soft ayperth Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Talbot Gardens (that's a cul de sac not a garden) in the Park District. Still looks the same as it did 70 years ago when I lived near there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shogun Posted April 27, 2013 Author Share Posted April 27, 2013 Talbot Gardens (that's a cul de sac not a garden) in the Park District. Still looks the same as it did 70 years ago when I lived near there. Just googled that one,it looks like it was tarmaced at one time and its worn out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopT Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Some of the side roads on the low side of Cross St at Crookes are cobbled. they were ashphalted over but with the highways neglect of the roads the cobbles are now showing through in large patches. I drive over them regularly and find them an easeir ride than the ashphalt roads which are full of deep holes and a nightmare to avoid in such narrow places due to road parking. Whatever happened to the use of our road tax? The roads and paved areas in Sheffield are an absolute disgrace, ask any visitor or tourist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmambo Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Many of the roads in Crookes and Walkley are tarmac over stone setts. A couple of years ago, when they had the bottom of sackville road up, I noticed there were the older wooden setts under the asphalt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shogun Posted April 27, 2013 Author Share Posted April 27, 2013 My Granny used to live on buttermere road and I was looking at some old war time pictures of the road and that was a cobbled road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denlin Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 When Arundel Lane was being dug up by contractors, the cobbles were being sold off by the workmen on the job which the council did absolutely nothing about, this has happened allover the city. I can remember going to work one morning and around thirty flagstones outside the General Post Office had been lifted, the next morning no sign of the flagstones but they had been replaced by the workmen with Asphalt, I waited a few days to see if they were going to be put back but the workmen left and the flags were not put back so i rang the council to complain and the very next day the Asphalt was dug up and the flags were reinstated. The flags had been sold for someones patio. The council used to sell them, you had to go to Depot on Manor lane, pay for them, get docket and take it to Clayweels Lane where the flags were stored. When they demolished the Steel houses on Holgate, the entire street was stripped of flags in few days by thieving scroats but the police couldn't catch them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-shooter Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Sussex street. Sussex road. Both by the canal. And freshly resurfaced in lovely black asphalt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litotes Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Top end of Carrington Road down near Greystones http://goo.gl/maps/JKjQE shows it nicely when facing west Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Just googled that one,it looks like it was tarmaced at one time and its worn out. I walked on that street 3 years ago when I visited Sheffield. I see the asphalt patches to which you're referring. It may indicate that the whole street was asphalted and it wore out or, more likely, that the asphalt was used to patch problem areas, potholes etc, in the street. When I was on the street, I came away with the latter impression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalithic Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Guess Talbot Gardens wont ever get re-tarmacked as it's unadopted, so i think the residents would have to finance it. Never bothered me when i lived there for several years though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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