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Remember them well. The colour test transmission favourite of mine was "Welcome to Devon" Just the novelty of seing it in colour (in Oate's shop window, bottom of Wadsley Lane) was enough.

The funny thing was all the traveling QPR fans were choked as they were forcrd to pay extra to go in the West stand instead of standing on the Leppings Lane terrace. lol

looks a bit like bramhall lane before the went into the premiership lol

I went on organsied school trips there twice. We saw "The Bellstone Fox" and also "The Amazing Mr Blunden". It was in the late 70's and I remember the cinema being small, old fashioned and antiquified compared the ABC and Gaumont cinemas. My main memory though is: We were all children and we were getting a lot of pleasure from banging the seats with our hands to see who could get the biggest ploom of dust to rise off the seats. I kind of remember the cinema had a slight strange dusty smell to it. My other memory is: The very narrow lane/path next to the cinema. You could almost stretch out your arms and touch the walls as the path was so narrow. I was only young and was fascinated to find such a narrow alleyway. I remember thinkin that if you had a fat person walking up the alley and a fat person walking down the alley, then you'd get a traffic jam. It would have been really embarrassing as one would have to reverse.

Just found this I shot...OK, so it was only last year, but some people might want to watch it.The Fletchers Factory at Claywheels Lane, Hillsborough 'burning down' on Sunday 16th July 2006. Chronologically, it flows down Penistone Road (past the SWFC Hillsborough ground), around the [blocked off] roundabout onto Herries Road and then cuts to driving down Southey Green Road (past the old bingo hall on the roundabout) and onto Halifax Road before cutting again to the night-time and up and down Penistone Road North (past The Gate and The Travellers).

Trams squeezing through the Tudor Arch, West Street, 1905. Built to celebrate Edward VII's opening of the University. Bailey Lane is on the right and the shop on the near corner was familiar until recently as Morton's Cutlery shop. (Was Morton's the little shop front, next door to the Saddle Pub on West Street ?)

Top section. Entrance via Long Lane

Is that looking towards Blast Lane and the canal basin ?

Heeley baths, on Broadfield Road, is still open. I use it occasionally at lunchtimes for lane swimming.

Hello Neddy, Complete household at 26 Campo Lane 1901 Census. Thomas Hitchen aged 56, Head of house, married, licensed victualler, born Yorkshire Sheffield. Alice Mary Hitchen aged 39, wife, married, born (looks like) Salop(?) Donnington Wood (difficult to read). Ada Fry, aged 20, servant, single, general domestic servant, born Yorkshire Sheffield. No others, but Alice could have been elsewhere on the night of the census. If you want a copy, PM me an email address. I can't post it here because of copyright. Regards, Andy

Thomas Hitchen had the Golden Ball 1871 moved to the Grey horse Blast Lane 1881 (later became Stoke Street) 1891, Didn't have his address 1901, so thank you, can you see a Alice aged about 12 with the family,cant read her name in the 1891.

and, what I assume is a fairly rare photograph of Scargill Croft too and to finish, The George and Dragon pub, corner of Bank Street and Meetinghouse Lane

Well, there is a map. Key : 1) Curry House (possibly called Shalimar ??), right on the roundabout 2) Second-hand/electroics shop 3) Car showroom, I think a bit of the end of workhouse lane used to remain, leading onto West Bar 4) Mystery building (the Pack Horse public house used to stand here - 100 years ago, I'm looking for a 3 or four story, round fronted building, that used to stand here in the Sixties/Seventies 5) and/or 5a) Was there a small pub here called The White Hart ?? 6) Turners Gun/Fishing etc shop (Diagram as correct in 1990)

Think you men the one inside the old Sheaf market, known to all as the Rag 'n Tag! The animal section was on the right as you went in from Dixon Lane. A hay and seed merchant occupied part of it. Can't think of their name just now...... John Mace's was the one I think. Memory just came back 'on line'!

Lady Norah Docker (nee Collins) was the wife of Sir Bernard Docker. She had been a dancer at the Cafe de Paris in London prior to her marriage. Sir Bernard was chairman of Daimler and BSA (Birminghan Small Arms). Controversy follwed her wherever she went, and she was never afraid to voice her opinion publicly. She and her husband seemed to throw money around as if it was water. She was certainly a household name. At one time I worked at Jessop Saville on Brightside Lane. Jessop's belonged to the BSA group, and the Dockers paid a visit. A red carpet was laid down in the Foundry. A gold plated car later arrived (could have been a Daimler), and the Dockers alighted from it. Lady Norah was dressed in a gold satin ball gown!! It is right to say she was a good looker and it made many a man's day. If that was not OTT, I don't know what was. She survived Sir Bernard and died in the late 1980's - she herself being in her eighties.

No 26 Campo Lane is The Ball. From White's Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham, 1905. Landlord is Thomas Hitchen Regards, andyc

According to the 1901 census, Thomas Hitchen and wife Alice Mary live at no 26 Campo Lane, he being a Licensed Victualler. No Pub name though! Regards, andyc

Campo Lane from White's Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham, 1901. I think the 1st road off to the RIGHT is Paradise Street. I reckon it's number 26. The building is between North Church Street and Paradise Street. Regards, Andy

Some of the opening scenes were filmed in Sheffield....Vulcan Road, Blast Lane, and a couple others. Looking at the pix above the third one is looking down the Don toward the River Don works. The first pic looks like Orgreave.

Great to see some of my pics on here - I took them while on an art foundation course at Psalter Lane in 1986. You can see a selection of the better ones at larger sizes at my own site: Noise Heat Power's Leadmill pics

Does anyone know the name of the house that used to stand where the Wade Meadow houses were built in the 80's? It was on Wadsley Park Crescent, just up Laird Road from the top of Wadsley Lane.

A brilliant local legend Asteener. Did a lot of research on this a few years ago. Did you know that there were some unconfirmed sightings of SHJ in the late 90's? Around Carbrook Hall area, Attercliffe. Some text from the Sheffield Ghosts thread: http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...ing+heeled+jack 'Spring Heeled Jack' A ghost like entity with the ability to jump tremendous distances in height and length. In the newspaper clippings of 1808, a letter to the Editor of the Sheffield Times tells of an early encounter with Spring Heeled Jack. An 19th Century 'legend' that actaully REAPPEARED in the 1970's. 1970's, JACK'S RETURN? I came across the following stories quite by accident, I was actually investigating a claim by a witness that they had seen a UFO, when I asked them if they had any other encounters of the paranormal, they began to tell me about the strange encounters of Westbury Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield. I knew there had been many strange sightings at Attercliffe from the many reports I received from different witnesses over the past ten years. I can only assume that during the 1970's the strangeness level had been turned up to eleven (Not ten..). Reports of huge birds, black dogs, UFOs, ghosts and "strange entities" are common from this area, but in 1977 the Sheffield Council leveled the greater part of this area. The witness began to tell me about the "Prowler" of Westbury Street, "When we moved into our house in 1973, our neighbours told us to be careful at night because there had been trouble with a prowler. Apparently he had knocked on windows, punched men and grabbed women. We were also told this is the reason why there were police cars always parked at the end of the road. One night, I was coming back from town with my new boyfriend when we saw a dark figure slip into one of the alleyways, we were cautious and decided to walk in the middle of the road, slowly we walked passed the alleyway. Suddenly we noticed two bright red circles, they came closer then we realised it was his eyes. We began to run and my boyfriend felt something hit his back, he turned around and lying on the floor was a pitchfork type tool, like a hay fork, he picked it up then we ran home. We contacted the police and a Sergeant Trevor Basendale, came and took the fork away for evidence..the strange thing is he didn't offer no explanation at all for what we saw." The witness's father then decided to tell his story, "I always remember one night we heard laughter coming from our attic, we also heard banging and shouting. Reluctantly, I had a look. The attics of the terraced houses of Westbury Street were not cordoned off, and somehow the prowler had got into the attics, there were five maybe more people chasing after him across the beams. I always remember that one of them put his foot through our next door neighbours ceiling, the strange thing is though was that the prowler ran across the ceilings without crashing through. This lasted for about half an hour, the prowler laughed all the time." "Can you describe him?" I asked. "Oh, he was tall, very tall 6 feet 6inches at least, dressed in black, he also had a black cape that night, but his face I can't remember just those burning red eyes, I honestly think he was the Devil." I was very intrigued about these sightings than the actual sighting I was there for. I must say though, I took a pinch of salt with the sightings, after all it was twenty years ago. Then two weeks later I received a phone call from a chap in Worksop, Notts. He lived in Westbury Street in the 70's and wanted to report a UFO sighting that took place. After taking his sighting I politely asked if I could ask him some questions. The first being "Do you know anything about a prowler?". The reply was quite shocking, "Oh, you mean him who ran up the side of buildings? I replied "Yes." "Well, I never saw him personally but I heard all about him, about the mid seventies we moved to a road off Broughton Lane. They were nice small houses, over looking Attercliffe and Westbury Street. Our next-door neighbour was a lovely old woman, a real salt of the earth type and not the kind to believe in the paranormal. One day she came round to our house quite shaken, when we asked her what was up, She told us that she had seen the prowler. The night before she was looking over Attercliffe looking towards the Steel Works when she saw a figure "jumping" across the roof tops. At first she thought it was a thief running away from the police but then she noticed he was jumping huge distances, sometimes twenty to thirty foot, this scared her. This lasted about five minutes until she watched him walk down the side of a pub's wall and into the scrap yard. I have no reason to doubt her, and she certainly wasn't one for telling lies." My investigation then lead me to "check out" the witnesses, the records showed that they lived on Westbury Street at different times, and therefore a chance they didn't know each other, I had asked and both denied knowledge of each other. The records also showed that the 2nd witness did live near Tinsley Park Road. I checked the local papers but nothing was ever reported, the only interesting fact I did find was the high rate of strange deaths in Attercliffe. Many people died in very strange circumstances, some were found with their necks broken, stabbed to death in their caravans, very gruesome indeed but I very much doubt it had anything to do with Spring Heeled Jack. I decided to ask the witnesses what had happened to the prowler? Both told the following story, "One night, the police had followed him from Woodburn Road across the rooftops, as usual he was laughing and dancing, goading the police. Two coppers went after him across the roofs but he ran down the side of the buildings on Arris Street. He then went into the yard of Dexel Tyres (still standing) and that is where the police surrounded him in the back room. The police got the order to get him, then the prowler disappeared. There was no trace of him at all. We never saw him again. Sgt Trevor Basendale, told us never to mention it to anyone, which we haven't up to now and we now know he transferred to a different station." As quickly as he appeared, the legend of Spring Heeled Jack disappeared again, will he be back in another 100 years time? Is he a fantasy figure running through our folklore like fairies and elves? Is he an old wife's tale or merely a manifestation of the Universal Prankster? (abridged from : http://www.mysterymag.com/hauntedbritain/i...mp;page=article )

I used to work at the APW factory at the end of Claywheels lane, deep in Beeley woods, and i used to cycle past UCAR every day. Hence my interest

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!

Hi hope everyone is good,just seeing if anyone has any info/pictures of the above,its just it was my first proper job in full time employment,and i know from when i worked there it had been around from i'm sure it was the late forties because there was some good old photos there including one of fred hall the original founder of the firm who supposedly haunted the premises before they went missing probably stolen before the firm went under then got taken over & moved to rotherham to do all same again,the building itself in the end totally surrounded the sportsman pub just off bramall lane which is now all suprisingly student flats