bullerboY Â Â 10 #25 Posted April 13, 2010 Battys sweet factory was down Bridge st,love st I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
rubydazzler   11 #26 Posted April 13, 2010 I didn't know that place was the sweet factory people are always talking about . I took some pix of it when it was empty as part of my portfolio when I was doing a photography course, but I always knew it as the Chapel.  I too have always thought what a lovely little house it'd make. Shame it seems it's zoned for office use only. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Plain Talker   11 #27 Posted April 13, 2010 I didn't know that place was the sweet factory people are always talking about . I took some pix of it when it was empty as part of my portfolio when I was doing a photography course, but I always knew it as the Chapel.  I too have always thought what a lovely little house it'd make. Shame it seems it's zoned for office use only.  I'd soooo love to live in that property... as I said earlier in the thread, I have such fond memories of buying boiled-sweet fishies from there on my way to my grandma's place, on Park Hill. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Plain Talker   11 #28 Posted April 13, 2010 Re: The sweet factory at 19 Shrewsbury Road, Sheffield.  This was owned by Samuel H. Walker, my wife's grandfather. When S.H. Walker passed away, it was passed to his son and daughter, Harold Walker and Gladys Kay (nee Walker). The factory was worked by Harold Walker and Gladys' husband George Frederick Kay. Gladys sold the sweets on a stall, in the old Norfolk Market Hall. The factory was closed in the early 1980s, by compulsary purchase order, by Sheffield Council.  I do remember it being open until around 1979/80, which was when we moved house, and, about the same time, my Gran moved house, which meant we no longer took the route that passed the factory.  The other week I bought myself a "quarter" of the boiled sweet fishies, from the sweet stall in the Castle Market, and ate a couple of them. Ah, what memories it brought back! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
john65 Â Â 10 #29 Posted April 14, 2010 It's up for sale if you want to buy it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
crookesey   635 #30 Posted April 14, 2010 I'd soooo love to live in that property... as I said earlier in the thread, I have such fond memories of buying boiled-sweet fishies from there on my way to my grandma's place, on Park Hill.  Oh I can just see you coming down the hill in your chair, run for your lives. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Plain Talker   11 #31 Posted April 14, 2010 Oh I can just see you coming down the hill in your chair, run for your lives.  especially that steep, cobbled bit, right beside the property:-  http://picasaweb.google.com/neotericwalks/SWeetFactory#5074530132566338418    and if I get the boards placed correctly, I could do an "Evel Kneivel" leap, over the wall, straight onto the train station) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
crookesey   635 #32 Posted April 14, 2010 especially that steep, cobbled bit, right beside the property:- http://picasaweb.google.com/neotericwalks/SWeetFactory#5074530132566338418    and if I get the boards placed correctly, I could do an "Evel Kneivel" leap, over the wall, straight onto the train station)  Jenson Button, eat your heart out, or more like Eddie the Eagle if you hit a bump. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
RoyHughes   0 #33 Posted January 6, 2020 Was it Dixons sweets on valley road Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
me-and-pippo   12 #34 Posted January 12, 2020 On 06/01/2020 at 21:50, RoyHughes said: Was it Dixons sweets on valley road Bradbury Street, off Valley Road, history of Maxons - https://maxons.co.uk/history/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...