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:rolleyes: The other playground we used to go to was the one near St Stephens school I think it was near the bottom of Mushroom Lane.Also on our wanderings we would walk over to the one on Lambert street flats.When we were kids we used to wander all over,never stayed in,no tv. no computers. no electronic games.but we could, it was a lot safer then.

I loved the Lane Top Esseldo. Saw all the 'big' films there. Zulu...all the Bond films...633 Squadron....Lawrence of Arabia...........Italian Job........the velour seats didn't half itch the back of your legs though.

Yes, I remember that cartoon. Here, take a trip down memory lane with this... http://youtu.be/mbsEYoKm9X8

We know from doing some location pictures today that the techniques and lenses used in the film were really clever and they managed some amazing angles But this street confuses the heck out of me Looking on http://www.flashearth.com it seems like it would be definitely barrack lane.. If it IS then we didn't go down far enough for the shot

I think you are referring to the Blue Coat School which was on the East > Parade in the Centre of the town. In 1911 a new building was erected at > Psalter Lane and the pupils removed there from their original building. Can't do anymore searching, continue tomorrow.

Actually... looked again and it might NOT be Barrack Lane - as the ski village and the cooling tower thingy are in the wrong place ?? Now I'm very confused The production team used some very interesting lenses on the movie that allowed some quite unique views

Damn I've just looked at the pics we took and I feel a bit of a nobber as I've just realised it COULD be Barrack Lane but that we didn't go down far enough grrr... Here's the pic we took

Question for you Richard. Across the road from there - there are a number of roads going down from infirmary road to penistone road Have any of these gone missing that you know of ? Reason I ask is that we were trying to find the following location today and couldn't I would have put money on it being Barrack Lane but we took pics and it just didn't look right.. So now we are thinking it's maybe where the bingo hall is now and that a road was built over ?

Fox House - Shirland Lane (it's just off Staniforth Road) Fox House was an elegant pub at one time. It had been a Tennants house later falling into Whitbreads stable. This was a lively local in the 60s and 70s with music and pub games, but as the locality was cleared its custommer base declined and it closed around 1995. For a while it operated as a cafe, but now is closed and fire damaged. http://www.sheffieldpubs.fsnet.co.uk/Busin...fox%20house.htm

A couple I would would insert somewhere in there would be: The Rag & Tag market. Sheffield Cathedral The Cricket Ground half of Brammall Lane Keppels Column.

I was an extra for the Direct line advert where he was in the air throwing cash down to the people below. Think it was about 8/9 yrs ago filmed on Hunter House Lane (B***dy steeeeeeeep) The first day we must of ran uo a good 200yds of it 22 times (I slowly worked my way to the back. He was throwing stage money down and after the take guys would pounce on us and take the money away. we heard and noticed that the350 notes were not there. one had bloen over into Ecclesall road and someone had tried to spend it. :)

Film locations: Running Scene - Backmoor Road towards the New Inn in Norton Semi Final - Bramall Lane Brewery - Off Rutland Road

Only one I know off is at Edmund Rd. Just along from Bramhall Lane. Sheffield Ideal Homes Exhibitions in the 50s & 60s was held there. Could have been a drill hall at Somme Barracks on West St though.

:P nosy nellie hi. before it was named the ponderosa in the fifties when us kids from hammond street and watery lane played on it,it was simply called.the tip. anyone remember.we played on two playgrounds. the tip and st stevens playground near st stephens church.

When the old houses and factory was demolished from Fawcett Street to Netherthorpe Road, taking out wentworth street over to the bottom of Mushroom lane became a grassed area which in the 60's was few and far between. The cowboy Bonanza was on and seeing that was the biggest expanse of green anyone round had seen. Hence the kids to which I was one gave it the name of the Ponderosa. In recent years some people and I think possibly the council have roped in Crookesmoor Recreation ground into it which it never was part of it.

My auntie and uncle had a shop on holme lane I think it was 70's /80's called Barnetts Trim dogs when they sold it the people moved it to somewhere above the Barracks on Langsett Road.

Ahhhh... Another one I researched in the past (and probably one of the most famous 'ghostly' stories from out of Britain) - '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 believe that is what was called "Castlefolds" market which was a commercial market. As Tsavo says the Rag & Tag was on Dixon Lane and was mainly open stalls with a row of pemanent buildings down one side. The Sheaf Market was built to replace this one. Picture courtesy of Picture Sheffield

Think you'll find that's the wholesale side of the old market. This is the open market known as Rag n Tag which was on the right at the bottom of Dixon Lane. The building at the top of the picture is the Corn Exchange, now demolished. Picture courtesy of Picture Sheffield

Long Lane :D Reports of an 10 foot tall apirition more than once, its in a Sheffield ghosts book but i dont have it anymore

I researched this during the 70s and even spoke to a German bomber crew member. He claimed that the City Centre was always the target. An attempt to break the will of the people to continue the war. Hence the Coventry raid. They were equipped with first class maps of the town and the only error I saw was that Bramall Lane football ground was described as a boating lake! The maps were detailed to the extent of what kind of business was done where. The building I worked in on Matilda Street was correctly identified as a producer of Pewter goods at the time. The bombers came over the moors via Woodseats area and exited over Hillsborough, or south to north.

Looking to get in touch with a few old friends again: Rodney Smith lived junction of Springvale Road and Cross Addy in 50's/60's mothers maiden name Wall who's relations had a business in the next yard. Gary Mills lived just of Walkley lane on Lonsdale Road in 60's. Susan Wildgoose Lived on East Bank Road had a friend called Corrine Sunter brother john has just recently died.

Came across these tucked away in my computer. I can't remember where they came from or when they were taken. Year unknown but Brammall Lane still has the cricket pitch City Hall, Cole Brothers and The Grovener can all be seen Nice shot of the old(eggbox) Town Hall and the Wedding Cake registery office Saint Mary's Church is the most notable building in this shot :P

Think it may have been called the St Georges Club. Another club was above the cathederal near Campo Lane. St James?

:P nosy nellie i think i remember the star walk originally starting outside the star building in town that was the mens start and the women started at leppings lane. i entered it twice in the eighties.