Can someone put a name to a pub - that isn't there anymore ?

[Jim Hardie]

Fanny's is still open , still int same place and still sells Stoneses although the Mankers are now all between 69 and 81[some of em are past it though:hihi:.

 

Who remembers Marie? I don't ever remember her not being sat or stood at the bar in the late 70s. I genuinely thought she lived there. I think she died suddenly in the 80s.

[hillsbro]

That is it Hillsbro , age is no barrier to a proper Sheffielder especially one born within the sounds of the Hillsbro roar ...

That's it then - next time I visit my old haunts I'll be there!. I never met Fanny Brocklebank but she must have been quite a woman. I just did some quick research - here's a brief biography:

 

.1882 - born Fanny Turner in Sheffield, the daughter of Evers and Betsy Turner.

.1890s - worked in her widowed mother’s fruit & veg. shop in Trippet Lane.

.1905 - married George Herbert Beedham, a cutler. Two children were Betsy, born 1905 and George Herbert, born 1908. Around the time of the First World War.George became licensee of the Lord Nelson at 166 Arundel Street (then a “beerhouse” only).

.1923 - George died aged only 41; Fanny took over the licence.

.1936 - married John Brocklebank. Remained as licensee of the Lord Nelson until c. 1952 when it was taken over by Robert Sweet.

.1961 - Fanny died aged 79.

[lazarus]

Talking of pubs is the pub still there where I spent many a happy Friday night

In the 70s and 80s? Worked in a small cutlery company at the time I think it was called Buttlers I think it was on a junction of Brown Street and Furnival Gate opposite large car showrooms called Autoways . Can't remember the pubs name but the landlady ruled the place like a rod of iron and hated any swearing!

 

It was Butlers the cutlery firm and it wasn't Autoways it was Ernest Hadfield Jaguar and Daimler dealer. I worked at Butlers for 24 years from the 70s to them closing at ecclesfield.

[Lushcannon]

Thats the pub .

Nick name Fanny's which ties in with the Mankers.

 

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It ant.!!!!!!!

I used to play darts for The Nelson.My dart flights said 'I Play With Fanny's' on them.

[cuttsie]

I used to play darts for The Nelson.My dart flights said 'I Play With Fanny's' on them.

Do your flights refer to the English or American Fanny.

The Yanks can't tell the difference

[trav4]

Do your flights refer to the English or American Fanny.

The Yanks can't tell the difference

 

My mother was a fanny and my Grandmother was a Fanny, there's a long line of Fannies in our family.

[kensimmo]

Fanny's is still there and open. My mate Bob Heathcoat works behind the bar

Hi,

 

I used to go to Sheff Poly in the late 80's and although I've been to a few gigs in Sheffield since then, I have only really drunk at the venues ( Boardwalk & Greystones ) or the pubs around them; but this weekend is going to be different ! Yes, I'll be going to the Greystones Pub on Saturday for a gig, but we are staying in Sheffield all weekend and so I'm hoping to visit some of my old haunts - Old Queens Head, Red Deer, Fat Cat & the Roebuck ( where I had my first ever pint of bitter, back in 1986 !! ) - but one location I'd like to visit, is that of a pub that closed down many years ago - maybe early 90's or maybe even while we were still based there, but just for a laugh I'd like to re-visit the location.

 

Now all I can remember about the pub, was that it was VERY small - in fact most people drank outside on the road, it only sold hand-pulled Stones and I think lemonade (!) and it was pretty much a shack .... but the beer was superb !! Now looking on Google maps, I think the pub must have been on either Arundel Street or Eyre Lane and I think it was on a corner plot.

 

I know its a long shot - but does this description ring any bells with anyone on here ?

 

Cheers,

 

Chris.

[fleetwood]

If you walked past the City Hall you came to the 'Forresters' on the left, is that still there? But before that there was a road on the left and about half a block down on the right there was a small pub on a corner called the 'Royal George' (I think), is that still there?

[Guest makapaka]

If you walked past the City Hall you came to the 'Forresters' on the left, is that still there? But before that there was a road on the left and about half a block down on the right there was a small pub on a corner called the 'Royal George' (I think), is that still there?

 

The foresters building is still there and it's now a trendy bar called the Great Gatsby. The other pub you mentioned is no longer there.

[hillsbro]

Hi fleetwood - your post brought back memories of both pubs - here are two..links to photos on the picturesheffield.com site..