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Porter Brook - I never saw it.

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I have just found out that there is a public house on Ecclesall Road called The Porter Brook. I couldn't place this at all and I knew Ecclesall Road very well for a large part of my life. How long has it been there and what was this building before? It can't have been there and I just never saw it surely. :loopy:

 

Grannypat

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Its been there ages up towards roundabout near Spar ,can't recall what it was before though.

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It was an electrical contractors premises before they turned it into a pub.

 

---------- Post added 12-01-2018 at 19:28 ----------

 

The Mrs has just told me it was Hall and Stinson.

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Hi melv,

 

Do you have any idea when that happened? It must have been during the last 20 years, do you think?

 

Grannypat

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I think in the last 15yrs, grannypat. I'm not sure about that,though.

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I think I first went in round the time of the last big solar eclipse - so 1999ish at latest give or take a year.

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Just asking, but this is not to be confused with the Porter Cottage on Sharrow Vale Rd is it. Sorry but years since I was in that area.

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No, they are two different pubs.

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I think in the last 15yrs, grannypat. I'm not sure about that,though.

 

Sure it’s been a pub longer than that?

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Sure it’s been a pub longer than that?

 

I was trying to think when I first went there, and it was definitely longer than 15 years ago.

 

I cheated (don't like doing that) but a website, says opened in the 1990s as Hogshead. I'd say later than 95 though (from a single memory)

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Thank you all for your help and your memories. I left in 1995 and I feel sure that it must have been after that that the Porter Brook came into being. You've all helped me understand what happened.

 

Grannypat

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It was an electrical contractors premises before they turned it into a pub.

 

---------- Post added 12-01-2018 at 19:28 ----------

 

The Mrs has just told me it was Hall and Stinson.

 

Hall & Stinsons Electrical Ltd, never actually worked for them but knew some who did

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