Photographs Of Sheffield Pubs

[JenC]

Thanks for that...

 

AND THANKS TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE RECENTLY SENT ME PUB PIX AND INFO.., It will get on the site eventually. HONESTLY

 

The Ship is a great landmark. I love the tiles.

 

It was a pub in 1833 and appears to have been a free house. It wasbought by Tomlinsons in 1924 when the tiles were applied. After the Anchor Bas bombed Tomlinsons merged with the tiny "Hope Brewery" to for Hope & Anchor who were arguably the driving force and foundations of the UKs largest brewers Bass Charrington.

 

Not been in for a while but I think it was one of the pubs sold off during deregulation to Hardy Hansons... correct me if I am wrong on that.

 

There is certainly huge activity in the area but as far as I know the pub is safe... By the way if you pop round the corner onto Dunn Street there is the beautifully preserved Bulls Head with Old Albion mouldings. Hard to believe that this short road once had 6 pubs.

 

Thankyou for the information tonkatoy, very interesting

 

I may well have a wander round there and have look at the Bulls Head while I'm at it.

[tonkatoy]

There are already several books about sheffield pubs. The Michael Liversage Tome "Sheffield Public houses" is already in print for nearly a decade and extremely good. It is purely an a-z list of all the pubs of sheffield and most of them have a photo, and it is extremely thorough with stories and data collected over many years of research. You will have to improve on his work considerably if you wish to make a success with a book.

 

Speaking for myself. I have been maintaining my interest in local pubs for 9 years and my website was started in the 1990s. Whenever any news about local pubs gets into the news I intend to add to my data. I am not interested in covering the whole of the city however. I just cover the areas where I sometimes go to drink. I often do not update the site for a considerable time, and then I make some updates.

 

My main motivation is local history, I have quite a library of local history books and can pour over them for hours. By collecting photos and information in my era, I feel that I am adding to this work. If I can keep it up for decades then the pictures on my websites will track the changes in localpubs and chart many lost pubs before they dissapear completely.

 

I have also done this with the 70 odd local Cinemas and Tower blocks. I welcome your work, as far as I am concerned the more people doing this the better, we can exchange links and everyone can enjoy a more complete story of local pubs.

 

Send me a link and I will add it. Interesting to hear you are at Woodseats as I am very close by. I was particularly pleased when the Coach & Horses reopened at Dronfield. That is now a fabulous pub. You might have spotted the articles that I write for Beer Matters. I recently did histories of the Woodseats and the Sheaf View.

 

If you missed them I can forward.

 

Incidentally I already have a publishing deal for the book, if I ever get round to finishing it. It is about 75% complete but I hope to get back on the case when the current distractions disappear.

 

Keep up the archives.

 

Incidentally I have some copies of reports and invoices for flood damage to some Deardens pubs around Malin Bridge etc from the great flood.

[Greybeard]

But I'm confused about the Manchester. It faced the river on Nursery Street, to it's right was the approach to Bridgehouses Goods Yard,

 

The Manchester (Arms ?) stood on the corner of Spital Fields and Nursery street. There was another pub on the opposite side, on Mowbray street, next to the old baths, called the Brown Cow I think. Strange name for a Sheffield pub.

[tonkatoy]

The Manchester (Arms ?) stood on the corner of Spital Fields and Nursery street. There was another pub on the opposite side, on Mowbray street, next to the old baths, called the Brown Cow I think. Strange name for a Sheffield pub.

 

The Manchester Arms is now renamed the Harlequin

The Brown Cow is now the Riverside having gone through several reincarnations.

 

Incidentally I have a photograph of the pub being redone.

 

Half the sign calls it the Riverside whilst the other has Wards signs and is called the Brown Cow. Sadly the huge plaster Brown Cow moulding the adorned the back wall of the pub was destroyed in the renovation. A great loss.

[trish2002]

Hi Tonkatoy..My Grandfather Frank LOCKETT was the licensee of the New Brunswick Inn, Allen Street in 1911 before he came to Canada. He was also a policeman but had to resign ofcourse to run the pub.

 

Interesting article in the June 1911 Sheffield Independent regarding a Public House Scene (New Brunswick Inn) where a customer throws a glass at a Sheffield Landlady (my grandmother Mary Ann LOCKETT nee MORAN) and the Sheffield Court House decision. Let me know if you would like a copy for your records.

 

Trish

[Ousetunes]

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

 

That website deserves a thread of its own.

 

Some of it is so sad and touching......

 

 

....all those pubs reduced to rubble.

[Vic787]

While searching family history found that my grandfather Walter Smith was the landlord of the Anvil Inn Waingate around 1920 - 1925. It was at 22-24 Waingate next door but one to the Bull and Mouth. Its gone now replaced by a shop not built in stone, but concrete. There is a picture of it on Picturesheffield.com.

That is fact and almost accurate.

[Leg-end]

I have been putting together a website of Sheffield pubs past and present.

 

http://www.sheffieldpubs.fsnet.co.uk

 

Loads of people have helped me on this but I still need information and photographs of pubs.

 

If you can help send jpeg images to pictures@sheffieldpubs.fsnet.co.uk

 

Preserve this information for posterity so that others can enjoy it

 

THANKS

 

The Devonshire Arms (Herries Road) is a recent development. It was built as a replacement for the Devonshire Arms on the Moor which was bombed during the war and subsequently pulled down in redevelopments.

 

What is this all about?

[tonkatoy]

Thanks to Michael who sent photo of Middlewood Tavern. I have lost your details so I hope you pick up this mention.

 

I have added the pub to the listings.

 

THANKS

[tonkatoy]

What is this all about?

 

Not an unusual situation.

 

a simple transfer of licence.