Sheffield History Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Open up this photo and take a look at this Sheffield scene of Leopald Street in Sheffield City Centre. How things have changed! Totally different now of course. On the right is the Three Tuns Public House. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unitedite Returns Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 A great photograph, so little motor traffic, so I thought that it would be nice to add another, roughly contemporary image (30/09/1960), showing the opposite side of the road. The Grand Hotel is now sadly, long gone. The destination board of the tram-car, No.100, reads Millhouses. This particular tram-car was built by Sheffield Corporation in 1942, in order to replace an earlier vehicle, carrying the same number, and which had been destroyed in the blitz of 1940. Incidentally, should it be Leopold Street, not Leopald Street? Or, do we have a choice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 46 minutes ago, Sheffield History said: Open up this photo and take a look at this Sheffield scene of Leopald Street in Sheffield City Centre. How things have changed! Totally different now of course. On the right is the Three Tuns Public House. Looks like 1950's to me. I remember that the shop where Kate Saxon's is in the 1960's achieved some fame as it displayed a topless dress in the window. My girl friend (now wife) & me were passing it on way to Berni Inn (I think that's what it was) for a steak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeadFarmer Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 1 hour ago, Sheffield History said: Is that the view looking towards the Town Hall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Walker Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 @Unitedite Returns - I have always known it as Leopold Street. @LeadFarmer - both photos are looking away from the Town Hall, towards Church Street/West Street junction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 Leopold Street surely, was it not named after Prince Leopold, son of Queen Victoria? EDIT - I think it may have been due to him opening Firth College on the corner of West Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 I have a feeling having read somewhere that the Leopold in question was a German princeling and not one of Victoria's brood. The jewellers in the picture( you can just make out the sign) was where I obtained my first watch. It had luminescent dots and my mother carefully removed them when she read that they were all radio-active....as well as on the hands...Bless her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 2 hours ago, lysander said: I have a feeling having read somewhere that the Leopold in question was a German princeling and not one of Victoria's brood. The jewellers in the picture( you can just make out the sign) was where I obtained my first watch. It had luminescent dots and my mother carefully removed them when she read that they were all radio-active....as well as on the hands...Bless her! This is the Leopold I was referring to QUOTE Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, KG, KT, GCSI, GCMG, GCStJ (Leopold George Duncan Albert; 7 April 1853 – 28 March 1884) was the eighth child and youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow. He had haemophilia, which led to his death at the age of 30. UNQUOTE Link here ------------ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Leopold,_Duke_of_Albany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Thanks for clarifying that for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rover1949 Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 We would occasionally go into the Grand Hotel late 60s. I recall there was a bar on the first floor called the Gold Room (??) As callow youths we would be trying to impress the young ladies, much to the amusement of the regulars. Later it became the site of the Buccaneer, - but was that in the cellar of the old hotel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinkii Louiise Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 The first photo. Can anyone see what i can see? Where is the head? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Milner Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 On 10/6/2017 at 08:14, Unitedite Returns said: A great photograph, so little motor traffic, so I thought that it would be nice to add another, roughly contemporary image (30/09/1960), showing the opposite side of the road. The Grand Hotel is now sadly, long gone. The destination board of the tram-car, No.100, reads Millhouses. This particular tram-car was built by Sheffield Corporation in 1942, in order to replace an earlier vehicle, carrying the same number, and which had been destroyed in the blitz of 1940. Incidentally, should it be Leopold Street, not Leopald Street? Or, do we have a choice? To the left of the steps going up in to the Grand Hotel are the steps going down to the Buccaneer bar in the late 1960s / early 1970s, possibly not at the time this picture was taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 On 6 October 2017 at 20:21, lysander said: I have a feeling having read somewhere that the Leopold in question was a German princeling and not one of Victoria's brood. The jewellers in the picture( you can just make out the sign) was where I obtained my first watch. It had luminescent dots and my mother carefully removed them when she read that they were all radio-active....as well as on the hands...Bless her! The Jewelers was H L Browns, I bought my wife's wedding ring there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinkii Louiise Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 On 06/10/2017 at 07:32, Sheffield History said: Open up this photo and take a look at this Sheffield scene of Leopald Street in Sheffield City Centre. How things have changed! Totally different now of course. On the right is the Three Tuns Public House. What are peoples thoughts on this? I zoomed in and found someone who seems to have no head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 I'm amused by that little boy who, in Just William style, has one sock pulled up and the other at half-mast - but he does look to me as if he has a head. So, would the City Hall be off to the left of the photo, or have I got it the wrong way round? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeadFarmer Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 1 hour ago, Athy said: So, would the City Hall be off to the left of the photo? Yes, I believe so. Im guessing the gap in the building line leads to what is Now Orchard Square. Todays view is something like this, but this view is taken from slightly further back along Leopold St... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rover1949 Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 I see there is another thread about the Buccaneer bub, presumably the Hotel bar I remember became the Captain's Cabin. The photo shows a Blue Gillette sign in the cellar windows, so this was probably a barber's shop when the photo was taken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Apart from H L Brown there was another, smaller, jeweller on Leopold Street in the 1940/50's . I wonder if anyone can remember it's name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tofty Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I worked at Wilson Peck on the corner of Leopold Street and Barkers Pool and used to nip across the road after work for a few pints in the Three Tuns. That was 1963 - 64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 On 15 October 2017 at 08:39, lysander said: Apart from H L Brown there was another, smaller, jeweller on Leopold Street in the 1940/50's . I wonder if anyone can remember it's name? Was it Leopold Bullion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 That's not the name I have hidden away in the depths of my memory but thanks for suggesting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christram Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 The small jewellers shop on Leopold Street was Alexander Bortner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 Thank you...that's the one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gloops Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 I remember another jewellers there late 60's "Ingrams" They had a very pretty girl working there "Jackie" who we referred to as Ms. Ingram before discovering her actual name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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