Stuart0742 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Quick simple question When were the Batemoor and Jordanthorpe estates built? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lozzie Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Quick simple question When were the Batemoor and Jordanthorpe estates built? Around 1966-68 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Around 1966-68 I thought it may be a bit before this, late 50's - early 60's, about the same time as the Herdings and Hemsworth but I'm not entirely sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 I thought it may be a bit before this, late 50's - early 60's, about the same time as the Herdings and Hemsworth but I'm not entirely sure. The reason I ask is I am trying to date an OS map, Lowedges estate is on but there is no development to the east of the A61, I remember the A61 being made into a dual carriageway in 1965 ish, I am sure the estates were built then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plain talker Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Lowedges was built up from the fifties into the sixties, Batemoor and Jordanthorpe were mid sixties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lozzie Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Batemoor was built, I am sure, before the Jordanthorpe. The houses/flats on the latter estate were finished mid 1968, although the shopping centre wasn't completed till aabout 1971. Think Batemoor may have been started around 1965-66ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 Batemoor was built, I am sure, before the Jordanthorpe. The houses/flats on the latter estate were finished mid 1968, although the shopping centre wasn't completed till aabout 1971. Think Batemoor may have been started around 1965-66ish What about the Lowedges estate, anybody any thoughts on that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plain talker Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 What about the Lowedges estate, anybody any thoughts on that *points Stuart to her comment from earlier^^^^^* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 *points Stuart to her comment from earlier^^^^^* New rule read all the posts before asking another question lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 New rule read all the posts before asking another question Just thought I would ask a quick simple question When were the Batemoor and Jordanthorpe estates built? Oops! sorry Stuart, just broken your new rule :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalky Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Quick simple question When were the Batemoor and Jordanthorpe estates built? As an apprentice Painter/Decorator my boss sent me to Batemoor to paint on the Vic Hallam houses at the Bottom of the estate, Bowshaw end, in 1964. There was not much built at the time so I would say that was the year it started, we were working on the Maisonettes at the top of the estate in 1966 and I think that is the year it was finished, we then moved over the road to work on the Jordanthorpe which had started, I think but not sure, in 1965. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Pond Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 As an apprentice Painter/Decorator my boss sent me to Batemoor to paint on the Vic Hallam houses at the Bottom of the estate, Bowshaw end, in 1964. There was not much built at the time so I would say that was the year it started, we were working on the Maisonettes at the top of the estate in 1966 and I think that is the year it was finished, we then moved over the road to work on the Jordanthorpe which had started, I think but not sure, in 1965. We moved into Lingfoot, which I think was one of the first areas, in late 67/early1968. The tower blocks were still going up then. The paper shop was a hut on batemoor, and a couple of mobile shops used to visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willybite Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 hiya, i can tell you the date jordanthorpe estate opened it was october 1967. how do i remember, we were the first to get the keys on the monday morning,we moved in on the following friday at the time we were told. if we wanted the house move in if not hand the key's back, the block was no 117,119, 121,123 ,125,127, the first and last houses were swopps, meaning they moved in from other council property,they were both called brown, we at 119 were called white,next door the hudsons, then the spooners,can't remember the last couple as they didn't stay long,i remember my wife having to shop at meadowhead or lowedges at first the mobile shop didn't start for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willybite Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 On 4/5/2017 at 14:47, willybite said: hiya, i can tell you the date jordanthorpe estate opened it was october 1967. how do i remember, we were the first to get the keys on the monday morning,we moved in on the following friday at the time we were told. if we wanted the house move in if not hand the key's back, the block was no 117,119, 121,123 ,125,127, the first and last houses were swopps, meaning they moved in from other council property,they were both called brown, we at 119 were called white,next door the hudsons, then the spooners,can't remember the last couple as they didn't stay long,i remember my wife having to shop at meadowhead or lowedges at first the mobile shop didn't start for a while.the browns child went to john bingham or lowedges,one or the other to my knowledge one of the first are still there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Hi willibite I remember walking over to Jordanthorpe with a mate to watch him play football at the Sheffield Twist Drill sports ground a few years before the estate was built, i was 16 at the time so would have been 1962! We crossed over Chesterfield Road opposite the Transport Ground at Meadowhead and made our way down past the James Neil sports ground, this was located about where the Park Hotel now stands, taking a short cut across the fields to Dyche Lane we walked down past Jordanthorpe Girls School and around the double bend in the road(at the time there was still a couple of farm buildings on the bend), about a hundred yards down Dyche Lane a hedge lined country lane led off to the left, we walked along this lane for about a quarter of a mile, at the end of the lane was the Sheffield Twist Drill sports ground, the changing room was just an old wooden hut, an old cast iron pot belly stove supplied the heating and hot water to a couple of showers, after the match we walked over the fields to the Nags Head on Chesterfield Road South. There was also a sports ground behind the Nags Head where we sometimes played as kids, this ground also belonged to a Sheffield Steel Firm, can`t remember who it was tho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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