Pubs down the Moor - help please

[JACK HEWITT 10]

Hi Jack (no pun intended), no can't remember the bird's name, I thought that I had done well remembering Gloria's. I didn't live in the area but found that I got on well with the folk that did. Do you remember the town centre window cleaner, Harry Dukes? He was a top class snooker player who played for money in the Bee Hive on West Street, he lived in Havelock Square and had the one son who he doted on, the lad died in tragic circumstances.

 

Our lot went everywhere that your lot went, we must have crossed paths at sometime. I can claim some residency rights, my grandmother was born in the caretakers flat at South Street chapel, now Sainsburys on The Moor. :thumbs up:

 

Back again Crookesey sorry dont know Harry Dukes i remember a couple of friends of mine that did live on the Square Trevor ( Pedro ) Humberstone and Brazilian Des Defraites (rip) big Des was a character well known around Sheffield i hung around with Des in the late 60s early 70s when we went in the Domino pub on the Broomhall flats together also i worked the doors with him for a while at the Kay Gee Bee night club but that would be in the late 70s under the old Abbeydale cinema do you remember the old chippy on South st behind the Travs pub top chippy that one.

[USUK 10]

I remember Shirley, and Doreen, from the Traveller's Rest. They were transvestites when most people had no idea what a trannie was! They were lovely, so funny, and always had a witty putdown for anyone who went too far. Shirley was platinum blond and Doreen wore spex, iirc.

 

The Travellers was the sort of pub where if your parents knew you were in there, they'd have had a heart attack. It was about 1 step up from the Barleycorn!

 

What about the Royal Oak at the bottom of Cemetary Road? That was a popular stopping off point on the Town pub crawl in the 60s/70s.

 

I remember the Barmaid from The Royal Oak in the mid 60's realy well . I think her parents had the Prince of Wales on Division Street.

[crookesey 635]

Back again Crookesey sorry dont know Harry Dukes i remember a couple of friends of mine that did live on the Square Trevor ( Pedro ) Humberstone and Brazilian Des Defraites (rip) big Des was a character well known around Sheffield i hung around with Des in the late 60s early 70s when we went in the Domino pub on the Broomhall flats together also i worked the doors with him for a while at the Kay Gee Bee night club but that would be in the late 70s under the old Abbeydale cinema do you remember the old chippy on South st behind the Travs pub top chippy that one.

 

Hiya Jack,

 

The Capri chippi was on the top of South Street, I recall a very young David Baldwin running it. My mates mother in law lived at the bottom of The Moor, she was a real character. She ended up in the Lansdown tower block nearest to Cemetery Road, his wife is a very smart lass called Jan (can't remember her maiden name).

 

I posted a thread a while ago named 'Sheffield Landlords and Landladies past', you ought to dig it out on search, you could add loads of interesting content to it.

[Treatment 10]

If it was quite a new 'plasticky' pub (then), although not actually on The Moor, it sounds like The Whetstone.

[Treatment 10]

The Pump......

 

 

 

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The bar where the gold coloured car was parked was for shirtlifters.

[Deborahw 10]

Had some great times in the Travellers Rest.

Ron Delta was often in there (I think he had a residency), sometimes with Freddie Benson (great organist), Bill Hogan (fantastic pianist) and many other club musicians / turns.

Verina (think her real name was Vera) was the resident organist and she was well worth listening to. Also heard the Bill Hogan trio in there with Barry, Barbara Terry & Byron.

You just can't have a night like that anywhere these days.

There was never a dull moment although there never seemed to be any more trouble than the average town pub (certainly nothing on today's scale) and I would give anything to have a pub like that to visit now.

 

I am 55 now and at the time of my birth my grandparents ran this pub,Harold and Marion Heath,I lived there till I was three years ..I remember it well.My mums name is Rita she is alive and kicking ..no change there.

[sedith 19]

If it was quite a new 'plasticky' pub (then), although not actually on The Moor, it sounds like The Whetstone.

I'm sure it must have been the Whetstone, a purpose built Tetley's managed house .... I worked there for 5 yr from when it first opened for Eileen and Tom Walsh who came from the Steel Inn on Harborough Avenue.

[willybite 10]

I'm sure it must have been the Whetstone, a purpose built Tetley's managed house .... I worked there for 5 yr from when it first opened for Eileen and Tom Walsh who came from the Steel Inn on Harborough Avenue.

 

hiyathe only two pubs i remember on the moor were the pump tavern and the travellers rest opposite fitzwilliam st, but during the war there was another i remember on the junction of matilda st and the moor it was a prefabricated pub

don't know its name as i were only a youngster at the time.have you read the book "a pub on every corner".

[denlin 12]

Cossack and Matillda Tavern

[Jim Hardie 527]

Cossack and Matillda Tavern

 

Both of these were a long way off the Moor.

[sedith 19]

hiyathe only two pubs i remember on the moor were the pump tavern and the travellers rest opposite fitzwilliam st, but during the war there was another i remember on the junction of matilda st and the moor it was a prefabricated pub

don't know its name as i were only a youngster at the time.have you read the book "a pub on every corner".

What about the Bricklayers Arms, wasn't that 'just off' the Moor?

[willybite 10]

Back again Crookesey sorry dont know Harry Dukes i remember a couple of friends of mine that did live on the Square Trevor ( Pedro ) Humberstone and Brazilian Des Defraites (rip) big Des was a character well known around Sheffield i hung around with Des in the late 60s early 70s when we went in the Domino pub on the Broomhall flats together also i worked the doors with him for a while at the Kay Gee Bee night club but that would be in the late 70s under the old Abbeydale cinema do you remember the old chippy on South st behind the Travs pub top chippy that one.

 

hiya, reading about the travellers i just remembered at the back over a bit of spare land at the side was an old building that a tailor had and in the 50s would churn out the dogtooth jackets with velvet collar for 6 pounds each cant remember his name.