FKH299
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:21 am
This one's for the sheffield folk amongst us!
I was born at hillsborough in 1971, then moved near the utd ground on the corner of charlotte road/margaret street. then up to city road opposite the cemetary.
The man who i am to talk about today is a man called george walker who lived on margaret street and for many years we lost touch until a version of events brought george , his wife agnus and our family back in contact. agnus is no longer with us but george is 94 years old and is living in sheltered accomadation in misterton.
George has told me of a story of his bike which is incredible, and shows the kind of struggle that people had to endure in sheffield during the second world war.
George was asked to work another week of night at joseph thompsons,summit works,town edge street.
george was is engineering he was a universal grinder and made engine components for the rolls royce engine that was fitted to the spitfire.
On his way to work he heard the air raid sirens and had to go straight to the shelters at brook hill close to the hospitals.
His bike which was a Triumph tiger twin 500, which he parked outside the chip shop oppposite the shelters.
A few woman asked if anyone would like fish and chips from the shop across the way and was stopped from going out onto the street by the warden in the shelter.
Sheffield that night was subjected to a bombing campaign by the germans, building were smashed including the chip shop across the road.
Unbelievably the next morning when george went outside and looked at all the distruction, dead bodies and entire streets gone, there was this triumph still on its stand without a scratch. George made is way home to the shiregreen area of sheffield.
I was born at hillsborough in 1971, then moved near the utd ground on the corner of charlotte road/margaret street. then up to city road opposite the cemetary.
The man who i am to talk about today is a man called george walker who lived on margaret street and for many years we lost touch until a version of events brought george , his wife agnus and our family back in contact. agnus is no longer with us but george is 94 years old and is living in sheltered accomadation in misterton.
George has told me of a story of his bike which is incredible, and shows the kind of struggle that people had to endure in sheffield during the second world war.
George was asked to work another week of night at joseph thompsons,summit works,town edge street.
george was is engineering he was a universal grinder and made engine components for the rolls royce engine that was fitted to the spitfire.
On his way to work he heard the air raid sirens and had to go straight to the shelters at brook hill close to the hospitals.
His bike which was a Triumph tiger twin 500, which he parked outside the chip shop oppposite the shelters.
A few woman asked if anyone would like fish and chips from the shop across the way and was stopped from going out onto the street by the warden in the shelter.
Sheffield that night was subjected to a bombing campaign by the germans, building were smashed including the chip shop across the road.
Unbelievably the next morning when george went outside and looked at all the distruction, dead bodies and entire streets gone, there was this triumph still on its stand without a scratch. George made is way home to the shiregreen area of sheffield.