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First Job
I left school in June 1969 and worked at Albert Watter's farm in Dalton Pava . I delivered milk with one of his sons - sorry, can't remember his name. The delivery vehicle was a horse and cart. I can remember the horse's name though, she was called Dolly. We used to deliver milk to East Herringthorpe.
Hhead Girls 1965 to 1975
Head girls Thrybergh comprehensive 1965 to 1975.
EARL OF STRAFFORD OPENS 1984
It's nearly 25 years since the Earl of Strafford hotel opened in Hooton Roberts. I wrote an M.A. dissertation on Thomas Wentworth, the First Earl of Strafford after whom the pub is named, so I was naturally very interested.
I was shown around the building and was amazed to see runnels in the basement floor which were for the blood from beasts slaughtered on the premises in the old days. I also heard about Anne Kent who is supposed to haunt the place after an unhappy love affair long ago. I was so intrigued, I wrote a pamphlet about the hotel.
I often go jogging through Hooton Roberts and I have developed a real affection for the place, especially Holmes Lane which goes behind the church and comes out again on Kilnhurst Road. It is so tranquil down there, even though the traffic thunders by on the main road only yards away.
The church of Saint John the Baptist is also a fine... Read more
Hooton Roberts
I was born a Willertt at 5 Kilnhurst Rd in 1940. I remember the noise of German fighters going to bomb Sheffield and many German or Italian prisoners marching from Kilnhurst to the camp at Ravenfield. They used to throw us tins containing sweets and we used these tins when playing hopscotch. We had no electricity in the house which is very different now. I wonder whether the cellar still floods! We had gas downstairs and candles upstairs, no curtains and it was always very cold. The windows would be covered with thick ice in the morning. When electricity finally came to the village, we were too poor to pay the connection charge. We lived with my grandfather William Willert who used to look after the cricket ground before the war. My maternal grandparents lived in an old coaching inn at the bottom of Doncaster Rd on the left looking up the hill. There were many bottles in the cellar; the house was demolished to widen the road. Next door... Read more
Tracing Ancestors Hooton Roberts
I am currently researching my family tree and wonder if anybody in Hooton Roberts might be related to me. My great-great-grandfather Joseph Simpson was born in Conisbrough 1839 and married a lass called Harriett (I don't know her maiden name). According to the Census she was born in Hooton Roberts in 1840. She and Joseph married and lived in Hooton Roberts from about 1863 to about 1883. The following children were all born in Hooton Roberts. Kate 1863, Alfred 1868, Simeon 1872, Charlotte 1875, Joseph 1878, Archibald 1883. A daughter Elizabeth was born in Conisbrough 1861. The 1891 Census reveals them to be all living at Accrington. Except for my great-grandfather Simeon who later moved to Read, Lancs. I have no idea what became of the others. I was wondering if any of them moved back to Hooton Roberts and if anyone has any memory of this. I hope to visit the UK soon and would like to visit Hooton Roberts. Apparently Joseph and his first son Alfred were the... Read more
Schooltime Memories.
In the early 1940s the bay window on the first floor over the front door of Rotherham Grammar School was that of my second form classroom. On a rainy day we were 'attacked' by one of the other second forms as a result of which I was pushed through one of the windows. Fortunately the wartime shatterproof gauze in place prevented me and the window from falling to the ground. Several of us received six of the best for that lunchtime episode!
My School
This is my school from 1975 to 1980 when it was known as Clifton Comprehensive and not Rotherham Girls High School. although when I was a first year, there were only 2 years above me that were part of the comprehensive system - year 4 & 5 were still of the old high school, all girls, so it only changed to a comprehensive in 1973.
