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Sharon Foley

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I lived on Anlaby Street as a young child in the early 1950's. I thought I remembered some sort of factory at the bottom of the street but came across a photo on google that show what looks like large garages with lorries in front. Can anyone tell me what this was please.? I also have a memory of a school on the corner of Anlaby street and Penistone Road can anyone help with that.

Thanks in anticipation 

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The firm at the bottom of the Street wouldn't have been there in the 50's, the Don wall would have been the bottom, the firm you could have remembered could be Easterbrook and Allcard to the rear of Anlaby, I seem to remember Hulleys relocating to Anlaby but not certain would have been when the houses were coming down.

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Are these the buildIngs and vehicles you found online?

Odd, but no apparent factory, nor school at either end of Anlaby Street, on the map of the period...

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18 hours ago, RLongden said:

Are these the buildIngs and vehicles you found online?

Odd, but no apparent factory, nor school at either end of Anlaby Street, on the map of the period...

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Have you a map showing where my old school 'Hillfoot' would have been.  I remember spending many happy hours in the school's allotment garden on Club Mill Road in the mid 50s.   Also was 204 or 206 Penistone Road a barbers shop, would go there when Jessie Wragg was busy.  W/E

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I see on that street map the street names run alphabetically, Anlaby, Brough, Cottam & Driffield. Just like they do in Attercliffe - Attercliffe Rd, Brightside, Carlisle St etc... I wonder if this happens anywhere else in Sheffield?

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4 hours ago, RLongden said:

Is this the school, on the other side of the river?

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Yes that is the one, thank you. 1949 to 1958 then off to Chaucer for a year.  W/E.

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Just browsing around for more photos and info on the school. The high wall and coal bunkers look interesting, so wonder if anyone has any recollection of them in use? I see the railway siding on the 1923 map, when the bunkers were in use, but I bet the residents on Hoyland Road opposite were always covered in coal dust?!

The school boys entrance gate is all but hidden by the tree now, but an interesting story in the link and maybe you knew Roy Priest from 1953?

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Another vibrant, bustling corner of the city now gone, except for a few industrial units and some echoes of the past?

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7 hours ago, RLongden said:

Just browsing around for more photos and info on the school. The high wall and coal bunkers look interesting, so wonder if anyone has any recollection of them in use? I see the railway siding on the 1923 map, when the bunkers were in use, but I bet the residents on Hoyland Road opposite were always covered in coal dust?!

The school boys entrance gate is all but hidden by the tree now, but an interesting story in the link and maybe you knew Roy Priest from 1953?

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1035068

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1035144

Another vibrant, bustling corner of the city now gone, except for a few industrial units and some echoes of the past?

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I was down there last year, how scruffy it all is now.  The photo of the school shows just how well built they were in those days and brought back many happy memories. Incidentally "Waterside Echo" was the title of our school magazine.  As I started school in 1949 Neepsend Station was being demolished, the railway bridge over Parkwood Road went two or three years later. Not sure about the coal shutes and the dust,but while they were in operation as soon as the gates were shut every one was out with brushes and shovels, "cleanest road in Neepsend."    Roy was in my class, I took the Central Tech exam with him along with Keith Hackett and Frank Wheldon. result 3-1 to them. I don't remember much about the practice for the Queens visit but remember seeing her at the football ground. The last time I was speaking to Roy would have been in the 80s, he had his own building firm then and was putting a large detached house up at the bottom of Industry Street Walkley.   W/E.

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8 minutes ago, RLongden said:

As in Keith Hackett, the local referee of repute?

That is the one.   My only claim to fame!  W/E.

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George Thorpe ( a local )had the coal drops for a time in the 70's making and repairing pallets, and I was told the  Simcox's  (local ) built the industrial units on top after Fieldhouse Brothers had used it as a tip.

 

My memories of Anlaby Street as a kid were painful, as I was making my way along the bottom of the Don wall, somebody decided ( my auntie as it turned out ) decided to empty her teapot over the wall of Brough Street and the contents landed on me, still hot.

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