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Does anyone know what was behind the wall in Carlisle Street East that you can see in this view on Google Maps?

http://goo.gl/maps/LVuNV

This map (#91) shows a building there...

I'm trying to find out what the building was and whether it was at street level or raised up.

A recce of the site has revealed plenty of brick walls and a floor (roof?) but it's not clear if there is something beneath (i'm hoping for something in the same vein as the "Medical Centre" just a little further down the street).

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One of these probably (since you're not going to bung a beerhouse or fried fish dealer behind a wall like that) :

Augustus Pearce & Sons, Iron, steel, coke and sand merchants 129 Carlisle Street (1911-1925)

Edwin Banks, Metal Broker and beerhouse, 147 Carlisle Street East (1911)

Coupe Brothers, Carting contractors, builders merchants & brick manufacturers 19 Carlisle Street East (1919-1925)

George Carr, builder & contractoe & brick maker 65 Carlisle Street East (1893)

Henry Bessemer & Co. Ltd, manufacturers of "stuff", Bessemer Steel Works, Carlisle Street East (1911-1925)

Kayser, Ellison & Co. Ltd, steel manufacturers Carlisle Street East (1925)

lots of coal merchants, lots of pubs and beerhouses ...

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No problem.

Thanks Richard but the building I'm looking for was there in the 1950's and, I believe, was part of Firth Browns.

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I realise this is an old thread, but just in case you never got your answer...

Behind the wall is what used to be the medical centre for Firth Browns. I have plent of images of the inside (as it stands now) if you're curious?

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Scrap that, missed this in the original post:

A recce of the site has revealed plenty of brick walls and a floor (roof?) but it's not clear if there is something beneath (i'm hoping for something in the same vein as the "Medical Centre" just a little further down the street).

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I was once told by someone claiming to be an ex employee of the site that there was once a shooting range and ambulance station, probably where the picture shows, however never found anything to support this.

Further back towards the factory there are / were air raid shelters.

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That building  that was behind the wall was a school my dad attended around 1920. It was the only 'senior' school in the area then as Burngreave wasn't built until 1931. Later becoming Firth-Brown property.  Correct that the Carlisle Street East side was a 'Firth-Brown' ambulance station with Air raid shelters underneath. The Forncett Street side was a  canteen.

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