Porter Street ...Sheffield.

[Allen]

Anybody heard of it???

 

The wife is tracing her family history, and her Grandfather lived there in 1916.

Apparently a lot of streets were renamed years ago.

She would really like like to know where it actually was.

 

Any help appreciated.

[HughW]

You can see Porter Street on this map from c1890. It was just to the east of the Moor and ran from Hereford Street northwards to Matilda Street.

 

There are some old photos of Porter Street at www.picturesheffield.com

 

Hugh

[Allen]

Very useful information.

Thanks Hugh.

[Fareast]

Allen:-

 

I remember Porter Street well and must have walked down it a few times.I think it must have 'disappeared' around 1960 or shortly afterwards.It was a crooked little street, unlike most of the streets round The Moor area which were set out in grid form, largely.It always seemed to be a sort of mirror-image to me of Button Lane at the other side of The Moor.I think it actually ended behind where Redgates used to be.Going further back there was a big pub there [Phoenix? Pheasant?] that used to roughly face the old Nelson.

 

Thanks Hugh W for the great map-----very interesting to a map 'addict' like myself!

[pensionipper]

Fareast - wasn't that the Grapes?????

[Fareast]

Pensionipper:-

 

You're right. That was the name of it.[Where I got the other two names from,I don't know?].

I never went in the pub myself----even I'm not THAT old {!}but the shell of it was still there when I was about 15 or 16, in 1958.It, too, disappeared about that time and that's why earlier I guessed that Porter Street was gradually demolished in the early '60's.

 

The Grapes looked a pretty big place as I recall.Had it been bombed during the war or caught fire or something?

 

Thanks for info.anyway.