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    1 hour ago, Top4719 said:

    I think I remember the pawn shop but can't remember it's name.

     

    On the same theme can anyone remember this shop - what is now Yates/Ask Italian on the corner of Division St/Cambridge St used to be a bit wasteland that was a small car park (on what I assume was the site of previously demolished buildings) if you were facing this car park with your back to Cole Brothers/John Lewis there was a shop next door, used to have stuff hung outside, looked a bit gothy and you went up a couple of steps to get in.

    I think that demolished building was once an auto dealers.

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    12 hours ago, funk_rocker said:

    Can anybody help please; been having memories from my youth of places i could no longer retain what the names of them were, in & around Sheffield, some pubs some - some shops etc.

    Here goes.

    1). I can't find any information online or photos of what i'm trying to locate: one of these situations being I can remember a pawnbroker-type shop that i think was next to a pub, on Pinstone Street at the top of The Moor in town, sort of opposite where Superdrug is. The pawnbroker was there around the same time that Cash Converters shops became big names - around 2002 I'd say and it was there for a few years - the pub near it, or next to it, seemed to be one of these rough-round-the-edges type pubs, often unsavoury characters. It wasn't far from John Lewis and may have been at the bottom of Cambridge Street, closer to Union Street than,say, Henry's Bar.

    This pawnbroker in question used to sell a hell of a lot of electrical goods and had a hell of a lot of old musical instruments in it's window - 🪕's, mandolins, 🎸's, 🎹's, ⌨️, etc.  Anybody remember either place's name?

    2). When I was an adolescent i remember my ma taking me to a nice bookshop up on West Street, somewhere close to where the David Village Lighting Shop used to be a few years back, and on the same side. Would've been sometime between 1998 and 2001 i think. I believe it was an independent bookstore not a chain - any idea what it was called?..

    3). Staying with a West Street theme, in 2007/'08  we had a night out for somebody's 18th and went in this bar/pub at the bottom of West St., close to Holly Street, it was on a corner and was roughly where Slug & Lettuce now is, just down from where the 🐀&🦜pub used to be. What was it's name, anyone?

    4). I remember two city-centre fish-and-chip shops from during the 90's: but can't remember the name of either one. The first was on Commercial Street: possibly right next door to Barclays Bank (tallest building on that street and is still standing!!) when it was Barclays. The second was on Pond Street it was under a walkway with some other shops, behind The Roxy's what is now O2 Academy, located where the multi-storey carpark now is: opposite Sheffield Interchange.

    Help?

    5). And possibly the most difficult of the lot to solve: is:  On a hot summer's evening back in 2014, i did a long walk into the city centre from the direction of Centertainment, either along the River Don Trail or along the canal towpath. I believe it was the latter, as I kept encountering various bridges that you have to walk under with tight spaces between a said bridge and the path/water's edge..Anyway, i recall that when i did - somewhere along the way there was a set of concrete steps (or stone ones.???) on my left, leading straight up to a pub on a corner  next to some trees and bushes tucked away on a backstreet that was obviously on higher ground than my level🎚️. I may have climbed the steps to look, but for some reason i made no attempt to go and enter the pub even thought it seemed nice enough and i could hear jovial voices and some kind of music🎶drifting out from it.

    From where ai thought i was, i would say it was somewhere in the vicinity of the Attercliffe area, or Newhall, as 30-40 minutes later i was approaching the city centre via Victoria Quays where the big Holiday Inn Hotel was,at that time.

    From memory.

    Can anybody help with what pub this was?/and is it still in existence 10 years later?...i've done most of the walk again recently but can't relocate what i saw that night. Can't see a pub anywhere, nor can i see any steps that resemble those steps, in a position that resembles what i saw.

    Very strange.

    Note: I've already established it's not The North Pole as suggested which i am told was a pub on Bernard Road back in the day that's now a mosque, and very close to the energy recovery incinerator: this is the wrong positioning and location for where i mean.

    Another pub somebody suggested it could've been, that ISN'T, was Plumpers.

    Now an 🇺🇲⛳ sales centre, Plumpers was a big pub on Sheffield Road years ago which is too far back in the direction of Tinsley Viaduct/Meadowhell for it to be the pub where I'm referring to...the pub i'm talking about was way beyond Carbrook/ Centertainment if you're walking away from where the Porsche car showroom is and walking in the direction towards the city.

    Thanks for your time i hope you can help me solve any or all of the above.

     

  10. Posted

    33 minutes ago, hauxwell said:

    I love ordering food and drinks on the app at Wetherspoons Pubs. Especially when there’s a football match on which affects some of there pubs.  You don’t have to go to the bar where the drunks like to stand on match day. 

    I thought there was a rule concerning when pubs within a certain radius of Bramall Lane and Hillsborough could open on match days. or has that been rescinded?

  11. Posted

    Things may have altered since I left school in 1962 but I recall that the dinner ladies didn't 'cook' anything, they just re-heated the stuff. I was told by a driverthat most of the meals for council schools were prepared in a facility in the Edmund Road  area and transferred early morning in stainless steel containers to the schools.

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    4 hours ago, GabrielC said:

    Never went in that pub it used to be Nelsons Rock Bar closed for a long time then became Rocking Chair another hear today gone tomorrow business.  No idea if true but their was a  murder in that pub at some point. Another bar that went was around the back of Debenhams store more a late night venue again never went in like the Moorfoot Tavern it had its ups and downs. I'm not sure a pub would work on the Moor now.

    The murder happened in 1968.

  14. Posted

    29 minutes ago, TheCrofts said:

    New to this forum and getting on in years so please forgive any irritating or repetitive/not-that-again type of content in my post.  I have been driving myself nuts over the last few days trying to remember the name of a shop in 1950s-1960s Fargate. I’ve searched old photos online with no success. It was a shop that sold very fancy and unusual cakes - I think it was run by East European people and maybe had an East European name. They sold cheesecake before anybody had heard of it. I think it was next to Davy’s old shop because I remember the wonderful smell of freshly ground coffee when I was standing outside this mystery shop. I would be very grateful if anyone could put me out of my misery and tell me its name!

    Perhaps 'Picture Sheffield' photos of Fargate from that era may  help?

  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, KP Nuts 2 said:

    The weekend is nearly upon us so let's all get ready and in the mood by having another laugh at Wilder complaining about the linesman having a sarnie in his presence. Embarrassing or what?😂😂😂 Enjoy.

    Is there actually any film footage of this incident? ( I live outside the UK so non available) , Was it a linesman or fourth official -neither who should be eating on the job- who was talking to Roy Hodgson  at the time and if play had stopped, what's the conversation to do with Chris Wilder?

  16. Posted

    3 hours ago, Runningman said:

    Wonder who these supporters are in this time of economic depression.

    A lot of those Leeds supporters would have driven down and had to fill their tank again before returning home.

    I can imagine Carlisle to Portsmouth (or VV) but neither of them will have to put up with that next season.

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    51 minutes ago, echo beach said:

    Yes he was the last of the original Dad’s Army cast to depart for the big Pill Box in the sky.

    But ‘Don’t tell him Pike’, you ‘Stupid Boy!’

     

    RIP Ian and thanks for the memories.

     

    echo.

    RIP Ian, wasn't the last to pass  the Vicar, Timothy Farthing, Frank Williams, who was ninety odd?

  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, KP Nuts 2 said:

    OK, I'm bored so thought I'd give it a go, see where I think they'll finish up, or at least how many points they'll finish up with. Again, I've tried to be realistic and erred on the positive side. It comes out at 12 points to be acquired with the 10 they already have which = 22 pts in total. Which would put them way better than the worst ever (11 points by Derby with a GD of -69) but 1  point worse than their previous worst of 23 points. They are already on a GD of -40. Can see that not being quite as bad as Derby's but not too far off either.

     

    (A) Luton 0 pts

    (H) Brighton  0pts

    (A) Wolves  0 pts

    (H) Arsenal 0 pts

    (A) Bournemouth 1 pt

    (A) Man. Utd 0 pts

    (H) Fulham 3 pts

    (A) Liverpool 0 pts

    (H) Chelsea 0 pts

    (A) Brentford 1 pt

    (H) Burnley 3 pts

    (A) Newcastle 0 pts

    (H) Notts Forest 3 pts

    (A) Everton 1 pt

    (H) Spurs 0 pts

     

    Beyond hope i'm afraid, as good as down.

    And their name is Nottingham Forest.

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