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SteveHB Did you live in the village ? if so you must remember there was also a breadshop at the bottom of Coal Pit lane opposite Birchenoughs farm. It was painted a red colour. The Gennel which ran down the side of the bread shop also had a host of cottages, most of them hidden fro few on the left going down towards Rural Lane (Fox Lane), If my memory is correct I believe the Fearn Family lived in at least one of the cottages. If You remember Polly Bettaneys you must remember this as well,

That was a laugh, you don't get much for your money these days unless you'vre got £750,000! My Grandad once bought 2 houses in Brightside for £100 but I bet that house in Dronfield din't have an outside toilet or a coal hole!

1910's Poor waiting for coke at Grimesthorpe Gasworks during Coal Strike http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s03720

Victoria Hotel (extreme left, closed in the early 70's) & Old Toll Bar House No. 329 (coal dealers), Langsett Road between Woodland Street and Victor Street, probably of interest to transport-type-people as well. http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s16151 Another : http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s16152

"Underground passages in Sheffield. There are old coal mine workings in the vicinity of Rockingham Street. The Manor passage may have been used to bring drinking water to the Park from the Manor well or spring. Then there was the wooden pipes made from hollowed tree trunks used to convey water from Brookhill to the Hartshead. These carrier passages are being put forward as subterranean passages. Maybe this is part of that Hartshead tunnel. Picture Sheffield pics: picturesheffield s09545 picturesheffield s09546

I've been to a call today on New Street in High Green. I've called there quite a few times in the past and never took much notice of it but what a street!! Almost all of the houses have the original carved window sills intact and there are still a good number of big old chimney pots.... Round the back there are still one or two of the old "netties" (not sure what you call them down here!!) with the coal houses built on to them. Inside the house I was working in the owner still had the old round pin plug sockets and carpet rods to hold the stairs carpet up...it was ace! On the outside was the old rusty hook to hang your washing line on. This place should have a preservation order slapped on it straight away. It reminds me a lot of the old pit village in Durham where I come from. The village was filled with streets like this but now, sadly they are all gone. Most of the character of the village was lost in the late seventies/ early eighties when the local council was giving grants out to add kitchen extensions and bathrooms on the back of the houses. Consequently all the old netties disappeared and were replace with flat roofed monstrosities with bricks that didn't blend in with the rest of the house, which all look terrible. It was great, toady to see a street which is almost un-molested.

More info on Barkers Pool : A prominent place on the list of Sheffield's benefactors should be given to one whose name has been familiar for centuries, and is destined to live for centuries yet to come, but of whom we know absolutely nothing. In Barker, or Barker's, Pool, we have the first attempt to give to the inhabitants, beyond the wells situated in various parts of the town, a constant supply of pure water. The tradition is that one Barker, of Balm Green, took steps to make some sort of reservoir for the storage of the water supplied by springs, and it puts the date of the enterprise in the year I434. All we know certainly is that in the year named there was a " Barker of Balm," and that there had been a " William Barkar " in I379. " Barker Powle" is mentioned in a deed of I567, and in I570 the Burgery was "amerced" in the sum of 3s. 3d., paid as a fine, or rent, to the Lord of the Manor, for the pool. From this date until I786, the cleansing and keeping in order of the pool was acknowledged as one of the specific charges upon the town property. Indeed we may bring it to a later date than this; for after the pool, superseded by a more efficient water supply, had been removed as a nuisance in I793, the Town Trustees (I825) put up a pump near, and this remained, though in its latter days unused, until I876. A glance at the plan on page 153* explains far better than words the topography of the space we call Barker Pool as it was when on the eve of being rebuilt. The pool was not, as many suppose, where Pool Square is. It was on the site of the property above (west of) that; bounded by the square on the east; by the main thoroughfare on the south; and by what lS now called Balm Green, but which is properly Flint Well, on the north. Across its west end ran a passage leading to Flint Well. This still exists. There abutted on the north and west walls of the pool some mean tenements, insanitarily suggestive. The pool was an oblong, walled space, about 36 yards by 20, not quite right-angled, for it was slightly wider at its upper than at its lower, or eastern end. It did not run exactly on the lines of the present erections, which were placed over it corner-wise, with a frontage due south, not south-west, as was the case with the pool. Thus its lower, or south- eastern corner, where the entrance gate was placed, facing Fargate, projected over what is the present footpath, opposite the offices occupied by Messrs. Cocking formerly Alderman Mycock's house. Above the pool, and separated from its western wall by the narrow lane before mentioned, two detatched blocks of property, divided by a " jennel," filled the space to Blind Lane (Holly Street). The southern of these was of erratically irregular shape. Starting opposite the west corner of the pool, it ran sharply, in a south-westerly direction, to the top of Coal Pit Lane. It will thus be seen that it lay right across what was destined to be the entrance to Division Street. As a matter of fa~, it obstructed direct access to that street later than I823. This obtrusive block had at some time been dumped down in promiscuous fashion on Balm Green, despite the wise resolve of the Burgery to keep the sources of supply free from contamination by decreeing (I658): " That the parcel of ground lying and being before the newe dwelling house of George Flint, and at the south end of John Stones house, in Balm greene, shall not bee lett to any person whatsoever, nor be made use of at any time hereafter for any purpose whatso- ever, but that the same henceforth shall continue wast as formerly." It took more than a century to wipe out the ill consequences of a departure from that decision, and to get back the open space we see to-day. After the encroachment on " the waste," the old name was applied, as is shown on the plan, to two sides of the obliterated green. As early as I572 we read of expenditure in walling the pool, in making a shuttle to run off the water into the channels by which it was conducted to the lower parts of the town, and so to the river. This channel necessitated the provision of a "little bridge," railed, by which foot passengers could cross; and the maintenance of this, together with repairs to the pool, and " feyinge," that is cleansing it, was a constant duty. In I6I5 Ellis Young, who had been Town Collector and Churchwarden, gave £5 if the people of Sheffield would make a channel to convey the water from Barker Pool down the town, where need shall be. And the accounts show that considerable work was done at the pool at that time. "Worke about Barker poole sough" and " Opening the sow at the poole" are subsequent entries, and on old maps the space in Fargate, about the position of the Monolith, is marked as ~ Sough mouth." The corner hard by, of Pinsoncroft (or Pinchercroft) Lane (Pinstone Street), was known as Colley Nook. In I63I Robert Rollynson, mercer, a notable benefactor, made improvements in the pool so extensive as to amount to a reconstruction. Accorz,ding to the tablet to his memory, formerly in the chancel of' the Parish Church, he, " at his own cost, made a large pool, walled in, at the upper end of the town, to receive water from certain springs, which may be let out to run down the channels upon any occasion of fire." In I672-4 large sums were laid out in further enlarging and improving this important source of supply, and frequent charges for locks and keys show how jealously it was guarded against intrusion and defilement. At the same time, "The way against it and the trowes in the Colepitt lane " were put in order. lt would appear that Barker Pool was, on occasion, used for ducking termagants, for in the constables' accounts for I654 there is a charge for "bringing the cuck stoole (from Lady's Bridge) up to Barker Poole." REMINISCENCES OF SHEFFIELD by R. E. LEADER CHAPTER 08 - STREETS, SHOPS, WELLS, AND MARKETS ******************************************************************************** *********************** This out of copyright material has been transcribed by Eric Youle, who has * * provided the transcription on condition that any further copying and * * distribution of the transcription is allowed only for noncommercial * * purposes, and includes this statement in its entirety. Any references to, * * or quotations from, this material should give credit to the original * * author(s) or editors. *

Round the back there are still one or two of the old "netties" (not sure what you call them down here!!) with the coal houses built on to them. Round our way they were referred to as t'outside bog but we were posh!

Thats the gate...the one with the factory behind...and the coal drops..that'll be right, there were huge things on the side where you cajn imagine waggons emptying the coals down. Wish I had took some shots round there

Don't know if it's connected but Burnett & Hallanshire, Coal Merchants, had a similar shop set back from Moorhead in the 50s & 60s. Roughly where Furnival Gate is now.

Wasn't Denaby Main the Colliery they used to film "The Price Of Coal" ????

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.

Just got the Price Of Coal on dvd.. Will be doing a feature on this on the site over the next few weeks.. It starred Bobby Knutt, Stan Richards (seth armstrong off Emmerdale !) and Duggie Brown If anyone know anything about this film let us know by posting a reply..

PETER HARRAP When asked his age, Peter replied somewhat uncertainly, 'Ooh, er, 20'. The son of a mining training officer, Peter studied at Sheffield University and was doing quite well until a Currah Microspeech unit decided to destroy his Spectrum and thus plunged him into a life of games designing. Like so many other young programmers, Pete started with 'a little ZX81' and then skipped a big ZX81 by selling some camera equipment to buy a Spectrum. He taught himself machine code programming on the 81 and 'basically transferred that to the Spectrum'. Until meeting Ian Stewart and Kevin Norburn in Just Micro, Pete used to do some hacking and design programs to alter existing games. His city redesigner for Ant Attack was sent back because Quicksilva told him they were already developing something themselves; although this never appeared, Zombie Zombie did allow the player to rebuild and change the city. Peter Harrap hit the headlines (literally) with his first game, the CRASH Readers Award winner, Wanted: Monty Mole. A wicked sense of humour was apparent in the game, and it is this angle that is most noticeable in the follow up. Apart from programming entire games, Pete is responsible for many of the Spectrum graphics in other Gremlin games, he has designed the main character in Beaver Bob, for instance. This led to some ribald comments on Bob's suggestive style of walking - the irrepressible Harrap humour sometimes verges on the - well, naughty. Monty on the Run is the true successor to Wanted: Monty Mole. Like its forerunner, it is a platform game with many and varied elements. Perhaps the most significant is the fact that Monty can now somersault rather than just jump. When asked whether the Commodore game Impossible Mission might have been a (forgive the pun) springboard, Pete just smiled. The story, as we know, so far: Monty Mole, suffering from a shortage of coal owing to the miners' strike, enters a mine to steal some. After many misadventures he meets Arthur Scargill and is sent to prison for theft. His friend, Sam Stoat, has a go at rescuing him, but fails in the attempt, so Monty is left to complete his sentence. With time on his hands he takes to the prison gymnasium and becomes super fit, learning to somersault in the process. He gets out of gaol and tries to flee to Brazil. This is where the action of Monty on the Run takes place, as he boards a ship and tries to escape to France. Money is of the essence, and fortunately there are gold sovereigns to be collected, but in order for the ship to sail, Monty has to perform several tasks, all of which require the right tool for the job. On top of that there are hosts of malcontents trying to stop him. The 'orrible 'arrap has programmed in numerous devious traps, some of which are so mind-bogglingly cruel it's mind-boggling. There are lifts with nasty habits, teleport beams which are only safe if they are a certain colour and some of which can deposit you in a lethal situation. Objects to be collected are placed in almost impossible positions, and often, after hours of trying to reach them, they turn out to be useless or, worse still, positively dangerous. This is not a game for the squeamish! Peter, who is quietly spoken, tends to a calmness that is belied by the mischievious delight he takes in setting the hapless player up for a pratfall. But I've no doubt that thousands will be queueing up for a custard pie in the face by October when Monty on the Run is released.

The pop man used to come round when I was in my teens....from Goddards which was down on Park View Road. Also gone but never forgotten from the late 50's and 60's were: Rag and Bone men with their horse drawn and also hand pulled carts The Knife Sharpener The Gas Man who would turn off and on the gas lamps up and down Clarence Road with a long pole with a T bar on it Gypsies going door to door selling pegs, pins and "lucky" heather The Coal Man ( Charllie Hollingsworth) The Calor Gas man Window cleaners with their ladders on long barrows Cobbled streets..........sigh ;)