I miss the Independent Bookshop and the Women's Cultural Club. And the Cossack, in a weird way.

I miss the strange subterranean world of the underpasses and the Hole in the Road...particularly the fishtank.

The old john street stand at bramall lane- i grew up on that terrace :(

Redgates - used to love that place

I also predict that once they've finished tinkering with it, I'll miss all the old manky exhibits at the Western Park Museum...like the threadbare stuffed lion!

And the grappling sumo blokes!

All those wonderfull buildings that was demolished in the name of ''progress''. So, so many. WHY! Just because they were old? NO! They just looked so beautiful.

By the way! Ikea are bringing out flat pack houses, no kidding. No doubt this council will be a major customer. They should have allowed Ikea to have set up in sheffield. They could have saved a fortune of councils, oh! sorry! our money in transportation fees from there warehouse

I miss the wonderful cinemas ABC and Gaumont, which used to be in the city centre. The hole in the road and it's fish tank. I miss the Wapentake Bar and Yorkshireman's arms of old, Redgates toy shop from when I was a boy, and I wish Rebels and the Limit was still there.
I mean no disrespect to sheff united, but I wish that Bramhall Lane was still a Cricket Ground, or that there was a national standard cricket ground in town where I could go and see yorkshire from time to time.

Roxy on a Monday.

Very much!

Originally posted by muddycoffee
I miss the wonderful cinemas ABC and Gaumont, which used to be in the city centre. The hole in the road and it's fish tank. I miss the Wapentake Bar and Yorkshireman's arms of old, Redgates toy shop from when I was a boy, and I wish Rebels and the Limit was still there.

I concurr...my parents used to tell me how when films were distributed on two reels and the cinema had an interval, a guy on a motorbike drove the first reel to another cinema where the showing of the same film was on later!

I remember Redgates.

But I never got to visit Rebels...what was the place like?

Originally posted by Carmine
I concurr...my parents used to tell me how when films were distributed on two reels and the cinema had an interval, a guy on a motorbike drove the first reel to another cinema where the showing of the same film was on later!

I remember Redgates.

But I never got to visit Rebels...what was the place like?
rebels was like this ->

http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/pubs/rebels.html

and this ->

http://www.borracho.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rock/index3.shtml

Redgates was a child's dream. It seemed huge to a young kid. General Stationers on The Moor; Habitat on The Moor; Bendibuses. As previously mentioned the Hole in the Road fishtank; Sheaf Valley Swimming Baths; Glossop Road Swimming Baths; those big spherical Christmas decorations that used to be in Barker's Pool; the Walking Man statue that used to be under the Eggbox; in a wierd sense Goodwin Fountain.

TSB Bank on Crookes Road, Broomhill. The King's Head pub in Crosspool; going to my grandparents' houses in Abbeydale and Crookes (all six foot under now); Tomato shaped ketchup dispensers in Wimpy; the pet shop that used to be down Exchange Street (?); Toy Fayre shop in Ranmoor; Rolls Royce showroom on Peel Street, Broomhill.

Shall post more when I've had a think. Ee, where's me pipe?

Originally posted by muddycoffee
rebels was like this ->

http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/pubs/rebels.html

and this ->

http://www.borracho.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rock/index3.shtml

Thanks for that!

I have mates who are only a year older than me and actually went to the place...some of the people in those photos are straight out of "...Spinal Tapp"!

Right, here we go:

Ward's bitter
The Buccaneer
Wednesday's old kop
Millhouses lido
Goodwin fountain (specially when some wag had emptied fairy liquid in there)
Proper pubs in the city centre (selling proper beer at proper prices)
Royal Infirmary casualty dept
Blanchards
Banners
Local cinemas
Wigfalls
Public toilets
Rag Day (mainly the boat race)
Open air concerts in Weston park on a sunny Sunday afternoon
Top bands coming to the City Hall
That Chinese bloke who used to stand at the bottom of the step at Zing Vaa with the Yorkshire accent......

and loads more, but I'm busy.

Anyone recall the Lord Mayor's Parade?

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
Goodwin fountain (specially when some wag had emptied fairy liquid in there)

It was a realy weird sight, big balls of bubbles blowing down Fargate.

Originally posted by Carmine
...some of the people in those photos are straight out of "...Spinal Tapp"!

Easy tiger! Some of us know some of those people!

Sheffield used to have a character of its own---as did most cities up to about the '70's.It definitely had a smell of its own ! Sulphur' I think , anyway the smell of industry.If you spent any time in London , for example , you became aware of the pong as soon as you hit the Midland Station.
Before the '60's Sheffield was just about the blackest city in Europe. There were some awful jobs but the pay was above the national average in the steel works--especially with the bonuses. There were hundreds of little workshops , mainly involved in Cutlery and a lot of the city and inner-suburbs were literally Dickensian. There had been very low employment since the '30's.
All this gave it a feeling of continuity. Everybody seemed to know everybody else, well at least , once removed.There was a feeling of solidarity.Sheffield was the most static big city in Britain at the time.
Trams rattled around , there was much more street life and the city centre used to be absolutely packed on Saturdays , Holidays ....etc....no Meadowhall.There were more pubs , I should think, but they were smaller and more eccentric than nowadays. There was also a feeling of optimism in the air---the grim '40's had gone , people were getting wealthier every year , more universities , more foreign travel , the beginning of speciality shops and restaurants.
Sheffield in the late '50's and early '60's was at its height--we could sense change for the good in the air but we still had that feeling of belonging to a special community and its association with steel.

Originally posted by Strix
Easy tiger! Some of us know some of those people!

No insult intended...child of the 90's speaking...backcombed hair and poodle perms!

Still wish I'd had the chance to visit the place.

Originally posted by Strix
Easy tiger! Some of us know some of those people!
Some of us are in some of those pictures, and we deserve everything that's thrown in our direction

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Some of us are in some of those pictures, and we deserve everything that's thrown in our direction

AAAAARRRGGHHH!!! He He! Which one are you Coffee?

There used to be a bar, the entrance was on the High Street, that was below ground, under where Blacks hiking shop is now I think, I can't remeber what it was called but I remember falling down the stairs one night and getting a free pint.

What was that bar called ?

The Blue Bell Nick.

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
The Blue Bell Nick.

No, thats Cavells now, it was underground.

The Crazy Daisy?

Originally posted by gremlin_mick
The Crazy Daisy?

I'm not THAT old.

I've just done a google for it, it was called Legends.

Originally posted by Carmine
Anyone recall the Lord Mayor's Parade?
You mean the one that still happens every summer?:D

Mostly I think the Millhouses lido/paddling pools are very sorely missed. I spend my early years there splashin around...

Stupid vandals have to go and spoil everything.

Originally posted by nick2
I'm not THAT old.





I am. :(

Originally posted by Strix
AAAAARRRGGHHH!!! He He! Which one are you Coffee?

Curly hair bass guitar.

http://www.borracho.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rock/index5.shtml

I used to look like Bruno Martelli from Fame, and my Bro's girlfriend got his picture out of smash hits and it went on my bedroom door.

And once when my hair was particularly long and ringlety, I was playing in a brass band competition in dronfield sports centre, and was wearing a rediculous brass band uniform with small waiter's style jacket and strange trousers with a high waistband, piping down the side and all in a dark blue. I had gone out of the centre into the newsagents and some teenagers thought they had come across Brian May from queen, and wanted autographs. Anyway, I never dissapoint, and even now somebody may see a queen album for sale on e-bay with signature "take it easy man! - Muddy Coffee!"

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Curly hair bass guitar.


You look uncomfortably like a guy I went out with in sixth form (*cringe*).

I know you're not though :D

I saw all these on the Rebels thread. I'd just got used to the idea that this was a crowd I didn't know, when 'Pete-the-glammy-****' (as he was known at the poly, by his thrasher mates) turned up splat in the middle of a pic!

Is that Joules in the Yorkshireman's?

i used to work behind the bar at rebels 92/93 just looked at the rebs website and seen a likeley pic of me there in one of the backgrounds...rebels IS missed

:(

witch

Originally posted by noseyrosie
You mean the one that still happens every summer?:D

You're serious?

Somthing that used to be in sheffield but now its not.

My sanity, and my eyesight.

Damn I miss them both.

In the late 70s /early 80s the Moor was a top shopping street: Habitat and Hamleys were briefly there. That's all gone now.

I miss:
- Redgates - fab place
- The Morning Telegraph, a quality paper
- coffee and cream double decker busses (not old enough for blue and cream)
- The old South Yorkshire Transport logo (as seen on the background of this page (http://www.leytransport.i12.com/syt.htm) (why change it for the stupid "T" thing)
- The Co-ops on Scott Road and Gower Street
- Coulson's on Scott Road (Spar)
- The Hole in the Road
- kids menu of chips, beans and sausages in BHS on Haymarket (the plate had circus animals on the edge)
- Lidos at Longley and Millhouses
- The old tramp at the bottom of Waingate at Lady's Bridge who used to shout at the sky
- Wards

I recall those busses...I even remember getting on the number 54 near Rivelin Park for the staggering fare of 2p!

Originally posted by Carmine
I recall those busses...I even remember getting on the number 54 near Rivelin Park for the staggering fare of 2p!

I was a bus freak and can remember getting on the number 8 circular and wanting to stay on it until I got home again (sad, I know). That was only ever time I had to pay more than 2p on the bus - it was 4p.

It was publically owned, on-time, ran to timetables, and got you about. Now everything is private, but more subsidised than ever. Do we pay less tax? Long live the People's Republic!

Originally posted by fhain29
I was a bus freak and can remember getting on the number 8 circular and wanting to stay on it until I got home again (sad, I know). That was only ever time I had to pay more than 2p on the bus - it was 4p.

It was publically owned, on-time, ran to timetables, and got you about. Now everything is private, but more subsidised than ever. Do we pay less tax? Long live the People's Republic!

By the time I was 12 I had bus drivers demanding adult fares of nearly a quid...crypto-fascists!

- Hole in the Road Fishtank

- Goodwin Fountain on Fargate

- House of Fraser

- Forge FM

- a beautiful house near where I live that has been defaced beyond recognition by its new owners :(

StarSparkle

Redgates, Wards, Registry Office.
The wonderful glasshouse in Weston Park, commemerating the Festival of Britain but allowed to fall down thanks to the neglect of our wonderful City Council

Originally posted by Ned Ludd
The wonderful glasshouse in Weston Park, commemerating the Festival of Britain but allowed to fall down thanks to the neglect of our wonderful City Council

They raise piles of sh*t to the sky, whilst all the time allowing the stuff that's worth saving to detereorate into piles of sh*t...so in the end all we have is sh*t...

I miss the diving pool in Sheaf valley baths.

I havent had a dive for ages, and apparently they dont let you use the ones in Ponds forge.

The Bowling Alley at Wadsley Bridge used to go there ever fridaynight went there for years and were still crap but loved every minute. :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Ned Ludd
Redgates, Wards, Registry Office.
The wonderful glasshouse in Weston Park, commemerating the Festival of Britain but allowed to fall down thanks to the neglect of our wonderful City Council

I think the Eucolyptus tree that grew through the roof was the main culprit but they should have saved it.

On the subject of Weston Park, I miss the bees in the museum.

Originally posted by nick2
On the subject of Weston Park, I miss the bees in the museum.

Anyone else remember the time that they had the excavator made entirely of matchsticks?

Originally posted by Carmine
Anyone else remember the time that they had the excavator made entirely of matchsticks?

In the art gallery bit ?
I think it was made from cardboard sewn together wasn't it ?

Originally posted by jonsastar
I miss the diving pool in Sheaf valley baths.

I havent had a dive for ages, and apparently they dont let you use the ones in Ponds forge.

Yeah i think you have to join a diving club to use it. It's the same everywhere there's diving boards now for safety reasons. I loved it in the old days whe you could dive to you hearts content regardless of anyone that may be swimming below you.

The diving boards at Shef Valley were realy scarey though, the pool looked the same size as a paddling pool from the top one.

Originally posted by nick2
I think the Eucolyptus tree that grew through the roof was the main culprit but they should have saved it.
On the subject of Weston Park, I miss the bees in the museum.
Yes, Nick the bees, definately.
As to the tree, it should have been cut down before it burst through the roof. It's not like the Giant Beanstalk growing 100 foot overnight and catching the dopey bu**ers by surprise!

I miss the hole in the road,it was a funny place yet quite appealing in its own way.
Shame it had to go.

Originally posted by Tim42
All those wonderfull buildings that was demolished in the name of ''progress''. So, so many. WHY! Just because they were old? NO! They just looked so beautiful.

By the way! Ikea are bringing out flat pack houses, no kidding. No doubt this council will be a major customer. They should have allowed Ikea to have set up in sheffield. They could have saved a fortune of councils, oh! sorry! our money in transportation fees from there warehouse

The council bought plat pack houses years ago, and had them erected by Vic Hallam & Co. and they're still in use. :(

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
Right, here we go:

Ward's bitter
The Buccaneer
Wednesday's old kop
Millhouses lido
Goodwin fountain (specially when some wag had emptied fairy liquid in there)
Proper pubs in the city centre (selling proper beer at proper prices)
Royal Infirmary casualty dept
Blanchards
Banners
Local cinemas
Wigfalls
Public toilets
Rag Day (mainly the boat race)
Open air concerts in Weston park on a sunny Sunday afternoon
Top bands coming to the City Hall
That Chinese bloke who used to stand at the bottom of the step at Zing Vaa with the Yorkshire accent......

and loads more, but I'm busy.

A man after my own heart, but you missed hot pork pies from Wenningers on London Rd....drooooooool :P

a decent bus service to stocksbridge ;o}

A real Labour council that cared for this city:mad:

Originally posted by owdlad
The council bought plat pack houses years ago, and had them erected by Vic Hallam & Co. and they're still in use. :(

I live in one - they do seem to be made of MDF, especially when it's really windy.




I miss the Goodwin Fountain and the fish tank in the hole in the road although I can only just remember them.
And I think the stuffed lion in the museum is about the only thing I can remember in there from my childhood - I went a couple of years ago and there was loads more which I never remembered.

I don't think there's much that's changed that I miss - I'm 19 and although there's been changes in Sheffield (as always...), there's been nothing really significant that I can remember properly and say I miss.

I love watching old films and seeing old pictures of the city though, and it's such a shame that so many nice buildings have disappeared or have had new fronts put on (I recently saw a picture of the building behind the glass windows of Kingdom Nightclub and it's a shame they've spoilt it in that tacky way).
Tehre was bit on a film that I saw recently where the council had unvailed their plans for a new renovated city centre in Graves Art Gallery in the 70s I think it was, with loads of flyovers from the Parkway - It was such a mess and thank god most of it didn't come about!

Originally posted by gemma86
(I recently saw a picture of the building behind the glass windows of Kingdom Nightclub and it's a shame they've spoilt it in that tacky way).

Gemma do you mean the lovely old Gaumont Cinema?
I'm sorry but that wonderful picture palace was completely demolished before they put up the building which is now kingdom. :gag:

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Gemma do you mean the lovely old Gaumont Cinema?
I'm sorry but that wonderful picture palace was completely demolished before they put up the building which is now kingdom. :gag:

I've no idea. I just saw a picture of a building much nicer looking that what is there now, and presumed they'd have just put the facia on as it looked the same sort of height and in the exact same place.
Thinking about it, I think it did say it was a cinema.

The tripe stall in the Fish Market.

Think I first went there around 1947 and it only closed last year. I know you can still get tripe in the market but its not the same.

I miss Redgate's Toy shop in Furnival Gate, yeah I know I'm too old for toys but meh, wandering round that shop OWNED!

I also miss:

Decent bus services between Town, Hillsborough and Stannington.
Clean, OPEN public toilets
GAME on the corner of Pinstone Street
The ABC Cinema on Snig Hill/Corner of Angel Street

Originally posted by Andy78
Yeah i think you have to join a diving club to use it. It's the same everywhere there's diving boards now for safety reasons. I loved it in the old days whe you could dive to you hearts content regardless of anyone that may be swimming below you.

There's a diving pool with 3 boards at the Metrodome in Barnsley. You don't have to be a member of a club to use it.:)

I miss Redgates at Christmas

also Game and the hole in the road.

I miss Cairo's . . . had some of the best nights ever in that place!. Used to visit Silks before - or Vaultz and then head off into Cairos to dance the night away! . . ( Sigh ):sad:

All of the things that RoyalRegular et al have posted....but most of all the old trams !!

Originally posted by nick2
There used to be a bar, the entrance was on the High Street, that was below ground, under where Blacks hiking shop is now I think, I can't remeber what it was called but I remember falling down the stairs one night and getting a free pint.

What was that bar called ?

Was it the Geisha bar?

how about:
* the Anvil cinema (where Vijay's is now),
* the Adelphi niteclub,
* Saxtons estate agents with their brown and white signs,
* Henry Spencers estate agents,
* Castle Market,
* bus conductors,
* buying a portion of chips & scraps for 8p
*Horne's menswear (where GAP is now)
*Beaties
*Suggs Sports
*Sheffield Building Society (now Winkworth's in town)
*Kelvin flats (only jokin')
*Burngreave Convent School - when Burngreave was a nice area
*The Old Infirmary on West Street
*Lancaster Europa selling Mercedes Benz
*Woodstock Diner (now Prince of Wales)

oh and the Town Hall when it was just a chippy!

redgates
roxys
sheaf valley baths
beatties
oh and a decent bus service especcially when coming out of roxys at 2 in the morning you know the niteclub buses took ages to get home

Originally posted by Ousetunes
Redgates was a child's dream. It seemed huge to a young kid. General Stationers on The Moor; Habitat on The Moor; Bendibuses. As previously mentioned the Hole in the Road fishtank; Sheaf Valley Swimming Baths; Glossop Road Swimming Baths; those big spherical Christmas decorations that used to be in Barker's Pool; the Walking Man statue that used to be under the Eggbox; in a wierd sense Goodwin Fountain.

TSB Bank on Crookes Road, Broomhill. The King's Head pub in Crosspool; going to my grandparents' houses in Abbeydale and Crookes (all six foot under now); Tomato shaped ketchup dispensers in Wimpy; the pet shop that used to be down Exchange Street (?); Toy Fayre shop in Ranmoor; Rolls Royce showroom on Peel Street, Broomhill.

Shall post more when I've had a think. Ee, where's me pipe?

Redgates, obviously, but I'd forgotten about the spherical decorations until you mentioned them - whenever I remember the Christmases of my childhood, I think of them. Thanks!

I don't actually miss that much apart from one bus company that did all the buses and was very regular. The other thing I notice is the absense of all the under passes in the city centre not just the hole in the road but also that one at the top of the Moor outside that fast food establishment as I hate having to stop at pelicans for what at times seems like ages. When they redeveloped the Peace Gardens and knocked down the row of bus stops that were all under cover they promised new shelters that would give the same protection from the elements.......I'm still waiting.
People going on about Rebels, everyone knows the Penthouse was better and the Kay Gee Bee better still. I miss the White Lion at heeley, okay the pub is still there but many years ago Sunday nights were brill and bring back the Museum pub.
I'd better stop my one or two things is growing rapidly.

Like a few others; I miss the hole in the road, Redgates and the Eggbox town hall :(

Originally posted by gemma86
I love watching old films and seeing old pictures of the city though, and it's such a shame that so many nice buildings have disappeared or have had new fronts put on (I recently saw a picture of the building behind the glass windows of Kingdom Nightclub and it's a shame they've spoilt it in that tacky way).


I'm pretty sure that they demolished the cinema that was on the site of Mingdom night "club" they didn't just cover it over.

Originally posted by nick2
I'm pretty sure that they demolished the cinema that was on the site of Mingdom night "club" they didn't just cover it over.

nick
Yes, the "gaumont" cinema, which stood on the site until the mid (ish) eighties was demolished, it was a beautiful, quite elegant, (IMO) art-deco building;- as as you say, the idiot planners allowed that glass-and-scaffolding monstrosity to be built there in its stead. A carbuncle if ever there was one!

I swear, I am still waiting for that scaffolding to come down, almost 20 years on, from the place being put up, and for sheffieldsers to have revealed to them the gorgeous, aestheica (lol) building that has been constructed behind the ugly, ugly, UG-LEEE (sorry!) facade that is the building at present.

Still, we should take consolation that the building is to be demolished, before much longer as part of the development of this new "retail quarter" so we wen't have to put up with it, much longer... thank goodness!

(I really do think that it will be "good riddance to bad rubbish" when that building goes... it is a monstrosity lol, can't you tell that this building is one of my hobby-horses? lol)

joebee the Geisha bar, on High Street, that you mention, was also called the "Craizy Daizy" (sic) in an earlier incarnation. I have often wondered what happened.. what the premises are used for, now, since the building was "done up", I can't even see where the entrance was, any more.
I presume that the bar has been subsumed into the Blacks premises, and is now their tent-storage room, or something sad like that... lol

PT

I do like what they've done with some of the buses by painting them in the old cream and blue with the Sheffield Transport logo. I think they should do them all, and bring back something that Sheffield is famous for in that department.

It's a shame this building has gone (Cooplands is there now) in Fitzallen Square

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=5122

and how mad does that proposed cinema look ?

I miss the hole in the road with the big fish tank lol. I am sure that they could've navigated round it with the supertram :-(

Harlequin chip shop across from Hallam University. Great seated area in the back and upstairs and great chips. Now a crappy Franky and Bella cafe or summat.

Redgates and then Zodiac toy shops.

Those coffee/cream coloured SYT buses as mentioned earlier.

The days when going to Crystal Peaks cinema on a bendy-bus on a Saturday was a real event.

Peace Gardens and assorted vagrants.

Kenny's Records on the Wicker- what a quiff that guy had!

Wolf Records in Hole In The Road.

Eggbox buildings- watching Threads will never feel the same again!

Originally posted by nick2
It's a shame this building has gone (Cooplands is there now) in Fitzallen Square

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=5122

and how mad does that proposed cinema look ?
Nick it did look a bit crazy on the sketch but it was actually built. I was taken there myself as a kid in the 70s to see bedknobs and broomsticks!
It later became the classic cinema and had a more modern facia bolted on.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Nick it did look a bit crazy on the sketch but it was actually built. I was taken there myself as a kid in the 70s to see bedknobs and broomsticks!
It later became the classic cinema and had a more modern facia bolted on.

Realy? I bet that caused a stir.
I can't find any other pictures of it so I assumed they didn't build it. I remember the cinema that was in Fitzallen Square and it did look a lot more restained that that sketch.
I'll have to have a look for some pictures.

Some of the cinemas were fantastic buildings, look at this one that was in Barkers Pool (the building on the corner is now a jewelers).

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=2300

Hi nick,

try this.

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=6550


Electra Palace 1911
News Theatre Sept 1945
then was Cartoon Cinema
Classic Cinema Jan1962

First Talkie - 1930
Build Finished 1911
Opened Feb 1911
Closed 1982
Seats 900
Burned Down Feb 1984

This is in 1960s when it had been modernised and they had cut the towers off

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=695

This pic is after it had been on fire and they pulled off the modern facade, before it was demolished.

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=8619

Thanks muddy, it looks like something out of Flash Gordon or Metropolis.

I miss old Corporation. Dirty, sleazy but oh so much fun. I remember some corking nights out there lurking on the sofas in between rooms and supping ale then bouncing about to the tunes of the day.

New Corp's nowhere near as good as old.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Hi nick,

try this.

http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=6550



Hey...look at all those luverly trams, - eight in that photo and just one car :)

Originally posted by nick2
Some of the cinemas were fantastic buildings, look at this one that was in Barkers Pool (the building on the corner is now a jewelers).

The Building on the corner was Wilson Peck's, a large muiscal instrument store, more Bechstein than Les Paul.

H Samuel's took it over.

The cinema disappeared in the '60s I think, and became "modern" offices!

Tazz

Hi,
I miss roads that lead directly to the destination without b****y humps

Bendy buses have been mentioned a few times - I saw one somewhere quite recently, it was either Manchester or Leeds. I was amazed! It used to be so exciting see one or getting on one!

And in reference to Threads - that film TOTALLY scares the hell out of me. It's the fact its in Sheffield it makes it so much more real and I can't watch it.
My history teacher made us watch the first half hour or so, and it left me traumatised for weeks! Then my mum and sister insisted on watching it when it was shown on BBC4 a while back, and I just couldn't watch it at all.

same as lots of you i miss the hole in the road greatly , specially the shop where ya could get a big bags of throntons misshapes yummmmm .... also the eggbox was quite cool. .... i miss wimpy (so much better than maccy d's , with them free kids crown hats ya used to get n all) , and i miss the eager beaver buses ... sorta like them rural links ones ya get now. used to call em the little nippers...oh yeah and bendy buses were well cool .... ahhh memories! this post is bringin it all back! sure theres lots more but i forget..... ohhhh yeah , the pricekeen shop on crookes! now its a crappy co-op

i seem to remember things about sheffield when i`m not really trying to think of how things were, here are but a few
The old tiny and very dark virgin records which used to be at the bottom of the moor

The limit

The little round kiosk at the end of the bus station where you could buy papers and sweets n stuff

The bench style seats on fargate surrounded by trees where you could sit in the summer and relax

The great busses and service we used to have with conductors and all on time too!! the fares were 2p or 9p for adults and there was a thick bus guide for all the services in sheffield which you could buy for about 5p

The Gaumont cinema where if you went into the basement of the car park across the road and under a tunnel it brought you out through one of the fire doors in the cinema and you could watch the film for free :-)

The Rex cinema at Intake although not town centre it was great!

I miss my old street' I lived on Harewood road' It got knocked down about 20 yrs ago along with its neighbouring streets' Lofthouse and Dutton cant remember the other one. They were just in front of Trebor bassetts and the side of Sunblest' and quite close to the owlerton racing track' I can remember being layed in bed at night trying to get to sleep and all i could here was the sound of the speedway. Now stands the hillsborough leisure center. Does anybody else remember these houses?

Hi Rachylou.....I was born on Lofthouse Road and lived there til around 1964. My grandmother moved in the house when it was first built, and was about the last to come out before they pulled them down (she was 104).

If you lived on Harewood, our backyards used to meet!

hiya Royal
I was born there but left about 10 years later in 1981' You know i can remember an old lady on lofthouse she had a yorkshire terrier. I always wondered about her' that wasnt your grandother by any chance was it?

There are 2 things I miss and we will NEVER see them again ..


The hole in the road, now covered by the tram stop.


and the 2p bus fares, I had a friend come over from Lincoln once and he was embarrassed to pay 2p for our bus journey from town to Parson Cross which now costs more like £1.40.

I know they already been mentioned ... but ....

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
The Blue Bell Nick.
The Blue Bell - forgotten all about that one. Wasn't it in a 'vaulted' cellar (arched roof) next to the crazy daisy, or the mullbery?
Ah, memories. (if only I could remember):hihi:

This is a cracking thread. I echo many of the things already mentioned. Redgates (people dont get it if not from sheff), the top splash at sheaf.

Its interesting how fondly we remember the hole in the road when in reality, along with its subways, it was an intimidating wee smelling cave.

some of mine;
machines on buses you put coins in which are then printed on the ticket.
chips and gravy from Beres on old penistone road.
seeing father christmas at the big co op
sheffield show in hillsborough park it was massive-we would climb over the wall.
hillsborough baths
rag parade

I miss
the big fish in the tank at hole in road
dangling feet in fountain on Fargate on hot summers
fish and chips in news paper
Maces pet store at Castle Market.
Rebina shoe shop(boy did I make my mum fork out for shoes) :)
Cider lollies ( they're not the same now):(

Originally posted by Herbert
some of mine;
machines on buses you put coins in which are then printed on the ticket.

Videmat machines!,

superb.. We used to throw just a half pence in to get a ticket on way to school, but you had to chuck it in because they were too light.

Def bendy buses, whatever happened to those?
The hole in the road - used to love going with my nan to see the fish
The alligator in Orchard Square (when it was working) and trying to throw money in its mouth!
The two plastic people on the side of Orchard Square that used to come and work their tools on the hour (it's still there but hasn't worked in years!)
Sheaf Market - well the sweetie shop that was open in there, they did a fantastic 10p mix and those sweetie dummys covered in sugar :), apparently the people that owned it won the lottery just before the market was closed.

Plain and simple.......Wards Best Bitter, Stones Best Bitter & Tennant's Best Bitter....droooool :o

I havent lived in England for 17 years and its been some time since I visited family in Sheffield:o I just didn't realise that things have changed so much! Are there any markets left in sheffield at all now?My Dad used to work for SYPTE and he would take us to work with him when we were little and we used to ride around on his bus all day.What I wouldn't give to do this again:)

Originally posted by gazelle
Rebina shoe shop(boy did I make my mum fork out for shoes) :)


My sister got all her shoes from there, with long pointed toes that she kept tripping over. I remember buying stuff from Harringtons in the market, and I had my ear pierced in the little jewelery shop in the corner of the Shef market when I was 15, it cost £2 I think, my mum went mental and made me take it out.

Originally posted by Herbert

machines on buses you put coins in which are then printed on the ticket.

They still have those in Wolverhampton!

Originally posted by KirstyB
The two plastic people on the side of Orchard Square that used to come and work their tools on the hour (it's still there but hasn't worked in years!)


They came out the other week when I was in Orchard Square....

Hey everyone - Rag Week is ON this year and will feature the Boat Race as well as the return of the Rag Mag 'Twikker'- keep an eye out

That book shop on Sharrow Vale that was spread over four floors (inc cellar and attic) which always smelled of lemons.

The woman who ran it always had a bowl of sweets on the counter ans bon mots were written on bits of card and pinned all over the shop.

It was, in my opinion, Sheffield's finest second-hand book shop.

Hole in the road.
Goodwin Fountain - replaced by annoying people with clipboards asking you whether on a scale of 1 to 10, your dog likes its food. Beatties on Pinstone Street - and that bloke with the beard who knew everything worth knowing about radio-controlled cars and rockets (sure i've seen him working in Jessops on Commercial Street since). Suggs Sports on Castle Street - remember buying my first goalie top from there. Bendybuses without doubt - standing on the rotating platform in the middle was better than any fairground ride!:thumbsup: The old cream and coffee coloured Dennis SYPTE buses that had decent leg room and a proper overhead pull wire for the bell. Dennis Bus (http://deanlane.care4free.net/pix/03/4.jpg) Open public toilets.

Oh, and Sheffield Wednesday not being in the Premiership!

The Gaumont cinema where if you went into the basement of the car park across the road and under a tunnel it brought you out through one of the fire doors in the cinema and you could watch the film for free :-)[/B]

wow I wish I had known about that 25 years ago........spent a fortune seeing films there

Originally posted by Pistol Pete
Hole in the road.
Goodwin Fountain - replaced by annoying people with clipboards asking you whether on a scale of 1 to 10, your dog likes its food. Beatties on Pinstone Street - and that bloke with the beard who knew everything worth knowing about radio-controlled cars and rockets (sure i've seen him working in Jessops on Commercial Street since). Suggs Sports on Castle Street - remember buying my first goalie top from there. Bendybuses without doubt - standing on the rotating platform in the middle was better than any fairground ride!:thumbsup: The old cream and coffee coloured Dennis SYPTE buses that had decent leg room and a proper overhead pull wire for the bell. Dennis Bus (http://deanlane.care4free.net/pix/03/4.jpg) Open public toilets.

Oh, and Sheffield Wednesday not being in the Premiership!

Was going to post with all that in mind! Spooky! Or maybe they truely are the most missed things in Sheffield...

I'll add to "The Hole in the Road" - "The fishtank in the hole in the road"

Hudson's music at Moorfoot. What a wonderful place that was. The upstairs was crammed with trumpets, cornets sheetmusic, and downstairs was all rock guitars, spares for them and other stuff. Best music shop I've ever been in, that was. Although they stil had a branch in central chesterfield a few years ago, don't know if it's still there.
All the staff were real experts in their field, you could get any obscure musical instrument related item there.
All the children taking up music would go there to get their first recorders, and tutor books.

The whole of moorfoot precinct looks pointless and bare without it, even after all these years.

What I miss...

Dixons Chippy , London Road...fine fish & chips served with loving care by George and Amy Dixon ...

Cream and Brown Buses run by SYT and 10p fares into town....oh for the days of cheap subsidised clean efficent public transport!!!!

Alpine Pop

Bob Jackson playing brass band music before the final whistle on Radio Sheffield Saturday Sport

Fine Fare at Firth Park

Getting the Score on 194 - via Radio Hallam Sportacular ('cos me dad worked on it !)

Western Jean Company

Lock In's on a Saturday night at the Cricket Inn , Totley :-)

Tommy the fishman and his cry of "Sheeeeeelfissssssssh!" every Friday night as he entered with his basket of food into the Cross Scythes, Totley

Originally posted by bigdave1
Tommy the fishman and his cry of "Sheeeeeelfissssssssh!" every Friday night as he entered with his basket of food into the Cross Scythes, Totley
He used to come in the Abbey as well.
He was quick on the draw with the vinnegar.

Did it say super cockle on his back?
I think he had a little lock-up at Banner Cross but some kids burned it down, someone told me, but I am happy to be corrected.

Originally posted by nick2
There used to be a bar, the entrance was on the High Street, that was below ground, under where Blacks hiking shop is now I think, I can't remeber what it was called but I remember falling down the stairs one night and getting a free pint.

What was that bar called ?

That bar was called Legends.

Decent Christmas decorations in town.

Wading through a cold shallow pool of water to wash your feet before you got to the main pool at Sheaf Valley Baths.

Cairo's Jax

2.00 am buses home,fell asleep many atime on that service.

House of Fraser,Redgates,Habitat,Food court in Orchard Square,decent shops down at Haymarket(castlegate)Decent shops down the bottom of the Moor.

The free City Clipper Bus Service

Midland Bank

cheap..er council tax

Millhouses lido

Decent local newspaper

2 Postal deliveries

Fletchers bakery vans

The lights shaped like a Xmas tree on the side of the Hallam tower hotel.

Decent gigs at Don Valley Stadium

The Grey coloured trams and their validating machines(jesting)

YTV's Christmas line on Leeds 448199 !!

Butler's cafe, near Jessops Hospital.

Their meat and potato pie was superb.

The place was a bit rudimentary, but the food was top draw and cheap.

I think Picasso once had a meal there.

The women who served the food called Yorkshire Puddings 'Yorks' if my memory serves me well.

Carmine- Anyone recall the Lord Mayor's Parade?

Hah! I was in that! O_o
I was parading for Hartley Brook school about 12 years ago now (I'm 18 now). I'd post a pic but my scanners had it. ;_;

Anyone miss Pjyama Jump??

Originally posted by purplepippa
Anyone miss Pjyama Jump?? Yeah. I missed it a couple of times :hihi: (Victorian berluddy father :mad: )

What killed it? We were amazed it had finally bitten the dust when we returned to Sheffield.

Was it meningitis?

Originally posted by Strix
Yeah. I missed it a couple of times :hihi: (Victorian berluddy father :mad: )

What killed it? We were amazed it had finally bitten the dust when we returned to Sheffield.

Was it meningitis?

I think it was people dying of alcohol poisoning and hypothermia. Seriously!

And increase in rapes that night each year too.

Originally posted by purplepippa
I think it was people dying of alcohol poisoning and hypothermia. Seriously!

So the annual statistic of the one eejit who jumped through the hole in the road didn't do it, but alcohol poisoning did?

I thought that was par for the course most weekends?

Originally posted by purplepippa
And increase in rapes that night each year too.
You'd have to be careful committing that crime on that night :hihi:
(Sorry, was that too sick?)

Whitworth's cartoons in the Telegraph & Star. Bloodt funny.

Originally posted by dishwasher
Butler's cafe, near Jessops Hospital.

Their meat and potato pie was superb.

The place was a bit rudimentary, but the food was top draw and cheap.

I think Picasso once had a meal there.

The women who served the food called Yorkshire Puddings 'Yorks' if my memory serves me well.


ahhh i remember that place used to be on the pinball machine on there all the time dont no if the food was any good as i only used to have pop:)

Does anyone remember the old Pond Forge - Sheaf Valley Baths? . . And who remembers the large painting on the wall by Rolf Harris?

Whatever became of that painting?

used to go to sheaf valley baths all the time the guards where little hitlers tho but the snack machine bovril crisps mmmmmmmm:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I know this might sound funny but I would bring back a part of Attercliffe that made a great impression on me.

In 1979/1980 I was engaged to a girl who lived in Attercliffe in a road full of terraced houses that had the canal running along a cutting at the back of the houses.

The road - Chippingham Street - had a lot of character. It was a great contrast to the souless, bland housing estates that were in Bournemouth - where I still live to this day.

(Well, someone's got to live here!!)

I suppose there will be many who think that Chippingham Street - and others like it - in the 1970's were old, grimey and only fit for pulling down. But it will always stick with me walking down Chippingham Street on a late November evening in 1979 with my soon-to-be fiancee to the house on Shirland Lane where her gran lived, who I was meeting for the first time.

In June 1980 I moved up from Bournemouth to get married and we lived in a house on Middlewood Road - where Gilders the VW showrooms is now situated. By then Chippingham Street - and the streets around it - had been emptied and demolished.

After my fiancee went off with someone else 5 days after I moved up, I went back one evening to the site of the house on Chippingham Street. The only way to you could tell where the house stood was by looking for the orange paint on the back yard wall that marked the spot where the outside brick-loo once stood.

Now, nearly 25 years later, and even though I'm now married with 2 children, if there was one place I could bring back, it would be Chippingham Street.

Cheers

Patrick

Ps.... I'm still in contact with her mum and dad to this day and was only speaking to them the night before last. Before I moved back to Bournemouth in August 1980, her mum and gran told me that someday when I get married, I was to bring my wife up to Sheffield to meet them.

So, in 1989 I took my wife up there to meet her mum, dad and her Gran - (my ex-fiancee was told to stay away and not come anywhere near the house during my visit....hehehe!!) It was quite a reunion where my wife was made an "honoury" daughter...... :)

Blue and cream buses with conductors (the buses ran faster)

Coppers on point duty (no more waiting at red lights when you're the only bugger there)

Redgates (toy shop with REAL toys)

Both teams in the top flight (wake up man!!)

SHEFF WEDS OLD KOP......a place of dreams
SHEAF VALLEY BATHS.....Top splash scrared me sh*tless
HOLE IN THE ROAD...Used to buy all my singles from K ?& D records
SHEAF MARKET...Particularly the stall that used to print slogans on T.Shirts "Makin Bacon" springs to mind
ODEON CINEMA (Barkers Pool)...Worked there from opening night (The Living Daylights) for nearly 3 years,had a fantastic mural at begining of stairs entrance to both screens
STUDIO 5-6-7...Worked there too for about 2 years,a scary and surreal place,manager and his wife used to live/sleep in his office
ROXYS NIGHTCLUB...You were guaranteed 1 of 2 things...a shag or a fight,anyone remember the place upstairs where they served "food"?
MARPLES CLASSIC BAR (Fitzallen Square)....was assistant manager there AFTER it had a major re-furb,anyone got any memories would love to hear from you

That tap thingy in the window of a shop in the Castle Market on the Waingate entrance. It was sat in a tartan container. The water constantlly poured in to it without overflowing. I stood there mesmerised when I was 6 or 7 (about 1966). Probably do much the same now if it were still there. Duh!

Still, worse of all, is the loss of the ABC. Many a happy time in there as both a customer and an employee. Also the Crystal Rooms, the amusement arcade underneath. Spent a year or two fixing (sorry, repairing) the slot machines in there and fighting off claims (with a large piece of metal) that the machine had failed to pay out. I've not been in Sheffield for a good few years, what's there now?

In addition to most of what has already been mentioned, I miss the old Virgin records that used to be on High Street.

Originally posted by Lickszz
In addition to most of what has already been mentioned, I miss the old Virgin records that used to be on High Street.

i used to love going in that one once saw one of the bailey brothers in there:loopy:

i miss the old virgin records what used to be at the bottom the moor when i was about 15 i was getting my ac/dc australian imports from there:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Strix
Roxy on a Monday.

Very much!

Would that be Rock Nights?
we used to do the Wop then the Sportsman then Roxys on Mondays.
Then Rebs was a must on a Wednesday, Student night £1 a shot.
Them were the days!

i've heard that the veggie cafe above the health shop near winter gardens has had to close which is a shame, only been in there once but was looking forward to going again, the nosh was right nice

The chippy opposite Hallam Uni in town, it was the best.

the fish tank in the hole in the road

Well i know it's still around, Henderson Relish, but whats the difference between that and Worcester sauce ? I googled Hederson Relish , i see it has a Fan Club ! i relish the tought of that.

Originally posted by poppins
Well i know it's still around, Henderson Relish, but whats the difference between that and Worcester sauce ? I googled Hederson Relish , i see it has a Fan Club ! i relish the tought of that.

Whats the difference! I ask you! how dare you! my God I can't believe you have asked that question!
I bet you can't tell the difference between **** and clay without sniffing it either:rolleyes:

Hendersons is the elixir of life.
The other stuff is nothing but a mere shadow of the Juice of the Gods that is distilled in Leavygreave Rd.

No wonder you were expelled to the colonies, hang your head in shame ;)

Originally posted by poppins
Well i know it's still around, Henderson Relish, but whats the difference between that and Worcester sauce ? I googled Hederson Relish , i see it has a Fan Club ! i relish the tought of that.
Poppins, I don't think you're allowed on the forum if you don't like Hendos.
I have bad news for you though. The American customs won't allow it in, until someone purchases an expensive import licence. Which is unlikely.
I can recommend the un - official hendersons relish website. The nice bloke who runs it is very clever.

http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/faceHair/hendos.htm

Originally posted by owdlad
Whats the difference! I ask you! how dare you! my God I can't believe you have asked that question!
I bet you can't tell the difference between **** and clay without sniffing it either:rolleyes:

Hendersons is the elixir of life.
The other stuff is nothing but a mere shadow of the Juice of the Gods that is distilled in Leavygreave Rd.

No wonder you were expelled to the colonies, hang your head in shame ;)

Please! Please ! don't get me banned, i only asked, only i tried to but it from our English shop yesterday and the woman never heard of it (an american woman) the Brit that owns it was out, but i'm sure i can get it from our supermarket, if not my sister will bring me some this year, i will have to join the Henderson fan club now.

sooooo sorry, Poppins

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Poppins, I don't think you're allowed on the forum if you don't like Hendos.
I have bad news for you though. The American customs won't allow it in, until someone purchases an expensive import licence. Which is unlikely.
I can recommend the un - official hendersons relish website. The nice bloke who runs it is very clever.

http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/faceHair/hendos.htm

I'm sure i've seeen it over here Mud, bet you I find some today.

the old rag n tag market

Originally posted by poppins
Please! Please ! don't get me banned, i only asked, only i tried to but it from our English shop yesterday and the woman never heard of it (an american woman) the Brit that owns it was out, but i'm sure i can get it from our supermarket, if not my sister will bring me some this year, i will have to join the Henderson fan club now.

sooooo sorry, Poppins

Poppins you need to do three hail may's (a bit like hail mary's but not as severe)

I have thought long and hard about the things I miss and it keeps coming back to warm pork pies that were fresh from the pork butchers with the words that you knew so well "dont tip it up the jelly is still runny" ..droooooool :)

We had to wait two days for our Jelly to set before we got a fridge, mom would put it in a bath with cold water, no wonder it was only Saturday night baths at our house, like the old saying, we all had baths once a week weather we needed one or not.

Originally posted by purplepippa
I miss the Independent Bookshop and the Women's Cultural Club. And the Cossack, in a weird way.

Bendy buses they where brilliant. :headbang:

Do they still have Pie & Pea Suppers in Sheffield??!! :gag:

I once had a Pie & Pea Supper in Kelvin Flats back in June 1980!!...........and I got out of the flats in one piece!! :wow: :wow:

Patrick
(in Bournemouth)

Originally posted by Patrick316
Do they still have Pie & Pea Suppers in Sheffield??!! :gag:

I once had a Pie & Pea Supper in Kelvin Flats back in June 1980!!...........and I got out of the flats in one piece!! :wow: :wow:

Patrick
(in Bournemouth) Yer we still have them .:thumbsup:

Get a copy of Sheffield then & now. Look at the most supreme buildings that have been puled down, by the infinite wisdom of the powers that be. Looks what has taken their place. Alwaysdescribed as , '' vibrant or excitng or unique''. Very, for me , ugly.

Hi Tim

You have admit though that pulling Kelvin Flats down was the only option open to anyone! They just couldn't stay up any longer.

As someone - who used to live in Park Hill Flats - said to me only last week about Kelvin Flats:-

Kelvin Flats? Groan – I’ve seen better slums in Cairo … or the West Bank!

Cheers

Patrick

Originally posted by sheffexpat
Sheffield used to have a character of its own---as did most cities up to about the '70's.It definitely had a smell of its own ! Sulphur' I think

I miss the smell of barley or hops, or whatever it was, emitting from the brewery at lady's bridge.

Originally posted by gremlin_mick
The Crazy Daisy?

Yes - the "Daisy" Happy Days.....

might be a bit old for some but had some strange journeys on the old number 17 bus, it seemed to go the same journey as the no2 and 59 but via outer mongolia took about a week to get from concord park to hillsborough. Also miss the Sheffield show in Hillsborough park, with power cables hanging in the trees, and the main avenue of stalls including the man who made potato crisp type fried things his tasted great so you bought a box when you got home they just went soggy in the chip pan, ( sorry it would be a deep fat fryer now) also had a stall that did paintings on a very fast spinning potters wheel you put on a blob of oil paint and it spun around and made a mad splatter picture. Both radio stations would be in the park radio sheffield with all the grannies sitting waiting for something to happen and radio hallam 194 MW playing banging tunes into the park with kelly temple and keith skues,

Does anyone also remember a late ngiht and all day food joint called GGs on sutherland street, taxi drivers moblile DJs and musos all night with workmen in all day, used to go for about 15 years then got a job as a bread man and had to deliver their bread, didnt put me off chese pie and chips made on site by the owner gladys melted in the mouth,

lots of people remembered redgates what about the old wigfalls shops and queing under the alleyway at the side of cockaynes to get into the gaumont

what about busses with ticket machines on that you threw you money into and had to press a button so it took a picture of your money kids saved up 1p and 2 p coins so they got a long ticket bus fairs then were fair 10p from most places got you into the city centre.

also remember leaving school and being due to start work at a company called hadfields down by tinsley viaduct, my job vanished as the company closed down, and now its the M place. God ihate the M place.

i miss sheffield......cos i live in lichfield.. boo hoo

Redgates - go round Sunwin House for those who never got the chance and imagine three whole floors of toys.... bliss

Toys'r'us just doesn't have the same feel....

I remember winning a subbuteo contest in Redgates - took all day and by the end of it my finger was sore and I had to have the following monday off school :)

Great days

the terminus cafe that was in the bus station near the s.u.t office.....
all red plastic walls with pics of busses on them.. scruffy vinegar bottles and mucky tea cups...cigarettes stubbed out on tables and plates........disgusting now but back then .....why didnt we ever complain!???:confused:

One thing I miss is the old Berni Inn that used to be in Exchange Street in the late1970's/early1980.

It was called "The Old No.12". Can anyone explain why it was called that :?:

(I think its now called the City Tavern).

I used to go down there with my fiancee and her family for a Saturday night out. We used to get there about 8:00pm and didn't get back home until 11:45pm.

One thing I distinctly remember is that they used to have wall lights around the resturant on the first floor that had neon bulbs which flickered like candles.

After I moved back to Bournemouth, I went out and got some bulbs just like those - and 25 years later they still work and still look attactive in the wall lights. A very restful orange/red glow when the main lights are switched off.

.....................Wot a sad 'ol git eh?? :loopy:

Cheers

Patrick

Regarding redgates:
I remember going there as a child with my uncle every saturday afternoon, it was fantastic all those toys. do you remember the lego statues just inside the doorway, I think one was a knight and if i remember rightly a dinosaur.

Originally posted by nitelife40
.....why didnt we ever complain!???:confused:
Or give the place a wide berth?

Bus rides for 2p

The toy shop at banner cross

The cow in the window of the dairy on broadfield road

The hole in the road fish tank

Originally posted by JohnG
Bus rides for 2p

The toy shop at banner cross

The cow in the window of the dairy on broadfield road

The hole in the road fish tank

The hole in the road fish tank I remember looking
into that for hours oh those where the days that bloody tram. :cry:

Hole In the Road,City Clipper,Sheaf Valley Baths,ABC Cinema,Sheaf Market,Bridge St Bus Terminus,Pond St Nora,Skin Heads thinking they were hard in Bus Station,Roads free of the tram,Redgates,Schofields,Old Brewery Tap,Steelys,Romeo & Juliets,Fountain on Fargate.

Half cab busses on the 95 route and bus conductors.

Originally posted by Sniper
Bendy buses they where brilliant. :headbang:

They will be back.....oh yes they will be back

Originally posted by dobin74
Regarding redgates:
I remember going there as a child with my uncle every saturday afternoon, it was fantastic all those toys. do you remember the lego statues just inside the doorway, I think one was a knight and if i remember rightly a dinosaur.

I still own a Redgates Brocure in mint condition,the toys in there are pure quality,not like the crap on sale today.

Originally posted by tango2

Half cab busses on the 95 route and bus conductors. [/B]

The 95 bus going up Fargate......turning at Commonside, Tinker Lane...or going through to the terminus at Bole Hill Lane.

Getting on a backloader that was stuck in traffic :)

Originally posted by nick2
There used to be a bar, the entrance was on the High Street, that was below ground, under where Blacks hiking shop is now I think, I can't remeber what it was called but I remember falling down the stairs one night and getting a free pint.

What was that bar called ?
Was it the geisha bar?

Originally posted by joebee
Was it the geisha bar?

Sounds like the Crazy Daizy....which turned into the Geisha Bar.

Originally posted by unners


YTV's Christmas line on Leeds 448199 !!

:thumbsup: Do you know I've never forgotton that! Funnily enough the missus who's from Lincolnshire remembers that as well. I've often thought about ringing that number...

Cairo Jax student night

Isabellas which then became Uropa - is that still there?

The old buses as mentioned previously.

Notre Dame school's Cavendish Road site and Glossop Road baths.

What a top thread - so many happy memories for a Sheffielder in exile :)

what a great thread!!!!

Bendy buses, hole in the road, sheaf valey swimming baths (the crisps out of the food machine always tasted so good after a swim!), the fountain on fargate, shakin stevens at the city hall (hangs head in shame), josephines (doubly hangs head in shame!!), maces pet shop, i always wanted a puppy but was never allowed one,

happy days indeed

Can anybody remember the ragman coming round the streets with his wheelbarrow? He used to just shout ...Ragmaaaaaan...and then we used to go running out to him with any old clothing and get a balloon in return.
I lived at owlerton back then in the seventies so not sure if he went anywhere else.

0742

our old sheffield code, Funny it seems to trip off the tongue. And wasn't it better before we had the extra number 2 foisted on all our local numbers.

Originally posted by stevie1957
Sounds like the Crazy Daizy....which turned into the Geisha Bar.

Legends

Originally posted by Carmine
I miss the strange subterranean world of the underpasses and the Hole in the Road...particularly the fishtank.

Must agree - I miss the fishees in the hole in the road.
Does anyone know what happened to them ?

also Redgates - a fine shop ! (yes i am 27 going on 7 !)

I miss playing football on the rec in Hillsborough park. We used to play from early morning til it went dark with games varying from 2 a side to 15 a side- and there wasn't dog muck all over the place like there seems to be now. Although thinking about it, there was the odd crunchy white dog turd........what happened to them? and what did dogs used to eat them days that they don't now?



Ho Hum...................................

Roger Gould's toy shop at Banner Cross.

A suburban toy shop that was stuffed to the gills with great stuff, from those rubbish practical jokes (fake ink blots, pretend fags, black face soap, tea spoons with holes in them etc) to Action Man stuff, to bikes, to novelty rubbers, to... well, everything you could want.

I loved Redgates of course but it always seemed to be somewhere you went to gaze in awe, rather than actually spend money. So in the scheme of things, I probably blew far more Christmas and birthday cash in Roger Goulds than I ever did in Redgates. No wonder it shut!!!

Plain Clothes
X clothes
Rebina shoes
The fletchers man and buying elephants feet (buns)
Butterscotch ready brek(not a Sheff thing but where did it go?)
Romeo and Juliets.
The Limit
The Hallamshire as it was.
Millhouses lido
Greasy Veras

disliked the late night buses , very weird a bus full of drunk people.

my old job @ the Broomhilll Friery circa 1981! Used to be the best chippy in Sheffield!

But seriously...miss much of Broomhill...Wollertons, Bowyer the Butcher...when Williamsons was on the corner, Eric Gilbert Carpets, ..oh and best of all the paraffin dispensing machine on the same corner...did I imagine that?!

I miss the Hornblower pub..... and the old Brushes building (with the haunted tower). Ask in a few months and I'll be able to add the Yorkshire Grey pub, which will no doubt have been demolished by then to make way for another sad modern build that might last 20 years before someone thinks better of it and pulls the whole thing down.

I miss the fountain at the top of Fargate :( Used to love that when I was a kid and it actually worked. MY mate remembers getting thrown into it during rag week :)

Ford Capris not seen one for along time.:headbang:

I left my native city in 1968 when I was 37, and have lived in Canada and the US ever since. I have only been back 3 times, the last one in 1988, and then only overnight on a working trip to Scotland. All of the things and places that people reminisce about existed when I lived there, and if I had not joined the forum would have still thought them there. Thanks everybody for bringing them back to me.

Originally posted by Carmine
Anyone recall the Lord Mayor's Parade?

i was in it twice..not saying what as though:blush: :blush: :blush:

cannon (downstairs bar)

the marples

barrow boys

proper football fans at bramall lane.

steely's

silks

limit

football specials

Originally posted by Strix
Yeah. I missed it a couple of times :hihi: (Victorian berluddy father :mad: )

What killed it? We were amazed it had finally bitten the dust when we returned to Sheffield.

Was it meningitis?

some idiotic soap dodger tried to climb up the poles supporting the tram cables and would have fried had they suceeded.

shopping with mi ma in attercliffe,first to banners with mi mams purse full of plastic funny shaped coins,then to littlewoods for a milk shake and a toasted tea cake.then home on a cream and blue opened back 52 bus.

Hartley Seeds book shop on west street

The sleigh ride that took you to see Father Christmas at the Co op in town

Wards bitter is back! The New Barrack Penistone road is one place I know it's on at. I sampled some the other night and it was a good pint. Not quite as I remember it but still very good.

hello, quite a new user of the site, but reading this thread I realise what I miss, Muddycoffe I must have known in the past cos everything you say is what I knew, the limit was my my life on fri and sat nite but thursdays was grab a granny nite at poxy roxy's. ABC minors on a saturday OMG can anyone remember that bloke who managed it (bit fat and balding and realy scarey) "We are the boys and girls all known as the minors of the ABC!!!!!)

Originally posted by hillsborough
Wards bitter is back! The New Barrack Penistone road is one place I know it's on at. I sampled some the other night and it was a good pint. Not quite as I remember it but still very good.
Yeah wards is back and it's a fine pint. I regularly have one at the red lion at charles street in town.
It is a toned down drink from original wards however. Old wards used to stink and make you fart, but wards neuvo is slightly less hoppy, slightly smoother to drink, less smelly and is easier on the colon.

On the whole it is now better, more marketable, and easier to drink.

Originally posted by msdiane
hello, quite a new user of the site, but reading this thread I realise what I miss, Muddycoffe I must have known in the past cos everything you say is what I knew, the limit was my my life on fri and sat nite but thursdays was grab a granny nite at poxy roxy's. ABC minors on a saturday OMG can anyone remember that bloke who managed it (bit fat and balding and realy scarey) "We are the boys and girls all known as the minors of the ABC!!!!!)
Very possible, I grew up in Hillsborough too. Wasn't the old bloke at the ABC called uncle ernie or something? I remember some kids used to take in their birthday cards to go on stage, if it was their birthday, and then you got a raffle ticket, and after the show they checked your raffle ticket and gave you a goldfish to take home.

One place I miss from sheffield is the large shop on Shalesmoor called -
The International Aquatics Centre.

They had tropical and marine fish on the ground floor and fresh water fish in the basement. You could go in there and spend pennies on little bits and bobs for your fish tank or you could spend pounds and pounds. There are still a few places to buy fish from now but nothing as good as that place that I can find.

Originally posted by joebee
Was it the geisha bar? it was also the beir keller at one time

Originally posted by Strix
Or give the place a wide berth? did you go there too????:o

Originally posted by thai
it was also the beir keller at one time

I bet it's some storeroom now....:(

I miss the old vidomat machines on the buses,the ones where you threw all your 2p and half pences and finnished up with a ticket as long as your arm I also miss the old beechnut machines thats chewing gum to you and the old chocolate machines and as for sweets spangles,five boys chocolate, texan bars,and other sweets what I cant remember as I am now getting older the brain cells are not there anymore.

What about Pippies shop (I think it was called..) near cole bros.
That shop was the foundation of my life time sentenced to an education at Newfield comp.

Pippy's! yeah! man! that is a total blast from the past! I used to get my (coff) outsize rizla papers from there! ( :O )

My mother always used to say "Tha looks like a reyt pippyshow!" if me or my sister came out of our rooms dolled up to the nines, ready to go out. even the slightest bit of make up and my mother would go bananas.

To this day, i still don't get the link, or quite what she meant... what exactly *is* a pippyshow, and why would a teenage girl, and her sister, wearing a bit of lipstick and eyeshadow look like one? I can only assume that "a pippyshow" is something like a hooker...? Can anyone enlighten me?

lol

The thing I miss is the roundabout at the bottom of the moor, where the dual carriageway is now. When my mum and i used to get the bus into towm, I would be rally pleased when we got to the roundabout, because I knew that it meant that we were almost at Redgates. I loved redgates.

PT

The threpenny bit kiosk on Pond Street where everybody used to meet before going out on the town.

:( I miss the old rag & tag market where I used to buy american horror comics.
and being able to drive right into the centre of town and park the car.
chelsea freak, what a shop, (what an owner).
walking down the moor, and straight on to london road without banging into that monstrosity that is now barring the way.
canns music shop.
these are a few of my favorite things. (all together now!)

Thank God for photo's and memories.

"In my day you could buy a bag of chips a bottle of Vimto, go t'pictures and still have change out of a ha'penny"!

Y'can't tell the young uns these days.

Originally posted by Mo
The threpenny bit kiosk on Pond Street where everybody used to meet before going out on the town.

We didn't Mo,ours was always meet up in the Claymore

there is quite a few shops I miss in sheffield that use to be there like sexy rexy's I bought my first loon pants from there and my platform boots they had silver stars on them. colvins was another shop I use to go too. redgates toy shop that had got to be the best toy shop going I also miss the joke shop what use to be down the moor. I miss the sheaf market had some happy times in there as I use to know quite a few people who worked there. yes the rag & tag market you could buy anything there I wonder if somebody as got any photos of the old rag & tag market can anybody remember the big brass scales what they use to weigh you on? the other shop I miss is the wicker pet shop I think it is now a eating place got my first german shepheard puppy there cost about £25 he was a good dog lasted for 15 years he did. I miss the good old record shops where you could go into a booth and listen to your 45 RPM record what you was going to buy. how things have changed in sheffield.

All you unfortunates who missed sheffield in the 50s have no idea how different things were then.
Dances at the Glossop,City Hall Abbeydale,Locarno,Nether edge
and many more.
The ability to walk anywhere in town in safety.
To be able to walk up Ecclesall Rd to Endcliffe Park after seeing a film at the Star cinema.
Oh what memories

sheaf valley baths!
How it used to go deep in the middle

The thing I miss is the sight and the sounds of the old trams.

I miss the old fashioned pubs,where you could get a decent pint...
A decent team at hillsbro...The blades well they've alus been crap...Woollies in the Haymarket..Davies...Working mens clubs with some great turns..propper pikelets...Bachelors peas...
:loopy: :suspect:

Originally posted by Plain Talker

When my mum and i used to get the bus into towm, I would be rally pleased when we got to the roundabout, because I knew that it meant that we were almost at Redgates. I loved redgates.

PT

When I lived near Derby, I used to take my young kids to go Christmas shopping at Redgates. It was the best toy shop they'd ever been to. We'd spend hours in there. They had a railway train track running above your head.

Thank you Plain Talker for reviving that memory.

I miss coming into Sheffield in October and buying the Twikker. I used to read all the jokes and giggle to myself. It's a wonder the men in the white coats did'nt carry me away. Told my kids about Redgates, all those toys in one place. Can't find a decent toys shop now when you need one.

A Sheffield Wednesday team i can be proud to support!

Originally posted by patchalan
A Sheffield Wednesday team i can be proud to support! :loopy: A WEDNESDAY TEAM TO BE PROUD OF?? THE ONLY THING I MISS IS SHEFF U** KNOWING THEIR STILL SECOND BEST!:loopy:

good thread I miss all the things that have already been mentioned,but most of all the community spirit of the old terrace houses where if your mum and dad worked the neighboughs looked after you in the hols,and you never locked the back door,cos we had nothing worth stealing!Can I ask Fridayboy if bowers butchers was owned by Deniss Bower as he was a good friend of ours in the 70s,and we have lost touch,it would be nice to hear if he is well.anyone know his whereabouts?He had a shop in bannercross I think!

I remember being able to get on a number 59 or number 2 on Newman Road and travelling the whole route of Sheffield for 2p. It was a really cheap and fascinating trip out as a teenager.

I miss Brenda Favell...

Originally posted by mumoftrips
I remember being able to get on a number 59 or number 2 on Newman Road and travelling the whole route of Sheffield for 2p. It was a really cheap and fascinating trip out as a teenager.

My Daughter didn't believe me when I told her about travelling around Sheffield for 2p. I remember going to Granville college and I got a bus pass because I lived 3 miles outside Sheffield. I thought it was great 18 year old travelling for 2p.

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
I am. :( so am i ,but at least we were there, some yung uns think they invented a night out in town :banana:

I remember when all this were fields....,

I miss Banners Tanners

What do I miss about Sheffield?
All of it. Cos I'm not there any more.

Agree Redgates
Buccaneer,
Heartbeat
Samantha's
Crazy Dazy,
Fiesta
2p fare round sheffield city centre,
Virgins
Wednesday being a good football team
Playing football on Crookesmoor rec, (not the Ponderosa)
Rick Shaw(that long ago forgot how to spell it)
Mates at school Andy Mulligan, Gary Mills, Trev Ford.
Fiesta
Cavendish
Bailey's
Mucky Duck band nights
Quinceharmon (whales)
John O'hara and the Playboys
Bitter Suite
Petrol mat 4/10p per Gallon
Twikker
Silver Blades

some of the brewing equipment that used to belong to wards is now in the Jennings brewery in cockermouth. had an interesting tour round the place at Easter

:( Rebels i miss it so much :(

Atterclife baths Brown Baileys Worksop road and the trams I used to catch going to school. And the netting on the tram windows during the war and the very dim light they had at night. And doing my homework on a tram in the upstairs bay.
But mainly the trams.

Rafe ,

From what you've written , I think I'm a bit younger than you [d.o.b.1941 ] but , of course I remember the trams and how attractive , useful and reliable they were.
The big advantage of the old trams over the "Supertram" is that they were smaller in scale and so could reach further into small streets , without too much trouble. The problem with the Supertram is that so many people live so far from it. They won't catch a bus or walk in the cold and rain only then to have to catch the tram , followed , perhaps by another walk !
In other words the Supertram is too big. Sheffield needed something , "dinkier" , more flexible----really , we just needed to have modified the old tram system.

I miss all of it, I hate it now.

David.

The Wicker as it used to be, great 'dive' pubs, Classic Cinema Fitzallen Sq, Marples downstairs bar, Nelson, Penthouse, Wap, Albert, Wimpy Bar across from Debenhams, Crazy Daisy, Walsh's, Redgates, Fancy dress shop at the bottom of the moor, Co-op, Atkinsons restaurant with pianist. Chapel walk had a little cafe with chinese decoration and a dumb waiter. Oh and Horns they had a cafe too.

the barleycorn and the marples the barleycorn made thecannon look respectable

Originally posted by Babsbabs
The Wicker as it used to be, great 'dive' pubs, Classic Cinema Fitzallen Sq, Marples downstairs bar, Nelson, Penthouse, Wap, Albert, Wimpy Bar across from Debenhams, Crazy Daisy, Walsh's, Redgates, Fancy dress shop at the bottom of the moor, Co-op, Atkinsons restaurant with pianist. Chapel walk had a little cafe with chinese decoration and a dumb waiter. Oh and Horns they had a cafe too.

The Wicker used to be a cracking good stag night run and a good alternative to West Street. Twice round the Wicker then into a club.

Hare and Hounds - Red Lion – Big Gun - White Lion - Brown Cow – Bull and Oak - Station Hotel - Viaduct – Harlequin – The Lady’s Bridge, The Manchester and the Hole in the Wall were not strictly the Wicker, but we used to fit them in.

The one thing I miss about the old Wicker was the community spirit about the place. And the ladies were very generous with their affections. :)

i used to love all the pubs on wicker some great times

Roads,streets and pavements without the ruts, holes and bumps.

Oh how I remember the roads of old in Sheffield when you could even ride a bike comfortably without having to swerve to avoid all the death traps.

Maybe Sheffield is ready for a change in politics.

Happy Days!

I to miss the old trams, we used to all sit in the bay doing our homework that should have been done the night before.
I might be wrong but did you be able to post a letter in a box attached to the tram which dropped it of at the post office in town. last post at 8pm.

hazel

i miss the days of united being in premiership, and all the old style buses, mmm.. school

Oh so many things we miss

MILLHOUSES LIDO
ROXYS
FOUNTAIN ON FARGATE
REDGATES BUT EVEN BETTER WAS HANLEYS (now big clothes shop)
WOOLWORTHS NEAR MARKETS
OLD STONE HOUSE WITH COBBLES AT THE BACK
MARPLES WHEN GLASS COLLECTOR PROMOTED TO DJ
AND OF COURSE THE 50p KIOSK IN POND STREET/FLAT STREET
NIGHT BUS HOME AFTER ROXYS CLOSED
SWEET FACTORY RUN BY OLD MEN BEHIND RAILWAY STATION
SPANGLES
TAGGYS ICECREAM
10p MIX WORTH HAVING:clap:

Originally posted by sheffexpat
... Sheffield in the late '50's and early '60's was at its height--we could sense change for the good in the air but we still had that feeling of belonging to a special community and its association with steel.

How I agree with all this. I left Sheffield in 1955 to go to university and I never really went back as my mother went to live in Skeggy. I miss the sense of belonging as well as the physical feel of the old city ('overgrown village') - knocked about by the Luftwaffe but still more or less intact until the vandals in suits got to work. I have a brochure 'Sheffield' published for the City Council in 1956, and looking through it makes me weep for the city that was.

Do you think the wanting of Sheffield as it was, is nostalga for your youth and the way you were at the time with everything fresh and new and not the city that was.
hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Do you think the wanting of Sheffield as it was, is nostalga for your youth and the way you were at the time with everything fresh and new and not the city that was.
hazel

I see what you mean hazel, and in a way you are right. But things did seem to be better, more respect as well. I was in Castle Market yesterday ... that brought back memories. Rag & Tag market, Victoria Station the old BHS its all gone a bit to pot around there now.

Certainly wouldn't know any difference Hazel. The old place is being knocked about again by builders knocked down buildings since you lrft and again rebuilt on Loads and loads of road works around the city centre. Including the one that has never seemed to be finished around Midland Station and Pond Street.:gag: :heyhey: :hihi:
The trouble is once they've finished they will probably start all over again.:help:

Originally posted by hazel
Do you think the wanting of Sheffield as it was, is nostalga for your youth and the way you were at the time with everything fresh and new and not the city that was.
hazel
A good point, Hazel, and one I can't really answer. I do remember at the time (mid 50's) being unhappy with what was happening. The replacement of the old wooden/iron Norfolk market hall, which I loved, by a concrete object. The wholesale `comprehensive redevelopment' of Attercliffe with no concern for the existing street pattern or community. There seemed to be a lack of sympathy and a blinkered outlook by the powers that be (were). I witnessed the same thing in Birmingham around 1960 and in Manchester they are now pulling down the sixties monstrosity they built when the old Victorian post office was heinously demolished. The Arndale is generally reckoned now to have been a planning mistake. Things have improved recently (?), but so much has unnecessarily gone.

I was in my teens in the 50/60s and thought that it was all being done in the name of progress.
I now realise how beautiful the buildings were and what a shame they were destroyed but can't remember knowing that then at 16. Thought concrete was clean and new. I must have been a philistine.
All the builings were black with soot, Town hall, the stations (2) etc and when steam cleaninng came in I could not get used to them being brown. Thought their real colour was black.

hazel

I use to love the dirty old train stations, well I do now !! guess i didn't back then, but i loved the steam from the trains, the stone walls, the ticket collectors always directed you to the wrong platform when you were in a hurry, I'm sure they did it on purpose.

I was in the W.R.A.C. and can remember now in my dress uniform standing on the station platform being realy proud of what i was wearing.

The trains now are too open inside, it's like being on a coach.

Anyone remember Connie Grant's on West Street?

The 'Ladies' Waiting room on the Midland Station in the early sixties - the guards would keep the fire stoked up and you could put your make-up on in front of the big mirror (no parents to criticize what you looked like) we would back-comb each others hair and spray it with laquer from plazzy bottles. There were loads of big leather benches to sit on - so we always used to get there early 'cos that was part of the night out.

I remember Redgates as a kid.... great times. Also the first escalator I ever saw was the small one in Atkinsons (still there )my brother and I would spend hours just going up and down - we were always skint and that was good entertainment.

i miss redgates toy shop that was at the top of the moor, like a smaller version of hamleys.
it was a kids wonderland, i loved it

crasy daisy,bloomers,faces.what was that strip joint just off the moore i think it was german name?the pictures in the square hole in the road,getting on the bus for 2p:D

was it hoffanbraus? didn't ever go myself but remember going past it on the bus to college

thats it what a place it was good day out on a sat:clap:

I'll take your word for it. I was more of a Josephine's visiter myself. I also remember going to the top rank on a saturday morning when I was about 10 to a disco. How strange is that, and I walked from my house to town which is about a 3 mile walk. I wonder why when I think of it now!!!

the fish tank in the hole in the road, Marples, of course red gates. the a.b.c, and the classic cinema in fitzallan sqare also romeo and juliets, the burger van that was outside mmmmm.
the fountain at the top of fargate, the lazer show in the stonehouse.tiffanys

The fish in the hole in the road were a must for eager children I know because it was my Uncle who supplied the fish.And sorry to disappoint anybody but the tank had magnified glass in the tank and the fish were not giants.LOL!!!

Originally posted by nick2
No, thats Cavells now, it was underground.

that place was called THE BEER KELLOR (not the correct spelling) it was an attempt to duplicate an austrian beer drinking establishment and you did go down stairs to it, either upright or head first depending on how you felt at the time.

I MISS THE BIG MACAWS IN BOTANICAL GARDENS IN 1970'S,ONE OF THEM NEARLY TOOK ME FINGER OFF,THE FEATHERED GIT.THEN THERE WAS ALSO FISH HOUSE, GREAT STUFF

Bendybuses and the hole in the road, fish.
There you had agood day out, fun for all the family

The drop hammers at night, for some strange reason I used to find the sound relaxing;)

Studio 7 on the Wicker, "Art House"?

Nice people, good neighbours, lack of drug users and thieving b------- .

Just a few memories from my childhood - if any have been previously posted - my aplologies

The smell of brewing from the Sheaf Brewery.

Getting on the Number 3 (or was it 6?) bus from Pond Street to Upperthorpe on Saturday evening with my Mum - this would have been in the late 50's when most men still worked on a Saturday and the the smell of the machine oil etc from their working clothes.

Redgates (this seems to be the most popular)

For those of us who lived in the Meadow Street / Upperthorpe area, watching Jim Peacock with his horse and waggon selling fruit and veg. - he kept that horse in stables at the back of his house on Meadow street right up to the 60's

Paddle boats in Hillsborough park

Whitsun parades in Weston Park

Cartoon Cinema in Fitzalan Square

Playing on the old 'bomb' sites (demolished houses etc) getting filthy and having to get a bath on a day other than Friday!

Playing on the new housing building sites - getting filthy etc. etc.....

Student Rag Parade and Boat Race

Tuckwoods restaurant (BIG treat)

Motor cruiser in Weston Park 'lake'

Walking on Scotland Street to town with my Mum and hearing the noise from all the engineering workshops.

The sound of the hammmer at the back of Winn gardens

Picking Blue bells in the woods where before Winn Gardens was built there.

Trips as a Cub Scout to Hesley Woods

Going into a 'big' bank in town with my dad and being overawed by the sheer authority of the place.

The activity in the General Post Office in Fitzalan Square.

Playing in the old water mills up Rivelin Valley

The paddling pools / steps at Rivelin and Millhouses

Shopping in Pauldens (pre- Debenhams) Food Hall

Standing on the Kop on a Saturday afternoon at Owlerton with my Uncle Horace - and the pie and bovril at half time - seeing Ron Springett in goal.

Watching Fred Tueman at Bramall Lane when it was a Football and Cricket ground.

The Fun fair at Oakes Park, Norton

Rag and Bone men with their carts and a ballon for the kids if you gave them a big pile of old clothes etc.

Men outside newsagents on a Saturday night waiting for the 'Green 'Un'

Singing coming from Pubs near closing time on a Saturday night

The sound of the Speedway bikes on a Thursday night echoing off the hills round round Hillsborough.

Sunday afternoons and everywhere was DEAD!! - nothing open - apart from the Museum and Art Gallery in Weston Park - certainly no shops

The smell of sawdust in any Butchers shop

Sliding down the steep grass banks on the Tip at Crookesmoor on a small square of cardboard

Ok - enough - I am getting moist in the eyes here!!

the santas grotto that used to be at the bottom of the moor it was magical. unlike the illuminations now

My Mother and Father, there was so much I should have asked them.

kelvin flats, hyde park flats, norfolk park flats, claywood flats, blocks of flats:|

the things i miss (in no particular order)
-standing on the old kop at Bramall Lane
-also being lifted over the turnstile by my dad for free up to the age of 11
-rushing down to Redgates on my birthday to buy the latest 'transformer'
-the 'magical' moving santa sledge and his grotto at the co-op opposite the law courts
-shopping with my mum in the castle and sheaf markets (the smell of fresh fish when you walked in there )!
-the fishtank in the hole in the road
-the smelly old bustling pond street bus station
-being able to walk from the bus station right up to the crucible without having to cross a road (across the pond street bridge into the cinema/multistory complex, up the escalators,under the subway and there you were !)
-the model of sheffield in the foyer of the 'eggbox'council officers
-playing 'stepping stones'across the bricks in the 'water feature/fountain'outside the eggbox building
-toast and dripping
-carfield junior school
-playing out all day in 'the woods' during school summer holidays
-heeley city farm
-the top diving board at Sheaf valley baths
-being taken to the old ABC ? cinema on Angel St, opp co-op and the law courts -made my grandad sit (or rather sleep) through a double feature of STAR WARS and the the EMPIRE STRIKES BACK !! -i was only 7yrs old
-the barbers shop next door to it with the pavement height windows you could see into. finally managed to get my hair cut there after years of pestering
-bendy buses
-the old white and brown buses ? -before they all turned yellow in the mid '80's
-james cycles on Bramall Lane
-middletons ? pet shop at the bottom of the moor, with all the bunnies and exotic birds

in the early to mid '90's-
-cairo jax nightclub
-issabellas nightclub
-josephines nightclub
-kiki's nightclub
-berlins bar
-millionaires bar
-and just about every other bar in the centre of sheffield !


ah those were the days !
:thumbsup:

Hey tango2

Pond Street Nora is a blast from the past lol, i miss banners, the tubes they used to send along the pipes fascinated me, little things please little minds as they say lol.

Redgates.................it goes without saying and Henderson Relish............the best.

Being able to 'play out'. Kids just can't now.

Tormenting Mr. Wimpy...that poor bloke had some hammer.

Wow,
I'd forgotten the 'moving' santa sleigh in the co op...happy, happy days.

thanks for that howey!