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Could this be 'Empire Day' celebrations ?
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I don't know if all of this has been pulled down, would like to know what is there in its place
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The Price Of Coal
Sheffield History posted a topic in Sheffield in Films and TV shows (Sheffield Filming Locations)
Ken Loach film - filmed in Sheffield - starring Bobby Knutt I need to find this on video or dvd Does anyone know where I can get a copy from ? -
there used to be a scoreboard for the halftimes at the cricket pavillion during the early seventies there was a hardcore 100 or so of us that went on united's kop for nearly a full season Kenny Rowe aka Sherlock/Hank went round and changed the scoreboard numerous times If i remember correctly we were losing 1 - nil to someone and there was a big cheer round the ground Kenny nipped round and changed it to 1 -9 all the ground was spitting blood ::
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Take a look at the picture below.. If I'm right - isnt this the site of the old 'Chuck Ranch' restaurant ? The site is exactly the same today
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Leppings Lane is one of those stand-out road names in Sheffield, mainly becoming famous for being the road to the away-end of Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium (and later, the venue by which the Hillsborough Disaster occured). The name of the road came about from around the end of the 19th Century, when it was simply a dirt-path which had to cross the River Don that runs through Sheffield. In order to get from one side to the other, you had to navigate the 'Leaping' (Or 'Lepping') stones. in the picture below (dated 1881), you'd be looking from what is now the Catch-Bar Lane junction area, down towards the dog-leg near the stadium. Hillsborough stadium itself will be erected towards the top-right area of the picture.
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Broughton Lane Station Broughton Lane Station was a train station in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The station served the communities of Darnall, Attercliffe and Carbrook and was situated on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway between Woodburn Junction and Tinsley Junction on the line between Sheffield Victoria and Barnsley / Rotherham. The station, with its main access by steps from Broughton Lane bridge, possessed two flanking platforms although was surrounded by sidings. In the 1960s a new line was built from near Broughton Lane into the newly opened Tinsley Marshalling Yard and shortly afterwards this was electrified. The station is now closed along with any signs of it ever existing. The site of the station is below the new Greenland Road viaduct over the line and canal near the foundations of the old bridge. Sheffield Supertram now uses the site and the nearest tram stop is near the Arena. Sheffield Train Stations 1930
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Broughton Lane, close to Sheffield Arena, holds a dark secret. It is named after a mail robber called Spence Broughton, thought to be the last man to be gibbeted in Yorkshire. In the bloodthirsty age of the eighteenth century, the gibbet was the usual punishment for convicted murderers. After being hanged, the felon's body faced further humiliation by being suspended in a gibbet, a open cage-like structure, where it was left to the mercy of the elements and, no doubt, a few hundred onlookers who had turned out for the occasion. Lincolnshire born Broughton started out as a farmer but a gambling habit caused him to leave his wife and family for the cock-fighting scenes of Sheffield, Grantham and Derby. Here he met John Oxley and in February 1791 the pair conspired to rob the Sheffield to Rotherham mail. During the robbery, at Ickles near Attercliffe Common, Broughton and Oxley stole the post boy's mailbag, but the only item of value was a French bill of exchange for £123 from a London merchant. Legend has it that the hapless robbers had to use a French dictionary to find out how to cash the bill. The pair were arrested the following October in London. Broughton was sent to Newgate Prison but Oxley was taken to Clerkenwell where he managed to escape, leaving Broughton to face the music alone. At Broughton's trial, in York, Mr. Justice Buller passed the death sentence and asked that the body be suspended in a gibbet. Broughton was hanged on April 14, 1792. It is said that while on the scaffold Broughton asked onlookers to pray for his soul and remarked that his sentence was just. Two days later his body arrived in Sheffield and was put in its gibbet on Attercliffe Common. It is estimated that 40,000 people visited the common on that day to look at the gruesome spectacle. By 1817 (25 years later!) Broughton's tattered clothes and bones were still visible. The gibbet was not taken down until 1827 when the owner of the field where it stood complained of over enthusiastic sightseers trespassing on his property. And what of Broughton's accomplice, John Oxley, who escaped without trial? It seems he also met a sticky end - his body was discovered on Sheffield's Loxley Moor in January 1793. Broughton Lane Train Station - now gone
