Hole In The Road Thread with Pics

[spit1500]

... so can you tell us the exact size of the tank - was it around 15' x 4' and around 2' wide ? - and where was the access point to get in , as no doors were near the actual tank ?

 

I cant remember the exact size, but i think it was about 3' wide, the door was on the right hand side of the tank, there wasn't a lot of room inside because of all the water pipes and filters.

[neverthere]

I was very concerned to find out they were filling the HITR & wanted to know what would happen to the fish so I wrote to the council to ask about the fish, even got a response to say they relocated them to the Town Hall. I remember thinking the fish tank was huge. I'd have been 8 when they closed it down, so I only remember it when it was dark & dodgy, with people selling dodgy wares packing up mid sale & running at the sound of a police siren or someone's warning shout.

[Plain Talker]

The door for the access to the fish tank was concealed in the ridged wooden panelling.

 

I remember the tank as being about 3 metres (10 feet?) or so long, and about four feet high. I can't estimate the length front-to-back as the glass was deceivingly thick.

[jaffa1]

In the late 70's early 80's I worked for sheffield recreation dept. and it was my first job of the day to feed the fish in THITR.

 

Did you have that job of looking after the fish until the end when the hole was filled in.

Where did you get in to feed the fish it looked all very enclosed?

[jaffa1]

I was very concerned to find out they were filling the HITR & wanted to know what would happen to the fish so I wrote to the council to ask about the fish, even got a response to say they relocated them to the Town Hall. I remember thinking the fish tank was huge. I'd have been 8 when they closed it down, so I only remember it when it was dark & dodgy, with people selling dodgy wares packing up mid sale & running at the sound of a police siren or someone's warning shout.

 

What a load of bull, they had no tank at the Town Hall.

[Bill E Lee]

The council in their wisdom stocked the fish tank with a wonderful variety of fish. One of which was a black predatory species. That fish eventually consumed all the others and grew to enormous size. Not sure what it lived on after it ate the other fish........ but the the missing persons list was expanding at the time

[neverthere]

What a load of bull, they had no tank at the Town Hall.

 

That may have been so, but I received a letter from the council telling me that was what was going to happen. I don't remember if I ever followed up on it, I assume as a child I was just happy to hear they were relocating the fish.

[Talisman1138]

I remember going for a sandwich at the cafe at house of frazer and you could see right into the middle of the hole in the road

[AUTOBOY58]

Shame it was filled in.

[Barry Smith]

ta for the pics.

 

When i see pictures like this i feel sad but also, quite angry. To see the hole in the road in such a delapidated state leads me to believe that its demise, its being filled-in and in a sense, its abandonment (the whole idea, underground shopping, leisure and a means of getting to a variety of destinations) was a good idea.

 

But, that isn't how it is. We, the residents of this city and moreover, the elected councillors allowed the hitr to become this huge, stinking cesspit. Broken lights, rubbish at the foot of the escalators, graffiti, urine and vomit, not to mention boarded up windows, broken vending machines and cracked paving. So what to do about it? Fill it in!

 

Any other city would have embraced this idea, given the place a well-need refurb, better lighting, colourful flowers, (a bit of investment if you will) and made the place welcoming again like it was when i was a 5 year old.

 

Not in sheffield though. The council was defeated and instead of making repairs, threw the towel in in a statement that cried 'you defaced it, well, let's fill it in'.

 

The whole class got detention for the actions of a few idiots.

 

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