Oh Really, Vinicius?

[Harry's Game]

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And he still wanted to come???

 

[Alan Birchenall's hair]

Not really in Sheffield, but here's one I've had many a piss in while cutting through from Penistone Station to The Spread Eagle after matchday sessions. In fact, they could be some of my pints on the floor on the right....

 

[Le Cynique]

Does Serpentine Walk next to Graves Park count as a gennel? If so, that’s got to be up there. Lovely to walk through in the daytime, but it was scary as anything when I was young and walking through it in the dark.

 

[blade too long]

Not really in Sheffield, but here's one I've had many a piss in while cutting through from Penistone Station to The Spread Eagle after matchday sessions. In fact, they could be some of my pints on the floor on the right....
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we cherish our air cons in Spain , it keeps us sane on days like today when it could hit 45c
the air cons in this alley are a disgrace, get em weshed, and thats a snicket as its near Barnsley

 

[Alan Birchenall's hair]

we cherish our air cons in Spain , it keeps us sane on days like today when it could hit 45c
the air cons in this alley are a disgrace, get em weshed, and thats a snicket as its near Barnsley

Those aircons have never been used. It is Penistone after all. Once reached 16c in the 1950s I believe. Some locals still speak in awe of that murderously hot day

 

[Yoonited]

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Know everything about Sheffield do you?

Name your top 5 gennels.

I hope he knows the most popular one is Wadsley Bridge to Shirecliffe Road,avoiding the rusty sheds.
Though fuck knows what he'd be doing in Wadsley Bridge in the first place

 

[dynamoblade]

The gennel leading up from Ingram Road to City Road. Bang opposite our old back gate and had a quality Indian take away and a bakery/pork sandwich shop at the other end.

Can't imagine a more perfect gennel !

 

[Linz]

Favourite gennels:

1) The gennel that takes you from the Sheaf over Skelly's Bridge to Guernsey Road



2) Derbyshire Lane to Brook Road next to Meersbrook Bank School



3) Steep steps from Chesterfield Road to Woodbank Crescent (that would never get past any planning these days)



4) Crawford Road to Cockayne Place (see the occasional badger on there if you're coming back from the pub late on)



5) A lovely cobblestone example running from Warminster Road to Derbyshire Lane past Mundella School (my old house on the last photo looking somewhat worse for wear)

 

[Trafford]

Favourite gennels:

1) The gennel that takes you from the Sheaf over Skelly's Bridge to Guernsey Road



2) Derbyshire Lane to Brook Road next to Meersbrook Bank School



3) Steep steps from Chesterfield Road to Woodbank Crescent (that would never get past any planning these days)



4) Crawford Road to Cockayne Place (see the occasional badger on there if you're coming back from the pub late on)



5) A lovely cobblestone example running from Warminster Road to Derbyshire Lane past Mundella School (my old house on the last photo looking somewhat worse for wear)

The genels content surely has to be awarded its own thread…….

 

[Tom Bott]

Thanks for your entries lads but its Frog Walk, no competition

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You could have showed the listed sewer gas street lamp at the Stag roundabout, to give a less sinister effect.

 

[Tom Bott]

1) The gennel that takes you from the Sheaf over Skelly's Bridge to Guernsey Road

I'll be doing that one on Saturday, lets hope the Sheaf View has not gone too far down the pan since new ownership.
Though I rarely saw any Pictish beer in there since being taken over.

 

[HVR]

Well, the gennel post has really cheered me up after so much doom and gloom!

1) The one that links Ecclesall Road to Psalter Lane (Banner Cross pub) - archway and cobbles, as kids we'd walk down, smell the yeast brewing and you'd be able to see people playing on a full size snooker table in the upstairs room of the pub.
2) Roach Road to Hunter House Road (absolute gennel - straight, connects 2 streets and has pebbledash bollards at each end) where I lived as a kid - happy times walking up there and then climbing on the Quarry Stone on Psalter Lane.
3) Dover Road to Wadbrough Road (the Road appears to end with the high boundary wall of the Botanical Gardens, but if you go to the top, you can walk through). There was a tree growing down it, and as kids we'd climb up and hop over the wall into Botanical Gardens at night.
4 Harborough Avenue to Harborough Drive (4 traditional paving slabs wide - nan used to call it the 8 foot)
5 Chesterfield Road to Woodbank Crescent - mad steps!
We pronounced it 'Jennel' my nan called them 8 or 6 foots. She'd call the passagway between terraced house, that access the garden a gennel - we called that the 'entry'.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Dont tell him about the Megatron asleep under the station, he'll go looking for the Autobots and Decepticons

Watch out for Daleks.

 

[GVBlade]

I stand corrected.

'Ginnel' is also used in Leeds.

Those ginnels in Leeds are all dirty.
Dirty Leeds, dirty ginnels.

 

[GVBlade]

Bents Road to Bents Drive, posh gennel.

 

[Gin&Juice]

Thanks for your entries lads but its Frog Walk, no competition

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You had to be brave to walk down there. One at the bottom and one at the top, they’d both meet you half way and kick shit out of you.

 

[GVBlade]

What about the one coming up from Parkhead, that’s a nice one. If it’s still there?
They stole the gennel on Ringinglow Road, going down to Silverdale, and incorporated it into people’s gardens and driveways. You can still make out where it was though.

 

[Hallam Blade]

Down the bottom of Edmund Road, down past the play park there's a reyt fancy gennel, if such a thing exists.

 

[Linz]

One thing I've pondered recently, are the metal bollards old cannons like they are in that London?

French Cannons being used as Street Bollards. Part of the Secret London series by Historic UK

After the defeat of the French at the Battle of Trafalgar, the British decided to use captured cannons as street bollards throughout…

www.historic-uk.com

 

[St Annington]

True story, there is actually a social media site dedicated to the gennels of Sheffield.

True story, I have contributed to that site.
There is also a site for peak district gates and stiles

 

[PrestwichBlade]

True story, I have contributed to that site.
There is also a site for peak district gates and stiles

Surweet

 

[Rodley]

Does he remember Ro y Disco or when Gatecrasher burnt down?

Makes more money from View Froms then he ever did from his discotheque does Roygbiv

 

[Roygbiv]

Makes more money from View Froms then he ever did from his discotheque does Roygbiv

Roy's Disco was the start of the empire

 

[St Annington]

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Hmm, I'd like an adjudication on January.
There is no gennel from Argyle Road to Kent Road.
It is just Kent Road. Just because the council have allowed it to become overgrown is no reason to disown it.
I walked up and down that stretch of Kent Road thousands of times a as a kid.
I have submitted photo evidence (from Google maps) to support my objection!!

 

[VictoryBlade]

"Yes, I've been told Hillsborough is very very good nightlife, they recommended The Shakey for me to pick up...er...how you say, "slags?"

Careful you'll upset some of the little flowers on here!

 

[VictoryBlade]

What happened to the fish in the hole in the road?

Deeed when they emptied the tank!

 

[VictoryBlade]

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Can I order one please?

 

[VictoryBlade]

Bradway to Totley

 

[I should coco]

It's a big claim, but certainly one of the steepest gennels in Sheffield (Past Walkley Cemetery, up from Rivelin Valley Road).

The start is he gentlest bit...

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[the posting crofter]

Oooh what a cracking topic this is. My personal fave is this understated beaut connecting Louth Road and Greystones Avenue. Was on my walk to school and seemed much steeper in my memory.

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I really hope Vinicius comes on here looking to see what fans think of him signing…

Lived just down the road, route to the Highcliffe