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  1. Ponytail

    Plumpers Hotel

    The (old) Plumpers Hotel sited at the junction with Bawtry Road was rather a sharp turn and I remember as a child when travelling in the car with my parents, my mother always used to pipe up with a very nervous, "Careful Bob! it's a bad turning." which made me duck down in the back seat in fear of impending doom. In later years I don't think that turning was as nerve wracking as turning off Tinsley Roundabout when drivers realise they're in the wrong lane for Bawtry Road and others are gathering speed for the M1 slipway. Or coming from Bawtry Road drivers who think they can slip into the traffic on the island. After the demise of the steelworks in the area during the 1980's and being in rather an isolated position the Plumpers experienced a big fall off in trade and closed.
  2. Gez

    Plumpers Hotel

    Steel workers Pub, bottom of Shepcote Lane.
  3. Ponytail

    Woodthorpe Colliery

    Link to images restored: Mansfield Road looking towards the junction with Hurlfield Road with spoil tip on the right. 6th June 1955. u04511 Photographer: City Engineers and Surveyors Office. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u04511&pos=1&action=zoom&id=40008 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u04510&pos=1&action=zoom&id=40007 Also: Queen Mary Road, showing former Colliery tip at back of road (former Woodthorpe Colliery)s18968 Photographer: Press Photo Agency. Queen Mary Road, showing colliery tip (former Woodthorpe Colliery). s18969 Photographer: Press Photo Agency. Map of Richmond, Spring Wood and Woodthorpe, c. 1855. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02931&pos=5&action=zoom&id=93426 From a volume of maps of the parish of Handsworth, based on the enclosure award maps (1805) and corrected up to 1855. Marked: Richmond; Richmond Road; Lamb Hill; Woodthorpe Common; Woodthorpe; Intake;Turnpike Road; Springwood Cottage; Woodthorpe Colliery; Coal Pit; Spring Wood; Parish Boundary. Woodthorpe Colliery 1854-1930. https://www.mindat.org/loc-383123.html Nunnery Woodthorpe Pit 1854-1928. https://www.mindat.org/loc-380201.html Sheffield Collieries (Sheffield, Handsworth, Woodthorpe, High Green, Chapeltown) Wm. Stobart. Section of the several beds of coal and ironstone. 1817. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/c98cc644-645e-4203-9b6b-e3a7aea127c6
  4. Were these premises part of Queens Road Coal Depot? T. W. Ward, Coal Offices, (Queens Road?) 23rd September 1936.s07237
  5. Gez

    SL2

    BSC Plate Mill, Shepcote Lane, Furnaces

    © Gez

  6. Gez

    Plate Mill

    BSC Shepcote Lane
  7. Ponytail

    Bruce Springsteen - Spare Parts

    Yes, it was loud!! Living at Brinsworth at the time, we thought the lad who lived over the back was having a loud party outside while his parents were away on holiday. Then realised it was the Springsteen Concert. It was louder than the Def Leppard Concert at Don Valley Stadium some years later, that after the Sound Check the day before was turned down a few notches. Set List: Tunnel of Love Express Tour Bramall Lane 9th July 1988 https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bruce-springsteen/1988/bramall-lane-sheffield-england-7bd7b294.html
  8. Lysanderix

    Jim Smith Greengrocers Firth Park

    Thanks for the details…….brought back lots of memories especially of the shops and a few relatives! I have a vague memory of the greengrocer on Stubbin Lane being under a different name for a time before Jim Smith took over. Could that be why there’s no record of J Smith in Kelly’s?
  9. The only Smith listed on Stubbin Lane, 1957 and 1965, Mrs. Emma L Smith, at 98 Stubbin Lane.
  10. Lysanderix

    Jim Smith Greengrocers Firth Park

    I also left home in 1965 to get married. We had bought a house off Elm Lane at Lane Top . “Aunt Gladys” and her sister ran the Mikado Drink Shop. I put a piece on here a while ago reminiscing about the place…the home made ice lollies and the back room where invited kids were invited to watch TV…….when TVs were a rarity!
  11. I left home in 1965 to get married and I expect I remember the greengrocers as Roses on the odd occasion I'd gone shopping with my mum to Firth Park (we lived at Sheffield Lane Top) My sister in law knew Jim Smith and he possibly took over the Bellhouse shop in the mid 1960s? I don't remember a Smiths Greengrocers on Stubbin Lane but do remember the Mikado drink shop where my father took myself and my sister every Saturday afternoon after we had visited Firth Park Library.
  12. Ponytail

    Jim Smith Greengrocers Firth Park

    Thanks SteveHB, opposite side of the road I was thinking of. Can you find a J. Smith, either Bellhouse or Stubbin Lane?
  13. Ponytail

    Jim Smith Greengrocers Firth Park

    Styans was on the corner of Bellhouse and Sicey, when it closed didn't it become a greengrocers? I only shopped with mum until I started school in 1956 and ran "messages" under strict instructions after that to certain shops; but have a memory of going into that shop as a greengrocers and thought that was Roses. Apologies Stunmon if my memory is muddled, I was trying to think of a Smiths on Bellhouse Road not on Stubbin Lane.
  14. Ponytail

    Jim Smith Greengrocers Firth Park

    Yes, I do remember Bucklows, proper ice cream. I think it closed down completely for a long time after they finished. As a small child I remember the first time going into the shop and she was weighing out sweets from a big jar into the metal weigh pan for a customer and the noise it made has stayed with me all my life. So much so the rare occasions I hear it now I'm transported back to that first time. Crazy how a sound can provoke a memory. I went to primary school with their grand daughter Margaret and we were train bearers together aged about 4 years old for Top Chapel's Sunday School Queen and Captain. Referring back to Jim Smiths, greengrocers, I understand now why I don't remember them, can't remember mum shopping on Stubbin Lane apart from Wilds for eggs up the little alleyway leading up to the Oval. Shopping trip in the 1950's was always "the Meadow", (where I was indulged with a custard cream from the assistant, that was up to being 5 years old) Friedriches, Spencer the butchers, Styans bakers, Wilds and returning up the hill again, the Chemist (always came away with a scented box) Matthews wool shop and finishing off with the Co-op at the top of Bellhouse for the cheese. Up until grandads death Dec 1956 (dad side of the family) we had fresh veg from his garden, afterwards I think mum shopped at the Market in "Town" but on occasion at Roses. Every one of those shops it was a queue to wait in, gossip to be exchanged and as a small child you had to learn patience as there was always conversation with someone in the street as well.
  15. Lysanderix

    Jim Smith Greengrocers Firth Park

    The pic of Smiths grocer reminds me of the shop on the corner of Bellhouse Rd. and Shiregreen Lane…near the gated entrance to Concord Park where, in Summer, ice creams and ice lollies were on sale. Can you remember , Ponytail?
  16. Lysanderix

    Jim Smith Greengrocers Firth Park

    In the mid / late 1950s I went to FPGS with Roses son, John , a product of Oakwood private school.whom I think became a solicitor..His family ,by my Council house standards, were “posh”( they had a Yacht moored at Bridlington and took part in sailing regattas) and lived in a detached house at Firvale ….next to St. Cuthberts Church.Their shop was definitely at the bottom of Bellhouse Rd…near to Rotherys fish mongers and the Terminus. Jim Smiths ….a much more down to earth character,shop was on Stubbin Lane. His produce tended to be cheaper than Roses…which was why Mum always did her greengrocery shopping there! Whether or not Smiths took over Roses business later, I couldn’t say…by the time I left school I had other things to contend with than shopping with Mum!
  17. Ponytail

    Jim Smith Greengrocers Firth Park

    I'm sure Rose's was there in the 1950's but the only "Smiths" I remember was on Bellhouse Road going down to Nethershire. If my memory serves correctly there were 2 brothers so one may have had a shop at Firth Park end. Seem to think one was called Jimmy. Their mother lived next door to us on Bellhouse Road in the 1950's/60's. She had the sweetshop next to Hatfield House Lane I & J School and their dad (named Jim?) not a well man, I think was of retiring age and must have worked for the council because he used to tend the flower beds at the school. Don't think he was ever in the shop trade possibly an ex-steelworker.
  18. My first thought Fir Croft House was connected to farming, but it appears not; unless anyone knows different. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v00719&pos=1&action=zoom&id=42527 Bryan Woodriff in his book, "Shire Green, Wincobank and Ecclesfield, writes, "It is said that Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Rhymer, lived here for a while when he left Masboro (Masbrough, Rotherham) He wrote some wonderful verses about Wincobank Hill." A statue of Elliott (1781-1849) was first erected in Market Place, Sheffield but later removed to Weston Park 1875. t03901 Photographer: Michael Beach. Situated at the S.E. corner of Bellhouse Road and Shiregreen Lane, Fir Croft House was not too far from Wincobank Hill. Shown on the OS Map of 1850 marked Fir Croft Cottage but not identified in the 1856 or 1862 Directories. Whites 1879 Directory records Thomas Tweedale, colliery proprietor, Brightside and Grimesthorpe, living at Fir Croft House. By the Directories of 1901, 1905 & 1911, Luther Heaton Drabble (b.1857), dental surgeon is resident at Fir Croft. y08254 1911 identifies Fir Croft, Shiregreen Lane, Shiregreen and Luther Heaton, Drabble has a dental surgery, 69 Wicker, Sheffield. OS Map CCLXXXVIII 1924. Marked Fir Croft House. Bryan Woodriff recounts Drabble was the last owner of Fir Croft House. Later demolished, the Graves Trust Houses were built on the site. Shiregreen Lane looking towards Bellhouse Road, showing clear vista into Concord Park after removal of privet hedges with the Graves Trust Houses visible on the left. 9th September 1954. s19450 A Dentist Surgery was in operation from one of the houses further back down Shiregreen Lane. Although a patient in the 1960's my memory fails me as to the name of the dentist. On the former House site at the junction of Bellhouse Road /Shiregreen Lane there used to be a big tree, fenced off shrubbery and a well used telephone box (at least up until the late 1960's early 70's) with Hoskins chip shop and Slaters grocery shop, (later incorporated the P. O.) Bellhouse Road, below the Trust Houses. Google It's probably my memory playing tricks with me but these aren't the Graves Trust Houses I remember; perhaps they were demolished? I'd like to discover when and who built Fir Croft House and any information connected with the property or the residents, especially the possible Ebenezer Elliott connection. Some years ago I researched Thomas Badger, solictors Bill Books and found his accounts related to various business he carried out over a number of years for Elliott in both Rotherham area and Sheffield but I don't remember coming across a reference to Fir Croft.
  19. Frederick Green and Sons were at 84 Bridge street in September 1895, Henry Brooksbank was the manager there, advertising for a youth about 17 years old, used to filing spoons and forks. In June 1896 Greens wanted a girl for polishing and wrapping, and were at the London Works, 7 Eyre Lane - still there in May 1900 when the works were advertised to let . (From 1862 to 1895 7 Eyre Lane had been occupied by Briddon Brothers, silversmiths).
  20. Thank you Boginspro and Ponytail for your suggestions and additions regarding Lustre Silver. Thomas H. Blake would be a candidate as he had by 1885 launched his business in Holly Lane as an electro-plate spoon and fork manufacturer, but I do not think the "THB" is Thomas H. Blake. I see "TH" as the "concern" and a "B" for electroplate grade quality. That quote for Frederick Green & Sons, as shown by the respected site "silvercollection.it" could fit but I can not find the Sheffield trade directory entries that back up that sites suggested dating. I checked Sheffield directories around the suggested last decade of the 19th century dates that I could see on line, but found no Frederick Green & Sons. There will be directories that are not on line of course that may have the positive evidence that proves the suggestion. I just think the "Lustre Silver" question needs more answers. Kalfred
  21. Ponytail

    Tapton Hall/Tapton Hill/Shore Lane

    Gates at the entrance to Tapton Masonic Hall, Shore Lane. 19th November 1987. u12334 Interior of Masonic Hall, Tapton Hall, Shore Lane. 4th September 1999. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u10053&pos=7&action=zoom&id=71205 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u10054&pos=8&action=zoom&id=71206
  22. Ponytail

    Tapton Hall/Tapton Hill/Shore Lane

    Tapton Hall, Shore Lane showing extension built 1968 by Hadfield, Cawkwell and Davidson. October 1988. s29369 s29367
  23. Ponytail

    Tapton Hall/Tapton Hill/Shore Lane

    Tapton Hall, Shore Lane., 21st March 2012. c04059 Photographer Alex Ekins. Grade II Listed Tapton Hall, was built in 1855 for Edward Vickers by William Flockton on the site of Tapton Grove, home of the Shore family. Built by Joseph Badger, the Grove was bought by Sheffield banker William Shore in 1790, who enlarged it. William & his wife Mary, nee Evans, were the Grandparents of the famous Florence Nightingale (Mary was the daughter of Anne Evans nee Nightingale). William & Mary's son, William Edward Shore on his coming of age, his Gt. Uncle Peter Nightingale's estate at Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, there after he assumed the 'Nightingale' name & Arms. He married Frances Smith in 1818 and had two daughters, Frances Parthenope b.1819 and Florence b.1820. William Shore died in 1822, and Mary in 1853, after which the Grove was bought by Robert B Mitchell who then sold it on in 1855. Information: S. Hedges. Converted to a Masonic Hall 1966, extension built by Hadfield, Cawkwell and Davidson 1968. p01057 These images were originally part of the Tim Hale Photographic Collection. It was purchased at auction in September 2019 through donations from members of the public and a grant from the Graves Trust. The Dell, Tapton Hall, Shore Lane. p01229
  24. Ponytail

    G Sharman Glossop Road

    Plan of Land near Portobello agreed to be leased by Benjamin Withers to Samuel Sharman and others. 1835. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03848&pos=38&action=zoom&id=99542 Marked: Glossop Road; Withers Street; Withers Lane; Cavendish Street.
  25. Gez

    BSC Shepcote Lane

    © GEZ

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