A thread on another section got me wondering about how many and where all the public toilets used to be in Sheffield.

On the regular Saturday walk home from the market with my Dad about 1950 (- ish) I can recall toilets in Fitzalan Square. Surrey Street, Moorhead (I think - not sure) and next to the library at Highfields. I think there were some on the corner of London Road and Queens Road too.

Others I recall at the junction of Sharrow Lane and Cemetary Road and one on Bramhall Lane.

Any I've missed in that area ? What about other areas ?

Mods...please don't merge this with the thread on General Chat, - they're just takin' the p*** :D

There was one for men only, just up the road from t Whicker.

A few months ago I was interested (and at the time discomforted) to find that the toilets down the road from King Edwards School, Broomhill (opposite Hallamshire Hospital) had been turned into a smart looking cafe/ restaurant. I wondered if it still smelt?

Striver

there was gents next to the Broadfield on Abbeydale road.and in the wall opposite the White loin on Chesterfield road .strange that they are near pubs.There were ladies and gent just up from the swimming baths at Hillbrough now I beleve part of a restuant.
I belive Fizsalen are just bricked up.Ithink they are the ones with the fancy tiling

There was one on Commonside by the bus stop and another on Heavygate Road where it meets Northfield Road. The structures are still there but bricked up.

Originally posted by max
The structures are still there but bricked up.

Similar to the ones in Firth Park centre

I remember the underground ones in Fitzalan Square, seperate entrance and exit, glazed roof and what seemed like acres of tiles. There was also some more underground ones down Dixon Lane near the old Rag & Tag, behind Woolworths (now Wilkinsons).

Others at, Blonk Street bridge, bricked up (as a kid I always used to think these emptied straight into the river below), Bridge Street bus station, this is where I caught the No.110 to leafy Parson Cross, my mum would always shout don't be long or we'll miss the bus.(we never did), Surrey Street, side of the Town Hall, now you have to pay and leaving the worse to last, the Hole in the Road (Angel Street), very very smelly.

Originally posted by PAULR
and in the wall opposite the White loin on Chesterfield road. strange that they are near pubs.

I think these were part of the train station that sat atop that wall weren't they?

Use to be some at sheffield lane top,
alas now a cafe.

Hmmm...that's now two Public Loo sites been turned into eateries (the other is the one outside the Hallamshire Hospital).

Strange role-reversal :D

Originally posted by Greybeard
Hmmm...that's now two Public Loo sites been turned into eateries (the other is the one outside the Hallamshire Hospital).

Strange role-reversal :D

Make that three!!

The old mens public toilets in Hillsborough ( bottom of Forbes Road) are now a restaurant too. (Mr Tse's or something like that)

When we were kids, we used to play with the vicars kids who lived in the vicarage at the bottom of Forbed Road. Guaranteed, if we looked over the wall at the bottom, there would be, 9 times out of 10, some dirty old man flashing at the entrance to the loo's!!

I can't bring myself to eat in there as I always think of it as the smelly mens toilets!!

Originally posted by tara
Use to be some at sheffield lane top,
alas now a cafe. A cafe in old bogs...err, not eating there then.

The loggia-style public lavatory on Ecclesall Rd South (bottom of Knowle Lane) is also scheduled to shut according to a recent Council Report -along with around a dozen others.
Reasons given include drug-taking,cottaging and alternative
facilities available.
The alternate facilities cited for the Ecclesall closure presumably mean the new library which closes at 8pm.
God knows where our bus-drivers are going to piddle.

As a driving instructor out on the road all day, public toilets are a subject very close to my heart.

I know about the ones at Gleadless Town End, and the ones in Graves Park but if someone could provide a list, it woul dbe most useful!!!

Otherwise, i'll just have to use McD's again!

Here's a brief list of the few that are still open in and around Sheffield...

Bottom of Rivelin Valley Road - on the corner of the Junction between Malin Bridge/Stannington Road.

South Road, Walkley - Next door to the old pet shop near Walkley Library

Town Hall - Top corner of Surrey St (Gents) or top of Pinstone St near Peace Gardens (Ladies)

Outside Pond St bus station - 10p cubicle

Moorfoot - opposite bus stop just across the road

Manor Top - Just below Netto, near Manor Top tram stop.

If I think of any more I'll edit the post and add to the list :)

Originally posted by pietro
leaving the worse to last, the Hole in the Road (Angel Street), very very smelly.

And always full with some very dodgy looking characters loitering around.

Here's the official guide to Sheffield's public loos, brought to you by the City Council:

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/in-your-area/street-force/public-toilets

Who said this city was going down the pan? :thumbsup:

used to be one made of green slate (gents) right in the middle of the road on Meadow Street.

Now I know you're not going to believe this but in East Lothian Scotland they've won awards for their public loo's.
Spent a week staying in Haddington and you had to see them to believe it. Hot and cold running water, lights, fresh smelling, staff, toilet paper, hand drying facilities both hot air and paper towels and lastly, you'd better sit down for this one, in the gents vases with freshly cut flowers!!! Now that's a public toilet.

At the bottom of Rutland Road on the left at the traffic lights is the remains of a Gents only.

Ecclesfield now does not have any but used to have 2. One at the park entrance on Mill Road and one opposite the Post Office.

High Green had one at the corner of the park, its still there but closed down.

There used to be two people Jack and Jean not a couple but both employed by the city council. They drove around in a little white ford escort van cleaning and checking for maintenance problems the public toilets in the city. Jack always said his favorite one was out at Fox House, a nice drive out there and a chance for half a shandy. Some of their stories of what they encountered had to be heard to be believed,dead bodies being discovered being fairly regular. When I travel around the city nowadays and see aall the closed or gone loo's I sometimes wonder what happened to the pair of them and if anybody still has the single job of keeping the loo's in a reasonable state.

I've seen the one across from the Hallamshire but haven't bin inside, I wonder if it's got a Loo. :)

There is one still open at a big ecclesall road south bus stop ( where they've built those new flats)

There used to be one on Penistone Rd near the gates to Hillsb; park

Originally posted by Rich
Here's a brief list of the few that are still open in and around Sheffield...

Bottom of Rivelin Valley Road - on the corner of the Junction between Malin Bridge/Stannington Road.

South Road, Walkley - Next door to the old pet shop near Walkley Library

Town Hall - Top corner of Surrey St (Gents) or top of Pinstone St near Peace Gardens (Ladies)

Outside Pond St bus station - 10p cubicle

Moorfoot - opposite bus stop just across the road

Manor Top - Just below Netto, near Manor Top tram stop.

If I think of any more I'll edit the post and add to the list :)


Mr Tse the chinky on the tramstop in hillsbrough used to be one

I heard a story from the 1950's where a gent was urinating in the open top urinal in the Wicker...He happened to look upwards and saw a group of working girls, looking down at him from a window above.
Being in a playfull mood having just had a couple of pints he smiled up and on the spur of the moment he waggled his "willy" at them..They took this with great glee and all laughed at his antics..except for one old maid who promptly phoned the Police and he was later arrested for indecent exposure.

Here's a brief list of the few that are still open in and around Sheffield...

Bottom of Rivelin Valley Road - on the corner of the Junction between Malin Bridge/Stannington Road.

That's been closed a few years now. There's a planapp in to turn it into, yes, a cafe.
You can see the remains of the original tram terminus toilets on the corner of Rivelin Valley Road and Holme Lane.
South Road, Walkley - Next door to the old pet shop near Walkley Library
They've been closed getting on for 20 years now. Another tram terminus toilet.

No-body's mentioned the one on the corner of Block Street and Castlegate, perched over the river Sheaf where it joins the Don.

I've been making a photo collection of toilets in Sheffield, a Cloaca Publica Civitas (if I've got me Latin right). One of these days I'll upload the pics.

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JGH

he waggled his "willy" at them..They took this with great glee and all laughed at his antics..except for one old maid who promptly phoned the Police and he was later arrested for indecent exposure.
Typical. If a man sees a naked woman, the man gets arrested. If a woman sees a naked man, the man gets arrested.

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JGH

Originally posted by jgharston
Typical. If a man sees a naked woman, the man gets arrested. If a woman sees a naked man, the man gets arrested
JGH
Why wasn't the woman charged with being a Peeping Tom? She was obviously deliberately looking into a Gents toilet.

use to one on wellinton street near rockingham st,
one on townhead st to garden st near old drinking fountain.

last week property paper,four are up for sale.

There's a tiny disused one by the traffic lights on Archer Rd, at the Millhouses end.

There are some public toilets right at the top of Meadowhead where the roundabout is. Opposite the petrol station. I think they are still open cos you occasionally see people coming out but it's seems to mostly be men that use them.

Originally posted by Greybeard
A thread on another section got me wondering about how many and where all the public toilets used to be in Sheffield.

On the regular Saturday walk home from the market with my Dad about 1950 (- ish) I can recall toilets in Fitzalan Square. Surrey Street, Moorhead (I think - not sure) and next to the library at Highfields. I think there were some on the corner of London Road and Queens Road too.

Others I recall at the junction of Sharrow Lane and Cemetary Road and one on Bramhall Lane.

Any I've missed in that area ? What about other areas ?

Mods...please don't merge this with the thread on General Chat, - they're just takin' the p*** :D

There used to be one just below the Heeley Green Cinema on Gleadless Rd and another in Meersbrook Park before you got to the old bandstand. Haven't lived in Sheffield since 1967 so I don't know whether they're still there or not.

Rich,

The South Rod ones are pretty shut-looking to me.

I don't think they've bene in use for ages.

Joe

Originally posted by algy
There's a tiny disused one by the traffic lights on Archer Rd, at the Millhouses end.

I just love that little loo ... if it ever came up for sale, I'd like to demolish it and rebuild it in my garden as a little folly or toolstore - not as a public loo - i hasten to add :cool:

There was a men's only I think opposite Ponsfords on Heeley bottom, and one at the end of Abbey Lane,Chesterfield Road end, this might still be in use.

There's both Ladies and Gents at Low Bradfield by the bowling green.

Know it's a bit of a long way to keep your legs crossed but some people must use them cos they've just been done up.

Nobodies mentioned the ones at Ringinglow, that have now been converted into a Rocking Horse Shop.

There was one at the Norton on the roundabout. Remember clearly dashing off the last bus home (at that time 11pm) to use it then leap back on the bus, driver kindly waited for me. I was about 17 at the time and on way home from pub.

Originally posted by BAZZO
The loggia-style public lavatory on Ecclesall Rd South (bottom of Knowle Lane) is also scheduled to shut according to a recent Council Report -along with around a dozen others.
Reasons given include drug-taking,cottaging and alternative
facilities available.
The alternate facilities cited for the Ecclesall closure presumably mean the new library which closes at 8pm.
God knows where our bus-drivers are going to piddle.

what is cottaging?

"Cottaging" is when men who like other men hang around places like public toilets, hoping for sexual favours, the most famous cottager is probably George Michael.......

what a queer thing for people to do. sex in public toilets whatever next!

I don't like the look of the new loos they keep putting up in the middle of highly public areas! You used to be able to sidle discreetly into the nearest ladies (or gents) but now you have to find what looks suspiciously like a concrete phone box, peer at the instructions on the wall and hope you don't accidentally make the door open before due time. Me, I know which shops have loos - much safer!

Just remembered there used to be a Gents at the end of Stainton Rd on the edge of Bingham Park at Greystones. I think the building may still be there, though it's been closed for years.

Originally posted by max
There was one on Commonside by the bus stop and another on Heavygate Road where it meets Northfield Road. The structures are still there but bricked up.

What a bizarre subject....

Max has mentioned a couple in the Crookes and Walkley area. The one you mentioned at Commonside are as you know bricked up. I’m surprised someone hasn’t bought them and done something like the person who bought the bogs just down from King Teds. With the ever increasing student population there is always room for another enterprise.

Anyway here goes. Mushroom Lane at the side of Western Park - Top of Toyne Street Crookes – Crosspool below the Crosspool Tavern – The entrance to the Crookes Cemetery from the Crosspool end.

Best public bogs in Sheffield were in the hole in the road. If you was on a bender, (before the licensing laws changed) you could go there and get a wash and shave and be ready for the night time session.