St Petre   85 #85 Posted May 3, 2021 3 hours ago, cuttsie said: The trouser bar ,a very dodgy place was that . Where was the Trouser Bar ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
cuttsie   1,089 #86 Posted May 3, 2021 just below the Brown Cow .  Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
St Petre   85 #87 Posted May 3, 2021 8 minutes ago, cuttsie said: just below the Brown Cow .  Thank you cuttsie and why was it dodgy? I left Sheffield in 1986 so have missed a few things Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
MICK BADGER Â Â 21 #88 Posted May 3, 2021 5 hours ago, cuttsie said: The trouser bar ,a very dodgy place was that . suits you Sir Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Janner   10 #89 Posted May 4, 2021 If my memory is correct , I bought a sheath knife from a shop in the wicker in 1946. I was 14 yrs old, wouldn't happen today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Mags   12 #90 Posted May 8, 2021 There was an opticians called Chadburns Lenses Ltd. I think it was 22 The Wicker but I can’t be certain. They had a factory on Meadow street. The building had lots of floors and up at the top was the office where it was possible to look right down the Wicker. I used to hang out the window and wave to the rag and bone man with his horse and cart. Across the road  and a bit lower down was the Chinese restaurant and a huge furniture shop. Freidrichs  did the best roast pork bread cake and if you were a bit hard up you could have the belly pork one or even just a dripping cake. Looking at a video on Sheffield History the Wicker is hardly recognisable except for the arches.  Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ChrisR2   0 #91 Posted May 11, 2021 On 03/05/2021 at 10:10, apearson said: Could your Nellie have been Helena Fellows, born Q2 1872, daughter of Frederick Fellows of the Omnibus Inn, mother's maiden name Smedley?  I think that Helena married Benjamin Fieldsend (whose sister was my great-great-great grandmother). Helena maybe died in 1956, Benjamin had died suddenly in 1912 (burst blood vessel while waiting for a tram). I could be wrong, there were a few people called Nellie Fellows and more than one Helena Fieldsend around in Sheffield at the same time.  Cheers,  Andrew P. Yes, thank you. I have since discovered that is so. She was christened Helena. Why would anyone prefer Nellie?! I believe Nellie died in 1949. Chris Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
martin441   11 #92 Posted May 12, 2021 I remember Bennetts fishing tackle shop on the Wicker: and I think it was near a Chinese resturant ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ChrisR2   0 #93 Posted May 12, 2021 1 hour ago, martin441 said: I remember Bennetts fishing tackle shop on the Wicker: and I think it was near a Chinese resturant ? Yers, it was a huge shop, I recall. I bought a Barbour jacket there when I was in my 20s. 40 years on, I still wear it. Money well spent, I feel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
St Petre   85 #94 Posted May 12, 2021 2 hours ago, martin441 said: I remember Bennetts fishing tackle shop on the Wicker: and I think it was near a Chinese resturant ? Was it on Stanley Street ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Jim Hardie   517 #95 Posted May 12, 2021 18 minutes ago, St Petre said: Was it on Stanley Street ? Bennetts were on Stanley Street but also in the Wicker in the old premises of the New White Lion. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
jane2008   15 #96 Posted May 12, 2021 Does anyone know of the cafe Madrid in the Wicker. I've never known where it was but I believe it was around '77 to '80 that it was there, Asking for someone who remembers it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...