’t it great how a simple photo can conjour up a whole landscape of memory of time and place. There are a couple of The Brecks that have come up on the Rotherham FB page. Fifty or sixty years just roll away and you’re right back. Possibly the impact is even greater for those of us who’ve been away from the area for a long time.

The fields are now called Valley Park and the football pitch has been developed as The Lanes. The houses along the top of the pitch were I think Broadway. The pair of semis closest to the photographer were on a continuation of Farnsworth Road, those below along Cawthorne Close. Right in line with the photographer out of sight to the right are houses on Lockwood Road and there was a little ginnel there which I bet he used to access the spot.