Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Sean Thornton]

Fucking hell Sean, taken me on a tour of my childhood there. The Norfolk Picture house I'd forgotten about but can just about recall it. The rest is fresh in my memory. Walked past the New Inn a couple of weeks ago. It's derelict with fucking great cracks up the walls and I swear its going to collapse soon, a disaster waiting to happen given the location its in.

Can you remember the church behind it? It was deconsecrated when I was a kid and stood empty for some years?

The Duke Street one before they built the section of flats where the Link was is a great photo.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Can you remember the church behind it? It was deconsecrated when I was a kid and stood empty for some years?

The Duke Street one before they built the section of flats where the Link was is a great photo.

No, can't quite remember that but I was as much interested in churches then as I am now. I like the photo at the bottom of South Street. Where the Consul (?) is parked there's a chippy and that was a regular stop off after the Saturday matinee just down the road. It was like an ADHD convention around there on a Saturday afternoon.

 

[Sean Thornton]

No, can't quite remember that but I was as much interested in churches then as I am now. I like the photo at the bottom of South Street. Where the Consul (?) is parked there's a chippy and that was a regular stop off after the Saturday matinee just down the road. It was like an ADHD convention around there on a Saturday afternoon.

We used the chippy at the bottom of Duke Street. Best fish cakes ever.

Matinee at Park pictures.

 

[snootyfenooty]

We used the chippy at the bottom of Duke Street. Best fish cakes ever.

Best chippy ever. Period.

 

[CarlingBlade]

Did it become a Marriott? In old money it was always Trust House Forte Hallam Towers Hotel.

Apologies, it wasn't a Marriott that was Kenwood Hall, it was a Holiday Inn by the it closed but mostly known as Hallam Towers.

 

[siblade]

Bloody he'll SEB , I haven't been down there for years . Well, not sober anyway ! Are the stocks still outside ? Any woodhousers care to share who ( or what ) was Fred Hardcastle . And how about ' prudo ' from the bottom of Normanton Springs !?

Takes me back saying prudo, I take it you mean the mad old woman that everyone used to wind up for a laugh?

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

We used the chippy at the bottom of Duke Street. Best fish cakes ever.

Matinee at Park pictures.

Not been past for ages but is Park Club still in existence? On the left as you come up the hill from town. Just before a junction with a pub on the corner whose name I can't remember now, for the life of me.

I used to go in Park Club regular Sunday nights in the early-eighties. Bert Saw (best name ever and my mate''s grandad) was a regular. There was someone called Bob French I recall and an elderly chap called Percy (don't know his surname) who was clerk to an on-course bookmaker and really knew his horses. Also, a woman with an absolutely horrendous laugh who couldn't stop once she got going - nobody ever told her a joke.

Happy days.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Not been past for ages but is Park Club still in existence? On the left as you come up the hill from town. Just before a junction with a pub on the corner whose name I can't remember now, for the life of me.

I used to go in Park Club regular Sunday nights in the early-eighties. Bert Saw (best name ever and my mate''s grandad) was a regular. There was someone called Bob French I recall and an elderly chap called Percy (don't know his surname) who was clerk to an on-course bookmaker and really knew his horses. Also, a woman with an absolutely horrendous laugh who couldn't stop once she got going - nobody ever told her a joke.

Happy days.

Not sure if it's still open, but Percy was a relative. He was the son of my grandmothers sister and worked on course. Always gave my Dad the little diaries the bookies handed out. Trying to recall his surname. Lived in Hague Row.

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

Not sure if it's still open, but Percy was a relative. He was the son of my grandmothers sister and worked on course. Always gave my Dad the little diaries the bookies handed out. Trying to recall his surname. Lived in Hague Row.

Thanks for the reply. He was a nice guy.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Thanks for the reply. He was a nice guy.

Gentle sort.

 

[Mad Mick]

Can you remember the church behind it? It was deconsecrated when I was a kid and stood empty for some years?

The Duke Street one before they built the section of flats where the Link was is a great photo.

Are you a Park lad Sean? Anyone else who was brought up on Park Hill or the surrounding area can join our FB group. I'm in the process of posting a few of my old photos taken 69 and 70, and we are getting other contributions. There is also a photo exhibition on at S1 Artspace. I'm hoping to put a few of my images on their "Reel".

 

[andybrizz]

Are you a Park lad Sean? Anyone else who was brought up on Park Hill or the surrounding area can join our FB group. I'm in the process of posting a few of my old photos taken 69 and 70, and we are getting other contributions. There is also a photo exhibition on at S1 Artspace. I'm hoping to put a few of my images on their "Reel".

What’s the name of your FB page Mick, I’m a Park lad, born on City Road, just above Fitzwalter, ‘64

 

[sitwell]

I was on a business course on the 9th floor of that building when Sheffield had a mini earthquake in 1990 ,the building swayed but we didn't know if we imagined it until the paper the next day.

 

[bornablade]

I always felt that building would have made an ideal hotel. Good location near railway station, straight off the Parkway and possible car parking. Shape seems to be right. Tall and narrow for bedrooms either side of corridors.

I understand Easy Hotel are converting the old Primark (C&A) into a hotel. Not sure how that will work. Huge footprint which would make it difficult to have all bedrooms with windows.

 

[LSF]

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Great photos Sean!
My dad was a Park lad. My earliest memories are visiting my grandma's at bottom of Hampton Street (now Manor Oaks Road) and looking across to Sky Edge and the mountain it seemed to a 4 year old.
Sunday mornings we'd catch the bus on East Bank Rd opposite Midhill Club and get off at bottom of Shrewsbury Road, walk what seemed an age up to the traffic lights at Duke Street, where my unmarried uncle was waiting for the Top Drum to open at 12.
Him and my dad would decamp there while my gram had to entertain me for a few hours...
That's what blokes did in the 50's (60's, 70's, 80's.....)

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Apologies, it wasn't a Marriott that was Kenwood Hall, it was a Holiday Inn by the it closed but mostly known as Hallam Towers.

Trust House Forte.

One of our ex players was conceived there.

 

[Mad Mick]

What’s the name of your FB page Mick, I’m a Park lad, born on City Road, just above Fitzwalter, ‘64

Park Hill Flats (Sheffield)

 

[GrayBlade]

 

[GrayBlade]

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Ahh. Saturday morning kid’s matinee trying to make a frozen Jubilee bought from the shop opposite last the full show.

 

[corkysbeard]

We used the chippy at the bottom of Duke Street. Best fish cakes ever.

Matinee at Park pictures.

Was it Tonys chippy next to crown place?

 

[Sean Thornton]

Was it Tonys chippy next to crown place?

Can't remember the name. It was in the row of shops between the Samson and Willoughbys newsagents. Crown Pkace was higher up Duke Street. Are you thinking of the one on the corner below the bookies?

 

[GrayBlade]

 

[corkysbeard]

Can't remember the name. It was in the row of shops between the Samson and Willoughbys newsagents. Crown Pkace was higher up Duke Street. Are you thinking of the one on the corner below the bookies?

Yeah that was Tonys on the corner,he also had a chippy on commercial street aswell.

 

[wavy-blade]

Spent so many happy Sat nights in there as a teenager , happy days !
Cant remember the name of the pub at the time though ?? It will have been around 1980 to 1986 ish

 

[Sean Thornton]

Spent so many happy Sat nights in there as a teenager , happy days !
Cant remember the name of the pub at the time though ?? It will have been around 1980 to 1986 ish

Compleat Angler.

 

[Mad Mick]

Worst beer in the world.

 

[Paisley Blade]

Compleat Angler.

Sam Smiths pub? Not the best , but cheap as chips from memory.

It was certainly the cheapest pint in Grenoside up at the Cow and Calf.

 

[GrayBlade]

Worst beer in the world.

Good turns though.

 

[coolhandluke]

Takes me back saying prudo, I take it you mean the mad old woman that everyone used to wind up for a laugh?

Indeed it was . She was as mad as a march hare and many is the time I've seen her launch bricks and bottles into Woodhouse West End Junior school yard in response to the kids yelling ' prudo prudo prudo ' .

Absolutely shocking when you think about that whole situation now and very sad .

 

[Going t lane]

Not been past for ages but is Park Club still in existence? On the left as you come up the hill from town. Just before a junction with a pub on the corner whose name I can't remember now, for the life of me.

I used to go in Park Club regular Sunday nights in the early-eighties. Bert Saw (best name ever and my mate''s grandad) was a regular. There was someone called Bob French I recall and an elderly chap called Percy (don't know his surname) who was clerk to an on-course bookmaker and really knew his horses. Also, a woman with an absolutely horrendous laugh who couldn't stop once she got going - nobody ever told her a joke.

Happy days.