DID YOU KNOW?

Did you know that the bungalows on the Grove were originally built in the 1920s as holiday homes for people in Sheffield? Totley was of course at that time, a village in Derbyshire.

Danny Reynolds, born 1910, recalled that, "In the days of outside toilets and no sewers in Totley, the toilets were known as middens. They had to be emptied periodically. In the 1920s, I remember the man who emptied middens was known as a 'shit diver', This was because he would put a big chew of tobacco in his mouth and dive in!! Frank Taylor and Joe Otter emptied middens when I was a child. Another man, Mr Coates, used to get in trouble with local farmers, because he had nowhere to tip his load. So he used to take his tipper cart and just open a gate to a field somewhere, quickly tip his load, and go."

Jennie Street