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[bornandbred]

I remember going to see the last tram setting off from Beauchief and putting pennies on the track to get them bent.Sadly don't know where they are now.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

I remember walking by here at the crack of dawn on the Charlton QF day. Sun shining, and the front already packed with Blades sitting out drinking in front of the bedecked pub.

I was on my way to Francis Newton for a few cheap beers and a large All Day breakfast mind!

Long ago (71-77) when I lived on Clarkehouse Road I walked past here every morning and often called in on my way home.

Anybody know where its new name Doctors’ Orders came from?

Maybe it's something to do with it being near the Hallamshire Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital The Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital and the Weston Park Hospital............. possibly.

 

[ucandomagic]

Maybe it's something to do with it being near the Hallamshire Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital The Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital and the Weston Park Hospital............. possibly.

Yes, I haven’t been in since it changed, but you are right. Apparently they are aiming for nhs staff rather than students and have created a whole trendy medical theme inside with skeletons, old equipment etc. Doesn’t sound like a Blades pub any more!

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Doctor's Orders, number 9 is a bingo call but the meaning is shrouded in mystery. It could refer to a powerful laxative given by army doctors or it could be a curfew time of 9pm when a doctor's note ran out (also from the army) but no-one is really sure

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Yes, I haven’t been in since it changed, but you are right. Apparently they are aiming for nhs staff rather than students and have created a whole trendy medical theme inside with skeletons, old equipment etc. Doesn’t sound like a Blades pub any more!

Just the sort of place to find James Robertson Justice holding court,by the sounds of it then.

 

[Golden Gordon]

I was in the gang that poured the concrete for the scoreboard pedestal. Nearly lost my thumb in the process, but that's another story.
Loads of blokes worked long hours, day and night to get the stadium ready on time; and for what?
A great waste of time, effort and money which could have been better spent!

 

[stringjunior]

Cracking boozer that.My mate ran it for a couple of years,and one of my most vivid memories drinking there was watching England v Argentina at France 98 and having to sit outside for the penalties,because after 90 & 96,I couldn't face watching yet another penalty failure, and probably started the decline in my interest in the national team...

I was a regular Friday nighter there from about 90 to 96. Loved it. Absolutely loved it

 

[don240]

I remember riding them as a child - we lived in Heeley Bottom and my Grandma lived in Hoyland Rd Neepsend. Mom used to take me and little brother there before going to work. I eventually attended Hillfoot junior school which was just across the road.

The trams were being phased out in 1959 just as I started senior school at Marlcliffe Intermediate near Hillsborough (now a junior school only). What a pain it was catching a bus in Queens Road outside the Earl of Arundel then having to change to the Middlewood bus at the bottom of Snig Hill (I always shuddered as the bus passed the pig-pen). It was generally touch and go wether I would make morning assembly and avoid a late detention.

I'm a little younger, so never got to ride the trams when they were in service, but a lot of the tramway Street furniture was still in place when I was younger, the bus stop at Commonside where I caught the bus to school & the street lights on Barber Road were the most obvious signs of what once was.
The tram turning circle at Millhouses was left as the bus terminus for years after the trams stopped running & the central reservation on Prince of Wales Road is where the trams once ran.
A little foresight to upgrade instead of destroy the old system would have given us a transport system fit for purpose, instead they covered the tracks with tarmac & the tarmac with gridlock.

 

[don240]

I remember going to see the last tram setting off from Beauchief and putting pennies on the track to get them bent.Sadly don't know where they are now.

Some of them are at Crich, but most were destroyed at Wards scrapyard.....

...Oh sorry you meant the the pennies

 

[Valleyblade]

He was, on 2nd January 1981. Link

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...efa7c124f!8m2!3d53.3755483!4d-1.4986362?hl=en


I may be wrong, but I doubt if it'll have been the JB. There were two pubs in the Havelock/Hanover Square area - The Hanover (still going) and one I used to use - The Rollng Mill (now closed).

The Jolly Buffer became The Classic Rock Bar around 1985 and I used to know the landlord - Sass - who eventually drank himself to death.

Life seemed much more colourful back then.

Ahhh, happy memories of going down' "square"

CJ's!

 

[Harrisblade]

Maybe it's something to do with it being near the Hallamshire Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital The Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital and the Weston Park Hospital............. possibly.

And the Medical School at the top of the road!

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

I'm a little younger, so never got to ride the trams when they were in service, but a lot of the tramway Street furniture was still in place when I was younger, the bus stop at Commonside where I caught the bus to school & the street lights on Barber Road were the most obvious signs of what once was.
The tram turning circle at Millhouses was left as the bus terminus for years after the trams stopped running & the central reservation on Prince of Wales Road is where the trams once ran.
A little foresight to upgrade instead of destroy the old system would have given us a transport system fit for purpose, instead they covered the tracks with tarmac & the tarmac with gridlock.

There are still a few bits of tram furniture standing around the city. Last time I looked there were still some overhead wire polls on Prince of Wales Road, I think they’ve been used as street light posts, and I think there are some dark green electrical switch cabinets dotted around on pavements.
I do remember travelling to Millhouses Park by tram with my mum, I’m guessing in their final year, 1960.

 

[oaklandrdblade]

More for you don240 ,bornandbred

 

[don240]

More for you don240 ,bornandbred

Roberts cars 510 & 513, 8 years in service, 58 years in preservation (510 at Crich, 513 has had a more varied life, including some time in Blackpool, but is now at the East Anglia transport museum.
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[don240]

More for you don240 ,bornandbred

Roberts cars 510 & 513, 8 years in service, 58 years in preservation (510 at Crich, 513 has had a more varied life, including some time in Blackpool, but is now at the East Anglia transport museum).

 

[don240]

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Not so much a photo, and probably not that old - but I love this image (and the guy's work)

Plenty of stuff to keep folk on here interested in here: https://weliveherejw.wordpress.com/portfolio/into-the-valley/

Not least:

 

[ourbob]

We joined the sportmans branch of the supporters club because we wanted to go to wolves away on the tuesday night when we drew 2-2 and got promoted from the old 3rd division,fantastic day/night and we enjoyed quite a few other away days with the club,#goodolddays.

If I remember correctly it was the Bull & Mutch v Deano & Agana.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

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I remember AEC Bridgemasters on the 102 service, they used to run on Gleadless Common and terminate at Townend from memory. They and the 105 ran similar routes, both going up and down the Common but I think one went round the back of Hurlfield School on Hurlfield Road and the other turned right at The Punchbowl and went down East Bank Road.
These services combined to become route 51 which still runs today.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Car 513 at Beamish

 

[don240]

Beamish still own 513, but it is too new for the museum's time period so is normally loaned out to other museums etc.

 

[don240]

I remember AEC Bridgemasters on the 102 service, they used to run on Gleadless Common and terminate at Townend from memory. They and the 105 ran similar routes, both going up and down the Common but I think one went round the back of Hurlfield School on Hurlfield Road and the other turned right at The Punchbowl and went down East Bank Road.
These services combined to become route 51 which still runs today.

My local route (the 95 to Walkley) was usually run with AEC regents. I can still remember the distinctive noise they made as they climbed up through the gears.
I did used to occasionally catch a Bridgemaster on the 97 to my nans though, seem to remember that they were front entrance variants, but could be mistaken.
The Atlantean's & Fleetline's were never as good as the AEC's

 

[LSF]

I remember AEC Bridgemasters on the 102 service, they used to run on Gleadless Common and terminate at Townend from memory. They and the 105 ran similar routes, both going up and down the Common but I think one went round the back of Hurlfield School on Hurlfield Road and the other turned right at The Punchbowl and went down East Bank Road.
These services combined to become route 51 which still runs today.

Remember those two very well from my childhood and growing up. I caught them at East Bank Road/Myrtle Road stop. The 101 (Herdings) also ran at that time, a little later the 27 (Dyke Vale Road) was added to run up East Bank to Manor Top and on to Hackenthorpe.
This came on its outbound route via turning left at skating rink, then right, whereas the other three came via turning left at the Charlotte Road bridge.

 

[super_pig]

Maybe it's something to do with it being near the Hallamshire Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital The Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital and the Weston Park Hospital............. possibly.

ooh .. the ‘hospital quarter’ .. i can imagine some wonk cogitating it now .. then we’ll have about seven quarters : D

 

[S64 Blade]

ooh .. the ‘hospital quarter’ .. i can imagine some wonk cogitating it now .. then we’ll have about seven quarters : D

I think it’s dubbed ‘The West End’

 

[Superblades]

More for you don240 ,bornandbred

Why did they stop the trams?

 

[Kentblade]

Why did they stop the trams?

Because it was said they created traffic hold ups with passengers having to join the tram from the road which caused all vehicles to stop to allow the passengers access to the road.
They also wanted them on special tracks away from the traffic, similar as to now.

The trams provided an excellent service as there always seemed to be one available.
A very short sighted decision as in those days with the buses Sheffield's transport system was envied by other cities.
Unfortunately the removal of the monopoly re transport into different companies results in the performance seen now.

Interesting that the trams came back again in a different format.

Always trams to Bramall lane and Hillsborough on match days and well used as car ownership limited then.

UTB

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Why did they stop the trams?

Cos it were a bugger trying to get on them when they were moving.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]