A Walk down Ecclesall Road in the 60s

[Norfolkone]

Does anyone remember Ecclesall Road in the 60s Arnies Coffee bar the first coffee bar in a celler in Sheffield with a juke box, where Cafe Rouge is now The Star Cinema now the Shell petrol station, The Ecclesall Non Pots, Sunday night dances at the Polish Club. The dreaded Army Recruitment center. The Greystones Cinema and Dance Hall now Napoleans Casino. The Chinese Laundry.

[Fareast]

I remember Ecclesall Road well........but don 't recall the coffee bar you mentioned ? In fact, not living in Sheffield now, I don 't know where the Cafe Rouge is .....?

 

The Mambo on Union Street started off with one or two basements with juke boxes [ Heaven & Hell ] and ended up with three ! That opened round about the early-mid Fifties and closed round about 1960 [ ? ].

 

Other places of interest on the road were the Pomona pub, the Nursery Taven, a good few restaurants, loads of good shops and [ almost ! ] the Synagogue and the entrance to the Botanical Gardens. After the tennis club and Endcliffe Park, going up the hill, there was Napoleons, one or two coffee bars and restaurants and of course, the Banner Cross.

[Norfolkone]

Arnies was on the courner of the road that led up to the Central cemetery and Frog Walk another interesting part of Sharrow History, on Sunday nights everyone used to go to the first house at the Star cinema then walk up to Endcliffe Park, to join the monkey run.

[BLITZER]

Ah yes,the monkey rack in Endcliffe park on Sunday nights. In my young days ,there were no cinemas open,so loads of young people would walk in the park. Quite a social gathering.