Look at my photos of Hyde Park Flats! -

pete_fcs · 23-08-2005, 11:23

look at my photos of hyde park flats!

http://photobucket.com/albums/b171/s...0park%20flats/

Joanna · 24-08-2005, 18:32

Excellent pictures! Enjoyed looking at them!

pete_fcs · 24-08-2005, 18:38

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.

Joanna · 24-08-2005, 19:35

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.

pete_fcs · 24-08-2005, 20:06

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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!

pete_fcs · 08-09-2005, 18:51

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

FairyNormal · 08-09-2005, 22:48

And don't forget my megre effort at:

www.freewebs.co,/kelvinflats/

Must get round to scanning the other pics I have!

happychick · 10-09-2005, 21:10

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.

pete_fcs · 10-09-2005, 21:37

thanks happychick

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

happychick · 10-09-2005, 21:51

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.

pete_fcs · 10-09-2005, 21:58

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

happychick · 10-09-2005, 22:10

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.

pete_fcs · 10-09-2005, 22:15

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!

happychick · 10-09-2005, 22:51

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.

pete_fcs · 11-09-2005, 00:15

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!

petesufc · 13-09-2005, 19:15

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.

pete_fcs · 14-09-2005, 19:22

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

chri5 · 15-09-2005, 08:20

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.

petesufc · 15-09-2005, 10:15

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

pete_fcs · 16-09-2005, 18:29

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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/show...threadid=59850