Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[bartman]

I've no idea where this is.

I am guess Moorfoot. Cemetery Road in the background? Chinese Fireworks building ( as is now) where the bus is

 

[Deaneandagana]

Here’s one for all you 50 somethings year olds +, the resident DJ at BDTBL in the 70’s, purveyor of such musical delights as Lynn Anderson, Libby & Family Cooking & On Ilkley moor bar tat etc....

Was called?

 

[stringjunior]

I am guess Moorfoot. Cemetery Road in the background? Chinese Fireworks building ( as is now) where the bus is

I can see it now. It was cemetery road which threw me. Thanks

 

[Speedracer]

Here’s one for all you 50 somethings year olds +, the resident DJ at BDTBL in the 70’s, purveyor of such musical delights as Lynn Anderson, Libby & Family Cooking & On Ilkley moor bar tat etc....

Was called?

I can't answer your question but it was Limmie & Family Cookin' who sang You Can Do Magic.

 

[Deaneandagana]

I can't answer your question but it was Limmie & Family Cookin' who sang You Can Do Magic.

Great thanks

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Just seen this and reminds me of what my Dad told me about the bombing of Sheffield. He was there. Bear with me as I may go on a bit. The Germans knew Sheffield as "the city on wheels" because they couldn't find it, hard to believe I know. One of the reasons was because whenever they were on their way, the factories would begin belching out Black smoke which, due to the topography of the city, would shroud the place in smog, resulting in it being hidden. My dad lived at Wisewood and they always knew the Germans were heading this way because the Loxley Valley works would begin producing black smoke which would then drift down the valley and over the city. This was before the sirens sounded. More often than not, they were heading for Manchester or Liverpool but that wasn't known at the time.

If you look at the map of the bombs, it gives a clue as to how they eventually found Sheffield..........they followed the railway tracks up from Derby which explains the first bombs hitting Millhouses, the city centre getting the brunt of the attack and the heavy industry of the east end being pretty much missed completely. It was always fascinating to chat to my dad about the war and he remembered the Sheffield blitz clearly, the devastation it brought to families who lived in the city but the total lack of effect it had on Sheffields ability to keep producing steel for the war effort.

Mum still recalls the blitz and going down into one of the reinforced cellars in Woodhead Road where they lived. Her mum had saved up her rations and already made the christmas cake, so they took it down with them and sat and ate it. My grandma's reasoning was summed up in her quote "Bloody Adolf's not having this too".

 

[bartman]

Here’s one for all you 50 somethings year olds +, the resident DJ at BDTBL in the 70’s, purveyor of such musical delights as Lynn Anderson, Libby & Family Cooking & On Ilkley moor bar tat etc....

Was called?

Ian Ramsey ?

 

[sitwell]

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Any idea of a year on this ,Im trying 1974 as a stab in the dark. This is where they parked the giant whale on the back of a lorry for everyone to gaup at. Me and my nan would go to the S and E every saturday morning to get milk tokens and a new stamp book. Cant figure out that building just across from the coop and broomhall flats ,just disappeared from my memory.

 

[I should coco]

Any idea of a year on this ,Im trying 1974 as a stab in the dark. This is where they parked the giant whale on the back of a lorry for everyone to gaup at. Me and my nan would go to the S and E every saturday morning to get milk tokens and a new stamp book. Cant figure out that building just across from the coop and broomhall flats ,just disappeared from my memory.

You can see the steam coming out of Waaaards Brewery behind the S&E.

I had a Saturday and holiday job with the S&E working there and at other branches. The Arcade was a lovely art deco styled building with some beautiful features, but totally impractical for 'modern' retail in the 80s. It is now of course replaced by Waitrose (was Safeway) and their car park.

No idea what the building was you mention. It looks part built, so perhaps it was on its way to being demolished as it is smack in the middle of where Eccy Road joins the roundabout.

 

[sitwell]

You can see the steam coming out of Waaaards Brewery behind the S&E.

I had a Saturday and holiday job with the S&E working there and at other branches. The Arcade was a lovely art deco styled building with some beautiful features, but totally impractical for 'modern' retail in the 80s. It is now of course replaced by Waitrose (was Safeway) and their car park.

No idea what the building was you mention. It looks part built, so perhaps it was on its way to being demolished as it is smack in the middle of where Eccy Road joins the roundabout.

I dont know if it was some building companies offices like Gleesons although not them. The coop was just like Grace Brothers and then the bank at the bottom (TSB ?) . The coop was an excuse for my Dad to visit the Royal Oak , Pomona or Earl Grey for light refreshments .

 

[BadgersBigToe]

Great post.
There were a lot of starfish sights out near fox house to draw the Luftwaffe to there, also plenty of ack ack guns there as well.
You can just about make out some bomb craters still when walking out that way.
Talking of the steel industry in Sheffield and Rotherham in the war, I believe (correct me if wrong) we were the only ones that could make the quality of steel for the crankshafts for Rolls Royce Merlin Engines.
Also should be noted that when Barnes Wallace was developing his bouncing bomb for the Dam raids, he came to Sheffield to discuss the quality and type of steel required for the casing.
Did the same as well for his Tall boy and blockbuster and grand slam bombs.

Until recently I worked for the company that forged the Merlin Crankshafts. They were made at Tinsley but the production was moved to a factory in Darley Dale near Matlock to ensure that the production wasn’t halted during the blitz. Bonfires were lit on the hills away from the factory as a decoy for the German bombers, a ploy that was extremely successfu.

 

[Wapping Blade]

Ian Ramsey ?

Yep and I think he owned the Chocolate Box opposite Ecclesall Church.

 

[Bert]

Any idea of a year on this ,Im trying 1974 as a stab in the dark. This is where they parked the giant whale on the back of a lorry for everyone to gaup at. Me and my nan would go to the S and E every saturday morning to get milk tokens and a new stamp book. Cant figure out that building just across from the coop and broomhall flats ,just disappeared from my memory.

Searching Picture Sheffield

 

[Deaneandagana]

I dont know if it was some building companies offices like Gleesons although not them. The coop was just like Grace Brothers and then the bank at the bottom (TSB ?) . The coop was an excuse for my Dad to visit the Royal Oak , Pomona or Earl Grey for light refreshments .

Think the bank was Midland.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Little Nipper, Eager Beaver and City Clipper, if my memory serves me. I think I once read the Nippers were assembled in Chezzy

What about the City Cloppers.

 

[bornablade]

Any idea of a year on this ,Im trying 1974 as a stab in the dark. This is where they parked the giant whale on the back of a lorry for everyone to gaup at. Me and my nan would go to the S and E every saturday morning to get milk tokens and a new stamp book. Cant figure out that building just across from the coop and broomhall flats ,just disappeared from my memory.

Not sure if you are referring to the same building but there's one across from the S&E that I think was Fretwell Downing.

 

[sitwell]

Not sure if you are referring to the same building but there's one across from the S&E that I think was Fretwell Downing.

Dont know , I only know Fretwell downing from the precinct on Ecclesall Rd at Greystones. Would love to a a picture from there ,my first team were sponsored by Big Brown Bear sports ,next to Challenge supermarket.

 

[sitwell]

What about the City Cloppers.

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How old is that picture ,with Robert Brady and CCC advertising ?

 

[bartman]

What about the City

What about the City Cloppers.

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That's BornOnShorehamStreet on the top deck with a hat on

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

How old is that picture ,with Robert Brady and CCC advertising ?

I can’t give you a specific date but it’s the early eighties. From memory they ran around Christmas time but I could be wrong.

 

[sitwell]

I can’t give you a specific date but it’s the early eighties. From memory they ran around Christmas time but I could be wrong.

I worked next door to Bradys for years and also for his dads rope company in Conisboro

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

That's BornOnShorehamStreet on the top deck with a hat on

Well spotted, bartman

 

[Tickhill Blade]

I dont know if it was some building companies offices like Gleesons although not them. The coop was just like Grace Brothers and then the bank at the bottom (TSB ?) . The coop was an excuse for my Dad to visit the Royal Oak , Pomona or Earl Grey for light refreshments .

Davy Computing apparently in 1973

 

[benn5712]

Until recently I worked for the company that forged the Merlin Crankshafts. They were made at Tinsley but the production was moved to a factory in Darley Dale near Matlock to ensure that the production wasn’t halted during the blitz. Bonfires were lit on the hills away from the factory as a decoy for the German bombers, a ploy that was extremely successfu.

Wouldn't have been Firth Derihon, then Rixson, by any chance?
Heard from one bloke the cranks were ground at Shardlow's.

 

[BadgersBigToe]

Wouldn't have been Firth Derihon, then Rixson, by any chance?
Heard from one bloke the cranks were ground at Shardlow's.

Too true my friend.
My grandad was a stamper at Firth Derihon Tinsley forge at the time.
I worked for the company (in it’s various guises) for over 40 years before I took early retirement a few years ago.

 

[benn5712]

Too true my friend.
My grandad was a stamper at Firth Derihon Tinsley forge at the time.
I worked for the company (in it’s various guises) for over 40 years before I took early retirement a few years ago.

Dad worked at Derihon's for many years. He was a Miller in the die shop. Shook a seven in 1988. Every chance you may have known him.

 

[BadgersBigToe]

Dad worked at Derihon's for many years. He was a Miller in the die shop. Shook a seven in 1988. Every chance you may have known him.

In 1988 I would have been at River Don Stampings which was a sister company (also had a big die shop)

 

[stringjunior]

Challenge supermarket.

Was it David D before that?

 

[sitwell]

Was it David D before that?

Dont remember that ,I thought it was Challenge from inception. There was Brown Bear sports and a launderette too. there was also a Finefayre down the road at Hunters bar.

 

[XM657]

Sad to hear that about Tom . I had a friend who was in his class at De la Salle along with Dennis Finnegan who also played for us .

In respect of the latter , I remember him telling me that at the age of 15 Dennis was built like a fully grown man and played for the First Xl which was normally made up of 17-18 year olds . He told me that he played centre forward and scored over 50 goals in one season and was virtually unstoppable .

My friend said he could never understand why when he joined us , someone had the bright idea of converting a player with such an astonishing goal scoring background into a centre half .

This friend was someone who knew a player when he saw one and expressed the view on more than one occasion that if Dennis had been developed in his natural role , he could have gone on to be as good or even better than Mick Jones .

Sadly , we’ll never know if he was right but the whole thing does sound extraordinary .

Sad to hear that about Tom . I had a friend who was in his class at De la Salle along with Dennis Finnegan who also played for us .

In respect of the latter , I remember him telling me that at the age of 15 Dennis was built like a fully grown man and played for the First Xl which was normally made up of 17-18 year olds . He told me that he played centre forward and scored over 50 goals in one season and was virtually unstoppable .

My friend said he could never understand why when he joined us , someone had the bright idea of converting a player with such an astonishing goal scoring background into a centre half .

This friend was someone who knew a player when he saw one and expressed the view on more than one occasion that if Dennis had been developed in his natural role , he could have gone on to be as good or even better than Mick Jones .

Sadly , we’ll never know if he was right but the whole thing does sound extraordinary .

I played in a team who 'loaned' two United A or B team players for half a season, a goalkeeper and a wing half. The goalkeeper, I was told by the wing half, had originally been a winger. I might add he was a good keeper.