Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[vorpal blade]

Why, are you after an abdominal belt mate?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Where's that?

I was hoping a few on here a bit older than me might pin it down. The building on the left is the Yorkshire Electric building.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Why does Fitzalan Square seem to be smaller nowadays?

 

[I should coco]

Why does Fitzalan Square seem to be smaller nowadays?

Global warming, innit.

 

[Selly]

Why does Fitzalan Square seem to be smaller nowadays?

Because you are bigger...


Serious answer: It's encircled by roads on all sides and a tramway in the front. If they actually turned it into a plaza it would be quite big...

 

[Bert]

The Target certainly was rough but it was on Hyde Park along with the Crows Nest, Earl Francis, Samuel Plimsoll and Park Gardeners WMC. The pubs on Park Hill were the Link, Parkway, Scottish Queen and Earl George,

The Barleycorn was another like the Cossack but also used by working girls, as was the old Minerva Tavern.

Bert once nipped in The Barleycorn for a quick one before meeting friends elsewhere. There were two groups of lads in at each end of the bar, just as Bert put something on the Jukebox they started chucking pint pots at each other. Bert dodged a couple and decided that he preferred The Nelson.

 

[Selly]

I was hoping a few on here a bit older than me might pin it down. The building on the left is the Yorkshire Electric building.

A quick Google tells me it is Change Alley, also seen here...

I have no idea where Change Alley is either, so I'm off to search Google maps...

 

[Lane Ender]

5 hour match, you'd need them

Looks like it's you and me against the rest, mate

You did when those chub got their head down

 

[Bert]

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Virgin Records and Lewis Leathers were down there in the 70's.

 

[Selly]

Post-war rebuilding of the damaged High Street was slow; it was not until 1951 that the damaged Walsh's store was demolished with a new store designed by JS Beaumont and built by George Longden Ltd., opening on 13 May 1953. A new Marples Hotel opened in 1959 while C&A Modes also rebuilt their store, although the building is now occupied by Primark. The early 1960s saw a radical change to High Street's junction with Angel Street when a decision was taken to give cars easier access to the city centre. This involved the creation of Arundel Gate, a dual carriageway which approached from the south and met the High Street / Angel Street junction at a roundabout. These changes resulted in the demolition of Change Alley, an ancient thoroughfare which ran between High Street and Norfolk Street and had had timber framed houses on it many years previously.[7]

 

[Sean Thornton]

I was hoping a few on here a bit older than me might pin it down. The building on the left is the Yorkshire Electric building.

Ran from Fitzalan Square to Norfolk Street

 

[Sean Thornton]

Virgin Records and Lewis Leathers were down there in the 70's.

Wasnt Virgin near the Yorkshire Bank and LL a bit higher up on the same side?

 

[Lane Ender]

I was hoping a few on here a bit older than me might pin it down. The building on the left is the Yorkshire Electric building.

I think it was that road from Church St to Leopold St it's no longer there lost it when they built Orchard Square

 

[Bert]

Wasnt Virgin near the Yorkshire Bank and LL a bit higher up on the same side?

Both were on the left at the bottom of The Moor, just out of shot in that photo.

 

[Bert]

Wasnt Virgin near the Yorkshire Bank and LL a bit higher up on the same side?

Bradley's was the record shop neat the Yorkshire Bank

 

[Sean Thornton]

Bradley's was the record shop neat the Yorkshire Bank

That's the top of Fargate. There's a Yorkshire Bank right at the bottom of the Moor. The last building before it bends round towards the Lydon, I mean Dempseys.
I thought Virgin was on that block, the last one after Cumberland Street.

 

[Lane Ender]

Ran from Fitzalan Square to Norfolk Street

You could right mukka.
Something I spotted there's a Gestapo/ SS agent on the left hand side of the photo

 

[Sean Thornton]

You could right mukka.
Something I spotted there's a Gestapo/ SS agent on the left hand side of the photo

Where I lived, town was our playground. The YEB building was there after the alley went, I think for Arundel Gate.

 

[Bert]

That's the top of Fargate. There's a Yorkshire Bank right at the bottom of the Moor. The last building before it bends round towards the Lydon, I mean Dempseys.
I thought Virgin was on that block, the last one after Cumberland Street.

It was on that block but not the last one.

 

[vorpal blade]

I have no idea where Change Alley is

its all changed.

BUT

I think I recognise the building right at the back of the first photo, is it that Bingo Hall near Fitzalan Square?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Ran from Fitzalan Square to Norfolk Street

Where I lived, town was our playground. The YEB building was there after the alley went, I think for Arundel Gate.

Here's the demolition in progress



This must be from Norfolk Street end

 

[vorpal blade]

Change Alley, so I could be right about the Bingo Hall....?

 

[Sean Thornton]

It was on that block but not the last one.

LL 135 The Moor, Virgin 137, YB, 139.

Before that LL were Also on the Moor but on the other side.

 

[Sean Thornton]

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Change Alley, so I could be right about the Bingo Hall....?

Odeon Cinema?

 

[vorpal blade]

was this the Odeon - it's what I meant,

 

[Sean Thornton]

was this the Odeon - it's what I meant,

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That's it.

 

[vorpal blade]

I thought that the wall at the end of the street in this photo looked a bit like that building ?

I know the Luftwaffe had a go, but I don't think I know a city centre in England where the planners finished their job off for them as ruinously as they did in Sheffield..... believe me, as an outsider, in a car, the street plan has all the clarity & logic of a snakes and ladders board that got muddled up with the Times crossword.
Hence my earlier comment about the way the Manpower Services Commission building strangled the Moor.

 

[JohnDenver]

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I thought that the wall at the end of the street in this photo looked a bit like that building ?

I know the Luftwaffe had a go, but I don't think I know a city centre in England where the planners finished their job off for them as ruinously as they did in Sheffield..... believe me, as an outsider, in a car, the street plan has all the clarity & logic of a snakes and ladders board that got muddled up with the Times crossword.
Hence my earlier comment about the way the Manpower Services Commission building strangled the Moor.

Elastic hosiery, abdominal belts and surgical sundries? It's Jack the Ripper's favourite shop.

 

[vorpal blade]

I seem to remember Taffy? the Welsh teacher in the 'Please Sir ' film commenting on a shop called the "Prophylactic Emporium" - I never really knew what it meant but perhaps its this shop that the writer had in mind?