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Stannington View Road, SHEFFIELD, S10 1SQ

Looking towards the junction with Suthard Cross Road. The semi-detached houses on the north side of the road were built in the 1970s on an area which shows on the 1853 town plan as Horsfall's Quarry.

This part of Stannington View Road takes the line of an old path known as Long Walk which ran between the two sandstone quarries, Toft Wood Quarry and Horsfall's Quarry.

The large building left of centre in this shot is the social club seen in Image

These must be about the only open plan front gardens around.

Towards Stannington View Road. See Image] for a view from the other direction and further details of this path. The high wall on the right supports the house on the left in the other photo http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2737521.

From Stannington View Road. The trees in the middle ground show the course of the Rivelin which flows down the valley between Crookes and Stannington. The tower blocks are in Deer Park, Stannington http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/972372.

Bolehill Lane meets Toftwood Road, to the left and Toftwood Avenue, to the right. If you carry on straight across the junction and walk to the end of Bolehill Lane, before it takes a sharp bend to the right, there is a nice walk down to Clough Fields and several equally nice options to make your way down to the Rivelin Valley. I used to walk down there alone, when my age was in the single figures and there never was any reason to worry about doing so. There is a very pretty walk, in the valley, that follows the river from Glen Bridge to Rivelin Mill Bridge. My wife and I have walked that and carried on through to Baslow and back.

In 1945, when I was three, my mother and father rented a terraced house here. The loo was outside at the far end of the garden. It was a far cry from where my mother and I first lived with my grandparents - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1141785 In '47, after the first snow, my father opened the door and there was nothing to see, but snow. It was up to the bedroom windows.

I lived on this street from 1945 until 1949, but the terraced house I lived in was demolished a long time ago, the reason why I may never know. It was demolished along with five other houses. As the houses were built at the top of the street and just above bedrock I'm tending to rule out subsidence, so it may have been due to a fire spreading through the roof spaces. Below is a glimpse of the former Crookes Congregational Church - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1175483