Waterside Echo Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Well everybody's given the old Penny farthing a good ride then! I'm still amazed at how unconcerned the bloke was about it rotting away. If ever you're near there have a look inside. It's never seen a lick of paint since ---?? There are loads of old bikes as well as the new ones and it has that nice oily smell that I remember from Howards Cycles in the old village at Hackenthorpe. A bit different to Halfords. In the late 50s and early 60s I was a regular customer at that shop [butterworths] and it was immaculate inside and out. Over the years I sadly watched the shop and that Penny farthing deteriorate until the machine was no more. I too called at the shop one day a few years ago and must have spoken to the same guy as you, I mentioned how smart the shop used to be in the old days and asked what had happened to the Penny farthing, and was the shop still in the same family. Well its a sign of the times isnt it he said, and well, the bike just fell to bits, oh and yes the shop was still in the same family. I must add that if you do need any bike bits that shop will have them, and at the right price. `Its worth the trip`. W/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 This can bee seen on Google S.V. but you wont be able to read it, anyone know the answer without needing a clue? A clue to it's location Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 A clue to it's location Obviously its a boundary marker, where well ... no idea Are those car batteries in the shop window, if not car batteries, they look similar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 Obviously its a boundary marker, where well ... no idea Are those car batteries in the shop window, if not car batteries, they look similar Car batteries in the window Not that place on the corner of Charlotte Road and Brammall Lane then is it? Only shop I know with a window display of car batteries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sando Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 This is the Dog Brand trademark of J & Riley Carr Ltd the manufacturing company that occupied the building until the 1950's. The business was established by Riley Carr in 1806 in Bailey Lane but relocated to Herries Road South in 1954. Originally the company were concerned with merchanting steel and making steel and saw fenders but later manufactured saws, files and machine knives. The phrase "a stanch (or staunch) dog" means a good, reliable hunting dog. Spot on Syrup! Any one any ideas on this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Car batteries in the window Not that place on the corner of Charlotte Road and Brammall Lane then is it? Only shop I know with a window display of car batteries. Partly correct Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 Partly correct Dave OK its NOT Brammall Lane its Shoreham Street, but the shop is actually on Charlotte Road Think this is the location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 OK its NOT brammall Lane its Shoreham Street, but the shop is actually on Charlotte Road Think this is the location. Yes that's the one dave, I don't know what the boundry marker divides or did divide, 'any ideas' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 Yes that's the one dave, I don't know what the boundry marker divides or did divide, 'any ideas' E W. B'dry East - West Boundary? Only a guess, - they used to have one in Berlin called "Checkpoint Charlie" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 If you call High Street area "the center" and draw a line due south from there, it goes down Shoreham Street, so the plaque is on a geographical divide between East and West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plain talker Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Car batteries in the window Not that place on the corner of Charlotte Road and Brammall Lane then is it? Only shop I know with a window display of car batteries. DaveH, I think it's South Yorkshire Battery Supplies shop, too, junction Charlotte Road and Shoreham Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skeets Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Market Tavern on Exchange Street SteveHB this building was originally the ROTHERHAM HOUSE HOTEL Skeets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 SteveHB this building was originally the ROTHERHAM HOUSE HOTEL Skeets So it was skeets ... here And guess what .. I put a very good old photo of it on here somewhere, and can't find it. I will add it to the pubs A-Z when found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 If you call High Street area "the center" and draw a line due south from there, it goes down Shoreham Street, so the plaque is on a geographical divide between East and West. May be It's something to do with this, taken from a 1904 map with the boundry plate marked in green. Can't imagine a triangulation pillar, trig beacon stuck in the middle of Shoreham St? It would have been some sort of metal plate at that time. link to Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 May be It's something to do with this, taken from a 1904 map with the boundry plate marked in green. Can't imagine a triangulation pillar, trig beacon stuck in the middle of Shoreham St? It would have been some sort of metal plate at that time. link to Wiki I have been studying the 1950's OS maps and have come up with a possible answer, the plate set in the pavement is a 'Ward boundary mark' EW= Eastern Ward? Any one any ideas on this one? Don't think I've ever been through it or noticed it, come to that, but my guess is: that it's not very far from your last Mystery Location (STANCH) on Bailey Lane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Don't think I've ever been through it or noticed it, come to that, but my guess is: that it's not very far from your last Mystery Location (STANCH) on Bailey Lane. I think these first 2 are different views of your original place.Yes/No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markbaby Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Can I Leave this here for you to chew on for a minute or two ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Can I Leave this here for you to chew on for a minute or two ? Looks a bit Cornish to me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Can I Leave this here for you to chew on for a minute or two ? Holmesfield :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markbaby Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Looks a bit Cornish to me Didn't think it would last long! But a bit of fun anyway. Well Done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Didn't think it would last long! But a bit of fun anyway. Well Done! Nr Penzance I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sando Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I think these first 2 are different views of your original place.Yes/No Vox Yes they are, and you are spot on with your PM, I seem to fin something different everytime I wander around the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Vox Yes they are, and you are spot on with your PM, I seem to fin something different everytime I wander around the place. Interesting place isn't it sando? It took a few photos a couple of weeks ago. I go down there quite regularly for work reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skeets Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I think these first 2 are different views of your original place.Yes/No any where the old market skeets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bus man Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Lowfields school for the toilet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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