look at my photos of hyde park flats!

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

Excellent pictures! Enjoyed looking at them!

thanks joanna!:)

there's two more estates thrown in free with these sets....click on "sheffield archives" and get kelvin flats, or on "park hill" for park hill flats.

Hey they are brilliant! I'm very impressed with the Kelvin flats in particular because you don't see many pictures of them. You should make your own photo book!!!! I love looking at old pictures. Thanks for taking the time to take them.:clap:

Originally posted by Joanna
... You should make your own photo book!!!!....clap:

:) ta!

i've been planning a book for a while but i think it might be better to wait another five years, as it ain't quite nostalgic enough just yet!

there are now some pictures of the demolition on this link as well, and i will keep adding a few more as they crop up:)

And don't forget my megre effort at:

www.freewebs.co,/kelvinflats/

Must get round to scanning the other pics I have!

Have just looked at those great phot's. A great collection.


Brought back a lot of memories for me, both happy & sad.

I was brought up on Park Hill Flats, but my family lived on Hyde Park, Wybourn, Talbot Rd ( all around that area).

If bricks & mortar could speak eh ?. There's a lifetime of memories in those photo's for many people.

Thanks for giving me the oppotunity to look at them & reminice on times gone by.

thanks happychick:)

i will keep a look out for new ones to post up there!

Thanks, i will look forward to that.

I enjoy looking at old photograph's of how Sheffield & it's people lived & worked.

But it's much more enjoyable when you can actually remember being at the places in the photgraph's themselves. It makes it even more interesting.

happychick,

there are three more of hyde park flats taken from kelvin flats and from the hole in the road, just put them up now:)

Cheers.
Love the one with the hole in the road. C & A, used to call it coats n ats. Had a Saturday job there when i was at school.

Also that first new picture ( view from Kelvin Flats ), that reminded me of a pub we used to go in every Friday night on Infirmary Rd. I think it was called The George. Had a few good nights in there , i can tell you. :smile:

that will have been the george iv pub... played a few gigs there in various bands with rude names!

my bedroom was opposite the george (plus up to 11th floor). on a quiet night you could hear the place getting locked up about midnight (sound of everything travelled straight up to the flats, including keys rattling!)

also at closing time i'd always look outside to watch the scraps.

before moving to kelvin, and whilst drumming upstairs in the george i looked outside watching people walking along the landings, wondering what it would be like to live there!

Been to quite a few of the gigs there.

Some of them were , let's say " colourful ". They were so loud my ears used to be ringing for a couple of days after!.

Used to bloody love it !, and those scraps after closing time, well they were part of the nights entertainment , it wouldn't have been the same without it.

I remember at one bit they had a go-go dancer as well, ( i'm not sure if she was topless or not). She wasn't very good & everybody used to take the proverbial out of her. She didn't let it bother her though. Just got on with it, took her money & turned up the next week to do it all again.

Ah, to be as wild as i was back then, heaven.:nod:

do you remember any of these bands at the george:

bedlam choir
haze
the cynics
the f... city sh..ters

guess which one i was in and win a prize!

:)

do you have any photo`s of the shops that where there on duke street as my grandparents had a shop there during the late 50`s and 60`s.

i have one of the junction of duke street and bernard street... let me know if you want me to send it :)

p.s. and duke street in the snow from 1993

Pete, slightly of topic but still connected in a way; do you have any pics of the hole in the road? Pics of the hole are sooo hard to find!
Cheers.

I would love to have the photo`s, we also had stalls in the castle market and the rag and tag.

Originally posted by chri5
Pete, slightly of topic but still connected in a way; do you have any pics of the hole in the road? Pics of the hole are sooo hard to find!
Cheers.

yes, i will be adding them at some point to the sheffield pictures page, on this thread:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59850

Originally posted by petesufc
...... we also had stalls in the castle market and the rag and tag.

i have quite a few of the markets, and one's already on the "sheffield photo's" link above, so i will keep adding some more to the site :)

Any photos of the rag and tag would be good, I worked with my grandparents from 70-73 when the market closed to move to the indoor market. It was on or around the 4th of march I think 73.

Sadly no photos
just memories of the flats.........

Watch out for falling TV's!

Originally posted by petesufc
Any photos of the rag and tag would be good, I worked with my grandparents from 70-73 when the market closed to move to the indoor market. It was on or around the 4th of march I think 73.

i've got lots of the indoor markets from the late eighties and early nineties... these will gradually appear on the site.

sadly the only picture i have seen of the old rag and tag was in one of those old photo books, published by the star i think.

the local studies library might have some though, or sheffield archives on shoreham street.

:)

Very nice... VERY VERY GOOD!

You have a nice gift :clap:

thanks burny!!! :)

there are now some new pictures of hyde park on this site!

i have also re-sized the photo's to fit the screen, and they download faster....

to top it all, i have super-imposed a snazzy-looking "designer" signature in the corners!

pete :thumbsup:

great photos they are i can remember kelvin flats they used to scare me wen i was little and my nan and grandad used to cross over infirmary road to the opposite side lol:gag: :gag: :gag:

Originally posted by boho24
great photos they are i can remember kelvin flats they used to scare me wen i was little and my nan and grandad used to cross over infirmary road to the opposite side lol:gag: :gag: :gag:

my dad's got a picture of my brother aged one stood at the bottom of hyde park main block in 1965.

the flats were new and unoccupied at the time, so there was no danger of flying furniture!

:|

i have added some more pics!

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/hyde%20park%20flats/

Nice photos! Can never work out why they pulled down Hyde Park and not Park Hill. I appreciate that Park Hill is now listed but were the Hyde Park flats so much worse than Park Hill that they had to be pulled down.
When my daughter came to Hallam they put her in the re-furbished block for her first year. The public areas were done out very well. There were cameras pointing every way and cameras pointing at cameras. I remember going to fetch her one day and I hadn't got up to her flat before the car alarm was going off and some little **it had broken my window and nicked the front off the radio.

Nice photos! Can never work out why they pulled down Hyde Park and not Park Hill. I appreciate that Park Hill is now listed but were the Hyde Park flats so much worse than Park Hill that they had to be pulled down.
When my daughter came to Hallam they put her in the re-furbished block for her first year. The public areas were done out very well. There were cameras pointing every way and cameras pointing at cameras. I remember going to fetch her one day and I hadn't got up to her flat before the car alarm was going off and some little **it had broken my window and nicked the front off the radio.

i agree, hyde park was much more impressive (and bigger) than park hill; i lived in both....park hill was crap!

i also lived in the refurbished castle court with all the cameras....felt like living in a shopping mall, or a bank; very impersonal but luxurious none the less!

by the way, this new pic shows the old hyde park block before they pulled it down (idiots!), with little castle court in front of it:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/sheffieldarchives/hyde%20park%20flats/hydeparknewandold.jpg

:thumbsup:

When I left England for Canada in 1965, I went to see my mother in Hyde Park flats. She was 64 years old, and very heavy. Imagine my surprise when I found out her flat was 13 or so steps down from the front door! She complained that she never got any visitors, because, when the door bell rang, it would take her so long to climb the stairs to the front door that she didn't bother after a while!
Her 'front room' was just big enough for a sofa, literally feet from the front window, which, BTW, looked out onto some grass next to another block of flats. Probably one of the most miserable places to live, even though it was brand new. The large lift at the end of the walkway was ,even then, a rubish tip. I am not surprised it was torn down, my mother moved to the top of St Phillips road, to a ground floor flat, that actually had a view from the front window, or so my mother told me.

The living rooms were not at all bad, unless it was one of the bedsit flats your mother was in. they could be "poky".

Generally the flats were well laid out. My kitchen and both bedrooms, in my first flat(maisonette) were very generous in size, and the view from my living room was for absolutely miles, I could see all along the parkway to rotherham, and all the greenery of the moors beyond. we overlooked what was the dog-track, (which became a playground), and the church-school, St John's.

My second flat, which was a 2-bed flat, rather than a maisonette, had one generous bedroom, and one small-ish one, but the living room and kitchen were exactly the same size as the first property. (they had to be the same size, as the living rooms and Kitchens were all in a column, one on top of the other.)

My living room was at least as big as my current living room, (At least 5 yards by 4) if not bigger. The windows in the living rooms were very nice, they let a lot of light in. They were at least five feet high (maybe 6) and 7 feet long.

the view from that flat was of the fields going up to Sky edge, and the quarry.

quite pleasant.

PT

When I left England for Canada in 1965, I went to see my mother in Hyde Park flats. She was 64 years old, and very heavy. Imagine my surprise when I found out her flat was 13 or so steps down from the front door! She complained that she never got any visitors, because, when the door bell rang, it would take her so long to climb the stairs to the front door that she didn't bother after a while!
Her 'front room' was just big enough for a sofa, literally feet from the front window, which, BTW, looked out onto some grass next to another block of flats. Probably one of the most miserable places to live, even though it was brand new. The large lift at the end of the walkway was ,even then, a rubish tip. I am not surprised it was torn down, my mother moved to the top of St Phillips road, to a ground floor flat, that actually had a view from the front window, or so my mother told me.

i also had steps down inside three of the four flats i had on hyde park, kelvin and park hill.

i heard a few stories like this, about people not being able to answer the door in time!

for young 'uns it was great; those stairs off the landing all added to the feeling that you were retreating into your own little underground (high rise) world!

pete

The living rooms were not at all bad, unless it was one of the bedsit flats your mother was in. they could be "poky".

Generally the flats were well laid out. My kitchen and both bedrooms, in my first flat(maisonette) were very generous in size, and the view from my living room was for absolutely miles, I could see all along the parkway to rotherham, and all the greenery of the moors beyond. we overlooked what was the dog-track, (which became a playground), and the church-school, St John's.

My second flat, which was a 2-bed flat, rather than a maisonette, had one generous bedroom, and one small-ish one, but the living room and kitchen were exactly the same size as the first property. (they had to be the same size, as the living rooms and Kitchens were all in a column, one on top of the other.)

My living room was at least as big as my current living room, (At least 5 yards by 4) if not bigger. The windows in the living rooms were very nice, they let a lot of light in. They were at least five feet high (maybe 6) and 7 feet long.

the view from that flat was of the fields going up to Sky edge, and the quarry.

quite pleasant.

PT

this is partly why you hear conflicting stories about hyde park.

if you had a pokey bedsit it was crap. even worse if you were on the ground floor with no view.

but those flats facing the dog track, and near the hyde park terrace end of the flats, and high up, were incredible. nothing like it has ever been built in sheffield since. not even those new yuppie high rise in their crap locations by the river don could come within a mile (high) of those views.

and i agree about the room sizes: so long as you had a 2 or 3 bedroom flat or maisonette, you got a 12' square room, or even bigger if you had a flat on the end: these had 24' balconies and four rooms each 12' square or bigger.

pete

this is partly why you hear conflicting stories about hyde park.

if you had a pokey bedsit it was crap. even worse if you were on the ground floor with no view.

but those flats facing the dog track, and near the hyde park terrace end of the flats, and high up, were incredible. nothing like it has ever been built in sheffield since. not even those new yuppie high rise in their crap locations by the river don could come within a mile (high) of those views.

and i agree about the room sizes: so long as you had a 2 or 3 bedroom flat or maisonette, you got a 12' square room, or even bigger if you had a flat on the end: these had 24' balconies and four rooms each 12' square or bigger.

pete

the end-flats with their 24' balconies were ace! internally, the rooms all opened off each other so if you were a kid, you could run round and round inside the property. great fun.

PT

the end-flats with their 24' balconies were ace! internally, the rooms all opened off each other so if you were a kid, you could run round and round inside the property. great fun.

PT

i had one of these end flats: my lad used to cyle around the whole flat in a circuit!

this is partly why you hear conflicting stories about hyde park.

if you had a pokey bedsit it was crap. even worse if you were on the ground floor with no view.

but those flats facing the dog track, and near the hyde park terrace end of the flats, and high up, were incredible. nothing like it has ever been built in sheffield since. not even those new yuppie high rise in their crap locations by the river don could come within a mile (high) of those views.

and i agree about the room sizes: so long as you had a 2 or 3 bedroom flat or maisonette, you got a 12' square room, or even bigger if you had a flat on the end: these had 24' balconies and four rooms each 12' square or bigger.

petei must say they were the best place to live first lived on 123roland row the one below the crepy one on top i had nightmeras what was it called ?we had two bedroom so small then we moved to 9 cricket inn gardens
that had 4 bedrooms a big living room big kichen two tolets and a big out side facing the dog track i wll allways remember the dog **** all over the landing on some rows and the pack of dogs that use to rowm and one dog that use to run mad he was called niger a black labradoor whos dog was that and in those days we were one of the few black familys on the flats
n

i must say they were the best place to live first lived on 123roland row the one below the crepy one on top i had nightmeras what was it called ?we had two bedroom so small then we moved to 9 cricket inn gardens
that had 4 bedrooms a big living room big kichen two tolets and a big out side facing the dog track i wll allways remember the dog **** all over the landing on some rows and the pack of dogs that use to rowm and one dog that use to run mad he was called niger a black labradoor whos dog was that and in those days we were one of the few black familys on the flats
n

Welcome, deanleslie!

The very top floor, the one above above Rowland Row, was St John's, on the biggest of the blocks, which is now demolished.

I know what you mean about the height. it used to terrify me, too.

My cousin lived on Lord row, when we were children, (I had a flat on Dacre, the row below, when I was a young adult) and she used to love to torment the life out of me, with my fear of heights.

She'd persuade me to climb on the top bunk of the bunk beds, which were near to the window, and when I'd climbed up there, she'd start to rock the bunks violently, and I'd be convinced that we'd end up going through the window.

(which, when you were *counts on her fingers how many storeys we were above ground level* 16 storeys or more, up, ) was darn scary!! (especially to a four year old)