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The Sun Inn / Park Hill Flats in Sheffield


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Gilbert street looking up to south street, park hill, sheffield 
may 1959 & may 2015

 

 

Does anyone know anything about the Sun Inn?
Never knew it ever stood there, despite knowing the area well and growing up on Park Hill flats

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My grandad asked me to look this pub up once "ont interweb"....,

his dad drank in there and was the first place he ever had a pint.

said if he could bring one pub back it would be that one. Windows looking out over town and sone real characters in there.

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8 hours ago, LeadFarmer said:

War damage, or demolition for the railway?



Very good question - not sure to be honest

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Judging by the number of gongoozlers [gawping bystanders], something dramatic and unusual, so World War 2 damage could be it.

That rather splendid lorry must have been an antique even in the 1940s - can anyone identify it?

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On 11/15/2016 at 11:25, neddy said:

Held by one of the wife's ancestors Frederick Hoyland and his nephew Frederick's wife till the 1870's.

Just in case you've not seen this.

 To be sold by Auction.
SUN INN, 74 South Street Park with adjoining shop.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph 09 February 1889
 

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5 hours ago, syrup said:

The Sun Inn, Strange case ??

Sheffield Daily Telegraph 01 April 1870

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I do have the information, Frederick Hoyland was buried in a plot owned by William & Edmund Stones & Needham of Cannon Brewery.

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16 hours ago, LeadFarmer said:

War damage, or demolition for the railway?

Air raid damage. Not the blitz though this was the first real air raid damage of the war. You can see tin hats and uniforms. The railway ramp and bridge in front of the Sun Inn were unchanged after the war.

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