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Covers more than just Penistone. Includes: Stocksbridge, Langsett, Thurgoland, Midhope, etc. Includes a photo gallery. https://penistonearchive.co.uk/

St Philips Church Sheffield

Here's a rather older advert, from 1929.

New video exploring the Megatron and the culvert tunnel system - contains history of the rivers and plans for the future of the culverts:

Heads-up... new video incoming next Wednesday: The Sheffield Guide to Stoneface's Secret Sculpture Park premieres at 7pm on Wednesday 8 April on YouTube! Filmed last year at Stoneface Creative's beautiful woodland sculpture park, this is one of my favourite videos so far (you'll see why!)... and will hopefully be a nice bit of relaxing escapism for you to watch in the current climate. Set a reminder here: https://sheff.info/stoneface

Part of the gibbet were found in the backyard of the Yellow Lion when it was being demolished, can’t recall the year.

You can see from this 1952 Britain from Above Photograph, the plot of land on the corner of Flat Street and Norfolk Street where the Joseph Rogers cutlery factory was located, construction for the Odeon Cinema is under way.

Who can forget their Embassy record label with all the cover artists.

The two “ W” on either end of the building are still there despite a new store now being on the site.

Hi folks, hope everyone is doing well in the present circumstances. I've read with great interest some of the fascinating accounts in these forums of what life was like to be a steelworker in Sheffield from the late '50s up to the present day - everything from the working conditions to during-shift 'beer breaks'! I am a researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, although I studied (and lived) in Sheffield over a decade ago and have retained a great love for the city ever since. I just wanted to ask if anyone would be interested in sharing their experiences with me, past or present, for a paper I am writing on the effects of deindustrialisation on men's lives, and their identities. Experiences in Sheffield are unique, insightful and deserve to be documented/remembered! This could be anything from an informal chat over the telephone, or some email exchanges, to something more structured. Any insights offered would be much appreciated, and would remain anonymous of course. Should anyone be at all interested, please let me know and I will give you my email address. Otherwise, thank you for reading anyway!

Hi and welcome to the site. Thanks for your post and appeal for help. I'm sure there will be many along soon to help you out! (I wasn't in that industry).

St Philips Church Sheffield

The church stood between Infirmary Road and Penistone Road next to the graveyard. It was closed in 1940 and demolished about 10 years later: A very old thread on St Philips Church: https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/674-st-philips-church/ https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=53.39002&lon=-1.48012&layers=168&right=BingHyb

Woolworths on the Moor had a side entrance near to the cafe. This came out opposite the Golden Dragon. On another thread I've posted a picture of the carved W on the front facade. I remember the Haymarket branch had a doughnut machine which was a fascinating watch as ring doughnuts were dispensed into hot oil which cooked them on one side. Somehow they flowed away towards a flipper which turned them over to do the other side. I think at the end there was a mechanism which took them from the oil and dropped them on to sugar to coat them. Incidentally the original Woolworth, Frank W Woolworth, had the middle name of Winfield - which became the name of the own brand products.

Years ago I found the articles in the local press. From what I remember the papers refer to a Midland Town rather than Sheffield - presumably because of censorship. One totally useless bit of trivia is that in the First World War the German Navy attacked Sheffield. But before you conjure up images of a gunboat sailing along the canal with all guns blazing, the zeppelins were part of the German Navy.

Grace Owen Nursery.

© Crown Copyright 1954, Reproduced by kind permission of the Ordnance Survey

In the collection of OS 1/1250 plans on this site No.172 shows the unusual numbering of the 'back' properties in Robin Hood Road, the adjacent plan to the east is No.126 but neither is coloured in on the index map so easily missed. Starting from Newman Road with Nos.1 to 17, with the backs being 19 to 37 again starting from Newman Road! No even numbers used.

The Penny Farthing in Sheffield City Centre Does anyone have any more info on this discotheque?

Hi Bayleaf The first cutting is a letter from The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Tuesday, February 21, 1893; The second cutting is from The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Saturday, October 20, 1900. This may be the same James William Harrison who lived at Tapton Grange