Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Sean Thornton]

Of course it's right you cheeky sod.
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You award someone an internet "I'm Special" badge, and this is what you get.......

 

[Sean Thornton]

Possibly because it was near the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln railway that was one of the first into Sheffield.

Which is why the original name was the Manchester Railway Hotel.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

Now renamed the Harlequin. Both the Manchester and Harlequin (which was round the back and lost to to the ring road) were Wards pubs.

The Manchester was unafected by the road works but for some reason they switched the name. Here's the old one with its distinctive corner door:

Not so sure it was a victim of the ring road as you can still walk by and see where it stood. A shocking waste and one of the classic backstreet Wards pubs renowned for a bit of afterbird in the mid 80s. The Nags Head on Shalesmoor was a road widening victim and again a shame. All 3 had pool tables including The Shakespeare. Add in The Meadow and that one up from West Bar near the BMW garage and you had a decent pre Limit Thursday Wards crawl, especially if you added in The Fat Cat and what’s now Kelham Island Tav when it was a Stones pub.

Recall the 1990 Wards anniversary where if you drank I think 5 pints you got a T shirt, 10 a sweatshirt etc. Many a morning I woke up in a new garment!

What I’d give for that beer in those pubs now... remember you young uns either use em or lose em...

 

[madeinsheffield]

Macc Lads ?

Yep, they did write some funny stuff, now where at my mum's will those tapes be....

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Perhaps yer mothers been having a sing along to Beer & Sex & Chips & Gravy ?

 

[Wapping Blade]

Not so sure it was a victim of the ring road as you can still walk by and see where it stood. A shocking waste and one of the classic backstreet Wards pubs renowned for a bit of afterbird in the mid 80s.

Agree - it couldn't have been due to the ring road. It was on the corner of Johnson Street and Stanley Street and the site now looks to be George Marshall's car park:

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Old picture of the original Harlequin:

 

[I should coco]

Not so sure it was a victim of the ring road as you can still walk by and see where it stood. A shocking waste and one of the classic backstreet Wards pubs renowned for a bit of afterbird in the mid 80s. The Nags Head on Shalesmoor was a road widening victim and again a shame. All 3 had pool tables including The Shakespeare. Add in The Meadow and that one up from West Bar near the BMW garage and you had a decent pre Limit Thursday Wards crawl, especially if you added in The Fat Cat and what’s now Kelham Island Tav when it was a Stones pub.

Canterbury Blade, I agree it wasn't a direct victim of the ring road as It was on the corner of Johnson St and Stanley St. Maybe becuase thse roads lost traffic and became virtually cut off, that sealed its fate.

Wards were part of Vaux and as we all sadly know, the shareholders voted to sell the pubs to pub companies, sell Swallow Hotels and close the Vaux/Wards brewery sites for 'redevelopment'. I gues the backstreet Harlequin wasn't an attractive prospect in the early 2000s, when so many other little boozers were on the market.

There were two Wards pubs on Scotland Street , the Crown and the Queens Hotel. There was also the Royal Oak on Hollis Croft which might be the one you mean near the old BMW place. The Meadow St Tavern was (surprisingly) on Meadow Street on the other side of St Phillips Road in Upperthorpe.

Close by was also the Red House on Solly Street as well as the couple you mention on Shalesmoor.

 

[madeinsheffield]

Perhaps yer mothers been having a sing along to Beer & Sex & Chips & Gravy ?

It's all a Macc Lad wants!

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Woodwaaard]

Blimey
That was a very strong Liverpool side

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Bert]

Interesting some of the teams in the Second Division

 

[grafikhaus]

As it's a bit windy out there, a reminder of 'The Great Gale' of February 16, 1962. The floodlight pylon at the corner of John Street/Bramall was blown down:



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96 mph winds started at 05:00 and lasted for four hours and three Sheffielders were killed. It was a freak weather event - just four miles away, the winds were just 20 mph.

It is thought the hurricane was caused by air being lifted over the high ground of the Peak District, then being compressed through the city’s valleys. After sweeping across the UK the storm went on to cause death and devastation in Germany. The strong winds led to high seas and caused flooding in coastal areas of Germany. Hamburg was the hardest hit, with more than 300 people killed.

 

[Tom Bott]

Had a love affair with Nina,
in the back of my Cortina,
a seasoned up hyena,
could not have been more obscener

They don't write 'em like that anymore.....

But I got right up between her, rum and her ribena..

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Two pics, same location.

1973, as I remember it: prawn cocktail, steak diane, black forest gateau




1987, more recent but less familiar.

 

[Tom Bott]

Possibly because it was near the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln railway that was one of the first into Sheffield.

Later rearranged as the LMS

 

[Silent Blade]

As it's a bit windy out there, a reminder of 'The Great Gale' of February 16, 1962. The floodlight pylon at the corner of John Street/Bramall was blown down:

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96 mph winds started at 05:00 and lasted for four hours and three Sheffielders were killed. It was a freak weather event - just four miles away, the winds were just 20 mph.

It is thought the hurricane was caused by air being lifted over the high ground of the Peak District, then being compressed through the city’s valleys. After sweeping across the UK the storm went on to cause death and devastation in Germany. The strong winds led to high seas and caused flooding in coastal areas of Germany. Hamburg was the hardest hit, with more than 300 people killed.

But the Blades v Norwich FA Cup 5th round match still went ahead in the next day! We won 3-1

 

[Trigger Blade]

Interesting some of the teams in the Second Division

The following season, we were one of them

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

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Two pics, same location.

1973, as I remember it: prawn cocktail, steak diane, black forest gateau




1987, more recent but less familiar.

The Holy Trinity of food

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

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The Holy Trinity of food

Cinzano as an aperitif, a glass of blue nun or black tower with the meal and an irish coffee to finish.

 

[Tom Bott]

And still have change from a fiver.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Cinzano as an aperitif, a glass of blue nun or black tower with the meal and an irish coffee to finish.

And still have change from a fiver.

I think the Blue Nun and Black Tower were very sweet German Liebfraumilch, but the favourite of ours was Mateus Rose with the distinctive flattened bell shaped bottle, and, after drinking, was usually found with a candle stuck in the top. Oh, how sophisticated we were!! Them were days.

 

[grafikhaus]

I think the Blue Nun and Black Tower were very sweet German Liebfraumilch, but the favourite of ours was Mateus Rose with the distinctive flattened bell shaped bottle, and, after drinking, was usually found with a candle stuck in the top. Oh, how sophisticated we were!! Them were days.

Cheap date!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I think the Blue Nun and Black Tower were very sweet German Liebfraumilch, but the favourite of ours was Mateus Rose with the distinctive flattened bell shaped bottle, and, after drinking, was usually found with a candle stuck in the top. Oh, how sophisticated we were!! Them were days.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Two pics, same location.

1973, as I remember it: prawn cocktail, steak diane, black forest gateau




1987, more recent but less familiar.

Ah the Berni Inn - Old Number 12. I remember having my first ever coffee there. I was 16 years old and was out on a Christmas works do.

No one at home drank coffee, only tea. So I'd never actually tried it before! I remember a work colleague encouraging me to try it - a Berni special of course, served black in a wine glass, with a thick head of cream floating on the top. To my great surprise I liked it! My work colleague's exact words..."you've just taken the first step towards sophistication!"

 

[Bert]

Bert was a scampi in a basket man.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Bert was a scampi in a basket man.

I'd got you down as a 'soup in a basket man' Bert?

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

Come on without, Come on within, You`ll not see nothing like the mighty Carlin.