Voldy

It wasn't so much a raid on Sheffield, as the Chris Hobbs' website indicates (See ceegee's response above). The target was Manchester and two hits,at Oldham and Tottington, resulted in 49 fatalities. In Sheffield 5, I remember the windows rattling as one of the V1's flew over in a westerly direction early in the morning. Our blitz damage was four years earlier!

How time flies! A few pictures taken on 24th May 1995:-

What year was that neddy? There are gaps in the Master-grid Index in the Southey/Parson Cross areas, maybe yours covers one of the missing areas.

Yes, the old-maps site appears to have stitched together whatever plans they have managed to acquire be they original "1st Editions" of the early 50's or subsequent revised plans. This has resulted in a number of oddities when mismatched dated sheets have been joined to provide a 'rolling map' facility, by scrolling. Maybe SteveHB can offer some information regarding a likely source of 1/1250 plans having been heavily involved in producing this site's excellent library of local plans. Why not try an e-mail to Shoreham Street to see if they can source any versions of 1/1250 sheet SK 3687NW and/or 1/2500 SK 3687 (if printed), I've had helpful responses in the past to my requests.

You will not find areas in the 1/1250 Ordnance Survey plans for specific years.This was a completely new survey at this scale in Urban Areas started in 1950. Rural areas were updated at the 1/2500 scale previously found on the County Series plans, and some 1/2500 sheets were produced in town areas by scaling down 1/1250 survey information (no house numbers were shown on these). The OS had a 'Continuous Revision' scheme where updated versions of the 1/1250 sheets could be requested when areas were newly developed or demolition work undertaken. The Statutory Undertakers made extensive use of this survey for their records of pipes, cables etc.and ,I imagine, still do. Because of the random nature of this work, you will find no consistency of year dates, the first 1/1250 plans produced (Sheffield started in 1950) were allocated the letter 'A'. This appears at the bottom left-hand corner of the sheet, subsequent revisions moving to the next letter of the alphabet (eg B...C...D...). Change to Metric heights took place around 1970 and an example of this can be found on this website: https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/436154/387798/13/100765 Select the OS plan 1963-1970 1/1250. Sheffield City Council had all the relevant Ordnance Survey Licences to reproduce these plans for their Engineers and Architects and Estates Departments. Do they still have a Printing Department? Surely all those 'negative' master-copies are stored somewhere safe in archives. Unfortunately (Sod's Law again) the Sheffield Victoria Station site falls on four different 1/1250 sheets!

I have three passenger services British Railways timetables covering the following:- (1) Midlands (London - The Midlands - North Wales -The North) 17th June to 8th September 1963. (2) Eastern Region - 9th September 1963 to 14th June 1964. (3) North Eastern England - same dates as (2). There is a lot of additional information about 'Named Trains' and 'Through Services'. All contain route maps. Although not late sixties, PM me if you think there may be anything of use to you in any way.

Most of the Rail threads can be found in the Buses,Trams and Trains section on this site though Sheffield Victoria station has generated quite few mentions elsewhere.There are two Ian Allan books by Stephen R Batty "Rail Centres: Sheffield" and "Railways of Sheffield" containing a wide variety of photographs and history in the South Yorkshire area that might interest you. If you could expand your post, on more specifically what sort of responses you expect (i.e photos or personal anecdotes etc), then I'm sure the posts will appear. There is a G C R Society website here http://www.gcrsociety.co.uk/index.html if that helps.

Did you see this item about the National Parks 70th Anniversary photography competition ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-47253184 Good to see the favourite was in Derbyshire.

During WW2 we had a couple of holidays in Derbyshire at Calver Sough, one particular memory was when a cereal crop field was being harvested. The cutting started and went in decreasing circles whilst guns at strategic points waited for rabbits being driven out into the open. At this point you will no doubt remember that Flanagan and Allen song "Run rabbit, run rabbit, run,run,run"! which started "On the farm every Friday,on the farm it's rabbit pie day". We certainly ate our share of rabbit in those days, chickens were far too valuable to be slaughtered other than at Christmastime. I also remember the sight of the affect Myxomatosis had on rabbits around 1953/54 whilst on National Service,it no doubt put many people off for a long time and hugely reduced the trade, hence the Chinese option referred to in SteveHB's post above.

Here is an extract from the 1950 OS survey Meersbrook Park in June 1963.

Having taken a long hard look again my opinion is that we are being somewhat confused by the strength of the camera's ability to foreshorten the distances we are seeing. The first road junction nearest to the camera is Charles Street (on both sides of the road) and the new looking boarding on the left surrounded the site shown in the PS s24079 image (Cambridge Arcade etc.). The concrete street lighting columns would have been erected at approximately 100 foot intervals,subject to practical considerations,and if you look at their number on the original picture and how close they appear to be,that demolition site is the whole of that block of shops. That illuminated circular sign and solid white line would be a 'STOP' whilst there are double yellow lines just visible,on both photos,on the opposite side of the road corner. Between us , we seem to be getting more of the pieces of this one sorted out and just to prove that older threads can be very useful the camera location on this one would have been near to the old Barrel Inn!

Could this have been taken in November on the Day of the Rag procession? Heavy police presence and many people lining the street not seemingly going anywhere plus Christmas decorations along the route. The 'NO ENTRY' signs have an additional plate beneath them which may read "Except for Buses" so what looks like a procession of floats is the reason for the large turnout of spectators. Why not 1977?

Superb! That is so helpful,in finding specific locations, the other descriptive words were used in 2014!

Have a look at this; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18&lat=53.3765&lon=-1.5319&layers=168&right=BingHyb also Map 285 on this website: https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/4008-os-maps-of-sheffield-and-district-1950s-over-300-of-them/?page=12&tab=comments#comment-23596 for the July 1951 survey. In addition using Google maps you can get a good idea of how it looks now by typing in 'Sandygate' and zooming and scrolling to take a trip along the roads on the north and west boundaries of the site. Certainly a very old wall of 19th century construction I believe.

Just to confirm that the photo location was indeed at the former Nether Chapel. The windows on the right are the Victoria Hall on Chapel Walk and the tombstone (bottom rh corner) was one of a few along that flank frontage to the Walk. The PS shot here was taken when the old chapel was demolished;http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s31085&pos=85&action=zoom&id=103293