DO YOU REMEMBER?

Do many of your readers remember Totley from 1945? An old RAF photograph taken in December 1945. clearly shows Totley Hall before it became a college, let alone a polytechnic or university. The formal garden and walled kitchen garden are quite distinctive.

It also shows where the construction of houses on Rowan Tree Dell and Meadow Grove had been interrupted by the War. The overgrown shapes of some of the unbuilt houses are visible. There are of course also plenty of allotments in full use, including a block in what is now part of Totley Primary School grounds.

Green Oak Park was just an open field with two isolated trees in the middle. They appear to be on the line of an old hedgerow.