Can anyone tell me any info or if any pictures exist on the Globe inn Porter street sheffield which was bombed in the blitz.

Also The royal Hotel Eyre Lane (not eyre street).

I hope someone can help with this one thnx peppermint

Has anyone got any photos of sheffield city center before the sheffield blitz. esp around the sydney st area. (im crossing my fingers someone has)


Porter street is no more, and i'm not really sure where it was. Maybe someone could help me with that.:help:

looking at a modern map and comparing with older ones....

Union Street runs from Charles Street to Furnival Gate, which used to be a narrower street called Furnival St.

Porter Street continued the line of Union Street the other side of Furnival St, at first straight, as far as Matilda Street (although the western part of Matilda Street used to be called Duke Street).

It then curved very slightly to reach what is now the junction of Hereford St, Eyre Street and Bramall Lane. (I didn't realize that Bramall lane begins north of the St Mary's roundabout!

I would recommend the Godfrey O.S. reprints (Waterstones, Sheffield Scene etc or Alan Godfrey Maps (http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/sheffield.htm)). Most of Porter Street is on the Sheffield Park 1905 sheet.

btw there is one picture on Picture Sheffield (http://www.picturesheffield.com/) showing the Globe, Porter Street in 1930 (in the middle distance).

Hugh

:thumbsup: thnx HughW I was begining to think I would not get any replies.......


If anyone has information on the royal Porter st.. I'm still looking ;)

Originally posted by peppermint
Can anyone tell me any info or if any pictures exist on the Globe inn Porter street sheffield which was bombed in the blitz.

Also The royal Hotel Eyre Lane (not eyre street).

I hope someone can help with this one thnx peppermint


Come on guys there must be someone out there who can help,
HughW gave me a link but he was the only one who answered.
surely there must be someone out there who remembers them.

There is a good book that lists all the pubs that (almost) have ever been in Sheffield, called "A pub on every corner". I don't know if it is still for sale in the book shops as I saw it at Sheffield Library. Like the poster above said, old maps of the area (the Ordinance Survey ones I think.) usually have the pub names on them.

Sheffield pub history is interesting, I am interested in any ghost or stories of the strange from any area in the Town centre so if you dig up anything like that in your research into these pubs please let me know. :)

My parents were landlord and landlady of The Montgomery Hotel at the bottom of Granville Road, on the island 1969 -1971.
There is the round car saleroom there
now. As far as I can remember it had its top floors blown off in the blitz and after that was a single storey building, it only had a license to sell ales and fortified wine, no spirits.
I was only 5 at the time and I can rememeber quite vividly two of the regulars kicking seven bells out of each other on the cobbles.
Oh happy days:gag:

I dont't have any pictures of the building but would love to find out if anyone does.

Sheffield Genealogy
Family & Social History

January 24, 2006

This site has a1890 map plus lots of information.
My ancestors lived on Porter st in 1871. Roy.

There is a good book that lists all the pubs that (almost) have ever been in Sheffield, called "A pub on every corner". I don't know if it is still for sale in the book shops as I saw it at Sheffield Library. Like the poster above said, old maps of the area (the Ordinance Survey ones I think.) usually have the pub names on them.

Sheffield pub history is interesting, I am interested in any ghost or stories of the strange from any area in the Town centre so if you dig up anything like that in your research into these pubs please let me know. :)


I am in the process of buying the book now.
As for the ghost stories in pubs, look on these sites
http://www.mysterymag.com/hauntedbritain/index.php?subID=115&artID=277&page=article
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--abo...ns/ghost-walks
http://www.carbrookhall.co.uk/index2.html
I will let you know if the book brings anything up, oh and there is the queens head in ponds street that is supposed to be haunted

There was a book published by the Telegraph/Star detailing the blitz in Sheffield. I have a copy of it somewhere, but since moving house recently I have lost track of it. There were lots of pictures in it.

The book I have is called THEN AND NOW THE SHEFFIELD BLITZ OPERATION CRUCIBLE. By Alistair Lofthouse. ISBN 190158709-6. PUB 2001
£6.95. lOTS OF PICS SHOWING BOMB DAMAGE with a picture of the scene what it is like now.

There was a book published by the Telegraph/Star detailing the blitz in Sheffield. I have a copy of it somewhere, but since moving house recently I have lost track of it. There were lots of pictures in it.


Thnx buck:thumbsup: father-in-law donated the book to me, havn't had time to go through it all. it also has a map of where the bombs hit (is this the same one?)

The book I have is called THEN AND NOW THE SHEFFIELD BLITZ OPERATION CRUCIBLE. By Alistair Lofthouse. ISBN 190158709-6. PUB 2001
£6.95. lOTS OF PICS SHOWING BOMB DAMAGE with a picture of the scene what it is like now.

thnx hutch, don't know this book but soon will, now i have the isbn number, I will order it. :thumbsup: hope I find what i'm looking for, the research is for my great uncle who is well passed 90, bit of family history in the pubs.

Cheers Peppermint! Also if you have a look in the "Ghost Hunters Guide To Sheffield" by Valerie Salim, you find quite abit about the history of some buildings and not just the ghost stories. :-)

Thnx buck father-in-law donated the book to me, havn't had time to go through it all. it also has a map of where the bombs hit (is this the same one?)

Yes PEPPERMINT. it does have the map.

There is a section on the following site that refers to the City Centre pubs that were destroyed on 12th December 1940
http://www.chrishobbs.com/localpubs1940.htm
No mention of the Globe Inn Porter street though. I seem to recall though that there was a significant loss of life in Porter Street that night when a public "slit" trench received a direct hit from a German HE bomb. Possibly near the Globe?

I seem to recall though that there was a significant loss of life in Porter Street that night when a public "slit" trench received a direct hit from a German HE bomb. Possibly near the Globe?[/QUOTE]


have tried the site, just curious do you remember the globe? can't find any that do, and its driving me mad.
It features in my family history but can't find any mention of it anywhere.

I am still trying to get copies of the 2 book that have been recomended
THEN AND NOW THE SHEFFIELD BLITZ OPERATION CRUCIBLE. By Alistair Lofthouse. ISBN 190158709-6. PUB 2001

Apub on every corner ISBN 1874718555

Can anyone help with where to get these books from?:help:

THEN AND NOW THE SHEFFIELD BLITZ OPERATION CRUCIBLE. By Alistair Lofthouse. ISBN 190158709-6. PUB 2001 I Have this book now, just got a call saying they have found it


still want the pub on every corner though

Peppermint if you go to www.pictureSheffield.com click Public houses and hotels .
There are 1400 photos .
It takes a while to go through them .
Or you could try entering the place you are looking for
When I was perusing them I found the area where my G.G Grandfather used to live

THEN AND NOW THE SHEFFIELD BLITZ OPERATION CRUCIBLE. By Alistair Lofthouse. ISBN 190158709-6. PUB 2001 I Have this book now, just got a call saying they have found it


still want the pub on every corner though

I have read the book, There are a lot of pictures of the areas of sheffield that were bombed, sadly no sign of the pubs i'm looking for. The stories of the memories of the night of the blitz were interesting to read. More a pictorial account though.

I don't suppose there is anyone out there that has the Douglas Lamb book A pub on every corner? If there is can you look in it and see if there is any mention of the the Globe inn porter st and also The royal Hotel Eyre Lane

Waterstones sell it.
I'm sure I've seen a book called the lost pubs of sheffield in the past.

I don't suppose there is anyone out there that has the Douglas Lamb book A pub on every corner? If there is can you look in it and see if there is any mention of the the Globe inn porter st and also The royal Hotel Eyre Lane


Sis, did you ever get the book ?:hihi:

[QUOTE=RaineHardman]Sis, did you ever get the book ?:hihi:[/QUOT

No Sis, Was a long shot anyway