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Sarsaparilla bars - any one remember them?


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Hi People i lived on little london road opposite were Arnold Laver's was, Any one remember the house's ? We use to walk through the passage and over the wooded bridge then up to Abbeydale picture's, After going to the picture's we went for a sarsaparilla, It was on draft, it was so good, I am a big liquorice fan :), Your's Tony

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Don't know if this has been posted before, if so my apologies.

 

If you go on Google Earth, type in Abbeydale Cinema Sheffield, and then use the street view yellow man you can navigate down the road toward town from the cinema.

 

Three shops down on the right there's an antique shop. There's a Volvo estate parked outside. If you look at the bottom section under the window with the red door propped up against it you can make out the words ' Temperance Bar' slightly obscured by a chair.

 

That's where the Abbeydale sarsaprilla bar was. Had a few in there when I was a Lad.

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.... If you look at the bottom section under the window with the red door propped up against it you can make out the words ' Temperance Bar' slightly obscured by a chair....
My goodness you're right!..:thumbsup:.Here is a photo. I also remember having the odd glass of sarsparilla there in the 1960s. Directories from the 1940s show the business as "Ernest Phillipson, herbalist" while by 1953 it was "William E. & Leonard Phillipson, herbalists". The 1965 directory shows "G.E. Bridges, herbalist", and 1971-73 "C. de Donno, herbalist". Edited by hillsbro
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my brother and I would spend all our dinner money in one swoop in the one on Langsett rd well that was until we got busted seem to remember the dinners at Burton st was pretty gross and not worth a few glass of any of there drinks

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Don't know if this has been posted before, if so my apologies.

 

If you go on Google Earth, type in Abbeydale Cinema Sheffield, and then use the street view yellow man you can navigate down the road toward town from the cinema.

 

Three shops down on the right there's an antique shop. There's a Volvo estate parked outside. If you look at the bottom section under the window with the red door propped up against it you can make out the words ' Temperance Bar' slightly obscured by a chair.

 

That's where the Abbeydale sarsaprilla bar was. Had a few in there when I was a Lad.

 

Yes, we also went in after the baths or cinema. From memory it was very small with a counter/bar just a few feet from the window?

Also..... is it just me or did we always have to go up two steps into shops on there, have the pavements been raised over the years?

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