The underground Firth Brown Medical Center.

[iron sky]

On the website 28 Days Later there are photos of Firth Browns Medical Center which seem to be underground now. The photos show an almost intact medical center with beds and cupboards filled with medical equipment all left behide when the steelworks closed. For some unknown reason while the rest of the steelworks were cleared away this was left intact and buired in rubble and all but forgotten about untill some Urban exployers found it again. Did anyone on this Forum work there or used it and where was it? Its a shame it could not be restored and made into a small muesum on Firth Browns steelworks as it is a rare find.

[PeterR]

On the website 28 Days Later there are photos of Firth Browns Medical Center which seem to be underground now. The photos show an almost intact medical center with beds and cupboards filled with medical equipment all left behide when the steelworks closed. For some unknown reason while the rest of the steelworks were cleared away this was left intact and buired in rubble and all but forgotten about untill some Urban exployers found it again. Did anyone on this Forum work there or used it and where was it? Its a shame it could not be restored and made into a small muesum on Firth Browns steelworks as it is a rare find.

 

Hello iron sky, I worked at Firth Browns in the offices, which are still intact, on Saville Street. I was 16 in 1960, and when parking my bike I burned my arm on the hot exhaust. I was sent to the nurse for treatment. I seem to remember a lady in a white smock. Don't know if it's the place you are describing and can't remember what it looked like I'm afraid. This was on Carlisle Street East, on the left about a hundred yards or so past Carwood Road away from town. It was opposite the Heavy Forge. How can I access the photos please?

 

Regards, Peter

Edited October 17, 2012 by PeterR

[me-and-pippo]

Hello iron sky, I worked at Firth Browns in the offices, which are still intact, on Saville Street. I was 16 in 1960, and when parking my bike I burned my arm on the hot exhaust. I was sent to the nurse for treatment. I seem to remember a lady in a white smock. Don't know if it's the place you are describing and can't remember what it looked like I'm afraid. This was on Carlisle Street East, on the left about a hundred yards or so past Carwood Road away from town. It was opposite the Heavy Forge. How can I access the photos please?

 

Regards, Peter

 

www.28dayslater.co.uk-Firth-Brown-Medical-Centre-Sheffield

There are more links near the bottom of the page

[iron sky]

Or just Google Images Firth Brown Medical Center Sheffield. The Medical Center is still there the photos show as it is now.

[kingfisher]

The Medical centre was on what i think was Norroy street alongside the Lord Nelson pub It was Known as the CCS (casualty clering station)Firth Brown had their own ambulance during the was years I believe it closed shortly after the VJ day

There was also an ambulance rom on Carilsle St just past the Corner Pin pub and several ambulance rooms in the time offices at various gates

[PeterR]

www.28dayslater.co.uk-Firth-Brown-Medical-Centre-Sheffield

There are more links near the bottom of the page

 

Thanks for the pics. 'fraid it doesn't jog the old grey matter

Peter.

[PeterR]

The Medical centre was on what i think was Norroy street alongside the Lord Nelson pub It was Known as the CCS (casualty clering station)Firth Brown had their own ambulance during the was years I believe it closed shortly after the VJ day

There was also an ambulance rom on Carilsle St just past the Corner Pin pub and several ambulance rooms in the time offices at various gates

 

Hi kingfisher, was the Lord Nelson at the corner of Norroy Street and Greystock Street? I've been trying to make sence of a couple of pics. on http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk which describe the pub shown as the Victoria Hotel and state at Norroy Street/Saville Street, although the pic shows Greystock Street. I thought the Vic. was a bigger building on the corner of Norroy St./Saville Street. Am I totally wrong? ....I believe the building next to the Lord Nelson was F.Bs. chauffer's garage when I worked at F.B. in the early '60s.

The medical centre I attended would have been the one you describe as just past the Corner Pin.See my post of 17th. Oct.

Regards, Peter.

Edited October 19, 2012 by PeterR

[iron sky]

The Lord Nelson pub was on a corner on Norroy Street like the Carwood Hotel both long gone. On Gerystock Road was a pub called Pumpers again pulled down also in that area was the Albert and the Norfolk. Going back to Firth Browns Medical Center Im starting to think the reason it was left up might have been a bomb proof building. It would have been hell to pull it down so they left it up also when you look at 28 Days Later the center got a 1940s feel to it perhaps built during the war. On one wall someone has written there name and dated it 1956 so it was still in use for a time in the postwar years.

Edited October 19, 2012 by iron sky

[PeterR]

The Lord Nelson pub was on a corner on Norroy Street like the Carwood Hotel both long gone. On Gerystock Road was a pub called Pumpers again pulled down also in that area was the Albert and the Norfolk. Going back to Firth Browns Medical Center Im starting to think the reason it was left up might have been a bomb proof building. It would have been hell to pull it down so they left it up also when you look at 28 Days Later the center got a 1940s feel to it perhaps built during the war. On one wall someone has written there name and dated it 1956 so it was still in use for a time in the postwar years.

 

Thanks for this info.

[Marx]

I remember going in there in 79/80 when my mate angle ground his leg. We used to go and buy vitamins from there too so we could talk to the nurse. Ended-up with a cupboard full. It was on the central roadway, south side, Sutherland Street end as I remember, slightly below ground level but not underground.