Does any one remember there being a Castle at Pitsmoor or ever being a castle there.8)

You don't mean this then: http://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/messenger/may2002/castles.shtml :hihi:

And I didn't have time to read all this but it looks interesting to come back to: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sheffield/Sheffield68.html :thumbsup:

It says: "PITSMOOR, a hamlet in the parish of Sheffield, wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, West Riding county York, 1 mile from Sheffield, of which it is a suburb. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of York, value £300, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately. The church is a modern structure." amongst other stuff

Thank you somewhere to start 8)

Some more? http://copernicus.subdomain.de/Sheffield Any body else got anything?

ISTR metion in this forum of the possibility of a castle there [in the Tunnels thread?], but I think it's an urban myth.

There was a lot of ancient mining activity in the Pitsmoor area, - designated as "Ore Pits" on old maps, and it's possible that when the present housing was built some remains of old buildings associated with the mining activity were supposed to be those of an old castle.

The oldest major building in the area is likely to have been Shirecliffe Hall for which I think there are records back to the early 15th. century.

No mention of a Pitsmoor castle in Hunter's Hallamshire which, if you're interested in local history, you can by on CDROM for £15 at

http://blunham.com/CDroms/index.html

Originally posted by Bikertec
Does any one remember there being a Castle at Pitsmoor or ever being a castle there

I haven't heard of a castle ever being at Pitsmoor.

There was / is the remains of an Iron Age fort (http://oldster.future.easyspace.com/brig.html) up on Wincobank Hill, a couple of miles east of Pitsmoor that dates back 2000 years.

I think you might be thinking of this. It was an old house between Fox Hill and Pitsmoor Rd. It was at one time a school





http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/hpac.pl

there is also roman ruins on grimesthorpe road!

where did you get the information from, as to the possibility of a castle.

Originally posted by Siren
I think you might be thinking of this. It was an old house between Fox Hill and Pitsmoor Rd. It was at one time a school





http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/hpac.pl Couldn't get in needs password but thank you. I Think it was an old guy I was talking to in Pitsmoor we got talking about the Sheffield Castle which I believe theres a bit off the wall still remaining under the Market and he told me about a castle that used to stand in pitsmoor were the old school is now.

Originally posted by Bikertec
Couldn't get in needs password That's happened before with picturesheffield. The poster has posted a duff link coz it's the searc result page.

Try this: http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=1604

Originally posted by Strix
That's happened before with picturesheffield. The poster has posted a duff link coz it's the searc result page.

Try this: http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=1604 Wow what a fantastic building I supose it no longer excists now.

Originally posted by Strix
That's happened before with picturesheffield. The poster has posted a duff link coz it's the searc result page.

Try this: http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=1604

Thanks for the info, Strix. A further search of the Burngreave Messenger website brings up this:

The Old Tower House (http://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/messenger/july2002/tower.shtml)

Originally posted by Bikertec
Couldn't get in needs password but thank you. I Think it was an old guy I was talking to in Pitsmoor we got talking about the Sheffield Castle which I believe theres a bit off the wall still remaining under the Market and he told me about a castle that used to stand in pitsmoor were the old school is now. We used to talk about that castle when we were kids and believe it was close to Pye Bank School roughly on Andover Drive.
It did exist but the old geezers from Fowler Street who frequent this forum may know more.

The link on my previous post has the following info:

'This odd little house, built by the Mounteneys of Shirecliffe in 1629, stood roughly between Gray Street and Fox Street. When new it was surrounded by green fields with a clear view of Sheffield Castle and the market town in the valley below.

The house fell into disrepair by 1930 and was demolished a few years later.'

Originally posted by Abdul
The link on my previous post has the following info:

'This odd little house, built by the Mounteneys of Shirecliffe in 1629, stood roughly between Gray Street and Fox Street. When new it was surrounded by green fields with a clear view of Sheffield Castle and the market town in the valley below.

The house fell into disrepair by 1930 and was demolished a few years later.' As I said Andover Drive.

The 1851 census has this area near Andover Drive it was known as Tower hill

From what I've picked up on other postings, Pitsmoor seems to have altered in many ways more than I can imagine. But when I was a kid living in that area, there was a story about a castle on what was known as the 'Old Gardens'. There was a pub, the Fox and Duck, I think it was called, on Pitsmoor Road. If you walked toward town, down Pitsmoor Road, called the Bank, from the Fox and Duck, there was a high stone wall on your left, up above the wall was the 'Old Gardens'. At the end of the wall was a beat up old house, which, at this point, would be above you. It faced onto the 'Old Gardens'. This was supposed to have been built on the remains of a castle. There was a tunnel underneath. Stories of the incarceration of Mary Queen of Scots were probably not true.

Hi,

I'm new to the workings of the Forum, so please bare with me.

Re: castle at Pitsmoor.

I thinkyour other contributors got it right.

I grew up in a street off the Wicker but went to Pye Bank School (1942-1948) at the top of Andovers St.. Opposite the school, was part of a row of terraced houses (the rest having been destroyed by a bomb in the Blitz) and behind this was a piece of waste land which people called "The Old Gardens".
This piece of open ground sloped away from the school, generally in the direction of the city but it also sloped to Grey Street on one side and steeply to Pitsmoor road on the other. On the Pitsmoor slope was a cluster of buildings that could have been what people refered to as a castle.

It was pretty run-down, even in the 1940s, but one of the buildings was, I think, three storeys high and octagonal.. Something like the Round House (so-called) at Ringinglow. In a child's imagination, it could have been the Keep of a castle. I aslo remember the people used to say that this property had once been a school but nodody new when.

I once asked my granmother ( she had lived in the district since the late 1890's) and some of her comtempories, about the building but nobody could add anything new to the puzzle.

Welcome to the Forum Falls, you've made a pretty good start:thumbsup:

I love this forum - my mum who grew up on Grey Street was only asking today if there was a way to find out about this very building using the tinterweb and now I can even show her a picture of the place!

She was also asking if anyone from the area knew of a pub with stables at the back, possibly near Chatham Street, which had an old hall attached to the stable yard. She went to dances there just after the war and wondered if it was still there.

The nearest pub to the aformentioned old castle/house was across the road, known to all and sundry as 'the bacon box', very small place it was. I cant remember what its real name was. The only pub I remember near Chatham Street was the 'Blue Ball ', but I think it was actually on Pitsmoor Road, right at the bottom, a Mansfields house.

Hi,

I have a question for registered user with id falls. Do you remeber FOX HILL the steep hill linking fox street with rock street towards the city centre end i n PITSMOOR. Would be pleasure if you could pm me with info or post it on the forum. Am very curious about this road, as to who lived there in the past and where there houses on this hill previously?. Hope you can shed some light, be for now.

regards,
ash

Hi,

I have a question for registered user with id falls. Do you remeber FOX HILL the steep hill linking fox street with rock street towards the city centre end i n PITSMOOR. Would be pleasure if you could pm me with info or post it on the forum. Am very curious about this road, as to who lived there in the past and where there houses on this hill previously?. Hope you can shed some light, be for now.

regards,
ash
there's a couple of threads about the road called fox hill at pitsmoor.(not to be confused with the district)

have a fuddle about with the search button, on the screen to your left, and you can nail them down.