SteveHB Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 I can't quite get the hang of this photograph, can you tell me what road the bus is coming out of. I wish I could see the rest of the bus, could it be a Sheffield gear less bus, even a Leyland Titanic. Right boginspro, this should explain. The lady in the foreground is walking down Pond Hill towards the Queens Head PH, the bus is on Pond Street facing Commercial Street, and the people in the background are on Flat Street. Link ti Flash Earth On the other bus photo (post #15), the bus is parked opposite from that marked on the map, and is facing towards Harmer Lane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Didn't the City ( and Hitler?) destroy some interesting looking buildings ?I know many were insanitary and unfit ,but I wonder if a different Council might have tried to maintain more of its history ,and architecture,than did our old Corporation in the haste to rebuild and modernise. "Philistine City", indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Right boginspro, this should explain. The lady in the foreground is walking down Pond Hill towards the Queens Head PH, the bus is on Pond Street facing Commercial Street, and the people in the background are on Flat Street. pond.jpg Link ti Flash Earth On the other bus photo (post #15), the bus is parked opposite from that marked on the map, and is facing towards Harmer Lane. Thanks for the explanation SteveHB, I can see it clearly now. Very interesting photographs in this post, what character Sheffield had in those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Same row of shops, top right of this picturesheffield photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Same row of shops, top right of this picturesheffield photo So in the foreground must be the steep steps that I asked about somewhere else on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 So in the foreground must be the steep steps that I asked about somewhere else on the forum. When we walked up those steps as kids we would count them, later I regularly climbed them on the way to the Adelphi pub after getting off the 41 bus in Pond Street. We sometimes referred to them by the number of steps, can anyone remember how many? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 When we walked up those steps as kids we would count them, later I regularly climbed them on the way to the Adelphi pub after getting off the 41 bus in Pond Street. We sometimes referred to them by the number of steps, can anyone remember how many? Mentioned on another web site, someone referred to them as being called "One hundred steps" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 pondst..jpg Is that Mosboro - Eckington on the destination plate. Is that an old spelling of Mosborough or does it say something else. Anyway it would be a nice run into Derbyshire in those days. Great picture, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Is that Mosboro - Eckington on the destination plate. Is that an old spelling of Mosborough or does it say something else. Anyway it would be a nice run into Derbyshire in those days. Great picture, thanks. Could it be " ? - Edlington" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Could it be " ? - Edlington" ? Could be but I can't imagine a Sheffield route going there, or am I wrong, I think it needs someone with a better knowledge of very old bus roots and better eyes than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Could be but I can't imagine a Sheffield route going there, or am I wrong, I think it needs someone with a better knowledge of very old bus roots and better eyes than me. It does looks more like Eckington Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Looks like Pond St. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Looks like Pond St. Yes I think it is the same place as the photographs further up this post and on Picture Sheffield as below, http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s18723&pos=38&action=zoom&id=21290 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Voldy Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 On 2/18/2015 at 14:54, boginspro said: Could be but I can't imagine a Sheffield route going there, or am I wrong, I think it needs someone with a better knowledge of very old bus roots and better eyes than me. Almost 2 years since this post but the Eckington route carried the No 30, which looks like the indicator display on the AEC? single-decker, into the 50's. Does this reinforce the information boginspro posted earlier? The latest picture seems to cover the location 30 or so years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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