RichardB Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once ....... I have a picture of Redgates, but you won't like it ..... it's actually the Redgates on the Moor, but you still won't like it much, can you guess why that might be ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickjj Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once ....... I have a picture of Redgates, but you won't like it ..... it's actually the Redgates on the Moor, but you still won't like it much, can you guess why that might be ? Is it after Redgates had moved out and the Stationers had taken over or is it taken with blitz damage?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 It's Blitz damage, its just a small inset picture in a book; hard to tell anything about it because it's in flames. Anyway, just for reference the book is Then & Now The Sheffield Blitz Operation Crucible by Alistair Lofthouse The Print and Design Shop 279 Sharrow Vale Road Sheffield S11 8ZF Tel : 01142 2679402 International : 0441142 2679402 I've just bought a bunch of books from here, great service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 Here's a couple of pictures sent in by Richard They are fantastic !! We're unsure of copyright so if anyone knows let us know and we can credit the right people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 More on the Town Hall, including our best chance at a representation of it ! First Goslings map of 1836 (town hall is number 12) Secondly Thomas Oughtibridges view of Sheffield (town hall has a number 3 above it, immediately to the left of the Church). The view appears to be from somewhere out at West Bar, we're looking at the back of the current Cathedral. Number 2, could be the Vicarage, any other ideas? Finally a map from 1780, shows where Orchard Street got its name, also that New Street and Figtree Lane were once, one and the same place ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 The 3rd map is brilliant and throws a few things up Firstly the town hall then was at Coles Corner at the top of High Street ? And the current town hall wasn't there and was instead 'Cheney Square' So another quest would be to find pictures or drawings of 'cheney square' and see what the area looked like before the current town hall building was built ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Cheney Square and New Church Street - go to picturesheffield.com Yes the 1780 map deserves a good look at, anyone any good with a dark pen, trace over the pale lines and re-scan maybe ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Cheney Square - picture from picture sheffield and touched up slightly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Yes the 1780 map deserves a good look at, anyone any good with a dark pen, trace over the pale lines and re-scan maybe ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pc Infield Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Anyone any old pictures of High Hazels Park,particularly the Easter Parades? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Ah - high hazels park - that's somewhere I've not been since the 70's ! It holds fond memories for me.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 here you go - link to http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=v01861 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Can I pick a fight ? The picture labelled as Cheney Square is too far back, thats from Leopold St; there are other pictures, closer to the old Church, which show the tallest building (other than the Church), those building are down New Church Street, Cheney square is beyond that in this picture. Go forward 100 yards. As ever, willing to be proved wrong, I've definately seen that tall building down the side street, highlights the windows on the upper floors, as lighting for workshops; could have been in a book. I'll shuttup now, shall I :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Yeah - you're right ! I just got excited when I saw the title of the photo and didn't read the description properly oops ! Good spot Richard ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Just to show ... high hazels park, I don't remember this place at all !!! It's a big place, after a lot of reading, and 26 years away, I remember Victorian Sheffield better than I do the real place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pc Infield Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Thanks for the picture of High Hazels.Find out the latest info.about the park,including our downloadable historical leaflet,at http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/par...igh-hazels-park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 We'll keep digging for more information and pictures for you too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrinderBloke Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 OK this is a building which is only really of interest to me, so I am being a bit selfish requesting it, I hope no one minds. My great aunt & uncle has a small sweet shop iirc at the top of Broad Lane, near to Beet Street. Going down Broad Lane towards West Bar the shop was on the LH side, in a block of two or three buildings which was the remnant of a long terrace of buildings. In the mid 1970s gales blew one of the chimneys off the building and through the roof, thus the shop ceased trading, aunt and uncle moved to the tower block at the bottom of Bolsover / Winter Street. Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 You sure it's still there ? http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat...5000&icon=x The arial maps show the row of shops with Butlers restaurant (opposite the old hospital) but after that not much Whereabout exactly was it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrinderBloke Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Whereabout exactly was it ? X marks the spot in one of the follow links, I think it is now a grassed area where the buildings once stood, or rather it was when I left Sheffield 20 years ago... probably executive apartments now ;) http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.382231&a...r=0&src=msl or http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.382077&a...r=0&src=msl Second one being Brook Hill rather than Broad Lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Pond Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 If you had the opportunity to find one picture of Sheffield's past what would it be ? You are allowed one choice, and it must be located in Sheffield e.g. The Hole In The Road Fishtank Post what you would choose and let's see if we can hunt them down for you ! (mine would be a picture of The Fiesta inside whilst it was full of people enjoying themselves !) Anywhere from cumberland street down to London Rd before the Manpower building went up. I vaguely remember some shops - Lewis Leathers, Thorntons, a fancy dress shop on one side and a Millets or something on the other, with a gap where Santa's grotto used to be at Christmas and military recruting at other times. The site of my seventies haunt, the original virgin record shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 Is cumberland street the road from the bottom of the moor that leads straight across/down to London Road ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickjj Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Anywhere from cumberland street down to London Rd before the Manpower building went up. I vaguely remember some shops - Lewis Leathers, Thorntons, a fancy dress shop on one side and a Millets or something on the other, with a gap where Santa's grotto used to be at Christmas and military recruting at other times. The site of my seventies haunt, the original virgin record shop. I do have some pictures of that. I will dig them out when I get home from work tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Pond Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Is cumberland street the road from the bottom of the moor that leads straight across/down to London Road ? Bottom of the Moor, it's now the road that runs down to the left. I think you may be talikng about the current-day South street - on road down from the area I'm thinking of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddy Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I flattened most of Cumberland Street-Hereford Street :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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