vox Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 They certainly show the rounded ends of Harcourt Road just as Andy said. And Great Dam Road right along the side of the lake before the high embankment was put in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Interesting view, 1921 (scroll to the top) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Harcourt Road 1888-92 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmydunneclone Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 My late grandfather said he had a yard on Mushroom Lane when he started out as a plumber @1929.There doesn't appear to be any dwellings on said road... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin72 Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 My late grandfather said he had a yard on Mushroom Lane when he started out as a plumber @1929.There doesn't appear to be any dwellings on said road... Mushroom Lane is very old (older than most of it's surroundings) so there may have been many changes over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 Mushroom Lane is very old (older than most of it's surroundings) so there may have been many changes over the years. 1925 directory. Mushroom Lane from St. Stephen's Road (Fawcett Street), to Summer Street & Winter Street, numbers 25 - 105. Even numbers: St. Stephen's Road >> 24 - 368, with 368 being near to Western Bank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 The Northern section of Mushroom Lane, circa 1903. Link to Flash Earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmydunneclone Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Mushroom Lane is very old (older than most of it's surroundings) so there may have been many changes over the years. I should have realised it crossed over Crookes Valley Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Mushroom Lane; circa 1849 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bensonhedges Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 So when were Godfrey Dam and New Dam filled in to create the sports pitches they are today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Godfrey Dam was certainly still there in the late fifties, early sixties because I always made a point of having a look through the railings after a visit to the Charles Clifford Clinic (nasty) or a trip around the museum (nice in those days but one visit was more than enough now it's been "modernised"). As I remember it, the Godfrey dam was surrounded by thick vegetation and looked very forbidding, the water level was very low. Looking on O.S. maps both dams were still there in 1967, but the playing fields are shown on the 1976 map. We went to live in Crookes in 1973 and I can remember that by that time the playing fields were under construction. HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wadsleyite Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Interesting thread. I remember my grandfather (born 1892) telling me that the embankment was being built when he was at school, and that all the dustcarts went there to dump their rubbish, thus gradually building up the embankment. If this were to enable trams to run to Walkley, then it would have been completed by 1899 which is when the service began. The thought occurred to me that anyone digging deep into the embankment now might find some highly collectible Victorian bottles etc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 1900 - Snippet view only Since my last Report the tipping of Street Sweepings has practically ceased at Crookes Valley Road. This place has been our best means of disposal for many years past, and the loss of it was keenly felt. It was necessary that some other place ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Brace yourselves, bit of Transport information incoming from the most unlikely of sources, me ! The tram was the number 17. Remarkable stuff. Interesting thread. I remember my grandfather (born 1892) telling me that the embankment was being built when he was at school, and that all the dustcarts went there to dump their rubbish, thus gradually building up the embankment. If this were to enable trams to run to Walkley, then it would have been completed by 1899 which is when the service began. The thought occurred to me that anyone digging deep into the embankment now might find some highly collectible Victorian bottles etc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Route from 1897 - it says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 1900 - Snippet view only Since my last Report the tipping of Street Sweepings has practically ceased at Crookes Valley Road. This place has been our best means of disposal for many years past, and the loss of it was keenly felt. It was necessary that some other place ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Potential electric eel incident in 1898. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 £12,000 was sanctioned in 1893 for the works at Crookes Valley Road; they were back for more in 1891. Pointless link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madannie77 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Brace yourselves, bit of Transport information incoming from the most unlikely of sources, me ! The tram was the number 17. Remarkable stuff. Route from 1897 - it says. The number 17 being the number of the proposed tramway in the Sheffield Corporation Act 1897. From the London Gazette of 24th November 1896, page 6540: "Tramway No. 17, commencing in Leavygreave (as proposed to be widened), by a junction with Tramway No. 13 at a point 1 1/2 chains or thereabouts south of Western Bank, and passing thence into and along Western Bank, Winter Street, Mushroom Lane, Crookes Valley Road, Crookesmoor Road, Barber Road, Commonside, Spring Vale Road, Howard Hill, Howard Road, Hadfield Street, and South Road, and terminating in South Road at a point 1/2 a chain or thereabouts south of Walkley Road." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickdioxide Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 Some snippets from local newspapers Tip opened 2nd June 1885 11th January 1886 The Improvements Committee decide to call the road between Winter Street and Crookesmoor side "Crookes Valley road" Sheffield Daily Telegraph 10th August 1886 Advert: " Free Tip New Crookes Valley Road Tip now open at Canada Road The Corporation of Sheffield GIVE NOTICE that they are still prepared to receive Good, Hard, Dry RUBBISH (not being of inflammable or offensive nature), for the Formation of the above Road. The "Tip" can now be approached by the way of Canada road (off St Stephen's Road) as well as at Harcourt Road" The same advert appears a month earlier but access is from Harcourt Road, Bromley Street, Fawcett Street and Winter Street Sheffield Independent 13th October 1887 by 13th October 1887 135 000 loads of rubbish deposited there 220 000 cubic yards 1891 widened from 40' to 45' costing £5000 26th July 1911 Tramways Committee consider deputation who suggest Hoyle Street, Meadow Street, Portmahon, Upperthorpe Road, Oxford Street, Crookes Valley Road as a route. 11th September 1911 Tramways Committee consider an alternative Upperthorpe Tram route considered from Infirmary Road, Albert Terrace Road, Oxford Street into Crookes Valley Road opposite Harcourt Road 10th November 1913 Tramways Committee again considering but reply that a bus now operates ( since 26th October 1913) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Seems like the name " tip " stuck for a very long time. We kids always called it the tip, O tha playing ont tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Some snippets from local newspapers Tip opened 2nd June 1885 11th January 1886 The Improvements Committee decide to call the road between Winter Street and Crookesmoor side "Crookes Valley road" Sheffield Daily Telegraph 10th August 1886 Advert: " Free Tip New Crookes Valley Road Tip now open at Canada Road The Corporation of Sheffield GIVE NOTICE that they are still prepared to receive Good, Hard, Dry RUBBISH. That begs the question, are we now going to see holes dug all over the place on the embankment by treasure hunters. Mind you according to the Ordnance Survey map of the Netherthorpe Parish a hoard of Roman coins were found in 1823 in a spot between the boundary of the Great Dam and where the bowling green is now. W/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 That begs the question, are we now going to see holes dug all over the place on the embankment by treasure hunters. Mind you according to the Ordnance Survey map of the Netherthorpe Parish a hoard of Roman coins were found in 1823 in a spot between the boundary of the Great Dam and where the bowling green is now. W/E. I'll meet you down there at 3am WE Bring a spade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madannie77 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 They did display route letters in the early days, however (until 1905), and from 1912 until 1960 route letter codes were used on the tickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 I'll meet you down there at 3am WE Bring a spade. Looks as though someone has beaten us to it vox. Walking up Winter Street this morning [not at 3 am] towards Crookes Valley Road there appears to be a distinct dip in the road as it starts to cross the embankment. W/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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