Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[georgebernardshaw]

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Struggling a little, bottom of Eccy Road and Cemetery Road?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Struggling a little, bottom of Eccy Road and Cemetery Road?

Looking up The Moor I think Georgie!

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Looking up The Moor I think Georgie!

....from Eccy Road/ Cemetery Road roundabout?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

....from Eccy Road/ Cemetery Road roundabout?

I reckon it must be, Barclays Bank was on that roundabout.

 

[I should coco]

I reckon it must be, Barclays Bank was on that roundabout.

I think the Barclays bank is the Chinese fireworks place opposite the Hermitage/Scholar bar. On the bottom left you can just make out the S&E Co-op's flagship 'Arcade' where I was a Saturday lad for a while.

The stone building just in front is the Tai restaurant at the side of Waitrose.

Most of the middle section of the picture disappeared under the Manpower Services but you can clearly see the bootom of the Grovensor Hotel and the Town Hall.

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

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Love that match report: "Currie, warming to the sort of mood that hoists him well above average into something approaching greatness..." - just how I remember it.

This is a brilliant thread. Although there may be some duplication, it deserves to be linked up with another one, also started by Walth: http://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-we-used-to-live.44455/

 

[Silent Blade]

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When was the Moor pedestrianized? 1974 ish?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

When was the Moor pedestrianized? 1974 ish?

....just after my first driving lesson

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I think the Barclays bank is the Chinese fireworks place opposite the Hermitage/Scholar bar. On the bottom left you can just make out the S&E Co-op's flagship 'Arcade' where I was a Saturday lad for a while.

The stone building just in front is the Tai restaurant at the side of Waitrose.

Most of the middle section of the picture disappeared under the Manpower Services but you can clearly see the bootom of the Grovensor Hotel and the Town Hall.

Better perspective perhaps on this one

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

When was the Moor pedestrianized? 1974 ish?

Maybe 1975, SB?

N plate on these cars which 1974.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Better perspective perhaps on this one

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Brilliant, did you go back and take another? - that's how I remember it exactly. On your next shot, go back a bit further bottom right to show TCH, and bottom left for the Co-op

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Silent Blade]

Maybe 1975, SB?

N plate on these cars which 1974.

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I remember seeing John Flynn hobbling with a plaster pot on his foot walking on the pedestrianized Moor in October 1976

 

[georgebernardshaw]

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Got me with that one, SEB

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Got me with that one, SEB

Mulberry Tavern, Georgie!

Norfolk Street

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Mulberry Tavern, Georgie!

Norfolk Street

Actually looking at it again, it's on Mulberry Street with Norfolk Street running across at the top of the photo.

 

[Rodders]

When I lived in Oughtibrodge, the 65 seemed to take about 3 weeks to get to town.

Try getting on it at Stocksbridge then!

 

[The Crab]

Try getting on it at Stocksbridge then!

Didn't go there back then Rodders. IIRC the 65 went from Oughtibridge terminus to town, via Worrall and Swillsborough. Back then, it was the 57 and (I think) the X66 and X67 went through Stocksbridge.

 

[Rodders]

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Fascinating, I'd never seen the Moor without the Manpower building there before.

 

[Rodders]

Didn't go there back then Rodders. IIRC the 65 went from Oughtibridge terminus to town, via Worrall and Swillsborough. Back then, it was the 57 and (I think) the X66 and X67 went through Stocksbridge.

Meh, I knew it was a 60-odd

 

[Sean Thornton]

I think the Barclays bank is the Chinese fireworks place opposite the Hermitage/Scholar bar. On the bottom left you can just make out the S&E Co-op's flagship 'Arcade' where I was a Saturday lad for a while.

The stone building just in front is the Tai restaurant at the side of Waitrose.

Most of the middle section of the picture disappeared under the Manpower Services but you can clearly see the bootom of the Grovensor Hotel and the Town Hall.

It was a Midland branch. Robert Brady moved his shop there after moving from Ecclesall Road.

 

[Kentblade]

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Not sure where this is but can see the town Hall?

 

[Superblades]

Not sure where this is but can see the town Hall?

Looking up to the town hall from the bottom of London Road.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Not sure where this is but can see the town Hall?

Looking up to the town hall from the bottom of London Road.

It's looking up The Moor.