Guest suzy Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 The TOP SECRET Temporary, Spot-enabled establishment of an educational-ilk identified only as XYZ Seeing as both me and suzy, and a few others, know where this establishment was, how many years secrecy order is it under so that we know how long we have got to keep our gobs shut for. Don't remember signing for this on the official secrets act Me neither. Why all the top secret stuff though Keep looking over your shoulder, you never know when MI6 are watching :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Me neither. Why all the top secret stuff though Keep looking over your shoulder, you never know when MI6 are watching Pssst.... No one is looking or listening and we are not being bugged I will say this only once ( In a very poor French Allo Allo accent) It was A******* S***** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Picture 1 Elm Tree in the 1980's. Picture 2 & 3 My Grandfather worked for a while at the Elm Tree, these two pictures must have been taken before 1943, because he died that year. He appears on both 1st left on the brighter picture and 2nd left on the darker. He was called John (Johnny) Appleyard. Others on it might included the landlord in the 1940's. You might also want to read George Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier. He is highly critical of these mock Tudor pubs in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Picture 1 Elm Tree in the 1980's. Picture 2 & 3 My Grandfather worked for a while at the Elm Tree, these two pictures must have been taken before 1943, because he died that year. He appears on both 1st left on the brighter picture and 2nd left on the darker. He was called John (Johnny) Appleyard. Others on it might included the landlord in the 1940's. You might also want to read George Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier. He is highly critical of these mock Tudor pubs in it. Apart from the fact that it is now closed (whats new! ) The old Elm Tree, a.k.a. the "fight a night" hasn't changed that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suzy Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Apart from the fact that it is now closed (whats new! ) The old Elm Tree, a.k.a. the "fight a night" hasn't changed that much. Hi Dave H (I am back in the "Sheffield History saddle" and am sure it will take me a while to catch up!) : still for sale! Thought you would have found some way of buying it by now and turning it around into a hip bar of some kind!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Hi Dave H (I am back in the "Sheffield History saddle" and am sure it will take me a while to catch up!) : still for sale! Thought you would have found some way of buying it by now and turning it around into a hip bar of some kind!! Funny you should mention buying an old boozer again Suzy. Thanks to my son in law I have recently started homebrew beer and wine again after a break from it of around 10 years. So my garage now looks like a boozer cellar. and it has just matured enough to sample my first pint of "Arbourthorne Ales" this weekend Only made a standard 40 pint batch, but if I get into doing this again (and the results were good) I could be looking for my own local drinking place for my own locally brewed beer. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suzy Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Funny you should mention buying an old boozer again Suzy. Thanks to my son in law I have recently started homebrew beer and wine again after a break from it of around 10 years. So my garage now looks like a boozer cellar. and it has just matured enough to sample my first pint of "Arbourthorne Ales" this weekend Only made a standard 40 pint batch, but if I get into doing this again (and the results were good) I could be looking for my own local drinking place for my own locally brewed beer. The Elm Tree would be perfect for you then That pint looks pretty good to me - am on my way back home very shortly, so have one ready for my arrival :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 The Elm Tree would be perfect for you then That pint looks pretty good to me - am on my way back home very shortly, so have one ready for my arrival As well as the "Arbourthorne Ales" beer I also started off a batch of blackberry wine made from blackberries which had grown wild all over my wifes allotment and were harvested last September. This is just about ready for bottling now. A standard gallon demijohn should fill 6 standard 700ml wine bottles. So as well as my own boozer I could have my own little wine bar as well! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 The Elm Tree would be perfect for you then That pint looks pretty good to me - am on my way back home very shortly, so have one ready for my arrival I don't know about the Elm Tree, I seem to have got a lot of choice with closed down boozers in the area. Latest victim seems to be the Royal Oak at Hollinsend crossroads (opposite where the Rex cinema used to be on Mansfield Road. Photo taken on Sunday afternoon when pubs are usually busy but it was shut up and displaying a sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suzy Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I don't know about the Elm Tree, I seem to have got a lot of choice with closed down boozers in the area. Latest victim seems to be the Royal Oak at Hollinsend crossroads (opposite where the Rex cinema used to be on Mansfield Road. Photo taken on Sunday afternoon when pubs are usually busy but it was shut up and displaying a sign. Oh no - not another one! You will certainly have plenty to go at. I may be totally off the mark here, but did one of the landlords once get attacked/robbed at the Royal Oak some years ago? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Oh no - not another one! You will certainly have plenty to go at. I may be totally off the mark here, but did one of the landlords once get attacked/robbed at the Royal Oak some years ago? I think so, But in this area that would be an occupational hazzard for landlords so I don't think this type of thing would be unique to the Royal Oak. However, at the Arbourthorne Hotel a few years ago the landlord attacked and killed one of the customers. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suzy Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I think so, But in this area that would be an occupational hazzard for landlords so I don't think this type of thing would be unique to the Royal Oak. However, at the Arbourthorne Hotel a few years ago the landlord attacked and killed one of the customers. Agree. Never knew about the Arbourthorne Hotel saga - whats the story behind that then? :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wayneybabes Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Agree. Never knew about the Arbourthorne Hotel saga - whats the story behind that then? have a look, Auntie Sue http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4368946.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Agree. Never knew about the Arbourthorne Hotel saga - whats the story behind that then? I have told the story of the Arbourthorne Hotel murder (one of several which have happened as a result of events in there) somewhere else on this site in another topic before. As a site "Link Fairy" I would like to link it here for you. But can I heckerslike find it!!! :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suzy Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 have a look, Auntie Sue http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4368946.stm Thanks Nephew - never knew about that one! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 It looks as if someone has bought the Elm Tree! I passed by it the other day in the tram and saw it had "under offer" on the sale board. Rumours are now around saying Netto have it. It seems the company have got back into the Supermarket thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 It looks as if someone has bought the Elm Tree! I passed by it the other day in the tram and saw it had "under offer" on the sale board. Rumours are now around saying Netto have it. It seems the company have got back into the Supermarket thing. Given the fate of other local boozers, - churches, supermarkets, Indian restaurants, Chinese restaurants, etc. it is highly unlikely that it will ever open as a pub again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Given the fate of other local boozers, - churches, supermarkets, Indian restaurants, Chinese restaurants, etc. it is highly unlikely that it will ever open as a pub again. The Royal Oak at the junction of Mansfield Road and Hollinsend Road has just been refurbished and re-opened as a funeral parlour by the way. So add funeral parlour to the list of new uses for old boozers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted November 6, 2014 Author Share Posted November 6, 2014 Will they still be selling spirits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theimposter1979 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 On 17 January 2010 at 4:58 PM, syrup said: I worked behind the bar in The Elm Tree in the early 70s at the weekends and we were all under instruction if anything kicked of we were to shout the Landlady and she would sort it out. She was a small Welsh woman call Gwyneth if i remember correctly and she kept a baseball bat under the bar and she would chase trouble causers down the street on many occasions. The Landlord was always down the cellar with his Stainless Steel Buckets and plastics pipes, No Beers were poured down the sinks in them days everything was RECYCELLED. Hi Syrup- do you have any pictures from your time working there? I am writing a book on Sheffield pubs and I would love to see them. Jamie sheffieldpubs@outlook.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrup Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Sorry i have no pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackanne Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 I went in the elm tree and remember gwyn being the landlady,she was fearless.After the elm tree she moved to the relative calmness of the yew tree at Coal Aston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 I found an advert in the Sheffield Independent Trade Review section dated to December 21 1927 for Henry Freckingham & Sons Ltd (builders) about the contracts they are currently working on. Two of them are for remodelling Inns. Including the Elm Tree! The other being the Ship Inn Shalesmoor. Henry Freckingham & Sons were based at Hoyle Street Works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 The Elm Tree was demolished and the area is now an Asda petrol station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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