Old bus route that circled the city

[stpetre]

Quite right, on my way to school (King Ted's) from Hillsborough I used to catch the inner circle between Albert Terrace Road and Newbould Lane. The complete route was:

 

..Havelock Bridge

..Duchess Road

..Midland Station

..Duke Street

..St John's Road

..Norfolk Bridge

..Gower Street (Vestry Hall)

..Christchurch Road

..Rutland Road

..Neepsend Lane

..Infirmary Road

..Albert Terrace Road

..Addy Street

..Barber Road

..Crookesmoor Road Top

..Crookes Junction

..Newbould Lane

..Clarkehouse Road

..Brocco Bank

..Hunter's Bar

..St Andrew's Road

..Nether Edge

..Heeley Baths

..Havelock Bridge

 

Around 1968 there was slight amendment to the Inner Circle route in Pitsmoor. After Norfolk Bridge it was; Sutherland Street, Sutherland Road, Ellesmere Road, Scott Road, Toll Bar, Pitsmoor Road and then Rutland Road. Same in reverse direction.

[hobinfoot]

I loved going on the outer circular with my friends it was a great way to spend a couple of hours seeing the parts of Sheffield you didn't normally go too in the late 60s.

[Voldy]

From 1937 my family home was on the 2&3 route in S5. It was a very well used service augmented by the football specials to Hillsborough on match days.

 

Round about the end of WW2 it was a very well patronised route especially at weekends when Duplicates were needed to cope with the demand. One of my uncles was a driver who often worked on those 'extras',his favourite route was the 48 to Manchester.

[ptrA]

Used it in the 70's when I worked at Shardlows. Gleadless Townend to Wincobank, then walked the rest, same to get home. The circle buses were very good and a good way to see Sheffield too. I think rule 1 applied. If it's good, stop it. When we all got cars, something had to go.

[kris99]

I used to catch it after doing afternoon shift from the Hallamshire to Gleadless. Took me longer than it did using two buses to get home, but I loved it. The buses were double deckers and I would sit upstairs. It was like going on a mini bus tour. Particularly loved it at Christmas when the houses were lit up and the bigger houses lit their gardens. I have to say though, there were more often than not only a couple of people on the bus.

[Janner]

I used to be put on the circular bus when a child, it was always Sunday afternoon after Dad came back from the WMC. It was years before the penny dropped!

[phantom309]

In the 60s there was a special route for Sundays and bank holidays I think it was a country and city tour or something similar and ran from Pond Street bus station and that was at least 2 hours and possibly longer

[bullerboY]

They used to put the Crossley buses on the Rutland rd route when the works turned out as they had the pre-select gearbox fitted and not the crash box so the driver selected first gear before he needed to change then on the steep part he could just dip the left pedal (not a clutch) to change gear quickly as with the crashbox there was a chance if he missed first the bus would roll back.

[hillsbro]

In the 60s there was a special route for Sundays and bank holidays I think it was a country and city tour or something similar and ran from Pond Street bus station and that was at least 2 hours and possibly longer

I think there were several of these tours; one I remember from the 1960s was the "Lakeland" tour which took in the Rivelin, Bradfield and Ewden area reservoirs.

[phantom309]

They used to put the Crossley buses on the Rutland rd route when the works turned out as they had the pre-select gearbox fitted and not the crash box so the driver selected first gear before he needed to change then on the steep part he could just dip the left pedal (not a clutch) to change gear quickly as with the crashbox there was a chance if he missed first the bus would roll back.

 

There was also some AEC,s pre select used on the 110 Parson Cross and 34/35 Petre Street Norton Lees you had to watch when using the striker pedal as if you got it wrong it would come out and trap your foot against the seat

 

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I think there were several of these tours; one I remember from the 1960s was the "Lakeland" tour which took in the Rivelin, Bradfield and Ewden area reservoirs.

 

Hillsbor'o that seems correct as it was like going out for a run and not like working and you got paid extra for doing them with them being on a Sunday or bank holiday