look at my photos of kelvin flats!

http://photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/kelvin%20flats/

i like the plague dogs picture :)
you the pete from them then?
if so youll prolly remember me around town and gigs with mozaz and marmite andy.

and i presume the fcs in your name stands for **** city ****ters? :)

i was in fcs with lou, but i was never a plague dog... yes i know mozaz (and andy). doesn't everyone!

if you know mozaz well enough you will recognise his handwriting on the photo which says "no evictions" in six-foot letters:hihi:

Wow.. really enjoyed looking at those took me back a few years.. thanks for sharing :)

lol i dont remember his handwriting tbh but i recognise his lack of spelling :)
"No Evictons"

thanx for that,had some good times on the flats............pm fetish fairy..she has loads of stuff on kelvin flats...

Nice photos pete_fcs my brother use to live on the 3rd floor, he couldn't afford a flat just the floor....we use to throw water bombs at people passing by near the shops across the road..oh what happy times.

Originally posted by Jon
Nice photos pete_fcs my brother use to live on the 3rd floor, he couldn't afford a flat just the floor....we use to throw water bombs at people passing by near the shops across the road..oh what happy times.

sshh he might have been one of those "people" :P

hes a **** city ****ter you know :P

Brings back good memories, my grandad was a porter on there, he had a little garage under the flats where he kept a little car which he used to drive down the landings to clean them, does anyone remember them aswell ?

Good pictures there pete. I remember going past on the bus in my youth looking at the flats every day, I still look now at the estate that is in it's place and imagine what the flats used to look like.

hey, duffman, i still have DREAMS about them!

in fact i'm not the only ex-tenant who has a recurring dream that they are still there, and i walk back and there is everyone standing on the landings watching the world go by, just like in the olden days....:(

i once even dreampt that the whole block was on wheels and touring the country!

hey lets have a "dreams of kelvin flats" thread:hihi:

Originally posted by eighty4
Brings back good memories, my grandad was a porter on there, he had a little garage under the flats where he kept a little car which he used to drive down the landings to clean them, does anyone remember them aswell ?

was he the tall man with short grey hair, glasses and moustache? there was also a short woman with long curly brown hair. she had her photo in a council newsletter cleaning the new internalised landing at 1-53 kelvin walk, but can't post it on net due to copyright!

Great pictures!

I'm too young to really remember the flats, but from what I can remember, they wasn't such an eye-sore as the Park Hill flats. Maybe they should have been the ones they demolished...

Uummm.. after looking at more images of both Park Hill and Kelvin flats they tend to look the same.

Probably just as well they got demolished...

i enjoyed looking through those pete, nice one.
brings back a lot of good and bad memorys from my youth,
was sad to see the flats go,,, their was a real sence of comunity on the Kelvin, it wasent just the bricks and mortar that got demolished. :mad:

Wonderful pictures. Never really seen any photos other than from far away. They seemed completely normal when I used to see them often, but looking back now, weren't they bloody massive. So imposing.

The shot down the terraced street in Upperthorpe, looking up at the flats towering above everything in the distance just shows how dominant they were.

Ah, the memories, I used to know a 18 stone drag queen who lived on Kelvin, the guy had no shame, catching the bus into town with him was a voyage of discovery.

you got my late nans flat on one of the pictures,i spent all my school holidays on those flats while mom was at work,it was fun all the way.

Originally posted by pete_fcs
was he the tall man with short grey hair, glasses and moustache? there was also a short woman with long curly brown hair. she had her photo in a council newsletter cleaning the new internalised landing at 1-53 kelvin walk, but can't post it on net due to copyright!

That sounds like my grandad alright bloody hell small world ! can you remember his name ? frank ? ring any bells

Originally posted by andy4107
Great pictures!

I'm too young to really remember the flats, but from what I can remember, they wasn't such an eye-sore as the Park Hill flats. Maybe they should have been the ones they demolished...

that's true, i lived at park hill too and they weren't as good as kelvin.

Originally posted by Nu_Skillz
i enjoyed looking through those pete, nice one.
brings back a lot of good and bad memorys from my youth,
was sad to see the flats go,,, their was a real sence of comunity on the Kelvin, it wasent just the bricks and mortar that got demolished. :mad:

i agree, i reckon there's a big industry out there waiting to be tapped for this tower-block nostalgia stuff!

it's a bit like when the terraces went and people said "we were poor but we were happy" etc.

difference is places like kelvin were completely unique and had more about them than old terraces with outside toilets and damp walls.

Originally posted by jackthedog
Wonderful pictures. Never really seen any photos other than from far away. They seemed completely normal when I used to see them often, but looking back now, weren't they bloody massive. So imposing.

The shot down the terraced street in Upperthorpe, looking up at the flats towering above everything in the distance just shows how dominant they were.

yep, there's alot of pics at the library but mostly looking up at the flats as photographers were too scared to come on the landings in case someone threw their camera off the roof:hihi:

Originally posted by nick2
Ah, the memories, I used to know a 18 stone drag queen who lived on Kelvin, the guy had no shame, catching the bus into town with him was a voyage of discovery.

hey that was me!:hihi:

Originally posted by eighty4
That sounds like my grandad alright bloody hell small world ! can you remember his name ? frank ? ring any bells

yep, frank, thats the one i think, i used to say hello to him. forgotten the woman's name, began with an 's' i think.

he will have known all the tenant's association people too who i knew quite well.

Originally posted by pete_fcs
yep, frank, thats the one i think, i used to say hello to him. forgotten the woman's name, began with an 's' i think.

he will have known all the tenant's association people too who i knew quite well.

Yeah my step nannan was called shiela she died unfortunatly about 2 years ago, my grandad now lives on harold lambert court which used to the old hyde park. Whats your name ? ill tell him you mentioned him.

he might remember me as pete who knocked about with mozaz, but that's probably it!

frank probably remembers sheila cooper, fat phil, mick chairman of kta, ray fiddler, sam walker, joy sulph-johnstone (unsure of spelling), vernon collymore, ron tyson and the other 3,000 tenanats!

Hey pete.. ray fiddler is my best mates dad, I spent so much time in his flat on kelvin walk.... good old days...

Anyone used to frequent the halfpenny pub under the flats?

i lived on daniel hill while they built kelvin flats.
once got stuck in an elevator before they were operational & had to climb down the wire thingy's for help.
also climbed all the cranes at one time or another.

Originally posted by ceevee
Anyone used to frequent the halfpenny pub under the flats? i used it,used to go in with scotch jimmy,pete wathall and his dad also used the gatefield a lot at one time

Originally posted by honeyplanet
Hey pete.. ray fiddler is my best mates dad, I spent so much time in his flat on kelvin walk.... good old days...

blimey! by the end of this thread it'll turn out that we're all related!:)

Originally posted by ceevee
Anyone used to frequent the halfpenny pub under the flats?

yes, lots of times, it was my favourite on the estate, the other being the gatefield which was also good.

i once persuaded a lass to come with me and my mate to the halfpenny, telling her "don't worry, it's not rough, that's just a myth!"

within half an hour two girls at the next table were landing punches on each other and rolling around the floor!

Originally posted by willman
i lived on daniel hill while they built kelvin flats.
once got stuck in an elevator before they were operational & had to climb down the wire thingy's for help.
also climbed all the cranes at one time or another.

would love to have seen them being built. there are some photos knocking about of hyde park and park hill contruction, but never seen any yet of kelvin.

not long after 'opening', kelvin was featured in the opening shots of slade's 1974 film "slade in flame". don powell rides his moterbike along fox lane at the back, then goes up to his mum and dad's flat.

and noddy holder's fictional mum lives in the houses at parkwood springs in a half-demolished street! you can still see the cobbles up there... and maybe even one of noddy's coloured mirrors off his hat!

great pictures m8,i remember vernon collymore and fat phill,does anyone know-ok here goes-icky,richard glover,wendy glover,martin dickson,sandra gibson,helen brown,terence, oh theres a lot more,i used to live at 79 woollen walk,probably not remember me

Richard and Darren Selby lived on Woolen Walk, each was commonly known as 'chipmunk'. Big Sheila, Lance Mosely, I remember a very iffy bloke called 'moses'.

Originally posted by dlee
....i remember vernon collymore and fat phill,does anyone know-ok here goes-icky,richard glover,wendy glover,martin dickson,sandra gibson,helen brown,terence....

i remember terence if it's him off edith walk.

vernon collymore still works in the area and i see him occasionally. vernon was one of the very few tenants who rented privately. he was once a tenant of the one and only flat which had been bought up.

the compulsory purchase price to buy back the two-bedroom maisonette in 1993 was just over eight grand, meaning it would have been bought for under five thousand!

kelvin flats....the poundland of council estates!

Originally posted by ceevee
... Lance Mosely, I remember a very iffy bloke called 'moses'.

there were two moses's: the one who sang karaoke, and a 'mozaz', local character and poet. neither of them were 'iffy'! careful!

lance also sang karaoke.... sometimes doing a phil-collins-live-aid-special by rushing out of the halfpenny pub to catch his next slot at the upperthorpe!

i've got photo's of all these people but will not be posting them unless i get permission from the owners of the faces!

I ended up as a club turn with Lance up and down the country as 'plasticine' ha!! Maybe I know you......I don't think he'd mind you posting the pics!!

The moses I talk of used to frighten the life out of me thats all.....he was the karaoke guy who sang 'blueberry hill'.

i had a photo of lance singing at the halfpenny. i gave it to his mum (in 1990!) to give to him, but i still have the negative.

i've still got one of moses singing there too.

happy days...

there are now some new pictures again, added today! :)

Does anyone remember me then?

Sam, the ex punk who then married Cockney Mick?

Ha ha!!

For a few more pics of Kelvin, clink on my www @ the bottom.

Not many at the moment but I'm working on it!!

Ahhhhh the happy old days :clap:

Meant to say ..........

Look at MY photos of Kelvin Flats!!! lol!!

Click on the www then go to My Kelvin Gallery. (photobucket)

Just uploaded a few new ones today in case anyone is interested.

I see my old flat on those pics FetishFairy :D

I always thought I hated living there till I saw those pics. It brought back a lot of good memories which I think were only marred by the burglary that occurred just before we moved. I lived on Woollen Walk from '91 to '93 when they booted us out to demolish the place. I think what I loved most about it was the community feeling, it's something I've never found in any of the houses I've lived in since. In fact it's the only place I've ever lived where I've made good friends with the people living next door, on both sides.

i agree, blinky!

i have lived on four estates since kelvin, and none has had that unique kelvin-flats-community appeal! :(

i have been adding some more photo's again to this site!

some of the pictures are also slightly improved, and there is a nice new super-imposed signature of mine on each pic!

on top of that, all the pics are now re-sized to fit the screen and load more quickly!!!!!

:thumbsup:

added these today, with people on!:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/kelvin%20flats/CHRISWEIGERKELVIN89.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/kelvin%20flats/KELVINWORKSHOP.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/kelvin%20flats/KELVINNEIGHBOURS.jpg

got permission (although not needed technically) from one of the owners of the faces; if you are on here, please let me know whether or not this is okay!

:)