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With a number of threads on the City Hall I thought I'd add another one myself! These two scans are from my ever increasing collection of postcards featuring Sheffield and its environs. I've scanned them quite high so that they make a reasonable download. Had a great time in the City Hall as a youth but that ones been done to death I should imagine. Neither card has been posted so there are no dates to go by. I'll let you experts work that one out. Enjoy.

I was in the town center this week and got approached by one of those very nice market research ladies. After agreeing to participate in some research I was asked to go with her to a nearby building, Channing Hall and just by a stroke of luck I had a camera in my pocket. The hall, and the shops beneath, are owned by the Upper Chapel, a Unitarian Church situated behind the hall, just off Norfolk Street & Norfolk Row. Channing Hall was opened in 1882 and named after the American Unitarian Minister William Ellery Channing, the entrance to the hall is of Italianate design and somehow reminded me of entering a swimming baths.

At one time Wilson Peck were on London Road (late 1960s). There were also little shops on the eastern side between John Street and Bennett Street. \there was McTaggart the vet. Some said he was a bit brutal, but I remember his gentleness towards a litter of new born puppies. There was a papershop, but I can't recall the name. I remember Bob Webb, the butcher, who retired to Hathersage. Further up there was Wenningers, pork butcher where if you bought a pork sandwich, you were always asked "Mit dip?" i.e. with the top of the breadcake dipped into the juices. I recall further along, past Seaman, the photographer, was the Curry Centre and I had many a meal in there. Lucky no-one told my grandmother who would have been horrified at the thought of anyone eating "that foreign muck".

I think you mean "without" and, unsurprisingly, I completely disagree with you...It wasn't so much push biking in general I was making the remark about but the shear arrogance of some cyclists. However, I don't think a History Forum is the place to argue the point about. ... I would add though that a new ,rather impressive, cycle way appears to be being been constructed around the rear of Littledale estate and Parkway Drive ( CostCo) ...now, that's the future of cycling for the 1.5 million who cycle on a daily basis....dedicated cycle ways...after all, they estimate that sales, repairs and distribution of cycles creates some £100 million in taxation annually and it should be spent on cycling ,where an average of 100 deaths are caused by traffic accidents in the mix between heavy vehicles and unprotected human flesh!

https://sheffieldmarkets.com/traders/moor-market/category/fishmongers

Horridge and Wildgoose and Dan Bradbury's

Stretch Bend and Touch your Toes. ( I cant do that now where can i get one ?? ) Sheffield Evening Telegraph 31 January 1939

I remember it more or less like this, the store on the left was Kays Household Store owned by the Wheen bros. It ran from the corner of and down the Arcade. I once won a painting competition organised by the cinema.