Endcliffe Park - weighing scales

[CHAIRBOY]

Just seen a thread about Avery scales. Does anyone else remember the lady who weighed people, manually, near to the wooden cafe in Endcliffe Park in the early 60's?

[Allusadeedah]

No, but I remember the old lady who used to weigh people for an old penny on a huge set of brass scales like a sort of swing in the Norfolk Market hall with all the flower sellers - we used to pop thro there on the way from Castle market to Sheaf market and then to Pond St bus station. I remember the place whenever I go into a proper florists and get that sort of damp musty smell - even 50+years later

 

[St Petre]

1 hour ago, Allusadeedah said:

No, but I remember the old lady who used to weigh people for an old penny on a huge set of brass scales like a sort of swing in the Norfolk Market hall with all the flower sellers - we used to pop thro there on the way from Castle market to Sheaf market and then to Pond St bus station. I remember the place whenever I go into a proper florists and get that sort of damp musty smell - even 50+years later

 

I think the scales had a genuine leather- sort of suspended - chair to sit in whist weighing.

[Rockers rule]

On 07/09/2008 at 18:45, CHAIRBOY said:

Just seen a thread about Avery scales. Does anyone else remember the lady who weighed people, manually, near to the wooden cafe in Endcliffe Park in the early 60's?

Hello CHAIRBOY.

Remember them / her well. Just up from the cafe and just before you go up to the boating pond.

I can't remember boats on there but late 1800's early 1900's you could hire a boat for 6D per 1/2 hour apparently.

Couldn't find a picture of the lady with the scales, but back then we hadn't reached the point where every bugger has a camera in their phone and splashed anything and everything on social media 

 

 

7 hours ago, Allusadeedah said:

No, but I remember the old lady who used to weigh people for an old penny on a huge set of brass scales like a sort of swing in the Norfolk Market hall with all the flower sellers - we used to pop thro there on the way from Castle market to Sheaf market and then to Pond St bus station. I remember the place whenever I go into a proper florists and get that sort of damp musty smell - even 50+years later

 

Norfolk market hall had gone by the time we came down here, but found this for yer.

 

 

I know the pictures a bit grainy but she must have found the grottyist corner of the market to set up in.

[St Petre]

8 hours ago, Rockers rule said:

Hello CHAIRBOY.

Remember them / her well. Just up from the cafe and just before you go up to the boating pond.

I can't remember boats on there but late 1800's early 1900's you could hire a boat for 6D per 1/2 hour apparently.

Couldn't find a picture of the lady with the scales, but back then we hadn't reached the point where every bugger has a camera in their phone and splashed anything and everything on social media 

 

 

Norfolk market hall had gone by the time we came down here, but found this for yer.

 

 

I know the pictures a bit grainy but she must have found the grottyist corner of the market to set up in.

Yes, Norfolk Market Hall was demolished around 1959 and I only recall the scales being  near to the Broad Lane entrance to the old Sheaf Market (rag n tag).

[Rockers rule]

3 hours ago, St Petre said:

Yes, Norfolk Market Hall was demolished around 1959 and I only recall the scales being  near to the Broad Lane entrance to the old Sheaf Market (rag n tag).

We'd end our shopping trips with my gran at the Rag n Tag & catch the train back to my auntie's at Heeley. 

Happy Daze  .

[echo beach]

9 hours ago, St Petre said:

Yes, Norfolk Market Hall was demolished around 1959 and I only recall the scales being  near to the Broad Lane entrance to the old Sheaf Market (rag n tag).

That's where I recall seeing her also. Close to the pet stall.

 

echo.

[Juddeep]

Boats still on the lake in the mid fifties, plus a canoe. Lake full of dead leaves at the far end, about a foot deep, got stuck many a time, happy days.

[Allusadeedah]

On 15/03/2022 at 23:50, echo beach said:

That's where I recall seeing her also. Close to the pet stall.

 

echo.

Actually you are right - that photo brings it back. I was only a nipper at the time, but remember my mum buying some foreign finches from the pet stall, and I'm sure that's where the flower stalls were as well. I remember my dad coming home and telling us that when the old lady died the scales (being pretty much all brass) were sold for scrap - which he found really sad as he used to work for W&T Avery's on Bridge Street and said they were really unusual and very old.