Sheaf Lane

[Howard Ibbotson 0]

Can anyone help me with photos of Sheaf Lane? 

I lived there with my mum, dad and older sister in the early to mid 60s. We were moved during the slum clearance programme to make way for the Park Roundabout. 

Any information would be very much appreciated. 

Thankyou

 

Howard 

[lazarus 68]

Have you looked on picture Sheffield?

[DarrellW 10]

I can't find sheaf lane on the map or in Kelleys.Could it be the lane that was at the side of The  Plough. on Broad St???

[hillsbro 32]

1 hour ago, DarrellW said:

I can't find sheaf lane on the map or in Kelleys.Could it be the lane that was at the side of The  Plough. on Broad St???

Yes - here is an old map.

[St Petre 85]

4 hours ago, hillsbro said:

Yes - here is an old map.

Yes, Mr.H has got the right map, also Sheaf Lane was a cul-de-sac and at that end on the left was the back of Park Cinema.

[DarrellW 10]

Brilliant.I always wanted a map like that.I new the area very well.I worked for a plumbing firm at 30 Broad St,Between the Plough Inn and Bensons carpet shop.  I remember there were some Terres houses in the Lane at the back of Sheaf Motors on Sheaf St.Was it Grattons on the other corner of Sheaf Lane Howard?

[hillsbro 32]

11 hours ago, St Petre said:

... Sheaf Lane was a cul-de-sac and at that end on the left was the back of Park Cinema.

Here is a map with the other end of Sheaf Lane:

 

 

I found a link to these maps on the "sheffieldhistory" website - https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1nWFaI8gMlkr95rtcJUEUSjacZCU&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=53.38363548468771%2C-1.4802358571777177&spn=0.081959%2C0.137501&z=13&output=embed

 

[hillsbro 32]

10 hours ago, DarrellW said:

...Was it Grattons on the other corner of Sheaf Lane Howard?

Yere, Gratton's was on the other corner - here is a scan from the 1954 Kelly's Directory.

[alan p 15]

I worked at Shaws ironmongers at the bottom of South Street around 65/66.We used to get deliveries on Sheaf Lane, There was Poysers wholesale tobacco merchants and there  was a Lagging company who used the Lane for deliveries,can't remember their name but remember Mort an Irishman who worked for them drank in the Samson.

[Jim Hardie 527]

The Plough is the building behind the bus and the Newmarket is to the right, at the corner of Broad Street and Sheaf Street. Sheaf Lane is the road between the two. 

 

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[St Petre 85]

2 hours ago, alan p said:

I worked at Shaws ironmongers at the bottom of South Street around 65/66.We used to get deliveries on Sheaf Lane, There was Poysers wholesale tobacco merchants and there  was a Lagging company who used the Lane for deliveries,can't remember their name but remember Mort an Irishman who worked for them drank in the Samson.

The lagging company was Darlington Insulation, also, didn't Gunstone's bakery have premises near there before they moved to Dronfield?

[alan p 15]

Yes it was Darlingtons. Gunstones was at the bottom of Duke Street I think and Granville Street my sister met her husband there.