Anybody used to work there? :)

I was an all night shelf-filler for about a year (Wed, Thurs, Fri nights) about 1973/4. There were about 12 of us on the shift. Dave the supervisor, Geoff, Bill (I think), Magic Tony, Jerry the jazz pianist, Mick and a few others. We used to have a lovely "lunch" in the middle of the night with Hillards finest produce for about 12p each! Also, I remember a few cage races around the aisles. Also there was a conveyor belt with metal rollers to bring stuff up from the basement warehouse that we used to abuse dreadfully.. I remember one time when Magic Tony brought in his full kids magic show and gave us a show (maybe at Christmas I'm not sure) he was so funny.. A great time of my life that. I was 19 then!!!

I can remember Hillards very well and still say Hillards and not joblot.

I can remember it being built and opened. The then Miss India opened it.

I remember Hillards, i also seem to recall a supermarket before that at Manor Top, here go's with a guess of what it was called, New World ? anyone agree?

I loved Hillards, I used to go with my mum every week, there was a free bus that took you and we used to look round the adjoining shop while we waited for it, it was like a day out!!

I remember Hillards, i also seem to recall a supermarket before that at Manor Top, here go's with a guess of what it was called, New World ? anyone agree?

New World was on Wortley Road near Kimberworth. There was a night club next door where "comedian" Norman ( swingin/ dodgy) Vaughn went down like a lead balloon and vowed never to work in the area again. He was sorely missed (not).

I worked there mid 80's. Left just before the Tesco take over. Got offered more dosh at Asda Chap.

My mum reckon's she nearly gave birth to my youngest brother in there, that'd be 1976. And same here that building is still reffered to as Hillards by the family. In fact Sheffield Lane Top Library was/is in that building?

So where was Hillards then, I moved to Sheffield Lane Top in 1951/52 and I remember the Rendezvous, any takes on that then and whee is my old mucker Malcolm Cook from Elm Lane???

So where was Hillards then, I moved to Sheffield Lane Top in 1951/52 and I remember the Rendezvous, any takes on that then and whee is my old mucker Malcolm Cook from Elm Lane???

Down Barnsley Road, towards Eccelsfield, just past the old Vogue Cinema.

Shopped at Hillards for years, my parents lived on Deerlands Avenue and I married and moved to Nether Edge but still shopped at Hillards on the way tov visit my parents,things were or seemed a lot cheaper than the CO OP who were the the sort of supermarket at the time.

I remember Hillards, i also seem to recall a supermarket before that at Manor Top, here go's with a guess of what it was called, New World ? anyone agree?
Didn`t New World used to be in rotherham on upper wortley road where the skating rink is?

The cinema above hillards had a few names. I can remember it being the Classic and the asoldo (sp)

I remember way back in 1980 our lass won £1000 on a scratch card and went a week latter 4 the check to be presented by dereke dooley got a photo of it but i don't know how to put it on ???

The cinema above hillards had a few names. I can remember it being the Classic and the asoldo (sp)

Hi spudgun
It was the Essoldo, and by the time Hillards appeared it was a carpet warehouse I think, like a lot of old cinemas.

The person who opened Hillards was Ann Sidney Miss World. I went to the opening as a teenager:D

The picture palace at Lane top was always Essoldo until it turned into a bingo hall run by Nobles and the carpet shop is still there. In answer to a previous question Rendezvous was a newsagent right at lane top next to where Netto is and Hillards was further down just below bus terminus. The building is just as it was then but it's now Job Lot and the shop part is in the bottom section which when it was Hillards was the dry goods and used to sell garden products, wallpaper etc. I and my ex-sister in law worked there and the Manager was called Tony I think and I believe he had a nervous breakdown after losing his gran who he was very close to.. My next door neighbour , Madge Glynn, now sadly no longer with us, used to be the cook in the canteen:)

The picture palace at Lane top was always Essoldo until it turned into a bingo hall run by Nobles and the carpet shop is still there. In answer to a previous question Rendezvous was a newsagent right at lane top next to where Netto is and Hillards was further down just below bus terminus. The building is just as it was then but it's now Job Lot and the shop part is in the bottom section which when it was Hillards was the dry goods and used to sell garden products, wallpaper etc. I and my ex-sister in law worked there and the Manager was called Tony I think and I believe he had a nervous breakdown after losing his gran who he was very close to.. My next door neighbour , Madge Glynn, now sadly no longer with us, used to be the cook in the canteen:)

When built just before the war the cinema was called the Capital,saw Pinnochio, Lassy come Home & the Four Feathers there. The films then changed twice a week, monday to wednesday, then thursday, friday & saturday. When sundays cinema shows were allowed it was a seperate programme, not that we cared , we used to meet the girls in the queue.

You're right about cinema, when we were kids we always used to call it 'the cap' and I used to go there most Saturday afternoons in the early sixties when I was about 11 or 12. Hillards wasn't there then it was just fields and bushes. We used to clamber up there and walk along the top.:D

I remember on Saturday afternoons when there used to be games on the stage partway through the aaternoon film and we also used to have sing alongs to songs which came up on the screen oh happy days, 6d downstairs and 1/- upstairs. A friend of mines sister was an usherette who used to let us in through the side door once the films had started.

If you go in the carpet shop now and go up to the bed section you`ll see it`s exactly the same. The bed section is the balcony and you can look down to where the screen was.

Does anyone remember the caravan place next door to essoldo

I think Hillards was after my time as I don't remember there being a supermarket up there. I went to St Patricks school and the whole school went to the pictures there to watch the Queens coronation

May have been after your time as it was fields until about mid sixties when Hillards was opened by Ann Sidney - Miss World:D

I remember the caravan site that takes me back and the fields before hillards was built and the church at the bottom of the field

The cinema above hillards had a few names. I can remember it being the Classic and the asoldo (sp)

the cinema was called the capitol then the essoldo

Anybody used to work there? :)

I was an all night shelf-filler for about a year (Wed, Thurs, Fri nights) about 1973/4. There were about 12 of us on the shift. Dave the supervisor, Geoff, Bill (I think), Magic Tony, Jerry the jazz pianist, Mick and a few others. We used to have a lovely "lunch" in the middle of the night with Hillards finest produce for about 12p each! Also, I remember a few cage races around the aisles. Also there was a conveyor belt with metal rollers to bring stuff up from the basement warehouse that we used to abuse dreadfully.. I remember one time when Magic Tony brought in his full kids magic show and gave us a show (maybe at Christmas I'm not sure) he was so funny.. A great time of my life that. I was 19 then!!!

my son worked there,andrew o'brien also there was craig barnes and chris sansom

Yes I remember the Caravan Sales and shop. In the eighties when my niece was about 10 I took her to town and on the way back we passed the caravans and she turned to me and said 'Did they have caravans in your day Auntie Linda?' I WAS IN MY EARLY THIRTIES:confused: