Any oldies remember Marsdens Milk Bar on Pinstone Street?

[GOLDEN OLDIE]

Someone told me that Marsdens Milk Bar and the Teenage Tavern were the same place although I thought they were two separate coffee bars? They were both open in the late 1950s as was the El Mambo on Union Street.

[docmel]

I do remember Marsdens - me and my mates before we looked old enough to try and get into the pubs used to get dressed up and walk into town and go to Marsdens - we thought we were the bees knees - out on Saturday night in town

[Alan Ladd]

They used to do beautiful ham sandwiches on a white torpedo roll.

 

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Didn't they also open the four restaurants over at the side of the Claymore and opposite the Mulberry?

[GOLDEN OLDIE]

But was the Teenage Tavern somewhere different? I thought it was on High Street across the road from John Walsh? and Marsdens across from the Peace Gardens?

[Joanl]

They were one and the same.....it was Marsdens Teenage Tavern....I celebrated my 16th birthday there on what turned into a Coffee Bar Crawl.....didn't need pubs then. We finished up at the El Mambo, stood outside for a while and dared each other to go in...(it was in the news at that time ) Still talk about it now.....just a group of young girls, working at C&A's, on a half day birthday celebration....Totally innocent, totally sober but still talked about 56 years later.

[grinder]

What did they call the one on Heeley bottom then, was that the Teen bar ?

[england27]

I remember two Marsden's milk bars I used the one on Pinstone Street when I worked on the Trams in 1955, and the second was on a street just above Fitzallan Square, (Can't remember if that's how you spell it) this street was leading on to Howard Street near to where the Crucible Theatre is now.

I can't remember that name either I have been away from Sheffield too long.

 

What I do remember on a winters day they made the best Horlicks.

 

Gordon England (Scarborough)

 

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reference to my earlier reply I have just remembered the name where the second Marsden's milk bar was,, Change Alley.

The Brains not as bad as I thought.

 

Gordon England

[wagginfinger]

I thought Teenage Tavern was on Pinstone street--used to go downstairs to listen to juke box--3d a time[i think it jumped to a tanner when 45 s replaced 78s-----always remember all Marsdens coffee was weak no matter which one you went in ---I also think they had one in Bawtry in the 60s

[Thorpy]

What did they call the one on Heeley bottom then, was that the Teen bar ?

 

Yes the Teenbar was on Heeley bottom opposite Gleadless Road. Then there was the Oak Tree at the bottom of Oak Street. Further up Chesterfield Road, just above Meersbrook Park Road, was the Jester - our favourite at the time.

Edited February 20, 2015 by Thorpy
Cut off before I'd finished.

[escort1]

I remember two Marsden's milk bars I used the one on Pinstone Street when I worked on the Trams in 1955, and the second was on a street just above Fitzallan Square, (Can't remember if that's how you spell it) this street was leading on to Howard Street near to where the Crucible Theatre is now.

I can't remember that name either I have been away from Sheffield too long.

 

What I do remember on a winters day they made the best Horlicks.

 

Gordon England (Scarborough)

 

---------- Post added 19-02-2015 at 18:52 ----------

 

reference to my earlier reply I have just remembered the name where the second Marsden's milk bar was,, Change Alley.

The Brains not as bad as I thought.

 

Gordon England

Change Alley?, no longer there, my late Grandma worked there in the late 1950's, early 1960's.