I have quite a few old poscard views of sheffield.

Try the link below.

I will scan more eventually and add them to the site.

Hope you like em.

Slideshow (http://s758.photobucket.com/albums/xx230/lostrider/Old%20Sheffield/?albumview=slideshow)

Wow Lostrider, are these part of your own collection?
Have you shared these with picture.com based at Sheffield City Library?

Originally posted by tiffy
Wow Lostrider, are these part of your own collection?
Have you shared these with picture.com based at Sheffield City Library?

Yes, they are & I do intend to let the Libraries have them eventually. I just need to copy them all first.

I also have an 8mm movie for the archives, of the demolition of the cooling tower which stood next to the two surviving towers next to the M1 at Meadowhall. I filmed it in 1970ish. It was the only one which could be demolished by explosive as the other two were too near the M1. Some problem with insurance I think.

w0w they are amazing!!!!

Anyone have anymore?? (Im slowly gonna go thru all these)

I have quite a few old poscard views of sheffield.

Try the link below.

I will scan more eventually and add them to the site.

Hope you like em.Old Sheffield Postcards (http://www.moss-net.co.uk/mosborough/sheffield.htm)
A great set of postcards. I particularly like those of the old mills. I have an ancestor who died in the Great Sheffield Flood when he was working in the first mill below the dam. Its interesting to see what a typical mill looked like.
Where was the Ruskin Museum? ( I haven't lived in Sheffield for over 30 years so have forgotten it if I ever knew about it !).
John

Great post cards Lostrider but when are you going to put more on.How many have you got. Thanks Alan.

Where was the Ruskin Museum? ( I haven't lived in Sheffield for over 30 years so have forgotten it if I ever knew about it !).
John

It is the large building in Meersbrook Park. Now occupied by Sheffield City Council's Parks, Woodland & Countyside dept.

These are brilliant thanks for posting.

Some nice pictures, Lostrider! I collect old Sheffield postcards, mostly of Rivelin, Wadsley and Hillsborough. Here is an early-1900s postcard view of Hillsborough Corner (it is postmarked 1906) together with a photo of the same scene taken almost a century later, in 1999:

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/HillsboroughCorner19061999.jpg

Remarkably similar and still a tram there.

Some nice pictures, Lostrider! I collect old Sheffield postcards, mostly of Rivelin, Wadsley and Hillsborough. Here is an early-1900s postcard view of Hillsborough Corner (it is postmarked 1906) together with a photo of the same scene taken almost a century later, in 1999:

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/HillsboroughCorner19061999.jpg

Fabulous photo, thank you for posting. I see the curved building has gained a whole second floor.

Some nice pictures, Lostrider! I collect old Sheffield postcards, mostly of Rivelin, Wadsley and Hillsborough. Here is an early-1900s postcard view of Hillsborough Corner (it is postmarked 1906) together with a photo of the same scene taken almost a century later, in 1999:

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/HillsboroughCorner19061999.jpg

Not one person on the street on the second one, they must have all got on the tram...great photos.

It is the large building in Meersbrook Park. Now occupied by Sheffield City Council's Parks, Woodland & Countyside dept.
Thanks Lostrider

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/HillsboroughCorner19061999.jpgExcellent picture!

Love these old photos, anyone got any more? :thumbsup::thumbsup:

I’ve sorted out another four postcards that give a glimpse of the past. Here are two monochrome views of Hillsborough Corner – the upper one is postmarked 1936 (older forummers might remember Wood's toy shop and Hemmines grocers, both at the left side) and the lower one 1909 (note the Hillsbro Inn kept by "Richard Snook" and W. Bush's grocers across the road - his son Reginald P. Bush had a shop opposite Hillsborough Park until the 1960s):

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

And here are two coloured pre-WW1 views; one of Hillsborough Corner looking towards town (Wilson & Wood's single-storey ironmonger's shop at the left survives - it's now an off-licence) and one of the Midland Station (Platform 5 - the sign for the "Ladies Room" and "Station Master" can be seen behind the newsstand - where the "Daily Herald" is on sale):

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

I see the photo of Midland station describes it as the "new" Midland station. I have checked and it was opened in 1870. 2 extra platforms and a new frontage were added in 1905.
So that postcard would appear to date ftom 1870 ! Does that seem right? I doubt it would be referred to as new when it only had 2 platforms added in 1905.

I know what you mean, johnpm, and the Midland Railway was indeed something of a latecomer to Sheffield (they by-passed us in the 1830s rather than build Bradway Tunnel, and built the line from Chesterfield to Rotherham via Beighton). And coincidentally, postcards (sent at a cheaper rate of postage - i.e. ½d - also date from 1870). But picture postcards could not be sent until 1894, and until 1902 the address only could be written on the back, with any message on the front (which often had a space cleared for this). The GPO changed the rules in 1902, so that "divided back" cards (with half the space for the address and the other half for a message) could be sent, and this is a divided-back card. Although there was often a delay of a few years between a photo being taken and a postcard being published or sold, I think this is an early-1900s card. If the billboard (5th from the left) headed "HERALD" does indeed refer to the Daily Herald as I guessed, then this gives a clue, as the Daily Herald was not established until 1911.
So I think that we should perhaps view the word "new" in a very broad sense. In fact, until she died in 2006, my mother always referred to Rivelin Valley Road as the "new road". Her own mother could remember it being built in 1907!

I posted some postcards from my collection of Endcliffe Park a while ago for the group fundraising for the playground. They're here if anyone's interested.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v643/Algy/Playground%20group/

hi i have some postcards dating from 1911 to 1964 i was wondering if there is any interested in them.....

Yes please, as soon as you like. :)

hey check it out http://sheffield.gumtree.com/sheffield/39/40331339.html make us an offer thanks

:blush: Sorry, thats me, jumping in before thinking. I took it you meant you would be posting them on here.

Sorry about the links being down for so long on my first post. All the photos are back online to view. Hope you enjoy them.

Check out the first post.

Here's a nice view of Sheffield from a Birds point a view. I wonder where the photogapher was? Maybe on the church roof.
Birdseye View (http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx230/lostrider/Old%20Sheffield/birdseyeview.jpg)

Another view of the Uppercut Wheel in Rivelin Valley.
Upper Cut Wheel (http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx230/lostrider/Old%20Sheffield/uppercut.jpg)

Here's a nice view of Sheffield from a Birds point a view. I wonder where the photogapher was? Maybe on the church roof.
Birdseye View (http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx230/lostrider/Old%20Sheffield/birdseyeview.jpg)

I have practically the same postcard (here (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2429/3700846290_ffeb9d367c_b.jpg)) but as you can see on my version, although the foreground is a photograph, the background clearly seems to be painted. It answers your question about where it was taken from though. :thumbsup:

I have practically the same postcard (here (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2429/3700846290_ffeb9d367c_b.jpg)) but as you can see on my version, although the foreground is a photograph, the background clearly seems to be painted. It answers your question about where it was taken from though. :thumbsup:

Yes, I have seen a few of these cards and they all seem to be photographicaly over exposed. It was common place to correct photos by re-touching the negative / glass slide even the prints.

In my collection of postcards & glass lantern slides most have been re-touched in some way. When I scan the images I do a bit of cleaning up myself using PHOTOSHOP.

Hi

these images are great would you mind posting some of them in my group?

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25750519904#/group.php?gid=25750519904