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The adjacent block was Dyson House, which was owned by the Poly.

This amateur film gives a revealing picture into top flight football in England, the old First Division, in the mid-1960s. The film shows action from Sheffield Wednesday playing at home at Hillsborough Stadium to Arsenal, possibly the match in March 1964: the Scottish centre half Ian Ure looks to be playing for Arsenal. The other two games have quite small crowds, so are probably both reserve team fixtures, possibly against Manchester United and Blackpool. These films were taken by keen Sheffield Wednesday supporter Harry Wilson of Barnsley, who also filmed around the same time the world champion potato grower, George Brook, also from Barnsley. There is also amateur film of the West Germany v Uruguay World Cup game played at Hillsborough. This is of course a much different looking Stadium to the one that was re-built in the wake of the tragedy there of 1986. It isn’t clear what the connection is, if any, between the football matches and the photograph of the Manchester United Busby Babes displayed at the end, just before another football tragedy, the Munich air crash of February 1958.

The answer can be found on this link: https://twitter.com/NancyFielder/status/1350788532835667972

Thankyou History Team, what BRILLIANT photos, they really capture the feeling of the era. Regards Heartshome

Another photo of the horseshoe

FBT was based on Carlisle St. East AND Saville Street (Jncs Windsor St to Princess St) I don't recognise the building, but there WAS a similar building just on Harleston St, (?) where shear bl**es were made (Can't say that can we Neal?) Also look for bessemer house just townside of Harleston St, I'm sure that was FBTs too. I left in 1981.

Wow thank you so much for these - they've brought back so many memories The Dog And Partridge!! Forgot all about that!

Yes it’s a real shame. The number of pubs alone that have gone is so sad - Even relatively recently there was still half a dozen or more open - but now (pandemic aside) there’s next to nothing. Would love to have gone there when everything was open but before my time really. It’s still a really interesting place to walk round though.

Had a walk in attercliffe earlier and took these photos with comparisons

Too many really Just part of the journey in the decline of the Sheffield we’d all known and loved

Manor Top for sure

Castle Market from 1965 - remember this?

It's not so much one shop but it's the old rag and tag market going round it with my mum on Saturday afternoon. Loved that place when you were young it was magical.

Thanks for a great photo. Great to see it whilst it still looked like the Sheffield I loved, nice and tidy with the markets and proper roads & open spaces & car parks. I can't bear to see it with all the high rise buildings blocking out all the light and nothing but hotels and apartments. Looks more and more like America and very little that's nice, ever came from that place.

Extremely hard one to choose. Loved Sheaf and Castle Market. But one place stands to mind is a second hand shop on Infirmary Road which I loved going to.

The main function of the building was the railway offices of course. I was on a Manpower Services Commission (MSC) Work Experience Scheme with British Rail in 1977. I started in that building. Unfortunately nobody bothered to explain the scheme to the vast majority of the staff. This caused me lots of trouble, with staff thinking I was cheap labour. There was also an agency called "Manpower" and many staff confused the agency with the first name of the work scheme provider. I was paid an allowance of about £16 pounds a week for a 9 to 5 hours job. The scheme allowed me mostly to watch the job of various members of staff. I wasn't to take part, though I did really. Generally being the type of person I still am, I would assist the person I was assigned. The Rail Unions had reluctantly agreed to the scheme as long as the people employed didn't replace actual staff employed at full rates of pay etc. This meant that if the Union man was around I had to stop anything I was doing and just stand and watch! At the time the scheme became the but of comic jokes on TV and Radio, as British Rail was always under attack from comics. Many of you probably remember the Morecambe and Wise sketch. With them talking about a British Rail Sausage, with the line that "it moves, which is more than their trains do". One of my roles was to work with the mail room people in Sheaf House. There was a lot of mail and messages that had to be sent to the various departments in Sheaf House. One of the few jobs that could be undertaken by anyone under 18 on the railways was this post room job. And I was assigned to probably a very bored and fed up young lad only about a year older than me. Of course to him I was his new dogsbody and he thought he could pile all his work onto me and I had to lump it. He didn't like the fact that he was meant to show me and do the work himself! The result that he became a bully to me. And so I told the staff in charge and they had to transfer me to the main station and that's where I discovered what the railway was like. Moving around the various jobs I picked up that what British Rail really was the old LMS, well in the Sheffield area anyway. The practices I believe had changed little since it was run by the LMS. They had just added on new management. Most of which knew little about the railway. As this episode with the Area Manger for Chesterfield shows. At one point I was transferred to Chesterfield Station by the this area manger. I explained to him that I was supposed to observe ALL the jobs at Chesterfield. So for two weeks he had me sweeping the car park infront of the station. I used to eat with the other members of the station staff at Chesterfield and I explained all about the job to them, including the rules and how I did things at Sheffield Station. The rest of the staff said to me why has he got you doing sweeping? I said I don't know. They were all agreed that what I was doing was pointless and they would have been happy for me to work with them! So they even went to the area manger and told him. The next day I was still sweeping the car park! I did it for the rest of the week too, he wouldn't budge! I was to be assigned to Chesterfield with him for the following week also. And on Friday he mentioned that Monday I was to continue to sweep the Car Park. So I thought I would be off sick for that week and did! The following week I was back in Midland helping out there again. I bumped into the Area Manger again, and he mentioned finishing off the work in Chesterfield. But I managed to avoid going back to Chesterfield. I mentioned the whole incident to the chap from the MSC, who was checking my progress in the scheme. So I think that helped. Though I had some great times for the six months I was on the scheme, they did, as one member of the staff pointed out to me, mess me around a lot. As I still wasn't 18 when the scheme finished, the only job they offered me was the post room at Sheaf House! Yes I was going to work with the bully! And his boss was not much better either! I did try for a job when I was over 18, with B.R. Unfortunately the guy who interviewed me pulled up my scheme records and saw that they had not docked my allowance for the week I was off, entirely B.R.'s fault of course. But by the late 70's employers had lots of choice in staff hired and people who had time off and or were late to work had little chance of getting jobs. So I was sent packing with a flee in my ear! Still the scheme was fun at times, like the Irish porter who was fun to work with and would occasionally shout to passengers "plenty of room on top". Or the woman passenger who asked me "what time is the next train to Bristol" So I went from one end of platform 7 to the other to find out and then finding her again and told her 10.30. Only to be asked "I thought it was 10.31?"

Old Maps did reply! They asked for the postcode! I gave them plenty of details when I first sent the request. It doesn't take to much effort to find Sheffield and then select the 1967 large scale map to soon see the blank sections! And it's the case that's it's not loading in, because you can see the watermarking of "old maps" on the white sections.

Going to cheat and have 2. Central Library - went every few weeks on a midweek evening with my parents and was left to wander round by myself. The marble and high ceilings always fascinated me and it had a particular smell and atmosphere about it. Spent many a happy hour looking at the pictures in the railway books. Sheaf Market - Was taken in there from about 5 years of age (probably earlier but can't remember it). The bustle and range of shops made an impression on me. In the centre by the steps were 2 static childrens 'rides' one of which was a lifeboat that if you put a coin in would gyrate. Very impressive to a 5 year old.

For absolutely no reason other than I was looking something up in it, I decided to scan the pub pages from the directory and upload them. Co-vid times of boredom maybe??!!??

Glossop Road Baths-spent many happy hours there in the late 1950s.

Must say in my life time it's always looked much the same ,from the exterior that is. Much demolition/dismantling was done in the past with materials being reused for new construction in the area.

I recall Manor Lodge, when there was far more of it standing, the council have a curious habit of deciding to preserve something when there’s little left of it. I further recall it having a resident couple who charged folk to show them around the remains, whilst telling fanciful tales of Mary, Queen of Scots.

I at first thought of two that have already been mentioned the Norfolk Market Hall and the Fish Market but I finally decided on my fathers and later my favourite pub the Adelphi.

Exact opposite of mine Dave.

I stand corrected, my spelling skills are nothing compared to those of my dancing. 😜

Andrew's was, perhaps, the only place in our City where one could buy many of the books used at school. Yes, Lyn, another wonder of our childhood which provided us withe means to do things without the "benefit" of electronics and technology. The Methodist Bookshop was another place where "bookworms" could indulge themselves before going into Cann's.

According to the technical info released with the movie the locations given are:- Burbage Rocks, Derbyshire, England. Gleadless Valley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Heavygate Road, Crookes, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Millstone Edge, Derbyshire, England. The Vine Pub, Cemetary Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Thorpe Marsh Power Station, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Plus a couple more I noticed Tinsley cooling towers(RIP) Fox & Duck, Sheffield Road Tinsley The Country and Western night was in the Hillsbourough Social Club BTW it's a great movie