Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

Cracking photo that XM. can't decide if the clock shows 12-15 or 3pm, looks a grey day if it's a mid day smog
No idea what the building with the chimney is. Next right after Norfolk Street going down to what would become Pond Street was Sycamore Street because my great uncle was landlord of the Prince of Wales on there, think also a pub called the Air Balloon was in that area,. Bit before my time though can I point out.

It's the Joseph Rogers factory. If you look at the modern photo, just to the right of the main entrance where the white car is, there is a plaque on the wall referencing the original building. Like most things in Sheffield the details of our industrial past are in the most obscure places. If you want to go and find it yourself, you can, but this is what it says

 

[XM657]

Cracking photo that XM. can't decide if the clock shows 12-15 or 3pm, looks a grey day if it's a mid day smog
No idea what the building with the chimney is. Next right after Norfolk Street going down to what would become Pond Street was Sycamore Street because my great uncle was landlord of the Prince of Wales on there, think also a pub called the Air Balloon was in that area,. Bit before my time though can I point out.

Photo must be 1930's, I don't what know what year Rogers moved, down to River Lane off Pond Hill, but the sight was cleared and ready for rebuild around 1938,
Work began on building the Odeon '38/39, ground work an girders were erected then Hitler stepped in, so it was abandoned for the duration.
You, like me, might remember the girders up when in town as a kid. I just thought it was another bomb site as there were plenty about. Can't remember when they started to rebuild it but believe it opened 1956. Just in time for a 'little shuffling about', with the girl of their and your choice, on the back row of the stalls on half days to kick off Half Term breaks. Happy, happy days.
Most days in town looked like the photo when we were kids and even up to the early 60's. You got bad days if the weather was bad, heavy low cloud.

 

[XM657]

Hello, Andingman a photo you may well have taken yourself, very much your style, I thought. Hope your well.
No info on where it was taken or which direction it's looking and I don't have a clue.
Therefore would be obliged for any opinions or facts as to what we are seeing.
Advanced, Thank You.

 

[Kop sufferer]

Hello, Andingman a photo you may well have taken yourself, very much your style, I thought. Hope your well.View attachment 118719
No info on where it was taken or which direction it's looking and I don't have a clue.
Therefore would be obliged for any opinions or facts as to what we are seeing.
Advanced, Thank You.

No obvious clues that I can see, right ish is that a couple of lakes / dams? plenty of fields in the background, chimneys in the foreground, Rivelin district?
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[Andingmen]

Hello, Andingman a photo you may well have taken yourself, very much your style, I thought. Hope your well.View attachment 118719
No info on where it was taken or which direction it's looking and I don't have a clue.
Therefore would be obliged for any opinions or facts as to what we are seeing.
Advanced, Thank You.

 

[Andingmen]

Yes, thanks XM..., I'm still here and fine. Hope you're the same.
As for your photos. You've found some cracking ones there !
The HPO/ Fitzalan Square/ Flat Street one particularly brought back loads of memories for me. Around1967/8, I spent an exceedingly pleasant part of my Post Office engineering apprenticeship in the HPO building helping to maintain the 200 + telephonists' tackle in tip top condition. Possible innuendos galore, but I'll leave it there for now- except that I recently blagged my way what is now the Hallam arts faculty for a nosey. I could still find the old cable entry holes in the basement, although now sadly blocked off too.
And as for your "puzzle " photo, I have no real idea either but have two possibles...
One is maybe from Walkely area across to Parkwod Springs. The other stronger maybe is from Parkhill area across to the Wicker/ Spital Hill and Burgreave beyond . Maybe....

 

[Woodwaaard]

Hello, Andingman a photo you may well have taken yourself, very much your style, I thought. Hope your well.View attachment 118719
No info on where it was taken or which direction it's looking and I don't have a clue.
Therefore would be obliged for any opinions or facts as to what we are seeing.
Advanced, Thank You.

Just a guess...
Is Norfolk Park the large open area near the top right
There is a multi arched bridge in the centre: Could this be part of the station?
Cholera Monument visible just below the left hand building on the skyline
Manor Top would be just about in the top centre
Photo taken from the roof of the big bakery or similar on Paternoster Row
As I said, just a guess

 

[BadgersBigToe]

Just a guess...
Is Norfolk Park the large open area near the top right
There is a multi arched bridge in the centre: Could this be part of the station?
Cholera Monument visible just below the left hand building on the skyline
Manor Top would be just about in the top centre
Photo taken from the roof of the big bakery or similar on Paternoster Row
As I said, just a guess

Good guess I think…….. Skye Edge in the background?

 

[XM657]

Just a guess...
Is Norfolk Park the large open area near the top right
There is a multi arched bridge in the centre: Could this be part of the station?
Cholera Monument visible just below the left hand building on the skyline
Manor Top would be just about in the top centre
Photo taken from the roof of the big bakery or similar on Paternoster Row
As I said, just a guess

Recon your spot on. Cholera Monument being the key.
The multi archers are in fact part of the huge retaining wall holding the Park area back from the railway. the arches are a method of conserving material but with the same effect. Notice how it goes solid as one looks left, Victorians, belt and braces, but it does work.
I read many years ago about military reading of reconnaissance photos where training is needed, so......
Thank you & well done.

 

[LJBlade]

Just a guess...
Is Norfolk Park the large open area near the top right
There is a multi arched bridge in the centre: Could this be part of the station?
Cholera Monument visible just below the left hand building on the skyline
Manor Top would be just about in the top centre
Photo taken from the roof of the big bakery or similar on Paternoster Row
As I said, just a guess

I'd suggest that this is correct, though I obviously don't know for certain. A look on Google Maps doesn't give you a perfect image but the Cholera Monument, Norfolk Park and the multi-arched bridge do all align exactly like they do on the photo (if that's what they are). If that is correct the road above the multi-arched bridge would be Granville Road.

If that is correct the photo would have been taken from somewhere in the direction of the Arts Tower.

 

[3-GBlade]

That is definately the Midland Station with South St / Shrewsbury Road..

 

[XM657]

I'd suggest that this is correct, though I obviously don't know for certain. A look on Google Maps doesn't give you a perfect image but the Cholera Monument, Norfolk Park and the multi-arched bridge do all align exactly like they do on the photo (if that's what they are). If that is correct the road above the multi-arched bridge would be Granville Road.

If that is correct the photo would have been taken from somewhere in the direction of the Arts Tower.

Just looked on G Maps as to where the photo was taken, remembering the date is pre 1960 and the arts Tower wasn't built. Taking a line from the monument to the camera whilst checking the angle across the railway, then follow that angle on G maps and one arrives at the Town Hall. Seems feasible as the clock tower was tallest building as well as being on higher ground.
Hope that makes sense, I'm going for a lay down now and if I had one of Bert's Cubans I'd smoke that and I ain't had a fag for 46 years.

 

[LJBlade]

Just looked on G Maps as to where the photo was taken, remembering the date is pre 1960 and the arts Tower wasn't built. Taking a line from the monument to the camera whilst checking the angle across the railway, then follow that angle on G maps and one arrives at the Town Hall. Seems feasible as the clock tower was tallest building as well as being on higher ground.
Hope that makes sense, I'm going for a lay down now and if I had one of Bert's Cubans I'd smoke that and I ain't had a fag for 46 years.

Yeah I knew it couldn’t have been from the Arts Tower, I was just trying to provide a rough direction. I’ve no idea what buildings were around at that time so I’m happy to take your word for it that the clock tower was the tallest

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Photo must be 1930's, I don't what know what year Rogers moved, down to River Lane off Pond Hill, but the sight was cleared and ready for rebuild around 1938,View attachment 118711
Work began on building the Odeon '38/39, ground work an girders were erected then Hitler stepped in, so it was abandoned for the duration.
You, like me, might remember the girders up when in town as a kid. I just thought it was another bomb site as there were plenty about. Can't remember when they started to rebuild it but believe it opened 1956. Just in time for a 'little shuffling about', with the girl of their and your choice, on the back row of the stalls on half days to kick off Half Term breaks. Happy, happy days.
Most days in town looked like the photo when we were kids and even up to the early 60's. You got bad days if the weather was bad, heavy low cloud.

This photo is dated 1951, so you may be right about 1956...

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Confirmed XM657

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Fertile imagination, like it, but Wicker Cinema(Studio5 6 &7), as it was then, pre1958, were showing standard circuit films then. There was a newsagents between the cinema and the Arches that sold 'top shelve' magazines, even displaying them in the window.
'Point Duty' was what you were looking for, ref the copper in the white coat. I recon he was either going on or coming off from top of Commercial St X roads. Remember the 'Tardis' that stood at the GPO end of the long tram shelter? Opposite the News Theatre, bet that's where they kept their coats.
'Point duty' 1950's
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'Tardis' not on this photo, but stood in the corner behind the pipe smoking man in the Homberg, Certainly was there early 50's when we caught tram from there to Owlerton speedway. This photo probably late 40'sView attachment 118157

No white coat, but you can see the small platform for point duty in this, bottom of Fargate

 

[BushBlade]

Just a guess...
Is Norfolk Park the large open area near the top right
There is a multi arched bridge in the centre: Could this be part of the station?
Cholera Monument visible just below the left hand building on the skyline
Manor Top would be just about in the top centre
Photo taken from the roof of the big bakery or similar on Paternoster Row
As I said, just a guess

That was my first thought. Not sure why, it just reminded me of looking over the city towards Parkhill, which obviously hadn’t been built in those days.

 

[XM657]

No white coat, but you can see the small platform for point duty in this, bottom of Fargate

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No C.BROS, not seen this before, thank you, and never saw it for real as was out of Sheffield at this time. It was said that part of the reason they binned trams was the congestion they caused.

 

[XM657]

Confirmed XM657

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Thank you again, great photo. I must have seen this traveling to school but have no recollection of it like this.
Date shows it was 6/7 weeks before my 14th bd.

 

[XM657]

This photo is dated 1951, so you may be right about 1956...

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Great photo, seen before and one of my favourites as it brings back memories of preschool day trips to town with mi Mum.
We would walk, from bus station, up Flat St crossing the road so we passed Wilson Gumperts in Fitzalan Sq., where I looked in the window and if I was lucky I would get what I had chosen on the return journey back to Pond St.
More often than a toy, we would return with two chocolate Eclairs, from Davy's Fargate, remembering they were much larger than todays supermarket efforts, and eat them on our return home.
That was our treat, simpler times but for me very happy ones.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

It was said that part of the reason they binned trams was the congestion they caused.

They may have had a point. This looks like it was taken from the same place

 

[XM657]

They may have had a point. This looks like it was taken from the same place


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9 trams and 2 buses against11 buses and one on Pinstone St.
Problem with the old trams was inability, for other traffic, to pass when tram was at a stop and there was oncoming traffic.
It amplified in rush hour and also spread father out on the main arteries out of town.

 

[Kop sufferer]

They may have had a point. This looks like it was taken from the same place


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Wow, 11-25 by the clock on the left, wonder what day it is, Saturday maybe?
Just look at the swarms of people. Another problem with the trams was you had to stand in the road to get on

 

[Dave]

Clearing out my Grandma's house and found this. No idea if anyone has any links to these still or ever played for them.View attachment 20210815_133507.jpgView attachment 20210815_133524.jpgView attachment 20210815_133535.jpgView attachment 20210815_152517.jpg

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Clearing out my Grandma's house and found this. No idea if anyone has any links to these still or ever played for them.View attachment 118895View attachment 118896View attachment 118897View attachment 118898

The reply from Bassett is a reminder of why we liked the guy. No bog-standard PR

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

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Beauty and the Beast…

 

[Broomhall Blade]

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That Grey cabin behind the Newspaper kiosk sold a really nice chip butty, often visited after getting of the old Football Special in the 1981-82 season.

 

[Paulus]

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I’d much rather see the sponsor’s name squeezed in like that than a horrible rectangle blocking out our stripes, pretty decent kit that.

 

[Sean Thornton]

That Grey cabin behind the Newspaper kiosk sold a really nice chip butty, often visited after getting of the old Football Special in the 1981-82 season.

Crinkle cut chips!