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The only smells I can think of...Hillsborough 1994...chineese food and diesel from the Dominators that were everywhere. It was the first time I stayed in the City and had gone down to the chineese for our supper. It was wet and noisy, the speed way was on that night. The other smell is a chemical smell. Going down Greenland Rd and turning onto Shepcote Lane there is this funny 'plastic' smell that I have only ever noticed in Sheffield. Oh and one more... what about the smell of dirt, damp and cig's at the Silver Blades!!

The circus was for years on the what is now devonshire area near west street,and thinking back i can remember that they used to be Billy Smarts circus,Chippenfields Circus,Robert Bro Circus, who had animals and you could go round and look at the animals before and after the shows. The 50s and early 60s,And i used to go to springfield school on broomspring lane and when the circus came the circus kids used to attend the school.

Account of Sheffield From The Iris 1800 The following magnificent description of the Sheffield Manufacturers, extracted from a provincial Paper, cannot fail to amuse our Readers in this town, who will smile to see how happily the writer has misrepresented their Engines and themselves. At Rotherham and Sheffield the machines are so lofty and grand, that Don Quixote had been forgiven, had he mistaken such mills for giants. When they rise to the astonished eye of the traveller, a beam or lever is seen to librate from the ground to the summit of a tall house, or to rise and descend through three stories of a tall building! The impression of the view, the mingled sensation of awe and pleasure, is literally electric; it shocks and animates. Survey the interior of the engines, or rather the collection of engines, and wonder is lost or increased in the regular increase of our knowledge, and in the gradual explanation of machines so apparently complicate, yet so regularly accurate in their movements.. For example, One warehouse composed of a single engine is employed in the forming of razors: it slits the iron, it beats the plate, it cuts the metal into the due form: it gives the edge, it polishes, it stamps. The rude iron is converted into the purest and most splendid steel. In this work many hundreds of mill stones are turned by the same primary wheel, and 460 men labour at their several trades at the two sides of the same ascending and descending lever! In a second manufactory numerous hammers of various weights are placed upright on a rolling cylinder: the end of their handle moves around a small iron staple in the cylinder. While it rolls the attentive hammers are each waiting their turn to strike the piece of iron laid on the large anvil; are each anxious to perform their share of the work They work in time and in musical tones. To ascend from machines to men! So numerous are the labourers in the manufactories of Sheffield, and so habituated to their labour, that a chamber filled with musical workmen will sing a part in an oratorio and an adjoining chamber will join in the same chorus. They work in time and in musical tones. Happy Country, where labour is so voluntary, is so richly paid and so loudly thankful.! In the same chambers the sub-division of labour is remarkable. Each workman attends to a single and apparently a trivial part of the manufacture. In a pen knife the horners in succession heat the horn in warm water, bend it in a heated state, rasp and polish it ; a second class forms the iron pins ; a third cuts with large scissors the tough iron into plates ; a fourth beats the plate into steel; a fifth marks the blade; a sixth polishes; a seventh sharpens; an eight unites the various parts. Each man employs only one set of tools, and finishes one division of the work. Hence he acquires a rapidity of the execution, a perfection of skill; hence his instruments and utensils are ever at hand, and no portion of his valuable time is lost by removal or by delays his three days wage is often one pound. In an adjoining warehouse works a long row of women and children at the lighter and more ornamental manufacture of plated goods. The same graduation of labour, the same succession at the work here takes place. One tea urn is passed through a unity of hands. The wage of these industrious females is frequently a pound a week. If we descend from the elevated ware-rooms into the coal mines in the neighbourhood, we behold a race of men, sooty and dark in complexion, strong and nervous in labour. If we descend into the mines in the basket, which raises the coal, we may remark their singular attitude sitting on their hams, the body bent forward their arms confined in the narrow space which admits them to work with the pick and the hammer,. The newspapers detail the accidents to which miners are subject. Yet the danger of their trade with due caution is so inconsiderable, that their wage is not greater than that of a farmer, and is less than a labourers in a sea port. The caution they use in the letting down of a fire-pan into the pit, which eats up the blue lights or the flame of deadly air. If this caution is neglected and a miner descends to it with a candle, it explodes with the noise of a gun, and penetrates his body with the fatal rapidity of electrical lightening. End

My feeling is that the name probably derives from its American namesake. * Which came first, Philadelpia the district or the Philadelphia Steel Works. The latter already existed when the Butcher brothers moved into it in the mid 19th century (Tweedale - The Sheffield Knife Book) I found this at A2A: Sheffield Archives: ARCHIVES OF THE SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUSTEES FILE - Assignment of a lease and a release from a legacy - ref. TT/120/3 - date: 2 Jan 1827 [from Scope and Content] James Goulden, of Islington, co. Middx., builder, a son and legatee under TT/120/2, to Thomas Goulden, of Philadelphia, near Sheffield, gent., a son and legatee under TT/120/2. Interest in the leasehold premises as TT/120/1 and release from legacy under TT/120/2. For £350. Also: Sheffield Archives: Royal Infirmary, Sheffield Estate: surveys and valuations - ref. NHS17/2/11 FILE - Maps of the estates vested in the Trustees of the Sheffield General Infirmary in the parishes of Sheffield and Ecclesfield - date: 1827 [from Scope and Content] Plans, coloured, drawn up by W and J Fairbank, 1812, revised by J Fairbank and Son, 1827; comprising: the Infirmary and gardens between Philadelphia and Port Mahon; property at Loxley, Infirmary Road, Clark House Road, Whitehouse Lane, and Upperthorpe Hugh

I have an ancestor (female), Sheffield-based but born in Philadelphia, USA (1830's) - lived down near Dixon's on Green Lane - hence the interest.

not a building Per Se, but there's patching up on the main arch of the wicker arches viaduct where a bomb went straight through the structure. and Sharrow Lane School was hit by a bomb, in WWII. The bottom half of the single-storey section which housed the infants school that fronted onto Sharrow lane had to be completely rebuilt. (The first house I lived in, when I got married, was directly opposite SLS, and the chimney had sustained damage in the blast) I can't be certain of this one, but I'm sure I remember seeing photographs of "C&A modes" on High Street, after the Blitz with similar damage to the West Street pic, sustained at the same time as the Marples Pub was destroyed.

Ooh! *perks* do I hear my name being taken in vain? hehehe. Yes, that building on the map was definitely the building I knew as Highfield Special School. (Sharrow Lane School stands just above the school on this map, between South View Road and Vincent Road, they aren't the same school, incidentally) I can't tell you exactly what the score was with the school back in the 1920s., unfortunately. (I can tell you the building is a typical example of a Sheffield sandstone school-board school, from the latter part of the 19th century; 1870-odd onwards) I heard mention elsewhere, that it was a girls' senior school up until the 1960s. I can certainly tell you that in my time (I grew up round the corner from the school,on Mount Pleasant Road, and went to Sharrow Lane School, just above the school in question) the school was a special school. The pupils had learning difficulties (generally what we would have called a bit "slow" back then in the days of non-PC) not physical disabilities. Two friends of mine, and the brothers and sisters of one of those friends (the whole family had mild to moderate LD'S) all attended that school, having leaning difficulties. This happened from the mid-sixties up to about 1980. (one friend is in her early fifties now, and the other is one year older than me, she is 45) The ages of the pupils was secondary school age. The school friend who was a year older than me, was in my class in "J4" at Sharrow lane school, having been "held back" a year, in the hope she'd "catch up". When we all transferred out at the end of the year, to our Secondary school (eg Abbeydale Grange and High Storrs) this girl went to Highfield for her "Senior schooling". Hope that information helps?

Yes this one is in the mists of time. The religous connections of the term "Philadephia" are widely known "Philedelphia or brotherly love is tied up with the Friends/Quakers http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds1.x.viii.html http://thorn.pair.com/earlyq.htm. However this being Sheffield in the early C19th,I think I may have a more suitable explanation. If you accept the "Phil" part as relating to either the church (St Philips - Infirmary Road) or previous owner of the land,there is what is known as a delf. Webster's 1913 dictionary defines "Delf (?), n. [AS. delf a delving, digging. See Delve.] A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. [Written also delft, and delve.] [Obs.] " As the area is adjacent t'river Don I would favour this explanation regarding the origins of the term as opposed to the "brotherly love" line of reasoning

Stag's Head/Sharrow Head in 1854 Sharrow Head Open 1822 1822 Robert Marples 1825 Robert Marples 1828 Robert Marples 1833 Robert Marples 1834 Robert Marples 1837 Robert Marples (died 28/8/1839 Natural Decay, aged 68 ) 1845 Charlotte Marples 1846 Charlotte Marples 1852 Samuel Marples 1854 Samuel Marples 1856 Samuel Marples 1862 W Harwood 1881 Henry Redfearn (Psalter Lane) 1893 William Wilcockson Roberts 1901 Robert Rowland (15 Psalter Lane) 1905 Robert Roland (12 Psalter Lane) 1911 Robert Rowland 1925 Mrs Keziah Thompson 1948 Edwin Stanley 1951 Edwin Stanley Beer (15 Psalter Lane)

While doing my trip down memory lane this week was drawn to the old Robert Brothers store. In the window they have a display of photos on the history of the Moor. They range from the 1800's to present day. Included are shots of "Pauldens" and "Robert Brothers" but alas no "Redgates". If you get the chance they are well worth seeing

That would have been my first guess, but then there is/was also Ivy Cottage on Ivy Cottage Lane just a bit higher up the valley. I think both would be in Ecclesall Bierlow, the river being the boundary between that and Upper Hallam.

But Rockingham Street crosses West Street. The part running down to Broad Lane falls away quite quickly, but the other side of West street it's quite level for some way. Having said that I've just had another look at the photo, and you may be right about the tram lines. Together with Mike's comments, I'm not really sure any more!

The dip in the road running down from the Brushes up to Longley Farm - across from some old stone farm buildings in Longley Park? Is it called Longley Lane? Cheers!

Could Broad Lane and Silver Street have been considered next to each other in 1828 ? I have a Pub (Lincolnshire House with keeper) listed as Silver Street and another with no keeper (Lincolnshire Arms) on Broad Lane; it would be nice to marry the two if we think that would be right.

From Saturday's Star - just what's needed more flats! Flats scheme at Full Monty club Published Date: 27 September 2008 By Tony Belshaw A SHEFFIELD working men's club immortalised in the smash-hit movie The Full Monty could be bulldozed to make way for houses and flats. The club's owner Chatsworth Inns has applied for permission to knock down Shiregreen Working Men's Club, which was the venue for the famous stripping scene in the 1997 movie, and to build 10 houses and nine apartments in a three storey block. The ADVERTISEMENT club celebrated its 80th birthday just days ago but unless it can block the development it could be curtains for the club on Shiregreen Lane. Hundreds of people have signed petitions objecting to the plan. They say it is the only club in the community where they can meet and socialise and it acts as "a lifeline" for people who enjoy bingo, quizzes and a drink with friends. Just two weeks ago it hosted a fundraising evening attended by Nicolette Williams, the mother of Shiregreen soldier Christopher Bridge, who was killed a year ago while serving in Afghanistan. The evening helped to raise £1,200 for Help for Heroes. Objectors include local councillors Peter Price, who said the loss of the club would be "a massive blow to the local community" and that its concert room is fully booked up until Christmas with events by local community groups and families. He added that over the past five years the Wincobank Working Men's Club, the Roman Ridge pub, the Horseshoe pub and the Sicey pub had all closed down in the area. To lose another would leave the area "short of a balanced community provision." But planning officers, in their report to Sheffield Council's City Centre planning board on Monday, say there are other community buildings nearby such as Shiregreen Community Centre, Brushes Community Centre, Grimesthorpe Family Centre and the Flower Estate Community Centre. Officers say: "It is regrettable that the proposed development would result in the loss of what appears to be a widely used community facility." But they say that by law they would be powerless to refuse the application on planning grounds. Club committee member James Lappin vowed to fight the plan all the way.

I have a feeling that this tram is at the junction of Infirmary Rd, Penistone Rd and Shalesmoor, directly opposite the Rosco bingo. Could be wrong but would be interested to know if there was a pub of that name in that position. The chimney on the skyline would be on the Green Lane Works. The Ecclesall trams did run from Middlewood, didn't they?

Can't help with the old farm names on School Green Lane but just to correct one thing - Bore Hill is actually Bole Hill. It appears that some maps have this area all wrong?

Does anyone remember the elaborate drinking trough that used to sit in the field where Hangram Lane meets Cottage Lane in the Mayfield Valley. It was removed several years ago but I wondered if anyone knew what happened to it. It was a bit more special than the usual troughs and suspect it was made from basalt. It's also in the back of my mind that it was previously a drinking trough that used to sit on what is now the Hunters Bar Roundabout when it was a Toll Bar. Any memories gratefully received.

That's a really interesting photo. TY for sharing it. I was struck - even knowing the architect was the same person, how similar that shot is to the "worship area" in St Mary's, Bramall lane. One could be looking at the same church in both instances. I also notice the Xmas tree in the bottom left corner...

The one on Broad Lane. Unfortunately not working.

The above passage needs some elucidation to make it intelligible to the modern reader, especially now that the fussy meddlesomeness of our municipal ~vise- acres has flouted immemorial usage by merging what was the Fruit Market in High Street. If, in the year 1784, you had stood near the bottom of Pudding Lane (King Street) with your back to the Bull Stake (Old Haymarket), http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry..._circa_1800.txt

1850's map has Harmer Gardens roughly in the area just below Harmer Lane, http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.378911&a...r=0&src=msl

I can only presume that Harmer Gardens was in the Pond Street area of the City (Harmer Lane) But I may well be wrong ? A mention here about Harmer Lane and some surrounding gardens, Parish of St Pauls I'm pretty sure that some sh member with a lot more knowledge, will correct me.

Hi Reddles, ^ You don't happen to be a sign writer, do you ? ^ St Georges Church Brookhill/Broad Lane is still standing, A Link Here and an aerial view here FLASH EARTH. Finding Harmer/Hamer Gardens ? will take a little longer. Steve

Hi Bus Man. Thanks for reminding me of that lane down the side of Woolworth's. I used to live on Wadsley Lane and I used to walk down to Hillsborough every Saturday morning. The Saturday shopping trip included going to the butcher's shop at the corner of Hillsborough Road, opposite Woolworth's, then walking past Woolworth's, down that small road and to Tesco. My cousin, Malcolm Allen, was the butcher's assistant. The pub on Bradfield Road, next to Tesco, is called the Ball Inn (or at least it was), and the small lane is still there (according to Google Earth). I have no recollection of a flour mill in that area, but there were lots of steel mills and forges along Pensitone Road. My grandfather, Charlie Allen, ran a steel mill at the bottom of Leppings Lane (where Law Brothers later set up their garage). In the mid-1960s I worked for 3 months at High Bridge forge on Penistone Road. Curently, I am living in Barbados :)