Just wondered if anyone had any photos of the 5 arches on Herries Road in the time when it was all just fields? Just wondered as I have a painting of it and would like to see the real thing . :)

There are a few pics at,
http://www.picturesheffield.com/

There is photo of the five arches when it was rural all around it in Ron Clayton's book S6 Then and Now.

http://www.picturesheffield.com/jpgh/s07539.jpg

The Rawson Spring pub in Hilsbro has a photo on the wall of Herries rd in days gone by, I think it has the arches on it. that's one thing I like about Weatherspoons pubs - they always feature local history of where they are.

Not sure what year this was taken, it's off an old post card.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/skippy_63/scan0031.jpg

That's an interesting picture. It appears to be looking towards the Wednesday ground. The bridge looks like a photograph, but the buildings, and the pedestrian seem to be drawings added afterwards


Not sure what year this was taken, it's off an old post card.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/skippy_63/scan0031.jpg

anyone know where they quarried the stone from to build the arches.

That's an interesting picture. It appears to be looking towards the Wednesday ground. The bridge looks like a photograph, but the buildings, and the pedestrian seem to be drawings added afterwards

The other strange thing is the bridge has been plated to strengthen it something usually done after many years of use. Be great to know the year taken.

Does anyone know when Herries Road where the 5 Arches stand was metalled.

I believe it was in the 1930's but I could be wrong.

I did have a postcard of the arches looking towards the Wednsday ground before the road was metalled.

Happy Days PopT

Right, here goes (reaching for his postcard album):

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/FiveArches1.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/FiveArches2.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/FiveArches3.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/FiveArches4.jpg

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/FiveArches5.jpg

PopT - A contributor to the Sheffield History forum wrote that Herries Road was "built as a scheme of public work by the local unemployed in the early 1920s", and if this is correct then I imagine it would have had a metalled surface from the outset. See
http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=355&mode=threaded

All my postcards are pre-First World War except one - the same one that skippy has. Annoyingly, my copy also is not dated, but it might have been published to show the new road, and in general style it could well be a 1920s card, especially being partially artist-drawn.

It would be interesting to know when the steel bars and plates were added to strengthen the structure - evidently long before 1954 when the line was electrified.

Those are great pictures of the Five Arches, Hillsbro. I like pix of viaducts! You don't happen to know of anyone who has a good picture of the viaduct at Penistone, do you?

There must be some good early 1900s postcard views of Penistone Viaduct, but as it is outside my collecting area I don't have any. It might be worth keeping an eye on eBay, though.