Texas
14-06-2007, 18:44
Mind blowing! I've just discovered Google Earth. It certainly answers a lot of questions for me about Sheffield and the changes over the last 40 odd years. Any other expatriates indulged themselves with this toy?
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View Full Version : Sheffield from Space Texas 14-06-2007, 18:44 Mind blowing! I've just discovered Google Earth. It certainly answers a lot of questions for me about Sheffield and the changes over the last 40 odd years. Any other expatriates indulged themselves with this toy? clocker 14-06-2007, 19:48 Mind blowing! I've just discovered Google Earth. It certainly answers a lot of questions for me about Sheffield and the changes over the last 40 odd years. Any other expatriates indulged themselves with this toy? Texas , I use it quite often . Being in Canada , it's definitely cheaper to look around Sheffield this way than to buy an airline ticket :hihi: lazyherbert 14-06-2007, 20:45 Not an ex-pat but use it a lot.Great stuff. Texas 15-06-2007, 18:36 I had a good look around Pitsmoor, say from Rutland Road heading toward Burngreave Road. I knew there'd been a lot of changes, and it was an area I knew very well, but some places just dont exist anymore. A great swathe of green where Fowler St and Birley St used to be, and the bottom end of Nottingham St is the road to nowhere. I guess Fitzalan St was a great embarrasment to the council. Pyebank Rec' is very posh, but I was glad to see the stumps preserved at the Nottingham St entrance to the rec'. I hope they are the original cast iron ones with the circular tops. I risked my cobblers playing leap frog over those. Seven cars in a little front yard on Pitsmoor Road, near to where old Fletcher had seventy seven in his scrapyard. Burngreave School looks a lot better from a zillion miles above the earth, but I see where the school gardens used to be is now a MUGA pitch. Bend your backs you b******s. What I would really like to know though, is what did the council do with all the brick and stone from the demolished buildings? Somebody made a lot of money especially from the stone. richpc 15-06-2007, 18:55 Windows Live local is better IMO images where updated about a year ago www dot local dot live dot com lazyherbert 15-06-2007, 19:07 I do not know who got the contract for the demolition around Pitsmoor,but James Child & sons got the contract to demolish the Park School & they must have made a fortune from that.I think at the time that firm was well in with the council so they most likely did that as well. Angus Prune 18-06-2007, 15:04 Windows Live local is better IMO images where updated about a year ago www dot local dot live dot com They obviously haven't updated all of them yet though, as the one containing our house is at least 3 years old. |