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https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s09535&pos=7&action=zoom&id=12639 Maybe it ended up as a light oak, after being “lightened”? 😆

It’s recently gone but the palm tree at Walkley always suggests a cocktail bar Leopold square when it was a proper old school local. miss it massively.

Jack - in - a - Box

Frog and Parrot ! As far as I know its still on West Street. Although lots of newer bars have odd names - Bungalow and Bears ??? For instance

Gleesons had good manufacturing workshops so I would think they were made there, we used to have our joinery timber vacuum treated there.

M J Gleeson & Co was located at 822 Chesterfield Rd, now the entrance to the Kashmiri Aroma Indian Restaurant and next to the Big Tree Pub. The 1957 map shows the extent of the area taken up by the Gleeson site, it goes behind the old Chantrey Cinema and exits the site where the gates are located. The Picture Sheffield photograph shows the demolition of the site going ahead in 1963. The tall building in the right foreground is the rear of the Chantrey Cinema, the gap between the white gabled building and the rear of the terrace of shops is where the gates can still be seen.

I believe what they are doing here / done is called facadism. Where the original facade of a building is kept usually for historical reasons or aesthetic reasons, and a new building built behind it. The old buildings facade is not actually part of the new building. Its not even sometimes connected to it. Its quite a big thing in that London. Its to try to keep everyone happy, progress moving forward, but keeping its history !! Not sure how i feel about it. Probably better to have the old facade than lose it all together !!

Hi there, its on Chesterfield Road, now an NHS site. I belive Glesson occupied the Chantrey Picture House (next to the site) at some point too. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3424412,-1.4780583,3a,75y,274.38h,87.49t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sJJeVKxlDFibn7Cd8r_lXAg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i43

Yes https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/series?xCenter=3260761.15214&yCenter=3004357.00448&scale=63360&viewScale=181417.4208&mapLayer=nineteenth&subLayer=first_edition&title=Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Scotland First Series&download=true I believe this is from around 1805. Button Hill Colliery was at the top part of Carter Knowle, Ecclesall Bierlow. Shame there's not so much more info on it..

Oak tree destroyed by lightening at Birley Spa, 9th June 1907.

John Walsh's building on High Street certainly was a fine looking building. Unfortunately it was destroyed in the Blitz. I like the man up a ladder reflected in the glass of the Walsh's building.

Yeah The Penguin is an odd choice!

I know what you mean about how it feels. Looking at that photo of the old peace gardens it looks less 'cramped' and closed in than the current one