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  1. It's ok everyone I've just remembered it was called Sidewalk Cafe. Crisis averted I can go to sleep now night Forumers haha. Sleep tight. x
  2. Hi does anyone remember the name of the old cafe/restaurant that used to be in Crystal Peaks opposite the market hall. It was owned by Out of Town Restaurants. I am sure they had another restaurant with a different name at Centertainment. Not sure if they owned businesses in the Oasis at Meadowhall as well. It was Greggs when I last went in it may be something else by now. As it was probably something else in between being this and then Greggs I think. I'm rattling my brain as I can't remember at all. The reason why it is really frustrating me that I can't remember as I worked there for a bit. If anyone knows please reply thanks so much TinStar.
  3. Awwwww Deborah thats so lovely. It was tragic in a way though. How so many people in Sheffield ended up like that. :( :(
  4. Please share with me some of your memories of Sheffield growing up. I was born in 1984 so some of mine are the ole in road haha. When you would go underground to where the news stands were. There were always people sleeping rough. The escalators all over Sheffield that went from the road level down. The fish tanks in the wall. The man painted on the side of the building on the road near the markets. I just tried to google that as I always wondered who he was. Why that was there. I couldn't find anything. So if anybody knows please tell me. My dad taking my sister and I to Wimpy on a Saturday. Going to Meadowhall on the bendy buses before the trams and standing in the middle bit that bent. Going to the chip shop on t'ramp before getting the bus home and my mum would buy me a bag of chips. The cafe of the t'ramp called Minerva that my nan loved and my mum hated. As it was one of those places that had a sticky spoon in the sugar bowl haha. Going to Presto's on t'ramp with my mum before getting on the bus home for shopping. The shop called Scoop on t'ramp. We would always go in. They sold dried foods etc. Going to C&A with my mum for clothes. Especially if we had a wedding to go to at the weekend. Getting my school uniforms from BHS. Getting back to school stuff from WHSmith's or Woolworths. Always getting pic n mix from Woolworth's. Always putting in more than you actually paid for haha. Also getting your clothes from Woolworth's (The Ladybird Collection) haha. My mum taking us into the cafe in BHS. The one near Castle Market. It was downstairs and I just remember the amazing smell of food when you went down the escalator. It had brown tiles on the walls I remember that. For years the decor in there was the same until it closed I think. It never changed. Being forced to go in Castle Market with my mum. The market was not bad but it was the meat market bit as it stank. I hated it. Going to Sheaf Market with my dad to get the turkey on Christmas Eve. Getting new coats from Dunne's always. Having your shoe fittings at Clarke's. The getting new shoes from there. That always came in a snazzy box and the shoes were cool too. Or having your shoes fitted at Timpson's. The outdoor swimming pool at Millhouses. The rowing boats there. Paddling in the lake. The shops called Tate's Gallery. There was one in Sheffield and they sold all sorts of crap. Eating in Orchard Square food court. It always smelled like spices in there. It smelled so nice. Athena poster shops. What happened to them? The man outside Castle Market who used to sell Terry Towling tea towels and socks. What happened to him? my mum always bought the towels and sometimes socks from him haha. The spud man on The Moor. He is still there today and had been around in Sheffield since the mid 80's. The rows and rows of stalls on The Moor that used to sell leather goods. Jackets, coats, waistcoats, trousers, belts and bags etc. You don't see them anymore. We had a couple of good ones in Sheffield. Stolen From Ivor on The Moor I loved that shop. Most of my stuff as a teenager was bought from there. Fruit Of The Loom haha. The old HSBC Bank on High Street. I remember going in there all the time with my mum as a child. Going to The Sheffield Star office with my mum. So my mum could put an advert in there for something. Not phoning up or doing it online. Having to go there and do it in person. The bloody Egg Box as my mum used to call it at the bottom of The Moor. Going to the fair that came to Sheffield once on The Moor with my dad and going on the rides and being absolutely terrified. The original cobbles on the street on Paradise Square, Paradise Street that aren't anywhere else now in Sheffield. Going to the SYT place on the top of The Moor/ Fargate on the corner as you go up the street behind John Lewis to get your South Yorkshire Travel Pass. It's now a Jewellers I think. There are so many more so please share yours. I hope you've enjoyed mine? and it brought back nostalgia for you.
  5. I loved The Cocked Hat on Worksop Road. I was gutted recently when I realised that yet another great pub had closed down too. Great atmosphere, a proper old school pub. Did anybody else drink in there?
  6. There are really good brand called Joseph Dobson's voice tablets. They sell them everywhere. Supermarkets and shops etc. I always swear by this when my voice is croaky. Plus I sing so try and look after my voice. There are also Jakeman's in various flavours. That are very good too. 👌👌
  7. There was one near the place where you give blood. Across from the old HSBC bank and what used to be that bar called Cavell's. The company I am thinking of is Office angels. Off the side facing the Sheffield Cathedral. Could it be them? good luck I hope you find them. Although sadly it could be if they've disappeared they are no longer in business anymore. 👌👌
  8. I don't remember her as I am too too young. But I have asked others who are older who do. Awwwwww that's really sad about him. I have heard about him. I always wonder where his family were? didn't they miss him? I accept that but some of them genually are homeless and it's catch twenty two I am afraid. They cannot get a job without an address. Or cannot get an address without a job. I am sure the majority do not choose to be like that. They have no family or anyone to turn to. I did a sleep out in September 2015 for The Cathedral Archer Project. in Sheffield. I spoke to a lot of them who were with us all night. One male who had been like that for twenty odd years. He fell out with his mother and step father as he didn't like who his mother had married. A few months later he was sleeping rough. It isn't as cut and dried as you like to think or assume. Others their families had sadly lost them years earlier to alcohol and drug addiction. Probably in the rush during the eighties. I don't really see what them having a dog has anything to do with it. If they want to have a dog to keep them company in that situation then that is their choice. As long as it's fed and look after that is all that matters. The lad who had been like twenty odd years took us for a tour around all the places where they sleep. Cardboard city behind King Street near the markets. One person was asleep with his girlfriend behind a bin and someone peed on them. absolutely disgusting they should have been arrested and convicted for that. Just because these people are homeless they are still people. I disagree that it is a lifestyle choice now. I don't think that those in that position choose or want to be like that. People aren't poor now because the benefits system is a buffer for people to rely on. You are actually better off on benefits than working. You received less years ago. I think the authorities in this country have a lot to answer for. Why are there so many empty council houses yet so many people without a home? so many homeless. So many families in temporary accommodation. I watched a program about the council housing system in Southhampton. The council turned away a homeless man who was washing in a public toilet. Who they said that apparently they couldn't help. Yet could help a unemployed single mother who had a perfectly nice council property. Who wanted to move as she didn't like that her flat/house was high up. I rest my case that the councils up and down the country are failing those in need. Yet pandering to the whim of selfish, irresponsible, stupid, ungrateful people like this woman who at least should have bee thankful and grateful that she at least had a roof over her head. The councils are all the same no matter where you live. It is an absolute disgrace. Why is the mental health services not helping those who need it? why is the benefits system allowing itself to be exploited? it's maddening the country is a an absolute joke.
  9. I found this I thought it might be interesting for you. This is the place I have pictures of on my Pintrest. I am not sure if you can go in that building though it looks locked to me. Although by the state of the inside of it. I am sure it wasn't at one time. https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/misc-sites/36535-town-hall-courts-sheffield-september-2018-a.html#.XBTRbi2calM You might want to look at this as well. Park Hill Flats featured in This Is England 90. One side had been regenerated into new apartments. The other side not nearest the main road has been left derelict. People even left their washing still hanging up you can see it when you drive past. It's like an apocalyptic world or something. Here are the pictures. As not sure again of you can actually go into the flats on the stairs/stairwells into the building. As not sure if it is safe. I am sure last time I went passed it had metal fencing all around it. But they may have moved that again so you can. I am not sure. https://www.britainsdecays.com/park-hill-estate-sheffield/ I found this as well. I hope it is helpful to you. https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2010/07/6-abandoned-buildings-and-places-in-sheffield-uk/ Cannon Brewery in Sheffield is also abandoned. I found some pictures. Here is the link to the Cannon Brewery pictures. There are some amazing ones. https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x487978881e7c0241:0xdd5d2ccc166122c7!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipNaiSfsFp3JO8p2KY6wHiHbS6KQtRvTtqA2crrk%3Dw213-h160-k-no!5scannon+brewery+abandoned+-+Google+Search&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipNaiSfsFp3JO8p2KY6wHiHbS6KQtRvTtqA2crrk&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV0rSg0KHfAhVuRhUIHbkGBw0QoiowDnoECAYQBg
  10. After I read this topic before I asked people on my Facebook if they knew who she was. As it is before my time. My friends mum said that she remembers her in the 70's when she used too go to Sheffield. Also the landlord of my pub I go into as well. said that he remembers her from years ago. So sad that she ended up like that. You just wonder how that can happen but it can. You do get some characters around Sheffield. I remember being about four, five maybe six years old and with my mum. We were walking near where Roxy's is on the other side of the road. Where that church is. A man had collapsed he was homeless. He'd hit his head badly and there was a lot of blood. My mum who smoked bent down a popped a couple of cigs in his pocket for when he woke up. I just remember when they put him in the ambulance seeing the blood on the pavement where his head had been. Even that young I felt a massive amount of sadness that someones life amounted to nothing. That he ended up like that. You see so many in Sheffield though. I remember one in particular a big bloke with a beard. He used to wear all his clothes at once. He wore a dirty white knitted jumper. Wellies and carried all ho belongings in a trolley. He used to sit on the Cathedral. He slept on the bench in the courtyard. Nobody went near him because you could smell him a mile away. One morning years ago when I worked down the back of the Cathedral. It was November and it was freezing. I walked past and he was asleep on the bench with all his stuff around him. I thought he was dead. I didn't have a mobile then. So I decided to go to work and come back at dinnertime. If he was still there I'd call someone. As I would know something was wrong. Thankfully he was gone when I returned. I think he was just in a deep sleep. Although I thought to myself afterwards how could anyone sleep peacefully in a cold courtyard on a bench? I suppose he was used to it. We used to get a lot around the back of the building where I worked at that time. I was washing the dishes one day in the kitchen at the bottom of the building it was offices. The bins were out the back. I remember seeing a lady. She cannot have been any older than I am now. Maybe she was a bit older. With her two children. At the time I was only an eighteen year old girl and my heart sank. I watched her put a bag in the bin with a pair of trainers in and some other bits. I thought I bet that is all she owns. All her worldly goods in that tatty old carrier bag. She saw me through the window I was going to offer them something but the only thing we had was tea and coffee. After she left I opened the bin and opened the bag and looked closer at the trainers in the bag. They looked years old. I put hem back and closed the lid. A year later I was working someone else near West Street in a sandwich shop. The same little boy I had seen with the lady came in asking for food. I went home that night and cried. Another time when I worked in the offices I was walking towards the building one morning and I could see something on the floor. I thought it was a black bag at first. There were bollards outside the building and there was a lady laid up against them asleep. I stepped over her and went into work. I said to the other people there's a woman sleep outside on the pavement is that normal? they said yes she is normally there sometimes asleep. I went outside to see if she was still there an hour later and she'd gone.
  11. I bet it was great back then. A better time to be young. I am sure that I have hard people talk about Mojo.
  12. I remember the best chippy on there. On' t ramp haha. Going to get the bus as a kid with my mum. She would buy me a bag of chips to have open and a can pf pop. Sometimes if the bus driver was feeling in a good mood he'd let you on the bus with your chips. I also remember the Minerva cafe which my nan liked to go in. My mum hated it though. It was a proper greasy spoon. I remember Scoop shop they sold dried foods and sweets etc. The girl who baby-sat for my sister and I worked there. We also went in Scoop to buy sweets and stuff when we caught the bus to my grandmas house. This was the mid to late eighties and the nineties though. Not as far back as 1975. The Supermarket at the end of the Ramp Presto we'd always go in there on the way home for anything that mum needed haha. I always wondered what was beyond where the supermarket was as we never ventured that far. The Top Rank bingo hall has always been there as well. Is that now Mecca? I can't remember? The GPO that was on Pond Street I don't know if it still is today. Was there a Salvation Army building on there at one time as well? The Do it All wallpaper shop that was on there as well. Is that whole area a multi story car park now? Thanks for the memories and nostalgia everyone Tin Star.
  13. Ahhh ok thank you. I thought it was at the side where the ladies was. That's bad isn't it? surely you would think health and safety wouldn't allow that? especially nowadays when everyone is so health and safety mad.
  14. This is so interesting. I never really knew much about him where he grew up and the like. Haha they let you in for free because you were from Sheffield. Top choice lol. Fab post.
  15. Thank you so much everyone for your helpful replies. Damn I need to visit then. It's right up my street. I can't believe that I didn't know it had opened already lol.
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