Trans-Pennine Road

[Albert T Smith 10]

In the late 1940s early 1950s a Trans-Pennine all year & weather road from Sheffield to Manchester was planned to be built between Sheffield and Manchester. The road would have been kept snow or frost free by the road surface being heated using excess heat, transported via pipework, from the Burnard Road, Sheffield Heat & Power system that was being designed to burn the rubbish from the entire city to included Rotherham,Doncaster and other area's whose Councils were members of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. ( Irvine Patnick Conservative MPs. term)

 

I believe that its route would go from Eccelsall Road, South leaving at top of Whirlowdale Road, cutting across fields to just below Dore village then via a raised Island across the valley to the Pickford Holland Brickworks on Baslow Road, up to Owler Bar then Across Big Moor to Curbar Gap, down to Carver then via Stoney Middleton and out to Peak Forest and Manchester.

 

Has anyone any further details please?

[peterw 10]

No further details except to say that during the period you mention there were several experiments via the Woodhead Route, to find out whether heavy snow could be kept away from the road, which as far as I know was the highway that would become the major road of which you write. However, despite all the good ideas, when snow came to Woodhead — it came, and came, and didn’t go away. Today, nothing has changed. Good ideas don’t beat the weather.

[Albert T Smith 10]

No further details except to say that during the period you mention there were several experiments via the Woodhead Route, to find out whether heavy snow could be kept away from the road, which as far as I know was the highway that would become the major road of which you write. However, despite all the good ideas, when snow came to Woodhead — it came, and came, and didn’t go away. Today, nothing has changed. Good ideas don’t beat the weather.

 

First. I'm very pleased to read your post and realise that you are back.

 

If you can cast your mind back. The section that would have been built between Dore and the Brickworks at Totley / Owler Bar. Would have in-corporated a raised road island with roads exiting to Dore, Totley, a proposed new Totley College and King Egbert School.

 

I believe newspaper's daubed it, ' The Island in the Sky '.

 

The roadway heating, would be the heat that would have fed the new College but surplus to requirements during the night time. I'm minded to believe that a similar Heat & Power project situated in Manchester, would have linked up.

 

( I hope that I have not trod on anyone's toes with this one !! )

[telman 10]

fanasty island

[Albert T Smith 10]

fanasty island

 

I'm more interested in facts - Thank you.

 

From more recent memory I'm minded to believe that I read again about this a few years ago in a article published either in the local publication Dore to Roor or the Totley Independent

 

Probably ' Dick ' could enlighten others.

[telman 10]

the M62 killed off any hopes of another good road to manchester.

[Albert T Smith 10]

the M62 killed off any hopes of another good road to manchester.

 

I'm fully aware of that.

What I am seeking is information about the Sheffield section of the proposed road route, especially the ' island in the sky roundabout ' between Dore & Totley.

 

If you look at a road map and cast your eye across from the top of Whirlowdale Road to the bend on Baslow Road, just above the Totley Brick Works to Owler Bar. You'll note that part of the 'Z' bend at the top of Bushywood Road, Bushywood Grove, the foot path between the schools, two dwellings on Furness Ave and the section of Totley Brook Road above King Egbert's School have been built fairly recently. Had the highway been built they would not now exist.

 

I believe that the Entrance to King Ecgberts' School. Would have been from a entrance halfway along Totley Brook Road and what is now called Granville College would have been built where the Totley Brook Estate is now situated.

 

This estate being built in 1973 - 76. Would now be where the College is now at the bottom of Granville Road.

 

The first pupils attending King Ecgberts' School, which I believe was 'Girls Only ' initially, may be able to supply the school bus arrangements in the very early days of the school.