Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

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Think this is Tuckwoods store on Fargate. I can't remember this place, all I remember is Tuckwoods restaurant on Surrey Street which was a genteel sort of place with waitresses in black and white uniforms.

It was upstairs next to the Montgomery theatre (I think). Also upstairs, a little bit further along Surrey Street is Channing Hall. Quite a large exhibition space which is accessed by a rather grand staircase

 

[Sean Thornton]

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Yeah, it's the former buffet place, not sure what it is now. All the all you can eat places seem to have gone, I miss Jumbos on the Arundel Gate, used to go there all the time when I was at Uni.

Just to the right was the entrance to the covered market where my dad used to buy bedding plants. There was also a very old lady who had a set of sit on weighing scales and another stall which had a human skull on a table, I’ve no idea what they traded in though.
If you walked through this hall you came out into the rag and tag market.

 

[espoo blade]

I was born not far from Weston Park and we always used to go in there to see the polar bear, the wrestlers and the bees. We would also go into Crookes Valley Park ( which we called little Weston Park) for a walk round the lake, or, if we were lucky, twice round on the motor boat.

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remember it well. might have been boating once or twice and remember rolling painted eggs down the hill at Easter and setting off a few rockets on bonfire night.

 

[Harrisblade]

That jokes so old it's original draft is in the museum.

I did apologise!!!

it's just that I remember the boatmen used to walk round actually shouting the numbers when it was time-up for the row boats

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I was born not far from Weston Park and we always used to go in there to see the polar bear, the wrestlers and the bees. We would also go into Crookes Valley Park ( which we called little Weston Park) for a walk round the lake, or, if we were lucky, twice round on the motor boat.

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Perhaps worth making it clear for younger viewers that the polar bear was in the museum rather than the park itself...

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Perhaps worth making it clear for younger viewers that the polar bear was in the museum rather than the park itself...

Yes. There might have been a few Ted's but no bears.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Cutlers Hall on Church Street

 

[grafikhaus]

Does anyone remember the fat lady with the weighing chair in the old Sheffield Rag n Tag market? I've got a very distant memory of that as a child. Be really interested to see any old photo's of the Rag n Tag, and especially any of her?

Don't remember that but, in Endcliffe Park, there used to be an old gyppo, fortune-teller type woman who sat by the waterfall (at the end of the second duck pond as you walked through from the Whiteley Woods end, approaching the cafe). She was always dressed in all black and had some sort of scales with all the brass weights etc. Probably late 60s. She'd probably get arrested nowadays.

Think this is Tuckwoods store on Fargate. I can't remember this place, all I remember is Tuckwoods restaurant on Surrey Street which was a genteel sort of place with waitresses in black and white uniforms.

I used to work in the Wap and, at night, all the heavy drinkers and druggies used to congregate at the far end ('Druggies Corner' as we used to call it). One night, one of them deposited a huge pile of puke under one of the tables. Come around 11 in the mornings and the place was transformed into a genteel place where 'ladies who shop' used to go for a pot of tea, white tablecloths, waitress service etc. I remember the day after the 'puke episode', a bunch of women shoppers were sipping their tea and nattering away. When they finished and left, I lifted up the edge of the white tablecloth where they'd been sitting and there it was - the same huge pile of vomit. Good job they didn't know as they nibbled their cucumber sandwiches! The Wap was an esoteric place!

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Cutlers Hall on Church Street

And this is the ceiling of the building next door. I bet hardly anybody who went into the Midland/HSBC Bank ever looked up.

 

[SirNibletsO'Korne]

And Impulse just next door.Where I used to buy my music t shirts from...fucking hell,I'd forgotten about that shop!!
Thanks for that!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

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And this is the ceiling of the building next door. I bet hardly anybody who went into the Midland/HSBC Bank ever looked up.

Talking of old bank buildings, there was the fine Barclays branch on the corner of Fitzalan Square. It was demolished for road widening, another waste of a good old building.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Talking of old bank buildings, there was the fine Barclays branch on the corner of Fitzalan Square. It was demolished for road widening, another waste of a good old building.

What a beautiful building with some stunning architectural feature,whoever permitted that to be knocked down should be sho,and if they are dead,dug up and shot

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

What a beautiful building with some stunning architectural feature,whoever permitted that to be knocked down should be sho,and if they are dead,dug up and shot

I agree totally. vorpal blade is the one to comment on the architectural qualities of the building, but it's a beauty in my eyes as was the one Barclays had at the foot of the Moor.

 

[cooperblade]

Talking of old bank buildings, there was the fine Barclays branch on the corner of Fitzalan Square. It was demolished for road widening, another waste of a good old building.

I worked in the Barclays on Commercial Street which I assume replaced that one. One of my responsibilities was to cover for the security guard who used to open up in the morning. This involved searching the whole building at about 7am in the morning, unlocking all the doors (of which there seemed to be hundreds) as you went. One morning I was on the 5th floor and I could hear a banging coming from a locked room, I was convinced it must be a gang of armed robbers and I was terrified.

Turned out a pigeon had got in somehow...

 

[sitwell]

Yeah, it's the former buffet place, not sure what it is now. All the all you can eat places seem to have gone, I miss Jumbos on the Arundel Gate, used to go there all the time when I was at Uni.

Anyone remember which nightclub migrated to the old Gas building before it became Jumbos ?

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Anyone remember which nightclub migrated to the old Gas building before it became Jumbos ?

Turn Ups?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

What a beautiful building with some stunning architectural feature,whoever permitted that to be knocked down should be sho,and if they are dead,dug up and shot

It’s an outrage, a total outrage, I’m completely outraged.....

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I worked in the Barclays on Commercial Street which I assume replaced that one. One of my responsibilities was to cover for the security guard who used to open up in the morning. This involved searching the whole building at about 7am in the morning, unlocking all the doors (of which there seemed to be hundreds) as you went. One morning I was on the 5th floor and I could hear a banging coming from a locked room, I was convinced it must be a gang of armed robbers and I was terrified.

Turned out a pigeon had got in somehow...

But was it armed?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I worked in the Barclays on Commercial Street which I assume replaced that one. One of my responsibilities was to cover for the security guard who used to open up in the morning. This involved searching the whole building at about 7am in the morning, unlocking all the doors (of which there seemed to be hundreds) as you went. One morning I was on the 5th floor and I could hear a banging coming from a locked room, I was convinced it must be a gang of armed robbers and I was terrified.

Turned out a pigeon had got in somehow...

At least it wasn't an Owl...

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

But was it armed?

The fucking God pigeon himself.

 

[Woodwaaard]

But was it armed?

Oh.............yes

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I agree totally. vorpal blade is the one to comment on the architectural qualities of the building, but it's a beauty in my eyes as was the one Barclays had at the foot of the Moor.

It’s an outrage, a total outrage, I’m completely outraged.....

I am outraged, to be honest. It has to be the clearest example of how Sheffield has been let down architecturally by the council. It has been mentioned a few times on the thread, how anyone can have tagged that building for demolition is mind boggling. And for road widening? Is that really true? It's not as if the road is that narrow. And then, of course, the council went on to disuade traffic from entering the town centre anyway.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Talking of old bank buildings, there was the fine Barclays branch on the corner of Fitzalan Square. It was demolished for road widening, another waste of a good old building.

On the top picture, the bank opposite is the Yorkshire Bank. My dad had not long been working there when United got to the Cup Final (1936). Because banks opened on Saturday mornings, and he was junior, he couldn't get the day off to go to the match.For the rest of his working life he took the first week of May as holiday, so that next time they got to the final, he would be able to go. I think you all know how that worked out...

 

[grafikhaus]

Quirky but loveable poster on the corner of John Street/Shoreham Street. The spirit of the Blades and not a 'Chansiri' in sight:

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

From Fox Road looking up Sherde Road, Kelvin.