Closed Guestbook 13 of Rotherham The Unofficial Website 2008
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These are the printable comments left in my Guestbook in 2008.
Please remember that older email addresses and urls (website addresses) may no longer be operational.
1 Name: brenda (levick) hayes
URL: mansfield
Email:
Comment: i think its a great sight and im from rotherham and lived there all my life i went to southg greove comp and my friends was linda gabbitas angela weabver and sharon twigg any one like to contact me can ghet in touch
2 Name: karen mulcahey
URL: www.karenmulcahey.com
Email: karenmulcahey76atyahoo.co.uk
Comment: This is a great website and its brilliant for Rotherham! Soon it will be famous!The arts are beginning to buzz here!
3 Name: Terry Ross
URL:
Email: terryjrossatbtinternet.com
Comment: I was born at 5 Carr House on the road to Greasborough on 14/05/1942. I believe there were five dwellings - not four as stated.
4 Name: Suzanne Paget
URL:
Email: suzannepagetathotmail.com
Comment: Greetings and thank you very much for a most informative page! May I ask you about comment regarding loss of money - is it Hoyle or Effingham? I have Hoyles will (I am his second greatgranddaughter) and he is certainly still there when he dies (1886)and t.....
5 Name: karen
URL:
Email: karenktomataol.com
Comment: Im working on my family history and have found your site very helpful in respect of local industry. It has been a great help. Thankyou
6 Name: katrina
URL:
Email: badger
Comment: I totally agree. I am desparate to find an adult dance class (and by that I mean a dance class to teach adults). There is nothing in this area.
7 Name: Andy Kershaw
URL: www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire
Email: andy.kershaw.01atbbc.co.uk
Comment: Thanks for a great looking site and very informative about Rotherham. Just to let you know that Im starting today (Mon 20th Oct 2008) as the BBCs new Community Reporter for BBC Radio Sheffield and want to get more Rotherham based stories on air. Please le.....
8 Name: John Ellis
URL:
Email: john-icerefrigerationattalktalkbusiness.net
Comment: just read your article on kimberworth old hall, must correct facts about site and demolition. It was demolished in the 1960s because it was in a dangerous state,the present church hall was built on the site, the barns and farmhouse still stand and have be.....
9 Name: Bryan Wood
URL:
Email: beewudattiscali.co.uk
Comment: I left a message during 2007 and got the picture (plus lots more) that I was searching for -- so thanks. Also got the info re New Stubbin Colliery so ta for that. What I need now is for someone in the know to email me as to where I can obtain a street ma.....
10 Name: Greg Sayers
URL:
Email: d167261fatihug.co.nz
Comment: Good site. Born Rotherham in 1960. Left in 1987. Visited again in 2000..what a change. Now in Invercargill New Zealand. You hve a good site. Hello to remaining sayers and siggers still in Rotheham.
11 Name: Barb
URL: http://savefirbeckhall.blogspot.com/2006/11/saving-firbeck-hall.html
Email: mistyrexatmac.com br />Comment: Thanks for the update on Firbeck Hall. I have a keen interest in the Hall, as it was my ancestral family home. Hopefully the owner will actually RESTORE it someday! lol Barb
12 Name: andrew fletcher
URL: http://southyorkshirefishing.co.uk/forum/index.php
Email: andy_fletcherathotmail.com
Comment: hi just droping you this to let you know southyorkshire has now got its very own fishing web site we allso cover other ares as wel as southyorkshire + we have our water to and quite a few anglers fishing it all so we would like if you can add us to your w.....
13 Name: david miedzianik
URL: http://freespace.virgin.net/david.mied/index.htm
Email: rainmanhallelujahathotmail.com
Comment: dear ??? i dont think ill be able to make it to the ROTHERHAM SHOW as ive had trouble with my neigbours: as theres a noise in my house not being in the country about 36 times: it didnt work with about 20 odd visits to the USA: including september 11th 200.....
14 Name: w naszvadi
URL:
Email: nasz-123athotmail.com
Comment: good read
15 Name: Peter Bell
URL: www.tequilashowband.co.uk
Email: peterattequilashowband.co.uk
Comment: Nice site, well done, must take up lots of your time. Im trying to find out if a new Rotherham Ex Pat group was started following Yahoos take over of EGroups... if anyone knows please post a reply. Thanks Peter Bell ex Tribunes Rhythm Group 1965
16 Name: Raymond Dunford
URL:
Email: raymond.dunfordattiscali.co.uk
Comment: i was given to understand the house on the sige of the drive up to the workhouse was owned by a Robinsons family connected to the Flour mill on canklow road
17 Name: Richard
URL: www.thorpe-hesley.co.uk
Email:
Comment: Great site, keep up the good work! Richard www.thorpe-hesley.co.uk
18 Name: Judy McGregor
URL:
Email: judesmcgataol.com
Comment: ALAN SCHOFIELD - My lovely Dad For anyone remembering my Dad who used to teach at South Grove, he passed away on 2nd May 2008 at Yeovil Hospital in Somerset. He had reached the grand age of 85 years, though I did not have enough of those years with him
19 Name: Pippa
URL:
Email: pippacmeataol.com
Comment: You may have seen we have made a small legal breakthrough with the ownership of Herringthorpe Playing Fields. We have now formed a Friends of and have a website at wwwatherringthorpe.co.uk
20 Name: Bryan Wood
URL:
Email: beewudattiscali.co.uk
Comment: Still hoping for a reply to message left on page 12 (I think it was). If anyone has photographs of Rotherham trams and trolleybusses and can email them to me I would be very grateful. I am getting rather nostalgic at 75!! having moved away from the town o.....
21 Name: Barry
URL:
Email: andrew45ataol.com
Comment: Rotherham is shit
22 Name: Mark
URl: http://www.himalia.co.uk/
Email:
Comment: The Himalia on Ferham Road now has its own website at: http://www.himalia.co.uk/
23 Name: Janet Landon
URL:
Email: janetatthorpe-house.com
Comment: Re North Farm Harthill. I was very surprised at state of this on recent visit, so found this website. My relatives lived & farmed there until early 80s I think it must have been like this for 20+years. Any idea what is happening there, & why?
24 Name: Pippa
URL:
Email: pippacmeataol.com
Comment: Excellent site, very useful info. We are getting a campaign up to save Herringthorpe Plaing Fields and Leisure Centre. Any one want to help?
25 Name: Amy
URL:
Email: sonnenbergatsnafu.de
Comment: I live near Hamburg, Germany, and found a wooden box with following stencils: 380190 MJ J.F. Worsley / 1st BT Y+L Regt / B.A.O.R. Presumably from time between 1945-58 when Y+L Regiment was stationed in Germany? Have you got any ideas to help me trace it?
26 Name: toddy
URL:
Email: toddymetcalfe2211athotmail.com
Comment: Old Rotherhamite Loved the site
27 Name: ammo
URL:
Email: ammo222atyahoo.com
Comment:Ok yah
28 Name: Stu
URL:
Email: scyorkshireatyahoo.co.uk
Comment: Browsing through the Middle Ages I found a small mistake. Thomas Rotherham was Archbishop of York, not Canterbury. He was also Chamcellor of England under Edward IV, thus the second most powerful man in kingdom. A statue to him wouldnt go amiss!