Arif Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I'm interested in Harmer Lane at the minute and finding information quite difficult to find. Does anyone know when the area was demolished? Any information would be gratefully received. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 A name I hadn't heard for many years. My only memory of it is that it had the last request stop before my 102 'bus pulled into Pond Street. I suppose that was for the convenience of people wishing, as I did, to catch the 'buses (54, 55, 60) which started from just round the corner, opposite the Midland station, or perhaps those who were catching trains. But I last used that request stop in the 1960s! ion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 A map from 1950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin72 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 There are a few photos on Picture Sheffield. Before the war it was built up, less so after. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u00442&pos=5&action=zoom&id=35906 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 3 hours ago, Calvin72 said: There are a few photos on Picture Sheffield. Before the war it was built up, less so after. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u00442&pos=5&action=zoom&id=35906 Thank you, most kind of you. H Newsum Timber yard, I must look out for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Circa 1954 https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/4008-os-maps-of-sheffield-and-district-1950s 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Section from an an image in the Pond Street Bus Station topic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 1926 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 On 08/01/2022 at 08:53, SteveHB said: Circa 1954 https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/4008-os-maps-of-sheffield-and-district-1950s "Omnibus park". Weren't people formal in the 1950s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fentonvillain Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 The restaurant at the junction of Harmer Lane and Pond St was a Civic Restaurant, one of several in the city built during WWII to provide cheap, nourishing meals "for the workers". I recall going there with my mother in what would have been 1946/47 and enjoying such "treats" as brown windsor soup. Another was later to become the car tax office in Eyre St near the Graves Art Gallery and there was one at the top of Boston St/London Road. Another was opposite the back of the City Hall in Holly Green. There must be many memories associated with these places. I don't recall the rest of that triangle being a timber yard. I rather recall it as something of a steel works. But I can not be sure. The piece of land shown as a car park remained an unsurfaced car park for several decades. I always had the impression it was a bomb-site. Across Pond St was another bomb-site surrounded for many years by tall hoardings. It then got swallowed up the the never ending expansion of the College of Technology/Polytechnic/Hallam University. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Circa 1935 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 2 hours ago, fentonvillain said: The restaurant at the junction of Harmer Lane and Pond St was a Civic Restaurant, one of several in the city built during WWII to provide cheap, nourishing meals "for the workers". I recall going there with my mother in what would have been 1946/47 and enjoying such "treats" as brown windsor soup. Another was later to become the car tax office in Eyre St near the Graves Art Gallery and there was one at the top of Boston St/London Road. Another was opposite the back of the City Hall in Holly Green. There must be many memories associated with these places. I don't recall the rest of that triangle being a timber yard. I rather recall it as something of a steel works. But I can not be sure. The piece of land shown as a car park remained an unsurfaced car park for several decades. I always had the impression it was a bomb-site. Across Pond St was another bomb-site surrounded for many years by tall hoardings. It then got swallowed up the the never ending expansion of the College of Technology/Polytechnic/Hallam University. Great information, many thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Sheffield Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 09/01/2022 at 13:20, Arif said: 1926 I haven't seen a picture of the area built up to this extent. My Grandma was a Binney and said a relative ran a fish shop on either Pond Street or Harmer Lane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 On 17/01/2022 at 11:09, Old Sheffield said: I haven't seen a picture of the area built up to this extent. My Grandma was a Binney and said a relative ran a fish shop on either Pond Street or Harmer Lane. It looks such a higgledy concentration of houses, factories and workshops. It would be fascinating to find it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 On 17/01/2022 at 11:09, Old Sheffield said: I haven't seen a picture of the area built up to this extent. My Grandma was a Binney and said a relative ran a fish shop on either Pond Street or Harmer Lane. This map from 1935 shows a small amount of housing as well as the timber yards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madannie77 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Way back in 1896, plenty of housing on Pond Street but not a great deal on Harmer Lane: https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/Sheffield#bbox=-1.4667595726013183,53.3774959656611,-1.4605095726013184,53.381495443110225&q=&date_from=0&date_to=9999&scale_from=&scale_to= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrup Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Census Records available for Harmer Lane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 4 hours ago, syrup said: Census Records available for Harmer Lane. Wow Syrup thank you 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 On 21/01/2022 at 13:00, madannie77 said: Way back in 1896, plenty of housing on Pond Street but not a great deal on Harmer Lane: https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/Sheffield#bbox=-1.4667595726013183,53.3774959656611,-1.4605095726013184,53.381495443110225&q=&date_from=0&date_to=9999&scale_from=&scale_to= That really is amazing, thank you! I could spend hours looking at these, very kind of you 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arif Posted February 10, 2022 Author Share Posted February 10, 2022 The main subject of this photo is obviously the railway station, in the background though is a clear view of Newsums timber yard in Harmer Lane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Suddy you've taken me back to 60 years ago when I was a short-trousered train-spotter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysanderix Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 The Black 5 still looks well…fit for purpose and, somehow ,hardly dated or is that just an old steam buff remembering his youth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 14 hours ago, Lysanderix said: The Black 5 still looks well…fit for purpose and, somehow ,hardly dated or is that just an old steam buff remembering his youth? probably. But it probably wasn't that old at the time. When were blood-and-custard liveries phased out? About 1957? The loco was perhaps 20 years old . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysanderix Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 But 60 years later it still looks well!😋 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 3 hours ago, Lysanderix said: But 60 years later it still looks well!😋 ....and fortunately, after all that time, there are still opportunities to see members of the class looking well. I'd guess that there are more of them in captivity than any other class - maybe Austerity saddle tanks and Terriers run them close. Edit: I was miles out. The scores, as per the internet, seem to be: - Black Fives: 14 Terriers: 8 Austerities: 64 (though many ex-N.C.B., not B.R.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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