anyone remember the ones in the bus station im sure they where about 3 then theres the minarva on flat street i can just remember one on a side street next to jessops hospital and one on penistone road across from the park:) :) :)

I remember the one in the very centre of the old bus station, before the refurb in the mid/ late 80's. it was beside the travel information, betwen that and the horrible underground lavatories, by the place where the bus drivers used to go to hand their monies and ticket machines in, somewhere on platform c/d..

it had those fixed, moulded plastic seats (orange, or yellow IIRC!) it smelt of prehistoric grease, and was a real hole!

I can't remember any other cafe there...(only the minerva, up on the landing above flat street)

PT

One of my earliest memories is being taken to a cafe in the town centre with my grandparents. I must have been about three years old, making the year about 1987. (Yes, I'm a young 'un)

If I recall correctly, it was round the corner from Fitzalan Square, just up from what is now Ponds Forge and roughly opposite the all-you-can-eat Chinese place. I have no idea if it is still there or not; by some people's definition seventeen years ago is a long time, and by others it is not.

I seem to remember it being a very stereotypical greasy spoon, with plastic seats, hideous lightshades, ketchup bottles on the tables and an orange/brown vibe. Don't hold me to any of this though - it is a very vague and distorted memory, as elusive as a slippery bacon butty.

Anyone shed any light on the subject? Or is my brain making all of this up?

The cafe next to Jessops at the top of Regent Street was called Joe's Cafe. His sausage sandwiches were always a penny cheaper than Butlers, but not quite as good.

BTW Steve Butler died recently. He was living in Barnsley and apparently never made another pie after leaving the cafe.

Originally posted by Plain Talker
I remember the one in the very centre of the old bus station, before the refurb in the mid/ late 80's. it was beside the travel information, betwen that and the horrible underground lavatories, by the place where the bus drivers used to go to hand their monies and ticket machines in, somewhere on platform c/d..

it had those fixed, moulded plastic seats (orange, or yellow IIRC!) it smelt of prehistoric grease, and was a real hole!

I can't remember any other cafe there...(only the minerva, up on the landing above flat street)

PT

That would be the Four Seasons, it did some seriously bad chips, but it was the closest chip oyl to Pond hill and Pond Island Works, where Joseph Rodgers & Co, Sheffield's oldest cutlery company had their factory. I still have some of their Knives and spoons, and they are still as bright as the day they were made.
There was another snack bar on the top platform, and that was even worse than the FS, but they made proper Dripping toast on door step crusts.......no wonder the cholesterol is high :)

Originally posted by Pilon
If I recall correctly, it was round the corner from Fitzalan Square, just up from what is now Ponds Forge and roughly opposite the all-you-can-eat Chinese place. I have no idea if it is still there or not; by some people's definition seventeen years ago is a long time, and by others it is not.
Anyone shed any light on the subject? Or is my brain making all of this up?

I'm wondering whether you're thinking of the fish and chip shop that is in that little row of shops. There is a very basic cafe in the rearof the place and I was in there in August of this year, lots of formica and lino like a throwback to the 60's. The food though was fine and the bill not unreasonable so much better than a modern city centre coffee shop/cafe.

can remember one at the side of the museam pub now hogshead,it was run by 2 old dears who would fill up your plate 4 10p a portion .

Originally posted by ianl
can remember one at the side of the museam pub now hogshead,it was run by 2 old dears who would fill up your plate 4 10p a portion .

oh i remember that one it was pretty grim as i recall:loopy:

that it was,what about the one in sheaf market the one that looked over the market.

Originally posted by ianl
that it was,what about the one in sheaf market the one that looked over the market.

In one of the other threads, I mention Granelli's Balcony Bar, in the Sheaf Market, and how, on many a saturday, after the minors matinee at the ABC, my then best mate and I (all of thirteen years old, we'd be...) would end up there, and make a class of cola and two straws between us last an entire afternoon, whilst "ladding it" (flirting with the "tasty"

- lol - lol - lol -

lads who would come into the cafe for pretty much the same reasons as we did:- i.e, to eye up any of the "pretty" lasses who might have been there)

it was actually a nice vantage point, sitting on the outermost benches of the baclony bar, because you could see the hordes of Saturday shoppers, all thronging around below you.

do you remember the all-in-one moulded plastic tables that granellis had up there? the seats were flat plastic, with no padding; they were very uncomfortable.. more than a few minutes sat on those seats, you either ended up with a squared-off backside, flat, like a box, or, you were "lamed" for life, as the seat-edge nipped your nerves in your leg and/or cut off the circulation to the lower half of your body!!

There were red, white and blue ones. the ones on the outermost row of the place had "sun" umbrellas on the tables.

I remember watching from the Balcony bar, as the little birds who always seemed to be flying around inside the market, would swoop back and forth, over the shoppers.

I remember the stall the granellis also ran, underneath the balcony bar, at the foot of the stairs. they sold ice creams, biscuit/ sweets/ buns bread etc.

I also remember the "underground" loos right in the centre of the market, and shoplifters, hurriedly getting changed into the clothes they had stolen, trying to avoid being "nabbed"... I remember being shocked at their bare-faced cheek! such boldness! lol .

PT

thats the one i could not remember its name .

In my comments about the Granelli's Balcony bar, i mentioned the loos down in the "bowels" of the market.

I forgot to mention the hurried "face-washing" that happened in there. (and I am sure I was not the only one who'd do it...)

there we were... me and my best mate, washing off the make-up we'd put on, before we went home, and got a good hiding from our mums, for wearing "slap".

(even when I was an adult, and working, my mother used to go bananas if I wore make up. she always used to say I loked like a loose woman - only thing was... "loose woman" was not quite the word she used!!!!)

PT

My Grandad owned and ran kath's Cath on Infirmary Road, Throughout the 70's, 80's and early 90's

Kelvin Flats where opposite and we use to get all the misfits of society through the door -

My Grandad was a fiery Irishman and stood for no nonsence in his cafe and use to come out from behind the counter with a big bat if there where any touble.

The cafe was sold only a couple of years ago and i think is now a snowboarding shop.

Sadly both my Grandad & Grammar have now passed away
and with them best mash potatos ever.

RIP Charlie and Kath

Not really a cafe, but does anyone remember the shop that sold Sasperella on draught?- it was on Langsett Road not far up from the Barracks.

If I remember you could go in there and get a pint of the brew and play on a the Pinball machine - I think it was called Jacks.

Another cafe that had a mean Pinball was the Shamrock on Barber road, Walkley. It was run by a grand Irish couple and served very basic but hearty fare to a mainly Irish clientle. However, they never used to mind us kids coming in for a couple glasses of coke and play all night on the pinball and feed the juke box. I spent some very very happy nights in there during my early teens (mid 60's)

Originally posted by docmel
Not really a cafe, but does anyone remember the shop that sold Sasperella on draught?- it was on Langsett Road not far up from the Barracks.



I remember Jack's! And there was David Layne's New Squirrel cafe on Middlewood Road opposite the library in Hillsborough park. We used to spend hours in there listening to the juke box. "Can't Let Maggie Go" by The Honeybus always reminds me of there.

may have missed posts on this.
But can anyone tell me the name of the old cafe at firvale shops.
there was a jukebox in there .
I remember sitting all day in there sometimes with my mates. eating burgers in 70s.

also has anyone mentioned the one at firthpark (firth park rd) was it lacarno or something.
i remember going in with my mum in the 60s .
They did the most wonderfull horlicks.
and special hot cordials -peppermint. I think it was still there in 70s.

Going back some way (perhaps too far) 40's and 50's:

does anyone recall Davy's Cafe on Fargate? I think there were several cafes arranged on different floors accessed by lift. They had very heavy cutlery and teapots
and coffee roasting in the early morning.

Also the Rendezvous at Sheffield Lane Top and the British Cafe on Pond Street.

Dower,

My ex husband's mum used to work in Davys' "factory", on Paternoster Row, many years ago.

When my late uncle used to come back to Sheffield to visit, from Birmingham, he used to treat me and my mum to a trip out to Davy's.

This would be in the mid to late sixties; Davy's was still running up to at least the late seventies, I am sure... (they had another "branch" beside the Co-op at Castle House I think .. well, beside the cannon pub, actually. The restaurant is now an amusements.

I also remember another restaurant, which used to be roughly where Dixon's is, at the top of Fargate, with a huge illuminated yellow spoon as part of the fascia. Was it called the "Golden Spoon" or something?

PT

Anyone remember the Disc Jockey on London Road ? Very popular for a long time in the late '50's and early '60's.Owned by Harry Hart at some stage. He had been [or later became ?] the landlord of the Red Lion at the back of the City Hall. He later got the Sidewalk on Chapel Walk ---another fantastic meeting place in the '60's.
Other caffs round about that time were the Oak Street cafe , the Plumtree [Broadfield Rd.] , the famous Rendezvous on London RD. and the not so well known , New Orleans , practically next door to Heely library. The Teenbar of the '50's , almost underneath Heely Bridge was an experiment to combine a sort of Youth Club with a coffee bar to try to keep kids off the streets. There were only two to begin with ---one in the East End of London and the Sheffield one.
Also at that time , there were 2 Somali-owned caffs. One , near the top of Matilda Street and the other on Button Lane , a little street than ran , more or less parallel to the Moor from Moorhead to Fitzwilliam Street. The great thing about the Somali caffs were that they stayed open till any old time when most of Sheffield used to close down at 10p.m. I used to work on the fair at Norfolk Park in '58 and a few of us always ended up at the Matilda Street place , eating the second of three suppers. Good appetites , teenagers---especially as you had to walk home !

p.s Forgot---the cafe at Firvale was called Tony's , I think. Met someone really great there in 1963 !

Originally posted by Fareast
Anyone remember the Disc Jockey on London Road ? Very popular for a long time in the late '50's and early '60's.Owned by Harry Hart at some stage. He had been [or later became ?] the landlord of the Red Lion at the back of the City Hall. He later got the Sidewalk on Chapel Walk ---another fantastic meeting place in the '60's.
Other caffs round about that time were the Oak Street cafe , the Plumtree [Broadfield Rd.] , the famous Rendezvous on London RD. and the not so well known , New Orleans , practically next door to Heely library. The Teenbar of the '50's , almost underneath Heely Bridge was an experiment to combine a sort of Youth Club with a coffee bar to try to keep kids off the streets. There were only two to begin with ---one in the East End of London and the Sheffield one.
Also at that time , there were 2 Somali-owned caffs. One , near the top of Matilda Street and the other on Button Lane , a little street than ran , more or less parallel to the Moor from Moorhead to Fitzwilliam Street. The great thing about the Somali caffs were that they stayed open till any old time when most of Sheffield used to close down at 10p.m. I used to work on the fair at Norfolk Park in '58 and a few of us always ended up at the Matilda Street place , eating the second of three suppers. Good appetites , teenagers---especially as you had to walk home !

Originally posted by thai
sorry about this mix up here but my system playing up. Anyhow I remember all the ones mentioned. But here are a few more The Pink Flamingo Abbeydale Rd
The 6 5 7 on Queens Rd .The Retreat Ecclesall Rd .They were all
coffee bars in the evenings where we would hang out trying to look cool and with it .
BRING BACK THE SIXTIES

Anyone remember Thorpes cafe in Fargate,i remember going in there during the early war years when food was really scarce,the waitress suggested we had Welsh Rarebit and we got the shock of our lives when they brought it in, we really thought we was going to get some rabbit

Anybody remember The Attic At HartsHead near the Star and Telegraph. In 1969/1970 Joe Scarborough held a permanent exhibition there. Original artworks for a tenner!

Was Thorpe's also a cake shop? Somewhere near Boots at the bottom of Fargate? Think I can remember going in there in 1950s to buy cakes - they did some very nice puff pastry ones with white icing and cream inside - weekend treat.

Marsden's milk bars - one on Pinstone Street opposite the Peace Gardens and another in Change Alley

My memory takes me back to (Chapel Walk). When I got married on the Friday at the Register Office opposite the Librarary we had our Breakfast at 2.00 pm the next day, It was there at The "Sidewalk Cafe" that we had our first meal together as "Husband and Wife".... I still remember the menu we scoffed that day ...it was Steak and Kidney Pie with Chips...This was 40 years ago.

I remember the MARINA cafe on MEADOW STREET, where me and my sister would play the jukebox to death as we didn't own a record player.:clap:

The rear of the cafe was in my gran's yard, and while I was playing there one day a young lad came out of the rear of the cafe (which was the kitchen ) and just as he closed the door behind him, the whole of the roof fell into the kitchen, slates and beams. boy, was he lucky, he stood there for quite a while in total shock.
:rolleyes:

Originally posted by Plain Talker

I also remember another restaurant, which used to be roughly where Dixon's is, at the top of Fargate, with a huge illuminated yellow spoon as part of the fascia. Was it called the "Golden Spoon" or something?

PT

Hi Plain Talker,

The cafe was called the Golden Egg, it was a sort of Wimpey, I remember doing a runner from there when I was not old enough to know better.

The Mustard Seed, near the Army & Navy Stores on St.Paul's Parade......
and the Golden Egg on Fargate....
Both crap......

the golden egg was fab. use to do a mean mixed grill.' the shack' next to glossop road baths was the best, especially on a saturday after a swim.

Anyone remember the veggie place on Sharrow Vale Road from the 80's?

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the Cherry Pie that used to ne on Chesterfield Road, Woodseats.

I think it's a hair salon now.

Any ideas about who ran it or when it closed?

One of the best Cafes I recall right in the centre of town used to be The Attic if anyone else remembers it.

It was in the alley that still runs between High Street to where the Dove and Rainbow pub is now.

It was on the left as you walked away from High Street and had a very narrow doorway and people from the nearby offices used to come for their sandwiches for dinner.

If you were lucky enough, you could get a seat at one of the few tables in there or if you were even luckier, you could get a stool and sit at the bar along the back wall.

The sandwiches were great and the coffee was also really good.

The building is now occupied by a hairdressers I believe.

The current next best thing I find is now just a little further up High Street and is in the alley that runs towards York Street and the Star loading bays.
It is always quite busy and the hot sandwiches are nice.:thumbsup:

The Attic was spot on.

How about GeeGee's at Norfolk bridge they did the best fry up ever.
Bacon eggs sausage tomatoes beans fried bread bread n butter and a mug of tea or coffee.
And they were open all night so you could go anytime,I can remember when I was on mornings I stared at 6.00am at English Steel Corporation. If I came out of the night club at 2.30am then down to GeeGee's have a fry up then straight to work about 4am by then still in my gear from clubbing and have a sleep in the locker room. They guys coming in round 5.30 would wake me up to get changed ready for work. lol

Originally posted by pinhead
Hi Plain Talker,

The cafe was called the Golden Egg, it was a sort of Wimpey, I remember doing a runner from there when I was not old enough to know better. The Golden Egg was the first and last cafe my Mom ever took my brother and I to. We sqeazed those tomato ketchup bottles that looked like plastic tomatoes, ketchup went flying everywhere. It REALLy was an accident but my Mom said "I will never take the pair of you into a cafe again as long as I live" she has stuck to her word too!

I am showing my age now!
I rember two cafe's in Sheffield, the first was the 'Piccolo' which I believe was on Cambridge Street opposite a side entrance to Cole Brothers and the other was the 'Copper Kettle' on Fargate.
The 'Piccolo' did real food as I call it, sausage, beans, chips, etc, etc.
The service in the 'Copper Kettle' wasn't to good as I remember.
My Mum and aunty took my and my cousins in there in the summer of 1972 and my cousins ordered some gateuax, he is still waiting for it, not actually sat in the cafe but still waiting never the less.
I wonder if it will be past it's sell by date now?

I too remeber sat morning shopping trips to town with my nan.We used to do the shopping at the 'presto'supermarket on flat street,pretty boring really but i used to look forward to lunch at the minerva flat street then a quick game of bingo for my nan in the arcade on the gallery bit at Flat st.
Just for the record the minerva has changed hands now(nov 2004)and is now known as'Copleys'.Its family run and very friendly.
They do a wicked breakfast HUGE and includes toast,and tea or coffee.a bargain at 3.25p. and if that ones not big ehough they do an even bigger version at £4.00.................yummy think i might jump on a bus to town all this cafe talk has given me an appetite.

Originally posted by pinhead
Hi Plain Talker,

The cafe was called the Golden Egg, it was a sort of Wimpey, I remember doing a runner from there when I was not old enough to know better.
I remember the golden egg it was 24 hour opening, so when we got out of the night club we would have a nice breakfast there,then if you needed the loo you went up some stairs down a long corridor up some more stairs and down another long corridor by this time you'd sobered up,then on saturdays we would hang out in the mustard seed, with all the rest of the rockers and talk about what we were going to do with the mods in the broadway on high st. i had a 250cc enfield then or was it a 250cc oilfield
ARRR good days

Originally posted by themill
*snip* the first was the 'Piccolo' which I believe was on Cambridge Street opposite a side entrance to Cole Brothers

thanks sooo much themill - i've been wracking my brains for the name of this place ... i used to be a "shampoo girl" at the Ideal Salons on Norfolk Row in the early 60s and we sometimes used to go up there when we finished on Saturday lunchtime and have scrambled egg on toast or welsh rarebit, have a cuppa and then stroll down to ......
The Sidewalk - which was a great meeting place on Saturdays too.

Also does anyone else remember going to La Favorita on Carver Street after the pubs closed ... it was always packed ...

edit to add - The Roman Room on Orchard Place .... a bit sophisticated for us as teenagers but we did go there sometimes when it was a "special" date :cool:

anyone remember Thorpes Cafe in Fargate(almost opposite to Coles Corner)they had a window full of goodies and the cafe was upstairs

I remember my Mother and her pals in the 80s started to go in the town hall restaurant ."You want to try it,its reit cheap"they used to tell everybody .Before long the place was packed every lunch time with eager pensioners tuckin into allsorts of lovely grub.All chatting away ."Tha cant go wrong at these prices can tha Ethel...No tha cant ..luvly in it."Of course the meals were all subsidised and only meant for the town hall staff .This went on for months till someone from the town hall staff complained .A so called jobsworth:evil: They put a doorman on to stop all pensioners going in:mad: But it was good while it lasted.for some of them it was the only hot meal they got at that time ..In Thatchers Britain.:gag: :nod:

Originally posted by tara
may have missed posts on this.
But can anyone tell me the name of the old cafe at firvale shops.
there was a jukebox in there .
I remember sitting all day in there sometimes with my mates. eating burgers in 70s.

also has anyone mentioned the one at firthpark (firth park rd) was it lacarno or something.
i remember going in with my mum in the 60s .
They did the most wonderfull horlicks.
and special hot cordials -peppermint. I think it was still there in 70s.

The cafe at Firvale shops wasn't it called Tony's seam to remember that from the 50s and 60s

Originally posted by docmel
Not really a cafe, but does anyone remember the shop that sold Sasperella on draught?- it was on Langsett Road not far up from the Barracks.

If I remember you could go in there and get a pint of the brew and play on a the Pinball machine - I think it was called Jacks.

Another cafe that had a mean Pinball was the Shamrock on Barber road, Walkley. It was run by a grand Irish couple and served very basic but hearty fare to a mainly Irish clientle. However, they never used to mind us kids coming in for a couple glasses of coke and play all night on the pinball and feed the juke box. I spent some very very happy nights in there during my early teens (mid 60's)

i remember JACKS...i have a pic of it in my puter,can you uplaod pics onto here via the puter or does it have to be 'live' and linked to a website?
SW :)

used to go in the jester cafe chesterfield road when i was a van boy for daveys 1969. girl who worked behind the counter wot
a knock out, i never had the bottle to ask her for a date...........
if only

Anyone remember Frank Hallats "Cosy Cafe" in the Wicker alongside the Wicker Cinema with the big teapot in the window

I must be getting old cause my earliest memories of cafes was the one at the bottom of Herries road called KITSONS, it had a pinball machine and superb juke box. my mates and me would go in and listen to the latest Elvis discs (1958 ish) when we were 13 or 14 yrs old.
My next favourite was the Smugglers on Middlewood rd where we used to frequent and chat up the girls, They served coffee in glass cups and saucers very posh for hillsborough lads. then we would go across the road to the flicks at Park Cinema or for a game of snooker. (Those were the days my friends)

the best was raffertys four restaurants on arundel gate ,there burgers were great and upstairs the fish ,and steak restraunts,it was my first job on leaving school and i loved it

Slightly off topic - but I have noticed quite a few caffs mentioned that had Pinball m/c's.

So here's the test - can you remember the name of your favourite game?

To get the ball rolling (sorry!) my choice would be the 'Apollo' (yep,based on a rocket ship) dated around 1968 to be found in the Shamrock cafe on South Rd, just down from Commonside.

I can remember Joe's cafe next to Jessops. I'm talking early 50's, they dished up one of the best bacon sandwiches I've ever had, inch thick bread and inch and a half thick bacon. If you were only lightly built you were in serious trouble with a doorstep like that. It wasn't fast food thats for sure.
What about Berts cafe on (I think)Cambridge Street, some dodgy characters got in there, including me.

Originally posted by themill
I am showing my age now!
I rember two cafe's in Sheffield, the first was the 'Piccolo' which I believe was on Cambridge Street opposite a side entrance to Cole Brothers and the other was the 'Copper Kettle' on Fargate.
The 'Piccolo' did real food as I call it, sausage, beans, chips, etc, etc.
The service in the 'Copper Kettle' wasn't to good as I remember.
My Mum and aunty took my and my cousins in there in the summer of 1972 and my cousins ordered some gateuax, he is still waiting for it, not actually sat in the cafe but still waiting never the less.
I wonder if it will be past it's sell by date now?
My Mum worked in the Piccolo for many years. Her name is Maureen , and was there when Mr Hudson? owned the place. It later changed hands to a foreign gentleman , who's name escapes me .The Halle orchestra used to come across from the City Hall when they were in town for "real food".
I was only a nipper then but apparently Freddy Starr used to frequent when he was in sheffield also, but this was before his Hamster eating days LOL:hihi:

I've heard that Figtree sandwich shop on Figtree Lane in the city centre has been a sandwich shop for around 45 years.

Originally posted by Texas
I can remember Joe's cafe next to Jessops. I'm talking early 50's, they dished up one of the best bacon sandwiches I've ever had, inch thick bread and inch and a half thick bacon. If you were only lightly built you were in serious trouble with a doorstep like that. It wasn't fast food thats for sure.
What about Berts cafe on (I think)Cambridge Street, some dodgy characters got in there, including me.
I remember Joe and Ivy`s Cafe, I used to go there when I worked at Donnellys Cutlery Firm which was on Portobello. Joe`s sanwiches were great.
I do claim to have invented one of their sandwiches, it was Beef dipped in gravy placed on bread and a liberal dollop of mushie peas were added and after I ate my first one back at work they all wanted one.Joe and Ivy had another Cafe down Staniforth Rd, it was just accross from the British Road Services Depot.

When the pubs had shut we used to go into the Chez Brien in Broomhill. They probably served food but the done thing was to order frothy coffee, light a Stuyvesant and try and look cool and sober up at the same time.

When the pubs had shut we used to go into the Chez Brien in Broomhill. They probably served food but the done thing was to order frothy coffee, light a Stuyvesant and try and look cool and sober up at the same time.

Owned and run by a young Brian Mooney who eventually ended up with Mr Kites on Division Street

I was only a nipper when my cousin took me in - what really impressed me were the glass cups and saucers they served the coffee in.

Anyone remember the "El Mambo"? I think it was on Surrey St but could be wrong. Just down from where the Crucible was.
Anyway, in the 50's, it had been in the paper cos of naughty goings on, and whilst out on a coffee bar crawl for my 16th birthday, we girls dared each other to go in.
We literally did that, just went in, had a quick walk round, came out and fell all over each other in fits of giggles.

Oh!.. the innocence of youth.:hihi:

EL Mambo was at the bottom of Cambridge Arcade virtually next to the stage door of the Empire Theatre on Union St.
Yes you are right it did have a bit of a reputation.

also has anyone mentioned the one at firthpark (firth park rd) was it lacarno or something.
i remember going in with my mum in the 60s .
They did the most wonderfull horlicks.
and special hot cordials -peppermint. I think it was still there in 70s.


I remember my dad taking me to that cafe (if its the same one) on a saturday morning, early 70's - id have a hot vimto...ah, the memories.
my mum and dad had a frozen food shop where there is now a chicken take away...or is it a firework shop now...been a good few years since i was down that way so forgive me:D it was about 5 or 6 shops in from what was the job centre....jeez, im old:o

I'm very surprised that no-one has mentioned Malinki's cafe on Bellhouse road, Firth park, we used to go there in the 70's. It was at that time run and owned by Marti caine and her husband. For those young uns out there, marti ended up being Sheffields most famous comediene. seems wierd now thinking of her serving my egg and chips. Your sadly missed Marti.

What was the first Indian/Pakistani in Sheffield, perhaps the Ashoka on Ecclesall Road or the Islamabad on Attercliffe Common?

I remember Jack's! And there was David Layne's New Squirrel cafe on Middlewood Road opposite the library in Hillsborough park. We used to spend hours in there listening to the juke box. "Can't Let Maggie Go" by The Honeybus always reminds me of there.

When working at Barclays Bank, Hillsborough I often used to walk past this place in my lunch hour. Occassionally we'd go in and see David, Peter Swan and Tony Kay hunched over the jukebox discussing tactics. That would be about 1961 when, I think, the Owls finished 2nd in the top division just behind Spurs. Been a bit downhill ever since really, with just the odd flash of glory as at Wembley 1991.

[QUOTE=owdlad]That would be the Four Seasons, it did some seriously bad chips, but it was the closest chip oyl to Pond hill and Pond Island Works, where Joseph Rodgers & Co, Sheffield's oldest cutlery company had their factory. I still have some of their Knives and spoons, and they are still as bright as the day they were made.
There was another snack bar on the top platform, and that was even worse than the FS, but they made proper Dripping toast on door step crusts.......no wonder the cholesterol is high :)[/QUOTE

Anyone recall the Caf'e at the top of Leppings Lane? That was the place to be after a skin full of ale at the Ozzie Owl back in the early 70's

That would be Mitchell's Ken, previously a sweet shop run by the same family. I went to school at Hillsboro' with the 2 daughters. The car wheel shop next door used to be a small coffee bar with the latest juke box. That's where I first heard Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry about 57/58 ish with Arrodbo another of our posters.

The cafe next to Jessops at the top of Regent Street was called Joe's Cafe. His sausage sandwiches were always a penny cheaper than Butlers, but not quite as good.

BTW Steve Butler died recently. He was living in Barnsley and apparently never made another pie after leaving the cafe.
remember the painting on the wall titled WHO SAID PIE

Yes, I remember that......with a picture of a lad like the one in the old Mad magazine.

Anyone remember the Disc Jockey on London Road ? Very popular for a long time in the late '50's and early '60's.Owned by Harry Hart at some stage. He had been [or later became ?] the landlord of the Red Lion at the back of the City Hall. He later got the Sidewalk on Chapel Walk ---another fantastic meeting place in the '60's.
Other caffs round about that time were the Oak Street cafe , the Plumtree [Broadfield Rd.] , the famous Rendezvous on London RD. and the not so well known , New Orleans , practically next door to Heely library. The Teenbar of the '50's , almost underneath Heely Bridge was an experiment to combine a sort of Youth Club with a coffee bar to try to keep kids off the streets. There were only two to begin with ---one in the East End of London and the Sheffield one.
Also at that time , there were 2 Somali-owned caffs. One , near the top of Matilda Street and the other on Button Lane , a little street than ran , more or less parallel to the Moor from Moorhead to Fitzwilliam Street. The great thing about the Somali caffs were that they stayed open till any old time when most of Sheffield used to close down at 10p.m. I used to work on the fair at Norfolk Park in '58 and a few of us always ended up at the Matilda Street place , eating the second of three suppers. Good appetites , teenagers---especially as you had to walk home !
I remember the Disc Jockey and the Teen Bar, we spent many happy hours there. On sundays we use to get the train at Heeley Station and go out to Hope and them walk the rest of the way to Castleton, the weather was always hot then in the summer. After spending a day out there we use to rush home, get ready and then go to the Heeley Palace which use to put the horror films on on Sunday nights. I can remember "Rock around the Clock" and Elvis's first films being shown at the "Palace" and I can remember us all getting thrown out for dancing in the aisle. Happy days :cool:

,then on saturdays we would hang out in the mustard seed, with all the rest of the rockers and talk about what we were going to do with the mods ARRR good days

Can't remember any rockers in The Mustard Seed, wasn't it a sort of Christian place? We used to hang out in there when we were bunking off from the sixth form at Notre Dame, sort of made it a bit less sinful, seeing as it had religous connections.:confused:

the shack' next to glossop road baths was the best, especially on a saturday after a swim.

Any one else remember buying penny crusts from here: ? The ends of the loaves they couldn't use for sandwiches, spread with butter (or marg) and sold to us kids after swimming for an old penny.:hihi:

There was and old cafe at the bottom of South street (at the back of Duke Street) it was run by two old ladies, Mother and Daughter.. the Mother was about 90 and still working there scrubbing the floors and washing up..I can't remember the name of the cafe (maybe it was South Street Cafe)..The interior was very rough but they served some great dinners...This was around 1960.

Pauls Pantry was on a road off Holme Lane near the Middlewood Rd traffic lights. The road that goes up to Walkley. Near a bridge over the river. Used to go there for lunch when I worked at Barclays down there 1960/62. You could get beefburgers, chips, peas, gravy, apple pie and custard, and a cup of tea for 4/6. It used to taste absolutely marvellous.

Anyone remember the Disc Jockey on London Road ? Very popular for a long time in the late '50's and early '60's.Owned by Harry Hart at some stage. He had been [or later became ?] the landlord of the Red Lion at the back of the City Hall. He later got the Sidewalk on Chapel Walk ---another fantastic meeting place in the '60's.
Other caffs round about that time were the Oak Street cafe , the Plumtree [Broadfield Rd.] , !

Ohh the Plumtree cafe, this is where at 13 I had my first Saturday job. Eddison Lighthouse Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes played on the juke box at least 25 times a day, United supporters calling in for bacon butties on thier way to the Lane and a sultry looking lad playing on the pinball machine making one coffee last 3hours.!!

I loved it :)

Don't know whether they are still extant but I remember the cafes in the parks, especially the one in Endcliffe Park and another one by Wiremill Dam, with those uncomfortable green slatted, folding chairs on which to sit?

Does anyone remember the South Snack Cafe Crookesmoor Road run by a beirut man called Salah ?

Does anyone remember the South Snack Cafe Crookesmoor Road run by a beirut man called Salah ?

Yes - in my mid teens we were into pinball machines and tried to play as many as we could - they had a great one in the South Snack Cafe and also round the corner up Barber Road was a cafe run by a great Irish Lady - brilliant jukebox, and great pinball machine

Remember the Wimpey at the top of the moor. In our youth we partook in the 'Wimpey Break Out'. This involved purchasing one coffee only and timing how long we could stay in there with friends before we were chucked out - daft as piclates!!

Yes - in my mid teens we were into pinball machines and tried to play as many as we could - they had a great one in the South Snack Cafe and also round the corner up Barber Road was a cafe run by a great Irish Lady - brilliant jukebox, and great pinball machine

Do you remember the junk shop next door to the cafe ? Who owned it etc ? Name on shop ? anything ? I used to play pinball too and put all pocket money in juke box to listen to Union Gap and The Archies !!

The Somalis who ran the all nighter were called Abdul and Abdi and aa I recall served everything but everything with chicken and rice. The Havelock Square crowd in the early 60s hung out there a lot. Andy, Bill Woods, Mac, Spanish Town, Blue, Charley Ooophat and many more. Where are they all?

The bikers used to concentrate there from their home cafe on Infirmary Road anyone know who they were and the name of the cafe.

Can anyone remember when woolworths in haymarket had a cafe/restaurant where you had to walk all around the cafe area with ya tray on a rail? i remember spending ages looking in the glass cases at jellies in posh glasses/dishes with fruit in the bottom and cream on top!!! i used to meet my grandparents there every week and my treat was my tea in there!
we sometimes met at the "terminus" cafe which was opposite s.u.t coach booking office and stopped going when i shook vinegar on me chips and out of the bottle fell burnt matches! yakkkkkk!!!!!!!!:o oh those were the days........:D

Does anyone remember the coffee bar that was at manor top in the late 50's early 60's... right at the end of the shops where the halifax is now but the other end library end... a small cafe where mods and rockers hung out playing the juke box and bryl creaming theyre hair!!!

So does anyone rememer SOUTH SNACK CAFE or not ?? Crookesmoor Rd.

butlers cafe you got a good nosh up for next to nothing.in the 60s.

thanks sooo much themill - i've been wracking my brains for the name of this place ... i used to be a "shampoo girl" at the Ideal Salons on Norfolk Row in the early 60s and we sometimes used to go up there when we finished on Saturday lunchtime and have scrambled egg on toast or welsh rarebit, have a cuppa and then stroll down to ......
The Sidewalk - which was a great meeting place on Saturdays too.

Also does anyone else remember going to La Favorita on Carver Street after the pubs closed ... it was always packed ...

edit to add - The Roman Room on Orchard Place .... a bit sophisticated for us as teenagers but we did go there sometimes when it was a "special" date :cool:
I was going to mention La Favorita, a great place after sesh on West Street, like you say, I dont think anywhere stayed open later in Sheffield at the time.

So does anyone rememer SOUTH SNACK CAFE or not ?? Crookesmoor Rd.

There were some very interesting people meeting there can you shed any light ?? 1969 - 1972

The Tangerine cafe at Catchbar Lane, near the blue footy ground circa mid 1970's. It was an all nighter at one time, and a good place for a bacon sarnie after the pub. No takeaway on the corner back then. Seem to remember a large friendly portly guy owned it. Anyone remember it?

Does anyone remember Joe's Cafe and Chippy on Northfield Road Crookes ? Joe cocker used to go in at nights, also his band the avengers ? Tony Christie used to pop in regulaly for fish and chips.

It is an Indian Restuarant now a days but alot of people comment on Joes Fish and chips !

p.s Forgot---the cafe at Firvale was called Tony's , I think. Met someone really great there in 1963 !
I remember Tony's Fareast. I went there in 1963 when I was about sixteen. Went with my friend Ann Johnson who had a boyfriend Dave Lawrenson. My grandmother would have killed me if she had known. I thought it was very cool. Tony's first and then the Canon after to watch the groups.

The bikers used to concentrate there from their home cafe on Infirmary Road anyone know who they were and the name of the cafe.


I think the cafe was called the Montessa.

Tony's cafe on Firvale - I feel sure that was owned by a friend of my Mum's called Alice - feel sure it was called Al's Cafe at one time but I could be wrong. I do remember going in there in the sixties when I was a nipper with my cousin and I remember the jukebox clearly.

I remember the Davies Cafe on Waingate used to be opposite Woolworths in the 1960's My Nan and Grandad would take me in there for a pot of tean and toasted T cake, Very posh in its day.

It was decorated in Green with proper Silver service waitresses and little basket chairs to sit in.

I also remember the Sidewalk Cafe on Chapel Walk, very popular and very busy on a Saturday we always went in there for a cuppa.

Use to frequent The Rickshaw cafe just off West Street and La Favorita on carver street. Also vaguely remember a cafe at the top of Howard street round about where St Paul's hotel is now (Does anyone remember it's name? it was on the right going down).

Wimpey 'break outs' on the Moor.
Pudding Parlour on Cambridge Street
The little caf under the Sheaf Market...they did a great chip butty...Mmmmmm

All pre McDonalds era...thank goodness!

[QUOTE=desy]Use to frequent The Rickshaw cafe just off West Street and La Favorita on carver street. Also vaguely remember a cafe at the top of Howard street round about where St Paul's hotel is now (Does anyone remember it's name? it was on the right going down)(All mid 60's)

I used to work in the Pudding Parlour on Cambridge Street in 1979. Its now Pepe's, I still go in there.

:thumbsup: The Attic was spot on.

Can't agree more - The Attic had sandwiches that were everything a sandwich should be.:thumbsup:

Davies Cafe on Waingate in the 1960's (very posh in its day)

Sidewalk Cafe on Chapel Walk lovely smell of coffee when you walk past

[QUOTE=desy]Use to frequent The Rickshaw cafe just off West Street and La Favorita on carver street. Also vaguely remember a cafe at the top of Howard street round about where St Paul's hotel is now (Does anyone remember it's name? it was on the right going down)(All mid 60's)

I have been long gone from Sheffield .
I do not know St Pauls Hotel,but there used to be Mary Gentles fish and chip place on the right side of Howard St going towards Midland station
You could eat in or newspaper it

[QUOTE=desy]

I have been long gone from Sheffield .
I do not know St Pauls Hotel,but there used to be Mary Gentles fish and chip place on the right side of Howard St going towards Midland station
You could eat in or newspaper it

the st pauls hotel is built on the site of the egg-box extension to the town hall, dexter:- was the egg-box there when you were in sheffield? (I don't know when you left) basically, where Norfolk Street crosses Surrey Street , at the back of the town hall, is where the hotel is.

it's not a bad place, at all, the food there is not bad.

PT

[QUOTE=sweetdexter]

the st pauls hotel is built on the site of the egg-box extension to the town hall, dexter:- was the egg-box there when you were in sheffield? (I don't know when you left) basically, where Norfolk Street crosses Surrey Street , at the back of the town hall, is where the hotel is.

it's not a bad place, at all, the food there is not bad.

PT


Howard Street continued up across Arundel gate to the back of the piece gardens .Well before the eggbox (yet another Sheffield planning c**k up)

In the late 50's I worked on Fargate and for our lunch we would go to various places, one being Hudsons at as remember the top of Norfolk St The waitressees wore old fashoned uniforms with a cap with frills perched on their heads. One old dear would not let us leave anything which used to send us into giggles as she queried why w hadn't emptied our plates. I ate my first game pie there, the meals were good
We would go to The Rickshaw to on West St they did a good Chop Suey which I was told was everythng they had left put together tasted good to me.
Davys across from where we worked did delicious potted meat sandwiches pot of tea for 2s/8d.
I went to a wedding breakfast once across from the Town hall on Surrey St. We went upstairs and had 3 course meal beautifully served but cannot remember the name of the place. would be in the 50's.

hazel

I only went in the cafe up the road(Rickshaw). Not flushed at that time still at school.

I went to a wedding breakfast once across from the Town hall on Surrey St. We went upstairs and had 3 course meal beautifully served but cannot remember the name of the place. would be in the 50's.

hazel

Arghhhh, you've got ME wondering now......:hihi: It wasn't Lockwoods was it.....something similar.
My brain went through......Green, green board, forest, woods and then settled on Lockwoods:huh:

Tuckwood's actually.

Tuckwood's actually.

:hihi: Ahhhh thats the one I was thinking of anyway.......thank you, that's me satisfied.:thumbsup:

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Howard Street continued up across Arundel gate to the back of the piece gardens .Well before the eggbox (yet another Sheffield planning c**k up)
+what a cock up, scheduled to cost £110000 was above double when finished.

Yes it was Tuckwoods, nearly accepted Lockwoods because it sounded so similar, I only went there twice and both times were wedding receptions.

Went once to a cafe at the top of Commercial St where the sandwich shop is now, we went upstairs and I would be about 15, no idea of the name, we ate fish and chip but don't remember if that was all that was served. I think it must have been about the time of the Festival of Britain because I remember going in C&As and choosing a red white and blue dress.

hazel.

Has anyone mentioned the Gambit restaurant that was near the top of Commercial St.? It was downstairs to the entrance and the food and service were always good. It was almost opposite the Kings Head pub where the draught Bass was excellent, but this was in those long gone days when you went to the pub for a drink and a cafe or restaurant for a meal.

Has anyone mentioned the Gambit restaurant that was near the top of Commercial St.? It was downstairs to the entrance and the food and service were always good. It was almost opposite the Kings Head pub where the draught Bass was excellent, but this was in those long gone days when you went to the pub for a drink and a cafe or restaurant for a meal.

This has been debated elsewhere and I thnk we concluded that the Higson's pub with the revolving doors, at the top left of Commercial Street, was called the King's Arms. The King's Head was once on Manchester Road at Crosspool. But yes, I remember The Gambit and a racecourse tic-tac called Harry, who worked for a bookie called Cliff Bailey, going in that restaurant when he'd alighted the S.U.T. excursion coach, following his daily racecourse work.

I'm talking late 50's, early 60's. There was a cobbled lane or walk, near Glossop Road baths that runs from Cavendish Street to West Street. There used to be a newsagent's shop on the corner but it may be best remembered for a 'Joke Shop'. Next to the Joke Shop was a cafe and we used to go in there after swimming to have a toasted teacake and a coffee. In years, thereafter, 70's, there was an Indian restaurant on the lane owned by a gent called Pritish (Majumba?) However, the names of the cafe and restaurant have passed me by!

Yes, that was a fine Indian restaurant: The Himalayas!

Ah - the Himalayas!!

Many a Friday or Saturday night in the mid -late 70's staggering back home up West Street and called in there for a take away.

Brilliant food if I remember - and the place always seemed open - no matter what time of night I pitched up - but perhaps that is just my memory trying to work through the alcohol damaged brain cells

Convent Walk is the name of the lane, but yes, Himalayas the restaurant.

A pal has just told me that the cafe on Convent Walk was called "The Shack".

Slightly off topic - but I have noticed quite a few caffs mentioned that had Pinball m/c's.

So here's the test - can you remember the name of your favourite game?

To get the ball rolling (sorry!) my choice would be the 'Apollo' (yep,based on a rocket ship) dated around 1968 to be found in the Shamrock cafe on South Rd, just down from Commonside.
Mine was a Williams game 'Pit Stop', used to play it in the Golf Range and Bradway.

Does anyone remember the '765' cafe on Chesterfield Road at Woodseats, circa 1966?:hihi:

Does anyone remember Rons cafe that used to be on asline road, just up from lowfield school?.

I'm talking late 50's, early 60's. There was a cobbled lane or walk, near Glossop Road baths that runs from Cavendish Street to West Street. There used to be a newsagent's shop on the corner but it may be best remembered for a 'Joke Shop'. Next to the Joke Shop was a cafe and we used to go in there after swimming to have a toasted teacake and a coffee. In years, thereafter, 70's, there was an Indian restaurant on the lane owned by a gent called Pritish (Majumba?) However, the names of the cafe and restaurant have passed me by!


My g**,I had forgotten that place.
around 55-56 I worked at E.Garlic & son Saw Manufacturas, Orange St.
One of my jobs was to take the parcels to the Post office on West St.
I would make a detour to this cafe and put Lonnie Donigan on the Juke box

What about three of the most popular during war years. Hopkinson's, chips and everything, near Button lane, remember Button Lane? The Peacock in the Wicker, transport type cafe,brilliant meals. And not forgetting the British Restaurant in Pond Street----that's an experience. Tets.

What about three of the most popular during war years. Hopkinson's, chips and everything, near Button lane, remember Button Lane? The Peacock in the Wicker, transport type cafe,brilliant meals. And not forgetting the British Restaurant in Pond Street----that's an experience. Tets.

Do you remember the other British Restaurant very near the City Hall? Button Lane, the Angel and the pork butchers next door that sold the worlds best pork sandwiches... ah, yes!:thumbsup:

Nobody's mentioned the transport cafe on Middlewood road opposite S.W.F.C training ground and Gilders (formerly Waldod motors) been there forever,road always lined with lorries,sadly now gone,thanks to Supertram.

Does anyone remember Rons cafe that used to be on asline road, just up from lowfield school?.

Used Ron's cafe, and finished up demolishing it, and found half a dozen mummified cats under the floorboards :(

Used to go in Paul's Pantry, just off Holme Lane near the Middlewood Rd. traffic lights, Hillsborough. 1960/61. Decent 3 course lunch for 4/6d. When the Bluebird Chinese restaurant opened just round the corner on Holme Lane, his trade will have been affected a lot.

anyone remember the ones in the bus station im sure they where about 3 then theres the minarva on flat street i can just remember one on a side street next to jessops hospital and one on penistone road across from the park:) :) :)

Not really a cafe of sorts but i always remember the Minerva on Flat Street across from Pond Street. My dad used to take me swimming to Sheaf Valley baths on a saturday morning then it was off for a Minerva Grill! Yum!

The Attic was spot on.

How about GeeGee's at Norfolk bridge they did the best fry up ever.
Bacon eggs sausage tomatoes beans fried bread bread n butter and a mug of tea or coffee.
And they were open all night so you could go anytime,I can remember when I was on mornings I stared at 6.00am at English Steel Corporation. If I came out of the night club at 2.30am then down to GeeGee's have a fry up then straight to work about 4am by then still in my gear from clubbing and have a sleep in the locker room. They guys coming in round 5.30 would wake me up to get changed ready for work. lol


God, Gee Gees has brought back some memories,:hihi: Greasy Gordon was a star. We used to come out of the night clubs at 2 or the casino at 4a.m. and head down there.
Agree with the Attic too, I worked on East Parade and used to have a sandwich every day from there:)

There is still a care on Flat Street, not sure whether it is still called the Minerva but I can remember going there ater going swimming, also th chip shop on the same row of shops, and there is still a chip shop there, probably not the same people. Perhaps neither of them will still be there soon because Sheffield is changing so much and not sure what will happen when they make changes to what was the fiesta (Roxies).

that should read cafe on Flat Street

Sheffield had some great cafes in the 70s and 80s do you remember the Copper kettle on Norfolk street,and the Goldon egg where joe Cockers mother worked.not to mention the minerva on the galery in pond street i had a friend who worked there(Tina) it had a video shop down in the basement.
A very basic but ok caf great bacon buttys when you were waiting for the bus in the old Pond street bus station,it had orange plastic chairs some how fastened to the tables.
paldins now debenhams had a good cafe on the ground floor it had a picture of a chicken or cockrell on its sign.

There is still a care on Flat Street, not sure whether it is still called the Minerva but I can remember going there ater going swimming, also th chip shop on the same row of shops, and there is still a chip shop there, probably not the same people. Perhaps neither of them will still be there soon because Sheffield is changing so much and not sure what will happen when they make changes to what was the fiesta (Roxies).

Dont want to be picky but the old Fiesta is the odean Cinema and the Roxy is standing empty,that used to be baleys,or the top rank suite.
All the shops on the gallery have been empty for some years now and the whole area is looking very sorry for its self.
I onee went to the cini center there cant remember what film.
I also remember the arcade on the galery with the big circle coloured light on the front of the building,and riding on the escelators and the paintings in the sub-way.

Anyone remember the Disc Jockey on London Road ? Very popular for a long time in the late '50's and early '60's.Owned by Harry Hart at some stage. He had been [or later became ?] the landlord of the Red Lion at the back of the City Hall. He later got the Sidewalk on Chapel Walk ---another fantastic meeting place in the '60's.
Other caffs round about that time were the Oak Street cafe , the Plumtree [Broadfield Rd.] , the famous Rendezvous on London RD. and the not so well known , New Orleans , practically next door to Heely library. The Teenbar of the '50's , almost underneath Heely Bridge was an experiment to combine a sort of Youth Club with a coffee bar to try to keep kids off the streets. There were only two to begin with ---one in the East End of London and the Sheffield one.
Also at that time , there were 2 Somali-owned caffs. One , near the top of Matilda Street and the other on Button Lane , a little street than ran , more or less parallel to the Moor from Moorhead to Fitzwilliam Street. The great thing about the Somali caffs were that they stayed open till any old time when most of Sheffield used to close down at 10p.m. I used to work on the fair at Norfolk Park in '58 and a few of us always ended up at the Matilda Street place , eating the second of three suppers. Good appetites , teenagers---especially as you had to walk home !

i remember the teen bar i used to visit 2 times a week as my mum was the manager at the heely palace.got to watch all the films of the time for nothing,i also used to go in the disc jockey good old days.

I remember the Disc Jockey well, it was indeed very popular. Seem to remember it was presided over by a formidable lady called Sue, who was constantly urging us all to buy something or get out.

Ah ! the Rendezvous run by a finely moustachioed Polish gent called Boris Twork. I've sat in there 'til four in the morning more than once.

I also recall the Somali cafe on Matilda Street, run by a chap called Adam. The house speciality - sausage and chips with free hairs. They used to have wierd 78,rpm records made out of aluminum. Fun people.

Happy Day's !

There was a greasy spoon cafe in the old sheaf market, (back in the 60's) as I remember it was painted green and it backed on to the old sheaf street, years before park square was built.

does anyone remember any of the old stallholders at the sheaf market? and the old dear with those old weighing scales in the covered market?

Nostalgia: it's a thing of the past

i well remember the sidewalk cafe on chapel walk when i was fifteen i worked at van allens on high street a shop long now gone .i used to fetch the lunches i would call in there if anyone ordered apple pies .those apple pies were out of this world. they were about an inch thick and ozzing withe apples.i can also remember before the hole in the road was built there was marsdens milk bar. ithink it was on a place called change alley

Anybody remember michelle's cafe situated down attercliffe opposite the greyhound pub?

Anybody remember michelle's cafe situated down attercliffe opposite the greyhound pub?

Yeah, i remember Michelle's cafe down't cliffe! I also seem to remember one on't cliffe called Meg's cafe?

anyone remember the cafe at the side of jessops hospital ?

Yeah, i remember Michelle's cafe down't cliffe! I also seem to remember one on't cliffe called Meg's cafe?

Was that the one up near the horse & jockey?

Mind going.
The memory is fading a little but i just about remember going to a posh (very old fashioned even in the 70's) shop in Fargate it was very grand and they had a cafe in there,it was where W H smiths is now(I think) I remember it had a wooden lift,about the only shop in sheffield to have one at the time.it also had a delecatesence counter on the ground floor.
Can anyone help with my old memory.

Ocelot, corner of Bramall Lane and Asline Road. Run by Roy Tamblyn and Ivor White.
Used to go there in the 60's after an evening at the Brunswick Trinity Youth Club.
Roy went into the property business and I believe Ivor got involved with a hotel on Wolstenholm Road at Sharrow.

How about the bus stop cafe on fairleigh (manor)

The one in Norfolk Park at the bottom end of Arbourthorne Rd just near the play equipment had my first 7up drink there around the late 50s.

I think the cafe on Fargate you remember was Davies (not sure about spelling) they used to grind and roast the coffee there on the ground floor also. It was the first 'posh' cafe I went to with my auntie when I was a child.

One of the best Cafes I recall right in the centre of town used to be The Attic if anyone else remembers it.

It was in the alley that still runs between High Street to where the Dove and Rainbow pub is now.

It was on the left as you walked away from High Street and had a very narrow doorway and people from the nearby offices used to come for their sandwiches for dinner.

If you were lucky enough, you could get a seat at one of the few tables in there or if you were even luckier, you could get a stool and sit at the bar along the back wall.

The sandwiches were great and the coffee was also really good.

The building is now occupied by a hairdressers I believe.

The current next best thing I find is now just a little further up High Street and is in the alley that runs towards York Street and the Star loading bays.
It is always quite busy and the hot sandwiches are nice.:thumbsup:

Was the Attic the one with the Joe Scarborough paintings on the walls in the early seventies???

Another one not a real cafe, does anyone remember the tea van that used to park on Mowbray st near the junction with Corporation st, I think it was the Desert Rat van that also used to park up on the Surprise ona a Sunday afternoon.
Hot pies and warm tea at two in the morning...

Ocelot, corner of Bramall Lane and Asline Road. Run by Roy Tamblyn and Ivor White.
Used to go there in the 60's after an evening at the Brunswick Trinity Youth Club.
Roy went into the property business and I believe Ivor got involved with a hotel on Wolstenholm Road at Sharrow.

I remember the Ocelot well. I was in the RAF with Ivor, we were together in 1959. His folks kept a pub somewhere in the St Phillips Road area, I think. I used to drop in on him at the Ocelot from time to time.

What about The Centre Spot cafe, Angel Street/Snig Hill. Also in the 1960s there was a cafe on Cumberland Street, which was later demolished and Bensons carpet shop was built on the site - can't remember it's name though.

I remember the Carlton on Change Alley, which was owned by Marsdens who also had the milk bar next door. They were the Marsden's ice cream company from Crosspool. I used the cafe, which was a forerunner of coffee bars from about 1954 to 1957 to meet my pals on Saturday mornings. After that, when we were old enough to frequent pubs (or almost), we usually started out at the Museum or the Stonehouse for a couple of leisurely halves. The Carlton was the first place that I came across espresso coffee and was very avant-garde for Sheffield.