Your memories of Sheffield past.

[crookesey]

Thanks Crookesey, since my last post,I have been thinking, does anybody remember the YMCA across from the fire station, I got sent there for a medical, when I started work at 15, in 1965. I think the Health service rented a room for the Doctor.Also further down towards barkers pool on the left was A Barbers shop run by a ex footballer,was it "john fantham"?

 

I speak from experience here, believe me, it was the YWCA, I knew it well, the YMCA was on the corner of Fargate and Norfolk Row.

 

Johnny Fantham's barbers shop is still there being run as a barbers, obviously not by Johnny.

[crookesey]

It was. In the late 60s a trad jazz band played upstairs on Friday nights. I used to play sometimes.

 

The Grapes and the Dog and Partridge, I am led to believe, are owned and run by the same folk. Good Irish pubs still, no daft re-vamps or name changes for them, can you believe that The Yorkshireman is now called The Lions Lair, and is a gay bar.

[stevenorfolk]

I speak from experience here, believe me, it was the YWCA, I knew it well, the YMCA was on the corner of Fargate and Norfolk Row.

 

Johnny Fantham's barbers shop is still there being run as a barbers, obviously not by Johnny.

Thanks Crookesey for jogging my memory,yes it was the YWCA my mistake :-)

[Treatment]

TSB in 1980.

 

Gleesons built a large extension to that Bank in about 1973.

[Treatment]

It was. In the late 60s a trad jazz band played upstairs on Friday nights. I used to play sometimes.

 

. . . and the Sheffield Branch of BLESMA used to have their meetings in the back room.

[crookesey]

The Foresters, across from the fire station, Alexander Brennan Insurance brokers, at the side of the fire station, The Rickshaw Chinese restaurant, across from the green area and Mitchell and Challenge, where The Forum is.

[USUK]

Prince of Wales, corner of Westfield terrace and Division street

[willybite]

Prince of Wales, corner of Westfield terrace and Division street

 

hiya remember bramhars ( spelling),they made aircraft parts during the war, and woofes high class furniture shop, cuneo's ice cream shop, and a co-op where they had a till high off the floor when any money was paid the assistants, was screwed into a container and sent along something like a clothes line to the cashier, there were a few of them across the shop. and calvery hall,hartley seeds bookshop on the corner, but this was devonshire st, then back to division st the fire station where my dads uncle was a fireman during the war, the bookshop applebaums this was just around near carver st,across the road at the corner was a jewellers shop, and a florist. then a newsagents, around by the city hall was a british restaurant during the war.remember a workmate telling me that the foresters held a sheffield ex boxers get together and the chip shop was a pub years ago.

Edited June 8, 2011 by willybite

[crookesey]

hiya remember bramhars ,they made aircraft parts during the war, and woofes high class furniture shop, cuneo's ice cream shop, and a co-op where they had a till high off the floor when any money was paid the assistants, was screwed into a container and sent along something like a clothes line to the cashier, there were a few of them across the shop. and calvery hall,hartley seeds bookshop on the corner, but this was devonshire st, then the bookshop applebaums, around by the city hall was a british restaurant.

 

Applebaums and Hartley Seeds have jogged my memory, the cash transfer system was called Lamson Tubes, my grandmother used to mention Woofes, I'm obviously a bit young for the others, that's why folk like you are priceless on a thread like this. If Happyhippy would be so kind as to have a word with my grandad, CHAIRBOY and Albert T Smith this thread would be mega.

[USUK]

That would be T.G. Woofe if I remember correctly. My uncle worked there