Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[super_pig]

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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.

did you know that in the not so recent past, tom tom refused to update the sheffield city centre map because the council kept changing the layout?

ok for the pedants the map company did

 

[vorpal blade]

No I didn't - but its nice to know I'm not the only one.

Its even shit on foot. Before my time, the streets between Midland Station (the railway station) and the Town Hall were a straight forward grid pattern, (I love old maps). There was a church where the Peace Gardens is now, it was right at the end of Howard Street (pictured before). If you came to Sheffield you left the station and walked straight up Howard Street to the centre of the city. If you were driving, you did the same sort of thing.

Now, you cross a ring-road, walk up Howard Street cross another ring-road and thats it, you are confronted by the BACKS of various buildings you have to sneak up round them up past the library or through the Millennium Falcon Galleries or up a flight of steps somewhere near the cheese-grater - what sort of a bollox entry to a major city is that? ..... in a car? forget it.

 

[vorpal blade]

http://maps.nls.uk/view/102345214

 

[sitwell]

http://maps.nls.uk/view/102345214

Bloody hell Vorpal ,I could look at that all night ,map porn.

 

[metalblade]

The Great Central railway was changed to the LNER in 1923 yet it is still on a 1924 map, fascinating, I love looking at old maps too.

 

[vorpal blade]

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=12&lat=53.4017&lon=-1.5449&layers=39&b=1&point=0,0

Nessun Dorma Sitwell

 

[GrayBlade]

 

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[GrayBlade]

Surely this has to be the best thread ever isn't it!

 

[sitwell]

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Woody with brown hair and a fresh faced TC ,quality.

 

[Silent Blade]

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=12&lat=53.4017&lon=-1.5449&layers=39&b=1&point=0,0

Nessun Dorma Sitwell

Cheers for the maps. Dont remember what that area was like before Arundel Gate became a new road in 1968 (didnt realise streets and buildings were demolished to make way)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Square,_Sheffield

 

[Silent Blade]

Woody with brown hair and a fresh faced TC ,quality.

It was noticeable Woody's hair was going grey in summer 1973. I remember going to the pre-season friendly match at York a fan behind me shouted "Snowy" at Woody. Woody was only 26 then

 

[Bert]

It was noticeable Woody's hair was going grey in summer 1973. I remember going to the pre-season friendly match at York a fan behind me shouted "Snowy" at Woody. Woody was only 26 then

They used to chant "Grecian 2000" at him.

 

[GrayBlade]

Always took a Gallon of Maggots on the Trent

Credit to you for turning out in that temperature. I like my splodging but only when I can feel the heat on my back.

 

[Lane Ender]

Credit to you for turning out in that temperature. I like my splodging but only when I can feel the heat on my back.

Hey that was when I was younger got to be at least 10c before I turn out !
I can remember the Winter League turned out in some ridiculous conditions crazy

 

[Robby Blade]

Hey that was when I was younger got to be at least 10c before I turn out !

I was having a stroll along one of my club waters on the Idle a couple of weeks ago. Spotted four barbel each the size of my arm. In my youth I'd have been there the next day. Not anymore, would sooner be warm.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

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

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[vorpal blade]

and look, a road that actually goes somewhere!

Ridiculously the road to the right of the cinema, now a dammed and damned and potholed stub is called Esperanto Place or something daft.

Grand designs as dreamed up by Sheffield City Council (Highways Dept.)

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

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[Lane Ender]

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That flight of stairs has seen some action

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

The meeting point of my youth...

 

[HighfieldBlade]

We'd always head down Attercliffe Road which always seemed packed. I know nowadays it's totally un PC but we used to have a game of 'spot the white man'. Not racist just innocent.

Don't worry, mate. We played that game, too...and I'm Asian.

 

[I should coco]

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Bugger Bramall Lane.

Wow! A Ford Capri S and it could even be the 1600!

Fantastic car,
unless you wanted to go out in the snow
or the rain
or expected it to start in winter.......

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[Sean Thornton]

Credit to you for turning out in that temperature. I like my splodging but only when I can feel the heat on my back.

Does SBT fish as well?

 

[Silent Blade]

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Man's favourite sport was released in January 1964. Tammy and the Doctor was in summer 1963 so the photo must be in 1964

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I was having a stroll along one of my club waters on the Idle a couple of weeks ago. Spotted four barbel each the size of my arm. In my youth I'd have been there the next day. Not anymore, would sooner be warm.

One of my local commercial fisheries in Leicestershire stocks barbel. Always thought of barbel as river fish, but they seem to be thriving in these pools. They don't half pull that pole elastic.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Man's favourite sport was released in January 1964. Tammy and the Doctor was in summer 1963 so the photo must be in 1964

That's all well and good, but when did Hodgy attend, what was he wearing and did he have a box of poppets? Standards are slipping around here!