Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Harrisblade]

Aye, I reckon to the left of the vauxhall would be now Beeches.

It looks like it should be (with Walkley Library back a bit behind your right shoulder - but just can't remember the flats in the distance!

 

[Woodwaaard]

View attachment 33700

Vauxhall Victor Mk3, Mini, Renault 12

 

[Harrisblade]

View attachment 33700

What year was the photo? - is it the Hallamshire Hospital in the distance??????

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

What year was the photo? - is it the Hallamshire Hospital in the distance??????

I can be no more precise than the 1970s

 

[torridon]

 

[Harrisblade]

I can be no more precise than the 1970s

Apparently opened in 1978, so would have been visible from at least 1977.
Presumably can still be seen from same spot then - anyone able to confirm?

 

[I should coco]

Vauxhall Victor Mk3, Mini, Renault 12

Leyland Super Comet

I don't think it's the Hallamshire as it is much further down the hill and to the South West (RHS of pic).
Is it an old church at the top of Upperthorpe or similar?

 

[I should coco]

Look at this map from 1890 (click near the three dams on the LHS which is now Crookes Valley Park to zoom in), and at the top of Sydney Road there is a building marked in brown. No idea what it was though.

 

[I should coco]

I can be no more precise than the 1970s

The Vauxhall Victor is an 'FE' (we had one in bright yellow with a black vinyl roof - classy!) and came out in 1972. The reg ends in K so this car was 71/72. The mini, Leyland and Renault 12 all predate this.

I can't seem to find out anything about Moores shop and when it might have closed. Any ideas?

 

[sitwell]

What year was the photo? - is it the Hallamshire Hospital in the distance??????

Kelvin flats isn't it ?

 

[I should coco]

Kelvin flats isn't it ?

They wouldn't be visible from there due to all the terraces. They were way down the hill on the left (South west from the photographer).

The view is more to the South.

 

[Harrisblade]

They wouldn't be visible from there due to all the terraces. They were way down the hill on the left (South west from the photographer).

The view is more to the South.

Whatever was there isn't now if you look at a modern google image from approx same position (from outside Beeches)
Did we get mirages in Sheffield?

 

[sitwell]

They wouldn't be visible from there due to all the terraces. They were way down the hill on the left (South west from the photographer).

The view is more to the South.

I presume you are saying that's Walkley ? I thought it was Hillsboro. Look how the top bit pokes up.

 

[I should coco]

Kelvin Flats were 141' high (13 storeys / 43m)
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=1272&convert=feet

Infirmary Road is 202' (62m) above sea level
http://www.streetlist.co.uk/address/Infirmary-Road-Sheffield-S6-3DD

South Road is 549' (169m) above sea level
http://www.streetlist.co.uk/address/South-Road-Sheffield-S6-3TA

So the top of the flats is still over 200 feet below South Road - I told you it is hilly there!

 

[Harrisblade]

I presume you are saying that's Walkley ? I thought it was Hillsboro. Look how the top bit pokes up.

Hi Sitwell, do you know the road that the old Kelvin Flats were on?

No Problem, Infirmary Rd!

 

[Harrisblade]

I should coco is right, Kelvin Flats would be way off to the left of the photo

 

[BushBlade]

The Vauxhall Victor is an 'FE' (we had one in bright yellow with a black vinyl roof - classy!) and came out in 1972. The reg ends in K so this car was 71/72. The mini, Leyland and Renault 12 all predate this.

I can't seem to find out anything about Moores shop and when it might have closed. Any ideas?

The building is still there, opposite Carr Road, but I don't remember it being Moores.

The tall building in the background has gone, looks slightly like a church.

 

[I should coco]

The building is still there, opposite Carr Road, but I don't remember it being Moores.

There's a reto 70s furniture shop at the bottom of Greenhow Street ('Martin Kemp' in the picture) and I think most of the others have changed too and a couple are closed. I've no idea what Moores was.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3...k-no-pi0-ya224.6074-ro-0-fo100!7i13312!8i6656

 

[bornablade]

I presume you are saying that's Walkley ? I thought it was Hillsboro. Look how the top bit pokes up.

George IV pub across the road. Could be like a Wild West saloon in there on a Saturday night. Tables and chairs going over.

 

[bornablade]

View attachment 33722 View attachment 33723 View attachment 33724 View attachment 33725

Played football for the Abbey Hotel in the early 1970's in the Sheffield regional Sunday league. Lively encounters in particular against Cutlers at Gleadless. Performances towards the end were disappointing due to spending too many Saturday nights in another pub there - the Cremorne and then on to Samantha's.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Played football for the Abbey Hotel in the early 1970's in the Sheffield regional Sunday league. Lively encounters in particular against Cutlers at Gleadless. Performances towards the end were disappointing due to spending too many Saturday nights in another pub there - the Cremorne and then on to Samantha's.

The Abbey was the watering hole of choice after Wednesday night Midweek Alliance cricket matches in Graves Park - our Gert said “if the match finishes at 8.30*, how is it you’re never home until midnight?”

* Tactical error on my part

 

[snootyfenooty]

Look at this map from 1890 (click near the three dams on the LHS which is now Crookes Valley Park to zoom in), and at the top of Sydney Road there is a building marked in brown. No idea what it was though.

The clarity on that map is fascinating. Look how some of the street names have changed - City Road was then called after some weird place called Intake and the Wybourn and Manor was countryside. St Marys Road stopped at Charlotte Road and continued as Hermitage Road. (Should give that pub it's original name back instead of mucking about with the recent daft incarnations). It's a pity the map stops just short of the pig farm right at the top of the page as that would have put to bed the argument about its origin.

 

[Worksop II]

It's a pity the map stops just short of the pig farm right at the top of the page as that would have put to bed the argument about its origin.

No Pigs Fans in Town
No Hillsboro' to sadden my eyes

 

[BushBlade]

The clarity on that map is fascinating. Look how some of the street names have changed - City Road was then called after some weird place called Intake and the Wybourn and Manor was countryside. St Marys Road stopped at Charlotte Road and continued as Hermitage Road. (Should give that pub it's original name back instead of mucking about with the recent daft incarnations). It's a pity the map stops just short of the pig farm right at the top of the page as that would have put to bed the argument about its origin.

Intake is just beyond Manor going out of town. I didn't realise there were so many collieries so close to Sheffield in those days. Would they have been open cast?
This is a good site for old maps.

http://maps.nls.uk/view/101167583

 

[benn5712]

View attachment 33711 View attachment 33712



View attachment 33713 View attachment 33714 View attachment 33715

Colley WMC

*Fishing match notes from 1879

The top photo, three lads wi a trolley, is East Earsham st Pitsmoor. Far end you can just pick out Sutherland Rd baths. Not saying one of those lads is me, but we'd bomb down Lyons St where the view is from, sharp right into Earsham and then left into Atlas St. Just make out
chip-oyal on t corner.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Intake is just beyond Manor going out of town. I didn't realise there were so many collieries so close to Sheffield in those days. Would they have been open cast?

I know about Inteck, was just having a dig as I have a few old mates lived there. I noticed a colliery even in the grounds of Manor Castle! I think all old collieries started life as open cast but the seams were inclined and you just got deeper and deeper...

 

[Sean Thornton]

 

[Woodwaaard]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3...=43.36073&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656

East Earsham doesn't look much different today...

It doesn't appear to have been re-surfaced

 

[snootyfenooty]

View attachment 33766 View attachment 33767 View attachment 33768 View attachment 33769 View attachment 33770

Bard Street flats, still there in all their glory. I still love that part of the world, the old Park.

 

[Sean Thornton]