Does Orange Street still exist? It was along West Street, turn right just beyond 'The Limit', but before the Royal hospital, which itself was on the left.

My father used to run his business, as a silver finisher in a workshop on Orange Street. As I used to walk down the slope of Orange Street, his workshop was in a small courtyard, which contained several small workshops on two levles. The courtyard was on the right side of the street, as I walked down the slope.

He was in partnership with his friend Ernest Bumby. The business was called Eblet & Bumby and existed in the early 1970's.

It's still shown in my Sheffield A-Z but don't know how old that is!

Been a lot of development around there.

An old Sheffield video games developer used to be based on Orange St ... anyone remember 'Alligata Software' !?

Multimap shows it: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=53.3808&lon=-1.4775&scale=5000&icon=x

Also in that yard you describe.Was E Garlick & Sons Saw Manufactures.
I worked there for a short time in 1956

Thanks for the information. I found this forum only a few days ago and have been an ex pat of Sheffield for over thirty years. I still visit occasionally, Hillsborough, Meadowhall etc, but i've never retraced my old haunts. I think I'll have to spend a few days in the city and take another look around and see what is left, that I remember.

Yep - it's still there. Down the side of Huttons Buildings on West Street.

Originally posted by Jamie
An old Sheffield video games developer used to be based on Orange St ... anyone remember 'Alligata Software' !?

Yeah, Blagger on the C64 was ace :)
Rage Sheffield were on Orange Street too until a couple of years ago, they disappeared just before Infogrames Sheffield.

Originally posted by stevo
Does Orange Street still exist? It was along West Street, turn right just beyond 'The Limit', but before the Royal hospital, which itself was on the left.

Got to admit spending years working on West Street I had never heard of Orange Street but looking on the map supplied by the link above Orange Street is bang opposite the old hospitalwhere the West one flats are now.

yep, its at the side fo the dept of Archaeology :D

Got to admit spending years working on West Street I had never heard of Orange Street but looking on the map supplied by the link above Orange Street is bang opposite the old hospitalwhere the West one flats are now.
hi paul...ave you got a relation called kevin tansley?

Also a great place for FREE parking on Saturdays......University car parks on orange Street are open to all at weekends...they are not big but I always squeeze in down there on Saturday mornings and avoid the meters....

Also a great place for FREE parking on Saturdays......University car parks on orange Street are open to all at weekends...they are not big but I always squeeze in down there on Saturday mornings and avoid the meters....
It was probably not a good idea posting that information

Does Orange Street still exist? It was along West Street, turn right just beyond 'The Limit', but before the Royal hospital, which itself was on the left.

My father used to run his business, as a silver finisher in a workshop on Orange Street. As I used to walk down the slope of Orange Street, his workshop was in a small courtyard, which contained several small workshops on two levles. The courtyard was on the right side of the street, as I walked down the slope.

He was in partnership with his friend Ernest Bumby. The business was called Eblet & Bumby and existed in the early 1970's.

Ernest is my unlce!!!!

Does Orange Street still exist? It was along West Street, turn right just beyond 'The Limit', but before the Royal hospital, which itself was on the left.

My father used to run his business, as a silver finisher in a workshop on Orange Street. As I used to walk down the slope of Orange Street, his workshop was in a small courtyard, which contained several small workshops on two levles. The courtyard was on the right side of the street, as I walked down the slope.

He was in partnership with his friend Ernest Bumby. The business was called Eblet & Bumby and existed in the early 1970's.hi i don t know if it still there but i used to work in a factory in that courtyard i think they were called snows they made dominoes and dices