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1950`s
I was born and lived the first ten years of my life in Pottery Street. " 2 up 2 down" terraced houses with outside toilet. Across the road lived Horace Murfin, a bookie who could always be seen around on his bike collecting betting slips. You could be guaranteed to watch a fight outside his house on Saturday nights after a card school incident. They were the first house in the street to get a television, around 1952. Next door to him lived "Rag" Elsie and her lodger Johnty, she made a living collecting old clothes and selling pop and sweets from her front room. She used to go round to the Green Lane Tavern every night with two empty pop bottles to be filled with beer. It used to be common practice that when the bailiffs were coming down the street the people at the top end would start banging the fire back with their poker so warning the neighbours. This was passed on all the way to the... Read more
Stocks Lane
My mother worked in Foxton's the bakers which was on Stocks Lane. It was cobbled with granite 'sets' and I think it had tram lines. As a boy, I was sometimes allowed to go out with the driver of the the bread van to make deliveries to pubs and Foxton's other shop in Parkgate. The area was re-developed during the 1960s - I was away at RAF Cosford when the plans were released. A multi-storey car park was built over Stocks Lane and one Chritmas morning, after church, we drove up to the top floor to get a good view of Rawmarsh. It had been snowing and the ramps were iced up, so coming down I was very glad to reach the bottom without hitting anything.
Parkgate as A Child
I used to live in Victoria Road and went to Netherfield Lane School, now a block of flats, opposite was a large hut building and I used to go there one evening a week for pirates when we could afford itm I loved it! And does anyone remember coming out of school and all crowding in the old cobbler's shop opposite to shake his hand on our way home, I don't know why we did this but it is something you will not see today's kids doing. And everybody went to Victoria? Park in the holidays, it was packed, the bandstand, Punch and Judy, and paddling pool, everything you could want as a child, why do some things have to change? Oh! and all those lovely bird aviaries and beautiful peacocks, what a magnificent park, no going abroad then! I have been back and as parks go it's nice but not one reminder of the past, nothing but ghosts, so sad. Life was very hard but some of... Read more
Earl Grey
I lived at the Earl Grey Public House which is seen in front of the church in this photograph
Night Watchman
Does anyone recall Teddy Barlow, the night watchman who used to sit in his little sentry box in front of his brazier of burning coke, situated on Harding Ave, Monkswood, and who patrolled Harding Avenue and Haugh Avenue etc, new house building sites? Someone made a ditty about it which went: 'Teddy Barlow, Teddy Barlow sells fish. three-halfpence a dish, don't buy it, don't buy it, it stinks when you fry it'. I recall the many chestnuts that I ate, which had been roasted on his shovel on top of the brazier and the sips of hot cocoa from his tin mug. Then there was the 'rec'(the playing field), now built on, which was situated below Shaw's farm, from where we used to watch the old steam threshing machine threshing the corn next to the Dutch barn on the farm, with the rats running out of the sheaves thick and fast, with farm dogs hot on their heels. This field is where we all played football, cricket, flew home-made kites and... Read more
Rawmarsh Baths And Stubbin Pit
I recall paying one shilling for a session of swimming, with the changing rooms either side of the pool. We used to keep one eye on our swimming and the other on our changing cubicle where our cloths were. I attended my first dance at the pool, which was covered over for all to dance. I saw my first live showbiz star - who was Lulu - also at the Rawmarsh baths hall. I recall a lot of friends that I had been to school with at Haugh Road Secondary Modern School as it was then, and who had gone either into the steel industry or down Stubbin Pit to work. In 1968 I left Rawmarsh to travel and see what there was elsewhere and never returned but for a day's visit, but I will never forget the wonderful childhood I had in Rawmarsh, walking or biking to Scholes Scopice, Hesley Woods, Wentworth Park, Greasbro dams (dodging the water bailiff), Pottery Pond, Roman Banks etc etc. I am now retired... Read more
Rosehill Park
Used to love playing in the park on the swings, in the Sandpitand just generally walking about.
Remember the Peacocks and other birds.
Remember the Holiday at Home Weeks? All started with the procession from Parkgate through Rawmarsh up to the park. Lots to do in the park, entertainment on the Bandstand.
There was also a similar procession on Bonfire Night. Everyone carried lit torches which were then thrown on the bonfire, in the park, to light it. This was then followed by fireworks. Oh it was great to be a child.... no worries.
Tylers Field
I remember playing footie on Tylers field and taking my bow there and firing it. The best time was when the fair came and we'd go ont gallopers ort dodgems. We'd use slope by Mr Carr's cobblers to go ont sledges. Now it's a housing estate and theers no weer fort kids to play.
