Identify these old photos?

[kensimmo]

Can you identify these three old photo's. They are all on glass plates and are from around the 1900's? They are supposed to have been taken in the sheffield area, but i dont recognise anything. In the centre of photo 3 the sign says "Symons hair cutting and shaving rooms".

 

1 The moor (looking from moorfoot)

 

2 Junction of High street & Church Street

 

3 Don't Know

[peterw]

It’s peterw back again. The entrance to Yates Brewery was not on a corner, it was on Ashton Old Road and looks nothing like the photograph so I think you can rule out Manchester. Best wishes.

 

By the way, I live in what is essentially a Jewish community and I am about to send out a brochure to businesses, some of which will be Jewish. I’ve included one photograph and told prospective readers that the clue to its location could lie in the fact that there is a Symons (Jewish name) haircutting and shaving rooms half way up on the left. It might ring someone’s bell!

[lovabulrogue]

Well !!

 

After weeks of awaiting a reply from the Devon tourism board with regards to the possible Barnstaple picture, I finally had a reply from them. They are please to announce that the high street with the hill in the foreground - here http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/fourfive/3.jpg is infact in Ilfracombe, not Barnstaple. So I was near as damn it, right on that one.

 

If you look at todays high st picture, you can see why, those local to it (and in the know) say it is.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ilfracombe-inf.devon.sch.uk/sg4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ilfracombe-inf.devon.sch.uk/our%2520town%25204.htm&h=204&w=272&sz=20&tbnid=VVHpgvEmxR6L6M:&tbnh=81&tbnw=108&hl=en&start=8&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dimages%2Bof%2Bilfracombe%2Bhigh%2Bstreet%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

 

There are a few pic's if you type in Ilfracombe High stree into Google and click Images.

 

Just need to find out the other two now !! This is one of the best threads on here in my opinion.

 

Let me know your thoughts on the comparison.

 

Rogue.

[peterw]

lovabulrogue — Sorry mate, think again! Seen the Ilfracombe images and the only piece of street furniture that looks similar is the gas lamp! Not one of the buildings match on either side of the road. There should be at least one of the same era but there isn’t. Agreed there’s a bit of a hill in the background, but that’s about all. It seems we’re all clutching at straws! I’m going for either hilly Derbyshire, hilly Yorkshire or the mountainous Lake District. I’m as interested as you are about finding this location, but Ilfracombe it is NOT.

[lovabulrogue]

lovabulrogue — Sorry mate, think again! Seen the Ilfracombe images and the only piece of street furniture that looks similar is the gas lamp! Not one of the buildings match on either side of the road. There should be at least one of the same era but there isn’t. Agreed there’s a bit of a hill in the background, but that’s about all. It seems we’re all clutching at straws! I’m going for either hilly Derbyshire, hilly Yorkshire or the mountainous Lake District. I’m as interested as you are about finding this location, but Ilfracombe it is NOT.

 

PM me, I have more information, I would like to know what you think.

[TheRedWizard]

The quest continues? What is the further information?

 

I thought http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/fourfive/1.jpg was settled? http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s00160

. Must be. The street furniture is spot on and the tram posts are identical aren't they (he says, going back to have another look)?

 

yep - that one is definite.

 

As for Ilfracombe, I'm really not sure. I've flicked through all 20 pages or so of the google images, including victorian ones, and they're not conclusive.

[lovabulrogue]

I know I will get abuse for this, but humour me and have a look at these pictures of Devon please.

 

I won't tell you which ones to look @ over the 3 pages, you decide which ones are similar to the ones we are discussing, if any. If they are not any of the pictures we are discussing, at least appreciate the bloody uncanny likeness, same architect perhaps ??

 

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.footstepsphotos.co.uk/Devon/dev089.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.footstepsphotos.co.uk/Devon/devp3.htm&h=126&w=192&sz=5&tbnid=ve8il7Wt9Tzc6M:&tbnh=64&tbnw=98&hl=en&start=10&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dderrys%2Bclock%2Bplymouth%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

[peterw]

I agree there’s an uncanny likeness to Fore Street, Totnes. It would be interesting to know when the church at the far end was built. It hides part of the outline of the hill. I’m guessing it was built around 1860-70 which would rule it out.

[lovabulrogue]

I agree there’s an uncanny likeness to Fore Street, Totnes. It would be interesting to know when the church at the far end was built. It hides part of the outline of the hill. I’m guessing it was built around 1860-70 which would rule it out.

 

And on page 3, Pic 89 (Derrys clock) if that was on top of the building on the right, then that would be weird. Perhaps a lot of towns/cities were similar.

 

I still think one of them is Devon !!

 

'The thick plottens'

[Angie v]

Hi, my boyfriend seems pretty deffinate that picture# 1 with the tram is in sheffield as all the early tram routes in sheffield had letters for their destinations and not the full name, will try and find out more if i can.