anyone remember Roman ridge pub sitting or walking on the wall on warm evenings with a bottle of pop and packet crisps and listening and dancing to the music outside.If you were lucky to get to sit down as it was always packed. Kids could get served inside the doorway at a tuck shop and we would run round the pub car park or on the field at the back . if you were not lucky enough to get a place on the wall we would get walked up to the horse shoe pub where there was a big garden with benches or over to fort hill pub which is still there and had a brilliant view and we used to climb on the hills at the back and run up and down the steps leading to limps field school.

Where are or were these pubs?

Roman Ridge was on wincobank avenue, near to the flats it got demolished and has been an empty space for ages, The Horse Shoe was on Bellhouse Rd near concord park also got demolished, used to have large hut as the
function room next to it , which was a second hand shop later on, now flats have been built there. Fort Hill pub is on Fort Hill, wincobank. dont know what its like now not been since i was a kid. (many moons ago)

Remember going to a wedding reception in the hut in the 1970's.

A former landlord was Dick Mellon anyone know what happened to him

My nan and Grandad use to take me to the beer garden at the back of the Horseshoe,
when i was young and she always called it Afferties.
Can anyone tell me if this is what the pub use to be called, before it was the Horseshoe.

I also remember nipping round the front of the pub to where the little offsales use to be
and buying some castle crisps and a bottle of orange.

It's was always called the Horseshoe.
The nickname Afferties was, I believe, the name of a landlord at some time.

used to drink in the shoe every friday dinner mid to late 80's after work.

finished work at 12. a few beers and game of pool in wharncliffe till about 2 then up to shoe while 3.20 (closing time) for a few more and a game of cards. then pop in that club next door cos it served till 4.00. used to go in some nights too but mainly friday dinner.

From 1968 to 1976 I lived on Maple Croft Road and went in the Roman Ridge a couple of times a week with neighbours. I remember one night , when there was a bomb scare and we all had to go out into the car park ( with glasses in hand!) until given the "all clear". We had a right laugh in the car park although might not have laughed so much if we had thought there might be a real bomb!
It was a good pub in those days with good company. I was sad to see it had gone.
John

i remember a friend who went in the Horseshoe during the war-time there was a waiter in the back room and he ordered a pint and an advocaat for his wife the waiter came put the pint down and my friend asked where is the advocaat to which the waiter replied sorry mate i thought you said "Have a Jar"

used to drink in the shoe every friday dinner mid to late 80's after work.

finished work at 12. a few beers and game of pool in wharncliffe till about 2 then up to shoe while 3.20 (closing time) for a few more and a game of cards. then pop in that club next door cos it served till 4.00. used to go in some nights too but mainly friday dinner.

in 77 wednesday drew 1-1 at home to arsenal in the 3rd round of the fa cup
it was a saturday and very cold a replay at highbury 4 days later also ended in a 1-1 draw so it was decided to play another replay at a neutaral venue, it was chosen that filbert street the home of leicester city football club would be the venue.
The game was played six days after the second replay on a monday whitch resulted in another draw this time the score was 2-2 ,so it was decided to play another replay at filbert st two days later on the wednesday night guess what another draw this time the score was 3-3 so once again the teams where forced to replay.
The F.A. decided time both teams where given a weeks rest and the pending replay would not be played for another week making it a wednesday night game, but this time the fixture would draw a different conclusion wednesday went behind to a lucky arsenal goal early in the fist half.

Infact that was the result at the interval wednesday fans hopring for another great come back would have to live in hope because in the second half arsenal scored another goal but there was no sign of luck about this goal, wednesday spent the second half not only chasing the game but shadows to all to no avail the result was already written wednesday bravely went down two goals to nil.
If you ask any wednesdayite about that night all of us would say that wednesday players and the supporters where heroes also the wednrsday fans out number the arsenal fans in truth i was 14 and it was one of the greatest nights of my life.

miss standing on the kop freezing my balls of but it was football

What about when it was raining on the old cop, it was the worst place to be but we loved it, Terry Curran was the last player I saw from the old cop, got free tickets for the stands after that and got on telly on the Sunday afternoon coverage on ITV.

I can remember the first game i attended it was against port vale last game of the 1975 season it was a rearranged game we had to beat them or we would have gone down into the old 4th division but we won 2-1 goals for eric potts and mick prendigast, i remember looking up herries road and thinking i was on top of the world 35,000 people watched the game even now i remember it as it was yesterday ****ing brill .
can not feel the same feelings sat down has i felt standing there in the freezing cold

I can remember the first game i attended it was against port vale last game of the 1975 season it was a rearranged game we had to beat them or we would have gone down into the old 4th division but we won 2-1 goals for eric potts and mick prendigast, i remember looking up herries road and thinking i was on top of the world 35,000 people watched the game even now i remember it as it was yesterday ****ing brill .
can not feel the same feelings sat down has i felt standing there in the freezing cold

i was14 when i went to that game

i remeber going on ridge wall in the summer it was packed as for horse shoe got shoot in car park 1996

i remeber going on ridge wall in the summer it was packed as for horse shoe got shoot in car park 1996

I used to be landlord there in the 80s.

i used to live on winkley terrace in 80s and used to hang about the horseshoe car park had loads of laughs the old hut used to be terrys bargain centre a family friend and hes still doing same thing but now with his youngest son

not all wednesday fans remember it so clearly one on the sf football site said they had 6 replays hee hee

It wasn`t the fort hill pub but the forum at wincobank. The wife used to live just up the hill from it on Forthill Road. She was a regular in the 80`s. I`ve been in a couple of times.
Don`t know what it`s like now though.

in 77 wednesday drew 1-1 at home to arsenal in the 3rd round of the fa cup
it was a saturday and very cold a replay at highbury 4 days later also ended in a 1-1 draw so it was decided to play another replay at a neutaral venue, it was chosen that filbert street the home of leicester city football club would be the venue.
The game was played six days after the second replay on a monday whitch resulted in another draw this time the score was 2-2 ,so it was decided to play another replay at filbert st two days later on the wednesday night guess what another draw this time the score was 3-3 so once again the teams where forced to replay.
The F.A. decided time both teams where given a weeks rest and the pending replay would not be played for another week making it a wednesday night game, but this time the fixture would draw a different conclusion wednesday went behind to a lucky arsenal goal early in the fist half.

Infact that was the result at the interval wednesday fans hopring for another great come back would have to live in hope because in the second half arsenal scored another goal but there was no sign of luck about this goal, wednesday spent the second half not only chasing the game but shadows to all to no avail the result was already written wednesday bravely went down two goals to nil.
If you ask any wednesdayite about that night all of us would say that wednesday players and the supporters where heroes also the wednrsday fans out number the arsenal fans in truth i was 14 and it was one of the greatest nights of my life.

miss standing on the kop freezing my balls of but it was football

I can remember the first game i attended it was against port vale last game of the 1975 season it was a rearranged game we had to beat them or we would have gone down into the old 4th division but we won 2-1 goals for eric potts and mick prendigast, i remember looking up herries road and thinking i was on top of the world 35,000 people watched the game even now i remember it as it was yesterday ****ing brill .
can not feel the same feelings sat down has i felt standing there in the freezing cold

i was14 when i went to that game

Great story,but....................................WTF has that got to do with this thread?:confused::hihi:

It wasn`t the fort hill pub but the forum at wincobank. The wife used to live just up the hill from it on Forthill Road. She was a regular in the 80`s. I`ve been in a couple of times.
Don`t know what it`s like now though.

I lived on Forthill Road in the 80"s the forum was a great pub then games night tuesdays quiz thursday and sunday !!The roman ridge was always a dodgy boozer thats why it got demolished Horse shoe went the same way when ridge shut down Tommy Green was landlord in shoe a great bloke he took the Queens pub on in Rotherham after that.

in 77 wednesday drew 1-1 at home to arsenal in the 3rd round of the fa cup
it was a saturday and very cold a replay at highbury 4 days later also ended in a 1-1 draw so it was decided to play another replay at a neutaral venue, it was chosen that filbert street the home of leicester city football club would be the venue.
The game was played six days after the second replay on a monday whitch resulted in another draw this time the score was 2-2 ,so it was decided to play another replay at filbert st two days later on the wednesday night guess what another draw this time the score was 3-3 so once again the teams where forced to replay.
The F.A. decided time both teams where given a weeks rest and the pending replay would not be played for another week making it a wednesday night game, but this time the fixture would draw a different conclusion wednesday went behind to a lucky arsenal goal early in the fist half.

Infact that was the result at the interval wednesday fans hopring for another great come back would have to live in hope because in the second half arsenal scored another goal but there was no sign of luck about this goal, wednesday spent the second half not only chasing the game but shadows to all to no avail the result was already written wednesday bravely went down two goals to nil.
If you ask any wednesdayite about that night all of us would say that wednesday players and the supporters where heroes also the wednrsday fans out number the arsenal fans in truth i was 14 and it was one of the greatest nights of my life.

WRONG......it was the 78-79 season...in the home game,the wednesday supporters snowballed pat jennings,charlton came to the kop to tell em to stop,and they snowballed him too.....

i remeber going on ridge wall in the summer it was packed as for horse shoe got shoot in car park 1996

You must be a mate of matt higgins then...

Where the Roman Ridge used to be is the land the doctors surgery is is moving to in the near future when they get the funding for the new surgery

Roman Ridge was on wincobank avenue, near to the flats it got demolished and has been an empty space for ages, The Horse Shoe was on Bellhouse Rd near concord park also got demolished, used to have large hut as the
function room next to it , which was a second hand shop later on, now flats have been built there. Fort Hill pub is on Fort Hill, wincobank. dont know what its like now not been since i was a kid. (many moons ago)

I live on Wincobank Ave, the site of the Roman Ridge was cleared last week,the Bluebell Medical centre, a new building is I believe being built on there

i worked on flower estate late 70s we used to go in ridge every dinner time i remember you could get 3 cans for a quid met some great people round there rough and ready good times

Glad we're back on topic, what on earth has this thread got to with football?
In the 80's whenever you went in the Horsehoe it was packed, can't understand why it closed? In comparison, the Wharncliffe is the only pub I've ever seen a fight on Christmas Day lunchtime!!

i remember once when some trouble kicked off (again:hihi:) and the police were called one old boy came in and said to the copper your panda car is on its roof .the copper ignored what he said and when he came to leave sure enough the car was on its roof :hihi:

I lived on Maple Croft Rd 1968 -1976 & went in Roman Ridge one or two evenings a week. Found it & enjoyable & freindly place. Sad to see its gone.

i went in the shoe from 1970 till it closed. [went home for some tea of course]. i played and then ran the football team and played for the snooker team. a great pub. where do the local young lads go now as most of the pubs have now gone. it's all a bit sad really.

i went in the shoe from 1970 till it closed. [went home for some tea of course]. i played and then ran the football team and played for the snooker team. a great pub. where do the local young lads go now as most of the pubs have now gone. it's all a bit sad really.

Diane that worked there with Tommy green passed away last week...

I used to be landlord there in the 80s.

was you land lord when we used to get changed in the garage for football
for Acheson juniors ??

I lived on Maple Croft Crescent and used to go in the Ridge on a regular basis until 1979 when I moved away from Sheffield. It was such a busy pub back then, the beer was delivered by tanker so it must have had a good turnover. I was amazed to learn it had closed and had been demolished.
When I was a regular it was run by a young couple, Jack and Lynda.

Diane that worked there with Tommy green passed away last week...

Anybody remember Graham Downs ex council worker and doorman at the Horseshoe and now know of his whereabouts.

Anybody remember Graham Downs ex council worker and doorman at the Horseshoe and now know of his whereabouts. if its the one im thinking about big graham with the beard goes in hartly house

if its the one im thinking about big graham with the beard goes in hartly house

Cheers ricgem2002 that sounds like Downsie he certainly was BIG I have not seen him in over 25yrs now we were big mates back then :thumbsup: .

Cheers ricgem2002 that sounds like Downsie he certainly was BIG I have not seen him in over 25yrs now we were big mates back then :thumbsup: .

i drink with graham, and me and our kid have got him to start going to the lane with us. we grew up with graham from being kids and have always kept in touch throuhg the horseshoe and now the hartley house.

i drink with graham, and me and our kid have got him to start going to the lane with us. we grew up with graham from being kids and have always kept in touch through the horseshoe and now the hartley house.

Hi derf blade
Thanks for the reply can you tell the BIG LUMP I'm " IRONBAR JACK " we worked together at the Dunmow rd depot in the late 60s early 70s I was a roller driver then then went on to driving wagons for 20+ yrs we went to the Lane together ourselves around that time plus away games also knocked around town with him on Fri nights also tell him I was the one who got locked up with Rowley on Rowleys 21st at the Top Rank that should shake him from his slumber :confused: .

eyup jack wasn´t he nick named flabber ??

eyup jack wasn´t he nick named flabber ??

we always called him flab or flabber from junior school. just call him grub now.:)

had many a good fight/nite in these pubs when i lived on the flower then moved to the sicey still visited the others pitty the best ones went never got on with the warny but still went inreg on a fri up to 2000

was you land lord when we used to get changed in the garage for football
for Acheson juniors ??

1983, I was there, went from there to Arbourthorne Hotel, can't remember using garage for changing.

eyup jack wasn't he nick named flabber ??

R8 BRI I never knew him by that nickname I worked with Downsie for quite a few years also we knocked around with each other in the late 60s early 70s before I went to give HER MAJESTY some pleasure took in quite a lot of the old away games when the going got rough the rough got going if you know what I mean HAPPY DAYS :hihi: .

Work has finally begun on the site of the old Roman Ridge pub for the new doctors

in 77 wednesday drew 1-1 at home to arsenal in the 3rd round of the fa cup
it was a saturday and very cold a replay at highbury 4 days later also ended in a 1-1 draw so it was decided to play another replay at a neutaral venue, it was chosen that filbert street the home of leicester city football club would be the venue.
The game was played six days after the second replay on a monday whitch resulted in another draw this time the score was 2-2 ,so it was decided to play another replay at filbert st two days later on the wednesday night guess what another draw this time the score was 3-3 so once again the teams where forced to replay.
The F.A. decided time both teams where given a weeks rest and the pending replay would not be played for another week making it a wednesday night game, but this time the fixture would draw a different conclusion wednesday went behind to a lucky arsenal goal early in the fist half.

Infact that was the result at the interval wednesday fans hopring for another great come back would have to live in hope because in the second half arsenal scored another goal but there was no sign of luck about this goal, wednesday spent the second half not only chasing the game but shadows to all to no avail the result was already written wednesday bravely went down two goals to nil.
If you ask any wednesdayite about that night all of us would say that wednesday players and the supporters where heroes also the wednrsday fans out number the arsenal fans in truth i was 14 and it was one of the greatest nights of my life.
I was at all those games could have found my way to Filbert St blindfold after that cup run.
Remember it was bloody freezing as well.

Anyone remember the Whytes who were licensees in the Horseshoe in the 60s?

Reading all the comments about the 'shoe. Nobody appears to have mentioned the deep well that was discovered in the bar during renovation and modernisation work. I can't remember exact but I think it was late '70's early '80's. It was made into a feature by covering the top with a thick glass slab.

It wasn't. It was covered with a concrete slab and a carpet.

It wasn't. It was covered with a concrete slab and a carpet.

actually jonesy is right. it was left as a feature for a few weeks with a glass plate on, so customers could see it and also the star did a report on it. after a few weeks it was then concreted in and carpeted over.

Apologies to Jonesey then, but derf, all those happy hours I spent in the 'shoe I can't for the life of me remember the glass plate. Good win tonight by the way. U.T.B.

Apologies to Jonesey then, but derf, all those happy hours I spent in the 'shoe I can't for the life of me remember the glass plate. Good win tonight by the way. U.T.B.

great times in a great pub. as for tonight.....WOW. great second half performance.

great times in a great pub. as for tonight.....WOW. great second half performance.

Biting my nails for the last 25 minutes, I had a tenner on 4-1. Hows it hanging Fred, hope you're all well. You're right about the great times in a great pub, sadly missed..........but not by my missus.

Biting my nails for the last 25 minutes, I had a tenner on 4-1. Hows it hanging Fred, hope you're all well. You're right about the great times in a great pub, sadly missed..........but not by my missus.

HI JOHN. everyone fine thanks. nowts the same anymore is it? it's very quiet in the hartley house. even mitchell stocks has hung up his gloves.:hihi:
on a serious note, did you know our kid lost his wife?
very sad, but our kids coming round a bit now.

HI JOHN. everyone fine thanks. nowts the same anymore is it? it's very quiet in the hartley house. even mitchell stocks has hung up his gloves.:hihi:
on a serious note, did you know our kid lost his wife?
very sad, but our kids coming round a bit now.

I did read about the death, very sad for Dave and Alan and family. I've managed to find myself a new local, and its got a snooker room upstairs. Last Friday you would have found myself, Billy, Rowley, Frankie Law, Bob Sergeant and of all people Tony Armitage in there. Its like the Shoe revisited, without the brawling.The only two fights my new local were involved in were 1914-18 and 1939-45, mind you they won 'em both.

I called in the Horseshoe one night with a mate and we were pestered to buy the last 2 raffle tickets because nobody else wanted to part with their money and they wanted to make the draw as it was almost closing time. Reluctantly we stumped up the cash and the raffle took place. We won the one and only prize which was a big bottle of whiskey and all you could hear after that were complaints that we never used the pub and should never have won the whiskey. If they had kept their gobs shut we would have shared it out because we couldn't abide whiskey. My mates dad was given the bottle when he got home. Justice.

I called in the Horseshoe one night with a mate and we were pestered to buy the last 2 raffle tickets because nobody else wanted to part with their money and they wanted to make the draw as it was almost closing time. Reluctantly we stumped up the cash and the raffle took place. We won the one and only prize which was a big bottle of whiskey and all you could hear after that were complaints that we never used the pub and should never have won the whiskey. If they had kept their gobs shut we would have shared it out because we couldn't abide whiskey. My mates dad was given the bottle when he got home. Justice.

F**K ME ITS A WONDER YOU GOT OUT OF PUB....:hihi:

I did read about the death, very sad for Dave and Alan and family. I've managed to find myself a new local, and its got a snooker room upstairs. Last Friday you would have found myself, Billy, Rowley, Frankie Law, Bob Sergeant and of all people Tony Armitage in there. Its like the Shoe revisited, without the brawling.The only two fights my new local were involved in were 1914-18 and 1939-45, mind you they won 'em both.
whats the pub john . i'll call in and give you all a hammering. i arranged to meet bill last year, but had to call it off and i never got back to him. maybe we could arrange amatch against you. we would bring me, our kid, foxy, big jim, jim brodie dixie and so on.would u be up for it?:hihi:

whats the pub john . i'll call in and give you all a hammering. i arranged to meet bill last year, but had to call it off and i never got back to him. maybe we could arrange amatch against you. we would bring me, our kid, foxy, big jim, jim brodie dixie and so on.would u be up for it?:hihi:

It's the Legion of course, the two scraps should have given it away. We'd love to accept the challenge (don't give a toss about the snooker, just an excuse for a gargle) better make it a Friday night or Billy won't be there, he's in bed by 8 the rest of the week. You could play our snooker team if you like, they've been second bottom of the bottom league since the teams conception, just ahead of Hillsborough and Hillsboroughs captain has only won one game in over 200, guess who against! Last seasons highest break was 7 away. Bring it on, lol.

It's the Legion of course, the two scraps should have given it away. We'd love to accept the challenge (don't give a toss about the snooker, just an excuse for a gargle) better make it a Friday night or Billy won't be there, he's in bed by 8 the rest of the week. You could play our snooker team if you like, they've been second bottom of the bottom league since the teams conception, just ahead of Hillsborough and Hillsboroughs captain has only won one game in over 200, guess who against! Last seasons highest break was 7 away. Bring it on, lol.

forget the snooker then john. i'll have a word with the lads and try to arrange summat. UTB.

forget the snooker then john. i'll have a word with the lads and try to arrange summat. UTB.

I play snooker every Friday (not with the team) with a few good lads, if you want to play snooker it will be a laugh. Depending on how many turn up we can play doubles if you like, leave more time for drinking our incredibly cheap beer.

Where are or were these pubs?

the horse shoe was pulled down about 8yra ago and now flats on the land as the with weth the others all gone as with many many pubs have along with WMSs clubs all gone