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Postcard for sale on Ebay. Can anyone name this pub please? This wasn't really my end of town but if the pub was actually still there fifty years or so ago I should have known it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VTG-PH-POSTCARD-PUB-BOY-BANNER-CROSS-SHEFFIELD/372219847119?hash=item56aa0821cf:g:0C4AAOSwtudagH3R

I would agree it is the Banner Cross pub. The lad standing by the kerb looks to be at the bottom of the path that leads up to Psalter Lane. Looking at Google maps, most of the buildings have been rebuilt over the years.

It’s the Banner Cross Pub (original name eh?). Still looks much the same. edit: scrub that. I think I’m completely wrong!

So much to discuss here including all the buildings that have now gone What can you remember and recognise from this one?

hi neil when i went back to sheffield on holiday from australia in 77 i used to go there in the afternoon it cost a shilling or 10 p and you got a pint free or a half cant remember think they sold or gave you a hot dog as well i think thats how they got round the lisenceing laws

Front and Back pages of a Beatties Christmas brochure from 1993

The Police did their level best to foment trouble when the Miners peacefully demonstrated through the City. Pub landlords were "advised" not to serve the miners on pain of..."if you do, we will find out and watch out for your license when its due for renewal"/...sort of thing! Hadfields was privately owned and whilst parts of the nationalised BSC were major customers of the NCB ,Hadfields weren't at all. However, the NUM felt that the steel industry( private and public) was a legitimate target...especially after Hadfields had wrongly been picketed in the earlier BSC strike.

Loved your video about Dinnington miners, very moving in parts. Like the middle aged miner with 3 grown-up kids who had never learned to drive. And the miner who started a new career in his wife's Bridal wear business. Very humbling when they lined up to get their redundancy letter and commemorative tankard. A football team posing for a team photo all wearing flat caps. That video is gold, thanks for the link.

I used to own a very smart, metallic bronze Ford Cortina Mark V, and it was my pride and joy. Unfortunately however, it carried Barnsley registration plates, and during the miners' strike, I was regularly stopped and questioned by the bizzies. Usually, when heading towards the Nottinghamshire, or the Derbyshire borders. Always the same questions, where are you coming from, and where are you going to? And generally asked with any lack of common courtesy. The fact that I was nearly always wearing a business suit at the time, and very clearly, not a mine worker, seemed lost on those particular bizzies. I suppose that many others had similar experiences.