Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

The Great Sheffield Flood - 1864.

The remains of the Rowell Bridge Wheel in Loxley. One body washed up 18 miles away.

Hill Bridge in Walkley Lane, Hillsborough.

Malin Bridge... The Cleakum Inn (left).

Dale Dyke Reservoir after it burst.
A water engineer had noticed there was a crack a few hours before the disaster, wide enough to take a penknife.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

The Great Sheffield Flood - 1864.

Mrs Kirk of Damflask who returned home through the flood waters
to rescue her dog and cat,

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

The Sheffield Pals...
Bramall Lane.

 

[ghandi]

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Paradise Square?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Paradise Square?

It is indeed. Fine collection of vehicles as well.

 

[Worksop II]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

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I had forgotten the Western Jean Company altogether.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Never got in here but was always fascinated by it.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

 

[Bert]

Never got in here but was always fascinated by it.View attachment 37111

It closed August 1973. Bert used to go in the Castaways Bar downstairs.

 

[bornablade]

Avert your eyes from the blue shirted outfit..........

View attachment 36776 Bert and Pele in the same photo.

February 23rd 1972.

How many of you were waking up 46 years ago today with a thought of how am I going to skive school today?

Where the hell have 46 years gone?

 

[PageHallBlade]

And this is the sort of thing that pisses me off, and is typical of an underlying story running through this thread. They wanted to demolish this 1920s building, which wasn't listed and had become derelict:

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But they have listed this building:


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the thing with listing buildings is they have to have some historical or special architectural significance The Co-Op has this where as the old transport buidling doesnt in fact they are usually more prevalent.

i like the old coop building especially the staircase which is a wonderful piece of design, but architecture is like art very subjective

 

[Silent Blade]

February 23rd 1972.

How many of you were waking up 46 years ago today with a thought of how am I going to skive school today?

Where the hell have 46 years gone?

"Going to grandmother's funeral" was the usual excuse!

 

[grafikhaus]

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Love the anti-suicide mesh in case anybody chucks themselves off the balcony!

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

It closed August 1973. Bert used to go in the Castaways Bar downstairs.

Was it owned by the hotel or was it a separate enterprise and closed because the building was going to be demolished?

 

[bornablade]

"Going to grandmother's funeral" was the usual excuse!

Tell you what Silent John Heath was busy that day.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Ashopton Church - Derwent Valley

The church tower of Derwent slowly disappearing below the water as the reservoir was filled in 1946
The church held its last service on 17 March 1943. The bell from the church may still be heard in Derbyshire, however, since it was re-hung in St Philip’s Church in Chaddesden, built in 1955. Bodies from the graveyard had been exhumed in 1940 and were reburied in the village of Bamford. All buildings in the village had been demolished by autumn 1943, and the impounded waters of the reservoir began to rise by the end of 1944. The church spire was left intact to form a memorial to Derwent. However, it was dynamited on 15 December 1947, on the rationale of safety concerns. The site of the village has been revealed when the reservoir levels fell dramatically in 1976, 1989, 1996 and 2003.

Ashopton Viaduct under construction.

Ashopton Village

 

[Harrisblade]

"Going to grandmother's funeral" was the usual excuse!

Until some smart-arse school secretary started adding them up!

 

[Harrisblade]

It closed August 1973. Bert used to go in the Castaways Bar downstairs.

I never realised that there was anything but a downstairs!
Happy times listening to Black Sabbath and Deep Purple down there - and couldn't fall over 'cos the sticky carpet wouldn't let you

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Mr Steade's, Sheffield - Baslow - Bakewell Horse Bus, outside the Castle and Commercial Inn, Bakewell, Derbyshire, late 19th century.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Chatsworth House - circa 1825 (from an old map).

 

[Bert]

Was it owned by the hotel or was it a separate enterprise and closed because the building was going to be demolished?

It was part of the hotel, nobody called it the Castaways Bar it was just The Buc.

 

[Lane Ender]

Never got in here but was always fascinated by it.View attachment 37111

Great bar that first time I’d come across plastic glasses.
We used to go in there and then down to the Penthouse.
Played heavy/ progressive rock.
Loon pants,grandad vests,platforms.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Never got in here but was always fascinated by it.View attachment 37111

A Double Diamond works wonders, works wonders....

Edit: The No.60 bus stopped right outside the door

 

[Worksop II]

That's not what I meant. The building itself is different today.



I wondered whether it had, though often when people blame the Hun it turns out it was the council. However, even if that's true and that building was replaced, the corner building has shrunk since the war. See the following picture then have a look at Google maps.
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It is Magnet georgebernardshaw

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

the thing with listing buildings is they have to have some historical or special architectural significance The Co-Op has this where as the old transport buidling doesnt in fact they are usually more prevalent.

i like the old coop building especially the staircase which is a wonderful piece of design, but architecture is like art very subjective

 

[Hamburg Blade]

the thing with listing buildings is they have to have some historical or special architectural significance The Co-Op has this where as the old transport buidling doesnt in fact they are usually more prevalent.

i like the old coop building especially the staircase which is a wonderful piece of design, but architecture is like art very subjective

Hambleton House is an art deco building with plenty of history and once pulled down would be replaced by nothing of equivalent importance. It should have been listed. You can't wait until there is only one example left before listing it, or wait until enough time has passed for it to be important, because it will be gone. You have to have foresight with these things, which clearly Sheffield has never had. Naturally architecture is subjective, but it's difficult to argue that the co-op building from the outside isn't an eye-sore.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Great bar that first time I’d come across plastic glasses.
We used to go in there and then down to the Penthouse.
Played heavy/ progressive rock.
Loon pants,grandad vests,platforms.

This was usual night out for a bit of prog/heavy rock. Shite Stones or Worthinton E in plastic glasses though.