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Burngreave Voices
Map
List View
People
Personal Stories and Memories
At Home and Family Life
Hilda Dawson
Salwa Al'Hafly
Gaynor Naylor
Collis Beckford
Mahmoud Brasab
Aislinn Adams
Asha Ajab
Denise Palmer
Joe Scarborough
Gaby Spinks
Shazia Khan
School Days
Jean Sawbridge
Doris Booth
Kaltun Mohamed
Annie Neal
Flo Gill
Albert Bottom
Asma Khursid
Kevin Murphy
Sylvia Hart
Jack Flanagan
Dorrett Buckley Greaves
Anab Ali Jama
Community
Panni Poh Yoke Loh
Barry Swift
Betty Smalley
Christine Steers
John Vincent
ACAB (Gary Lawson)
Annie Blindell
Dorrett Buckley Greaves
Asma and Najma Khurshid
Rashid Ahmed
Work
Alice Ingham
Tom Gould
Lewis Boam
Julia Shergold
Collis Beckford
B'sharath
Winnie Bentley
John Lawson
Barry Swift
Joe Scarborough
John Wesley
War Time
Joyce Wilson
Anne Murdoch
Tom Gould
Marion Graham
Alice Ingham
Michelle Kusiak
Asha Ajab
Delia Chadwick
Sylvia Hart
Ari Moustafa
David Mowat
Weddings and Courtship
Janice Gear
Milton and Marion Graham
Alice Ingham
Brenda Franklin
Sadia Nazir
Sylvia (nee Salt) and Neville Hart
Rashida Hassanali
Joe Scarborough
Albert Blagden and Dorothy Staniforth
Comings and Goings
Mahmoud Brasab
Munzala Abdullah
Errol Edwards
John Smith
Dawit Kifle
Carl Rose
Anna Eden
Barry Swift
Dorrett Buckley Greaves
Henry McPherson
Joe Scarborough
Rabia Khan
Leisure and Holidays
Annie Neal
Janice Gear
Delia Chadwick
Albert Bottom
Saleema Imam
Janet Boam
Najma and Asma Khushid
Marion Graham
Burngreave treasures
Joyce Rason
Saleh Muthana
Riona Shergold
Irshad Akbar
Betty Smalley
Shazia Khan
Ruby Sampson
Betty Tew
Gaby Spinks
Janet Boam
Maddy Rose Key
Discover your family history
Lyn Howsam
Peter England
Barry Swift
Aisha 'Special K' Wilson
Patrick Duggan
Interesting people with connections to Burngreave
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Author of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels
Harry Brearley: The man who discovered stainless steel
Madge Saunders: Church leader and community development worker
Joe Scarborough: Artist
George Caborn: Trades Union leader
Peter Stringfellow: Owner of the King Mojo Club
Places
Sculpture Trail
SADACCA
Wicker Arches
Spital Hill
The Grapes Public House
Burngreave Vestry Hall
The old Police station
Black Women's Resource Centre
Burngreave Cemetery
St Catherine's Roman Catholic Church
Abbeyfield House
Pitsmoor Village School
Interesting places in Burngreave
Green Spaces
Abbeyfield House and Park
Devon Gardens
Burngreave Cemetery
Caborn's Corner
Houses
Toll Bar Cottage
The White House
Churches and other important buildings
Christ Church
All Saints
Wicker Congregational Church
Burngreave Road Methodist Church
Other Methodist Churches in Burngreave
St Catherine's Roman Catholic Church
Burngreave Vestry Hall
Al Rahman Mosque
Schools
Pitsmoor Village School
Pye Bank Primary School
Firshill Community Primary School
St Catherine's Roman Catholic Primary School
Byron Wood Primary
Shops and local businesses
John Heath & Sons Funeral Directors
Spital Hill shops
Place and Street names in Burngreave
History
Celtic Tribes
Romans
Vikings
Industrial Revolution
Demolition
About the Project
Your Memories
Send us your Memories
Received Memories
Councillor Jackie Drayton
Ronnie Lewin
Thomas Fox
Thomas Fox
Gordon Lawton
Acknowledgements
Copyright
Burngreave Voices
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List View
List View
Map
List View
People
Personal Stories and Memories
At Home and Family Life
Hilda Dawson - Growing up in Burngreave Vestry Hall, 1920s and 1930s
Salwa Al'Hafly - Childhood in Sanaa, Yemen, 1980s
Gaynor Naylor - My Dad, Albert Naylor, grew up on Verdon Street, 1930s and 1940s
Collis Beckford - Farm life in Jamaica, 1930s and 1940s
Mahmoud Brasab - Twenty first century Burngreave as home
Aislinn Adams - Born in Belfast, 1979
Asha Ajab - Home life in Burao, Somalia
Denise Palmer - Growing up in Rotherham with foster parents
Joe Scarborough - Growing up in Pitsmoor, 1940s
Gaby Spinks - A sand baby in Ibiza, 1940s
Shazia Khan - Life on my grandfather's farm in Pakistan, 1980s
School Days
Jean Sawbridge - Firshill School in the 1920s
Doris Booth - Burngreave Schools in the 1930s
Kaltun Mohamed - Going to school in Somalia in the 1980s
Annie Neal - Pye Bank in 1917
Flo Gill - Ellesmere Road School, 1926
Albert Bottom - School photograph, 1921
Asma Khursid - I was good at sports at school!
Kevin Murphy - Difficult days at school in the 1940s
Sylvia Hart - Celebrations at Firshill school, 1935 - 1942
Jack Flanagan - Leaving school in 2005
Dorrett Buckley Greaves - School days in Jamaica in the 1930s
Anab Ali Jama - School days in Burao, Somalia, 1960s
Community
Panni Poh Yoke Loh - The beginnings of the Abbeyfield Multicultural Festival, 1999
Barry Swift - The church as the centre of the community in the 1940s and 1950s
Betty Smalley - Whitsuntide celebrations, 1940s to 1960s
Christine Steers - How we started the 'Friends of Burngreave Cemetery', 2001
John Vincent - Burngreave Ashram and the New Roots cafe in 2007
ACAB (Gary Lawson) - Pitsmoor as a place for community activism
Annie Blindell - Why am I political?
Dorrett Buckley Greaves - How the black community set up SADACCA
Asma and Najma Khurshid - A sense of belonging here
Rashid Ahmed - Setting up a community forum in Burngreave, 1996
Work
Alice Ingham - A working lifetime with Bachelors, 1930s to 1970s
Tom Gould - I was a steel worker for over fifty years, 1930s to 1980s
Lewis Boam - A flour lad at the Co-op, 1938
Julia Shergold - Books for babies, 2006
Collis Beckford - A lifetime in nursing, 1960 to 1998
B'sharath - The Kashmir Curry House, 1970s to present day
Winnie Bentley - Straight from school to Wigfalls, 1941
John Lawson - How I became a community activist, 1980s
Barry Swift - Training for accountancy in the 1950s
Joe Scarborough - Working down the pit at Thorpe Hesley
John Wesley - The miner's strike, 1984
War Time
Joyce Wilson - A pig's tale, 1940s
Anne Murdoch - Wartime work for women
Tom Gould - Five years as a POW in a German camp, 1940 - 1945
Marion Graham - Bananas in wartime, 1940s
Alice Ingham - Bombed out during the Blitz, December 1940
Michelle Kusiak - My father's war time journey from Ukraine to Britain
Asha Ajab - Leaving Somalia in 1988
Delia Chadwick - A war time childhood, 1940s
Sylvia Hart - Evacuated to the countryside as a child, 1939
Ari Moustafa - War in Iraq, 2006
David Mowat - Soldiering duty in Suez, 1952
Weddings and Courtship
Janice Gear - Getting married in Burngreave, 1966
Milton and Marion Graham - A Vestry Hall reception, 1955
Alice Ingham - Parent's wedding photograph
Brenda Franklin - My bridesmaids dress, 1943
Sadia Nazir - Getting married in Pakistan, 2002
Sylvia (nee Salt) and Neville Hart - Married at St James' United Reformed Church, 1954
Rashida Hassanali - Mendhi decorations before the wedding, 1995
Joe Scarborough - Falling in love with Audrey, 1965
Albert Blagden and Dorothy Staniforth - On their wedding day
Comings and Goings
Mahmoud Brasab - Leaving Somalia and coming to England (1993)
Munzala Abdullah - Coming to Burngreave from Yemen (1969)
Errol Edwards - The Burngreave of my childhood (1960s and 1970s)
John Smith - Life on the Woodside estate (1960s and 1970s)
Dawit Kifle - Why I chose to come to Burngreave
Carl Rose - Settling down in Burngreave (1984)
Anna Eden - From Australia to Burngreave (2005)
Barry Swift - Staying in Burngreave
Dorrett Buckley Greaves - Clubbing together to buy a house - that's the only way to get a home
Henry McPherson -
Joe Scarborough - Thoughts on the future of Burngreave
Rabia Khan - From Pakistan to Burngreave and back again (1990s and 2000s)
Leisure and Holidays
Annie Neal - Picnic in Roe Wood, early 1900s
Janice Gear - A holiday in Torquay, 1964
Delia Chadwick - Days out and school trips, 1940s
Albert Bottom - The brass band, early 1900s
Saleema Imam - A day trip to Harlech Castle in the 1980s
Janet Boam - Childhood trips to Cleethorpes in the 1940s and 1950s
Najma and Asma Khushid - Us kids playing and going to Millhouses Park, 1980s
Marion Graham - Summer days on the riverbank, 1940s
Burngreave treasures
Joyce Rason - Wooden Clogs
Saleh Muthana - Passport
Riona Shergold - My new toy pony
Irshad Akbar - Chillum
Betty Smalley - Banner
Shazia Khan - Ring
Ruby Sampson - Valentines card made by her son at school
Betty Tew - Silver Spoon
Gaby Spinks - Sasha dolls
Janet Boam - Lambretta Cup
Maddy Rose Key - Brooch
Discover your family history
Lyn Howsam - A mystery around the Fletcher surname
Peter England - My great grandmother, Elizabeth Williams
Barry Swift - Three hundred years in Yorkshire
Aisha 'Special K' Wilson - I have Irish, English and Jamaican Ancestors!
Patrick Duggan - The Duggans and the Baileys
Interesting people with connections to Burngreave
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Author of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels
Harry Brearley: The man who discovered stainless steel
Madge Saunders: Church leader and community development worker
Joe Scarborough: Artist
George Caborn: Trades Union leader
Peter Stringfellow: Owner of the King Mojo Club
Places
Sculpture Trail
SADACCA
Wicker Arches
Spital Hill
The Grapes Public House
Burngreave Vestry Hall
The old Police station
Black Women's Resource Centre
Burngreave Cemetery
St Catherine's Roman Catholic Church
Abbeyfield House
Pitsmoor Village School
Interesting places in Burngreave
Green Spaces
Abbeyfield House and Park
Devon Gardens
Burngreave Cemetery
Caborn's Corner
Houses
Toll Bar Cottage
The White House
Churches and other important buildings
Christ Church
All Saints
Wicker Congregational Church
Burngreave Road Methodist Church
Other Methodist Churches in Burngreave
St Catherine's Roman Catholic Church
Burngreave Vestry Hall
Al Rahman Mosque
Schools
Pitsmoor Village School
Pye Bank Primary School
Firshill Community Primary School
St Catherine's Roman Catholic Primary School
Byron Wood Primary
Shops and local businesses
John Heath & Sons Funeral Directors
Spital Hill shops
Place and Street names in Burngreave
History
Celtic Tribes - The first settlers
Romans - The Romans arrive
Vikings - Vikings in Burngreave
Middle Ages
Industrial Revolution - The arrival of...
Houses for the workers
Upper Classes
Public Buildings
Posh in Pitsmoor
War Time
Demolition - 1950s to 1960s
Immigration
A Multicultural Neighbourhood
Regeneration
The Future
About the Project
Your Memories
Send us your Memories
Received Memories
Councillor Jackie Drayton - First impressions on moving to Sheffield
Ronnie Lewin - My Dad from Jamaica to Burngreave
Thomas Fox - Blitz
Thomas Fox - Pitsmoor School
Gordon Lawton - Petre Street area late 40's early 50's
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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