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"WE'ERS THA' LIVE "? ABLE STREET
Like a lot of people from Thrybergh I lived for awhile dahn't backs on School Street, which was the old Pit houses built in the early part of the 20th century, which were later taken over by Rotherham Council. The area referred to was between Old Gate Lane and Doncaster Road. Quite a few people have sent in their memories from growing up in this area, they contain humour and fond memories. Memories of a time when we didn't have any money, few toys, no T/V, we relied on imagination and incentive for amusement. A time when boredom was unheard of . The first photo is of a young David Millard and his Mother around 1947 who lived on Abel Street. As you can see the front gardens were of a minimal size, also note the old gas lamp to the left of the photo, no 'electrickery' lights in them days. The lights in the houses were also run on gas, fed by 1/4 inch lead pipes running round the walls and beneath the upstairs floorboards. You had to be pretty careful when knocking nails in the walls.
The photo on the left is David's Mum, her sister Mary, and David's Auntie Silvia at the rear of the row on Abell Street. The door on the right was the outside toilet, and next to that was the coal place. [Coal oil ] Before drainage was installed the old style "Thunder Bins" were in use and they would be cleaned out periodically by the bloke with the worst job in Town. The rooftops peaking above the yard wall would be Rockland Villa's on Doncaster Road. David recalls Some of the people on the Street around my age were George Wallace, David Pennock, Vincent Horten, Alan Liversidge, William Rollett, Lorraine Day, Janet Day, Maurice Rogers, Brian Rogers, Margaret Wright, Other Streets were the Scattergood's Mylett's France’s All ruthless bonfire wood robbers but we would nick it back and in the end we all had the same stuff that we started with’ but it was great growing up in the Back's. Do you Remember the Hilly Fields with its stream at the bottom we used to dam it so we could jump in after a while it was just a mud bath. and dingle dell wood or Bluebell wood as it was also known it had the highest ferns in the world and held vast Dens were we spent most of the six week Holidays. I will leave you now this memory lane is hard work at my age Ha Ha I don’t know where we found the energy.

Another memory comes from John Ward who also lived on Abell Street "My father Edward titch Ward worked at Silverwood colliery. We lived at Abell Street, top of Whinney Hill, Thrybergh. I can remember our next door neighbour Arthur Roberts trying to jump over the wall while carrying a tray of eggs he caught his foot on the wall, and fell on top of the eggs. We also used the wall as a tennis net when myself and Dorothy Doff Wallis got the raquetts out." Jeannette Mabel Davies who lived on Abell Street from around 1922 recalls "The policeman around this time would, if there was any trouble on Whinney Hill, often hold back the crowds and let them get on with it rather than stop it. Jeannette's Father was well known in the area. Richard "Dick" Davies. Richard was famous as a local pig slaughterer as well as a miner. Kids used to come round to watch him and he'd give them the bladder to blow up. He used to have a week off the mine near Christmas to kill pigs for the street. Also had a horse and cart which the kids used to swarm around for a ride." "We moved to Abell Street the year I was born in 1956, at no 42 and later after the council started to renovate the house (in other words ruined them) at no 50 " My name is Ernest Durham. although I've been known for years as Ed (after my initials). I was born in Abel Street in December 1935. I now live in Norfolk having retired in 1989 after 36 years in the RAF. My mother's maiden name was Moxon and her father was Enoch Moxon who was killed on 20 April 1916 - he is buried in the Ecoivres Military Cemetery just a few miles NE of Arras. I discovered this only 6 months or so ago and my wife and I went to see the grave last month. Enoch came from a mining family and I believe he worked at Silverwood. He joined the York and Lancs at the outbreak of WW1 but remustered and became a tunneller with 182 Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers. Clearly with his experience he was volunteered when the business of mines and countermines started in France. He was 35 years old when he died and my grandmother remarried and lived for another 10 years, having 3 more children to add to her already large family, of whom my mother was the only girl. My father's family also came from mining stock. Grandfather, Joseph, and father, Wilfred, both worked at Silverwood. Indeed my father lost a leg in an accident at the pit before WW2. I have seen their names on your excellent website. I was wondering if you might have more information on the accident in which my father was involved. I regret I have no better date than "before the war". I lived in Abel St and then Silver St until just before the end of WW2. We latterly lived with the Kelsalls. We then moved to Badsley Moor Lane before finishing up in Wortley Road, Masborough.
WHO LIVED WHERE
Please note that prior to the Second World War the actual tenant's of the houses below took in lodgers, from the list below unless stated the actual tenant is not certain in any given period.
ODD NUMBERS	EVEN NUMBERS
3 George Pitson 1927 5 J. Gough 5 1919 ? Duffy 5 1919 Anthony Gavaghan 1919 James Frain ? 1919 Michael Frain 1919 W. Gough ? 1919 Patrick F Lewing ?1919 James Keaveny 1920 Thomas Mullins 1920 J. Murphy 1920 P. Wynne 1920 John Roddy 1920 M. McGough 1923 7 Thomas Linsley 1920 Richard McNichols 1925 Thomas Dodd 1924 -1925 Frank Clark 1927 Charley Mcnicholes 1927 Patrick Foy 1927 Michael Bradley 1927 9 Henry Kelsall 1920 Reginald Kelsall 1920 George Henry Binks ? 1924 Edward Lineman ?1924 Tom Bradley 1927 H. Kelsall 1927 11 William E Haythorne 1924 W H Scott 1925 13 Henry Joynson 1924 Benjamine Moxon 1926 Henry Johnson? 1927 15 William Rollett 1919 17 E. Davies 1923 S. Davis 1923 - 1927 Thomas Davies 1925 William Hilton 1925 Thomas Pendlebury 1927 19 Patrick Fowey 1919 Bertram Furton ? 1924 Samuel Cooper 1926-1927 23 Jess Morgan 1924 Arthur Bentley 1928 25 ? Hale 1927 27 S. Claypole 1923 George Wilson 1924 29 J W Dean 1919 31 John Mclaughlin 1923 ? Gannon 1924 Arthur Blackham 1924 John Parr 1925 Thos Parr 1925 Thomas H. Spittlehouse 1927 James Donagh ? 1927 A Blackham 1927 J. Keahane ? 1927 Jerry Keolane ? 1927 31 Walter Lacey 1925 33 Edward Ward 1924 Fred? Ward 1925 Fred Monkman? 1927 35 A. Draisey 1919 Andrew Wright 1919 Frank Draisey 1923 37 Thomas Brennan 1919 J. Williams 1923 J. Powell 1923 39 W. Ward 1923 John Edward Ward 1924 John Grainger 1924 41 J. Landon ? 1919 Charles Oakley ? 1919 O H Oakley ? 1919 Charles Henry Oakley 1927 Charles Oakley 1928 43 W. Smith 1919 Joseph Downing 1920 G? H? Downing 1920 45 Harvey Mellors 1919 49 Samuel Hill 1919 51 Jack Youel 1926 55 James Henry Woodcock 1923	4 John Ferguson 1925 6 J W Key 1919 Douglas Keye 1927 10 Michael Wood 1919 -1923 M. Clouney ? 1919 Win Bradshaw 1924 W. Bradshaw 1925 Peter Gaskell 1926 12 W. Jowett 1920 Percy Beardsley 1919 Thomas Taylor 1924 John Richard Johnson 1925 Herbert Gowett [Jowett? ] 1925 14 J. Jackson 1919 A Butler 1919 V. Butler 1920 Arnold Ashton 1920 Alfred Pitchford 1924 Harry Pitchford 1924 16 E. Rollett 1919 Frank Butler 1924 18 Herbert Watson 1925 22 Ruben Booth 1923 Fred Greenwood 1923 - 1925 28 H. Shaw ? 1925 30 F. Parnham ? 1919 Isaac Devinor ? 1920 32 James Merriman 1925 Thomas Hallam 1927 34 J. Nettleship ?1919 Thomas Nettleship 1923 36 Jack Higgins 1925 38 W. Lathbury 1919 40 A. Layford ?1919 R. Rowley 1919 42 G. Wooton 1920 Alexandra Mctague 1920 John Adlington 1924 G. ? Maycock 1926 44 Leonard Laurence 1923 Herbert Nadin ? 1925 46 S. Millars 1919 Harold Mellors 1924 48 J. Poole 1919 Arthur Jones 1923 50 Joseph Smith 1919 W. Stringfellow 1923- 1927 52 Patrick Aylward 1920 William P Trueman 1927


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