Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[georgebernardshaw]

 

[georgebernardshaw]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Look at the beautiful Sheffield Best vapour steaming out of the Wards Brewery.

First place to go in my tardis. Just to smell that brewing smell on brew day before heading for a few in The Norfolk or The Domino or The Matilda or The Queens or The Meadow (RIP)

Loved Wards, but the eggy farts the morning after!

 

[spongebobblade]

 

[DifferentClass]

"Self and lady". How quaint.

 

[Harrisblade]

The flats at bottom end of Bolsover St, near Brook Hill Roundabout now redeveloped and pub gone?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

The flats at bottom end of Bolsover St, near Brook Hill Roundabout now redeveloped and pub gone?

Landsdowne Flats on the right. I put a pic up of the flats, looking down the Moor (post #5850)

 

[bornablade]

What's the name of the pub?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

What's the name of the pub?

Club Garden I think.

 

[Rodders]

Surprised there's none of the Sty and The Travellers on here yet.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Spot the car.

459 EXN is definitely a Ford Classic as my old Uncle George had one. I think it was supposed to be Ford's attempt at the winged beasts like Cadillac had in the late 50s but a little bit more reserved and English.

At the bottom left, with Mercedes like rear light cluster, is a Ford Cortina. My sister had a boyfriend who had the GT version in white with a green stripe. It was the dogs bollocks and very trendy in the 60s.

Not sure of the one at a jaunty angle across the road, but possibly a Ford Anglia and on the right, behind the lorry is possibly a Vauxhall Victor.

The whitish car coming towards you and next to the ubiquitous Morris Minor is, I think, a Ford Zephyr.

I'm sure others may be able to help with the possibles.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Spot the car.

459 EXN is definitely a Ford Classic as my old Uncle George had one. I think it was supposed to be Ford's attempt at the winged beasts like Cadillac had in the late 50s but a little bit more reserved and English.

At the bottom left, with Mercedes like rear light cluster, is a Ford Cortina. My sister had a boyfriend who had the GT version in white with a green stripe. It was the dogs bollocks and very trendy in the 60s.

Not sure of the one at a jaunty angle across the road, but possibly a Ford Anglia and on the right, behind the lorry is possibly a Vauxhall Victor.

The whitish car coming towards you and next to the ubiquitous Morris Minor is, I think, a Ford Zephyr.

I'm sure others may be able to help with the possibles.

I may be mistaken and don't give me Ford is American... but it seems every car is British made?

Try that on any street in Sheffield now.

Whatever happened to our Great British motor industry? I took my nephew to the motor museum in Coventry. It felt like Disneyland trying to explain what used to be owned and made on our own shores..

 

[Hamburg Blade]

That I do know, St Paul's Church it was called. Pulled down to make way for the first proposed Town Hall extension, which was then cancelled when the war broke out....only in Sheffield!

Ultimately of course the horrible egg boxes fulfilled the need for the extension at the expense of some gorgeous architecture behind the Town Hall.

That is tragic. Makes me very sad.

I found this interesting website on St. Pauls http://chrishobbs.com/sheffield/stpaulschurchsheffield.htm

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

That is tragic. Makes me very sad.

I found this interesting website on St. Pauls http://chrishobbs.com/sheffield/stpaulschurchsheffield.htm

Sad to see a great building like that demolished for ultimately no real reason. Where they eventually stuck the egg box there were also fine old buildings that were demolished, the main one I think being a bank.

 

[Stretch]

That is tragic. Makes me very sad.

I found this interesting website on St. Pauls http://chrishobbs.com/sheffield/stpaulschurchsheffield.htm

I know what you mean, a gorgeous old thing. I have had some good times in the Peace Gardens over the years but to think what could have been there instead.

 

[ghandi]

Sad to see a great building like that demolished for ultimately no real reason. Where they eventually stuck the egg box there were also fine old buildings that were demolished, the main one I think being a bank.

The old peace gardens before the eggbox are definitely better than the one today.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Spot the car.

459 EXN is definitely a Ford Classic as my old Uncle George had one. I think it was supposed to be Ford's attempt at the winged beasts like Cadillac had in the late 50s but a little bit more reserved and English.

At the bottom left, with Mercedes like rear light cluster, is a Ford Cortina. My sister had a boyfriend who had the GT version in white with a green stripe. It was the dogs bollocks and very trendy in the 60s.

Not sure of the one at a jaunty angle across the road, but possibly a Ford Anglia and on the right, behind the lorry is possibly a Vauxhall Victor.

The whitish car coming towards you and next to the ubiquitous Morris Minor is, I think, a Ford Zephyr.

I'm sure others may be able to help with the possibles.

I think you're right on all counts. There's also an Austin Maxi parked next to the passing Victor.

 

[snootyfenooty]

I may be mistaken and don't give me Ford is American... but it seems every car is British made?

Try that on any street in Sheffield now.

Whatever happened to our Great British motor industry? I took my nephew to the motor museum in Coventry. It felt like Disneyland trying to explain what used to be owned and made on our own shores..

And all the while whilst Germany are trying to fuck us up the arse over Brexit there's still plenty queueing up to buy one of their fucking cars. Makes me weep.

 

[grafikhaus]

Funnily enough, we were talking about this just last Sunday. I think the tower block is one of three at the bottom of Cemetery Road. In the distance can be seen Eclipse Tools. My Grandma lived on the top floor of Leverton Gardens and, on the night of the Lavers fire, people were knocking on her door till the early hours for a 'grandstand view'. Each of the three blocks was eleven floors with 4 flats on each floor = 44 flats in all. The 'final count'' of 71 for Grenfell Tower is laughable.

The old peace gardens before the eggbox are definitely better than the one today.

Can't agree, ghandi. It was a bit of a dive and HQ for the meths-drinkers in Sheffield. I remember a lane that used to run along the back of the old Peace Gardens towards the old Army Stores and there was a coffee shop called The Mustard Seed.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I remember a lane that used to run along the back of the old Peace Gardens towards the old Army Stores and there was a coffee shop called The Mustard Seed.

I read somewhere that Coffee Shop was a chain associated with Cliff Richard, had some Christian aspect to it.

 

[Woodwaaard]

I think you're right on all counts. There's also an Austin Maxi parked next to the passing Victor.

It may look like a Maxi from that angle but it isn't
I'm trying to think what it is
Maxis had both a C and D pillar and that car only has a C

 

[georgebernardshaw]

 

[snootyfenooty]

It may look like a Maxi from that angle but it isn't
I'm trying to think what it is
Maxis had both a C and D pillar and that car only has a C

Hmm, seems you're right. A Vauxhall Viva Mk1 perhaps? I did spot a Ford Consul behind the Leyland truck and a Hillman Imp going up the Moor besides it though!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

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Wow!

Worth an entry just for the chance of Mr Gilders’ made to measure dentures.

Great picture!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[DifferentClass]

Old Wessex Building, King Ecgberts. Fucking freezing in winter but it had a charm the new building doesn't.

 

[torridon]

The 272 bus, my link to Sheffield in my younger days. And on the match Saturdays nowadays when I decide its a session on the beer too.

 

[shorehamview]

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The Banner Cross, my old local. My maternal grandparents met here during World War 2, my grandma's auntie was the landlady. And in 1999, I had my first date with Mrs SV in there. They used to serve some of the best Tetley's I've ever had.

 

[ghandi]

Funnily enough, we were talking about this just last Sunday. I think the tower block is one of three at the bottom of Cemetery Road. In the distance can be seen Eclipse Tools. My Grandma lived on the top floor of Leverton Gardens and, on the night of the Lavers fire, people were knocking on her door till the early hours for a 'grandstand view'. Each of the three blocks was eleven floors with 4 flats on each floor = 44 flats in all. The 'final count'' of 71 for Grenfell Tower is laughable.




Can't agree, ghandi. It was a bit of a dive and HQ for the meths-drinkers in Sheffield. I remember a lane that used to run along the back of the old Peace Gardens towards the old Army Stores and there was a coffee shop called The Mustard Seed.

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I meant prior to the egg box as in SEB's photo, they were proper gardens and beautifully maintained and not a meths drinker in sight.