Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Tynemouth Blade]

Is that the shops on Bellhouse road near Sicey avenue?
Thanks

No it's Hartley Brook Road

 

[BushBlade]

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This makes no sense. That must be Harcourt Road behind but it's not how I remember it at all. The houses look very different.

Edit; looking at them closely, I can see it is now. I can see my old flat.

 

[Kentblade]

No it's Hartley Brook Road

Thanks Tynemouth.
My grand parents lived at the bottom of Sicey Avenue and there were a large parade of shops approaching Bellhouse Road.
You perhaps know the area but I am going back to the late 40's early 50's.
Hartley brook road if my memory serves me was a steep hill where the buses went up with a school on the rhs at the bottom.
Probably got it wrong as it is 67 years ago.
Am I that old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UTB

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Thanks Tynemouth.
My grand parents lived at the bottom of Sicey Avenue and there were a large parade of shops approaching Bellhouse Road.
You perhaps know the area but I am going back to the late 40's early 50's.
Hartley brook road if my memory serves me was a steep hill where the buses went up with a school on the rhs at the bottom.
Probably got it wrong as it is 67 years ago.
Am I that old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UTB

This is where the photo is: https://goo.gl/maps/m7q4bmXg4pF2
I think that you're thinking of this location: https://goo.gl/maps/5vzyBgrmVXx
Or it could be here? https://goo.gl/maps/wkHgwjforYP2

 

[Kentblade]

This is where the photo is: https://goo.gl/maps/m7q4bmXg4pF2
I think that you're thinking of this location: https://goo.gl/maps/5vzyBgrmVXx
Or it could be here? https://goo.gl/maps/wkHgwjforYP2

Thanks for the information and it is the second option, I had forgotten it was Nethershire Lane but it was a long time ago.
Sicey Avenue running off it to the left.
My grand parents lived about 12 houses up on the lhs.
Noticed a bus on the avenue on the google map, no buses up there when I used to visit.
It is solid red so wonder which bus company that was.

A brilliant thread this we must keep it going.

UTB

 

[Golden Gordon]

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Had some of the happiest times of my life in here ( ask derfblade , he'll tell you). Could leave home and be at the bar in about a minute.

 

[HarryHaslam]

 

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[georgebernardshaw]

Where some of the bombs fell...

 

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[Aganarama]

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I remember the teletext headline that evening: Fuchs off.
No laughing at the back...

 

[Woodwaaard]

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Where some of the bombs fell...

Do you have a link to a map that shows a wider area of Sheffield?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Do you have a link to a map that shows a wider area of Sheffield?

Yes, I do, I just couldn't cover all of the map with my iPad - is there a particular district you would like to see?
It's taken from a book entitled "Sheffield at War" published by the Star and Telegraph in 1948

 

[Right Back]

Had some of the happiest times of my life in here ( ask derfblade , he'll tell you). Could leave home and be at the bar in about a minute.

In here & Hartley House club on a Saturday/Sunday afternoon. Priceless.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

For Woodwaaard

 

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[sitwell]

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So few down Attercliffe and Brightside ,yet a load at Nether Edge ,no wonder they lost the war the thick bastards.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Not an exhaustive map by any means, concentrated on housing rather than industry

 

[Woodwaaard]

Yes, I do, I just couldn't cover all of the map with my iPad - is there a particular district you would like to see?

Yes please. I live in the South West and I know that lights were erected up in the hills to try to fool the Germans (a scheme that worked, to a point)
Does your map show where the bombs fell out as far as Owler Bar and over to Stannage Edge area or is it just the housing areas that you alluded to above?

 

[Lane Ender]

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Where's that SEB?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Yes, I do, I just couldn't cover all of the map with my iPad - is there a particular district you would like to see?
It's taken from a book entitled "Sheffield at War" published by the Star and Telegraph in 1948

Note the bias. Our ground bombed, nothing shown at the other place. They were biased against us even in 1948.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Where's that SEB?

Attercliffe. Police Station is on the right on that street.

 

[Lane Ender]

Attercliffe. Police Station is on the right on that street.

Could be Newark St?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

This is the farthest SW section of the map, sorry no Owler Bar or Stannage Edge, but they managed to get the hugely strategic areas of Dore and Whiteley Woods.........

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Could be Newark St?

Whitworth Lane, looking towards Brown Bayleys in the background

 

[TJB.]

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Where some of the bombs fell...

I grew up on Heeley Bank Road (Lowfield) and round the corner on Slate Street there was a gap between two houses where a house took a direct hit. Trying to figure out whereabouts it might be.

 

[sitwell]

View attachment 23913 This is the farthest SW section of the map, sorry no Owler Bar or Stannage Edge, but they managed to get the hugely strategic areas of Dore and Whiteley Woods.........

Are these from the new exhibition about Sheffield in the war GBS ? I really need to pay a visit.

 

[CarlingBlade]

Are these from the new exhibition about Sheffield in the war GBS ? I really need to pay a visit.

You should get the book 'Hitlers Date with Sheffield', it shows in detail all the areas on Sheffield where bombs hit and destroyed buildings, i always wondered why there were about x4 terrace houses missing on Valley Rd, turns out they were hit and destroyed.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Are these from the new exhibition about Sheffield in the war GBS ? I really need to pay a visit.

No, they're from a 1948 Star (yes, I know) publication. I hadn't heard of the exhibition, do you have any details?

P.S. If you would like to borrow the book, PM me your address, I'm going to post more images dealing with individual companies and their production during the war - should be later today.