Iconic Sheffield "stores" [Archive]

hillsbro

10-12-2009, 13:46

Can anyone recall the name of the clothes shop on Union street circa 1972, it sold loads of cheesecloth shirts, loon pants and all manner of Bohemian type fashion. Please put me out of my misery!!

I dunno - but here's a scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/UnionStreet.jpg) from the Kelly's Directory of 1973 (compiled in mid-1972). Maybe Bubble 'n' Squeak at No 26?.:)

Redgates. I could have stayed in there all day if my mum would have let me.I must be older than you, singo; in my case it was Wilson Gumperts in Fitzalan Square - a wonderland of toys..:)

jack reacher

10-12-2009, 13:59

Hillsboro, top man Bubble and squeak it was. Thanks for the quick response.

grouchomarx

10-12-2009, 14:16

blanchards infirmary road i remember the tube thing which took the money to the office i think . and my mum worked there .

Kidorry

10-12-2009, 14:16

I dunno - but here's a scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/UnionStreet.jpg) from the Kelly's Directory of 1973 (compiled in mid-1972). Maybe Bubble 'n' Squeak at No 26?.:)

I must be older than you, singo; in my case it was FWilson Gumperts in itzalan Square - a wonderland of toys..:)
I will second that.

OwlsChick

10-12-2009, 14:50

Hows about Chelsea Girl and Richard Shops both on fargate also Western Jean Company at the top along with Joan Barrie the bridal shop,Ratners and the Singer shop on the markets gallery.......

hillsbro

10-12-2009, 16:09

Fargate has been mentioned a number of times - here's a list (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Fargate.jpg) of Fargate shops from the 1973 Kelly's directory..:)

crookesey

10-12-2009, 17:19

Hows about Chelsea Girl and Richard Shops both on fargate also Western Jean Company at the top along with Joan Barrie the bridal shop,Ratners and the Singer shop on the markets gallery.......

These were nationals, not Sheffield owned shops.

maxofe

10-12-2009, 18:06

chimay

10-12-2009, 19:10

It wasn't really a Sheffield store but I have fond memories of C&A near the hole in the road and before that Banners down Attercliffe.

Forgevalley

10-12-2009, 19:29

Just thought of another - based on London Road and named after a Rolling Stones single, but was iconic in the stuff it sold - Ruby Tuesday's !!

Forgevalley

10-12-2009, 19:31

Fox's music must have been around years as well????

hillsbro

10-12-2009, 21:05

Hibbert's art shop (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=70546) on the corner of Surrey Street and Norfolk Street. So sad that it had to close - the business was founded in the 19th century..:(

sycamore66j

10-12-2009, 21:24

blanchards infirmary road i remember the tube thing which took the money to the office i think . and my mum worked there .

I remember going to blanchards with my mum to get my school blazer when i started ecclesfield comp in 1969, and also watching the money dissapearing up the tubes.

bensonhedges

10-12-2009, 22:35

Bankrupt Clothing Co opposite Henry's was THE place in the late 80's - early 90's. Nice pair of Joe Bloggs anyone?

Vague_Boy

11-12-2009, 00:05

Redgates.

I could have stayed in there all day if my mum would have let me.

There no more iconic Sheffield store than Redgates in my opinion.

The very stuff of childhood for those on here of "a certain age".

PopT

11-12-2009, 05:07

How about Wilson Tupholmes, Henry Wigfull's stores and Eddie Patnick's Junkarame at Page Hall?

Happy Days! PopT

snuffty

11-12-2009, 11:14

Redgates, Violet May and Cole Brothers were all fantastic.

I also recall Bradleys Records on Fargate and Chapel Walk. Revolution Records on The Haymarket and a brilliant record/ vintage clothing shop opposite the City Hall, but the name escapes me now.

what about virgin records at bottom of the moor

rogG

11-12-2009, 13:36

Ad from Sheffield Star 17 Mar '61.

"The Startime Bedroom Group"

Lady's 'Robe (wardrobe) with mirror, Gent's fitted 'robe, Elegant dressing table, padded headboard, guaranteed mattress and divan.

69 and a half guineas or 7 pounds 6d deposit and 104 payments of 14s weekly

at

CASTLES. 192, The Moor.

I don't remember that store. Anyone out there remember it?

hillsbro

11-12-2009, 14:46

...CASTLES. 192, The Moor. I don't remember that store. Anyone out there remember it?
Yes, it was there until about the late 1960s when the building (opposite the end of Ellin Street) was demolished - here's a photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18068).

OwlsChick

11-12-2009, 14:51

These were nationals, not Sheffield owned shops.

Ah yes,sorry misread the thread...:roll:

JenC

11-12-2009, 15:23

what about virgin records at bottom of the moor

There was a shop above Virgin that sold kind of hippie clothing and stuff which my mum and dad used to go to (my dad still has some patchouli essence he got from there in the early 70s - not that he wears it now!). When they've told me about this shop in the past though, neither of them can remember if it was a seperate shop or just tied in with the Virgin record shop below. Do you know by any chance?

bullerboY

11-12-2009, 16:26

who remembes the concord chinky on the corner of surrey st and union st.what about the posh toy shop at the top of church st on the right hand side.who had their hair cut at gabriels on church st where you had to book a few days ahead,you went down stairs,before that place he was near newton chambers on union lane.there was dainties sweet shops and stewert and stewerts.Aaaaagh lewis leathers and the georgeous linda!

melthebell

11-12-2009, 16:47

for me

redgates

for my music
rare and racy, kennys records, hitsville, record collector, bradleys records, play it again, amazing records, our price, jacks records, virgin (down the bottom of the high street) and a few ive forgotten the names of oops
there was one record shop on the gallery over the markets, there was smiffys (goth place) there was one up the road from the wap opposite cole bros, had to go up some stairs

then there was pippys, the peace shop (over looking whats now the magic roundabout), the independent bookshop............and for my computer games there was just micro

ahhhh those were the days

sibon

11-12-2009, 17:05

and a few ive forgotten the names of oops

there was one record shop on the gallery over the markets,

That was Revolution Records, a brilliant place.

Can you remember the name of the Record Shop opposite Coles on Cambridge Street? It has been knocked down now, but I seem to recall it going back for what seemed like forever.

Spacecat

11-12-2009, 17:24

Harringtons (Ben Shermans and two tone stayprest ,,,now i feel old lol)....and Sheffield United Tours ..... they were two of the shops I remember being across the road from the Castle market, before they built the magistrates courts.

melthebell

11-12-2009, 17:26

That was Revolution Records, a brilliant place.

Can you remember the name of the Record Shop opposite Coles on Cambridge Street? It has been knocked down now, but I seem to recall it going back for what seemed like forever.

there nwas amazing records, where i bought my first punk singles (crass - reality asylum, GBH - sick boy) which if i remember rightly was a few doors up from henrys (sort of middle), then later on there was one on the end at the top (up some stairs, was clothing and records..........a guy i knew from college ran it, think he went to spain to work later) - that shop bit was turned into a car park mid 90s i think

hillsbro

11-12-2009, 17:39

...Can you remember the name of the Record Shop opposite Coles on Cambridge Street? It has been knocked down now, but I seem to recall it going back for what seemed like forever.I think it was called Impulse. In 1985-86 I was able to buy some really hard-to-get rock LPs there - a great shop.

RobertDSmith

11-12-2009, 18:11

Wilson Gumpert's !!! Hills. you must be in line for the double winter fuel handout never mind the free telly !
My dad was a model railway builder so we knew about them. His first job when he left school was at Cole Brothers on the Fargate door helping the ladies out of their carriages.
If that is too mind bending a thought what about Coles' retaurant on the top floor with the bar stools and lunch for 7/6. When it went up to 8/6 I decided I could'nt afford it anymore. But as an impressionable young man in my Daks suit I felt I was somewhere special.
Nowadays I struggle to afford a bar lunch let alone a Daks suit !
Is'nt hindsight and reflection a wonderful thing.
Bob.

hillsbro

11-12-2009, 18:54

Wilson Gumpert's !!! Hills. you must be in line for the double winter fuel handout never mind the free telly!
Hmmmm.... Well, I'll admit to a (single) fuel handout and a bus pass but I haven't yet joined the free-telly club..:P

Wilson Gumpert's must have closed in the 1960s. They always had a wonderful display of toys - unaffordable of course, but it was nice just to stand with your nose pressed against the window and look at, for example, the huge Meccano models on display, and the Bing model trains (made in Germany - the German-born Ernst Gumpert was originally a sales rep. in Sheffield). The shop had its own short thread (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=413311) last year.

...what about Coles' restaurant on the top floor with the bar stools and lunch for 7/6...Yes indeed - also Davy's café in Fargate and the milk bar in Pinstone Street.

GUZZIOWL

11-12-2009, 21:57

what about davy's mikado , and not forgetting the "flapjack bar " ( pigs in a blanket ) & snig hill special (pancake & ice cream mmmmm! ) and the "centre spot" cafe at the top of snig hill, days gone by !! long but not forgotten , and before i go , " hopkinsons capri " !!

jmdee

11-12-2009, 22:18

Don't see Wilson Peck's and Suggs mentioned, although may have missed them.

hillsbro

12-12-2009, 07:27

what about davy's mikado ...

Yes indeed - here (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/zoom.pl?picture=http://www.picturesheffield.com/jpgh/s16967.jpg) is an old (1930s) photo..:)

grinder

12-12-2009, 08:30

rogG

12-12-2009, 13:44

Yes, it was there until about the late 1960s when the building (opposite the end of Ellin Street) was demolished - here's a photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18068).

Goodphoto, Hillsboro. That would have to have been down toward the bottom of the Moor, I think. Anywhere near the Locarno? And opposite the stores, there's an open section with what looks like a bit of a canopy. Where the streetlamp and the guy with the shopping bag is. Is that a bus stop? Also, as we look at the photo is the bottom of the Moor to the left and the top to the right?

bullerboY

13-12-2009, 16:54

what about symington and crofts, hornes gents shop,habitat and bray bros,ann lennards and procters furniture shop,peter robinsons,waring and gillows,schweizers furnishers,sydneys on snig hill and jones motorbike clothes shop also on snig hilland paul temple tailors.

hillsbro

13-12-2009, 18:00

Goodphoto, Hillsboro. That would have to have been down toward the bottom of the Moor, I think. Anywhere near the Locarno? And opposite the stores, there's an open section with what looks like a bit of a canopy. Where the streetlamp and the guy with the shopping bag is. Is that a bus stop? Also, as we look at the photo is the bottom of the Moor to the left and the top to the right?

Yes, it was at the bottom of the Moor, between Young Street and the corner of Ecclesall Road which is just out of sight to the left of the photo. I don't think there would have been a bus stop so close to the pedestrian crossing; it might be a NO ENTRY sign behind the man with the shopping bag - I seem to think Ellin Street was one-way from Hereford Street to the Moor. What looks like a canopy at the right-hand side is, I think, the strip-lighting for a large advertising hoarding that stood on the corner of Ellin Street - it can be seen in this 1950s photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18005) taken from just across the Moor. This photo also shows Lamb's drapers' shop - James Lamb, a native of Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, had moved to Sheffield and opened a shop on the corner of Ellin Street as early as the 1880s. He prospered, bought the neighbouring land and built the premises visible in the photo. An earlier photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18015) shows Lamb's building at the extreme right - the tramlines in the foreground curve to the left towards Ecclesall Road. On the corner at the far left can be seen part of Sawer's sweet shop (click on "Zoom" to enlarge as with all these photos). Shepherd Sawer's business was almost as old as Lambs - the shop opened in the 1890s.

Needless to say, all these buildings disappeared when the land was cleared for the Manpower Services Commission building in the 1970s (if not before).

billhaley

13-12-2009, 20:21

Bunneys was the in place in the late fifties, the first place you could buy tight jeans, black one's with green stitching and fancy shirts, back in the days when if you wore trousers with 16" bottoms you were classed as a "Teddy boy"
The "in" shop for flash jackets and tight trousers was the tailors Fred Burns on the High street,
and for furniture if you wanted a three piece suite try Jay's at the moor head..
For records it was Canns on Dixon lane,and because the latest rock and roll music wasn't often played on radio then you could listen to a record before you bought it in a little telephone box size sound proof booth..

Loved Canns the Music Man, and talking of Bunneys with the "drainpipe trousers in black man-made stuff" wasn't there Colvins on Snig Hill which did great shirts etc? For fags it was Sylvesters by the Town Hall, Sobranie Black Russian if you were flush or Passing Clouds.

jongo

13-12-2009, 20:26

There was a shop above Virgin that sold kind of hippie clothing and stuff which my mum and dad used to go to (my dad still has some patchouli essence he got from there in the early 70s - not that he wears it now!). When they've told me about this shop in the past though, neither of them can remember if it was a seperate shop or just tied in with the Virgin record shop below. Do you know by any chance?

Hi Jen
Hows it going ?

Not certain if its the same shop, but there was one like you are describing and it was called Pippy's, just up a side street at the top of the Moor

nosy nellie

13-12-2009, 20:55

I remember Winstons at the bottom of Snig Hill always had one window full of ladies white blouses,the fashion at the time Black pencil skirts with white blouses usually with a black bow and the other window had mens trendy shirts well they were trendy then.

Hallam100

13-12-2009, 21:20

My OH has been on a trip down memory lane with this - but can't remember the name of the shop on Infirmary Road (think opposite where Tesco's is now) that used to sell Dr Martens boots? He well remembers his red boots and oxblood to keep them red - can anyone remember the store?
Also, do you remember Sugarmans from the rag & tag market who used to sell crockery & pots, they then went to a shop in Exchange Place - what other shops were on there?

JenC

14-12-2009, 12:55

Hi Jen
Hows it going ?

Not certain if its the same shop, but there was one like you are describing and it was called Pippy's, just up a side street at the top of the Moor

Hey Jongo

They both said it was definitely above Virgin at the bottom of the moor. They may well have gone to Pippy's aswell though (maybe just my mum - sounds like a woman's shop).

Thanks anyway. :thumbsup:

devlin

15-12-2009, 11:18

My Mum always got her special clothes from Carols on Eccy Road, this was there for years and has only recently closed I think. When we were down on Eccy Road she used to take me to "Butterfly" a boutique owned by Marti Cane as a treat. I was always in awe of the lovely things sold in there. Butterfly is still there but I don't know who owns it these days

Pippys was an awesome shop, we used to get little naughties from there such as our small bottles of liquid gold (poppers) for our Friday nights in Sinatras etc.....

rogG

15-12-2009, 13:50

Yes, it was at the bottom of the Moor, between Young Street and the corner of Ecclesall Road which is just out of sight to the left of the photo. I don't think there would have been a bus stop so close to the pedestrian crossing; it might be a NO ENTRY sign behind the man with the shopping bag - I seem to think Ellin Street was one-way from Hereford Street to the Moor. What looks like a canopy at the right-hand side is, I think, the strip-lighting for a large advertising hoarding that stood on the corner of Ellin Street - it can be seen in this 1950s photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18005) taken from just across the Moor. This photo also shows Lamb's drapers' shop - James Lamb, a native of Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, had moved to Sheffield and opened a shop on the corner of Ellin Street as early as the 1880s. He prospered, bought the neighbouring land and built the premises visible in the photo. An earlier photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18015) shows Lamb's building at the extreme right - the tramlines in the foreground curve to the left towards Ecclesall Road. On the corner at the far left can be seen part of Sawer's sweet shop (click on "Zoom" to enlarge as with all these photos). Shepherd Sawer's business was almost as old as Lambs - the shop opened in the 1890s.

Needless to say, all these buildings disappeared when the land was cleared for the Manpower Services Commission building in the 1970s (if not before).

Thanks for all this, Hillsboro. When I was in Sheffield last summer, I couldn't relate at all to the bottom of the Moor, except for the familiar roof of the old Locarno building, now (what else) a supermarket.

What caught my eye about that old ad was the price of the furniture in guineas. Sixty nine and a half. Pocket calculators hadn't been invented then, but shoppers would have had no problem in doing the math:

69 guineas = 69 pounds + 69 shillings =72 pounds 9s. Then add half a guinea = 10s 6d. Grand total 72pounds 19s 6d.

"I don't know why them foreigners can't underdstand our money system," my old grandmother used to say. When they changed to a decimal system, she used to have a woman down the road do her shopping and convert everything back into the old system so she could understand it.

A bit off topic for this thread but thought I'd just throw it in.

shanes teeth

15-12-2009, 19:56

There was a shop above Virgin that sold kind of hippie clothing and stuff which my mum and dad used to go to (my dad still has some patchouli essence he got from there in the early 70s - not that he wears it now!). When they've told me about this shop in the past though, neither of them can remember if it was a seperate shop or just tied in with the Virgin record shop below. Do you know by any chance?

The shop above Virgin was part of the Virgin record shop.I remember seeing Gong play a free gig on the waste land at the side of the shop in Virgins very early days.Other shops down there were Lewis Leathers,Bensons carpets,a music shop(Fox's?)and I think a Thorntons.

kevvv

15-12-2009, 20:18

does anyone remember that the leadmill used to have a record shop on what is now the ring road, it was great for punk records. we used to go down at school dinner time. was it part of the leadmill or did it just happen to be next to it

RobertDSmith

15-12-2009, 20:30

JenC

16-12-2009, 11:39

The shop above Virgin was part of the Virgin record shop.I remember seeing Gong play a free gig on the waste land at the side of the shop in Virgins very early days.Other shops down there were Lewis Leathers,Bensons carpets,a music shop(Fox's?)and I think a Thorntons.

Thanks shanes teeth. My dad may well have been at that gig too - he's a fan (as am I).

Cheers :thumbsup:

rogG

16-12-2009, 13:31

So rogG, what's it like living in Canada ?
You know in South Yorkshire...tell it how it is !
Should I have got on the bus to Southampton in 1941 ?
I'm sorry it's not about old shops but the ones I remember, the streets arn't there any more let alone the shops.
Bob.

I hated it for the first 6 months I was over here, then for the past 40 years have loved it. It's such a big country though. Although I've lived in a big city (Vancouver) I prefer the rural style of living on Prince Edward Island, before that Newfoundland.

Don't know about the bus to Southampton. Never been there. 41 would have been during war time. What were you doing going there?

Back to Sheffield. I know what you mean about missing the streets. The ones in my old 'hood have been mostly demolished to make way for giant roundabouts and super trams. The old character of the place has suffered. Yes, it's upsetting to those of us who still remember the way it used to be. But, the younger generation would probably see it differently.

shanes teeth

16-12-2009, 16:17

Thanks shanes teeth. My dad may well have been at that gig too - he's a fan (as am I).

Cheers :thumbsup:

I've still got the free copy of the Camembert Electrique that they were giving away that day.Must be worth a fortune by now.Certainly more than it cost on the day!

RobertDSmith

16-12-2009, 18:10

Rog, at the start of the war when the bombs started dropping children were offered a free passage to Canada. I think my father got as far as filling in the form !
Just imagine not being able to go to Italy every year ! This should be a new thread about evacuees, sorry folks.
Iconic shops ? does anyone remember the Hobbies shop on St. Paul's Parade ?
Not a shop, but in the early days sold contemporary furniture, JUST COOKING !! on Carver St. Why can't you get food like that anymore, unless you cook it yourself of course.
Bob.

hillsbro

16-12-2009, 20:16

...Iconic shops ? does anyone remember the Hobbies shop on St. Paul's Parade ?Yes indeed - there was also a Hobbies shop on Shalesmoor (corner of Ebenezer Street). It was there at least from the early 1950s to the 1980s when I guess the owner retired. Recently it was nice to see a model shop in Fitzalan Square, next to Hein Gericke.

rogG

16-12-2009, 23:10

[QUOTE=RobertDSmith;5740012]Rog, at the start of the war when the bombs started dropping children were offered a free passage to Canada. I think my father got as far as filling in the form !

Think yourself lucky. There's been a big fuss over here because our govt wouldn't apologize for the harsh treatment some of those kids received once they got over here. Treated like hired hands in some cases. Australia has apologized to its war "orphans" btw.

Now, back to the thread. There used to be an Army & Navy Store near the Peace Gardens on Norfolk St I believe. Fascinating stuff they had hung in the window. Also, down West Bar, there was a store that sold equipment for camping and caving. But, since it's iconic stores under discussion, Preston's on West St has to be mentioned. It provided chemical supplies to the schools for their labs, but also did a roaring trade on a Sat a.m. with amateur hobbyists. The stuff they used to dole out to kids. Sulfuric Acid, Caustic Soda? How much do you want?

JenC

17-12-2009, 09:20

I've still got the free copy of the Camembert Electrique that they were giving away that day.Must be worth a fortune by now.Certainly more than it cost on the day!

I've got my dad's copy. It still has the pricing on - 60p from Violet May. He overpaid, given that it was only supposed to be sold for 49p!

bullerboY

17-12-2009, 09:23

my cousin worked in the hobbies sho on shalesmoor for 20 yrs her name was janet Ialso looked after mrs prestons car in the 70s.

crookesey

17-12-2009, 12:50

shanes teeth

17-12-2009, 13:12

I've got my dad's copy. It still has the pricing on - 60p from Violet May. He overpaid, given that it was only supposed to be sold for 49p!

It must have achieved "collectable" status by the time your dad bought it!
That was the thing with Violet,everything you wanted to sell her was "not much call for that",everything you wanted to buy was"rare as hens teeth"!

grinder

17-12-2009, 13:29

maxofe

17-12-2009, 13:31

It must have achieved "collectable" status by the time your dad bought it!
That was the thing with Violet,everything you wanted to sell her was "not much call for that",everything you wanted to buy was"rare as hens teeth"!

lmao that so reminds me of my dear (late) dad,

he owned Just Military on abbeydale road.

if he was buying: "ive a bag load at home" or "you cant get rid of those for love nor money"

if he was selling: "ooh (sucks teeth) rare as rocking horse **** they are, the last one i saw was in 1960 and it was on so and so's stall, and you know how much they charge"

hehheh

hillsbro

17-12-2009, 14:19

Remember being fascinated by the guns in the window of a small shop down at the bottom of Snig hill in the late fifties.
They'd go crazy now at all those guns stacked on display behind a ordinary shop window....That would be Turner (http://merzantique.com/images/uploads/big/turner.jpg)'s shop. Arthur Turner (1863-1930) set up in business in 1907 when he purchased an older cartridge making business at No 5a West Bar (hence "Established 1830"). Later the business moved a bit further along West Bar, and it was there until the property was demolished in the mid-1990s. It then moved to 166 Infirmary Road and has since closed.

GUZZIOWL

17-12-2009, 15:41

There have been quite a few record shops mentioned over the last few pages , but i seem to recall "curtis" records. I "think " it was next to the a.b.c cinema, in the days when you could buy "singles " for 6/8d each , also remember buying ex- juke box singles from the rag 'n' tag ,

grinder

17-12-2009, 16:44

The earliest memory I have about records was being sent for a tin of record needles from Banners for the old 78rpm records, 1944/45..

What about the old Woolworth's record label Embassy all the top hits of the day sung by completely unknown artist !!!
Definitely a no-no...
Remember cringing when my father came home with Elvis Presley's DON'T sung by a guy named Hal Munro..... who !!!!
GOD !!! If any of my friends had seen that I would never have lived it down.....

hillsbro

17-12-2009, 18:43

The earliest memory I have about records was being sent for a tin of record needles from Banners for the old 78rpm records, 1944/45..Might have looked like one of these (http://www.radio-memories.co.uk/pictures/tins.jpg).What about the old Woolworth's record label Embassy all the top hits of the day sung by completely unknown artist !!!Bloomin' heck yes! Some of them are listed here (http://www.spanglefish.com/TheWonderofEmbassyRecords/index.asp?pageid=159695). I think I sitll have the Embassy 78 rpm version of A Pub With No Beer...

I remember when Woolworth's opened their Hillsborough store in 1956, the first 50 people through the door got a free bag full of their own brand "Kingsmere" food products. We were having Kingsmere jam on our toast for ages afterwards...

Sheff2006

19-12-2009, 18:10

Just Micro on Carver Street. Wasnt Gremlin Graphics based upstairs?

Whats the old Just Micro building these days?

Sh2006.

devlin

21-12-2009, 11:36

Carols was on Abbeydale Rd, had it been on Ecclesall Rd previously? Butterflies on Ecclesall Road was owned by my wife's best friend, Dorothy Bronx, however Marti might have owned it at a later date.

Opps sorry yes Carols was Abbeydale Road, don't know the history of Butterflies but all I do know is that Marti used to be in there regularly just as she was about to become famous so I am going back say 30 years

melthebell

21-12-2009, 18:21

Just Micro on Carver Street. Wasnt Gremlin Graphics based upstairs?

Whats the old Just Micro building these days?

Sh2006.
indeed, gremlin was upstairs from just micro

heres pics of just micro (http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b307/Blooda/Presentation1.jpg)

i posted the old just micro pic on a zx spectrum site i frequent and somebody posted the later pic, somebody else did this presentation showing where the just micro entrance was, check outt he paving slabs

herea a bit about gremlin graphics (http://www.crashonline.org.uk/18/gremlin.htm) from crash magazine

grinder

23-12-2009, 11:05

I'm Sure I can remember round about 1960 going to Tuckwoods restaurant on Surrey street, and going up stairs for a meal, am I right ?

hillsbro

23-12-2009, 12:39

I'm Sure I can remember round about 1960 going to Tuckwoods restaurant on Surrey street, and it was up stairs, am I right ?

"Tuckwood's Mongomery Restaurant" was actually downstairs, and it survived until maybe the early 1990s. It was originally an offshoot of Tuckwood's high-class grocer's (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s10504) business nearby in Fargate. It's now an Italian restaurant, the Cafe Nova (http://www.sheffieldrestaurant.co.uk/restaurants/City-Centre/Cafe-Nova/).

scargill

23-12-2009, 12:41

Freewheelin, on Oakbrook Road in the 70s, again a hippy shop, that sold bootleg albums, lots of incense sticks and burners and had a waterbed in the middle of the store.

pressy

24-12-2009, 09:28

Remember Pauldens by name but cant remember which shop it is now.

grinder

24-12-2009, 11:07

Davy's had a store/ restaurant in the Haymarket ,my Mum worked in the restaurant in the 50s but I never went in, does anyone remember going there ...

cdtiman

24-12-2009, 11:13

Remember Pauldens by name but cant remember which shop it is now.

Debenhams ....................

satman2222

25-12-2009, 08:36

BLITZER

25-12-2009, 22:47

Does anyone remember Marsdens milk bar on Pinstone Street?

Amyrach

29-12-2009, 16:31

shanes teeth

29-12-2009, 16:45

Wimpeys on fargate,girlywigg daveys restaurant,Ideal salons on Norfolk Row,Lewis the jewellers on chapel walk,along with Richard shops Lift up your skirts and fly boutique at the back of peace gardens,Great universal took over from redgates in 70s

I think it was Lonsdale Universal when Redgates moved round the corner.Although at one time there was a conecting passage between the basements of the two shops.

helbco

30-12-2009, 08:54

what about Gowers The Grocers? In 1943 they had 23 branches. Whatever happened to them? I can remember their store on Abbeydale in the mid-60's which was a 'walk-about' store (pre-cursor to supermarkets).

I have a copy of Gowers' "A shoppers' guide for points planning ", dated May 1943 (for rations).

Wilson Gumpetts was a treat for Guy Fawkes Day - used to go with Dad and spend my saved-up pocket money on amazing fireworks, although Redgates was my all time favourite.

Who can remember Gregory's cake shop on Abbeydale - with awesome vanilla slices and Bakewell tarts?

Coles brings back happy memories. Mum used to save her LVs (luncheon vouchers) and we would have a 3 course lunch there on Saturday. Sorry to see the restaurant is now a cafeteria.

Don't think anyone has mentioned Stewart and Stewart - opposite the Peace Gardens. If you had your hair done there you had your own private room.

Sorry to see that Walsh's is no more - what a dump of a shop now!!

grinder

30-12-2009, 09:29

RobertDSmith

30-12-2009, 10:26

I'm supprised no-one mentioned Stewart and Stewart's before, my wife always nipped in while I did the cutlery buying.
And what about Sharmans on Glossop Road, a very up-market grocers if I remember.
As for the loss of shops, no supprise to me ! as a small time shopkeeper I glimpsed the dismal future 30 years ago when I saw Boots selling frying pans.
What did a chemist know about cookware ? retaling was never to be the same again.
Bob.

danensis

30-12-2009, 12:00

When we used to visit Sheffield in the 1950s, we'd either travel by train, arriving at Victoria, or by the 77 bus, and arrive on Pond Street. We'd walk up to Fitzalan Square, and have a milkshake in the Milk Bar there and then, if there was time, go up to Walsh's for a ride on the escalators.

When I was at college in the late 60s, the one thing I remember was a shop at Moorfoot, where we bought fancy dress for Rag Week.

I also used to visit Bardwell's down Aizlewood Road, it was much more of a treasure trove than the new shop on Abbeydale Road.

John

hillsbro

30-12-2009, 12:12

I'm supprised no-one mentioned Stewart and Stewart's before, my wife always nipped in while I did the cutlery buying.Stewart and Stewart's could certainly be regarded as an iconic Sheffield store. They were always known for high quality (with prices to match) and maybe they couldn't survive the cut-price competition of the 1960s. When I started at King Ted's in 1959, all the posh kids had Stewart and Stewart uniforms. Needless to say, mine was bought "on t' weekly".

The Liverpool-born Robert Stewart established a tailoring business in Sheffield in the 1880s. Around the turn of the century he was joined in business by his son (also Robert) and by 1905 they had moved to the Pinstone Street premises. For a time they also had a branch in High Street. The Pinstone Street shop can be seen in this 1920s postcard (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/PinstoneStreet1921.jpg) view. Here's a 1925 advert (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Stewart.jpg).

hillsbro

30-12-2009, 12:33

When I was at college in the late 60s, the one thing I remember was a shop at Moorfoot, where we bought fancy dress for Rag Week. If this was in a single-storey building, it can be seen in this photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18074) and also this one (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s00213) (click Zoom to enlarge).I also used to visit Bardwell's down Aizlewood Road, it was much more of a treasure trove than the new shop on Abbeydale Road.
Yes - Norman Bardwell's shop was indeed a treasure trove. Norman sadly died aged 89 in 2007 - see this thread (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=278321).

bazjea

30-12-2009, 13:14

What about Harraps. The very strange shop on Howard St
That sold creams for skin conditions, and had examples of
corns, verucas, and other bits of dried skin displayed in the
window.

hillsbro

30-12-2009, 13:23

What about Harraps. The very strange shop on Howard St That sold creams for skin conditions, and had examples of
corns, verucas, and other bits of dried skin displayed in the window. Yes indeed, and the shop has its own thread (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17570).

grafikhaus74

30-12-2009, 13:38

Mustard Seed cafe where the Town Hall egg-box used to be? And Jack Archer Sports on Bramall Lane?

Banker

30-12-2009, 18:09

The Liverpool-born Robert Stewart established a tailoring business in Sheffield in the 1880s. Around the turn of the century he was joined in business by his son (also Robert) and by 1905 they had moved to the Pinstone Street premises... That's very interesting hillsboro; I knew a little about Stewart and Stewarts and the family that owned the shop but not the early history. Robert Stewart senior retired to the Lake District and died in 1930, aged 79. I would guess that the shop closed in the early 1960s

Switchblade

31-12-2009, 16:34

J.G. Graves was one of Sheffields greatest benefactors, as a child I was often taken to by my mother to the JG Graves department store which was in the vicinity of the Hallamshire Hospital.
You can still see 'Graves' pocket watches for sale on Ebay (See photo) Like the one I have (dated 1900) that my late grandfather used as an Engine Driver
http://i50.tinypic.com/2ldv9s5.jpg

The 'Graves Art Gallery', 'Graves Park' and the numerous 'Graves Trust' houses are this great mans legacy in Sheffield.

shanes teeth

31-12-2009, 18:02

Favourites for Levis,Loon Pants,Afghan coats,scoop neck T-shirts were South Sea Bubble,Western Jean Company,Pippys,upstairs at Virgin Records and Sexy Rexy.Strangely my first pair of Levis came from Roberts Brothers and they always had loads of Ben Shermans in the (proper) January sales.Do you remember the smell of brand new Levis? And then putting them on,stiff as a board(ooo-er)and having to sit in the bath with them on to soften them up and shrink them.I tried to smell a pair of Levis in Coles the other day but the OH said people would think I was weird! I don't think they smell the same now anyway.

hillsbro

31-12-2009, 18:22

J.G. Graves was one of Sheffields greatest benefactors, as a child I was often taken to by my mother to the JG Graves department store which was in the vicinity of the Hallamshire Hospital... That's right - it was on Durham Road, between Glossop Road and the Children's Hospital - here's a photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s22443). I remember seeing the building (or at least, the left-hand part as seen in the photo, with the name J.G. Graves in the stonework) when going to school in the early 1960s, though it can't have survived much longer than this. J.G. Graves had one of the first large mail-order businesses. - here's a brief profile (http://www.made-in-sheffield.com/People/johnGeorgeGraves.htm).

Switchblade

01-01-2010, 10:38

That's right - it was on Durham Road, between Glossop Road and the Children's Hospital. I remember seeing the building (or at least, the left-hand part as seen in the photo, with the name J.G. Graves in the stonework) when going to school in the early 1960s, though it can't have survived much longer than this. J.G. Graves had one of the first large mail-order businesses. -
Thanks for the link, truly a great man in the history of Sheffield.
I actualy bought two more JG Graves watches (circa 1901/2) so that all three of my sons would have one.

henrypond

04-01-2010, 00:50

The shop above Virgin was part of the Virgin record shop.I remember seeing Gong play a free gig on the waste land at the side of the shop in Virgins very early days.Other shops down there were Lewis Leathers,Bensons carpets,a music shop(Fox's?)and I think a Thorntons.

The music shop was Hudsons. I lived in the music/record shops at that end of town in the early 70's: Cranes, Hudsons, Curtis, Johnson Electrics, Musical Sounds, Virgin, Bradleys, Carlsboro, Pecks, Canns

shanes teeth

04-01-2010, 16:32

The music shop was Hudsons. I lived in the music/record shops at that end of town in the early 70's: Cranes, Hudsons, Curtis, Johnson Electrics, Musical Sounds, Virgin, Bradleys, Carlsboro, Pecks, Canns

That's right,Hudsons!We used to hang around in there pretending,not very convincingly,that we could aford a brand new Strat or 5 piece Ludwig with Zildgian(sp) cymbals! I remember the names Johnson Electrics and Musical Sounds but can't place them.Were they on London Rd?
More in our price range were the second hand shops up London Rd and Mr Humphries on Ecclesall Rd where we would barter for old 50's or 60's Hofner guitars or if you were lucky an old Vox AC30 amp.

SgtDave

04-01-2010, 18:01

capstan

04-01-2010, 21:17

Quadrophenia HiFi on Lady'sbridge in the 70's

henrypond

05-01-2010, 12:36

That's right,Hudsons!We used to hang around in there pretending,not very convincingly,that we could aford a brand new Strat or 5 piece Ludwig with Zildgian(sp) cymbals! I remember the names Johnson Electrics and Musical Sounds but can't place them.Were they on London Rd?
More in our price range were the second hand shops up London Rd and Mr Humphries on Ecclesall Rd where we would barter for old 50's or 60's Hofner guitars or if you were lucky an old Vox AC30 amp.

Johnson Electrics was a big shop on the corner of London Road and Woodhead road, what is now Wasabisabi. Music Sounds were originally on Bramall Lane, but moved up to London Road, just past Sharrow Lane.

henrypond

05-01-2010, 12:44

What about the Sheffield Sound Centre. Originally on Cemetery Road and then moved to Abbeydale Road. It was run by a really nice guy called Reg Bishop who, sadly, is no longer with us. A true gent and his wife Elsie, was another gem. His son Neil took it over but it closed quite a few years ago.

What was the hi-fi shop at the bottom of Ecclesall road near/oppsite the Devonshire Arms. From memory it was two units in a terrace separated by a couple of houses and a chippie.

hillsbro

05-01-2010, 18:39

What was the hi-fi shop at the bottom of Ecclesall road near/oppsite the Devonshire Arms. From memory it was two units in a terrace separated by a couple of houses and a chippie.A 1970s directory has Reg. Bishop's "Sheffield Sound Centre" at 101a Ecclesall Road (on the corner of Harrow Street), while three doors away at 107 Ecclesall Road is "Rocket Discount HiFi".

docmel

07-01-2010, 08:26

Johnson Electrics was a big shop on the corner of London Road and Woodhead road, what is now Wasabisabi. Music Sounds were originally on Bramall Lane, but moved up to London Road, just past Sharrow Lane.

Before they were on London Road, Johnson Electrics had a much smaller shop in the Berkley Precent on Ecclesall Road - I worked there for a short time in teh early 70's. Used to get a lot of the WMC acts in for their mikes and amps.

All the really expensive guitars (Srats, Gibsons etc) were hung up at the rear of the shop, for obvious reasons. One day a really scruffy, tramp like guy walked in and asked to play a Fender - we were all a bit doubtful, and Phil the manager made sure he was watched at all times - all gobsmacked when he drew £200 odd quid out of pocket and asked if it came with a case!

Plain Talker

07-01-2010, 08:54

Before they were on London Road, Johnson Electrics had a much smaller shop in the Berkley Precent on Ecclesall Road - I worked there for a short time in teh early 70's. Used to get a lot of the WMC acts in for their mikes and amps.

All the really expensive guitars (Srats, Gibsons etc) were hung up at the rear of the shop, for obvious reasons. One day a really scruffy, tramp like guy walked in and asked to play a Fender - we were all a bit doubtful, and Phil the manager made sure he was watched at all times - all gobsmacked when he drew £200 odd quid out of pocket and asked if it came with a case!

I remember Johnson Electrics on Berkeley precinct in the early eighties, My ex used to take our ZX spectrum there for repairs when the power supply would "blow" because I could never remember whether it was unplugging it with the power on, or plugging it in with the power on, that made it blow up. (well, I am blonde!)

scallyboy

07-01-2010, 16:51

maxofe

07-01-2010, 17:01

i used to live at greystones when i was a kid and near the challenge supermarket there was a sports shop called big brown bear,i remember it was a big thing getting a new coloured tennis ball on a friday

wasnt it the yogi bear sports shop? i had a yogi from there and cried for weeks when i lost it on holiday :(

shanes teeth

07-01-2010, 18:17

I thought it was just called "Big Brown" I got my first set of "proper" darts from there when we used to play darts in the Highcliffe tap room.

Dr Seuss

08-01-2010, 12:44

lizelard

10-01-2010, 13:11

Schofields,now the big Argos

Jean Genie,Fargate

Eyres,The Moor

American Diner? Fargate used to buy Coke Floats there mmmm

The Attic Sandwich Shop next to Rebina shoes

Tammys near Castle Market

C & A now Primark

Rackhams now TJ Hughes

Colvins just past the Peace Gardens

Discount Beauty on Cambridge St

What was the shop called downstairs in Chelsea Girl thet used to sell records?? i can remember buying Reo Speedwagon there and Hall and Oate........ aarrrhhh i'm sooo old!!!

crookesey

10-01-2010, 14:22

Can anyone please tell me which shop on Chapel Walk is where the Sidewalk cafe was situated?

hillsbro

10-01-2010, 16:37

Can anyone please tell me which shop on Chapel Walk is where the Sidewalk cafe was situated?

Must be Limeys (22 Chapel Walk).

melthebell

10-01-2010, 17:24

do the old arcades count?

there was one on the walkway overlooking pond street, forgot its name now, used to play a 3d hologram game in there

there was also storeys, a bit down from where redgates used to be...just left of the moor.

near where redgates was i also remember buying my first atari st from a computer shop.

then theres the chippies...i also loved the one on the walkway overlooking pond street, and the one that was just off devonshire street (used to talk to the guy a bit)

hillsbro

10-01-2010, 17:53

do the old arcades count?If so, then the Cambridge Arcade was a real "gem". It went from Barney Goodman's in Pinstone Street through to Union Street, and it was a crime to demolish it in 1973. I suppose it's only us old-timers who remember it...:(

shanes teeth

10-01-2010, 17:58

melthebell

10-01-2010, 18:13

shanes teeth

10-01-2010, 18:17

oh yeah sorry i meant gaming arcades

I wonder if any Arcades had Arcades in them?

Banker

10-01-2010, 18:25

....it was one of the worst bits of civic vandalism to demolish such arcades.Towns and cities that retained their's (Norwich and Harrogate spring to mind) have retained real treasures of shopping history.

Quite right. The late J.B. Priestley was furious when Bradford Council allowed the Swan Arcade (the only one in the city) to be demolished and replaced by the ugly Arndale House. Nearby, L**ds has the Victoria Arcade and the County Arcade, but the only one Sheffield had was demolished by permission of the Philistines in the Town Hall. :mad:

Morts

10-01-2010, 18:29

Big Brown-remember that sports shop well! Managed by Paul Leadbetter who played in Wednesday reserves and then Matlock Town in about 1970. I worked on Saturdays at his fruit & veg shop-his previous venture.

hillsbro

10-01-2010, 18:31

It's nice to know I'm not the only arcade fan (and I don't mind a spot of gaming.:hihi:) Here's a photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=u04999) of the Union Street end of the late lamented Cambridge Arcade.

shanes teeth

10-01-2010, 18:50

Can you remember the shops in the arcade before it closed? I think I remember a barbers(was it Johnny Fanthams?),a staitioners,maybe a haberdashery and I think the side windows of Suggs where as kids we used to stand and look longingly at the "casey" footballs and the shotguns!

Morts

10-01-2010, 19:37

Can only remember John Fantham having a hairdressers on Division Street and then a hardware shop at Crosspool

hillsbro

10-01-2010, 19:42

Can you remember the shops in the arcade before it closed? I think I remember a barbers(was it Johnny Fanthams?).... Yes - Johnny Fantham had his barber shop there before he moved to Division Street. I also remember Ken Jones' double-fronted jeweller's shop. Here is a scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/CambridgeArcade.jpg) from the 1973 Kelly's Directory.

shanes teeth

10-01-2010, 20:37

Yes - Johnny Fantham had his barber shop there before he moved to Division Street. I also remember Ken Jones' double-fronted jeweller's shop. Here is a scan (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/CambridgeArcade.jpg) from the 1973 Kelly's Directory.

Doesn't look as though my memory is very accurate!

bullerboY

11-01-2010, 11:18

Hi hilsboro
do you rember the El Mambo at the botom of the arcade,Ithink Brendon Elwood was the owner.

hillsbro

11-01-2010, 11:36

I think that must have been before my time. :hihi:.:hihi: But the name does seem to ring a bell. The "old" Nelson was just round the corner - I seem to recall a fatal stabbing there in 1968...

bullerboY

11-01-2010, 11:52

hillsboro it was the fifties and was a place where you wouldn't let your daughter go or even walk past.

SheilaH

14-01-2010, 12:29

To Jack Reacher: You're not thinking of Pippy's on Cambridge St are you? They started in the sixties with hippy clothes and I think finally gave up the ghost in the late eighties after getting into punk.

jack reacher

14-01-2010, 14:09

SheilaH, Hillsbro already came up with the answer. Bubble and Squeak was the shop in question.

shanes teeth

14-01-2010, 14:24

It's not often that Hilsbro is wrong,and infact he's nearly right but I think the shop was called Southsea Bubble.

Banker

14-01-2010, 15:41

It's not often that Hilsbro is wrong,and infact he's nearly right but I think the shop was called Southsea Bubble.

Nope - definitely Bubble 'n' Squeak (at least, that's the early 1970s shop that jack reacher referred to, as per the Kelly's Directory link in Hillsbro's post #21). In fact think I still have a couple of shirts I bought there, as well as a pair of rather snazzy slacks, but I don't suppose they'd go well with my grey hair now…:(

shanes teeth

14-01-2010, 17:41

Nope - definitely Bubble 'n' Squeak (at least, that's the early 1970s shop that jack reacher referred to, as per the Kelly's Directory link in Hillsbro's post #21). In fact think I still have a couple of shirts I bought there, as well as a pair of rather snazzy slacks, but I don't suppose they'd go well with my grey hair now…:(

I see what you're saying and I hesitate to question Kellys,but if it's the shop I'm thinking of I remember it being called Southsea Bubble.I'm talking about a shop round the corner from the Nelson and opposite the far end of Allied Carpets where we used to buy Loon Pants and cheesecloth shirts.I remember the name because,during history at school,we covered the South Sea Bubble and I remember thinking "That's the name of that clothes shop in town where we get those non-regulation school trousers!"It proved to be a useful revision aid! I know this all sounds bizarre, but I base my claim on a successful O-level pass!

jack reacher

14-01-2010, 18:10

Sorry Shane but I agree with Banker, it definitely started off as Bubble and Squeak in the early 70s.Loon pants,cheesecloth shirts ,platforms the lot.It may have changed the name later on I can't say for sure.

shanes teeth

14-01-2010, 18:20

I don't know how I managed to pass O-level history then.It seems I'd be more likely to get O-level domestic science!

hillsbro

14-01-2010, 18:24

Maybe there were two different shops. The location suggested by shanes teeth, round the corner from the Nelson and opposite Allied Carpets would be somewhere around No 44 Union Street, while Kelly's places Bubble 'n' Squeak at No 26, not far from the junction with Charles Street. I guess we need more directories!

I failed 'O' level history miserably....:(

shanes teeth

14-01-2010, 18:39

What about domestic science?

hillsbro

14-01-2010, 19:00

Come off it - I can't boil an egg. Fortunately Mrs hillsbro is an excellent cook (hence my ample waistline (http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/SouthAfrica2-001Bloubergstrand.jpg)). No prizes for guessing where the photo was taken...

shanes teeth

14-01-2010, 19:42

It's not Millbeach is it?
I've just been looking at some pictures of Union St on Picture Sheffield and as far as I can tell the shop I remember was somewhere between the Nelson end of the street and the Cambridge Arcade.

Plain Talker

15-01-2010, 00:41

If so, then the Cambridge Arcade was a real "gem". It went from Barney Goodman's in Pinstone Street through to Union Street, and it was a crime to demolish it in 1973. I suppose it's only us old-timers who remember it...:(

At first,I thought he meant that kind of arcade,but I think he meant amusement arcades!
I agree though,it was one of the worst bits of civic vandalism to demolish such arcades.Towns and cities that retained their's (Norwich and Harrogate spring to mind) have retained real treasures of shopping history.

Hillsbro, I wouldn't describe myself as an old-timer, but I certainly remember, very clearly, the Cambridge Arcade, and the Suggs Shop, and the blind chap who sold matches and pens and such like from a tray on the Pinstone Street end.

In fact I remember a legend about this gentleman.

It was said that his hearing was so acute that he could tell, by the sound of the coins as you dropped them into his cup, how much you had deposited, and whether you had short-changed him!!

(PS I thought BG's was at the Norfolk Street end of the arcade, near SUT's shop? - I do stand to be corrected on that one)

I do think it's a pity that many of Sheffield's architecturally interesting buildings are being/ were demolished by developers/ were destroyed in the war.

l**ds has kept many of its beautiful and ornate arcades, and has made quite a feature of them.

In fairness l**ds didn't quite get the decimation that Sheffield got in the war, so didn't lose as much of their handsome, city centre buildings as we did.

(They have their fair share of ugly 1960's towers, that's true. Though I hate to admit this, I do think the arcades in the Victoria Quarter in l**ds are very handsome, and ornate.)

shinysheff

15-01-2010, 03:15

When I returned to sheffield after a gap of 31 years in 2005 I was disappointed to see the Cambridge Arcade had gone. I worked for George Wood & co.Ltd. Gunsmiths on the ground floor of Sugg's store at the Pinstone st. end in the 60's before first going to Aus. I believe the Sugg family still live out at Edale.

hillsbro

15-01-2010, 07:49

willybite

15-01-2010, 14:33

Hi Plain Talker - you've reminded me of the old gent who sold matches etc. at the end of the Cambridge Arcade. My older brother remembers the story about his hearing being acute enough to know what coins you had given him.

Barney Goodman's was at the Pinstone Street end, opposite Suggs - both shops can be seen on this 1950s photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18783).

It's true that Sheffield lost some of its architecturally interesting buildings in the war, such as the 16th century King's Head (corner of Change Alley) and the early 19th century Angel Hotel nearby (here are "before" (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s07087) and "after" (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s01275) photos). In the post-war period our city fathers seemed determined to finish off what the Luftwaffe had missed..:(

hiya i remember most of the 40s/50s shops in town as when my mates and me were 15 or so on sundays there were no cinemas open only for 16 + anyhow we couldnt afford it after saturday dances all we were left with were snooker hall or window shopping, i remember winstons at the bottoom of snig hill was the one for modern gear their shirts ( spearpoint, cuttaway collar, slimjim ties,) their shop sold the shirts for 29s/11d or £1.50p ties were 15s0d or 75p. i saw my first nylon shirt there around 55/56 it was £2. 0d but it was really uncomfortable to wear . now bunnys was different they were cheap,their jeans we only had for workl. as for records we used to listen to records at one of our friends they were the only ones with a record player the 45s had come out a little earlier the records were 6s od or 30p each. i remember the blind chap ouside suggs, i knew another blind chap he went in our local, he could teol what coin would drop on the pub floor if it were half a crown he would offer 2s for it always less than the fallen coin.

hillsbro

15-01-2010, 15:12

Plain Talker

15-01-2010, 15:39

Hi Plain Talker - you've reminded me of the old gent who sold matches etc. at the end of the Cambridge Arcade. My older brother remembers the story about his hearing being acute enough to know what coins you had given him.

Barney Goodman's was at the Pinstone Street end, opposite Suggs - both shops can be seen on this 1950s photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18783).

It's true that Sheffield lost some of its architecturally interesting buildings in the war, such as the 16th century King's Head (corner of Change Alley) and the early 19th century Angel Hotel nearby (here are "before" (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s07087) and "after" (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s01275) photos). In the post-war period our city fathers seemed determined to finish off what the Luftwaffe had missed..:(

thanks, for that, hillsbro, I did say I was prepared to stand corrected about the positioning of BG's.

I may be getting confused with (was it? Ray Allen?) the tailors opposite on the corner of Cambridge Street?

So, your brother also heard the legend of the Blind gentleman's acute hearing, too? it's not just something I thought I heard or maybe mis-heard?

I actually remember the Chap living in St George's sheltered OAP accommodation in the mid/ late 1970s, (near the old Jessops) with his wife (who I think was also visually impaired.

I remember walking up to Crookes Valley park, from my Gran's in Martin Street, and coming across him and his wife, at the top end of the Ponderosa, by Winter Street Hospital. His wife was in a state of collapse.

His poor wife had taken quite suddenly, and quite seriously ill. We got her an ambulance, and tended to her whilst we waited. ( Sadly,we never found out how she was afterwards)

willybite

15-01-2010, 17:40

Hi willybite - a few memories there! Yes I remember Bunneys in Waingate; it was a regular port of call on Saturdays when I wasn't broke, and if I was 'flush' I'd get something from Winstons. We thought 45 rpm singles and long-playing albums were great when they replaced the old 78s. We also didn't have a record player but a (very popular) school pal of mine did. Later when my dad bought a Dansette I remember queueing at Cann's in Chapel Walk for Lonnie Donegan's My Old Man's a Dustman. According to Wikipedia that was in 1960. Memories...

hiya hillsbro the bunneys i used was ont moor around the bottom of young street ,bensons carpets were in a prefab shop first across young street was sharpes fruit shop across the moor was millets,back to bunneys further along was the moor post office, then halfords, then a bank on the corner, then a shoe shop, up ecclesall road was redgates, then franklins, i remember the big building facing ecclesall road brunswick chapel and i remember three or four small shops next up london road, there was the red circle library, and a fruit shop then on to m and s (locarno later). then further up london road was wigfalls.

hillsbro

15-01-2010, 19:45

Hi willybite - yes, a few more familiar names there! I seem to recall that there was a Red Circle library in Snig Hill as well. The shops at the bottom of the Moor were demolished some time in the 1960s. As you say bensons was in a temporary building (here's a photo (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18073)). Milletts and a few more shops on that side of the Moor can be seen here (http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s18069) (click on Zoom to enlarge). London Road didn't suffer quite so much from demolition but of course the businesses have changed almost completely. The Locarno might now be a branch of Sainsbury's but at least the building survived. Although the Albion (where I've enjoyed many a good pint and game of snooker) had a "business opportunity" sign up when I was there last, at least it's still there. Ron Harrison's camera shop (established 40 years ago when Ron left Woodseats Photographic and struck out on his own) has been in at least four different locations, but all in London Road within a few yards of each other. And you can still have a pint in the Pheasant Inn - albeit under its new name of Barry's.

hillsbro

15-01-2010, 19:56

Plain Talker

15-01-2010, 20:22

Hi Plain talker - yes, my brother Roy (currently staying here with us at Chateau Hillsbro) says he can remember a blind man who knew which coin had dropped into his cup, and he's pretty sure it was the one we both remember who stood at the end of the Cambridge Arcade. Not sure about Ray Allen but I remember (mid-1970s) Harris's tailors opposite the Arcade on the corner of Cambridge Street.

It all seems such a long time ago. I must be getting old....:(

Hope your Bruv is having a good stay :D :wave:s at Hillsbro's Bruv...

The blind man was "always" there, almost a "permanent fixture", for donkeys years, I can't remember ever going past Suggs, and not seeing him there, right into the mid 70's, when the arcade was there, definitely, but after the mid 70's or so I don't recall seeing him there as much.

(This would be after the incident I remembered in my above post, about the time his missus took ill) He must have been seventy or so, back then, which can't have been good to have been out there, rain, snow or blow, selling these bits and pieces, (matches, spills, pens and the like) for mere pennies, scratching something of a living.

This man's powers of hearing were just astounding. I don't think it was a work of fiction that he could recognise the sound of the coins.

I'm not sure whether his blindness was congenital, or happened after an accident or injury. (His bearing sort of felt "Ex- serviceman")

hillsbro

15-01-2010, 20:38

Hello again Plain Talker - yes, I always had the impression that he had a "military bearing" about him, and I wondered if he was blind as a result of a wartime (WWI or WW2) injury. He always had a poppy in his lapel around Remembrance Day.

Roy (here's a wave :wave: from him) and his wife Eileen think there's too much snow for their liking here in North Lincs., but I told them that according to Forum reports it would have been worse where they live (High Storrs) and it's melting now anyway!

Does anyone remember a tools & hardware shop in Carver Street? I seem to recall that it stood a little way back from the road, in a single-storey building. It was at the top end of Carver Street, probably where the car park is now.

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 13:37

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 13:42

Mustard Seed cafe where the Town Hall egg-box used to be? And Jack Archer Sports on Bramall Lane?

Ran by Peter Fenwick, i believe, who sadly passed away only recently. I think there is another thread re Mustard Seed on Sheff Forum.

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 13:47

Wimpeys on fargate,

Also a Wimpey on Pinstone St, on left going up, before Charles St.

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 13:55

there was one record shop on the gallery over the markets,

Could that have been Spin City Records @ mid 80's?

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 14:06

I recall:
Chantry Records on Commercial St then moved to Exchange Place; late 80s/early 90s
Spin City Records, upper outside deck, Castle Mkt; mid 80s
Roulette Records, Castle Market; 80s
Bradleys Records, Pinstone St, Fargate?, Chapel Walk, 70s & 80s
Curtis' Records, Moorhead where it became Mcdonalds 1970s
Hitsville Records?, Carver St i think in late 80s

I remember a record shop on London Rd and it was there in the mid 70s, next door or next but one to Harveys Opticians, which is still there to this very day, but what was the record shop called? Please, anyone?

sedith

08-03-2012, 14:12

Austins opposite Redgates, used to be the official Levi outlet in Sheffield
Pauldens, now Debenhams
Disc Jockey cafe at the bottom of London Road
The In and Out sandwich shop on Union Street
Hornes in the subway off the Hole in the Road

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 14:26

Oh, and what was the record shop, 1980s, at Aldine Court on High St called? I think it was linked to Roulette at Castle Market, but it was not known as Roulette, but by another name and I think a guy called Kevin ran it... brill little shop that was.

ANNBEE

08-03-2012, 15:01

walshs in broomhill, set in own grounds with a huge weeping willow. Now that was posh

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 15:23

sibon

08-03-2012, 15:40

tasha_78_1

08-03-2012, 17:39

who remembers Collins the bakers on West Street? My aunt who used to visit us from Somerset always had to go to Collins when she was in Sheffield

tasha_78_1

08-03-2012, 17:40

The Attic sandwich shop, down an alley of the High Street, did the best sandwiches in Sheffield

tasha_78_1

08-03-2012, 17:45

The S and E Co-op at the bottom of Eccy Road, always got taken there for my school uniform. They had that cash system with vacuum tubes where they whistled around the store. I was always fascinated with that

ANNBEE

08-03-2012, 17:46

What about the wonderful bakers opposite Nottingham House in Sheffield - best cream puffs in the world. But then that was back in the 4o's

tasha_78_1

08-03-2012, 17:50

Does anyone remember Marsdens milk bar on Pinstone Street?

I dont remember the milk bar, but what about the Golden Griddle on Arundel Gate, also owned by Marsdens. I worked there, Saturdays when I was at school. It was a burger place. The main meals we served that I remember were Farmhouse Grill, Greenland Grill, Hamburger Grill. We did milk shakes and sandwiches too. The ladies who worked in the YEB next door used to come in for coffee. I got paid £3.3 shillings for all day Saurday!!!

wagginfinger

08-03-2012, 17:59

My friends dad used to run Standard Hygene shop in Calver Sr---nudge-nudge-wink-wink --if you know what I mean!

ANNBEE

08-03-2012, 18:01

Oh yes I'd forgotten it's name Marsden. My friend Enid Needham and I went there one Saturday for beans on toast. When I told my Mother she said "But you don't like beans on toast" But these were different and we were playing at being grown up. We also sampled oysters from the man who had a stall near the library - we were 13 and up for it.

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 18:58

You missed Revolution Records, on the balcony at the market.

That might have also been where Spin City was... on the balcony (Gallery), in the mid 80s. See http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=363548

Joe9T

08-03-2012, 19:02

The Attic sandwich shop, down an alley of the High Street, did the best sandwiches in Sheffield

Could that have been Aldine Court down from Blacks on High St. If it's the same outlet, it was a record shop prior or after, depending on the year of the sandwich shop. K&D Records had the one i'm thinking of on Aldine Court in the 80s and early 90s.

henrypond

08-03-2012, 21:40

I remember a record shop on London Rd and it was there in the mid 70s, next door or next but one to Harveys Opticians, which is still there to this very day, but what was the record shop called? Please, anyone?

was it J & BW - Secondhand records and musical stuff?

cuttsie

08-03-2012, 22:04

The Army and Navy stores on St Pauls Parade. Mashing cans, Hob Nailed boots. German goggles, and peaked caps.

Joe9T

09-03-2012, 11:56

was it J & BW - Secondhand records and musical stuff?

That sounds the one, as quite a few of my friends have said the same. cheers! :)

tasha_78_1

09-03-2012, 13:50

Could that have been Aldine Court down from Blacks on High St. If it's the same outlet, it was a record shop prior or after, depending on the year of the sandwich shop. K&D Records had the one i'm thinking of on Aldine Court in the 80s and early 90s.

No, it was the next one down, opposite TJ Hughes. I think theres a Pizza Hut on the corner now. Just looked on Google Earth, its called High Court

darylslinn

09-03-2012, 23:46

Memories, memories, memories.... what was the name of the stationery shop on The Moor opposite Debenhams, was there for years and we always went in when down town.
Robert Brothers also The Moor had a cafe downstairs with little 2p kiddy rides and somebody dressed up as Rupert The Bear.
And Redgates, I used to love the model train section with the lines over head and the escalators up the middle.

darylslinn

09-03-2012, 23:51

The record shop was on Aldine Court, I spent many a lunchtime in there when i was DJ-ing, Kevin was the guy in charge and they'd get some great rare vinyl in there too.

shanes teeth

10-03-2012, 06:40

Plain Talker

10-03-2012, 13:44

Lonsdale Universal

And Quadrant Stationers, during the seventies

darylslinn

10-03-2012, 13:54

That was it Quadrant.

denlin

10-03-2012, 17:58

Violet Mays, Canns, Banners and Wilson Tupholmes

Joe9T

13-03-2012, 19:31

The record shop was on Aldine Court, I spent many a lunchtime in there when i was DJ-ing, Kevin was the guy in charge and they'd get some great rare vinyl in there too.

K&D Records... Kev was brilliant!:thumbsup: wonder where he is now and what he's doing these days? It was a great little shop!

Joe9T

13-03-2012, 19:33

And Quadrant Stationers, during the seventies

My, I had forgotten about Quadrant!!! What a fabulous shop that was! :)

paranoya

13-03-2012, 19:35

has anyone mentioned sexy rexys the ultimate fashion store

verne

14-03-2012, 18:38

I was only ever an occasional visitor to Sheffield and hardly ever shopped there.
Mostly we visited my wife's brother Keith, his wife Gwen and their daughter Lisa and usually arrived after the shops closed.

One exception I remember was in the late 1970's.
I had a wristwatch with a problem and no local jeweller would give it a second glance. Keith suggested we visit Sheffield again the following week and spend the whole day. He promised a repaired watch, lunch in a beer garden with oompah music and a sit down Chinese meal in the evening.

The jeweller he took us to was a small shop run by two very attractive young women - one looked after the shop and the other carried out the repairs (quite a surprise)...
It took her about two minutes to declare she needed to order a new part, it would be ready Thursday and would cost about three quid - amazing!
I still have that watch and it still works well!

The oompah music didn't materialise at the beer garden although lunch was fine in the open air with a sort of deejay playing music and the kids of all sizes running around.
The cabaret was a stripper who looked remarkably like the late Marti Caine and did her act in the same style - falling off her stilletos, struggling most comically with her clothes, especially the bra fastening and all but getting her knickers in a knot. Finally when she was starkers and her act was over she leaned casually on the deejay's console and chatted for ten minutes before disappearing...
I hardly believed my eyes!

I don't remember the names or the exact location of these places other than they weren't far from the shopping centre, neither do I remember much about the Chinese restaraunt we had a lovely meal at later. All I do recall was it was upstairs and huge and in th same area!

It was a memorable day out...

cuttsie

14-03-2012, 19:31

Jim Hardie

14-03-2012, 19:46

Sounds like the Zing Va, Top of Matilda St just of the Moor.

It's the Golden Dragon that's on Matilda St. The Zing Vaa is round the corner on the Moor.
You'll get to know it better when the market opens. :hihi:

cuttsie

14-03-2012, 20:03

It's the Golden Dragon that's on Matilda St. The Zing Vaa is round the corner on the Moor.
You'll get to know it better when the market opens. :hihi:
You are right Jim should know as I had my last wedding reception at the Dragon.
What Market !!!!!!!!!!

IRONMONGER

18-03-2012, 19:37

walshs in broomhill, set in own grounds with a huge weeping willow. Now that was posh

One of my earliest memories of shopping was in Walsh's in The Mount in Broomhill. I am sure I can remember a frozen food cabinet in the wooden floored food hall. After shopping we sat on the terrace outside admiring the garden.
The six shops on Glossop Road adjoining Walsh's were occupied by Cockaynes, ( later Schofield's). Further up Glossop Road on the opposite side was Darley's china shop. Around the corner on Fulwood Road, next to the Fox & Duck was Wilks the ironmongers.
All these shops moved to Broomhill after being blitzed out of the city centre.