Sheffield history web page

[retep 68]

Can anyone tell me if there was or is a Shelf Street in Sheffield and also where is St Mary's Parish

 

That'll more than likely be Sheaf Street, near enough to St. Marys.

 

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sheaf+Street,+Sheffield,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=53.377517,-1.468692&spn=0.011341,0.043774&sll=53.420512,-1.49258&sspn=0.000354,0.000857&t=h&z=15

[Plain Talker 11]

Can anyone tell me if there was or is a Shelf Street in Sheffield and also where is St Mary's Parish

 

Can't help you with the "Shelf Street" but there are a number of Saint Mary's Churches in Sheffield:- there's St Mary's Bramall Lane, St Mary's at Ecclesfield, and St Mary's at Handsworth.

[Tuppie 10]

That'll more than likely be Sheaf Street, near enough to St. Marys.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sheaf+Street,+Sheffield,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=53.377517,-1.468692&spn=0.011341,0.043774&sll=53.420512,-1.49258&sspn=0.000354,0.000857&t=h&z=15

 

Shelf Street ran from 145 Leadmill Road to Sheaf Gardens.

 

Still around in the 1950 street guide

[me-and-pippo 12]

Shelf Street ran down at the rear of the Royal Standard PH on St. Mary's Road.

[retep 68]

Shelf Street ran from 145 Leadmill Road to Sheaf Gardens.

 

Still around in the 1950 street guide

 

Quite right Tuppie was next to Manton Street, should have checked.

[me-and-pippo 12]

I was born in that area (St. Mary's Road)

when I came into this world my parents had no clothes to put on me,

so mum had to ask my aunty to go to Mrs. Bowers shop (corner of Shelf Street) to buy a vest.

[Plain Talker 11]

Shelf Street ran from 145 Leadmill Road to Sheaf Gardens.

 

Still around in the 1950 street guide

 

Excellent information for the OP, Tuppie. so by that we can deduce that the St Mary's Parish the people being searched for lived in was ST Mary's Bramall Lane.

 

If the family were "church" rather than "chapel", then their details may still be available in parish records?

[hillsbro 33]

Knowing how Plain Talker likes old maps, here is one showing Shelf Street!.

...when I came into this world my parents had no clothes to put on me, so mum had to ask my aunty to go to Mrs. Bowers shop (corner of Shelf Street) to buy a vest..

I bet your bum was cold!.The shop was an old-established business; in the1925 directory "Herbert Bower, draper" was at 147 Leadmill Road, and Mrs Bower was still there in the early 1970s.

[iamwoody 19]

Quite right Tuppie was next to Manton Street, should have checked.

still around in the 1961 kellys directory also

[Plain Talker 11]

Knowing how Plain Talker likes old maps, here is one showing Shelf Street!.:)I bet your bum was cold!.The shop was an old-established business; in the1925 directory "Herbert Bower, draper" was at 147 Leadmill Road, and Mrs Bower was still there in the early 1970s.

 

oh, yes, (she said in her best "Churchill Insurance voice"!) I love old maps, they absolutely fascinate me.

 

Thanks so much for giving us that linky, Hillsbro.,

[hillsbro 33]

still around in the 1961 kellys directory also

And also in the 1973 directory, which can't have been long before demolition. I wonder how Shelf Street got its name?

[nicholas2805 10]

shelf street ran from 145 leadmill road to sheaf gardens.

 

Still around in the 1950 street guide

 

thanks for this my gt grandad and his parents lived there way back in 1901.

Must go looking for it or where it used to be.

Really pleased to get this info and a picture of the street.