SouthEssexBlade
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I took a few hundred in 1969 and 1970. I will be publishing a book next year containing over one hundred of them.
Let me know when, Mick. I'd like a copy of that
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I took a few hundred in 1969 and 1970. I will be publishing a book next year containing over one hundred of them.
Me too, MickLet me know when, Mick. I'd like a copy of that
Lovely photo that. The contrast of old and new with Sheffield Polytechnic in the background. National Express pulling out of the bus station. Across the road where we can't see the hammer at ponds forge thudding away. This view would have been what my grandmother would have seen everyday as she walked down the cobbles.
Berlin, 1945?
Anyone identify where this is?
That's from the car park on arundal gate, you could walk down to pond street station/flat st. Horrible place that walkway in the 70s and 80s. The whole area was seedy.
I know what you mean. As a kid it was good but later it fell into disrepair and got a reputation for crime and a bit seedy. Not helped by the type of films and clientele at the little cinema. Let's not get started on Pond Street Norah!Call me weird but I always quite liked it around there. Especially the system of escalators that we used to race down that ended up at the back entrance to the cinema. Some weird little shops in there too from what I recall.
It was grubby as hell but kind of cool in an urban decay sort of way.
Used to fly down there pissed up, in about 3 strides ,and Im a shortarse ,from town usually in a vain attempt to get the last bus in Pond st. Cant recall ever walking up it though.
Pre Dempseys snack ?Al fresco dining in the city centre with some of Sheffield's more sophisticated citizens.
Can anyone remember name of the garden, bottom left of this photo? It is behind the double metal gates, with a pond squirting water onto a stone pillar mounted chrome sphere, visible over railings. Always seemed to be closed at least in 50's
Well the pond was Barkers Pool wasn’t it? Not sure if the garden had a separate name though.Can anyone remember name of the garden, bottom left of this photo? It is behind the double metal gates, with a pond squirting water onto a stone pillar mounted chrome sphere, visible over railings. Always seemed to be closed at least in 50's
Well the pond was Barkers Pool wasn’t it? Not sure if the garden had a separate name though.
I thought that was bottom of Corporation Street. Same type junction, and didn't recognise the Ponds Forge area at all.Amazing that with all that's been changed here, the little boundary wall and gate are still there untouched.
I know what you mean. As a kid it was good but later it fell into disrepair and got a reputation for crime and a bit seedy. Not helped by the type of films and clientele at the little cinema. Let's not get started on Pond Street Norah!
Used to love it after home games when the mob of blades went chanting through the bus station.
Can anyone remember name of the garden, bottom left of this photo? It is behind the double metal gates, with a pond squirting water onto a stone pillar mounted chrome sphere, visible over railings. Always seemed to be closed at least in 50's
Can anyone remember name of the garden, bottom left of this photo? It is behind the double metal gates, with a pond squirting water onto a stone pillar mounted chrome sphere, visible over railings. Always seemed to be closed at least in 50's
Although Balm Green runs down the side of the City Hall, this little patch of greenery is called Fountain Square.Balm Green?
Can you spot the couple meeting on a blind date in the first photo?
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