Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[The Crab]

Maybe I'm the odd one out but when I walk past these grand old buildings in town I tend not to give them a second glance.Hopefully in future I will.

I think for me, with a lot of the pictures, it is reminders of the past really. By the time it went, Castle Market had really gone to seed, but I still had a walk round when I could because the memories were a real comfort to me.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

So many rows of houses buldozed. I wonder whether that was around the time they thought everyone would be happier in a high rise.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Growing up just off Bramall Lane, bulldozing those houses to make way for a park, was a godsend for us for playing football. Before that, the nearest footy park was probably Millhouses.

 

[Harrisblade]

So many rows of houses buldozed. I wonder whether that was around the time they thought everyone would be happier in a high rise.

Probably a bit of unintended consequences - better internal facilities but worse access to outside space/neighbours

 

[Ranmoorblade]

Do you like my snowman?

 

[10-0 win]

http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?cat=401

 

[10-0 win]

for obious reasons pre black and white, Sheffield castle in the southern part of the kingdom of Northumbria, At the time, one of, if not the largest castles. Built on a saxon longhouse

 

[1066blade]

I grew up in the Kelvin, one up one down, sharing a back to back and an outside shit hole with another family (10 people in total), it was slum cleared in the early sixties, Kelvin flats were built, and they've been long gone. We were moved to the salubrious grandeur of Parson Cross.
We had fuck all, only love, I treasure those memories, all my old family gone now.

 

[Compound_Legend]

Growing up just off Bramall Lane, bulldozing those houses to make way for a park, was a godsend for us for playing football. Before that, the nearest footy park was probably Millhouses.

I lived just across the road from there at 12 Asline Road, until it got bought under a council CPO in 1978.

We ended up in Totley, and have been there ever since!

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I lived just across the road from there at 12 Asline Road, until it got bought under a council CPO in 1978.

We ended up in Totley, and have been there ever since!

I grew up on Alderson Place, a couple of streets away from Asline Rd.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Millhouses

 

[Robby Blade]

We had fuck all, only love, I treasure those memories, all my old family gone now.

Up until I was 8 we had to live with my Grandma. She had sixteen children, fourteen lived to adulthood. They would all visit on a Saturday night for tea then off to the pub My last surviving aunt died last month.A sobering thought realising all the old ones have gone and I'm now the old generation.

 

[Lane Ender]

I grew up in the Kelvin, one up one down, sharing a back to back and an outside shit hole with another family (10 people in total), it was slum cleared in the early sixties, Kelvin flats were built, and they've been long gone. We were moved to the salubrious grandeur of Parson Cross.
We had fuck all, only love, I treasure those memories, all my old family gone now.

Did you live on the Lindsay Estate we moved on there from Attercliffe early 60s

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[Wapping Blade]

Millhouses
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Looks 70sish so could be me apart from they’re not having crisp bag water bomb fights!

 

[Tom Bott]

Looks 70sish so could be me apart from they’re not having crisp bag water bomb fights!

Still looking for the sachet of salt to sprinkle.

 

[Harrisblade]

Still looking for the sachet of salt to sprinkle.

Sachets?
Had they done away with the little blue bags by then?

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Looks 70sish so could be me apart from they’re not having crisp bag water bomb fights!

Always went Longley, posh fuckers at Millhouses who could afford a lolly and pop from the café.

 

[derfblade.3]

Always went Longley, posh fuckers at Millhouses who could afford a lolly and pop from the café.

Spent the whole 6 week holidays at longley...rain or shine in the 60s.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Spent the whole 6 week holidays at longley...rain or shine in the 60s.

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Remember standing on that high diving board shitting misen, being urged to dive in and finally just jumping.

Did dive once though.


Then there was Flick, two years older and ummm.

 

[freddyp]

I grew up on Alderson Place, a couple of streets away from Asline Rd.

Trevor?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[super_pig]

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MSC building killed Sheffield been a fuck up ever since

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

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T'stooers. THE place to go at one time. Another sad loss to the city's architecture.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Trevor?

That's not me, sorry.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

That's not me, sorry.

If I was called Trevor I wouldn't admit it either.

 

[1066blade]

Did you live on the Lindsay Estate we moved on there from Attercliffe early 60s

No mate, just off Yew Lane, think it was referred to as New Parson Cross, in some misguided attempt to offer some feeble attempt at social grandeur. Had some mates who lived around the Lindsay Estate area. Blades few and far between in S5 in those days, used to have to hide my scarf in case I met any pigs on my way to the match, making my way to Halifax Rd to get the bus into town (the 52 would take me from Chaucer all the way to the bottom of the Moor) Happy days pal.

 

[1066blade]

Millhouses
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I used to love going to Millhouses Park in the summer holidays, would walk into town from the Kelvin and the ultimate experience was "a tram" from town to Millhouses, loved to just tip the back of the seat up towards the opposite direction of travel, just because we could!

 

[Hamburg Blade]

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How much better does that look then than now? I used to work across the road in the (flash and modern) St. Mary's House. I remember when they pulled the co-op down and I wondered what the hell they were doing. I seem to remember they replaced it with a cheap modern building which has also been pulled down since, but I could be wrong on that.