Trying To Re-Learn The Names Of Some Long-Forgotten Establishments In The City.

[St Petre 85]

12 hours ago, funk_rocker said:

Can anybody help please; been having memories from my youth of places i could no longer retain what the names of them were, in & around Sheffield, some pubs some - some shops etc.

Here goes.

1). I can't find any information online or photos of what i'm trying to locate: one of these situations being I can remember a pawnbroker-type shop that i think was next to a pub, on Pinstone Street at the top of The Moor in town, sort of opposite where Superdrug is. The pawnbroker was there around the same time that Cash Converters shops became big names - around 2002 I'd say and it was there for a few years - the pub near it, or next to it, seemed to be one of these rough-round-the-edges type pubs, often unsavoury characters. It wasn't far from John Lewis and may have been at the bottom of Cambridge Street, closer to Union Street than,say, Henry's Bar.

This pawnbroker in question used to sell a hell of a lot of electrical goods and had a hell of a lot of old musical instruments in it's window - 🪕's, mandolins, 🎸's, 🎹's, ⌨️, etc.  Anybody remember either place's name?

2). When I was an adolescent i remember my ma taking me to a nice bookshop up on West Street, somewhere close to where the David Village Lighting Shop used to be a few years back, and on the same side. Would've been sometime between 1998 and 2001 i think. I believe it was an independent bookstore not a chain - any idea what it was called?..

3). Staying with a West Street theme, in 2007/'08  we had a night out for somebody's 18th and went in this bar/pub at the bottom of West St., close to Holly Street, it was on a corner and was roughly where Slug & Lettuce now is, just down from where the 🐀&🦜pub used to be. What was it's name, anyone?

4). I remember two city-centre fish-and-chip shops from during the 90's: but can't remember the name of either one. The first was on Commercial Street: possibly right next door to Barclays Bank (tallest building on that street and is still standing!!) when it was Barclays. The second was on Pond Street it was under a walkway with some other shops, behind The Roxy's what is now O2 Academy, located where the multi-storey carpark now is: opposite Sheffield Interchange.

Help?

5). And possibly the most difficult of the lot to solve: is:  On a hot summer's evening back in 2014, i did a long walk into the city centre from the direction of Centertainment, either along the River Don Trail or along the canal towpath. I believe it was the latter, as I kept encountering various bridges that you have to walk under with tight spaces between a said bridge and the path/water's edge..Anyway, i recall that when i did - somewhere along the way there was a set of concrete steps (or stone ones.???) on my left, leading straight up to a pub on a corner  next to some trees and bushes tucked away on a backstreet that was obviously on higher ground than my level🎚️. I may have climbed the steps to look, but for some reason i made no attempt to go and enter the pub even thought it seemed nice enough and i could hear jovial voices and some kind of music🎶drifting out from it.

From where ai thought i was, i would say it was somewhere in the vicinity of the Attercliffe area, or Newhall, as 30-40 minutes later i was approaching the city centre via Victoria Quays where the big Holiday Inn Hotel was,at that time.

From memory.

Can anybody help with what pub this was?/and is it still in existence 10 years later?...i've done most of the walk again recently but can't relocate what i saw that night. Can't see a pub anywhere, nor can i see any steps that resemble those steps, in a position that resembles what i saw.

Very strange.

Note: I've already established it's not The North Pole as suggested which i am told was a pub on Bernard Road back in the day that's now a mosque, and very close to the energy recovery incinerator: this is the wrong positioning and location for where i mean.

Another pub somebody suggested it could've been, that ISN'T, was Plumpers.

Now an 🇺🇲⛳ sales centre, Plumpers was a big pub on Sheffield Road years ago which is too far back in the direction of Tinsley Viaduct/Meadowhell for it to be the pub where I'm referring to...the pub i'm talking about was way beyond Carbrook/ Centertainment if you're walking away from where the Porsche car showroom is and walking in the direction towards the city.

Thanks for your time i hope you can help me solve any or all of the above.

 

[St Petre 85]

There were two Plumpers pubs, one in Tinsley the other on Sutherland Street- Norfolk Bridge area. The North Pole pub   was on Sussex Street facing Leveson Street also Norfolk Bridge area. Also, I cannot ever  recall there ever being a pub actually on Pinstone Street,

[Draggletail 60]

15 minutes ago, St Petre said:

Could be, Appelbaum's was on Division Street just up from the Albert pub.

I have a strong memory of Appelbaums's been on West St.  Albert Pub on Division St? How long are you going back to here?

 

[St Petre 85]

36 minutes ago, Draggletail said:

I have a strong memory of Appelbaums's been on West St.  Albert Pub on Division St? How long are you going back to here?

 

The Albert pub was on the corner of Cambridge Street and Division Street, demolished around mid-1980s. Site now occupied by Yates'.

[Hopman 46]

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Anyway, i recall that when i did - somewhere along the way there was a set of concrete steps (or stone ones.???) on my left, leading straight up to a pub on a corner  next to some trees and bushes tucked away on a backstreet that was obviously on higher ground than my level🎚️.

Could you have gone up the steps by Bacon Lane and then to the Woodbourne Hotel?

[sammo sparks 19]

Chip shop in Pond Street was The Friary. 

[Bucannear 10]

1 hour ago, Hopman said:

Could you have gone up the steps by Bacon Lane and then to the Woodbourne Hotel?

Could have been the pub on Tinsley Park Rd, think it was called the Friendship?

[Mkapaka 219]

15 hours ago, funk_rocker said:

The second was on Pond Street it was under a walkway with some other shops, behind The Roxy's what is now O2 Academy, located where the multi-storey carpark now is: opposite Sheffield Interchange.

That was the Minerva 

[funk_rocker 10]

13 hours ago, Hecate said:

Hartley Seed?

 

I can remember the one on Commercial Street, but I can't recall what it was called. It was a bit further down from Barclays, next to/near a bathroom (?) fittings shop, opposite the bus stop.  The one on Pond Street was The Friery.

I don't know because the name Hartley Seed rings no bells with me at the moment.

Any idea what year/time period this Hartley Seed place shut down/disappeared?

[hackey lad 3,987]

13 hours ago, Hecate said:

Hartley Seed?

 

I can remember the one on Commercial Street, but I can't recall what it was called. It was a bit further down from Barclays, next to/near a bathroom (?) fittings shop, opposite the bus stop.  The one on Pond Street was The Friery.

Friery 

[Mkapaka 219]

16 hours ago, funk_rocker said:

the pub near it, or next to it, seemed to be one of these rough-round-the-edges type pubs

The only ones I can think of would be the sportsman or the Yorkshireman?

[hackey lad 3,987]

50 minutes ago, Mkapaka said:

That was the Minerva 

Minerva was a cafe .