Guest chri5 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Anyone remember the old ruins at the top of London Road / bottom of the Moor? They were still there in the early/mid 80's after the DWP building had been built. Can't find any photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Hi and welcome to SheffieldHistory, are you referring to Young Street ? Link to 1950's OS map # 271 www.flashearth.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chri5 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 are you referring to Young Street ? There is a good chance it was Young Street yes. I was young at the time so can't be sure but definitely around there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 The story in last Fridays Star, " Blitz hero buries past." A former world war two fireman aged 94 has buried a time capsule on the Moor. Inside the capsule are photos and artefacts documenting the history of the area during the war years. When the Moor got bombed in December 1940 ,stores such as Robert Brothers, and Atkinsons were completely flattened. As we have seen on many old photographs the Moor was left with a huge crater in the road which eventually filled with water, this was left like this for a year or so. My brother often tells me how he and his pals used to go fishing on the Moor during the war. . yes on the Moor. Firstly he and his fishing friends fished at Rivelin and what small fish they caught they put in a jar or some bigger container if they could scrounge one. Then they would take the fish to the big " pond " on the Moor and wait for them to grow. Each week they would take some crumbs to feed them and add more [ or Moor ] fish. When they looked big enough to catch with a line and rod they would spend the day fishing on the Moor . Why they would want to sit on a bomb site and fish instead of Rivelin I don't know. Maybe it was something they could call their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Late 60's-early 70's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 What year ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Plonk this on your map Steve ! (1937) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Young Street, looking at back to backs fronting Moore Street but what year ... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 113 and 115 Young Street Soon to be demolished by the looks of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Moor and Young Street (1965) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 1975 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 1989 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 1984 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plain talker Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Late 60's-early 70's My goodness, I'd forgotten that there was that "tower block" offices thingie by the Exeter Drive flats! I used to catch my bus to High Storrs school by the bank/ S&E Co-op building at the bottom of Ecclesall road. As a youngster, I remember a market on that car park where the two lonely cars are parked( where what is now South lane curves away from the roundabout where the bus is. ) I remember a Father Christmas Grotto there, one year. I presume from the old maps I have seen that the car park in the foreground is the site of the old Methodist Church on South Lane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plain talker Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 What year ? I'd hazard a guess at the picture being taken at the same time as the previous one of the S&E Co-op:- it appears to be from the same height, and from the same vantage point, just swivelled 90 degrees, to face the Hallamshire hospital, instead of along "Eccy" road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Pond Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 My goodness, I'd forgotten that there was that "tower block" offices thingie by the Exeter Drive flats! I used to catch my bus to High Storrs school by the bank/ S&E Co-op building at the bottom of Ecclesall road. As a youngster, I remember a market on that car park where the two lonely cars are parked( where what is now South lane curves away from the roundabout where the bus is. ) I remember a Father Christmas Grotto there, one year. I presume from the old maps I have seen that the car park in the foreground is the site of the old Methodist Church on South Lane? If that's the block I think it is, then it was Davy Computing in the seventies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plain talker Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 If that's the block I think it is, then it was Davy Computing in the seventies. yes, Henry, I think you are right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike142sl Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Two pics taken from Moorfoot Building 1985 This one looking up Ecclesall Rd - can see the Davy Computing building quite clearly plus the old Cinema on Ecclesall Rd. Plus this one looking up London Rd with Barclays Bank still on the corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chri5 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 On 18/12/2012 at 2:12 PM, RichardB said: 1975 Hi all Richard I think this picture is the closest in terms of my memory of the buildings. It was just one side of the building remaining. I remember my mum saying at the time (early / mid eighties) that building will fall down next week, she used to say it every week for about a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonr2z Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 On 18 December 2012 at 10:14, plain talker said: My goodness, I'd forgotten that there was that "tower block" offices thingie by the Exeter Drive flats! I used to catch my bus to High Storrs school by the bank/ S&E Co-op building at the bottom of Ecclesall road. As a youngster, I remember a market on that car park where the two lonely cars are parked( where what is now South lane curves away from the roundabout where the bus is. ) I remember a Father Christmas Grotto there, one year. I presume from the old maps I have seen that the car park in the foreground is the site of the old Methodist Church on South Lane? There was a Father Christmas Grotto at the Moorfoot throughout the 1960's, used to go every year as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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