Anyone remember Sheffield in the 70s, Yorkshire cricket at Bramall Lane, United in the First Division & Wednesday in the Third, buses on the Moor, Turnups nightclub at Nether Edge, The Fiesta, Top Rank, Steelworks in the East End, Cutlery and engineering firms ???????????

Yes, I remember sheffield thirty year's ago, the dances at top rank, city hall, grand hotel, buses down the moor, colour fountain at the top of fargate, the egg box ( town hall extension ) St.Philips club dances, Embassy on mansfield rd, local's meeting place at Coles corner, the old peace garden's, cocayne's at the top of snig hill, underground toilet's in fitzalan square, the hole in the road on high st. Going even further back buses and tramcar's up and down Fargate, the little mester's workshop's in the city centre, day's before supertram. Ah. happy memories. :) :D

Cheers halevan, I thought my one and only topic posted was lost in cyberspace, these 'young uns' don't know what they've missed. I was in my teens in the 70's and so much has changed since then, but I still remember those day's like they were yesterday. I applied for jobs at many of the places that closed in the 80's, British Steel, Dunford Hadfields, GEC Traction, Naval Ordnance, Firth Browns etc.. and I ended up at Laycock Engineering and that went too. My wife worked at Manfield shoe shop on the Moor where MacDonalds now stands. I remember the Wimpy, Redgates toys and Sugg sport shops all being on the Moor. Talking of Fitzalan Square I remember The Classic Cinema and Wigfalls...did they both burn down ??

I remember visiting grandparents here in the 70's as a youngster. The most overiding memory was the awful smell of the place. Especially after coming from the Lincolnshire countryside.

The next thing I remember was the 2p fare on the buses.

Hello Michael.
The news theatre was pulled down, but wigfalls was burnt down, going further back even before supertram ( ha ha ) and the new bridge over castle square, the old rag and tag market at the bottom of commercial street, there was an old lady in there with a red velvet seat on a weight scale, she charge one old penny to weigh you but I could never afford it! nearby was the old corn exchange and next to that was park station coal yard where the canal basin is now. My brother and brother in law used to shovel coal and coke into lorries from there, just round the corner was the old market hall at the side of dixon lane. :? :cry:

Hello Halevan,
I take it that you remember the Classic cinema as the 'News Theatre', which brings me on to all those other lost cinemas - Studio 5,6 & 7 on the Wicker, The ABC, The Odeon, The Gaumont, Cinecenta and my old local The Abbeydale on Abbeydale road. I spent a few hours queueing to get in some of those when I was younger !

Yes Michael,
I have lot's of memories of old sheffield, the old tramcar's, the old canal basin, black swan ( mucky duck ) on snig hill, hostel on shalesmoor where they slept ten in a bed ( nine fleas and them, butler's transport cafe on brook hill, fred's on matilda street in 1941 where one could get ten a pie ( meat and potato ) pint of tea and apple pie and custard for ten old pence four pence now, oh! those were the day's. :shock: :?

I too was a teenager in the 70's. I can remember Crazy Dazy (where all the smoothies went) and the Penthouse. A bus ride into town was 9p after which we would all meet up at the 'threepenny-bit' (so shaped) kiosk in Pond Street. We would then head off to the Nelson and the Wapentake. I also remember the Museum pub (knocked down when they built Tudor Square). Seeing the posting about studio 5,6 & 7 made me chuckle as that was the place where the rude films were shown and we would walk back and forth past here to see if we could see any saucy posters. I can also remember queing for hours for a taxi in Fitzalan Sq at 2.30am ...never any bother and never feeling scared or threatened. Those were the days!

Yes Michael,
I do remember the news theatre, marples public house in fitzalan square where all those people got killed during the sheffield blitz. I lived with my mother,brothers and sisters on the manor estate and we had a lump of shrapnel in the wall of our house. We had an anderson shelter in our garden where six of us ran to when the sirens sounded, I stocked it full of chocolate bars for if we ever got buried and couldnt get any food. We could always tell when there were enemy aicraft coming over by the sound they made it was so different from our own aircraft. later on in the fifties, I remember driving buses through the city centre, tramcars and buses side by side up and down fargate and the moor, beleive me it was horrendus at peak periods, in those days all buses were back loaders, no one had ever heard of an atlantian bus

Maybe it's the old rose tinted specs. but does everyone (over 30) think that the city was better back then? The promo film about Sheffield at the start of "The Full Monty" was just one of many made at the time which showed Sheffield as a futuristic, modern and vibrant city.

The 'hole in the road' was a remarkable place and sadly, like the rest of the city, fell into decline when that style of architechure wasn't modern any more.

I don't think it's a case of thinking it was better back then, it's more a case of looking back and remembering how it was. This is something many of us do as we get older, hence the boom in 70s and 80s nostalgia, music, bars and club nights over recent years. Some changes have been for the better and some not. I personally look back at the decline in local industry and wonder where everyone works these days. I suppose it's similar in many other parts of the country, the 70s I think were the end of an era. Thatcher came to power and decided to take on the working class - and won !
When I left school in 1977 you could still get a trade apprenticeship and many thousands in Sheffield did, the 1980s saw the end of that and unemployment boomed, not only with layed off workers but the many school leavers of the time. That coincided with the increase in drugs and crime !
OK things are now picking up, but the bulk of 16 year olds now stay on at school or go to college and then University, and have been encouraged to do so by the governments of the last 20 years because there is still a shortage of decent opportunities for these people compared to before. I think !

Originally posted by "Michael_W"

I don't think it's a case of thinking it was better back then, it's more a case of looking back and remembering how it was. This is something many of us do as we get older, hence the boom in 70s and 80s nostalgia, music, bars and club nights over recent years. Some changes have been for the better and some not. I personally look back at the decline in local industry and wonder where everyone works these days. I suppose it's similar in many other parts of the country, the 70s I think were the end of an era. Thatcher came to power and decided to take on the working class - and won !
When I left school in 1977 you could still get a trade apprenticeship and many thousands in Sheffield did, the 1980s saw the end of that and unemployment boomed, not only with layed off workers but the many school leavers of the time. That coincided with the increase in drugs and crime !
OK things are now picking up, but the bulk of 16 year olds now stay on at school or go to college and then University, and have been encouraged to do so by the governments of the last 20 years because there is still a shortage of decent opportunities for these people compared to before. I think !

You make some good points here and i agree with them.

does anyone remember old, old, sheffield? I lived on the manor estate when I was a child, before the parkway was built ( yes really!) We used to walk down prince of wales road to bowden howstead wood's to play and there was an open air bathing pool in the middle of the wood, with a high wooden fence round it.

Our parent's wouldn't let us go in as we were too small, but it was used all the time, especially in the summer month's. We had many happy day's playing in that wood, but we alway's had to go home for lunch or else we got a clip round trhe ear.

In those day's no one had ever heard of a peodophile and we never thought we were in any danger, children then were allowed to have their innocence none of this perverted stuff that we get today. :oops: :oops: :oops: Hal. Evans.

the old lady in the market you was on about her name was called mrs nutt and those scales they weiged you with was the original weigh scales that came from doncaster race course years ago to weigh the jockeys,also she and her family used to be in the encliffe park near the cafe and weight you

Millhouse Lido
Hole in the road
The fish in the hole in the road
Studio 5,6,7
The Indian in Fitzalan Sq 9 Cant remember the name
The Marples Pub
Redgates Toy Shop
Wigfalls
Buses running down the Moor
The M1 with hardly any cars on it
Sandblasting of all old stone buildings to clean up the blackened stone

im an 80's child so can't remeber a lot of the stuff mentioned here but I do remember there being rowing boats in weston park. I loved them, why don't they bring them back. Anyone else like to see the return of being able to row on the lake on a sunny saturday afternoon?

OOOOh, yes warm beer and rowing boats, same happened at Graves Park, too much money to run I guess for the council

I remember all the 70s and most of the 60s to and i,m only 43.
Wht do you mean "only" i heard that.
Anyone remember the massive war time bomb found on Verdon Street and the explosion of the gas works down Effingham Road. My mates dad was killed in that.
I was watching Corrination Street quite recent about the two gunmen and mentioning they meet up in the mucky duck.
The researchers are a bit out of date as the muckey duck as been shut ages.
Not sure if its still there to be honest.

Mucky Duck is still there, its just called The Boardwalk, still has live bands

www.theboardwalklive.co.uk

[quote="Anonymous"]Maybe it's the old rose tinted specs. but does everyone (over 30) think that the city was better back then? The promo film about Sheffield at the start of "The Full Monty" was just one of many made at the time which showed Sheffield as a futuristic, modern and vibrant city.

You can buy this promo video. I ordered a copy and it arrived yesterday so I've not had a chance to watch it yet.

It is called the "Reel Monty" (was orignally called "City on the Move") by Jim Coulthard. You can get the video from this website:

http://www.allcreditmedia.com/thereelmonty/

Too young to remember the 70s, but I have fond memories of playing in the paddeling pool at Millhouses park when I was a kid. I remember they were packed during the long hot summers.

They were happy days. Shame the place is such a mess now :(

Ask anyone over 35 about the long hot summers in Sheffield and they will say 1975 and 76.
Those summers went on for ever and we have not had one since nor are we likely to.
They say that global warming is making our planet hotter, well that was,nt around in those days and June and July and Augast was in the 90s every day.
Different subject i admit but global warming theory is a load of codswollop. If we are to have a red hot summer it will be totally natural as in 75/76.
Got to admit though the winters these days are definatly milder, is that global warming...........???????
Do,nt reply to this about global warming, i have just opened a topic on that in general chit chat.
Anybody remember seeing the church spire in the Ladybower in 75 and 76.

Summer of 76 was the best, anybody remember the cold year 1985 ish.
My pipes burst, car radiator froze up. It was about minus 15 for about a week. Getting a bit off topic here so lets get back to 70's

Anybody remember Taggy's Ice Cream?

Yes I do, It was around all the time when I was a lot younger, once I ran in to ask my Mother if I could have an ice cream, it was one old halfpenny, but she couldnt afford it.

Also, I remember the Walls stop me and buy one, who used to come round on a push tricycle, he sold three corner packets of ice lollys all different flavours.

Ah, happy days!!!

Anyone remember Wimpys in Fargate? They were the first place in Sheffield to do a selection of different flavoured ice creams (something like 47 I think). Also golden Egg restaraunt. I worked there when I left school in '76 (am also only 43). Chelsea Girl boutique in High Street? Summer of '76 we had severe water shortage and it was rationed. We had to collect it from stand pipes. The fresh donuts in Woolworths?

We used to have the rag man come round with a barrow shouting "any old rags". We used to get a balloon or a gold fish if we gave any to him.
I remember my mum asking if anybody had seen her new dress.
dare,nt tell her the rag man had just taken it .
Nice gold fish though.

Guest the museum pub wasn't pulled down,its now in orchard square and called the Hogshead,the three tuns,(opposite the pig and whistle,was demolished to make way for orchard square

Anyone remember the name of the pub in Barker's Pool on the corner opposite the banky pub? It may have been the Albert. There was a step down between the tap and lounge which used to catch most people out when moving between the two with a pint in their hand.

I think it was demolished when they tried to put indoor toilets in and found a WWII bomb in the cellar.

It was indeed the Albert, I remember the step as well and the tiny serving hatch. My watering hole was the Foresters, which everyone called the Firemans 'cos it was opposite the fire station. It also leaned sideways like the Albert and had large cracks in the wall. Seem to remember at chucking out time on friday and saturday a man used to play the bagpipes. It soon emptied! One night we were playing arrows and a cast iron chair came flying through the window and hit my mate in the back. A man came in and apologised "sorry wrong pub" he said, and disappeared down Devonshire St....eee those were t' days!
Remember the Gambit on Commercial St? My first chinky. I still miss their Fu Yung!

Who used to go to the Millhouse lido?

For you youngsters, it was an open air swimming pool in Millhouses Park.
Where the new playground is now, it shut late 70's I think but it stayed there well into the 90's just derelict.

It was great place to go on a hot 70's summer day.

PS there is an open air pool in Hathersage if we do get a summer back this year :D

hello yes i was working in the fiesta 1972-top-rank was next door to the fiesta i did work in tiffineys did you go in there i live in canada now toronto have a good day

Can anybody remember Pippeys shop on a side road just off the moor. Think it was the bottom of the road where Coles is. Lots of hippyish things like ethnic clothing, joss sticks, Anne Summers type equipment ( if you get my drift), 'smoking equipment' etc.

It all sounds so run of the mill these days but it was very far out at the time.

Went to all those places marie1951, Top Rank, Fiesta and Tiffanys and yes Mo I remember Pippys on Cambridge Street, never went in though :)

What about The Raven on Fitzwilliam St? A brilliant pub which then became Hornblowers, a naff pub, then O'Hagans, a faux Irish pub even naffer and finally pulled down.

Anyone remember drinking in The Nottingham House when there was only room for about 15 people in total?

i used to work down the east end as a lad. Started work at the
old English steel on Saville st. this was in the year1956. it was
very busy then. i remember waiting for the tram to go home with
hundreds of more people but now its amost closed up.

does anyone remember the Elmambo coffee bar on Union st . This was through the Arcade from the Moor. Barney Goodman was top
of the Arcade. Also the Nelson Pub near the Horse troph and toilets down the moor.

Originally posted by Michael_W
Anyone remember Sheffield in the 70s, Yorkshire cricket at Bramall Lane, United in the First Division & Wednesday in the Third, buses on the Moor, Turnups nightclub at Nether Edge, The Fiesta, Top Rank, Steelworks in the East End, Cutlery and engineering firms ??????????? hello yes i remember all of that i use to work at the fiesta good job good tips :D

Originally posted by Michael_W
Went to all those places marie1951, Top Rank, Fiesta and Tiffanys and yes Mo I remember Pippys on Cambridge Street, never went in though :) if you was in all them clubs i bet we met way back then :D 8)

Originally posted by The Cycleracer
We used to have the rag man come round with a barrow shouting "any old rags". We used to get a balloon or a gold fish if we gave any to him.
I remember my mum asking if anybody had seen her new dress.
dare,nt tell her the rag man had just taken it .
Nice gold fish though. lol thats funny i did the same thing with my dads coat to get that fish lol lived 2 years then he went down the tolet :D

Hey up Marie, my friends mum used to work at the Fiesta, you might know her i think that was in the 70s

Originally posted by Angie v
Hey up Marie, my friends mum used to work at the Fiesta, you might know her i think that was in the 70s hello angie what was your friends mums name :D

Nutty Norah.
Pond Street Cyril.
SUT coaches to Wednesday away games.
All the old town Pubs,Museum,Nelson,Albert etc.
Violet Mays.
Pippy`s.
Sexy Rexy`s(easy to nick clothes from :lol: )

Great memories,but in all honesty Sheffield was a dump back then.

Hi marie, her name when i knew was christean pickering, but im not sure if she would have been married then

Hi every one, this is showing our ages:blush: I remember going and seeing the church spire in 75-76. We walked down to what was left of the village. My Uncle worked for Taggys ice cream and he used to come when he had finished his rounds and he would give use a freeby can't afford them now lol. I loved Tiffinys spent a lot of happy hours there. Doe's any one remember the Vine at the bottom of the moor just 2 rooms, one with the bar in it and a tiny room with a juke box.

this is so good reading all these but can't beleive no one has mentioned the Buccaneer I lived in that place. Had friends from London who uesed to visit just to go there.
Did loads of my shopping at Chelsea Girl & Pippys
them were the days eh!:D :D :D

I remember the Buccaneer very well! Brilliant for the music and wall to wall totty, but not so good for the warm beer in plastic glasses. It was the place to be seen, even tho it was pitch black inside...
Then there was the slow stagger down to the Wimpy Bar on Fargate with the customary traffic cone on the head...Happy memories!:bday:

what was the name of the cafe on chapel walk ? we all used to go in on a saturday afternoon usually after coming out of the buccaneer at 3 and go in the room down stairs
can anyone remember / 8)

The Sidewalk Cafe. In the 60's often frequented on Saturdays by the likes of Joe Cocker. My big sis used to take me there when mum made her look after me at the weekends. Remember Joe buying me a doll for my birthday.

thanks mslotus that had been bugging me:D

Does anyone remember the courtyard in Stone House when it looked like you were outside only you were really inside. Great meeting place. Why did they do away with it? Also the Pig & Whistle on the corner of Leopold Street and Barker's Pool? Great pub. Whatever happened to it?
I also remember the Buccanner (closed down in the early 70's sometime), Crazy Dazy, the Blue Bell, the old Dove & Rainbow before they changed it all. And what was the name of that nightclub above the ice-rink? Great memories. I live in Devon now, but loved Sheffield in those days. And yes, it was safe back then. I worked at the midland station and remember walking through the city centre when all the nightclubs were kicking out (who remembers the Bier Keller and the Penny Farthing in Arundel gate?) and nobody ever said a word to you. Never any fighting or anything. Oh yeah, and buses were 4p from the city centre to Crookes. Great days, eh?

I think the nightclub above the ice rink was called Samanthas, Houdi, it is now known as Stars Mayfair Suite, no longer a nightclub as such, but can be hired for functions birthdays / engagements etc.

I too was surprised that no-one had mentioned The Buccaneer.
I spent the summers of '71 - '73 back in Sheffield, visiting from Winnipeg. Hippies et al, great memories!
In the '50s, when I first started drinking legally, it was called The Roundabout Bar (still part of the old Grand Hotel). It was the only place within Sheffield that you could get Worthington 'E' draught beer at two shillings and threepence a pint ( Tetleys, Tennants and Stones were about one shilling and tenpence a pint then). From there to Timpson's Corner - which was a central meeting place at that time. It was still used in the 70's as a place to meet your 'bird'. Then on Thursdays the City Hall Dance with Bernard Taylor and his Band - on Fridays The Locarno (Mecca) at the bottom of London Rd. Happy Days!

8) Nah Den Ace.........

70s eh? I were only a youth, but here goes.........

Two pence on any bus, and wasn't the CityClipper free? And bendy? Or was that later on?
Free concerts in Weston Park, model boat races and rowing boats in Crookes Valley Park.
Skin'eads on gallery - scary darey!
Mods 'n' Rockers battling on the bottom of the Moor.
Jilted John - he were from Sheffield.
Alvera's on City Road for doccers.

Also: bleedin' 'ot summers, not qualifying for World Cup, getting hammered by West Indies at cricket, skateboards - the original thin green plastic ones............but most of all............

What did ever happen to white dog sh*t?!!!!!

Regards,

Spacehopper.

Originally posted by Spacehopper
8)

What did ever happen to white dog sh*t?!!!!!



The big supermarkets have put an end to it.

Ah well, having befriended a number of dogs in my time let me explain

Firstly white dog s**t is still in existance, but just not as popular.
The reason! the canine diet has changed since the 70's, back int good olde days, many a dog would be running wild and could be seen lurking and generally hanging around the local butchers shop, often at the end of the day, a huge knuckle bone or leg bone would be tossed out into the street. The fortunate dog would then go scurrying off with his prize possesion and feast on the bone for days, the bone would often be buried at the end of the day and retrieved in the morning.

Anyway this diet of pure bone played havoc with the digestive system of a dog, resulting in very dry white stools.

Well as the advent of pre packed meat came in the 80's and the demise of the butchers shop, it is not very often a dog gets the delight of huge bone.

So the next time you go into Sainsbury's or Tesco's ask at the butchers counter if they have any old bones, when you have done your shopping toss the bone into the street and we may see the resurgance of white dog s**t.


taken from mikey's Old Dog Turd of Sheffield Archives - Copyright 2003

Ah yes - The Buccaneer - Loved it because it was non stop
music without having to put money in a juke box .
Do you remember when it first opened there were plastic
parrots and desert island type decor all over the place - but
as time went by we finished up with bare walls and
plastic glasses - and how on earth did I drink that "Brew Ten"
the worst beer of the seventies !!

Great memories.

Originally posted by Houdi
Does anyone remember the courtyard in Stone House when it looked like you were outside only you were really inside. Great meeting place. Why did they do away with it? Also the Pig & Whistle on the corner of Leopold Street and Barker's Pool? Great pub. Whatever happened to it?
I also remember the Buccanner (closed down in the early 70's sometime), Crazy Dazy, the Blue Bell, the old Dove & Rainbow before they changed it all. And what was the name of that nightclub above the ice-rink? Great memories. I live in Devon now, but loved Sheffield in those days. And yes, it was safe back then. I worked at the midland station and remember walking through the city centre when all the nightclubs were kicking out (who remembers the Bier Keller and the Penny Farthing in Arundel gate?) and nobody ever said a word to you. Never any fighting or anything. Oh yeah, and buses were 4p from the city centre to Crookes. Great days, eh?
Hey, we must have been in the same places at the same time. I frequented all these pubs. Blue Bell was a bit dodgy. I only used it as a cut through to get to the Dove and Rainbow. I loved the Stone House when the courtyard was a great hangout. I used to stare at the roof and I really think we were outside under the stars. Pig and Whistle was okay but a bit of a meat market.

I'm writing a book at the moment. A 'Full Monty' type nostalgic look at Sheffield life in the 70's. Loads of northern humour. Most of the old haunts are featured and lots of places people will recognise (some of which are no longer with us). Hope to get it (finished!) and printed one day.

I whish you every success with the book,

Originally posted by Carlwarker
I too was surprised that no-one had mentioned The Buccaneer.
I spent the summers of '71 - '73 back in Sheffield, visiting from Winnipeg. Hippies et al, great memories!
In the '50s, when I first started drinking legally, it was called The Roundabout Bar (still part of the old Grand Hotel). It was the only place within Sheffield that you could get Worthington 'E' draught beer at two shillings and threepence a pint ( Tetleys, Tennants and Stones were about one shilling and tenpence a pint then). From there to Timpson's Corner - which was a central meeting place at that time. It was still used in the 70's as a place to meet your 'bird'. Then on Thursdays the City Hall Dance with Bernard Taylor and his Band - on Fridays The Locarno (Mecca) at the bottom of London Rd. Happy Days!

I quote the above as I cannot understand how anyone can remember the price of a pint thirty years ago! Or the price of bus fares!! Mind you that may be because I have been able to drink legally for too long - 1959 to be precise.

In my early school days my trips into Sheffield from Kiveton Park were usually to get school clothes we couldn't buy in Kiveton; a great adventure as at that time, you didn't travel very far from home for anything. We would either come in by bus through Handsworth, Darnall, Attercliffe and the Wicker, or the other route through Woodhouse, Intake, the Manor, etc. or by train to Victoria station. But don't ask what the prices were cos I would not have a clue.

Then in around 1957/8, I left school (Woodhouse Grammar) and worked at Sheffield Transport in Division Street - the building over the laneway from City Hall - and then Markets Department in the new(ish) building over from the open air market, and opposite the river.

At that time, the city was a busy place to be. That is apart from passing all the big steel works on the way in, as the city centre seemed always busy to me. Mind you, reading comments in this forum, I think that probably was because we had a different outlook. For a start, we all seemed to have jobs, and yet didn't seem to have as much money to spend on pubs, night clubs and the like.

Visited in 1982, and nearly got lost coming off the Parkway and into the centre, and had some trouble trying to equate what I could see with what I remembered pre 1963. Of course, the Parkway was there then, but it didn't go into the city. Please help - where was the city end of it initially?

Woulod need a guide these days.8) :P

The Lacarno was one of the best pulling joints in my day. A few pints round london rd then in to the night club. Great days

Any one remember the cinemas at lane top and forum herries road essoldo and capitol i believe tesco stores now occupies the site where the essoldo stood any one remember jimmy saville opening the tesco.

I was in the last year of junior school and at Longley school at the time. It would have been 1970/71. Jimmy Saville came to the school and went round all the classes to sign autographs for everyone. Used to go to the cinema when it was there too.

Any one remember bishopshome near busk meadows people said it was haunted because a murder had been comitted there. Also who remembers longley swimming pool used to go midnight swimming there in that great summer of 76.

Originally posted by Chris M
Ah yes - The Buccaneer - Loved it because it was non stop
music without having to put money in a juke box .
Do you remember when it first opened there were plastic
parrots and desert island type decor all over the place - but
as time went by we finished up with bare walls and
plastic glasses - and how on earth did I drink that "Brew Ten"
the worst beer of the seventies !!

Great memories.

Never went in the Buc', but my uncle had the great big wall/pirate map from there when it closed, had it on their wall for years,Don't know if he bought it or was given it, Used to live in there, just about.

Does anyone remember, Turn-ups/Alleycats,25p a pint on thursdays,must have been so watered down, tasted terrible

Originally posted by MARTINO 1
Any one remember bishopshome near busk meadows people said it was haunted because a murder had been comitted there. Also who remembers longley swimming pool used to go midnight swimming there in that great summer of 76.
Oohh I remember getting burnt to a crisp in 1976. Mum had never heard of suntan lotion. We just used Nivea cream and fried ourselves.

Originally posted by regblind
The Lacarno was one of the best pulling joints in my day. A few pints round london rd then in to the night club. Great days

I remember the Locarno back in the 70's, but always thought it was called Tiffany's. When exactly did it change its name?? Slogged it round the pubs of London Road many a time - the Hermitage, Barrel Inn, Tramways, the Pheasant, the Old Crown, the Albion, Cremorne Hotel. Not a bad pub crawl actually. Does anyone remember the Cross Guns in Sharrow Lane? What a cack-hole, eh?

Originally posted by Michael_W
Anyone remember Sheffield in the 70s, Yorkshire cricket at Bramall Lane, United in the First Division & Wednesday in the Third, buses on the Moor, Turnups nightclub at Nether Edge, The Fiesta, Top Rank, Steelworks in the East End, Cutlery and engineering firms ???????????

What about the Claymore in Arundel Gate. Does anyone remember that? And why was the Norfolk Arms in Suffolk Street called 'The Dodgers'? I used to work in the Midland Station and used the Norfolk Arms regularly. Everyone called it 'The Dodgers' even though it said Norfolk Arms on the pub. Yes, I do remember United in the First Division & Wednesday in the 3rd. Saw Tony Curry with wife and sprogs in Woolworths in Haymarket once. Woolworths, eh? Wages couldn't have been up to much in those days!

8) Nah Den Ace......

Originally posted by Houdi
And why was the Norfolk Arms in Suffolk Street called 'The Dodgers'? I used to work in the Midland Station and used the Norfolk Arms regularly. Everyone called it 'The Dodgers' even though it said Norfolk Arms on the pub.

Because a lot of the bus drivers, form the nearby Leadmill garages, used to go drinking in there whilst "dodging" their shift!

Regards,

Spacehopper.

Houdi wrote:
Slogged it round the pubs of London Road many a time - the Hermitage, Barrel Inn, Tramways, the Pheasant, the Old Crown, the Albion, Cremorne Hotel. Not a bad pub crawl actually. Does anyone remember the Cross Guns in Sharrow Lane? What a cack-hole, eh?
I used to go in the Cross Guns when I lived on South View Road, early 80s, yeah it was always a cack-hole !
By the way Houdi you forgot to mention the Lansdowne :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Michael_W
Houdi wrote:

I used to go in the Cross Guns when I lived on South View Road, early 80s, yeah it was always a cack-hole !
By the way Houdi you forgot to mention the Lansdowne :thumbsup:

The Lansdowne! God, yeah, that brings back memories. I heard they pulled it down. That's progress for you, take a popular pub and pull it down to make way for another f*cking road extension. Pretty soon all we'll have is memories!!

Originally posted by Houdi
What about the Claymore in Arundel Gate. Does anyone remember that?

I sure do. My mother used to work there 20 odd years ago. I remember taking a girl in there to meet my mother. What was I thinking! Either way it was not a bad drinking hole. Hey, there's nothing as good as fizzy tartan bitter - not.

Did anyone used to frequent the Crazy Daisy?

Yeh, me.

I think it was Punk night Thursday, Disco Friday and Saturday and Jazz Funk on Sunday. Something happened on Mondays but can't remember. Those were the days of drinking Cherry B and wearing mohair jumpers. Gone are the days of Bowie and Roxy night. Kraftwerk and Gary Newman. God I miss those days. I'd love to go back in time and send one night in there again. I have great memories. I met my first boyfriend in there at 17 (late starter) I could have almost made it into The Human League!!? Weren't those girls discovered in the Daisy? I used to dream it was me, and I was in the queue for the toilet at the time and so I missed my turn :rolleyes:
Dream on!

Yes, those girls were discovered in there. I used to go in there on Fridays and Saturdays mostly. Cheap and cheerful and you didn't have to dress up or anything.

Spent a lot of time in there, I did until it shut. Then it was Faces on Charles Street, and then Turn-ups on Commerial Street.

Great days.

i remember lots of things you are talking about I moved away from sheffield in 73 after getting married. I worked for Balfour Darwins in the Wicker, at luch time we aften went to the Big Gun at dinner time, there was the Station pub and lots more in the wicker. can anyone remember the name of the pub under the Grand something to do with pirates i think, I used to go to the Top Rank and the Fiesta club had some good times there, the Heart beat at the skating rink. I lived on Birley anyone from there would like to keep in touch. Anybody out there know Dennis Broadhurst have been trying to trace friends from the old days.

went in the bucaneer many times always busy why ever did they pull down the grand. anybody go to the dance place the very bottom of the moor.

City Clipper
2p bus rides
The Moor before the Manpower Services Commission building
Virgin records at the bottom of the Moor
Museum Pub
Abbeydale Lido
Prefab classes being craned in to Hunters Bar School
St Andrew's Church Sharrow
Redgates
Hole in the Road
No daft one way systems
Being able to cycle wherever you wanted aged 12
Houses with "El off" on the doors (I thought it was an abusive term for many years!)
Blades winning 8 matches on the trot in the old 1st division
Hope, Badger, Helmsley, Flynn, Colquhoun, Hockey, Woodward, Speight, Dearden, Currie, Salmon/Scullion
Cricket at Bramall Lane
Visiting the sweet shop on Archer Lane
Thornton's factory in Abbeydale
Getting stuck in the snow going to school

etc.....

I at the 'threepenny-bit' (so shaped) kiosk in Pond Street. ays!

I think it was called Menzies. I used to meet all my girlfriends there who always lived on the other side of town. Pond Street Nora used to scare the living daylights out of me.
I used to use The Raven, Albert, Minerva and Nelson pubs and of course the Buccaneer and good old Wap.
My mate's dad used to run the Limes club on Barnsley road (I think) and we would go there after the Wap for some after hours drinking and a game of snooker. Or the Penthouse on Dixon Lane, dire place that was.
Following Wednesday home and away. Cyril the tramp.
Happy days

Millhouse Lido
Hole in the road
The fish in the hole in the road
Studio 5,6,7
The Indian in Fitzalan Sq 9 Cant remember the name
The Marples Pub
Redgates Toy Shop
Wigfalls
Buses running down the Moor
The M1 with hardly any cars on it
Sandblasting of all old stone buildings to clean up the blackened stone

The Indian in Fitzalan Square was the Indus!!

The Indian in Fitzalan Square was the Indus!!

To my eternal shame, the Indus is the only restaurant I have ever "done a runner" from, only then as part of a group of guys.
It has been on my conscience for the last thirty years!

To my eternal shame, the Indus is the only restaurant I have ever "done a runner" from, only then as part of a group of guys.
It has been on my conscience for the last thirty years!

So it was for me.

A mate of mine (chops) fell asleep in the bog and hadn't enough cash to settle the bill

what about Alpines, they delivered pop right to the door. I don't know if they are still going. We used to go mental for the dandelion and burdock. doesn't taste the same now though. Also who remembers the Rex cinema at the bottom of Mansfield & Hollinsend road.

I adored Sheffield in the 70s and would love to revisit it, go back in time, if that was possible.

I would spend the day going round all the clothes shops I used to visit, Jean Genie, Chelsea Girl, Pippy's, then have a brief pub crawl starting at the Wap and finishing at the Albert, then into the City Hall to see a decent gig. The bit I wouldnt want to do is pelt down to pond street at 10.30 to catch my last bus!

What about the Pump Tavern off the back of the Moor.
It did great meat and potatoe pie and cumberland sausage and you could allways help yourself from a bowl full of onions and cucumber in vinigar!

What about the Pump Tavern off the back of the Moor.
It did great meat and potatoe pie and cumberland sausage and you could allways help yourself from a bowl full of onions and cucumber in vinigar!


i had my wedding reception in there lol

I've really enjoyed reading all the above and taking a trip down Memory Lane. I remember almost all of the places mentioned but also remember 'The Broadway' (underneath Timpsons the shoe shop on High St). Sometimes when I'm walking around Sheffield I get a flashback of the past. Quite a few times when I'm walking down High Street I expect to see 'The hole in the Road' and when I'm walking down the Moor I remember the underground passage leading from Pinstone Street to The Moor. (Funny how the old brain works!!!) I wondered if this happened to anyone else?

Some interesting points, as a kid I remember Redgates and the fish in the tank in the hole-in-the road.

The water was often that green you couldn’t see them, but still had to have a look, and who can forget the 2p bus fare, I was gutted when I had to pay full fare, 12p.

Some interesting points, as a kid I remember Redgates and the fish in the tank in the hole-in-the road.

The water was often that green you couldn’t see them, but still had to have a look, and who can forget the 2p bus fare, I was gutted when I had to pay full fare, 12p.


I remember when the Newcastle supporters smashed the glass of the tank,
water all over the place but the fish some how survived.

I adored Sheffield in the 70s and would love to revisit it, go back in time, if that was possible.

I would spend the day going round all the clothes shops I used to visit, Jean Genie, Chelsea Girl, Pippy's, then have a brief pub crawl starting at the Wap and finishing at the Albert, then into the City Hall to see a decent gig. The bit I wouldnt want to do is pelt down to pond street at 10.30 to catch my last bus!


Dont forget Sexy Rexy

Just a few characters people 60+ may remember: Long Sammy, Duke of Darnall, Russian Edna, Big Ada and Mary Mary who walked from town to Crookes in the gutter, irrespective of traffic? Then there was the blind man who sold lavender on the Moor by the Union St. arcade.

Just a few characters people 60+ may remember: Long Sammy, Duke of Darnall, Russian Edna, Big Ada and Mary Mary who walked from town to Crookes in the gutter, irrespective of traffic? Then there was the blind man who sold lavender on the Moor by the Union St. arcade. i'm not 60 plus but i remember the blind man would i be right in saying he used to stand near suggs ? and also big ada i think she was the one who had a stall selling on dixon lane would i be right ? .

Correct both times! I think for Long Sammy you may need to be 60+.

Pubs down the Wicker... The old (new)Town Hall. The Albert pub opposite City Hall and all those bloody kebeb waggons (yum yum, hic!)

I presume you geezers are talking about the old Black Swan in town? Strangely enough I named my boat the 'Mucky Duck' and included a black swan in the logo... But then I am in Perth, Oz and our state emblem is the black swan, which worked out well for this old yorkytyke!

Can anybody remember Pippeys shop on a side road just off the moor. Think it was the bottom of the road where Coles is. Lots of hippyish things like ethnic clothing, joss sticks, Anne Summers type equipment ( if you get my drift), 'smoking equipment' etc.

It all sounds so run of the mill these days but it was very far out at the time.

I bought my first 'Afgan' coat at Pippy's in 1973. Cost me 19 quid! no buttons and smelly as hell....

A few memories of growing up in Sheffield in the seventies:-

Large tubs of ice cream from Graingers off-licence in Ranmoor. They had a huge chest freezer in the back room that contained some of the most incredible tasting ice creams ever;

'Use Water Sparingly' signs placed above the wash basins in the toilets at Nethergreen First School. This was due to the draught in 1976;

The oil liner Amoco Cadiz sunk in 1978 and the spillage was so huge its effects were felt in the water supplies of England. Large 'booms' so soak up oil and prevent it getting any further were placed in the rivers of Endcliffe Park in that year;

Swimming at the open air swimming pool beside the Rising Sun pub on the Castleton Road (between Hathersage and Hope) in the summer of, probably 1976. (Don't confuse this pool with the one still open at Hathersage);

Going to see the Sheffield Parkway prior to its opening. We looked down onto the new carriageway from Cricket Inn Road and it was quite impressive;

Silver Jubilee buses painted in silver, going past Nethergreen Middle School in September 1977. I was in one of the prefab classrooms overlooking the field and Fulwood Road. I managed to buy a silver jubilee bus whilst in London, albeit a Matchbox one!

The Moor closed to traffic and huge plant containers placed ad hoc down the road. It was a few years before it was paved leaving road marks in situ and zebra crossings still visible;

And finally, the magnificent Christmas decorations on the 1970s, something which had to be seen to be believed, along with the dancing fountains in Peace Gardens and Santa's Grotto at Moorfoot. Also, carol singing by candle light in Paradise Square.

I could go on and may well return with more memories later.

We always met in the Claymore on Arundle Gate(crap ale but still always met there)Blue Bell,Golden Ball,Red Lion then finished up in Albert.
Oh and the best chips pie and Gravy at the Goldfish Bowl.

The Indian in Fitzalan Sq 9 Cant remember the name


Wasn't it called The Indus?

I believe that it was down some steps below the Classic Cinema.

Did anyone actually pay to go in the Fiesta?

I think the nightclub above the ice rink was called Samanthas, Houdi, it is now known as Stars Mayfair Suite, no longer a nightclub as such, but can be hired for functions birthdays / engagements etc.

The nightclub was called the Heartbeat first around 1966 when the rink opened

Did anyone used to frequent the Crazy Daisy?

Used to work at crazy daisy in 1975. Loved it. Did you go in then?

oh fond memories. Traffic on the Moor, the pedestrian precinct is an improvement. Do you remember the fountain outside the Town hall. The pubs were all called different things, the Nelson was a good meeting place and the old Mulberry Tavern. The High Cliffe folk club with Tony Capstick and guests (normally ended with Tony falling off tables singing Goodnight Irene) The Top Rank on a Tuesday night. Getting into the students union to see some good bands. Keep the memories flowing!

Hole in The Road
Is there still a 69 bus to Rotherham?
I BET IT AINT 2p ANY MORE :hihi:

Wednesday night Roxy and Bowie night. DID I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 songs that immediately remind me of the Daisy are 'walking in rythm' by the blackbyrds and 'sweetest feeling' by Jackie Wilson.

Do you remember that it used to open at lunchtime? Our school used to let us finish at dinnertime the last day before the school hols, and we used to go down the Daisy. Because it was underground it was pitch black, exactly the same as at night, and it was really weird coming out at 3.30pm when it closed and it being daylight outside!!!!!!!!

Used to work at crazy daisy in 1975. Loved it. Did you go in then?

I paid to see Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Heatwave at the Fiesta Both were fantastic.

Did anyone actually pay to go in the Fiesta?

Wednesday night Roxy and Bowie night. DID I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 songs that immediately remind me of the Daisy are 'walking in rythm' by the blackbyrds and 'sweetest feeling' by Jackie Wilson.

Do you remember that it used to open at lunchtime? Our school used to let us finish at dinnertime the last day before the school hols, and we used to go down the Daisy. Because it was underground it was pitch black, exactly the same as at night, and it was really weird coming out at 3.30pm when it closed and it being daylight outside!!!!!!!!
Used to go in on Saturday Dinner to pick up my wages. Used to put some of my wages back behind the bar. Seemed to get drunk quicker at dinner times. Wierd really. Remember having to get permision to have a drink. The rules were, if you worked there you couldnt drink in there.

Anyone remember Oharas playboys? Anyone know what they're doing now?

I remember there were photo booths everywhere that took black and white photos. 1 in Woolworths, on the gallery and in Pond Street.

Induz was the indian in fitzalan square, when you walked in the stairs where like going down the north face of eigar.

I remember going to the Indus twice in one day.Dinner time and night.Must have had a lot of money in those days also a big appitite.The manager was a great guy.

Anyone remember Oharas playboys? Anyone know what they're doing now?

john ohara's still going he did a turn at the staffordshire arms on sorby st pitsmoor a couple of months back on his own

Anyone remember Oharas playboys? Anyone know what they're doing now?the sax player,scotch pete is on security at castle market

The Black swan and underneath was the Merry England club.
Hardley any cars in town as bus fares where so cheap.
Hole in the rd.
Getting in to see "Free" at the city hall, through the mens loo window.
Millhouses lido in summer.
The huge fire at Arnold Lavers on Queens rd, (that could have been late 60s).
Going to see "Bobby Crush" :hihi:( I like piano music) at the Fiesta.
Walking home on a summers night from Baileys with my brothers and sisters after having spent only £5 for the whole night.
Leaving school at easter in 71.
My first job at Davys on Fargate.

I think they were happy days because we had no stress or responsibilitys. That comes later with marriage, home and kids.

I bought my first 'Afgan' coat at Pippy's in 1973. Cost me 19 quid! no buttons and smelly as hell....
used to buy my patchouly oil there,hippy juice as my younger brother called it,buying my first pair of BRUTUS flares from Tramps,then a big name in denim,wonder what happened to them??One of my favourite places was the record shop on the gallery,revolution i think it was,getting back orders of bowie singles i had been too young to originally buy,who could forget the record counter at the CO-OP on Angel Street,i used to rob my mothers full stamp books to change for records.

The 70s were mixed in Sheffield...it was the begining of the end. Steelworks were closing down, the pits were losing shedloads of cash, the binmen were on strike (in fact everyone was on strike), power cuts and winters of discontent fueled punk rock...but without all of that we would be poorer today.

It was my father that made the film City On The Move at the start of the Full Monty...it was made because Sheffield was in true decline....it hasn't improved at all, I was a student at the time.

The face lift going on around town masks the poverty of a once great city...there is no manufacturing industry, no service industry and no intrinsic value in the rebuild. More student flats that will never sell again and no jobs to keep the best of them here...

The 70s were just like today...no real jobs and too much red tape to start your own business...its very sad.

But at least we got some great music then as we do today.

Just a few characters people 60+ may remember: Long Sammy, Duke of Darnall, Russian Edna, Big Ada and Mary Mary who walked from town to Crookes in the gutter, irrespective of traffic? Then there was the blind man who sold lavender on the Moor by the Union St. arcade.

hi i look after a couple in their 90s and they have been telling me about long sammy they said he was knock kneed and used to walk up and down the moor advertising .They also told me about the duke of darnell getting dressed up every day with his spats on and walking aroung town looking at all the women what a laugh iv had listening to all these stories im glad someone else can remember them ill tell them .

If anyone is interested I've put a story about two lads trying to get along in 1970s Sheffield on my website ( www.birkett.yolasite.com ) - Free to read - and I would welcome any comments. I think my research is sound - I was around at the time and spent many a happy hour in the pub mentioned, though I have changed a few details! Its called 'First Job.'
Also, talking of the Black Swan, I saw many an up and coming group there. One, 'Vinegar Joe', had Elkie Brooks as lead singer and Robert Palmer.

I too was a teenager in the 70's. I can remember Crazy Dazy (where all the smoothies went) and the Penthouse. A bus ride into town was 9p after which we would all meet up at the 'threepenny-bit' (so shaped) kiosk in Pond Street. We would then head off to the Nelson and the Wapentake. I also remember the Museum pub (knocked down when they built Tudor Square). Seeing the posting about studio 5,6 & 7 made me chuckle as that was the place where the rude films were shown and we would walk back and forth past here to see if we could see any saucy posters. I can also remember queing for hours for a taxi in Fitzalan Sq at 2.30am ...never any bother and never feeling scared or threatened. Those were the days!

i too visited crazy daisy genieve can you remember that one

Millhouse Lido
Hole in the road
The fish in the hole in the road
Studio 5,6,7
The Indian in Fitzalan Sq 9 Cant remember the name
The Marples Pub
Redgates Toy Shop
Wigfalls
Buses running down the Moor
The M1 with hardly any cars on it
Sandblasting of all old stone buildings to clean up the blackened stone

the indus restaurant

I remember the Buccaneer very well! Brilliant for the music and wall to wall totty, but not so good for the warm beer in plastic glasses. It was the place to be seen, even tho it was pitch black inside...
Then there was the slow stagger down to the Wimpy Bar on Fargate with the customary traffic cone on the head...Happy memories!:bday:

can you remember the golden egg on fargate

Hey, we must have been in the same places at the same time. I frequented all these pubs. Blue Bell was a bit dodgy. I only used it as a cut through to get to the Dove and Rainbow. I loved the Stone House when the courtyard was a great hangout. I used to stare at the roof and I really think we were outside under the stars. Pig and Whistle was okay but a bit of a meat market.

did anyone know that the courtyard in the stonehouse had a sign up saying pig and whistle

Any one remember the cinemas at lane top and forum herries road essoldo and capitol i believe tesco stores now occupies the site where the essoldo stood any one remember jimmy saville opening the tesco.

i went to see stardust there with david essex in it

Any one remember bishopshome near busk meadows people said it was haunted because a murder had been comitted there. Also who remembers longley swimming pool used to go midnight swimming there in that great summer of 76.

loved the pool was there during the day and spent few hours there after the pub closed

Used to work at crazy daisy in 1975. Loved it. Did you go in then?

yes i was fifteen naughty eh

used to buy my patchouly oil there,hippy juice as my younger brother called it,buying my first pair of BRUTUS flares from Tramps,then a big name in denim,wonder what happened to them??One of my favourite places was the record shop on the gallery,revolution i think it was,getting back orders of bowie singles i had been too young to originally buy,who could forget the record counter at the CO-OP on Angel Street,i used to rob my mothers full stamp books to change for records.

yes the green shield stamp books

Haha! White turds! I haven't seen one of those for years. :)

Hi, Mikey, I am from Germany and have spent hours with research about the black swan and the performers they had in the 70ies. Can you support me? I need descriptions and pictures of Glen Turner, who was born in sheffield at 1953. He has been a quite well known guitar player and singer in the late 60ies and early 70ies and certainly still is. He went to London and became a part of the musicians that performed the legendary rock opery Tommy. Glen is now preparing a solo concert with the headline "my life - my music" and I was asked to give him a stage background. Unfortunately the early days in sheffield give me a headache because Glen has no material in his private archieve. If there is any support from this forum I will express many thanks in advance.

Hi houdi, did you proceed the book ?

Anyone remember Sheffield in the 70s, Yorkshire cricket at Bramall Lane, United in the First Division & Wednesday in the Third, buses on the Moor, Turnups nightclub at Nether Edge, The Fiesta, Top Rank, Steelworks in the East End, Cutlery and engineering firms ??????????? I definitly remember Sheffield in 70s it was fab ! I used to go to Turnups and Fiesta.

Going to see the Bitter Suite 3 times a week.

My ex-wife bought a duff washing machine from Wigfalls and after weeks of argujuing wkith the branch, she cursed themand said that she hoped that they went bust. A few days later they burned down!!!!

I've got great memories of the Crazy Daisy. I used to go in mid 1970s but usually Saturday afternoons. Cracking atmosphere really buzzy. Used to do a karate session in the City Hall ballroom and then into the Daisy. Wasn't there something of a Teddy boys revival during this period ?

Hope, Badger, Hemsley, Flynn, Colquhoun, Hockey, Reece, Salmons, Woodward, Dearden, Currie, Scullion, Tudor, Powell, Speight

Hope, Badger, Hemsley, Flynn, Colquhoun, Hockey, Reece, Salmons, Woodward, Dearden, Currie, Scullion, Tudor, Powell, Speight
BEL
ahhhh, SUFC v CARDIFF-5-0, THEN SUFC v WATFORD 3-1 TO WIN PROMOTION, MY FIRST 2 GAMES AS A BLADE..

I loved the Crazy Daisy, we used to go there on a Wednesday night and dance to Roxy Music and David Bowie. :D Later on they had a punk night and we used to pogo away to The Clash, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Damned, the Buzzcocks, the Vibrators, Wire, X-Ray Spex, The Undertones...

I remember the Penthouse too, where your feet used to stick to the carpet – it was a heavy metal place, but we started going when they started a punk night on a Monday. Your feet still stuck to the carpet!! Then The Limit opened, and we went there to see The Human League, ClockDVA, and many other Sheffield bands.

We used to drink in the Raven (a proper pub), and the Beehive on West Street. There was also the Red Deer just off West St, a tiny two-room place with a pianist in the miniscule back room. We used to go in there for last orders where we were a bit well-oiled, and join in with all the old-timers who were in there singing the old songs. If there were more than a couple of us we'd be squashed in the doorway, because the room was so tiny it only accommodated about 10 people in all!

As kids we'd spent many happy hours freezing in Millhouses Lido, and loved the orange Jubblies we bought off the Stop Me & Buy One man who went round the streets where we lived (Lansdowne Road, Club Garden Road – near Cemetery Road). We used to play on the bombed sites, looking for 'treasures' in the rubble of the demolished houses among the rosebay willowherbs. 45 years, 13 house moves, and a relocation to Nottingham later I've still got an old blue glass bottle that I found there when I was seven!

School meals in the 1970s were 12p, and you could go anywhere (well, anywhere that we'd have thought of going) on the bus for 2p.

I left school in 1976, and the day our exams finished my friend and I went to Ladybower dam on the 72 bus and wrote our names in the mud on the walls of the houses. There were lots of names there from the last time the houses had been accessible, 1959. I hurt my shoulder carrying a huge container of water from the stand pipe on our estate, and I remember the doctor giving me painkillers that were so heavy duty they made me high.

Then there were the power cuts a few years before. The first time we had one I was in the bath, and our bathroom had no windows, just an extractor fan. It was 100% dark, and I don't think I'd ever been anywhere that dark before. I had a panic attack because it was so claustrophobic, and I remember desperately feeling my way across to the sitting room where the rest of the family was. My Mum had lit candles, and I was a teenage girl standing there stark naked and dripping in front of everyone, I've never been so embarrassed! :blush: :lol:

I started work in 1976 as an office junior at Effingham Steel Works in Attercliffe. The 69 bus ran every three minutes, so there was never an excuse for being late. There were still three shifts working at all the steelworks, on Sheffield Shift: mornings (6am - 2pm), afters (2pm - 10pm) and nights (10pm - 6am). You could feel the heat from the furnaces through the bus windows as you went past some of the works, and walking home from some party in Rotherham at 2:30am was a fabulous experience. You could see into the open shops, and there were roaring furnaces, sparks flying, and liquid steel flowing. The whole night sky was lit up in places, I'll never forget it. I'll never see anything like that again, I'm sure.

Kitty thats brilliant ,after that i can hear Daniel Doncasters Hammer banging away ,i lived a good mile up the hill from them at Walkley and when it was the shutdown you could not sleep because of the quiet

Great thread. Sound so familiar!!!! Seems like yesterday....... if only.

Hi, Mikey, I am from Germany and have spent hours with research about the black swan and the performers they had in the 70ies. Can you support me? I need descriptions and pictures of Glen Turner, who was born in sheffield at 1953. He has been a quite well known guitar player and singer in the late 60ies and early 70ies and certainly still is. He went to London and became a part of the musicians that performed the legendary rock opery Tommy. Glen is now preparing a solo concert with the headline "my life - my music" and I was asked to give him a stage background. Unfortunately the early days in sheffield give me a headache because Glen has no material in his private archieve. If there is any support from this forum I will express many thanks in advance.

Hi Saxobine

I am Glens brother i can let you have all his details if required,yes he did play in Tommy and was part of several groups including Mott the Hoople for a short spell,mickeys monkeys,big buisness,paper sun,backed Jimmy james a while i believe.chris stainton(Joe cockers keyboards player) made an album with him in a band called Tunrda.He s been playing with Pete Hacock recently(ex climax blues band )if you wiki pete you can see glen playing with him in a band called true blues.Hope this helps a little.

I was demobbed from the army in 1973 after 25 years service. I was an apprentice painter and decorator in 1943 working for Wilfred Axe of Nether edge. During the winter there was no work except in the steel works or the trams.

Lovely post Kitty and so well written.

I was an Attercliffe boy but moved to Birley in '69. Being a bus conductor alot of the above is familiar.
Saw 4 Tops at Fiesta Les Dawson and Scaffold at Bailey's.
Now live in Nottingham and hate the odd time when I've had to drive down Attercliffe Common between Staniforth Road and Broughton Lane. WHERE'S MY CHILDHOOD GONE!!!!!!!!

Have we had the crazy daisy mentioned ??

used to go upstairs in the claymore pretty good jukebox crap beer but good atmosphere

used to work in marsdens rests next to claymore then on to the post office, used to meet in penny black, up to marples, up to blue bell through to dove and then onto campo lane then up to the stonehouse into the museum on to the three tuns and was it the brown bear on norfolk st before finishing back in penny black for last bus.

Excellent thread here people, it as all been mentioned before but I really enjoyed those days then and there - wow!