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I remember reading somewhere that it was only about a mile from the Ward's Howard Street house so always assumed that it was this one.

EDIT - Just found this quote - "Mr. Thomas Asline Ward (Asline Road?), a well known Sheffield magistrate, Master Cutler in 1816, resided at Park House, Olive Grove" from this site  ---   http://oldheeley.org/oldheeley18.htm

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Hah! Beaten to it, as I remember an old post that mentioned it...

It’s on the embedded map and most certainly not in Tinsley! lol

Someone once commented that if one looked for long enough on Sheffield History, virtually every answer to every question would probably have been covered at some point?

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Wonder if this this is the old boundary wall, backing on to East Bank Road???

Also prior to 1853, it looks like it was ‘the country’ and looked out over Highfield towards Little Sheffield.

Then some bloke called Stephenson, from down the road in Chesterfield, invented the steam locomotive and they built the main railway line and goods sidings through the front garden!!!

There’s progress for you.....

 

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36 minutes ago, lysander said:

I wonder where the short lived Park House school at Tinsley got its name?

It’s probably not as obvious as my earlier post, as although ‘Park House’ (the Tinsley one) was at the end of Park House Lane, Park House School was actually built on the site of the old Tinsley Manor House. So, maybe it should have been called Manor House School? Plenty of maps around with the site of both and if you overlay the current location of Park House School, you can see what I mean...

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I think the East Bank Road Park House could be the same as this in the Picture Sheffield "Unidentifield" section.

 

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16 minutes ago, BASSWRITER said:

I think the East Bank Road Park House could be the same as this in the Picture Sheffield "Unidentifield" section.

 

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I think you might be bang on with that?! Looks like Park House with the central bays and chimneys. Quick, let them know, so you get a mention in the credits lol

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5 hours ago, BASSWRITER said:

I think the East Bank Road Park House could be the same as this in the Picture Sheffield "Unidentifield" section.

 

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Great find, spot on, the two bricked up windows are conclusive evidence. This post is getting very interesting,  I wonder if there is more about this house to come?

I wonder when it was pulled down, that picture looks quite modern (my version of modern anyway) the Commer wagon looks late 50's early 60's, I drove a similar one in the 60's but not sure how old it was then.

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It looks like it disappeared sometime in the 1970’s? Looking at maps of the site, 1905-1977, Everything around the house is changing, but the outline of the house and grounds stays the same. The maps are 1905, 1923, 1935, 1953, 1969 & 1977. In the last map of 1977, the outline of the house has gone, so one assumes it was demolished and the later industrial buildings (now MF Hire) were erected on the site?

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10 hours ago, RLongden said:

It looks like it disappeared sometime in the 1970’s? Looking at maps of the site, 1905-1977, Everything around the house is changing, but the outline of the house and grounds stays the same. The maps are 1905, 1923, 1935, 1953, 1969 & 1977. In the last map of 1977, the outline of the house has gone, so one assumes it was demolished and the later industrial buildings (now MF Hire) were erected on the site?

Thanks, that's interesting for it means that I must have actually seen it, and forgotten, because at that time I was working on the buses out of East Bank garage.

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Now, here’s something else I found. I pulled out my 1970 copy of Kelly’s Directory and looked at East Bank Road

The research labs and printing works are there on the ‘odd’ side, at no’s 5 and 7/39 respectively

  • Norfolk Park Service Station at No.36.... not yet a petrol station, but a ‘motor engineers’
  • Brooke Bond Tea at No.38
  • Number 40 is split into 6 flats!

My theory is the precast concrete company rented the large yard for their wagons and paraphernalia, with the flats all occupied by the tenants in the Kelly’s listing?

So, the building was still standing in 1970, but converted into flats and rather less grand than it once was, barely 80 years earlier?

Does that spark any recollections? The Brooke Bond Tea wholesalers is a nice find, as it looks like it was housed in one of the outbuildings of the old ‘big house’?

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2 hours ago, RLongden said:

Does that spark any recollections? The Brooke Bond Tea wholesalers is a nice find, as it looks like it was housed in one of the outbuildings of the old ‘big house’?

Thanks, I do have vague memories of Brooke Bond Tea, but more the vans than the building. You have jogged my memory of the garage, I was a customer. If my memory serves at all close the research labs must have been the plain flat roofed building just about opposite the garage behind a big wire fence..

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I have come down that road many times but still couldn't quite put things in place in my mind, thank you. I was actually trying to remember which building Greenups were in.

I remember getting pinched for speeding on my motor bike just about there, you could get quite a speed up down East Bank, the police car had been trying to catch me from where the school is/was at the top.

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