History
Quarry Banks, Woodyard & Floodyard
Quarry Banks Field was above the Woodyard and the field above that was known as Top Banks Field.
Thomas Hill began his Steam Road Vehicle repair and maintenance business at the Woodyard.
The Home Guard used to practise here and after the war, ammunition boxes were dumped in the Woodyard once owned by Jack Bryant, in what was once the old quarry.
A big old house that the Bartholomew's the Undertakers lived in from about 1923, where they had the coal business, was beside the old Flood Yard. The 1891 census gives details of people living at the Flood Yard at that time. All the houses in the old Floodyard were demolished in the 1960s to make way for Parkson House for Parkin's builders.
There was a large house at the side of the dyke and the Flood Yard was behind that. The brook was dammed and they used to dip sheep there.
On the site of the Petrol Station, cattle on their way to Rotherham Market used to be penned there on the field overnight. This was also where the annual fair was held.
In the photograph taken in the early 1960s the recently built Parkson House is on the very left and the Petrol Station on the right.
Jack Bryant sold the Woodyard and joinery shop to the builder, Oswald Parkin, who lived close to Morthen crossroads, he previously operated his office from a semi close to Worrygoose Island on the Hind side of the dual carriageway. His son Howard later began making steel ploughs as ornaments in the Woodyard.
George Wood made and repaired Steam Lorries in the same area. He lived opposite the Chequers.
