Bird Cage

Anybody of you lot used to go there? What a dive!

 

yes 37yrs ago. can you remember fat frank / the copper . good place i thought plenty of talent(Y)

 

Yep, but it was a good dive!

Just a pain walking home to Hoyland Common afterwards!

 

did tha go past forge an up cloughs or up main road through hoyland on thee way back t'common? preffered cloughs meesen

 

Through Cloughs. The hill was a bit gentler!

 

not bad for me just had to go . fearnhouse cresent & most day's after . always wondered how i had even got home lol...

 

wish a were on my way to birdcage tonight . good day . we won . every thing's ok . prospect / turf / gardener's / ball inn . straight to bird cage . only not many remember . good times . ..... . well off to local :-|

 

I once got stuck to the carpet in there.

 

i once got stuck on the railing's out side ,well got lifted up on them . with fat frank& arthur tattershall. both bobbies. never liked me then. anybody remember them two . they were the scourge of the hoyland bobbies . good times then .......met em both years after . both were ok /......

 

I went a few times after being out in Sheffield and remember a lad called Billy Bacon , always did a mooney on last train back whilst doing a back flip down the carriage,but Elsecar folk have always been a bit like that

 

seen a few lasses do a few a them. out side birdcage& across at them garages directly across road from birdcage. memories.... oh dear.....

 

I lived on fearnhouse 37 years ago too

but I was a bairn at that time

 

Blimey! Arthur Tattershall, that's a blast from the past. Miserable bugger, he was.

 

RE: I lived on fearnhouse 37 years ago too

i were only a bairn me self . when i lived there . well 16yrs old . glad someone else remembers arthur. you're right he were miserable bugger & a lot more/....