Pond Street shops

[I3akers 10]

Hi,

 

Does anyone know what businesses was on or close to Pond Street back in 1975?

[Ontarian1981 10]

Hi,

 

Does anyone know what businesses was on or close to Pond Street back in 1975?

 

There was a row of shops on the second level of what was a parking building at the bottom of Flat St. across from the Penny Black, but the only one that I remember was a fish and chip shop. That was the only one in Sheffield open on Sundays at that time.

Edited September 26, 2017 by Ontarian1981

[Jim Hardie 523]

There was a row of shops on the second level of what was a parking building at the bottom of Flat St. across from the Penny Black, but the only one that I remember was a fish and chop shop. That was the only one in Sheffield open on Sundays at that time.

 

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s23933&pos=350&action=zoom&id=26386

[Ontarian1981 10]

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s23933&pos=350&action=zoom&id=26386

 

Yes, that's the place.

[hobinfoot 25]

The Minerva cafe.

[kidley 48]

Yeah my relations had a fruit shop in pond street peggy sargeant pond st norah never far away ?

 

no need to peel peggy:D

 

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wasnt there a Chinese supermarket there aswell?

[sedith 19]

Wisemans printers at the back of the old SUT offices backing on to the river

[jane2008 15]

I seem to remember a wallpaper shop. Blaskey's? and there was also a supermarket

[canetoad 10]

It was Presto supermarket a clothes shop and a shop a bit like pound land selling odds&sods

[iansheff 86]

Wasn't the supermarket called Thrifty?

[Bash Street 10]

There was a bookmakers, think it was Corals. Went i one day and backed a horse called "Draw The Line" nice odds as well, that's stuck with me since then.

[Dash1966 10]

IIRC there was a porno cinema somewhere around there, can't remember what it was called but I do know I saw the actual Raiders of the Lost Ark there in, like, 1981.