What was there before Ponds Forge?

[jack reacher]

I used to work in the old Joseph Rogers yard for a small engineering company called Chapel Engineering.I remember Eddie Hardy as the caretaker. Has anyone else have any memories of 18 River Lane ?

[PeterR]

I used to work in the old Joseph Rogers yard for a small engineering company called Chapel Engineering.I remember Eddie Hardy as the caretaker. Has anyone else have any memories of 18 River Lane ?

 

Hi jack reacher,

 

As I mentioned on a previous post, I was a council officer in the late '70s and used to park my car on the Ponds Forge cleared site opposite the Housing Offices on Pond Hill. There was a man who appeared occasionally and seemed to be in charge of the land. I was told he was the caretaker and assumed he had duties other than looking after that piece of derelict land. He seemed always to wear a cap and wellington boots. Could this be the same man as the name Eddie sounds familiar?

 

Regards, Peter.

Edited January 2, 2014 by PeterR

[supersentin]

Beezerboy : thanks for the reply. The steam waggon was a Sentinel WE3236 and delivery new to George Senior and Sons in 1928 - latterly it was sold to Brown Baley with the number BB No2 - query is does anyone remember George Senior and sons lorry colours - Brown Baley's Lorry colours were green?

 

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Typo should read Brown Bailey..

[cookingfat50]

on one side of the road was the queens head pub, behind that was the council rent offices, where on Saturday mornings people would queue down the road waiting to get in and pay the rent. across the road was joseph Rodgers cutlery works, then there was the old market hall where the lady was just in the entrance with an old set of brass weighing scales which cost an hapenny I think I wonder were they are now can't have been scrapped surely, must be in a museum now.. walking the other way towards pond st bus station behind the old post office building were the telegram boys used to wait with their red motor cycles waiting for the next job. across the road there were a row of wholesale butchers, were the carcasses of cattle, pigs and sheep would be taken in to be butchered I always remember the the rows of vans with the animals in the back. the smell was horrid I once had to work at the old abbatoir on cricket inn road were the butchers hide skin and bone firm was located and the smell was gut wrenching there were biyts of animal laid all over the the place, sheep heads calf legs and guts never again would I go there

[wobblybob50]

I well remember Pete in the Queens Head. The pub was scruffy but it was the first call when we got back from the Wednesday away games from 1975 (when I was 18 ) onwards. The John Smiths Magnet was drinkable and they had Tankard which I havent seen for years that wasn't that bad.

He always asked me how old I was and however many times I told him he would never remember, could be that he liked a drop himself and he forgot. The old SUT offices were a large dome type shape and when we went to book football tickets we had to see a rather large lady who certainly kept us in our place. Good times

[N Jones]

Hi bullerboY, did you ever visit the N Jones shop on Snig Hill? I wondered if the whole shop was given to selling motorcycle clothing? -as some time before it was a men's tailors and outfitters.

[christinewin]

On the 1905 map it shows the 'Electric Light Works' on the ground where ponds forge baths are now (which i think were the electricity supply offices)

 

The Pond Street area was mostly cutlery works, rolling mills and even a brewery on Pond St next to the Howard Hotel.

 

also sheffield united tours ,coach station. that was a large area

[blackhill]

I worked at Seniors. Ponds Forge in 1963. I worked as blacksmith striker. Blacksmith was Harry Hoole

[AMR67]

The old gateway to George Seniors is still there, it's the exit from Ponds Forge Nowadays. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3811231,-1.4624712,3a,75y,346.43h,87.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sg2-dRJ5vWeJ3QfiDBMU0CA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[DerbyTup]

I thought that was the site of the old Rag n Tag market?