Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[grafikhaus]

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Round the corner - The Stonehouse! (Rumours it's going to become Cargo Hold Bar & Restaurant).






And just down t'hill:

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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Looks vaguely familiar. What street is that?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Looks vaguely familiar. What street is that?

Woodseats Road

 

[grafikhaus]

Looks vaguely familiar. What street is that?

I'm guessing it's Archer Road, the bus is crossing over the railway line before turning right onto Abbeydale Road. Map

The TSP is Tool & Steel Products.

 

[grafikhaus]

Woodseats Road

You're right. 1975.

SYPTE 1336, Woodseats Road, Sheffield, 1975 crossing the River Sheaf in Woodseats Road, passing Tools & Steel Products on a Journey to Sheffield Top Lane in 1975.

The ex Sheffield CT Roe bodied AEC Regent V, then in PTE ownership is devoid of its Sheffield fleet names.

The TSP factory, which produced tools and steelwork for the mining industry has long since gone, replaced with flats. The company itself still exists in another part of the City. However, it is rumoured that the old factory was haunted and that strange goings-on still persist. Link

I had a 2-week summer job nearby about that time at Laycock Engineering on Archer Road. The workforce were away on hols (Sheffield Works Weeks) and I was just sweeping the floor with a handful of 'foremen', 'chargehands' etc. present. They all had different coloured coats (brown, white etc.) to indicate their place in the pecking order. It was like a fucking Monty Python sketch. If I stopped for a fag break, one of the cunts would appear. 'Don't let the foreman/chargehand/whatever catch you sitting down. I'm not bothered, but...) I've always found factory workers to be weird, insular cunts.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Queens Rd

 

[BushBlade]

You're right. 1975.

SYPTE 1336, Woodseats Road, Sheffield, 1975 crossing the River Sheaf in Woodseats Road, passing Tools & Steel Products on a Journey to Sheffield Top Lane in 1975.

The ex Sheffield CT Roe bodied AEC Regent V, then in PTE ownership is devoid of its Sheffield fleet names.

The TSP factory, which produced tools and steelwork for the mining industry has long since gone, replaced with flats. The company itself still exists in another part of the City. However, it is rumoured that the old factory was haunted and that strange goings-on still persist. Link

I had a 2-week summer job nearby about that time at Laycock Engineering on Archer Road. The workforce were away on hols (Sheffield Works Weeks) and I was just sweeping the floor with a handful of 'foremen', 'chargehands' etc. present. They all had different coloured coats (brown, white etc.) to indicate their place in the pecking order. It was like a fucking Monty Python sketch. If I stopped for a fag break, one of the cunts would appear. 'Don't let the foreman/chargehand/whatever catch you sitting down. I'm not bothered, but...) I've always found factory workers to be weird, insular cunts.

Forty years ago about half of Sheffield would have been weird, insular cunts then. Must be the blue and white half.

 

[sitwell]

You're right. 1975.

SYPTE 1336, Woodseats Road, Sheffield, 1975 crossing the River Sheaf in Woodseats Road, passing Tools & Steel Products on a Journey to Sheffield Top Lane in 1975.

The ex Sheffield CT Roe bodied AEC Regent V, then in PTE ownership is devoid of its Sheffield fleet names.

The TSP factory, which produced tools and steelwork for the mining industry has long since gone, replaced with flats. The company itself still exists in another part of the City. However, it is rumoured that the old factory was haunted and that strange goings-on still persist. Link

I had a 2-week summer job nearby about that time at Laycock Engineering on Archer Road. The workforce were away on hols (Sheffield Works Weeks) and I was just sweeping the floor with a handful of 'foremen', 'chargehands' etc. present. They all had different coloured coats (brown, white etc.) to indicate their place in the pecking order. It was like a fucking Monty Python sketch. If I stopped for a fag break, one of the cunts would appear. 'Don't let the foreman/chargehand/whatever catch you sitting down. I'm not bothered, but...) I've always found factory workers to be weird, insular cunts.

I had loads of mates at laycocks and thorntons which was also on archer Rd, they were all weird but well off. That area is where I call home. Everyone used to head for the sheaf on fraser Rd which had a reputation when I was young as an easy place for divorcees to pull.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

That James Bond car was a thing of beauty. The gold one, if fully working with a decent box, you can expect to pay £150 - £200 now. The silver ones are worth a bit too. Corgi recently re-released both, once again the gold coloured one is rarer and is expected to become more valuable.

Ah yes, the Batmobile, I had one of those as a child. There are a lot of "playworn" ones about that aren't worth much. The missiles go missing, and the front windows are very breakable. A boxed one in nice condition you can expect to pay over £200. The prize pig is the Batmobile / Batboat set. If you find a boxed one and it's under £500, you've done well.

I think mine was a gold one, it’s still in a carton with all my other Corgi/Dinky cars somewhere in the loft.

 

[The Crab]

I think mine was a gold one, it’s still in a carton with all my other Corgi/Dinky cars somewhere in the loft.

Dinky, generally speaking tend to be more valuable than Corgi. They always struck me as having a bit better detail.

 

[chipsncake]

I had loads of mates at laycocks and thorntons which was also on archer Rd, they were all weird but well off. That area is where I call home. Everyone used to head for the sheaf on fraser Rd which had a reputation when I was young as an easy place for divorcees to pull.

Also some years later home to the famous Sheaf Snakebites FC.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

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Pig fans queuing up to see the next to last double?

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

.........(it was me)

Oh and Doncaster is going to build a new museum all of 50 yards from the current one which is in a splendid 1960s building.... the reason? yes, you've guessed it, Doncaster was given £6M by Sheffield City Region (which btw they don't want to be part of) to spend on culture or they'd lose it ... so they had to come up with a scheme to spend it on.

It makes THAT much sense.....

Culture and Donny?

Yea

 

[vorpal blade]

well exactly, I should have spelt it "culture".

 

[stringjunior]

And just down t'hill:

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First legal pint in there.

 

[sitwell]

First legal pint in there.

This was mine

 

[Silent Blade]

This was mine

Skinheads go there!

 

[sitwell]

Skinheads go there!

The guy with the walking sticks ??
I know it was a bit tasty ,good bedding in for a young sitwell.

 

[shorehamview]

Woodseats Road

There are quite a few Blades living on Woodseats Road nowadays. Me, for one.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

There are quite a few Blades living on Woodseats Road nowadays. Me, for one.

With the passage of time it's inevitable that some areas decline.

 

[shorehamview]

With the passage of time it's inevitable that some areas decline.

 

[bornablade]

This was mine

In the corner next to Stylo would have been the entrance to Pete Stringfellow's Down Broadway.

 

[Bert]

In the corner next to Stylo would have been the entrance to Pete Stringfellow's Down Broadway.

Did that eventually become the Crazy Daisey or has Bert's memory gone on holiday?

 

[sitwell]

Daisys was behind the cameraman bit further up high St as I remember ,don't know about Stringfellow place.Here,

 

[1066blade]

Round the corner - The Stonehouse! (Rumours it's going to become Cargo Hold Bar & Restaurant).

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And just down t'hill:

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Used to go in the Stone House before the faux "outside street" facia. Think old oak panelled Georgian furnishings.

 

[Bert]

Daisys was behind the cameraman bit further up high St as I remember ,don't know about Stringfellow place.Here,

What was the one at the Silver Blades ice rink? Wasn't that Down Broadway?

 

[sitwell]

When I was young it was Samantha's, first nightclub I went in and then it became stars, talking 1978 ish

 

[Sean Thornton]

Used to go in the Stone House before the faux "outside street" facia. Think old oak panelled Georgian furnishings.

Pig and Whistle Bar, the sign up on the wall.

 

[Sean Thornton]

When I was young it was Samantha's, first nightclub I went in and then it became stars, talking 1978 ish

Heartbeat before that. Think you're right about the date it changed to Stars. Still Samantha's in 1977.

 

[Bert]

Heartbeat before that. Think you're right about the date it changed to Stars. Still Samantha's in 1977.

Yes, that was it, Heartbeat.