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The map also shows several other pubs: Norfolk Arms - bottom of Norfolk Street Black Swan - corner of Flat Street and Little Pond Street Tankard Inn - Little Pond Street Barrell - Little Pond Street Prince of Wales - corner of Sycamore Street and Flat Street.

Another 2 pubs in the area. The Falcon Inn stood on Flat Street and would be lost to the Post Office extension. The Palace Inn stood where the Post Office was built in the late 19th century. Both are shown on this map from the 1850's.

Only 2 posts here for the mighty Record Collector! - as John Peel would doubtless have called it (and who visited when his son Tom was at Sheffield Uni). Anyone who's ever had any kind of serious interest in popular music and youth culture in general, will have been here, or maybe worked here (as I was lucky enough to do for 4 years) , or, at least, heard or read about it. First met Barry (the owner) when he was manager of Virgin Records - (which opened in Sheffield in 1973, at the bottom of the Moor) - in March 1974 when we all wore flared loon pants, baseball boots or tennis shoes and at least something in crushed velvet (Barry's was a pale green jacket as I remember). Sprawled on the shop's huge bean bags checking out the latest Joni Mitchell or Joe Walsh album and you felt like 'The Jesus of Cool' (apologies to Nick Lowe). The Collector opened in April 1978 in Broomhill which in itself was an absolute stroke of commercial genius on Barry's part as it was, and still is, in the absolute heart of student land and slap bang in the center of what has always been a thriving hub of cool shops and decent pubs. Still there, still as relevant today as it's always been - chock full of stuff you are just not going to find anywhere else - and that's no hollow taunt as this place is the business. Like me, you've probably checked out everyone else in Manchester, Nottingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow, and London and were gutted when a lot of fine stores went to the wall. Do yourself a favor and check them out while you've the chance when lock-down finally finishes, and pay them a visit. There's everything - from CDs: deletions, promos, imports, signed material; vinyl - literally, tons of vinyl in every shape, colour and limitation; dvds and blu-rays, books, magazines (including those hard to find UK and US issues from the sixties & seventies) etc etc.

Pretty much all of this has changed now. Sad times. I remember this was my Saturday morning route to the brilliant Sheaf Markets!