Comments on: Approaches to the Anglian Tower – 2

By: Michael Dale

Michael Dale — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:53:53 +0000

I knew Jeff Radley as a school boy at South Grove Secondary Modern in Rotherham. He taught there and introduced myself and a few others to hiking in Derbyshire circa 1960. This led on to a couple of us becoming interested in archaeology and I recall being on a dig with Jeff and another guy called Fred as I remember near Stocksbridge recovering a burial urn.
The reason this has all come back to me follows a conversation about archaeology with my 11 year old grandson following a visit to Stonehenge last week. As we drove home (we live in Wiltshire) he asked me “what is the difference between archaeology and grave robbing”?
Michael Dale

By: Mike Plant

Mike Plant — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:39:44 +0000

A memorial to Jeff was chiselled on a hidden cliff face at Jeffs favourite
view near Curbar Gap and will be there for all time, unlike a bronze plaque.

By: Andy Robinson

Andy Robinson — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:56:36 +0000

Hi Ian, I was really interested to read your comments, it completes a story. When I told my mother about this website she could recall meeting your father through his friendship with her dad (LB Cooper). At the time she said I’m sure Jeff hadn’t been married long and that there was a child, an infant at the time of his death and she wondered what had become of them. For me Jeff’s story had always been one of a life cut tragically short, but now it has become a story of continuity and new life.
Best Wishes
Andy

By: Andy Robinson

Andy Robinson — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:40:10 +0000

Hi Mike I was fascinated to read that you took the Glebe Low photograph! I have many slides from this era and must find the time to post more of them on my website. Andy

By: Lisa @YorkStories

Lisa @YorkStories — Fri, 27 May 2016 21:18:40 +0000

This page has always felt like one of the more important ones on this website, because of what the comments added to what I’d written, and with your comments added Ian it means even more. Thank you.

I’ve emailed you on the address you provided as Mike Plant, who added a comment above, has been in touch with me and would like you to contact him.

Lisa

By: Ian Radley

Ian Radley — Tue, 24 May 2016 21:10:48 +0000

Hi, Jeffrey Radley was born in 1936 in Aughton near Rotherham to a mining family. He was the first Radley to attend Grammar school and subsequently graduated with honours at Leeds University. Subsequently, he studied for a Masters at Berkeley, California where he spent time mapping the soils of Nicaragua. he developed a love of archaeology at an early age and dug, studied and write up all of his finds as he went. he was a prolific archaeologist in the Sheffield area, working at Sheffield Museum in the early 1960s. Most of his papers are now in the museum and there is a scholoarship in his name set up through a local archaeological group. He became a leading specialist in the Mesolithic period specialising in tumuli and arrowheads. He moved to lead archaeology in York and excavated the Anglian Tower for the roman celebrations that year. He was the first who believed that the tower may be Anglian attributing this to the Danish period. His tragic passing affected the city and changed the safety regulations for archaeologists since that time.