Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[HighfieldBlade]

Moorfoot/Eccy Rd/London Rd

 

[Maurice Maurice]

These are some of my favourites. 62 years apart, same people, same car.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

 

[Tickhill Blade]

 

[HarryHaslam]

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Tough one to work out for a minute. Thought the building centre was the firework place or the Thai restaurant but think it’s a little further up and is a cafe or something now but was the tile shop for years?

 

[Maurice Maurice]

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Tough one to work out for a minute. Thought the building centre was the firework place or the Thai restaurant but think it’s a little further up and is a cafe or something now but was the tile shop for years?

No I think it is what pre-dated the firework place. They are laying the tram tracks, London Road to the left, Ecclesall Road first right, Cemetery Road second right.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

I've seen the footage of this tram ride from 1902 before and I'm sure it's been posted in this thread. But someone has used AI to enhance it and it's absolutely fantastic

 

[Trigger Blade]

Who is it ?

That festival was almost certainly Joe Cocker’s finest hour when he put on a stunning performance .

He certainly did, as did The Grease Band, including falsetto harmonies, no Sue and Sunny to do them

There is a Joe Cocker/John Sebastian in that Joe recorded Sebastian’s “Darling Be Home Soon” on his 2nd album. In my view, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.

In fact, just checked and Sebastian did it in his set at Woodstock, Joe didn’t.

 

[bornablade]

No I think it is what pre-dated the firework place. They are laying the tram tracks, London Road to the left, Ecclesall Road first right, Cemetery Road second right.

My immediate thought - it was Broomhill (although the tram may not have run that far), looking towards town with the York pub in the centre.

 

[XH536]

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I'm still puzzled to where this is.
Help, please. Road names. Thank you.

 

[stringjunior]

I'm still puzzled to where this is.
Help, please. Road names. Thank you.

Me too

 

[Tickhill Blade]

I'm still puzzled to where this is.
Help, please. Road names. Thank you.

Bottom of the Moor, or South Street. The tracks going off to the left is London Road, the first set on the right is Ecclesall Road and the second set is Cemetery Road (the trams went to Nether Edge until 1935).

The tram video above goes over those tracks in the opposite direction from 36secs in

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

I think this photo is a bit clearer for that junction. The building to the left, behind the double decker, is what replaced the building in the middle of the tram laying photo and is on the junction of London Road and Cemetery Road. The building in the middle, with the curved portico, is the current Thai restaurant on the junction of Cemetery Road and Ecclesall Road. And, of course, the light building on the right of the photo is the S & E Co-op, known commonly as ‘The Stoors’.

 

[Trigger Blade]

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I think this photo is a bit clearer for that junction. The building to the left, behind the double decker, is what replaced the building in the middle of the tram laying photo and is on the junction of London Road and Cemetery Road. The building in the middle, with the curved portico, is the current Thai restaurant on the junction of Cemetery Road and Ecclesall Road. And, of course, the light building on the right of the photo is the S & E Co-op, known commonly as ‘The Stoors’.

The Thai restaurant was Midland Bank wasn’t it?

What strikes me now, but never did at the time, is that the Co-op was nowhere near the centre of town and was presumably a real pull for shoppers to come right down to the bottom end of The Moor, at least before the MSC building was built.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Yes. It was a Midland Bank before it became a restaurant and the other building, which is now the Sheffield Fireworks Co was, I think, a Barclays. The S&E was the ‘go too’ place for school uniforms, if I recall right. We couldn’t afford Cole’s . It was a great place to go and is what Meadowhall would call an ‘Anchor tenant’ in that you would have to walk past loads of other shops before you got to it. Yes, it was very popular and a sad loss both commercially and architecturally.

 

[HarryHaslam]

Think it took a hit in the blitz so lost a bit of the building but was still functioning for many years as Barclays until they built a new Barclays behind it which is the firework co.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I've seen the footage of this tram ride from 1902 before and I'm sure it's been posted in this thread. But someone has used AI to enhance it and it's absolutely fantastic

Opening scene of video is instantly recognisable as Heeley Bottom/Lowfield School, then cuts to London Rd/Alderson Rd junction. Fascinating to watch.

 

[Wapping Blade]

Yes. It was a Midland Bank before it became a restaurant and the other building, which is now the Sheffield Fireworks Co was, I think, a Barclays. The S&E was the ‘go too’ place for school uniforms, if I recall right. We couldn’t afford Cole’s . It was a great place to go and is what Meadowhall would call an ‘Anchor tenant’ in that you would have to walk past loads of other shops before you got to it. Yes, it was very popular and a sad loss both commercially and architecturally.

We seemed to live in the S&E or the B&C in town with my grandma!

 

[JFK]

We were at the top of the league on the day JFK got shot

And I'm still narked about it.

 

[Stoney Blade]

That Sabella photo....was lucky to see him play but was he partly responsible for us being relegated?

 

[Tickhill Blade]

 

[Tickhill Blade]

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Bottom of the Moor? In your post of the tram track laying earlier there is a series of posts and railings which look suspiciously like the ones forming the outside perimeter of this church. Presumably this was lost during the war, or cleared shortly after the war ended.

 

[Tickhill Blade]

Bottom of the Moor? In your post of the tram track laying earlier there is a series of posts and railings which look suspiciously like the ones forming the outside perimeter of this church. Presumably this was lost during the war, or cleared shortly after the war ended.

Yes that's the same spot, I think it might have been damaged in the War bombing but it was still there in 1952 when it was a furniture store. Presumably it was demolished for the ring road late 50s

 

[jim2007]

Bottom of the Moor? In your post of the tram track laying earlier there is a series of posts and railings which look suspiciously like the ones forming the outside perimeter of this church. Presumably this was lost during the war, or cleared shortly after the war ended.

For context, here's that area on the OS 1:1250 post-war resurvey of Britain (changed a bt):

Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

 

[bornablade]

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Just about where those yellow diggers are is where I was born.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

For context, here's that area on the OS 1:1250 post-war resurvey of Britain (changed a bt):
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Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

I like that the Ordnance Survey refers to the S&E as The Stores, a name I referred to in an earlier post colloquially as The Stoors .

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

I like that the Ordnance Survey refers to the S&E as The Stores, a name I referred to in an earlier post colloquially as The Stoors .

Alternatively known as the Coap as opposed to Co-op .