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Hi Brian, nice mug!

 

Yes, I recognise the buildings. :)

 

Peter.

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Hi Brian, nice mug!

 

Yes, I recognise the buildings. :)

 

Peter.

 

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Hi Peter, Not very clear but i have found an old picture of traffic

ploughing through the floodwaters in Brightside lane 1970.

 

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Maybe you could find something of the floods from the 1970s,

what was upwell st bridge like that use to flood a lot. Brian

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Hi My wife's father and uncle worked there . Bill Ibbotson (deceased) and Peter Barrett

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Hi Peter, Not very clear but i have found an old picture of traffic

ploughing through the floodwaters in Brightside lane 1970.

 

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Maybe you could find something of the floods from the 1970s,

what was upwell st bridge like that use to flood a lot. Brian

 

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Hi Brian, here's Brightside Lane with ESC offices on left in 2007 I think. My son in law was lifted by helicopter from the roof of modern units on the old site of Jessop Saville in the distance.....

 

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iSqh1-d7edc/hqdefault.jpg

 

Here's the back of the JS buildings during demolision in 1991..

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02965&prevUrl=

 

Here's Upwell Street bridge in 1979...

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s26927&prevUrl=

 

Peter.

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Hi Brian, here's Brightside Lane with ESC offices on left in 2007 I think. My son in law was lifted by helicopter from the roof of modern units on the old site of Jessop Saville in the distance.....

 

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iSqh1-d7edc/hqdefault.jpg

 

Here's the back of the JS buildings during demolision in 1991..

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02965&prevUrl=

 

Here's Upwell Street bridge in 1979...

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s26927&prevUrl=

 

Peter.

 

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Thanks Peter, Blimmy, wern't that some water some nice pics you

put on here, over the earlier years i remember Upwell st bridge

been flooded and would cover the foot path. Not much changed with

new drains.

PS, Could you make out what that building was behind the traffic

in the picture on Brightside Lane. Brian :huh:

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Thanks Peter, Blimmy, wern't that some water some nice pics you

put on here, over the earlier years i remember Upwell st bridge

been flooded and would cover the foot path. Not much changed with

new drains.

PS, Could you make out what that building was behind the traffic

in the picture on Brightside Lane. Brian :huh:

 

Hi Brian,

 

The building in the background on your pic is in fact Jessop Saville offices.

It was on the outside of a left bent from the angle of the shot, heading towards Meadowhall as can be seen on this shot taken just before demolition, which was in 1992. Compare the tower, on middle top of building, to your pic...

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02575&prevUrl=

 

My late first wife was a telephonist in that building in the '60s.

 

Peter.

 

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Hi My wife's father and uncle worked there . Bill Ibbotson (deceased) and Peter Barrett

 

Hi Asaw,

 

I don't recognise the names, but Firth Browns was a massive place :)

Would you know the time period your relatives worked there and the departments they worked in or gate numbers or the streets they were on ??

 

Regards, Peter.

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Thanks for your other picture Peter regards Jessops Saville, i took

this pic in 2015 is this part of the firm, it on riverside walk or st.

 

Did Jessops have a forging and melting shop. Brian

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Thanks for your other picture Peter regards Jessops Saville, i took

this pic in 2015 is this part of the firm, it on riverside walk or st.

 

Did Jessops have a forging and melting shop. Brian

 

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Hi Brian,

 

This is a closer shot of the gateway taken in 2005......

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;c01690&prevUrl=

 

On this pic taken in 1991 the entrance can be seen between the two buildings....

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02963&prevUrl=

 

Here is the view into the entrance, the brick gateway on your pic would have been where the fence is and has been re erected......

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02571&prevUrl=

 

Wikipedia says Jessop Saville had foundry interests.....

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessop_Saville_%26_Company

 

Here's a pic of the new billet grinding dept in 1960....

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y11407&prevUrl=

 

and Graces Guide states that Jessop Saville was taken over by Firth Brown in 1969....

 

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Jessop-Saville

 

Peter.

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Hi Brian,

 

This is a closer shot of the gateway taken in 2005......

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;c01690&prevUrl=

 

On this pic taken in 1991 the entrance can be seen between the two buildings....

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02963&prevUrl=

 

Here is the view into the entrance, the brick gateway on your pic would have been where the fence is and has been re erected......

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02571&prevUrl=

 

Wikipedia says Jessop Saville had foundry interests.....

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessop_Saville_%26_Company

 

Here's a pic of the new billet grinding dept in 1960....

 

http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y11407&prevUrl=

 

and Graces Guide states that Jessop Saville was taken over by Firth Brown in 1969....

 

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Jessop-Saville

 

Peter.

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Hi Peter, Many thanks for your PM, yes all your pics were very good

and i like the reading on the Jessps Saville factory.

That was intresting about the hospital and how it got its name-

Jessops Hospital.

To me, it doesn't seem that long since the firm closed in 1980,

and then Firth Browns had some dealings with Jessop. :thumbsup:

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Hi Peter, Many thanks for your PM, yes all your pics were very good

and i like the reading on the Jessps Saville factory.

That was intresting about the hospital and how it got its name-

Jessops Hospital.

To me, it doesn't seem that long since the firm closed in 1980,

and then Firth Browns had some dealings with Jessop. :thumbsup:

 

How many people worked at Firth-Brown in it's hey day (whenever that was ?) My dad who worked there 20 odd years, said over 2,000 and that was the Carlisle Street /Saville Street works.

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How many people worked at Firth-Brown in it's hey day (whenever that was ?) My dad who worked there 20 odd years, said over 2,000 and that was the Carlisle Street /Saville Street works.

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Hi Stpetre, When i went back to Firth Browns in 1979 there were

around 18,000, lots of the men hardly had a job.

Then Thatcher wanted lots of men reduntant not sure what year that

was when it stared. When i left Saville st in the lete 80s to be allicated

to Hawke st Brightside there were about 2,000 included office staff.

Brian.

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