MillersMAD Crash Pad

[CAMiller]

How about this place CT/Sota for crashing on our trips back? Just 20K each and at the end of the lane down to the Roundwood training ground so ideal for getting the inside story on the Millers

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/79077630#/

(PS This was the home of my best friend through grammar school/6th form)

[sota]

Great idea but the thought of sharing a pad with Crash is a bit scary :-)

[CTMilller]

Looks alright that and my family used to live on Green Lane in the early 1900s so it’d be home from home! My great grandparents were further down and my great uncle had the premises on the corner of Dale Road and Green Lane that was a chippy for many years. (He had it as a confectioners then.)

An even better deal for me was 2 Mansfield Road off Wellgate that was on auction for about £26000 a couple of years ago. Last used as a Tattoo parlor but me Auntie Flo lived there for many years after the war! I was tempted...

[CAMiller]

Looks alright that and my family used to live on Green Lane in the early 1900s so it’d be home from home! My great grandparents were further down and my great uncle had the premises on the corner of Dale Road and Green Lane that was a chippy for many years. (He had it as a confectioners then.)

An even better deal for me was 2 Mansfield Road off Wellgate that was on auction for about £26000 a couple of years ago. Last used as a Tattoo parlor but me Auntie Flo lived there for many years after the war! I was tempted...

There must be some sort of 6 degrees of separation here. About 5 years ago, we were at resort in Cabo St. Lucas watching a Michael Jackson tribute act. We were sat at a table with a couple we didn't know and as he was speaking to his wife I turned to Mrs. CA and said "It sounds like he's from South Yorkshire". In the interval we got talking and asked the obligatory "Where are you from question?". "Yorkshire" came the reply. "So am I" I said. "Whereabouts?" "Doncaster" he said. "I'm from Rawmarsh" I said. "Actually, we own a chip shop in Rawmarsh" he said, "the one on the corner of Dale Road and Green Lane". "That's the chip shop we use whenever we are back there" I said. Small world! Turns out his wife was brought up just about 1/2 mile from where we lived, in the same street where Matt Hamshaw's Dad lived.

[CTMilller]

There must be some sort of 6 degrees of separation here. About 5 years ago, we were at resort in Cabo St. Lucas watching a Michael Jackson tribute act. We were sat at a table with a couple we didn't know and as he was speaking to his wife I turned to Mrs. CA and said "It sounds like he's from South Yorkshire". In the interval we got talking and asked the obligatory "Where are you from question?". "Yorkshire" came the reply. "So am I" I said. "Whereabouts?" "Doncaster" he said. "I'm from Rawmarsh" I said. "Actually, we own a chip shop in Rawmarsh" he said, "the one on the corner of Dale Road and Green Lane". "That's the chip shop we use whenever we are back there" I said. Small world! Turns out his wife was brought up just about 1/2 mile from where we lived, in the same street where Matt Hamshaw's Dad lived.

That is quite remarkable, CAM. (That you choose to see Michael Jackson tribute acts at Mexican holiday resorts is pretty weird, too!)

I only found out about my connection with the place by chance. I inherited a family photograph taken in a backyard in about 1900. After a lot of detective work, I discovered it was taken in the yard formed by the backs of the Dale Road chippy and the first few houses at the top of Green Lane.. On a UK visit a few years back, I did a recce and found that the yard is still there and pretty much as it was more than a century ago. (There's a passage way to it from Dale Road - to the side of the chippy building - which you can also in the photo.)

My great uncle, the proprietor of the confectioners that became the chippy is in the picture as well as his daughter who lived just round the corner at 10 Green Lane as well as my great-grandmother from down the road at 112 Green Lane (which I think must have been demolished since I couldn't find it.) An amazing feeling to stand where your ancestors gathered...

The chippy building and the first few houses on Green Lane were built in 1872 and were called Sycamore Buildings. (There's a plaque above the door on the corner.)

Obviously, all this was decades before the chippy came into existence but interesting that the building has been used continuously as a food outlet. (I believe it's a pizza place now.)

[CAMiller]

That is quite remarkable, CAM. (That you choose to see Michael Jackson tribute acts at Mexican holiday resorts is pretty weird, too!)

I only found out about my connection with the place by chance. I inherited a family photograph taken in a backyard in about 1900. After a lot of detective work, I discovered it was taken in the yard formed by the backs of the Dale Road chippy and the first few houses at the top of Green Lane.. On a UK visit a few years back, I did a recce and found that the yard is still there and pretty much as it was more than a century ago. (There's a passage way to it from Dale Road - to the side of the chippy building - which you can also in the photo.)

My great uncle, the proprietor of the confectioners that became the chippy is in the picture as well as his daughter who lived just round the corner at 10 Green Lane as well as my great-grandmother from down the road at 112 Green Lane (which I think must have been demolished since I couldn't find it.) An amazing feeling to stand where your ancestors gathered...

The chippy building and the first few houses on Green Lane were built in 1872 and were called Sycamore Buildings. (There's a plaque above the door on the corner.)

Obviously, all this was decades before the chippy came into existence but interesting that the building has been used continuously as a food outlet. (I believe it's a pizza place now.)

I don't remember saying I chose to watch the Michael Jackson tribute act It was an all inclusive resort and he happened to be playing on a stage close to the 'free' bar we were drinking in.

I spent quite a bit of time around that area of Rawmarsh in the late 1960s as we went to Sunday School directly across Dale Road from the chippy at Rawmarsh Congregational Church. I say across from the chippy but it certainly wasn't a chippy back then and I vaguely remember it may have been a 'sweet shop'. Also across the road was Bottomley's, a builder's yard. The father of another one of my friends growing up worked for them as a carpenter.

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Be great in summer in that back garden

[CAMiller]

Be great in summer in that back garden

With Crash grilling up lunch for us ex-pats?

[WanChaiMiller]

Be able to watch the lads train from the roof top terrace.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Be able to watch the lads train from the roof top terrace.

The clubhouse is in the way