Groups / Clubs

Cioch Club | Club | United Kingdom 🇬🇧


Quick Info

Type Club
Country United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Climbers recorded 2

Quick Info

Type Club
Country United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Climbers recorded 2
Also known as Cioch Climbing Club.

An informal Sheffield climbing club of the early 1960s whose members met socially at the YWCA and kept a hut above Lover's Leap Café at Stoney Middleton. Led on the rock by Jack Street, it did much early development of Stoney Middleton. Its earliest surviving minutes date from January 1963. [1]

References

[1] Geoff Birtles, recollections of the Cioch Club (Stoney Middleton heritage) https://smhccg.org/rock-climbing/cioch-climbing-club/

Contributors
22 contributions since 10th October 2026.

Climbers

2 recorded climbers.

Climber Period Notes
Geoff Birtles From Sep 1962

Joined in September 1962 as a 15-year-old schoolboy. [1]

References

[1] Geoff Birtles, recollections of the Cioch Club (Stoney Middleton heritage) https://smhccg.org/rock-climbing/cioch-climbing-club/

Jack Street

'Jack was the leading climber in the group'. [1]

References

[1] Geoff Birtles, recollections of the Cioch Club (Stoney Middleton heritage) https://smhccg.org/rock-climbing/cioch-climbing-club/