Does anybody have any pics or links to pics of bomb damage from ww2?
Any sites in town that are left unrepaired/memorials/etc.

thanks!

Have you tried here? http://http://www.picturesheffield.com/

Try www.picturesheffield.com

Most bomb damage is repaired now but if you stand underneath the railway bridge over the Wicker you can see where a 20 foot hole has been patched up, caused by a bomb in WW2.

... and are there not artillery shot marks on the pillars at the front of the City Hall? Not exactly bomb damage, but on a similar vein.

having thought about it, I'd be worried about 3rd world war damage to the city.

Most of the visible craters that are still extant, are out in Ecclesall Woods. Score one for putting up fake industrial lighting in the middle of a wood.

Fake industrial lighting? Where did that come from? The woods at that time were my playground, and if lights had been there I would have seen them. Is this yet another wartime myth?

I heard the fake industrial lighting thing was done at Wharncliffe, out beyond Oughtibridge. the idea was to create a fake target to be bombed. It does seem unlikely that this weould have been done in Ecclesall Woods, surrounded as it is by houses and posh houses at that.

The pits I've seen in Ecclesall Woods (and others around Sheffield) are from a primitive kind of lead smelting. You can spot them because nothing grows in them (the ground is poisoned) and they are shaped like a hand mirror -- an oval with "handle". The handle was actually a channel for the run off. Just googled and found out they are called "Q pits" here's the wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coal.

:) its true about the fake lites & stuff 2 try & fool the jerrys.there was a guy on telly not long ago whose job in the early days of the war was 2 run a fake airfield.complete with wooden planes,he told how the jerries flew over & dropped a wooden bomb on em,loooool, its true honest,who says germans have no sense o humour.

:) its true about the fake lites & stuff 2 try & fool the jerrys.there was a guy on telly not long ago whose job in the early days of the war was 2 run a fake airfield.complete with wooden planes,he told how the jerries flew over & dropped a wooden bomb on em,loooool, its true honest,who says germans have no sense o humour.
It's true there were decoy sites but the one on the south west side of Sheffield was on the moors near Foxhouse, not Ecclesall Woods.
A photo survey of the blitz damage was done and they're in the Local Studies Library on Surrey Street. Many of them are viewable online at the address people have posted, but there may be more in the library as not all the picture collection has been digitized.

The pits I've seen in Ecclesall Woods (and others around Sheffield) are from a primitive kind of lead smelting. You can spot them because nothing grows in them (the ground is poisoned) and they are shaped like a hand mirror -- an oval with "handle". The handle was actually a channel for the run off. Just googled and found out they are called "Q pits" here's the wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coal.

I thought those pits were charcoal pits?

I thought those pits were charcoal pits?
That's right. The lead smelters are called boles and found on hilltops where they can catch the wind. Q pits were for producing what was called 'white coal', which was kiln-dried wood used for smelting lead. There are over 80 in Ecclesall Woods, as well as numerous charcoal burning platforms. The lead was actually smelted elsewhere, on the Bole Hills (hence the name) scattered around the area.

:) aint there a place in sheffield called bole hill,any connection?

:) oops, jus seen it algy, willos off 2 specsavers-lol

:) aint there a place in sheffield called bole hill,any connection?

There's the one at Crookes that most people know, but there are other places called Bole Hill around Sheffield and in the Peak District. There's one at Lodge Moor and another at Ringinglow for example.:thumbsup:

Does anybody have any pics or links to pics of bomb damage from ww2?



Parachute Mine Damage - Southey Hill, Parson Cross, Sheffield 5. (http://www.picturesheffield.com/jpgh/s01084.jpg)

:) 1 in treeton 2,knew i'd seen it b4-lol.

... and are there not artillery shot marks on the pillars at the front of the City Hall? Not exactly bomb damage, but on a similar vein.

having thought about it, I'd be worried about 3rd world war damage to the city.

Artillery shot marks! I think not. Artillery went out of fashion before the City Hall was even built. Shrapnel marks, more likely. Second world war and all that.

There is a book available in the Sheffield Local Studies about the bomb damage in Sheffield with pictures of bomb damage, and how the place looks now.

Can't remember what it is called but there are only 5 or 6 books there