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Huddersfield Town map for Nazi invasion.
mickjj replied to syrup's topic in Non Sheffield General History
I guess he must have been an Owls fan then as Hillsborough was not touched wheras as Bramall Lane took a direct hit. lol -
MEET Michael Liversidge, founder of the Sheffield Dead Pubs Society. Only joking, but he has just brought out a picture book about them. Time Gentlemen, Please, sub-titled The Demise of the Sheffield Public House, lists well over a hundred. What's more, Michael's had a drink in most of them. We're outside the Tramway Hotel on London Road. He's supped there as well. There are two pictures of it in his book, both of them with trams on. "Pubs are our social history. At one time you'd trust the landlord of your local with your money before the bank. It's getting that way again," he says. Pubs can demise in Michael's book in several ways. They can be demolished like the Rose Inn on Penistone Road, Hillsborough, to make way for a McDonalds, or the Hole in the Wall on Savile Street. Then there was the Enfield on Broughton Lane, Carbrook. "Me and my father had a drink in there and two weeks later I was driving past and it had been demolished. No one had said a word." But at least he had a picture of it. Then there was the White Horse on Malinda Street. "It fell down while being renovated," says the caption. Others are still standing but empty, like The Viaduct on The Wicker, the Shiregreen Hotel on Sicey Avenue, or the Queens Hotel on Scotland Street. And some have been given different uses. The Mill Tavern, also known as the Albion Hotel and Old Mill Tavern, on Earsham Street, Pitsmoor, had one too many for the road and is now an undertakers. The Staniforth arms on Staniforth Road is now a restaurant, while the Old Blue Bell on Worksop Road, which once sold Gilmour's Windsor Ales, is a mosque. The Norfolk Arms on Attercliffe Road has become a sauna. Quite a few have been turned into flats, like the Royal Hotel on Abbeydale Road. Some pubs don't go without a fight. The Talbot on Hoyle Street became Ye Old Toad and then the Good Doctor, but to no avail. It was pulled down. Occasionally a pub does a runner. There's a picture of the old Harlequin on Johnson Street, which has moved round the corner and taken up residence in the former Manchester Arms on Nursery Street. "The book charts the changes and developments of the city," says Michael, who brought out an A-Z of Sheffield Pubs 10 years ago. Then the pictures were postage stamp-sized to make way for the text and he got several hundred letters from readers wanting to see the pictures. "It's taken 10 years but I've done it." Among the dead pubs is the Players Cafe on Attercliffe Common, which is a bit of a cheat as it was a short-lived restaurant. "It sold beer," said Michael, who made sure he had a pint there and who included it for sentimental reasons. "It was my old school, Carbrook Elementary. I was in a pub from five to 11!" n Published by Pickard Communication at £12.99 from local shops or: www.youbooks.co.uk http://www.thestar.co.uk/diary/Spirit-of-t...-pub.4250349.jp
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Malin Bridge - Comet/Restaurant/Clothes Shop ?
dr stanley replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
Hi wunumpi ...... wadsleyite beat me to it with the photos of the old Comet store but I hope these photos will make up for it. As you can see "supper grot" is still there, though I'm told they're not as nice as they used to be, the name of the steep hill that escaped you is Dykes Lane (very steep indeed). I have one more photo for you but I will send you the link in a private message.
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I've walked the "The Upper Don Walk" over the last few weeks. I would say its back to its pre flood conditions, its a bit muddy in places especially Club Mill Road but I think thats down to the recent rains. Along the first section from Ladys Bridge to Corporation Street, they've erected some very good information boards, heres the first board: a portion of the above sign Artwork at Corporation Street I walked the final section from Oughtibridge to Claywheels Lane this morning, again a bit on the muddy side but easily passable. At Oughtibridge you can see where the Environment Agency have dredged the river and removed a lot of the bankside trees, they've made a good job! Regards the the bridge at Livesey Street which was washed away, there is a little known alternative foot-bridge across the river, just past the new College and near to the "Power Station", is a footpath which leads to the metal footbridge.
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Excellent, which one is William please ? The place has the look of Dixon Lane - unless you know differently !
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Malin Bridge - Comet/Restaurant/Clothes Shop ?
Guest replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
HOLY CRAP!! 'scuse my french but I used to live at 146 Loxley Rd - we overlooked the Comet car-park. The supper spot was my favourite chippy. Is it still there? We affectionatley used to call it the 'supper grot'. I ran 2 paper rounds out of the newsagents on the corner for my entire high-school life. I used to go down the river on a tyre inner tube and loved dropping over the litte waterfalls. I think I remember Comet closing down, but I left there in 85 and haven't been back since. I used to catch teh bus into town from the shelter beside the Yew Tree and my best mate lived just up the hill on the bend....I can't even remember the name of the road but we used to walk it every day to get to malin Bridge Junior School, and sledge down it in winter. I hope you manage to get some more photos. I never realised how much I miss the place. Thanks for the walk down memory lane -
Anyone any history on the Ginn Stables,Stafford Lane. Dave in Inskip
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Firvale Trinity Methodist if I remember right. I ought to know, I was christened there, but don't remember much about it! The church is still there but part of the other buildings (schoolroom?) is now a mosque as you say. I can remember them having kids film nights there on a Friday I think. They stopped just as I was getting old enough to go, but I went with an older cousin once, pretty riotous as I remember! The bit of Owler Lane from Firth Park Road to Rushby Street was always known as 'Store's Hill' in our family, because the 'big' Co-op was there. I lived with my parents and grandparents on Skinnerthorpe Rd and two of my aunties and their families lived in the 2 adjacent houses. They all backed onto a high redbrick wall with broken glass set in the top, which was the backyard wall of the Co-op. I remember getting my hair cut at Charlie Hague's on Rushby Street, and there was a smashing chippie next door where we went every Friday for our tea. On the corner opposite there used to be a herbalist where you go and have draught sarsaparilla from pub-type pumps.
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This is a photo of a tin church, or tabernacle, as they are known, near us in Lincolnshire - my children go to school in this village. Christ Church, pictured above, is a recent addition to the village, having been erected in 1893, and is one of England's few remaining tin tabernacles, tucked away in a side lane yet still serving the community as a place for worship after more than a century although its construction was an early form of prefabrication, made elsewhere from corrugated iron and erected on site for less than £400. Here's a website dedicated to them. http://www.tintabernacles.com/
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Loxley New Rd would place her closest to the tin chapel at Rural Lane Wisewood. I don't remember it, but my wife says it was turned into a little sweet shop directly opposite Wisewood school gates. PS PLEASE....don't suggest a listing for steelworks....Richard might see it and think......! Good luck with rest of the search.
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Sorry Hugh, it was St. Timothy's church, not St Thomas's. It was built on land between Slinn St and Bradley St. There were other 'tin chapels around at this time at Wadsley Bridge and, I'm told, around Rural Lane, Wisewood. I've also a feeling that Crookes Baptist Church, off Mulehouse Rd, also started as a tin chapel.
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Hi, first time posting on this forum, so I hope I'm posting in the correct place. I'm interested to find out more about the Stanley Tools building (Woodside Lane, Sheffield, S3 9PD). So far all I have managed to discover is that the Stanley company has been in Sheffield since 1937 and the building was closed when Stanley consolidated three sites to one to Hellaby. The building is currently being used as a airsoft skirmish site (like paintball without the paint). I'd like to know as much as possible about the building, including anything of interest that may have happened on the site. I'd also be interested to know what was on the site before the building. Thanks for any help you can provide, Tom
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Thanks a lot everyone for all your help! Sue that's a bit of coincidence my Nan Elsie Rudge was born on Whitworth Lane Attercliffe! Thanks to a mate, I may be making some head way it turns out that some Rudge's on Ancestry have been transcribed as Ridge and Phil found an Ernest aged 12 in 1901 which ties in! Again thanks to all of you, it was really doing my head in this weekend! Andrew
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Spanner, works, a, the, throwing, into - probably Sheffield map 1849 area is shown as Sted Bank, with a well nearby and Howard House shown, presumably on Howard Street. There is also (up the hill) nearer Dark Lane a place shown as Heavy Gate.
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Where were the following districts of Sheffield please
RichardB replied to RichardB's topic in Sheffield History Chat
Longstone Lane ?? -
Which narrow lane, a nest of filth and iniquity, was "improved off the face of the earth". (Assortment of clues : There was a Pub on there; I firmly believe a thoroughfare of the same name exists to this day, Central, i.e. part of Sheffield Town; no more than 300 yards from the Cathedral; Eadon; Westbar Green)
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Sheffield Cafe's Of The Past
RichardB replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
Kelly's 1925 Cafe Listing Gambit Cafe, refreshment rooms Commercial Street John Arthy Cafe Manager 42 Peveril Road Mrs Della Berry Cafe Psalter Lane Arthur Davy & Sons Ltd. Victoria Café Proprietor 40 Fargate Kosie Kabin Cafe Sheaf Street William Stephenson Exchange Restaurant & Cafe 20 Castle Street Albert Surfleet Cafe manager 56 Roach Road Sidney Waterfall Cafe proprietor 31 Chapel Walk; h. 17 Wiseton Road Sidney Waterfall Proprietor, Japanese Kiosque Cafe 31 Surrey Street -
Sheffield Cafe's Of The Past
RichardB replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
White's 1911 Cafe Listing Arthur Davy Propietors & Sons Limited (Victoria Café) 40 a Fargate Misses Moore & Stewart Cafe 31 Chapel Walk Miss Mary Ellen Moore (& Stewart) Cafe proprietor h. 91 Rock Street Frederick William Robinson Cafe manager 73 Broomspring Lane William Stephenson Exchange restaurant & cafe 20 Castle Street; h. 10 Victoria Road William Summers Cafe 161 Neill Road Charles Joshua Whitehead Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. h. 10 Favell Road, Brookhill Can't help feeling there should be a lot more entries than this ... -
Sheffield Cafe's Of The Past
RichardB replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
Kelly's 1893 Cafe listing (Surname order) Charley Henry Ball Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 26 South Street, Moor John Henry Banks Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. Wentworth Cafe, 12 Pinstone Street M Bark Manageress, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 6 Market Street Walter Bland Proprietor St Philip's Road Cafe 49 Upper St Philip's Road William Brown Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 266 Moorfields Miss Florence Cooke Manageress, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. Albany temperance hotel, Fargate Miss F M Cooke Manageress, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. The Albany Hotel, Fargate William Ellis Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 360 Savile Street Alfred Furniss Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. Wostenholm Hall, Queen Street Henry Hill Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 23 Exchange Street Arthur Jones Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 417 Attercliffe Road Jacob Maltby Manager Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 765 Attercliffe Road Joseph Maltby Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 765 Attercliffe Road William Henry Middleton Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 3 Broad Street, Park Samuel Middleton Branch Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. London Road George Murfitt Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 30 & 32 High Street C Robertshaw Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 33 Arundel Street Frederick Robinson Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 15 Eyre Street Frederick Robinson Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 17 Howard Street Thomas Robson Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 3 & 5 Mowbray Street Charles Simpson Secretary, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. Great Northern Chambers, Fargate Joseph Smith Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 153 Porter Street Henry Smith Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 29 Haymarket Henry Smith Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 34 Castle Street Joseph Smith Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 54 Sylvester Street Henry Smith Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 59 West Bar Henry Smith Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. The Lawson Cocoa House, 59 West Bar Henry Warrington Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 105 Devonshire Street Charles J Whitehead Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 1 Bank Street Charles Joshua Whitehead General Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. Johnson Lane, Wicker John Wright Manager, Sheffield Cafe Co. Ltd. 55 & 57 Wicker (A first name for M Bark and C Robertshaw would be nice !) -
The book in which I came across this picture of King Street ( Pudding Lane ) claims that the white building on the right was the debtors Goal BEFORE it moved to Scotland Street in 1818.!
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Black Five (Steam Loco) through Sheffield (& Barnsley ) 29th June 08
Guest replied to a topic in Sheffield Buses, Trams and Trains
Have to agree - Very Good shot indeed Busman! I saw it in Sheffield station at around 10am, when I was driving out of Harmer Lane with the Sheffield Regent V! -
Thanks for that Dunsbyowl. What we saw could not have been the colliery which your map shows to be in the area which is now Dunmow Rd and the bottom of Popple St and Robey St ( only a short distance from where I was born on Hinde House Lane) . Its a really interesting map as it shows a tramway going up the back side of Wincobank hill. I think some of what was the colliery area is now a Council Depot ( or was when I lived in Sheffield 30 years ago) ! At present I am transcribing Grimesthorpe School admission records from the early 1920's for Sheffield Indexers so the road names are very familier ! John
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The Nook and Barber Nook are not the same thing. The Nook is a cul-de-sac on the left side of Barber Road going up. Barber Nook, which is much older, is on the other side near the co-op. It was there as a farm/hamlet in the middle of fields before anything else around it was built (including Barber Road). It still contains the old house (18th century or earlier?) which was the home of the BARBER family. Sheffield Local Register 22 Aug 1840 Decease of Mr. Wm. Barber, of Barber Nook, cattle dealer, aged 62. A little later there was a Miss Barber (daughter?) who gave land for the creation of Barber Road. 1851 Ordnance Survey Map Crookesmoor Road at bottom right. Commonside a little way off the map at top left. I think that Barber Road is a bit to the left of the line of 'Barber Nook Lane'. Hugh
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Assume you mean Broughton Lane. Broughton Rd is in Sheffield 6. That gives us a bit more to go on.
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Cheers fellas, Rawmarsh is out in the sticks towards ladybower? As for the Devon connection Richard B spot on John Searle, Francis John Mills Searle's Dad was born in Dawlish Devon about 1809. Went to archives today and found his burial plot, I can see why people got almost addicted to this stuff! Interesting about the Stubbin too, I'm from Firth Park originally and there's a Stubbin Lane, does Stubbin mean something? The employing 14 men bit I think had summat to do with 'brass turning' and he lived on St Mary's Road at the time, last I saw was he lived at Balby Hexthorpe Donny! Cheers for looking I appreciate it anymore leads would be great! Andrew
