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  1. I think that the ones marked on the old map in the post actually are in the ‘timepix’ database? You can search the map and bring up the images, clicking for a full size image of each.... https://www.timepix.uk/Collection-galleries/Attercliffe-Sheffield (I won't paste the actual images in here, as don't want to flout any copyright restrictions, but here are the links) https://www.timepix.uk/Collection-galleries/Attercliffe-Sheffield/i-h6Zf8F6 https://www.timepix.uk/Collection-galleries/Attercliffe-Sheffield/i-K4fXCJZ This photo actually shows your 'arches' in the bottom of the brick buttress https://www.timepix.uk/Collection-galleries/Attercliffe-Sheffield/i-7S44fnP/A Just a guess, but these arches may have been incorporated into the brick buttress as 'weep holes', to allow the ground water in the steelworks above to permeate through the wall and into the canal? I wouldn't imagine there was much by way of pipework drainage built into the groundworks, so this would allow the water to escape and possibly prevent any issues with the wall buckling under the pressure of waterlogged ground? (Just relating this to an issue I had with my garden wall, albeit on a far smaller scale?!) These 114 photos of Attercliffe on Timepix are a great find! I'll be bookmarking this site and checking back when they load more of the 'rp' reference point photos on there. Always some new discovery, from an unlikely topic of conversation?! Thanks!
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  2. I found this photo on Picture Sheffield showing the police box in its current location and a newer model of telephone box on the Surrey Street pavement. The film showing at the cinema on Barker's Pool was Masquerade in Vienna, released in 1934.
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  3. Interested Members and casual readers of this site will, hopefully, forgive me if I re -raise this subject but I’m personally unaware of any previous reference on the SH site. Continuing but in fact, recent, research into a family member who as a BEF member was evacuated in “Operation Dynamo” during May1940 has led me to what I consider are some very interesting facts concerning my now deceased relative and also other Sheffield men involved the many crucial battles leading up to the perhaps better known Dunkirk evacuation of some allied 300,000 troops in those early months of WW2. It may not be widely known that several Territorial Army units of the Corps of Royal Engineers (aka “The Sappers” ) were mobilised as part of The British Expeditionary Force ….particularly soldiers from Sheffield’s own long -established Volunteer( TA) RE unit….in 1939 carrying the designation 228 Field Company RE …it’s HQ for many years at the imposing Somme Barracks which still occupies most of the plot bounded by Glossop Rd, Gell St, Hanover Way in The City. (I believe ‘Somme’ is now an empty, though historically/architecturally ‘protected’ complex…it’s still operational successor unit, 106 Fd Sqn RE having relocated to a purpose -built site on Greenhill Parkway … almost incredibly now some 30years ago) Apart from the unit War Diaries ….to my knowledge not readily in the public domain.. I know of no dedicated account outlining the efforts of these particular Sheffield men ‘at Dunkirk’. However, in the course of tracing the likely part of my uncle in those historic and Nationally -critical events I have personally pieced together such information as currently appears to be available in print… to identify those brave ‘part timers’ who undoubtedly helped to, famously, ‘save an Army’. Whatever other tasks were allotted…228 Fd Coy members were also very probably ‘simply’ fighting as infantry soldiers (always and indeed, still, a basic training and skill requirement) as the needs arose in those frantic, terrifying days but there are also accounts of them carrying out some of their more Corps-specific roles such as route denial using demolitions …rail and road bridges being critical at various points on the routes back to the coast to both the Allies and Germans alike had to be blown ‘at the right time’ ie when all ‘friendly’ troops had crossed and before pursuing enemy formations got the chance to use the bridges…ie denying him that tactical assistance. (There appears to be one account where Sheffield Sappers actually blew one bridge with German panzer( tanks) already on it…..very edge of the seat, ‘movie’ stuff…particularly for those Engineers close enough to initiate the charges! ) As well as dealing with direct offensive action, the Sappers also faced the ever- present risk of accidents ….handling explosives and initiation systems is hazardous enough without being under the pressure of enemy forces bearing down on them…which any serving or ex -Sapper will readily recognise! Inevitably there were casualties and I have found records of the following Sheffield men of 228 Coy RE dying in the course of those vital, time and life -saving operations: Sapper Albert Crapper (Sheffield ) Lance Sgt Kenneth France (Sheffield) Capt Wilfred Middleton (Sheffield) Sapper Cyril Morland (of Wombwell) This short list isn’t comprehensive….there would probably be more ‘local’ fatalities and certain many more wounded men including those from Sheffield but anyone with a deeper interest …maybe with relatives lost out there in 1940 would be advised to go into the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Web site ( for WW2 and either enter a search for their own relatives or for general interest in the subject….go straight to the War Cemetery records for Aire Sur La Lys Communal Cemetery where the name men above were buried along with many more. For those unfamiliar with the CWGC site…each cemetery has a Register of those personnel buried there and several views of the relevant parts are available ‘at the press of a button’ …probably the most useful ‘page’ giving personal details of the casualty including ( usually) their place of origin and details of NoK. Hope these notes are of interest and maybe even assist someone with connections to that epic race to save ‘our Army’ ( POSTSCRIPT My relative was lucky to escape with what remained of the BEF and get back thanks to the vital services of The RN Abe other less professional but no less courageous mariners arriving in Sheffield with uniform in tatters still carrying his Service Rifle!) ’We will remember Them’
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  4. I am told the print is in storage in London When time and opportunity permits, I'm going to find out who can help to bring the print to Sheffield for display in a Sheffield gallery.
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  5. Na den Heartshome On a trip to the Ancient City of Ephesus in 2001, the Turkish Guide showing us around the site said you're from Sheffield in England aren't you. How do you know that! You speak English like my Lecturer. The guide said he spent 2 years at Sheffield University.
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  6. As above, there was a plan to have a route over Psalter Lane, in fact a junction was installed at the Ecclesall Road for a few years. There were also electricity feeder cables for the tramway that didn't necessarily follow the actual route, this could be one forming part of a link between Ecclesall Road and Nether Edge.
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  7. The Sheffield Corporation Act of 1900 gave powers for a number of tram routes to be constructed, some of which were never followed up. One of these was the route from the junction of Cemetery Road and Washington Road, along the upper part of Cemetery Road and Psalter Lane to Banner Cross, with a link along Cowlishaw Road and Junction Road to Hunters Bar. Discussion of this progressed as far as a proposal in May 1900 to pave Cemetery Road in granite when the tram lines from Washington Road to Sharrow Head were laid. During 1908 Psalter Lane residents held meetings against the proposed extension, they said that the existing Ecclesall and Nether Edge services were adequate and that Psalter Lane was the only main route out of Sheffield unspoiled by tramcars. There were calls in council meetings to veto the extension, for which authorisation had been renewed in a 1907 Act, and in 1909 the plan for this extension was abandoned. By then the Corporation were trialling motor buses for new routes, for which they had received the authorisation in 1907 . The electricity supply system was initially shaped by the huge requirements of the tramways. In 1902 the Sheaf Street power station was changed over to 50Hz generation, more suitable for lighting. In 1904 the Neepsend power station came into use.
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  8. Just had a look at some of the old route maps and posts on the subject and saw mentions of routes being changed and extended. There's a reference to there once being an 'Ecclesall terminus' and the route being extended 'to Millhouses Lane'. Perhaps the answer is the trams did go that way at one time but they re-routed it as the network was extended? If the maps tend to show the final layout of the system, it might not show how it changed over time? https://www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/sheffield-city-archives/maps-plans/sheffield-corporation-tramways-parks-14050142.html
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  9. Yes, Biddulphs was a brand name. As was Reeves. Advert from (Liverpool) Evening Express, 9 August 1913
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  10. New Inn Carbrook St There is not a lot of old Carbrook left these days, except for the New Inn. This was an ornate building typical of the early 1900's I take it that the ornate WS is William Stones Main entry updates
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  11. New Inn, No. 211 Carbrook Street 6th September 1989. s22100 Not sure where I've seen it: The New Inn was previously owned by another Brewery before Wm Stones took it over and the pub was rebuilt to obliterate the old branding. Now closed and used as offices. https://whatpub.com/pubs/SHF/709/new-inn-sheffield https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/sheffield_s9_newinn.html https://www.movehut.co.uk/property/587051-former-new-inn-public-house-211-carbook-street-sheffield/
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  12. That was the best I could think of but the B looks to be in a circle and there was usually an S for Sheffield. I think you have the most likely there though.
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  13. Could T H B be TH Blake. https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6954
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  16. Hello Tozzin, I am new to this forum and joined precisely because I stumbled across this post of yours whilst researching my family history. I am the Gt Gt Granddaughter of John Tasker, Gt Gdaughter of John Henry Royle Tasker. I am thrilled to see your post here and just how much information you have gleaned. However, there are a couple of immediate points I need to address. John Tasker Senior, was indeed born in Devon In 1818 but all his younger siblings were born in Sheffield from 1820 onwards. His father, also John who is the John listed in the 1825 directory at Pond Hill and his father’s brother, Richard, 8 years John’s senior, were members of the South Devon Militia who came to Sheffield for Military reasons: 1812 Sheffield Food Riots: "The Royal Buckinghamshire Militia and reinforcements of Hussars were sent from Nottingham followed on April 25th by the South Devon Militia." (source: https://priorieshistoricalsociety.blogspot.com). although John returned to Devon and was then engaged in military action at Waterloo in 1815, he married in Devon in 1818 the year our John was born. Richard, however married a Yorkshire lass and stayed in Sheffield. The fact that both John the elder and his brother and both went on to settle in Sheffield has resulted in many instances of confusion, as both had several sons and each named one John. The two lines really are only defined by the fact one was primarily engineering the other accountancy as time progressed. The brothers line did indeed produce a son who served as mayor, but not John Tasker of Shoe & Boot/ Telephone/Electric Light fame, it was the other line of the family. in 1851 John Tasker the focus of your post was living at 88 Division Street, now The Frog and Parrot, from where he ran his shoe and boot business, emlpyong 6 men. He exhibited that same year at The Great Exhibition. By 1861 he was residing at 32 Angel Street where his business was indeed as a Gutta Percha Dealer, employing 4 men. 1881 he and his much expanded family were living at his family home, Crookes House, his profession noted as a Strap Manufacturer, Gutta Percha & India Rubber Dealer. Employs 8 men, 1 boy and 2 women, I believe at the Angel Street premises. 1891, still at Crookes House with Emma, his profession is: Managing Director & Principle Owner, Sheffield Telephone & Electric Light Company, India Rubber Merchant & Engineer. You also mention him moving to 23 Taptonville. He in fact purchased Crookes House where he remained, cared for after Emma’s Death by his daughter, Catherine Emma, until he died. After his death she married her cousin, further complicating the two sides from a genealogical point of view. 23 Taptonville was the home of John’s son (John Henry Royle’s brother) Robert Charles at the time of the 1881 and 1891 Census. By 1901 RC had remarried and was residing at 13 Brocco Bank. thank you so much for contributing this original post. It is so heartwarming to realise I am not the only person keeping his memory alive. There is a lot more I can add but will leave it here. Except to say that the company who purchased the Taskers Engingineering Co when my three uncles Sold the business have the photo of the John Henry Royle (as above) alongside the logo, one of the founder’s four sons. This is not a photo of John Tasker 1818.
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  17. Did Malcolm Nunn do his Anniversary Walk this year? Over the years I've thoroughly enjoyed walking the route of his "Walk and Talk" unfortunately not able to partake the last few years living out of the area. Does Malcolm still do a showing of Laurence Peacock's images and the original talk he used to give? Peacock's glass slides were donated to Sheffield Local Studies some years ago and Malcolm sorted the surviving glass slides, identified them, comparing them to the "Talk" Peacock used to give. The surviving images are available on the Picture Sheffield website along with other images taken at the time. https://picturesheffield.com It's very satisfying to see people are still interested in the story. From a personal view I think anybody who is interested in the Sheffield Flood of 1864 should read the original book. It's a complete very detailed account including the aftermath. My parents aquired a copy many years ago when they discovered a copy in the loft of a house they moved into. It is available as a free download.
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  18. They're K1 telephone kiosks https://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/kiosks/k1-mk-234/
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  19. A few further photos, looking down Boston Street towards the church, No. 2 Works of Matthias Spencer & Sons Ltd. on the right, also fronting onto Arley Street. Further along Arley Street (between John & Denby Streets) the main offices & works of Matthias Spencer & Sons Ltd. Is it possible that the H.L. Nowlin & Sons surgical instrument premises, shown as earlier photo, on corner of Boston Street and Arley Street replaced the Angler's Rest pub around 1939, as the pub was about to be demolished? Also does anyone know where on Arley Street was that photo of TC Harrison's commercial vehicle yard, between which streets and on which side of the road?
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  20. Leadfarmer's post above highlights two solutions to the challenge facing the UK cinema industry in the early 1980s. It was a time when the effects of the writers' strike in Hollywood were beginning to be felt. Although there were some quality films coming through, there was a lot of dross and people were deserting the cinemas all over the county. The chains responded by reducing their estates. Rank closed several screens in one go, whereas ABC reduced their numbers gradually. The result was that in some towns where there had been two competing chains, customers now found there to be only the one cinema in their town. At the same time home video began to take off and the local video hire place became a common sight. The Gaumont advert above shows that Rank took advantage of this new craze by opening their own store. Following the ending of the ABC Saturday morning Minors' presentations (see the picture of Les Allen at the last Minors' Show above), it was felt that some steps needed to bring back the younger element, hence the family oriented showing advertised above of the first Star Trek Film. (It could be argued that this was not the most exciting of film for a younger audience) It was during the children's holidays that the cinemas made their money from sales of food and drink.
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  21. Reminds me of the 1960s song ” He made the night a little lighter wherever he did go the old lamp lighter of long long ago”. sorry about that!🙄🙄🙄
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  22. Recently when walking along the canal towards Tinsley, I noticed a line of six brick arches which are on the tow path side opposite the Spartan Steel Works, until recently the archways have been covered by shrubs. Thanks to the volunteers from the Canal and river trust doing a great job clearing and maintaining the tow path they have revealed the arches. So the question is: Anyone know what these archways were for.
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  23. Bit earlier than your son's time at the Nursery. Denby Street, Nursery School. 1949. s06594 David Bocking took many photographs of children at Denby Street Nursery for Picture Sheffield 10th & 12th November 2004. Playground, Denby Street Nursery, Highfield. c00480
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  24. It’s a revision point….not sure what that means!
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  25. Where ever you go, and hear talking or you get chatting to someone, you know straight away if they have Yorkshire in them, by the greeting or expression voiced. Been places many a time, and heard someone say 'Ay Up! 'ow you doin'? and hearing them talk Yorkshire. Or 'Ow Do mate'! which is mostly what I've heard expressed by men to greet someone they know. Still nice to know our regional sayings haven't been wiped out! Heartshome 💖
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  26. Lah di dah or La di da. The former would be the Sheffield posh accent! A Victorian word imitating the perceived Posh accent.
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  27. Not sure if this counts? Located in a stream towards the bottom of Carter Hall Lane near Town End, past Charnock Hall school. Photo taken from Facebook..
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  28. A Dutch friend of ours is also reyt fluent in 'Sheffieldish' after spending so much time here over the years. I still find it an amusing to hear his combination of Nederland accent and Yorkshire dialect.
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  29. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324906582234
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  30. Good morning RLongden. I have written to find out the location of William Ibbitt's print. If I get a reply will post on Sheffield History
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  31. Out walking yesterday ( Tues 20 Feb ) I noticed in the footpath on Cemetery Road at Sharrow Head, the junction of Psalter Lane and Sharrow Vale Road, the service box shown in the attached photo. as far as I am aware and I have just looked at a map of the old tram network on the web, the trams didn't run up Cemetery Road to the top, but turned at the Washington Road junction to proceed to Nether Edge. What's the reason for that box outside 309 Cemetery Road ? I'm intrigued, may be a straightforward answer.
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  32. Hello Roger, The artwork is part of the Government Art Collection (ref: GAC 10977). https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/artwork/10977/ It may be on display in a Government building somewhere in the world, as some of their collection of some 14700 works are scattered across 125 countries worldwide (embassies and consulates, etc.) https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/about/what-is-the-government-art-collection/ The chances of seeing it on display in a UK public gallery are slim (to non-existent!), but you could contact them and quote the GAC reference, so they can locate its whereabouts on their database. You may find that it is ‘in archives’, which unfortunately most of their works actually are. http://museu.ms/museum/details/14944/government-art-collection A bit of background reading and some links to explore, hope you find useful? —— It actually just ‘clicked’ with me where the origin of Abbeydale Road comes from now, as all the old maps show this as the route from Sheffield and the references to ‘Dale Abbey’ <> ‘Abbey Dale’ see reference to ‘Beauchief and Abbey Dale Station’, when it was in Derbyshire in 1883 😁 https://maps.nls.uk/view/101600205
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  33. I am aware that following negotiations with the vendor, that this item, along with some other related material has returned to Sheffield. Although the new owner wishes to remain anonymous, I can tell you that these materials are now being held very close to the districts that they cover. I have personally seen the same.The material is being stored in an appropriate manner, whilst thought is being given as to whether any restoration should be undertaken, or as to whether it is best preserved in its present condition.
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  34. In this case, it is referring to Court number 2, House number 1
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  35. James and John are my 2nd grand-uncles (my connection is via Henry, their father and Alfred Edgar, their brother). I understand that Anthony, James's son was a Pitman's Shorthand instructor - attached is the 1911 White's Trade Directory for Sheffield, whcih you may find of interest.
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  36. I would say that any of these houses left standing on Thirlwell Road, Heeley, are original builds.
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  37. Court 2, Harmer Lane https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom
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  38. I had an office by the side of the canal until the early 1970 s and there was a daily movement of barge traffic…much of it bringing ferro- alloys into Sheffield. In turn some exports of steel went by barge to be trans shipped in Hull. In winter the canal was kept ice free by a small craft being rocked from side to side by its crew…. we nicknamed it Kista Dan after the Antarctic ice breaker.
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  39. At one time there was a Mathematics teacher at Myers Grove who was into rugby, playing 16 times for England and also picked for the British Lions. Alan Old
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  40. The toll was a halfpenny for pedestrians and a penny for a horse and driver. The toll keeper from about 1923 was Joseph Gleadall, who was based in a little brick built cabin which had been put up with the original bridge which replaced a ferry (ferry operational in 1850). The bridge was used by workers wanting to get from Tinsley to Kimberworth and the nearby works, saving bus and tram fares.
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  41. Interesting website which focus on Porter Brook from Hunters Bar down to Sheffield Station and the River Sheaf from Millhouses Park to the confluence with the River Don at Castlegate. It's also a registered charity, which you can join. Sheaf and Porter Trust
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  42. William Younge Esq: Banker living on High Street at the time of the 1841census and by1851 he's living at Endcliffe.
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  43. Not had chance to research that yet Ponytail (and apologies if this has been posted before)... but on the more general subject of 1852 Sheffield, this page has some fascinating info taken from the 1852 White's Directory, via the links. https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sheffield/Description1852 Also links and pointers to various local history and genealogy resources via the main page; https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sheffield
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  44. The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England is the third volume in a series of books and reports written by Sir Edward Coke (1552 – 1634) in an attempt to provide an exhaustive review of English law. There Coke discusses Robin Hood, stating that men of his lawless profession were called Roberdsmen, and that Robin Hood not only gave his name to these kind of men, but mentions a Bay on the Yorkshire Coast called Robin Hood's Bay. Charlton, in his 1779 History of Whitby Abbey, says that Robin Hood (aka William Fitz-ooth) on occasion used the Bay (6 miles from Whitby) and a small fishing boat to escape his pursuers. Robin Hood, he thinks, was friendly with the Abbot Richard of Whitby Abbey - after one dinner he asked Robin and John Little to demonstrate their long-distance bowmanship. The arrows fell not far from Whitby Laths about a mile distant, and a pillar was set up to mark the landing places of each of the arrows. Apparently the pillars were still standing in 1779 and were mentioned in the deeds of that area.
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  45. My mum and dad met each other at that fair one year and were married a year later
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  46. How wrong can you be? The police boxes of Sheffield were built and put to use over a number of years in the first half of the last century. (From 1928 onwards) It's a great shame they have all disappeared except (I think) this one. Even the modern substitutes such as that built in 1963 on Infirmary Road or the quite large "section station" at Parkhill Flats have been sold off. I was in the Force on the cusp of that modernisation and it was a huge relief to be on one of those beats. The new "boxes" had heating and a small stove as well as a proper table and chairs. The old boxes had a bench, a stool and a small almost useless coil-stove (that's Coil as in electrical heating not as in coal-stove !) . You put your mashing can on those stoves at about midnight and if you were lucky the water would be hot enough to make tea about 2.30am. If you were soaked with rain or snow you stayed wet and cold! But you were only allowed to be in the box for four minutes each hour, or for 45 minutes for meal break...or when writing reports or dealing with a prisoner. Fearsome beat sergeants would be in wait if you lingered long! I have an essay, "The Beat Book" about bring a Probationer PC in Sheffield in 1961, which has been lodged with the Forum Administrator. Or it can be read by signing in to the British Police History website.
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  47. This is outside 24 Gray Street. Obviously this wont help you to locate it because that part of Pitsmoor has been leveled rebuilt and leveled and rebuilt since this photo was taken.
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