Does anyone have any memories of Hillsborough in the early 1970s, say 1970-75.

Particulary the shops but anything else as well.

I grew up in Hillsborough but was only a very young kid in the 70's.

I can remember some stuff though. Choices Video shop used to be the YEB shop and Legends Bar was a Timpsons Shoe Shop I think. Where the cafe is now, next to La Vida Loca (corner of Rudyard Road) used to be the first Tates Gallery shop and on the opposite corner or Rudyard Road was Langtons Shoe shop. They had some wonderful 'brother creeper' shoes in the window that I really loved (even though I am a girl) Langtons also had another shoe shop in what is now the clothes shop next to Wilkinsons. Wilkinsons was a Tescos in those days.

On the corner of Taplin Road/Middlewood Road where the now empty Hairdresser is, was a butchers shop and further up Middlewood road, opposite the Co-op, there used to be a couple of 'barrows' selling fruit, veg and flowers.

Parkers the Jewelers used to sell school uniform upstairs, those awful itchy wool school blazers!!

I can't remember much else but what I do remember and always found quite odd, was the shops half day closing on a thursday afternooon!!

I hope that jogs a few memories!

Living near the bottom of Dykes Hall Road, I knew all the shops in Hillsborough from the 1950s to the 1970s. One shop stands out in my memory "M & C Kay, Newsagents". Marion and Clarice Kay inherited the shop from their father. Neither ever married, and they ran the shop until the mid-1970s. The interior of the shop was rather dismal, and the huge counter was covered in newspapers and magazines. Whether you asked for a Dandy, a Woman's Own or something more obscure like "The Aquarist" or "Coin Monthly" they knew exactly where to find it. They also sold lots of other things, from toys and jig-saws to bundles of firewood. They lived over the shop; you could go to the back door if they were closed and they would be happy to sell whatever you wanted. They sold up and moved to a semi in Stanwood Crescent. Highly educated women (with degrees from Edinburgh University) they were rather eccentric, but straight as a die. Marion died in April 1982, aged 81 and Clarice a few months later, aged 72. "FairyNormal" mentioned that Wilkinsons used to be a Tesco - quite right, and I remember Bob Monkhouse coming to open it; a pity it didn't last long.

Wilkinsons indeed used to be a Tesco......but before that it was a Church if I remember correctly.
Just below that on Bradfield Road, at the entrance to the Ball car park was a fruit and veg shop. I used to clean the owners car for him on a saturday morning to earn a few bob.

In the late '60s early '70s there was a car or motor bike showroom on the right hand side (going towards Middlewood) - it was one of the last stores before you got to the park.

I remember it was one of the first places in Sheffield to get the Bond Bug(only people of a certain age will remember that) I was in my final year at Myers Grove - we used to pile into the place after school - the guy there let us sit in the bright orange bug and we all though it pretty cool (well, we were kids). On the opposite side of the road just down from the car showroom was an electrical shop - they sold some really great electrical 'gadgets' that were always interesting.

Further down on the same side towards Hillsborough Corner was a Pork Butchers - it was on a corner but I cannot remember which one. When I was a real young kid my grandad and I used to go and get some pork scratchings and then go to the park. Those scratchings tasted wonderful and nothing like the ones sold nowadays. Any ones that were too tough we used to feed to the ducks/swans in the park.

My Gran had a sister who had a shop down Bradfield Road so we were there quite a lot when I was younger. I cannot remember the names of the shops but it always seemed a really great shopping centre - especially at Christmas - there was a great atmosphere at that time of year.

I also remember the car showroom - it occupied the site of the former Howard's dairy (best ice cream in Sheffield). Before the Bond Bug came out (in June 1970) they sold the little NSU "Prinz" cars. I liked one reviewer's comment on the Bond Bug "It scurries down the road like a demented wedge of Leicester cheese". The pork butcher at the corner of Taplin Road was Kelsey's - old Frank Kelsey retired and handed over to his nephew but the business went downhill and it's now a hairdressing salon. Kelsey's scratchings couldn't be bettered and their pork pies were good, too.

You must all remember V.Hilton Tap. He was the dentist opposite the Park entrance on Hawksley Ave: I stood on the steps of his surgery and waved a Union Flag on the Queens visit in the '50's . My uncle was his Dental Technician for many years and I spent many happy hours in the back workshop making igloos from plaster of paris in rubber moulds. I was fascinated by the false teeth all in rows to match the different colours. I was never fascinated when sitting in his chair getting a healthy dose of gas or the smell which I will never forget.

i remember the doctors was at limbrick road, the first road from hillsborough corner (hillsborough place i think) off middlewood road was a bank, then next door the post office, then anne and barrys hairdressing salon i think. The Yorkshire bank if i remember rightly used to be on the corner of Rudyard road, opposite Timpsons shoe shop, i remember the petrol station that used to be where maplins electrical shop is (opposite barracks). Also the wooden fruit and veg carts on the road opposite where the co-op is now.

Oh - V.Hilton Tapp; he was a very good dentist who had care of my choppers in the late 1950s. I just had a look at the appropriate website and found that Vincent H. Tapp, born 14 May 1899, died in Sheffield in the first quarter of 1970. The first road off Middlewood Road after Hillsborough Corner is Hillsborough Road; I don't remember a bank - I think Barker's furniture shop was on the first corner, with Marsden's butchers on the opposite corner. The post office was just along Hillsborough Road; it was built in 1961 - before that the (much smaller) P.O. was on the other side of Middlewood Road, near Kay's newsagents. The Yorkshire Bank was indeed on the corner of Rudyard Road - it's now a restaurant. Barclays Bank was (and still is) just across Middlewood Road from Hillsborough Road, next to Burtons which was on the corner. The petrol station (where Maplins is now) replaced the Phoenix cinema, which must have closed in the 1960s. The fruit and veg. cart at the end of Brier Street is sadly missed - it was owned by two brothers who lived at Southey Green - one of them died suddenly from a sudden throat infection or choking attack, I think. The flower cart at the end of Roselle Street was owned by Mrs Windley who had the flower shop on Proctor Place - her daughter Victoria took over, and still has the flower shop as well as "Flowers by Victoria" in the arcade. Memories...