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My Late Mum used to take my little sister to a cafe on Bellhouse road,it was on the right hand side going down towards the roundabout, across the road from Rons, she always spoke highly of a Lovely Ginger haired Lady, who always made a fuss of my little sister, then a few years later Mum saw the same Lady on TV, it was Marti. I was brought up on the lower Shiregreen estate, and I believe Martil lived somewhere off nethershire lane in Shiregreen as a child. :)
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If there was one picture you could find....
GrinderBloke replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
X marks the spot in one of the follow links, I think it is now a grassed area where the buildings once stood, or rather it was when I left Sheffield 20 years ago... probably executive apartments now ;) http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.382231&a...r=0&src=msl or http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.382077&a...r=0&src=msl Second one being Brook Hill rather than Broad Lane -
WITHOUT DOUBT THE GREATEST UNITEDITE EVER. HE WAS THE BEST DEFENDER THEY HAVE EVER HAD AND HE WOULD TURN IN BRILLIANT PERFORMANCES, WEEK IN WEEK OUT, YEAR IN YEAR OUT. OVER 600 GAMES FOR ONE CLUB IN THE CONDITIONS THEY HAD TO PLAY IN, SPEAKS FOR ITS SELF. AND EVEN WHEN HE PACKED IT IN,APART FROM A BRIEF SPELL AS COACH AT YORK CITY,THE MAN IS, I BELIEVE, STILL AT LANE. PEOPLE USED TO GO TO LANE SOLELY TO SEE HIM PLAY. HE WAS AN ARTIST AT TAKING THE BALL AWAY FROM OPPONENTS WITHOUT THEM REALISING,AND LEAVE THEM RUNNING ON.HE WAS NOT A BIG LAD, BUT HIS BRAIN AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE GAME MADE UP FOR THIS,AND HE WAS NOT AFRAID TO TAKE ON AND BEAT PLAYERS TOWERING HIM. HIS SKILL WOULD MAKE HIM A WOW NOW, IN FACT HE COULD HAVE PLAYED AT ANY LEVEL IN ANY ERA. PITY BILLY WRIGHT WAS THE BLUE EYED BOY AT THE TIME.HE WOULD HAVE AND SHOULD HAVE GOT MANY A CAP.
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If there was one picture you could find....
GrinderBloke replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
OK this is a building which is only really of interest to me, so I am being a bit selfish requesting it, I hope no one minds. My great aunt & uncle has a small sweet shop iirc at the top of Broad Lane, near to Beet Street. Going down Broad Lane towards West Bar the shop was on the LH side, in a block of two or three buildings which was the remnant of a long terrace of buildings. In the mid 1970s gales blew one of the chimneys off the building and through the roof, thus the shop ceased trading, aunt and uncle moved to the tower block at the bottom of Bolsover / Winter Street. Thanks for any help. -
OH YES I REMEMBER THESE NIGHTS. GLAD WE HAD AN INSIDE TOILET. WINDOWS RATTLING,WIND BOUNCING OFF ROOF AND THE HOWLING AS WIND BLEW THREW THE PASSAGE BETWEEN HOUSES. DIDN'T NEED LAXATIVES. BUT ANOTHER REASON FOR REMEMBERING THE GALE WHICH, I DON'T NO WHETHER TO LAUGH OR ROOER, WAS IT WAS MY WIFES FIRST DAY AT OUR WORKS AND WHEN I MET MY FRIENDS AS USUAL, SHE WAS WITH THEM.ONLY SECOND TIME I'D SEEN HER.WE WAS WALKING ON TRIPPET LANE NEAR THE CHRISTIAN SHOP WHEN WE HEARD A RUMBLE. MI MATE AND ME PUSHED THE GIRLS ON JUST BEFORE PART OF ROOF CAME DOWN. IF ONLY I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW!!!WHOOPS WIFES COMING."ER I'D DO SAME AGAIN LOVE"!!
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Lets start of with a game at White Hart lane 15th September 1973, All the favorites playing Woodward,Currie etc
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The Manageress
Guest posted a topic in Sheffield in Films and TV shows (Sheffield Filming Locations)
The Manageress A TV series about the first woman to become a football league team's manager (or manageress to be precise). I was an extra for some of the crowd scenes which were filmed at Bramall Lane in Sheffield. I remember being paid something like £25 for the day. We had to move from stand to stand for crowd shots to make it appear like the ground was full. I seem to remember the actors taking several takes in order to get passages of football play correct for the camera's as well as shooting from different angles. I never saw the very sexy Cheryl Lungi who was the star of the series unfortunately :angry: -
The Gamekeeper
Guest posted a topic in Sheffield in Films and TV shows (Sheffield Filming Locations)
The Gamekeeper This was filmed in and around Sheffield in 1980 and used the school I went to (Greengate Lane Junior & Infant school) in High Green. The classroom scenes were of one of the classess in the school and they picked a lad called Peter Steele (not Peter Steels as the website i've put a link too suggests). The classroom scene was shot in the staffroom which the poor teachers had to give up for a few days bless em ;) -
More left, more left, the tunnel ran onto Angel Street, towards the Markets, ran between the Department store and the Cinema, people used to queue up the tunnel (yes, it has a slope to it), and out into Hartshead. So, even though I've never heard of "The Bankers", the tunnel is/was to the left of The Bankers, right in the corner, I think there might have been a multi-storey car-park, then Meetinghouse Lane. Perhaps Watsons Walk has "moved" ??? He's a chunk of my 1991 A-Z, back then it definately went to Angel Street, does it exist ?? "More left, more left !" he cried ....
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Sheffield bombed by a zeppelin ?
dr stanley replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
If you go down Effingham Road, between Attercliffe Road and Bacon Lane Bridge, you will find a plaque (granite I think) set into the wall. The plaque gives a brief outline of the Zeppelin attack, listing the number killed, children included. I've tried many times to take a photo of the memorial but because of its dark colour, I never get a good result. I'm not sure what year the memorial was erected but I remember it as a kid in the 1960's. Not sure if it was Rememberance Sunday or the anniversary of the event but I remember passing in dad's car and wreaths would be laid and I'm guessing it was the Salvation Army Band that was there. -
Scrap yard, bottom of Whitehouse Lane
GrinderBloke replied to RichardB's topic in Sheffield History Chat
I think it may be Balaclava Road rather than Barrack Lane.... the view looks to be from further round to the side of the gas holders. They used a long lens for that shot so everything is compressed. Balaclava Rd has that green wasteland at the bottom, Barrack Ln doesn't appear to have it. -
HELP FIND PICTURES OF REDGATES
GrinderBloke replied to Sheffield History's topic in Redgates Toy Shop
I remember the stamp shop in Fig Tree Lane. -
When I was a kidda, I was taken to see a film, may just have been The Towering Inferno, early 1970's, we queued for ages along Angel Street, and up a weird concrete Alley, called "Watson's Walk", I remember asking my Mam what that was all about; I recall asking my Mam about it in 2004, a year before she passed away; she (in 1970's) sort of passed the question by; nothing strange, but, she didn't know. Time passes backwards, like 20 plus years .... <star trek noises> ...... my mind begins to think about things, ...... Now then, I queued for a film at the ABC at Angel street, we queued along the frontage, then up a strange concrete walkway, heading towards Hartsheat, and the Dove and Rainbow, nothing strange yet ..... I recall the concrete tunnel, having a street name "Watson's Walk", I'm about eight, I forget it ..... Time passes, I gain weight and lose hair which has a sensible colour, I read about Sheffield history, and about Hartshead, and Meetinghouse Lane, and Campo Lane, all very related to the aforementioned Watson's Walk, I look at a map from 1780 (posted), I see what appears to be Watson's Walk, I begin to see history ulfolding before me eyes, Still like to know all about a concrete tunnel that retained its name 200 years laters on, so Watsons Walk, go on, you know you can find out everything about it and let me know, go on, go on .... Richard, shuttup !!!
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Slade In Flame
graham c replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield in Films and TV shows (Sheffield Filming Locations)
I BELIEVE I KNOW SOME OTHER PHOTOS TO GO WITH THE GASOMETERS. BUT THE HOUSES YOU SEE BOARDED UP HAVE BEEN PULLED DOWN AND A NEW ESTATE BUILT UP WITHOUT SOME OF THE ROADS YOU SEE. I LIVED AROUND THIS AREA BEFORE MY MOVE HERE.WE MOVED THERE IN 1980. PHOTO 1. THIS IS FOX ROAD LOOKING DOWN ONTO WHITEHOUSE LANE AT THE JUNCTION OF WOOD STREET. BEHIND THE BIT OF THE KELVIN FLATS WAS THE INCINORATER AND THE CHIMNEY. AND WHERE THE SECOND CAR IS ,I USED TO WAIT FOR MY STAFF BUS AND WAS ONCE PROPOSITIONED BY A LADY OF THE NIGHT AT 03.40am, HONEST. PHOTO 5. THIS COULD BE HAROLD STREET TAKEN FROM THE LAND THAT IS NOW RUSKIN PARK, JUST BELOW WHERE THE FULL MONTY WAS FILMED. PHOTO 6.UNBELIEVABLE. LOOKS LIKE IT WAS TAKEN FROM THE FRONT BEDROOM WINDOW OF MY OLD HOUSE. THE ROAD NO LONGER EXISTS BUT THE ROAD CROSSING AT THE BOTTOM IS BURGOYNE ROAD, THE ROAD RUNNING UP IS EITHER HAWKSWORTH ROAD OR TENNYSON ROAD. THE ROAD AT THE VERY TOP IS WHITEHOUSE LANE. AND BEHIND THE TREES AT THE VERY TOP WILL BE WALKLEY SCHOOL. PHOTO 8. IS UPPERTHORPE SCHOOL.TAKEN FROM OFF DANIEL HILL STREET AREA. THE ROAD FROM WHICH PICTURES 6AND8 WERE TAKEN HAS GONE AND HOUSES BUILT ON THEM. BUT TO GIVE YOU AN INSIGHT IF YOU WANT TO VISIT AND TAKE PHOTOS,THEN COME THROUGH UPPERTHORPE AND UP DANIEL HILL. AS YOU GET TO THE TOP WERE THE FORK IN ROAD IS,KEEP TO THE RIGHT AS THOUGH YOU WAS GOING WERE THE FLAT WAS, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS AS PHOTO 1.FOX ROAD. CONTINUE DOWN AND TO THE LEFT AND JUST AS YOU START TO GO UP THERE IS BURGOYNE ROAD TO THE LEFT.GO UP HERE TO JUST BEFORE THE SECOND BUS STOP. YOU WILL SEE A WALK WAY GOING THROUGH THE ESTATE.THIS IS OTLEY WALK. GO UP AS FAR AS YOU CAN UNTILL YOU COME TO 35,WHICH WAS MY LAST SHEFFIELD ABODE.IF YOU TURN AND LOOK BACK IT SHOULD LOOK JUST LIKE PHOTO6. THEN FOLLOW THE PATH ROUND UNTILL YOU COME TO THE OLD UPPERTHORPE SCHOOL.IF YOU WALK UP A FEW YARDS YOU SHOULD SEE THE DOOR WAY IN THE PHOTO8. CONTINUE UP THE ROAD UNTILL YOU COME TO A ROAD ON THE RIGHT. THIS IS HAROLD STREET AND IF YOU LOOK ACROSS THE ROAD YOU WILL SEE THE BENCH USED IN THE FULL MONTY WHERE THEY APOLOGISED FOR BREAKING HIS GNOMES. THEN IF YOU WALK DOWN TO NEARLY THE BOTTOM AND TURN ROUND YOU WILL SEE WERE I BELIEVE PHOTO 5 WAS TAKEN. HAVE A STROLL AND TAKE PHOTOS AND I DO NOT THINK YOU WILL BE DISSAPOINTED. AND AN ADDED BONUS IS WHEN YOU ARE AT THE TOP OF HAROLD STREET LOOKING AT THE BENCH,TURN TO YOUR LEFT AND YOU WILL SEE BRANSBY STREET GOING DOWN. THE TOP BIG HOUSE ON THE LEFT WAS FEATURED MANY TIMES ON "LIFE OF GRIME". IT WAS WHERE THE BAG MAN LIVED. SAW BIN WAGON AFTER BIN WAGON TAKING AWAY THE THOUSANDS OF BAGS. UH!! STILL MAKES ME ITCH. -
Yes, if I remember correctly the gennel between Mushroom Lane and the playground was called Daisy Walk.and at the other side of the playground at the top of a small hill was Bramwell Street leading to down St Philips road.
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HILLSBOROUGH - UNCOVERED KOP
flyingpig replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield Wednesday Football Club
Does anyone remember these badges I can recall a guy selling them at the top of Leppings Lane on the day of the game I can't remember how much he was charging but he was selling plenty just wondered if anyone else out there has any.
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PICTURE 1, IS FOX ROAD LEADING INTO WHITEHOUSE LANE AT ITS JUNCTION WITH WOOD STREET. THIS IS WHAT YOU SEE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL. OF COURSE THE ESTATE BETWEEN FOX ROAD AND HAROLD STREET HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY FROM THOSE DAYS .AND WHERE THE SECOND CAR IS I USED TO WAIT FOR MY STAFF BUS AT 03.45am AND WAS ONCE PROPOSED TO BY A LADY OF THE NIGHT.NO KIDDING. PICTURE 5, COULD WELL BE HAROLD STREET WHICH HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN. IT LOOKS LIKE THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN FROM WHAT IS NOW RUSKIN PARK, JUST BELOW WHERE SOME OF FULL MONTY WAS FILMED. PICTURE 6, LOOKS AS THOUGH IT WAS TAKEN FROM MY BEDROOM WINDOW OF THE HOUSE I LEFT TO COME DOWN HERE. No 35 OTLEY WALK. ALTHOUGH THE ROAD YOU LOOK DOWN HAS GONE(POSSIBLY OTLEY STREET) THERE SEEMS NO MISTAKING BURGOYNE ROAD AT THE BOTTOM AND EITHER HAWKSWORTH ROAD OR TENNYSON ROAD LEADING UP TO WHITEHOUSE LANE AT THE TOP. PICTURE 8. UPPERTHORPE SCHOOL AT THE TOP OF THE PICTURE. ONCE AGAIN THE ROAD AS GONE BUT IF YOU GO UP DANIEL HILL STREET I DO BELIEVE YOU CAN SEE THE ENTRANCE YOU SEE IN THE PICTURE. THE SCHOOL HAS RECENTLY BEEN MADE INTO FLATS/APPARTMENTS BUT I UNDERSTAND IT WAS A LISTED BUILDING. A GUIDED TOUR WOULD BE FOR YOU TO GO THROUGH UPPERTHORPE UP DANIEL HILL AND KEEP ON THE MAIN ROAD HAS YOU GO OVER THE HILL WHERE THE KELVIN FLATS WERE ON THE RIGHT. AS YOU GO OVER THE HILL YOU WILL SEE WHERE PICTURE ONE WAS TAKEN THEN CONTINUE DOWN AND TO THE RIGHT ADN GO UP BURGOYNE ROAD TO JUST BEFORE THE SECOND BUS STOP. THERE YOU WILL SEE A WALKWAY WHICH IS OTLEY WALK. WALK UP THERE UNTILL YOU GET TO THE TOP HOUSES WERE YOU WILL SEE No35 AND TURN ROUND AND LOOK. YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN.THEN CONTINUE WALKING ROUND AND YOU WILL COME TO THE OLD UPPERTHORPE SCHOOL. TURN LEFT AND UP DANIEL HILL STREET A FEW YARDS AND YOU WILL SEE A SNICKET/GENNEL. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE OUT PICTURE 8 . CONTINUE UP THE HILL AND YOU WILL COME TO A ROAD ON YOUR RIGHT. BEFORE YOU GO DOWN LOOK ACCROSS THE ROAD AND YOU WILL SEE A BENC WHERE THEY FILMED FULL MONTY WHEN THEY CAME TO APOLOGISE ABOUT BREAKING THE GNOMES. WALK DOWN THIS ROAD HAROLD STREET AND NEAR THE BOTTOM HAVE A LOOK UP BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE I THINK FILM5 WAS TAKEN. TURN RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM AND YOUR BACK WERE YOU STARTED. ENJOY YOUR TOUR
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For those of us born in the 30s & 40s, I would think the smell off thousands of coal fires, creating a constant smoke haze over the City, would be the most memorable smell. Every male had a white silk scarf as part of their winter 'going out' wardrobe. During the smoggy winter months these acted as makeshift 'smog masks', covering the mouth. After a few minutes you could see the outline of your mouth surrounded by a pitch black stain. What were we breathing in? Nicer smells? How about the smell of roast meat being prepared for Sunday Dinner? In the summer everyone had their windows wide open and Family Favorites playing on the radio.
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I believe it's a passageway, used to be known as "Trippets Yard", as in Trippets Lane .... buts that's before you or I were born.
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Now I might slavver (dribble?) a bit writing this, but surely I'm not the only person around who remembers Peats Butchers and their "out of this world" Pork sausages? All right, it probably had loads of that 'monosu' stuff in it, but with new potatoes, and garden peas, and a dollop of Lurpak butter, this was food for the gods. There were two shops that I know of, one at the bottom of Wadsley Lane and the other on Crookes Road. Every Saturday, that was my job. Walking up to Crookes to buy the Sunday joint. Always the same order, "a piece of Silverside about 7/6d! and that did two meals for a family of five. I know the Peats factory was just past the Wednesday ground on Penistone Rd, but what happened to the pork sausage recipe? Please, please, please, if you know, tell me, and I'm on the next plane back to Sheffield! :P
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Hi i'm new on here and i've been living in Sheffield for about six years and also happen to be fascinated by steelworks and their history. I have found that in general industrial history is horribly neglected. Buildings that were once alive with activity are destroyed with *** abandon. Does anyone have any info and/or pictures of sheffield steelworks and factories past and present? I am particularly interested in the Union Carbide site on Claywheels lane and the former steel peach and tozer plant at Templeborough, part of which is now magna, and generally most of the Don valley!
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Blades Fans Wanted...
graham c replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield United Football Club
STARTED GOING TO BRAMALL LANE IN LATE 50s. BORN AND BRED ON WEDNESDAYS DOORSTEP BUT ALLWAYS PREFERED THE BETTER LOCAL TEAM UNITED. BUT NOBDY WUD TEK MI AS I USED TO MOAN. BUT I WAS ABLE TO SEE SOME OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS THAT HAVE DONNED A UNITED SHIRT. PLAYERS WHO PLAYED FOR THE SPORTS SAKE AND NOT THERE POCKETS. AND HERE IS A TEAM THAT I THINK WOULD TAKE SOME BEATING OF DEDICATED PLAYERS.HODGKINSON-BADGER-GRAHAM SHAW-JOE SHAW-COLQUHOUN-POWELL-WOODWARD-CURRIE-PACE-TUDOR-GRAINGER SUBS-McALLISTER-COLDWELL-SUMMERS-BIRCHANALL-LEN ALLCHURCH. THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD THE PACE OF TODAYS PLAYERS BUT THEY WOULD MAKE UP FOR IT BY THERE CRAFT AND ABILITY. FOOT-NOTE. TOOK MY WIFE OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME TO A MATCH AT LANE IN 1961. STOOD HALF WAY UP COP JUST A BIT HIGHER THAN GANGWAY. CANNON BALL RON SIMPSON CRACKED THE BALL JUSTOVER BAR. THE PEOPLE IN FRONT DUCKED BUT MY WIFE DIDN'T.SOMETHING REPORTER FREDDIE (HAGEN) WALTERS MISSED. -
I'm hoping someone can confirm this, Richard, if only to confirm I didn't dream it! The School is situated on Beech Hill Road, at the junction with Newbould Lane. The reason I remember it so well is I'm terrified of heights and always thought "rather them than me!" Don't remember your examples though.
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Martin Dawes - ask him what they have; put an polite appeal in The Star, can only raise your profile. Someone, somewhere has a happy child stood with a toy of some type outside Redgates. The memories, however, were created inside what was actually, a very ugly building (the last one, not able to comment on previous sites for the shop). I still have stamps bought in Redgates, utter rubbish, anyone remember the shop on Figtree Lane; I once bought a Penny Black in there, cost me a fortune in the mid-1970's - yes, I still have it.
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If there was one picture you could find....
RichardB replied to Sheffield History's topic in Sheffield History Chat
More on the Town Hall, including our best chance at a representation of it ! First Goslings map of 1836 (town hall is number 12) Secondly Thomas Oughtibridges view of Sheffield (town hall has a number 3 above it, immediately to the left of the Church). The view appears to be from somewhere out at West Bar, we're looking at the back of the current Cathedral. Number 2, could be the Vicarage, any other ideas? Finally a map from 1780, shows where Orchard Street got its name, also that New Street and Figtree Lane were once, one and the same place ...
