Photographs Of Sheffield Pubs

[cdtiman]

:loopy:so there`s a few not listed yet

[Plain Talker]

muddycoffee as i said to tonkatoyyours is a good site as well:thumbsup:

 

To give Muddycoffee his due, I have enjoyed reading and comenting on several of his sites, and he is someone who strives to be accurate in the information he gives out.

 

He also gives more informaton on his site than, eg "This is a picture of a pub". His sites are accurate, informative and entertaining.

[Wardonia]

Looks like PT was not impressed!

 

Well I have been working on my Neepsend section this weekend.

http://www.thewookie.co.uk/pubs/neepsend.htm

 

There is no substitute for legwork and taking your own photographs. Especially when the weather is a good as it has been today.

 

Good stuff.

 

The Farfield which was "battered by the 2007 flood" also features in photos of the Great Flood of 1864.

 

Photo here on the excellent Great Flood site - http://mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/photogal/picflud7.html

[lazyherbert]

The original Harlequin did look like a lovely pub in the old photo I have seen and had an interesting history. Unfortunately I never visited it while I had the chance.

 

Can you give a more accurate description of where it was, as it is described as a riverside pub and at 26 johnson street. Was it at the other corner of Johnson street to the Manchester, or was it at the edge of the river ?

 

The old Harlequin was on the corner of Johnson St. & Stanley St. opposite corner to the Lodestar works.I lived 2 doors away from the pub.

[cdtiman]

muddycoffee in your neepsend review there was one between the farfield and the gardeners rest i think it was called the monkey puzzle at the bottom of parkwood road its now a hydrolic`s (shure PT will pick up if spelling is wrong:hihi:) firm

[Plain Talker]

The old Harlequin was on the corner of Johnson St. & Stanley St. opposite corner to the Lodestar works.I lived 2 doors away from the pub.

 

Thanks for clarifying that LazyH...

 

I could remember it was on the end of one of the two "stanley"s, but it's been so long since I worked down there, things were a bit hazy as to which of the two it was.

[Plain Talker]

muddycoffee in your neepsend review there was one between the farfield and the gardeners rest i think it was called the monkey puzzle at the bottom of parkwood road its now a hydrolic`s (shure PT will pick up if spelling is wrong:hihi:) firm

 

If you wish... it's "sure", and the word you are looking for is "hydraulics" (no "o", no apostrophe) Always happy to help.

[anarchist]

The original Harlequin did look like a lovely pub in the old photo I have seen and had an interesting history. Unfortunately I never visited it while I had the chance.

 

Can you give a more accurate description of where it was, as it is described as a riverside pub and at 26 johnson street. Was it at the other corner of Johnson street to the Manchester, or was it at the edge of the river ?

 

Hi

It was one block back from the river. It was a great pub for music and had an old pot stove in the bar with a chimney that crossed the bar area and at times glowed with the heat. Sadly it became stucturally unsound and was demolished a few years back.

[tonkatoy]

Looks like PT was not impressed!

 

Well I have been working on my Neepsend section this weekend.

http://www.thewookie.co.uk/pubs/neepsend.htm

 

There is no substitute for legwork and taking your own photographs. Especially when the weather is a good as it has been today.

 

I have been putting this together for many years and it is not meant to be a day to day updated listing. The idea is to list every pub and brewery that has ever existed in Sheffield and hopefully find a picture to go on the site. I do not intend to go and rephotograph a pub simply because the sign has changed.

 

I currently have a listing of over 1600 pubs and 85 breweries and will eventually get round to sorting it all out. I also started to write a book about old Sheffield pubs and have some excellent archive shots. I doubt anyone in Sheffield has a more complete archive but it still needs huge input.

 

Unfortunately I have far to many irons in the fire at once and it is difficult to find the time.

 

Happy to co-operate with others on a constructive project (particularly the book) but I have no time for armchair critics.

[tonkatoy]

I can only describe it from memory, as I used to go in there when I worked on the wicker shortly after leaving school.

 

Do you remember the one-way street that ran behind the manchester, which linked up to the wicker? (the 47/48 used to run on it, before the ring road works)

 

Well, the Harlequin was round the back of the Manchester, on that road, going back toward the Wicker. Despite the reports to the contrary, it was not in any way as close to the river as the Manchester is.

 

It was an old-style spit-and-sawdust pub, very basic, very stark, thermoplastic tiles on the floor... it was small, but the food they did was very nice. I used to go in there for my lunch.

 

edit to say just loked at a pre-ringroad map. the harlequin was probably at the junction of Johnson st with either stanley st or stanley lane

(looking at this map here

 

http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=53.38768,-1.46446|18|4&loc=GB:53.58283:-1.50653

 

The word is "looked". It is easy to make typos.......