Firth Park Coliseum

[dunsbyowl1867]

Came across these photos on Picture Sheffield - anybody have any further information. Is the building still there - I can't place it.

www.picturesheffield.com

and the man himself

www.picturesheffield.com

[Guest Gramps]

Came across these photos on Picture Sheffield - anybody have any further information. Is the building still there - I can't place it.

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s00842

and the man himself

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08871

Last time I saw it there was a laundrette on the ground floor and flats above. It's on the corner of Page Hall road and Hinde House lane. Built I believe about the same time as the Page Hall Market. I think it later became a furniture retailer.

He's not much an advert for his trade though - looks like he slept in that suit he he

[Lyn 1]

Firth Park Coliseum was at the bottom of Hinde House Lane and Page Hall Road and is now a washeteria. It was rather like a small department store in its day.

The owner Samuel Alonzo Peel aged 63 a general dealer of 79 FP Rd was buried in Burngreave cemetery July 28^th 1925. His widow Fanny aged 66 was buried in the same grave on September 17, 1931. As they had no children does anyone know what happend to the shop after that? I have the couple in the 1911 census and they have nieces and a nephew living with them.

Thanks

Lyn

[Guest Norfolk-Tours]

I'm working on this family at the moment and will get back on here with more information when I have the permission of the owner of the family archives.

[tdh-syorks]

just a quick shot of the Coliseum today,