dobberd Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 No one seems to have mentioned the Star Walk, which was as Sheffield as you could get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 No one seems to have mentioned the Star Walk, which was as Sheffield as you could get. You're right, as right as right can be, my own version of Sheffield History kinda fades out about 1900, but those Sheffield Walks are just as important a memory to one and all, just like The Lord Mayor's Parade, Redgates, Fish and chips and the local footie teams and their triumphs and disasters over the years ... You've posted a memory for us all, well done to you, I hadn't thought of the Star Walk for 30 years :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickjj Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 No one seems to have mentioned the Star Walk, which was as Sheffield as you could get. You have to take the time to look through all the pages and you should find the topics you are looking for Star Walk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dobberd Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Another early (for me) Sheffield memory was going to watch the Rag Week boat races from Hillfoot Bridge. This would have been about 1966/67. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickjj Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Another early (for me) Sheffield memory was going to watch the Rag Week boat races from Hillfoot Bridge. This would have been about 1966/67. There are some great photos in this section Rag Week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest echo Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Bunnys was on the LH side just past the kiosk on the way into Castle Market from the pedestrianed area off Waingate. Sorry for the poor description... I can see the shop now, just difficult to put the image into words. When I was a kid their shop was in the old Snig Hill. This would be the early/mid 1950's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest holberry Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 hi, what about , big ada ,long sammy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sajrp Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 We are looking to put together a huge list of things that stick in the memory about the city's past when the word 'Sheffield' is mentioned Here's a list to get you started.. The Lord Mayors Parade The Hole in the Road Redgates Toy Shop Legends/Crazy Daisy Bar The Walking Man Statue (from underneath the egg box town hall extension) Bendibuses The old tramp at the bottom of Waingate at Lady's Bridge who used to shout at buildings or the sky ! Millhouses lido/paddling pools Bradley's Records Harringtons Redgates Pauldens Beatties Model Shop Sexy Rexy's Tramps Wilson Peck Pippys Philip Cann the Music Man Violet Mays Revolution Records Vallances Cockaynes Schofields Walsh's Chelsea Girl Rebina Shoes Colvins GAME on the corner of Pinstone Street Rebels Nightclub Wolf Records in Hole In The Road The Morning Telegraph morning newspaper The old South Yorkshire Transport logo 2p Bus Fare Maces pet store at Castle Market Goodwin Fountain on Fargate The Wedding Cake registry office The Old Peace Gardens Sheaf Valley Baths & 'The Top Splash' sheffield show in hillsborough park Megabowl @ Wadsley Bridge Wigfalls Harringtons in the market Beatties on Pinstone Street The uncovered kop at Hillsborough Gaumont Cinema The ABC Cinema on Snig Hill/Corner of Angel Street the Anvil cinema Sheaf Market The sleigh ride that took you to see Father Christmas at the Co op Suggs Sports Kelvin Flats Roxy's Nightclub coffee/cream coloured SYT buses (see pic !) Kenny's Records on the Wicker machines on buses you put coins in which are then printed on the ticket (Videmat machines) Fletchers bakery vans Millionaires Nightclub STUDIO 5-6-7 Paddle boats in Hillsborough park The Marples The Electronic Map of Sheffield City Centre - Pond Street The smell of barley or hops, or whatever it was, from the brewery at lady's bridge. Skin heads hanging round the markets The dialling code - 0742 ! Tramps on King Street Hartley Seeds book shop on west street ABC minors on a saturday The International Aquatics Centre - Shalesmoor The Twikker The 'Mushroom' in Pond Street Silver Blades speedskate ! Eager Beaver/ Little Nipper buses the classic cinema in fitzallan sqare Tuckwoods restaurant kiki's nightclub The Star being a full broadsheet size Chelsea Girl on Fargate The houses on the bottom of Bradfield Rd, Hillsborough (now a pizza hut) Tandys in the Hole In The Road violet may's record shop, near the old sheaf market Wimpy bar restaurants (with tomato shaped ketchup bottles) Wig & Pen Berlins The Mojo The Minerva/The Yorkshire Grey the Fiesta The old Berni Inn that used to be in Exchange Street in the late1970's/early1980 (called the old no.12) Hot Roast Chestnuts outside of the Bus Station The Penny Black Club Wow and Branningans 'Lurch' the doorman @ Josephines GT News in the arcade at Hillsborough Coles Corner Violet May's record shop - Duke Street There you go... Does anyone have anymore ? Cairo Jax & Silks, Grab a granny night on thursdays at the roxy, Greasy Vera's, timpson's shoes, wigfalls, BHS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest transit Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Cairo Jax & Silks, Grab a granny night on thursdays at the roxy, Greasy Vera's, timpson's shoes, wigfalls, BHS Dempsey"s shoe shop on Park Hill.....and a strange one , (not connected!) .....IZAL toilet paper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrinderBloke Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Dempsey"s shoe shop on Park Hill.....and a strange one , (not connected!) .....IZAL toilet paper! Dempseys had all those old fashioned wood and glass display cabinets, looked a bit out of place on Park Hill... The chippy round the opposite side of the building, and the barbers shop and optician on the balcony above Happy memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plain talker Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Wasn't dempseys the very end shop of the middle block of shops, opposite shentalls, with two entrances, one on Shentall's side and one on the upper side, where the co-op stores were? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickjj Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Bunnys was on the LH side just past the kiosk on the way into Castle Market from the pedestrianed area off Waingate. Sorry for the poor description... I can see the shop now, just difficult to put the image into words. This may help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest transit Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Dempseys had all those old fashioned wood and glass display cabinets, looked a bit out of place on Park Hill... The chippy round the opposite side of the building, and the barbers shop and optician on the balcony above Happy memories I remember the balcony above - with the dreaded DENTIST ! - then run by Mr Littlewood . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Pond Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 This may help Now you've posted the picture, I can remember the shop - bought my wrangler denim jacket from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnc1 Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 :rolleyes: what about bar rio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Whelk Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Bankrupt jeans shop,just down from Coles(heading towards Suggs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huthwaite Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Cairo Jax & Silks, Grab a granny night on thursdays at the roxy, Greasy Vera's, timpson's shoes, wigfalls, BHS What about Rock Night at the Roxy! used to be every 1st Monday of the month (If I remember right) Found an old tee shirt with the Roxy logo on last week, the things we save eh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huthwaite Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Remember the Whit sing at Weston Park, walking down behind the banners from Broomhill dressed as a May Queen (shame) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 The Empire Theatre and the infamous EL MAMBO cafe next to the stage door. I was forbidden to go in that cafe by my parents who said they had read it was a bad place. Anyone ever go in it? My dad once heard the my older brother was at the El Mambo and he went down there and booted the brother all the way home. A little later I went in there and found they had a juke box and sold frothy coffee an thats all, shows what a reputation can cause even when it's ill founded. Hope I was more understanding with my kids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 We are looking to put together a huge list of things that stick in the memory about the city's past when the word 'Sheffield' is mentioned Gloops Club run by the Star and Telegraph, whenever we were bored and in town we would go into the Star office near Coles corner and join and get a little badge and a certificate. Must have joined 50 times or more. Does anyone still have a badge, cos a photo of it would be good. The other one for the list was Walsh's moving stairs, as far as I know the first ones in Sheffield about 1955, we used to go there after the pictures at the Star and run up the down side etc till the bloke chucked us out - those were the days, I have trouble going up the up side of moving stairs these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsavo Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Gloops Club run by the Star and Telegraph, whenever we were bored and in town we would go into the Star office near Coles corner and join and get a little badge and a certificate. Must have joined 50 times or more. Does anyone still have a badge, cos a photo of it would be good. The other one for the list was Walsh's moving stairs, as far as I know the first ones in Sheffield about 1955, we used to go there after the pictures at the Star and run up the down side etc till the bloke chucked us out - those were the days, I have trouble going up the up side of moving stairs these days Here it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Here it is... Hey thanks Tsavo, what great memories you stirred. Anyway, what was Gloops supposed to be, was he a cat, can't really tel from the pic though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsavo Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Good question John, never thought to queery that! Gloops has Cat like ears, and maybe crossed with something friendly out of Ghostbusters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TexxUK Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 I was a member of the the "Gloops Club" as was my father before me. Somewhere in the house I've got an old enameled badge with word "THMILE" on it. Here's a few scans of the other bits I could find. The membership card is mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shazaroony Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Dempseys had all those old fashioned wood and glass display cabinets, looked a bit out of place on Park Hill... The chippy round the opposite side of the building, and the barbers shop and optician on the balcony above Happy memories Did Dempseys just sell shoes ? My old man seems to remember buying some jeans from there (early 70s) or maybe that was another shop on the Park Hill precinct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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