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The demolition of Sheffield in the 1960's, 1970's & 1980's a blaze was the sky with fires from the demolition sites there were only a few known Sheffield Companies at the time A.D.H Demolition Limited (contracted to Sheffield Council) A. Whites Demoliiton Ltd Childs Demolition Ltd Demex Ltd J. Whites Ltd and later T.D.E (Rotherham) (ancestors of A. Whites demolition) i remember as an only child going with my parents to the demolition sites, i remember the black sooty days crooks moor was ablaze with fires and being situated on a hill you could look across Sheffield and see other contractors lighting the sky. The forgotten demolition men and woman contractors that made Adolf Hitler assault on sheffield oblivious. The Sheffield Council pillaged property with compulsory purchase took peoples homes and business for pittance of monies, i remember sometimes wed pull houses down leaving the odd one still standing whilst the owners or tenants were fighting for their legal rights to stay or be given a better deal. Sheffield Council insisted on the demolition of what we would see today as historical buildings but to the council they was drab, nuisance and needed to be pulled down our sheffield architecture of centuries past were stone masons are not of what is today ended up a pile of rubble and down the tip it went. Odd pieces will have survived and relocated without knowing and the next generation losing site. I know the red set that lay on the floor in kelham island were taken from the Sheffield Abattoir and re laid in the museum yet a piece of history is lost again and no mention of where they arrived from they just part of the decor of the museum yet in truth is part of a bigger history. i attach a stone fireplace my parents built in a property still in the sheffield area, the new owners of that property will never know the history of that house or where that huge fireplace with its ornate archway came from. The archway formed the door way to the GAS HOUSE on commercial Street its were you paid your account (its historic significance to Sheffield is when sheffield turned from Candle Light to Gas. i attach another photo of a font that was part of the St josephs convent, common side htpp://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/environmental-health-part-park-hill-slums-1-5 I'm hoping a log can be made on this site for anyone to upload demolition photographs and maybe if theres any demolition men left that worked on these site can contribute before history is lost. I was a fortunate person i know much of sheffield i lived the era and a breathed it with my family. Im trying to see if we can make a single page where all the data of the lost (demolished) can be found, before it is too late. I want to see what the public holds before i update this site again with All the 1000 pictures and documents i hold of Sheffield

Not sure what road this is, but it's just across from Leppings Lane Anyone remember it in service?

The livery was the West Riding "house style", which had blue for Sheffield & District, green for West Riding and red for Yorkshire Woollen. I agree that it really didn't look too good on double deckers.

Thank you, that paint job doesn't look too bad on the National but it doesn't do much for the Atlantean in my opinion. I have rarely seen anything to match the old Sheffield Transport colours, the version with the thin blue lines looked good on any vehicle.

I managed but two pictures of Sheffield & District buses, mainly due to not being resident in Sheffield during most of their existence. One is quite good, one is rubbish! Both buses are running without fleetnames and the second tells me that some of the Atlanteans were in service at the start, not introduced later as I stated previously. This is the good one, taken on the rather overcast Monday 27th October 1986, the day after the deregulated era started. and this is the rubbish one, taken on the same day

They were initially based at Charlotte Road in the old Sheffield United Tours/National Express garage but moved to a new base in Orgreave. From the Monopolies & Mergers Commision's report on SYT's acquisitions in 1989 (edited to remove the paragraph numbers and some financial details) "S&D was the Sheffield branch operation of a Wakefield-based operator, West Riding Automobile Co Ltd (West Riding), itself a subsidiary of the NBC. It operated initially from the Charlotte Road garage of National Travel (East), another subsidiary of West Riding. In late 1986 West Riding was bought out by its management via a company named Caldaire Holdings Ltd (Caldaire). When National Travel (East), including the garage, was sold in 1987 to ATL (Holdings) the S&D operation relocated to a garage at Orgreave. S&D began bidding successfully for tendered routes, then after about six months it began operating some commercial services; initially these were mainly routes linking its existing tendered services, but gradually a number of independent commercial services were introduced. In response to this competition SYT established Compass Buses as a joint venture with a local operator, to compete with West Riding in its home territory Over 75 per cent of S&D's mileage was in Sheffield; a further 20 per cent was in Rotherham, so that a total of 95 per cent was in South Yorkshire. Of S&D's business at acquisition about 38 per cent was commercial services, 31 per cent tendered services and 31 per cent part tendered and part commercial. Just prior to the merger it had 13 main routes and 46 service numbers; it employed 107 people and operated a fleet of 40 vehicles. SYT's acquisition of the S&D goodwill and registered routes on 26 September 1989 was a transaction whereby SYT also transferred its interest in the Compass bus operation in Wakefield to Caldaire and paid a cash balance of £500,000. Caldaire retained the Orgreave garage, subject to a covenant not to use the premises for local bus services for three years. The employees were transferred, and as a separate arrangement SYT acquired 40 vehicles from the Caldaire group to maintain the business"

That is a Sheffield & District Leyland National in a blue and white livery. Sheffield & District was set up as a subsidiary of West Riding to operate tendered services in the Sheffield area with deregulation in 1986. They started with Leyland Nationals and then introduced Leyland Lynxes and ECW bodied Leyland Atlanteans. Some commercial routes were later added to the tenders. Sheffield & District was bought by SYT in September 1989.

Sheffield Abattoir Cricket Inn Road, sheffield Demolished 3rd January 1982 people in the photos Archie, Tony, Terry (known as giant, into American Cars), unknown man & dot ,