Hillards Supermarket, Sheffield Lane Top

[kags1966]

I stumbled upon this forum by accident. I was asking my friend if she remembered the supermarket 'New World', which I thought was in Rotherham, but I am going back about 40 years, and I finished up here! My mam used to shop at Hillards at Sheffield Lane Top when I was a kid (early 70's). The home & leisure department was downstairs and then you had to go up the ramp to the supermarket itself. The library was round the back. I used to go to the library every Saturday morning after my music lesson! We also used to go to the caravan place next door, Capital Caravans, if I remember rightly, (there are a block of flats there now) and next door to that was the Capital cinema, which is now United Carpets and Beds.

[CMOT_Dibbler]

My mum still has one of the Hillards Centenary mugs from the 80's.

[spingoboy]

my brother got sacked from Hillards for telling a fussy old woman to F.... off!!!

[denlin]

Serves him right, see it all time that staff think they are more important than the customer who pays their wages after all

[denlin]

I stumbled upon this forum by accident. I was asking my friend if she remembered the supermarket 'New World', which I thought was in Rotherham, but I am going back about 40 years, and I finished up here! My mam used to shop at Hillards at Sheffield Lane Top when I was a kid (early 70's). The home & leisure department was downstairs and then you had to go up the ramp to the supermarket itself. The library was round the back. I used to go to the library every Saturday morning after my music lesson! We also used to go to the caravan place next door, Capital Caravans, if I remember rightly, (there are a block of flats there now) and next door to that was the Capital cinema, which is now United Carpets and Beds.

 

And a garage which was next to the caravan place. I was once on the bus coming back from town with my niece who was about 9 and she looked out of the bus window and asked me if they had caravans in my day. I was 33 when she was 9:roll:

[CliveLittlew]

The picture palace at Lane top was always Essoldo until it turned into a bingo hall run by Nobles and the carpet shop is still there. In answer to a previous question Rendezvous was a newsagent right at lane top next to where Netto is and Hillards was further down just below bus terminus.

 

Hi, I have just discovered this forum. My dad, Barrie Littlewood, used to manage the Rendezvous for many years! I lived there till we moved to Nottingham in the mid 60's I can remember he used to hold model making competitions with Airfix type models and lots of lads and dads would make and paint model planes etc and bring them to be judged. There was a coffee bar in the back too, I was always fasinated by the glass jugs bubbling away as a kid.

 

I remember a tram terminus across the road and the Essoldo Cinema too. happy days!

[denlin]

Hi Clive

 

I've lived down the road from Lane top since 1955 and as far as I can remember the tram terminated at Firth Park, the bus terminated just down the hill between the cinema and Hillards which was built in the 1960s and opened by the then Miss World Ann Sidney:D When I was a child the place where Hillards was built was a field and we used to climb the embankment and walk along the top in our way to the Capitol which, apparently, was the former name of the Essoldo but that was before my time

Edited August 15, 2013 by denlin

[CliveLittlew]

Hi, I seem to remember the trams turning round (or was it the driver swinging the contacts from one end to the other to go in reverse?) across the road from the shop . . . it was a long time ago tho!

 

I went to Lindsey Road School, and my best m8 (and the only name I can remember) was Paul Liversage . . . wonder if anyone knows anything of him!?

 

Thanks for the reply.

[handypandy]

Hi, I seem to remember the trams turning round (or was it the driver swinging the contacts from one end to the other to go in reverse?) across the road from the shop . . . it was a long time ago tho!

 

I went to Lindsey Road School, and my best m8 (and the only name I can remember) was Paul Liversage . . . wonder if anyone knows anything of him!?

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

The tram terminus was approximately opposite where the entrance to the Royal Mail delivery office is now. The conductor would walk down the aisle and flip all the backrests so that the seats now faced in the opposite direction. I have a vague recollection of a shelter in the middle of the road. click for pic

[denlin]

Blimey I was 8 in 1959 when they finished and I don't remember that but then we did have a bus service as well