[HarrietStar]

hi,

I am a student at sheffield uni studying town planning. I'm doing an urban design project on the recently re-developed ward's brewery site. Does anyone have any information about the brewery site before it was closed or opinions on the development?

thanks, Harriet

[alchresearch]

You could check out this thread.

[HarrietStar]

thank you

Does anyone who has seen the flats or been on the site have anything to say about the actual design and architecture of the development? it would really help with my work,

thanks

[HarrietStar]

hi again, please, if anyone has seen the development - walked past or drove past and has any kind of opinion on it, please just post it here, cheers!

[Classic Rock]

Looks like offices on an industrial estate.... a mish mash of old and new architecture.....shudder.

I've got the pub across the road from it. Call in an look at it through my windows while drinking beer. Makes it seem better after four or five Stellas.

[kitch]

well I've been in them, is pretty nice. The one I was in was quite small but v nicely done up. Kept getting locked out in the courtyard, which was a bit of a b*gger.

Outside they look allright I think, could be made to look more like what they're meant to be, rather than just flats, made to look rather nice flats if u catch my drift?

[HarrietStar]

haha i always wondered what the landlord of that pub thought of them!

kitch - could you describe more of the inside - materials and fixtures and fittings? what is the layout of the flats like - are there long corridors or are the flats quite seperated? are the flats modern inside?
how did the flat make you feel?

also, does anyone know when the concierge guy is there? cos everytime i go he/she isnt there!

[Granma]

Does anyone know where there's a picture of the brewery before its destruction/conversion?
Thanks, Granma.

[swervin]

i once went on a tour of wards brewery in the late 80s from work, great day it had its own pub in there ,tour guide pulled every one your first pint then said if anyone wants another help yourselfs absolutey blotto when we finally game out

[melthebell]

i was thinking about beer yesterday on the way home from work and my first thoughts were about the old sheffield breweries...stones and wards and the smell at both ends of the city centre

[Highnote]

Some years ago some friends of mine from out of town and I went in a Wards house and ordered pints all round, after a while one was seen holding his pint up to the light, and when asked why his reply was"I was just trying to decide which river this had come from!!!!!", so I explained with Wards you either loved it or hated it.

[melthebell]

Originally Posted by Highnote

Some years ago some friends of mine from out of town and I went in a Wards house and ordered pints all round, after a while one was seen holding his pint up to the light, and when asked why his reply was"I was just trying to decide which river this had come from!!!!!", so I explained with Wards you either loved it or hated it.

ive always loved stones.......i always said wards makes you ****, lol

[Highnote]

Just after I had finished National Service (1950)where I learned to drink, me and a couple of mates went into the old Yellow Lion behind the City Hall, I don't what is there now I don't live in the city,when the beer was the old Stones,Sheffield born and bred, a real beer right?, it had a yellowish tinge rather than the more familiar brownish of other brews, when I got home my Dad asked where we had been, and when I told him he replied "Oh Stones's you can become addicted to that!", and I am sure he was right,on subsequent visits we would see the same blokes stood at the bar with a sort of glazed faraway look in there eyes.
Cheers and thanks for the memory

[Plain Talker]

the Meadow, Meadow Street (R.I.P) was a pub that the Netherthorpian side of my family used to frequent.

it was a Wards' House.

on a sunday afternoon, we'd be at my granny's for our Sunday lunch.

My poppa and grandpa would be drinking in "t' medder", and would come back to peas, sprouts and cabbage, all done to death in bicarb-ed water, so they'd be this intriguing bright green colour.

all this trump-y veg, combined with the wondefully trump-y wards' beer maent that poppa and grandpa woud be playing the trumpet voluntary/ calling the ships in from Salford Docks all afternoon.

My mother and granny would both be grumbling about the dreadful, unnatural choking stenches that were produced .

they called it the "medder-stink!"

my mother's favourite commnet on the foul air emitted was "Anyone as teks more than two breaths o' THAT is a greedy beggar!"

[Texas]

Originally Posted by Highnote

Just after I had finished National Service (1950)where I learned to drink, me and a couple of mates went into the old Yellow Lion behind the City Hall, I don't what is there now I don't live in the city,when the beer was the old Stones,Sheffield born and bred, a real beer right?, it had a yellowish tinge rather than the more familiar brownish of other brews, when I got home my Dad asked where we had been, and when I told him he replied "Oh Stones's you can become addicted to that!", and I am sure he was right,on subsequent visits we would see the same blokes stood at the bar with a sort of glazed faraway look in there eyes.
Cheers and thanks for the memory

I've just got to comment on this. Highnote you've got it dead right on your post, it was, like you say, yellowish, and may I say, addictive, the more you had, the more you wanted. I could sup 'over the eight' of that wonderful stuff. I couldn't do it with any other beer apart from Ward's, but it had to be a good house.

[MinxyKitten]

I live in Wards Brewery, and it is lovely

[melthebell]

Originally Posted by MinxyKitten

I live in Wards Brewery, and it is lovely

gis a pint

errrrrrrrrrrrrm

[dacrlit]

It was a shame when Ward's closed down. Sheffield CAMRA carried a Cask from the Brewery to the nearest local Wards Public House and drained it of every last drop, they did this as a wake for the brewery that was going to close down.