Ponderosa netherthorpe- what did it used to be?

[slates77]

Hi can anyone tell me what it used to be

[Lostmarbles]

Hi , The Ponderosa used to be Streets and shops / houses - I know this as most of my mums family were from there mainly Wentworth St and a street called Port Mahon . It was all demolished I think in the 1950's - If you go to picture Sheffield there are loads of photo's of the area - look under Netherthorpe . If you can get a pre 1950 map of the area you will see all the streets on there

 

 

 

 

 

The World's gone mad and i've lost touch

[Longcol]

Fair bit about Port Mahon at the end of this thread.

 

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=299037

[extaxman]

When I was a kid (mid to late 40's) we just used to call it the Tip and go sledging on it in the winter. I always thought that it was the embankment to stop the three dams that used to be behind it overflowing.

 

Think I read somewhere that at one time early 1800's there used to be a racecourse around there.

[CHAIRBOY]

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s03554

 

I knew it as The Tip, too, but the above picture has recreation ground in the title and I think Crookesmoor "Rec" was an alternative. Only when I was at High Storrs School did I hear some pupils refer to it as the "Ponder".

 

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s03559

[slates77]

did it used to be a farm years ago

[lexia]

As far as i can remember some of the street names were

 

Wentworth st

Fawcett st

Bromley st

Bellfield st

Watery lane

Hammond st

Hammond hill

Bethel st

that's as far as i can remember at the momement also think that Crooksmoor rec (TIP ) and the ponderosa are two separate fields as the tip has been there for years and ponderosa only since the sixties when all the old house's were demolished

[nosy nellie]

It was called The Tip when I lived in that area,there were never any houses or shops on it.I remember a football pitch at the bottom end and to the right was a playground.also part of Crookesmoor school was just past the playground.the rest was just spare ground.

[slates77]

my nan is 90 and she seems to think before she was born there was a house at the top and they had farm animals

[lexia]

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_ I wonder if this is what she's thinking of i remember my gran telling me of a big house on fawcett st .Fawcett street was at the bottom of Bromley st and the TIP was at the top looking at this old photo it could be all of the same field. Hope the link works first time iv'e tried