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Quite like this.

Didn’t Obsorne’s (Clyde Steelworks) used to back on to the river? The frontage was on Wicker (now SADDACCA) and it used to go all the way back? I’m sure one of the old maps will give us the answer?.... yep..... https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s12215&pos=73&action=zoom&id=15141

The other pub near the Royal Hotel was the sportsman

An enlargement of the platform building as depicted in the above image. Unfortunately, some of the fine details that the photographer captured for posterity have been lost in this compressed download. Copyright to this image is retained. However:- The classic MS&LR, cast-iron, platform signage, above the three visible doorways, from left to right, read GENERAL WAITING ROOM, LADIES WAITING ROOM and GENTLEMEN. Unfortunately, the full details on all of the five exhibited posters cannot be discerned, even at a very high scanning resolution, but the following text can be noted:- “Services to Rotterdam & Antwerp” – second from left “Tourist Tickets to Grimsby & Cleethorpes” – fifth from left Cast Iron Seat Backs display “M S & L RY NEEPSEND.” My real love however, is the reuse of redundant crucibles as rudimentary flower pots, which appear to contain some variety of fern.

A scanned image from a plate glass photographic negative, titled “Neepsend New Station”, so this presumably dates from 1888, or thereabouts. Would seem to predate similar images available on the Picture Sheffield website, and as already depicted in this thread, as the floral borders seen on those particular pictures are absent from this. Copyright to this image is retained.

These look great - as a former DJ at the Palais, will you be re-creating that iconic looking club? Thanks green