hi,
I`m interested to know if anyone remembers the weston park hotel summer street ( between the star & garter & the bathfield ) demolished in the 60 `s
or people / families from the area

This has got me intrigued. I lived in the area until I was 13 and knew Summer St well but I can't remember a pub called the Weston Park. Just to make sure I checked in my 1954 Kellys directory and it's not shown as being on Summer St or Weston St.

As for the people who lived on it anyone who lived near there will remember the McGrails, their lads were a right set of tearaways - used to come and pinch our bonfire night wood. Met one of them a few years ago and he'd changed completely, a really nice bloke now.

I have found it in the Sheffield pub guide. Listed at 96 Weston street sheffield 3, but no picture or information.

I have a kelly's directory from 1969 and it shows very little on the evens side of the road apart from a house at 86 and 2 Co-Op premises half way down at 110 and 112. Maybe it went when the flats were built.

There was also the Weston Picture House, there, too, nearby, (known locally as "The Bug Hut") sadly, like a lot of cinemas, the Weston is long, long gone.

My dad tells me that the rise from the "Stalls" to the "Circle" (balcony?) at the Weston was the smallest he's ever known...

one step! (lol)

I have never heard anything so funny.

The housing in that vicinity, Summer Street, Fawcett Street, Radford Street, etc, were just about all "back to backs".

My father's parents and grandparents were from that area, around the back of Winter Street Isolation Hospital, which for some reason was called "the Canada". my gran was brought up on summer Street, in the little "courts".

She brought three sons up, in a back-to back, which consisted of three storeys, a living-kitchen, one bedroom above that, and a garrett, with an outside loo.

They were "slum-cleared" in the mid 1950's, under the city council's "improvement plan". My father's family were moved to a massive three bedroomed house on Gleadless Valley in 1957.

PT

Originally posted by extaxman
This has got me intrigued. I lived in the area until I was 13 and knew Summer St well but I can't remember a pub called the Weston Park. Just to make sure I checked in my 1954 Kellys directory and it's not shown as being on Summer St or Weston St.

As for the people who lived on it anyone who lived near there will remember the McGrails, their lads were a right set of tearaways - used to come and pinch our bonfire night wood. Met one of them a few years ago and he'd changed completely, a really nice bloke now.
hi , I started this thread because i was born in the pub in question in 1951 thre was a beer off opposite called fullbrooks
this was originally owned by my fathers aunt then by my father who eventually took the pub

Originally posted by Plain Talker
There was also the Weston Picture House, there, too, nearby, (known locally as "The Bug Hut") sadly, like a lot of cinemas, the Weston is long, long gone.

My dad tells me that the rise from the "Stalls" to the "Circle" (balcony?) at the Weston was the smallest he's ever known...

one step! (lol)

I have never heard anything so funny.

The housing in that vicinity, Summer Street, Fawcett Street, Radford Street, etc, were just about all "back to backs".

My father's parents and grandparents were from that area, around the back of Winter Street Isolation Hospital, which for some reason was called "the Canada". my gran was brought up on summer Street, in the little "courts".

She brought three sons up, in a back-to back, which consisted of three storeys, a living-kitchen, one bedroom above that, and a garrett, with an outside loo.

They were "slum-cleared" in the mid 1950's, under the city council's "improvement plan". My father's family were moved to a massive three bedroomed house on Gleadless Valley in 1957.

PT hi think youre a little out with your geography as the canada was from mushroom lane to bromley street

i lived at number 4 summer street and my aunt and uncle lived at number 2,directly behind the hospital, we moved to the new woodthorpe estate in the fifties when the houses came down.

it was a long time ago,but i remember there was a corner shop just down the road,a nurse lived there,she came to see me at home when i was ill and she sent for an ambulance,i ended up in hospital with pneumonia, i was to young to remember the pubs but i do remember miss slack the school teacher from st.stephens

spoken to an old gent today who has sent his life around this area,he told me that the pub was just up the road from the western cinema,the far end of summer street,more on philidelphia road area, it came down in the early fifties he thinks.....

Originally posted by extaxman
This has got me intrigued. I lived in the area until I was 13 and knew Summer St well but I can't remember a pub called the Weston Park. Just to make sure I checked in my 1954 Kellys directory and it's not shown as being on Summer St or Weston St.

As for the people who lived on it anyone who lived near there will remember the McGrails, their lads were a right set of tearaways - used to come and pinch our bonfire night wood. Met one of them a few years ago and he'd changed completely, a really nice bloke now.


I used to go to school with a Rita Mcgrail, who lived on Western St and had some brothers, more yrs ago than I care to mention.

Hazel

Originally posted by extaxman
This has got me intrigued. I lived in the area until I was 13 and knew Summer St well but I can't remember a pub called the Weston Park. Just to make sure I checked in my 1954 Kellys directory and it's not shown as being on Summer St or Weston St.

As for the people who lived on it anyone who lived near there will remember the McGrails, their lads were a right set of tearaways - used to come and pinch our bonfire night wood. Met one of them a few years ago and he'd changed completely, a really nice bloke now.


HI extaxman,
are you the one who frequents the punchball gleadless commom ? if so i probably know you, strange in it your early life was around summer street as was mine ( i lived at the pub )
now live at the top of east bank road and used to go to the punch all the time just started going back in after all the crap landlords

Hello holberry. Why don't you log on as Dusty Bin then?

My wife used to serve you at the Punch with your mate Tom.

Small world in't it.

extaxman
hi pal can`t log on as dusty bin for tax reasons but ittle ( bit of sheffieldish ) cost thi a pint next time am in

ps my toors are normal !

No chance. Getting blood out of a stone is easier than getting a pint out of an extaxman!

Seriously have a look at this site www.viewfinder,english-heritage.org.uk and search for Sheffield - picture of Sutton St on their (not a million miles from Weston St) and Brightmore St (where I was born).

Plain Talker will be interested in this - think her gran came from Sutton St.

Originally posted by extaxman
No chance. Getting blood out of a stone is easier than getting a pint out of an extaxman!

Seriously have a look at this site www.viewfinder,english-heritage.org.uk and search for Sheffield - picture of Sutton St on their (not a million miles from Weston St) and Brightmore St (where I was born).

Plain Talker will be interested in this - think her gran came from Sutton St.

My grandma grew up on Summer Street, extaxman: Court 12 (IIR her tales Correctly) but I knowthat Sutton St was only a street or two away from there, all contained within that small area.

I am always interested in links like these, a little bit of my heritage, you know lol. If it's to do with the history linked to my family, it's great to be able to see stuff like this.

currently, it says my browser canot find the link to the page you give ( :( ) I will keep trying it.

PT

Sorry Plain Talker - my fault.

I put a comma instead of a full stop between viewfinder and english heritage. One of these days I'll get used to this new-fangled Internet thing!

extaxman,

I am sorry to report that I still can't get into that link, even replacing the comma with a dot.

The "tinternet" doesn't seem to like that connection. (The writing was so small, that I never actually noticed the comma being there, rather than the full stop.)

PT

Originally posted by extaxman
No chance. Getting blood out of a stone is easier than getting a pint out of an extaxman!

Seriously have a look at this site www.viewfinder,english-heritage.org.uk and search for Sheffield - picture of Sutton St on their (not a million miles from Weston St) and Brightmore St (where I was born).

Plain Talker will be interested in this - think her gran came from Sutton St.

hello extaxman,
I was born and bred on Bromley street,which was situated from the end of "the Canada " (as it was known locally )down to Fawcett street
The correct site address for english heritage is
www.english-heritage.org.uk/viewfinder
hope this helps
deecee

My grandparents, George and Joyce Baldwin lived on Summer Street :)

hi,
I`m interested to know if anyone remembers the weston park hotel summer street ( between the star & garter & the bathfield ) demolished in the 60 `s
or people / families from the area

My great grandfather was also a landlord there, and my grandma worked there. In fact my great grandma fell down the cellar steps there and later died. My dad has memories of spending much of his childhood there too.(He was born in 1937) My Dad lived in Bromley Street.

My great grandfather was also a landlord there, and my grandma worked there. In fact my great grandma fell down the cellar steps there and later died. My dad has memories of spending much of his childhood there too.(He was born in 1937) My Dad lived in Bromley Street.

Hello So Cal Girl , welcome to the forum ! :wave:
If you don't mind me asking , what's your dads name and what number Bromley Street did he live at ?

deecee

Hello So Cal Girl , welcome to the forum ! :wave:
If you don't mind me asking , what's your dads name and what number Bromley Street did he live at ?

deecee

My dad was Robert and he had two younger sisters - Margaret and Joan. Don't remember what number he lived at. I want to say it was 11, but not sure. Will need to check up. What number did you live at?

My dad was Robert and he had two younger sisters - Margaret and Joan. Don't remember what number he lived at. I want to say it was 11, but not sure. Will need to check up. What number did you live at?

Hiya , I meant what is his full name , Robert -------- ? I lived at 94, and 107 when I got married in 1964
deecee

Hi, my aunt had the shop opposite summer st on weston st and they were always in that pub at weekends with my mum and dad,I think in the fifties there was abad car accident on fence hill in which a wedding party were killed I cant remember whether the landlord was amongst them.My best mate round there was Edward Fullbrook and I had a run in with one of the mcgrails but coming from shercliffe he dint impress me we had no more trouble off him!Mr Fullbrook was a luftenant colonel in the war andwon the MM,Edward went on to become a doctor.I havn't seen him for 50yrs.

Hiya , I meant what is his full name , Robert -------- ? I lived at 94, and 107 when I got married in 1964
deecee

It was Vague and they lived at 111.

It was Vague and they lived at 111.

what a small world this is eh ! Your dad will know my brother Michael more than me , he is the same age as your dad . Tell him we lived in 107, in the Graingers old house. next to mrs Parkin .
regards
David

what a small world this is eh ! Your dad will know my brother Michael more than me , he is the same age as your dad . Tell him we lived in 107, in the Graingers old house. next to mrs Parkin .
regards
David

My Dad moved out of 111 in 1963 when he got married, but he remembers you. Said you lived opposite and that your Mum used to play tennis with Roger Taylor's Mum(forgotten where - he did tell me). Definitely a small world.

My Dad moved out of 111 in 1963 when he got married, but he remembers you. Said you lived opposite and that your Mum used to play tennis with Roger Taylor's Mum(forgotten where - he did tell me). Definitely a small world.

your dad is correct, I was brought up at 94 , directly opposite, until my wife and I got the keys for 107 , and yes my Mum did play tennis with Roger Taylor's mum in Weston Park. They were friends from being kids at school . Please give my regards to your Dad .