O/T Threads

[sickly_child]

I grew up in Bramley but still find the post interesting. Even though you are foreigners.

[monty_rhodes]

I grew up in Bramley but still find the post interesting. Even though you are foreigners.

My mother ended up living in Wickersley. Can't remember going to Bramley but often went fishing at Ravenfield Ponds.

[monty_rhodes]

Brin, I remember we used to go along a narrow alley from Mowbray Place through an odd kind of oval of houses and then up to the steps going up to far lane. Before they moved to EH my parents lived after the war in a rented house right on the railway at Primrose Hill off Greasborough Road. Went up last year but it's a small industrial esate now and the site of the house is occupied by Thai Food Direct.

[Brin]

Monty, how close our living areas matched.

Our short cut to Far lane was down the slopes off Cawthorne Close and and across Herringthorpe Valley Road and through the snicket that came out into Sheridan Drive. Straight across this to the connecting snicket up a short slope to climb the steps onto Far Lane. The Post Office was then to our right, not sure if it's still a Post Office. We'd then walk up Badsley Moor Lane to Arnold Road nursery, my first school then as the years passed, up to Badsley Moor Lane Infants and Junior School up to 71 then it was a longer trudge to Spurley Hey Comp.

As for the Greasborough area I was born at 14 Hartley Lane in a railway rented house as my late Father was a signalman at the time.
The lane still exists but you could drive past it if you didn't know it was there. Up to the top of Tenter Street and you come to the railway bridge. As you pass over the bridge, Hartley Lane is immediately on your right. Lived there up to 64 then moved to Shelley Road in Herringthorpe. Moved to Lockwood road in 67 and stayed up to 75.

[monty_rhodes]

Monty, how close our living areas matched.

Our short cut to Far lane was down the slopes off Cawthorne Close and and across Herringthorpe Valley Road and through the snicket that came out into Sheridan Drive. Straight across this to the connecting snicket up a short slope to climb the steps onto Far Lane. The Post Office was then to our right, not sure if it's still a Post Office. We'd then walk up Badsley Moor Lane to Arnold Road nursery, my first school then as the years passed, up to Badsley Moor Lane Infants and Junior School up to 71 then it was a longer trudge to Spurley Hey Comp.

As for the Greasborough area I was born at 14 Hartley Lane in a railway rented house as my late Father was a signalman at the time.
The lane still exists but you could drive past it if you didn't know it was there. Up to the top of Tenter Street and you come to the railway bridge. As you pass over the bridge, Hartley Lane is immediately on your right. Lived there up to 64 then moved to Shelley Road in Herringthorpe. Moved to Lockwood road in 67 and stayed up to 75.

Ha, often walked down Badsley Moor lane to the playing fields; my cousin lived on Tennyson Road. In 1964 I was in Kilnhurst but in 1965 moved back to Rotherham and lived 500 yards from your old house on Hartley Lane. I used to go down Rawmarsh Road and cross the Don on a bridge to Effingham Street but I couldn't find it last time I looked. I worked weekends in an aquarium shop in a terraced house. I think it might have been on Lindley Street or Bramwell Street but I just can't be sure now.

[Brin]

Ha, often walked down Badsley Moor lane to the playing fields; my cousin lived on Tennyson Road. In 1964 I was in Kilnhurst but in 1965 moved back to Rotherham and lived 500 yards from your old house on Hartley Lane. I used to go down Rawmarsh Road and cross the Don on a bridge to Effingham Street but I couldn't find it last time I looked. I worked weekends in an aquarium shop in a terraced house. I think it might have been on Lindley Street or Bramwell Street but I just can't be sure now.

Remember the old wooden bridge that abutted the now Rotherham bus station. I recall my dad leaving me in the car (old ford anglia) at the station side and to stop in the car. He was visiting a friends house where a row of terraced houses once stood where the register office and doctors walk in centre now stand.

The wooden bridge was almost ready for demolition and reflecting back, I do recall getting a good spanking for not staying in the car and crossing what was at the time a very dangerous old wooden bridge. Memories heh.

[sickly_child]

Remember the old wooden bridge that abutted the now Rotherham bus station. I recall my dad leaving me in the car (old ford anglia) at the station side and to stop in the car. He was visiting a friends house where a row of terraced houses once stood where the register office and doctors walk in centre now stand.

The wooden bridge was almost ready for demolition and reflecting back, I do recall getting a good spanking for not staying in the car and crossing what was at the time a very dangerous old wooden bridge. Memories heh.

You see without this thread I would have never known about said wooden bridge. What year was this?

[nakedtruth]

Monty, how close our living areas matched.

Our short cut to Far lane was down the slopes off Cawthorne Close and and across Herringthorpe Valley Road and through the snicket that came out into Sheridan Drive. Straight across this to the connecting snicket up a short slope to climb the steps onto Far Lane. The Post Office was then to our right, not sure if it's still a Post Office. We'd then walk up Badsley Moor Lane to Arnold Road nursery, my first school then as the years passed, up to Badsley Moor Lane Infants and Junior School up to 71 then it was a longer trudge to Spurley Hey Comp.

As for the Greasborough area I was born at 14 Hartley Lane in a railway rented house as my late Father was a signalman at the time.
The lane still exists but you could drive past it if you didn't know it was there. Up to the top of Tenter Street and you come to the railway bridge. As you pass over the bridge, Hartley Lane is immediately on your right. Lived there up to 64 then moved to Shelley Road in Herringthorpe. Moved to Lockwood road in 67 and stayed up to 75.

Do you know, when I were a lad you could get a tram down into t'town, buy three new suits an' an ovvercoat, four pair o' good boots, go an' see Frank Randall at t'Palace Theatre, get blind drunk, 'ave some steak an' chips, bunch o' bananas an' three stone o' monkey nuts an' still 'ave change out of a farthing.

[monty_rhodes]

Do you know, when I were a lad you could get a tram down into t'town, buy three new suits an' an ovvercoat, four pair o' good boots, go an' see Frank Randall at t'Palace Theatre, get blind drunk, 'ave some steak an' chips, bunch o' bananas an' three stone o' monkey nuts an' still 'ave change out of a farthing.

I can't help noticing that for some reason you now seem simply to post odd p*ss takes on various threads.

[nakedtruth]

I can't help noticing that for some reason you now seem simply to post odd p*ss takes on various threads.

Unlike you then?

Scared of losing your crown?