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"Supposedly" the walls of the approach road to the Victoria Station were largely built with stone from the castle, and there are hundreds of them bearing masons' marks. One to add to my list of walks during my next visit to Sheffield.

Yes I remember that when I was nobbut a lad. Always enjoyed the trip to see the grandparents in Nottingham as the train passed close by the iron works at Renishaw and the tipping of hot slag over the dumps was terrific at night! The white tiles at the Vic always reminded me of going into a giant public convenience!

Looks a big case in 1860’s, joshua Tyzack explosion and shooting etc. lots of evidence here

That’s interesting to know. I’ve been away from the city a decade and even then probably several years since before that since I was in the Wicker area….so that information on remaining station features actually surprises me. I guess prospects of reusing / regenerating that station withered with the arguments on re opening the Woodhead…

There is a bit left. Some walls and a lined (with those tiles) passageway. A bit of the platform and of course the lift building at the side of the Wicker.

It’s many a year …but certainly looks like how I recall Sheffield Victoria ( and trips across the Pennines) …..as it did then…still strikes me as having a ‘Stateside’ look about it….truly don’t know the respective design/ building dates but does look more modern than the Midland LMS…particularly of 50s/60s. Very interesting to see the place again…guess nothing remains of it, covered or otherwise..

Hello, a couple of brace & bit images relating to Moulson Brothers. Kalfred

It must have been a long exposure shot due to the light. That's why the man at the bookstall (W.H. Smiths) is blurred due to him moving a bit, but his bag is in focus. Do you think the boxes around the beam are for poster adverts?

Great, I will message the seller and let them know.

No subways at Midland, so definitely Victoria, although I never remember it looking that bright and clean!

Wessex Archaeology excavated the area in 2019 ( Hollis Croft Excavations ). They targeted the Orange Branch public house as "Area K". Their report included "In 1787–9 the Orange Branch was operated by John Harrison, perhaps as part of the truck system used to exploit workers at his steel works on the other side of the road. By 1853 the Orange Branch was at number 28 and was operated by Joseph Allen, joiner and victualler, and inhabited by his wife Sarah, three children and 20-year-old servant Alice Wardley." "Worker’s housing was directly excavated at the rear of the Orange Branch public house". A penny was found in the vicinity of the pub. "The cellars were well-preserved and a sequence of repair, redevelopment and blockage attested to alterations and use of the cellars over time" "Walls west of the cobbled yard were shown to be the upper parts of a series of cellars which had been maintained and rebuilt over time. In the 20th century a cart-way or entrance was installed in the east of the area, reducing the size of the former buildings, although the fabric of the earlier buildings was partially retained"

My daughter was , I imagine, a contemporary of yours at Firth Park. From an early age she had private music tuition and was ,by the time she came across said Mr Jackson, in possession of an assortment of piano proficiency certificates…as she said,” more than Mr Jackson.” She and He had a dispute over some music technicality and she has never touched the piano since. Strange how teachers can influence children …for good or bad!

Sheffield Vic! Access to island platforms via stairs……..although I don’t recall the Civic Information Service sign

Found this photo on E-Bay of a Sheffield Station. But is it Victoria or Midland? It looks like Victoria to me, with that giant girders and the tiling. But what do you think? You can still buy copies. Sheffield Station E-Bay

My grandchildren are amazed when I recall events in my 80 odd years…….so I think it’s more to do with age than anything!

Thanks for the photographs, my recollections are from the 1950s so it's not possible for me to make a connection. It would be too easy to jump to a conclusion, especially as my Farewell had one of those old fashioned bushy 'tashes. I just noticed that I said Grandson instead of Grandfather earlier, I have now corrected that.

By 1911 that Farewell would’ve been living at 50 Fulton Road, so very near crookes. I’ve added a picture of farewells father with his brothers, might bare a resemblance if it’s the same.

The Farewell Sellars I knew, was I think, from the Crookes (but could have been Walkley) area.

I can remember my great grandmother who lived and worked through world war 1. That generation told great stories, like her opening the curtains as the zeppelin went over Britannia, that low she could see the pilots figure, then running under the kitchen table as nobody had shelters. Swapping shifts with other mothers at the ammo factory, to breast feed her friends two children and vice versa. Walking to work at the globe on west street and seeing the ‘titanic sinks’ at the paper stand. I’d have absorbed so much more if I had the same interest then, they were a different breed.

Sorry for late reply, don’t know if you’ll see it but the farewell I mentioned (son of the Sheffield huntsman and footballer) in my tree was actually 1851-1908 and the next farewell I can recall or found would’ve been his nephew born 1909 son of Thomas David Sellars, although I think he was called Harold farewell. I do know there was a different sellars family at the same time of 155 Stannington Road with a son called Farewell if that helps, the ones I mentioned would be all walkley area.

19th April 1940

A fascinating story. I bet breakfast was interesting…..can’t get a date from the clipping but reading about our “ BEF heroes” I imagine it was dated during the so called Phoney War period.

My Grandfather used to say “we were in the newspaper as kids, we were the first on the street with shoes” We found the article so I thought I’d share for a bit of fun, he wasn’t far off with his tales bless him.

R&J Smith Bros. was a going concern during the 1960s. At that time ,they never produced an ounce of steel ,being purely steel stockholders and merchants …as the advertisement Ponytail provided indicated. They were taken over by another merchant and, like so many other similar companies ,closed for ever during the decline of Sheffield as a steel centre!