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Not a huge amount left now, but there's still snippets to find. Ones folk pass most days in their daily lives without realising

Hi Everyone, I'm doing really well with my family tree and want to put some meat on the bones of it (is it ok to put it that way when I'm talking about dead people?😆). For at least the last 200 years the whole of the Toyne back catalogue has resided in the area encased by Crookes, Walkley, Hillsborough, Hillfoot, Neepseed, Silver St Head ...and than back up to Upperthorpe. So, it wouldn't surprise me if Toyne Street in Crookes was named after one of my ancestors. It would be fantastic if I could find out how it got it's name and what (if any) fine, upstanding community act could have warranted having a Street named after them? Does anyone have any information on this, or can point me in the right direction please? Actually, any additional information on the Toyne (Tyne, Tine) family, or any photos, documents, graves etc would be welcome. Hopefully I can reciprocate with any of my 'Family Collection of Odds and Sods', if required😊 PS Admin Peeps - I thought I might have added my post to the wrong forum, so I've copied it from the Genealogy Forum to this one, in the hope of finding out more about Toyne Street. Hope this is ok?

That is not a very nice term to use is is it? I am well aware that it was a description that was often used at one time, but now those times have changed and lots of unfortunate people are still being admitted into hospitals for mental health problems, just as they were back then.

Yes it was great and none of these games cost money , only imagination. I loved playing in the pitch, a proper tom boy I was. Living near the some of the steel works on Penistone road we used to tie a magnet to a piece of string then drag the magnet on the pavement picking up all the iron filings, they were like little whiskers all stuck to the magnet. We would see who could collect the most, after that we would pull them all off and put them onto a newspaper with the magnet underneath and then make them dance. lol