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The low Shiregreen estate was built by the Council on land with a covenant forbidding the building of pubs…which is why those few that were built were on the outer edges of the estate. A local man..Sicey Smith …gave his name to the road on which the Sicey was built The first photo shows ,to the right ,the rear of a small group of cottages on Hatfield House Lane…I seem to remember that they were bulldozed down in the late 1960s. The second photo does show what looks like the construction of a new doorway…..and the cars and lorries would seem to confirm the date of 1981….but Is that a “For Sale” sign to the right of the rundown looking pub.?

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The Ivies, Crabtree Drive. Home of Professor Alan Usher OBE, a leading forensic pathologist at the University of Sheffield who died 31st July 1998. Prof. Alan Usher (1930-1998) https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s38159&pos=6&action=zoom&id=75043 s38114 Rear of The Ivies. s38112 s38113 The 1676 date stone on the gable end isn't the only one. 1841 is marked above the porch with the initials "J F" Joseph Frith, explorer, traveller, later eccentric and recluse died 1886. Also datestone "M 1948" Dr. McKenzie of Firth Park. More information, Burngreave Messenger December 2003. https://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/37dec03/crabtree.shtml According to Whites Directory 1879, it appears The Ivies was divided into two properties Nos. 67 & 69 Crabtree Lane. Firth, Mr. Joseph, The Ivies, 67 Crabtree Lane, Crabtree (Directory names him as Firth not Frith) Smith, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth, The Ivies, 69 Crabtree Lane, Crabtree. In the 1856 Directory he's listed as Mr Joseph Frith, Crabtree. Local Studies, Sheffield Telegraph Obituary Index: Joseph Frith of Pitsmoor, 5th November 1886. Article in the Times 4th June 2004. Headline : Daily Life June 4th 1858 Travelled the world for 3 years, returning to his house in Sheffield he became reclusive and died in 1886 after building a 25ft wall to protect it from new homes near by. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/daily-life-june-4-1858-69rkmm7nt5h In his will he left money for poor people in straightened circumstances, The Joseph Frith Charity which later was brought under Hollis Hospital Fund. https://www.hollishospital.org/about/the-joseph-frith-charity/