Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[sitwell]

The Mrs lived on Ashland Rd.
My eldest daughter lives on Rupert Rd changed so much round there over the years

Since they shut turn ups and the brincs

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Who remembers the Sheffield Star walk?

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The bloke at the front looks so like jack grealish I expect him to fall over any minute....

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Since they shut turn ups and the brincs

It all started going wrong when the health food mob moved in....

The Byron is the last bastion of normality, we’ll sort of...

The Brincs in the 80’s was a riot of perming products, fake tan and pastel shaded colours and that was just the gents.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

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Had a season ticket there TB in its later guise , loved the Casbah , quality music , good laugh and some quality birds ... and some lacking in quality but making up for it in other ways

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Go on Google Earth and search for Abbeydale Picture House, then use street view and move down the road toward town. There is a white double fronted antique shop on the right just below the cinema. Underneath the window with ' Antiques ' painted above it it says 'Temperance Bar ' .There's probably a way that I could link to it but I have no idea how.

I lived in the area and went in a few times with my mates when we were kids. They served sarsaparilla in those pint pots with the handles. We used to drink it making out we were drinking beer. Only problem being it tasted crap!

See post #9905

 

[sitwell]

It all started going wrong when the health food mob moved in....

The Byron is the last bastion of normality, we’ll sort of...

The Brincs in the 80’s was a riot of perming products, fake tan and pastel shaded colours and that was just the gents.

OI that was my gang ,I never had a perm ,fake tan or pastel shades ,but some did Never got on with the Byron tbh ,when the Brincs and Turn ups died we relocated to the Royal Oak and Lansdowne.

 

[sitwell]

Had a season ticket there TB in its later guise , loved the Casbah , quality music , good laugh and some quality birds ... and some lacking in quality but making up for it in other ways

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Not forgetting the table football.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Not forgetting the table football.

so many stories & laughs from there S , gutted when it closed

 

[Bert]

An interesting list, a few missing though. Leonard Cohen for one around 1977.

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/6136-they-appeared-at-the-city-hall/

 

[Lane Ender]

Since they shut turn ups and the brincs

Quality Turn Ups loved it.

 

[Kentblade]

. A schoolmate lived on Sandford Grove Rd too, his Dad Len Doherty was a well known journalist on the Star when they had proper journos ,I remember he worked abroad a lot and was injured in a terrorist attack in Munich.
My dad also moved into a bedsit on Sandford Grove rd when he split from my Mum

Small world Sitwell
But you will be talking many years on from me in the late 50's.

UTB

 

[Kentblade]

Go on Google Earth and search for Abbeydale Picture House, then use street view and move down the road toward town. There is a white double fronted antique shop on the right just below the cinema. Underneath the window with ' Antiques ' painted above it it says 'Temperance Bar ' .There's probably a way that I could link to it but I have no idea how.

I lived in the area and went in a few times with my mates when we were kids. They served sarsaparilla in those pint pots with the handles. We used to drink it making out we were drinking beer. Only problem being it tasted crap!

Totally agree Bannerman.

UTB

 

[Trigger Blade]

Just as it was Dnblade, sure that is the Sarsaparilla bar on the LHS looking at the photo.
have been past some time ago, cannot recall what the cinema is now.
UTB

I’m not sure you can tell much from the outside, but it’s still a live music and performance venue.

 

[Bannerman]

If you go onto Streetview and look at the row of shops on the town side of the old Abbeydale Cinema (same side) there is a shop called Dronfield Antiques. At the bottom of the right hand window it says "Temperance Bar." That's where they had their date. I used to go there myself as a lad after a session (swimming, before anybody says anything) at Heeley Baths.

Woops! Sorry about that, only looked at the last page

Still great minds and all that! I was born in Heeley and lived in a few different places in and around so my old stamping ground when I was growing up.

Interesting thing about the Abbeydale cinema when you started going out with young ladies was that they had a few seats which were 'doubles' purely for comfort reasons you understand

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Woops! Sorry about that, only looked at the last page

Still great minds and all that! I was born in Heeley and lived in a few different places in and around so my old stamping ground when I was growing up.

Interesting thing about the Abbeydale cinema when you started going out with young ladies was that they had a few seats which were 'doubles' purely for comfort reasons you understand

Why does the word "manking" spring to mind?
Although I am not from Heeley I had a longstanding girlfriend who was. We went in all the local pubs but I can only remember the Roundhouse, Cuckoo, the one that's now the Brother's Arms and the Sheaf. There were others, but those brain cells have died.

 

[Kentblade]

I’m not sure you can tell much from the outside, but it’s still a live music and performance venue.

Thanks

Poor display today

UTB

 

[vorpal blade]

sorry, this breaks the rules as its a screen grab I just made from Match of the Day .... I think I can spot an ex-Blade .....?

 

[Silent Blade]

I can spot Mark Bright and Dougie Freedman. Neither played for the Blades. You mean the one on the left?

 

[Dnblade]

Go on Google Earth and search for Abbeydale Picture House, then use street view and move down the road toward town. There is a white double fronted antique shop on the right just below the cinema. Underneath the window with ' Antiques ' painted above it it says 'Temperance Bar ' .There's probably a way that I could link to it but I have no idea how.

I lived in the area and went in a few times with my mates when we were kids. They served sarsaparilla in those pint pots with the handles. We used to drink it making out we were drinking beer. Only problem being it tasted crap!

You're right mate..Temperance Bar...

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

I can spot Mark Bright and Dougie Freedman. Neither played for the Blades. You mean the one on the left?

Stewart Houston

 

[Silent Blade]

Stewart Houston

Not him

 

[Silent Blade]

Stewart Houston

Just realised you meant the chap below the trio. Could be!

 

[Bannerman]

You're right mate..Temperance Bar...View attachment 46268 View attachment 46269

eddiecolquhounsleg pointed it out earlier in the thread but I hadn't seen it. Yes remember going in there a few times with mates. The sensible ones had the hot Ribena but us numpties had the sarsaparilla cos it looked like a pint of beer, despite the fact it tasted awful!

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

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Spend many nights in there, mainly because my feet were stuck to the carpet. Great for music but the beer was piss.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

A couple of interesting photos I came across earlier today. I think you’ll all know where the second picture is taken, not sure about the green tram though. Some of our oldies will probably remember this failed experiment.

 

[don240]

View attachment 46287 View attachment 46288 A couple of interesting photos I came across earlier today. I think you’ll all know where the second picture is taken, not sure about the green tram though. Some of our oldies will probably remember this failed experiment.

The photo is from a book by Richard Wiseman & is taken on Orgreave Lane, Handsworth.
Sheffield corporation tried two experimental green liverys in 1952 to try & cut re painting costs. It was applied to 23 trams in total along with several buses.
There was two different liverys, the dark green one as seen in the photo, & a lighter green version with dark green bands.
The public outcry was enough to force the corporation to go back to their original colours & within 14 months, all the green ones had been repainted in blue & Cream.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Why does the word "manking" spring to mind?
Although I am not from Heeley I had a longstanding girlfriend who was. We went in all the local pubs but I can only remember the Roundhouse, Cuckoo, the one that's now the Brother's Arms and the Sheaf. There were others, but those brain cells have died.

You went to the Roundhouse for the ale, not looking for a shag. Thompson kept the best pint of Wards in town. Could explain why your brain cells have died if you supped enough of it. Join the club!

 

[LSF]

You went to the Roundhouse for the ale, not looking for a shag. Thompson kept the best pint of Wards in town. Could explain why your brain cells have died if you supped enough of it. Join the club!

Thompson's Wards was indeed the best I ever sampled. Plus it was best behaviour in the Roundhouse in his tenure. A proper old fashioned pub landlord.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Thompson's Wards was indeed the best I ever sampled. Plus it was best behaviour in the Roundhouse in his tenure. A proper old fashioned pub landlord.

The best Wards I ever had was in The Red House on Solly Street, It was like rabbit gravy.

 

[blade.i.am]

Can picture exactly where we used to stand back in the 70s, right at the back near the exit on the right.