Endcliffe Crescent - once an arcadian landscape

[Guest_225 10]

Now an ugly building site.

 

I was inspired to go there for a look after reading the Pevsner architectural guide to Sheffield which says -

 

"Endcliffe - A tour of this area should begin in Endcliffe Crescent, an arcadian landscape of villas grouped informally around a large irregular green."

 

I had a look on Google Earth and sure enough there was a large green there, so I went for a look and found it's now being built on by the university and pretty well destroyed. The half of the green not a building site is now a car park. How did they get permission to do this?

 

So what did it look like before, does anyone remember?

[marinedrift 10]

Sounds like Sheffield planners got it right again...not try looking at

http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Sheffield

[Trickle 10]

File not found.

 

This thread also needs pictures and/or a link to google maps /w post code so we can see.

[Guest_225 10]

It isd (was) the big round green area on this multimap photo -

 

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=433000&Y=386500&width=700&height=400&gride=433000&gridn=386500&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=pc&pc=&zm=1&scale=5000

 

Or use the postcode S10 3ED to find it on Google Earth

[Trickle 10]

Ah, thank you. Fair ways off from where I used to live at Greystones then.

 

This forum sucks sometimes from the lack of being able to post pictures.

[algy 11]

I only just came across this thread, hence the gap. The present state of the green is down to the building of the new student village, and the developers have promised, cross my heart and hope to die, to restore it when they've finished. Apparently before the Upper Hallam Enclosures Act of 1791 it was part of the Crookesmoor racecourse. At the Fulwood Rd side was a raised flat area, which was supposed to be the site of the grandstand. I bet that doesn't get restored! Under the Act the land was enclosed and split up, and a little later the racecourse at Lodge Moor was built, supposedly as a replacement but it only lasted a couple of years, being too far from town.

[Leah 10]

Yeah, you told me to go have a squee at it. I did..... in the dark.... and it looked okay! Couldn't see owt, like.