Where was Bright Street?

[Lady Star]

Looking at picture Sheffield, it looks as though Bright st started from where the Wentworth pub is on Milford St (still there) and would have run through the car park at the Arena Square/Table Table pub... Picture Sheffield makes it look like quite a pleasant place in the days of Queen Victoria, although being so close to the steel works it was probably a dusty place!

[cleegirl]

BRIGHT STREET! It really caught my eye, because I've got a faded old second-hand book that once belonged to someone who lived in Bright Street. The owner scribbled "B. Stead" inside the front cover. At the back, young master Stead has added "H. Stead. 188 Bright Street, Carbrook, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, Europe, The World." Date? hard to say. The book is 'Boycotted' by T.B. Read a popular writer of schoolboy stories. The handwriting looks pretty much the style children were taught in school any time up to the mid 1950's. I bought the book whilst on holiday: certainly nowhere near Sheffield. Can anyone with a street directory solve this one??

 

PS The book also spent some of its life with John R Jenkinson who also wrote his address in the front: 265 Westwick Road Sheffield: this was near Beauchief Park.

 

PPS Carbrook jogs my memory. Wasn't there a BRIGHTSIDE & CARBROOK CO-OP?

hi yes you are right i as i have said lived at 213 bright street and the the co cp was just above our house on the opposite side of the road i would think 188 would be near us the name stead seems i do recall the name but at this time i can t put any faces to it but i know there are other people on this forum that lived around me maybe they can and yes bright street stated at milford street where the the steel works was my grandad worked all his life at the steelworks and i think at one time they owned the house we lived in like many others from our front window you could see the pheasant in at the the top of bee street i do believe the pub is still there your j

[MickeyMO]

A while ago since this thread was in use I know but here's something I found while doing family research. There was a Bright Street in Sheffield connecting Fitzwilliam Street with South Street. Roughly in the area where Fitzwilliam Gate is now. It is on maps of 1832 I have seen and is also mentioned in the 1851 census. I have no idea when it disappeared though.

[jaffa1]

A while ago since this thread was in use I know but here's something I found while doing family research. There was a Bright Street in Sheffield connecting Fitzwilliam Street with South Street. Roughly in the area where Fitzwilliam Gate is now. It is on maps of 1832 I have seen and is also mentioned in the 1851 census. I have no idea when it disappeared though.

 

You're quite right MickeyMo, according to the research I have done in the past Fitzwillam Street used to be Bright Street.

It changed it's name when the road was widened sometime between 1865 and 1876, you could find a more accurate date from the Sheffield Archives.

[MickeyMO]

Not quite right Jaffa1. Bright street and Fitzwilliam Street co-existed. Certainly in 1832 they are both on the map. Then at some point The name Bright Street disappears and Fitzwilliam street becomes longer! It is certainly like this on maps of 1890. Then at sometime in the not too distant past that portion that was Bright street becomes Fitzwilliam Gate.

[Captain_Scarlet]

There is a short section of Bright Street on Milford Street at the corner of the Wentworth House Hotel.

I believe the further length of Bright Street was renamed Carbrook Hall Road but would be recognisable for all the prefab office huts on it now.

[bigal]

Hi,

My mother lived on Bright Street, along with my gran and several aunties and uncles, one of which had the surname Kemp. My grandad died before I was born. My mom's maiden name was Hallam. I can't remember the house number, but it was on the right going away from the Wentworth pub which is/was on the corner of Bright Street. It's a while since I past it, but the pub and about 100yds of Bright Street were still there when I last past. The reamainder was taken over by Sheffield Forgemasters. Bright street ran behind a pub called The Excelsior, which was demolished about 15 years ago.

 

Hope this helps

Alan

[cleegirl]

Hi - I have just been handed a copy of my grandparent marriage certificate, and it states that my Grandfathers family lived at 26 Bright Street (in 1929). I can't find Bright Street on a modern map and wonder if it is still there? My Grandfather and his father were both called George Green. My mum left Sheffield as an evacuee in 1939 ish - aged 9, but her parents went on to have a sweet/cake shop and then a bookies somewhere in Sheffield.

hi yes i also was born bright street near the coop end but i don tknowif this helps but my great grandparents lived at 21 bright street from the early 1900 to my great grandma dying 1939 there name was rhoda and joshua ledger as for it still been there yes it is but no houses on it now all that left is the carbrook hall inn and i believe that is a listed building hope this helps a little j

 

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[NORTY1973]

my grandad albert everitt lived at 343 bright street

[NORTY1973]

Hi,

My mother lived on Bright Street, along with my gran and several aunties and uncles, one of which had the surname Kemp. My grandad died before I was born. My mom's maiden name was Hallam. I can't remember the house number, but it was on the right going away from the Wentworth pub which is/was on the corner of Bright Street. It's a while since I past it, but the pub and about 100yds of Bright Street were still there when I last past. The reamainder was taken over by Sheffield Forgemasters. Bright street ran behind a pub called The Excelsior, which was demolished about 15 years ago.

 

Hope this helps

Alan

 

snowdrop kemp and jack kemp were witneses to my grandad and grandmas wedding,james nortcliffe,martha connor 25 jan 1930,and my other grandad albert everitt lived at 343 bright street.