Which Demolished Sheffield Building Would You Rebuild?

[soft ayperth]

I would build a new castle market on the same site as the old one and at the side a new rag and tag like the old one. here in chesterfield, it as covered stalls and as trestles with boards there is little or no vandalism and that would be great for sheffeld to have somewhere were people can walk freely round I am from a generation that loved open markets and we should go back to the castle market ethos but with much cheaper rents. and kept in good repair not like the old one were no money was ever spent on it give sheffeld a much needed CPR and revive it to what it was it could have a castellated building in keeping with old medivil sheffeld sorry about how I spelt Sheffield that's how it's pronounced in Rotherham or was in my nan's day which I still use steve x

 

I'd bring back the old rag & tag open air market in its original site at bottom of Dixon Lane and bordering what used to be Sheaf St and Commercial St. Might be hard to do now with that monstrosity of a roundabout there and those supertrams occupying most of Commercial St. Well, they could do away with that roundabout for me.

[PeterR]

I'd bring back the old rag & tag open air market in its original site at bottom of Dixon Lane and bordering what used to be Sheaf St and Commercial St. Might be hard to do now with that monstrosity of a roundabout there and those supertrams occupying most of Commercial St. Well, they could do away with that roundabout for me.

 

Ahh...this is better eh?

Click on here :-

 

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Edited September 16, 2015 by PeterR

[dafodil]

I'd bring back the old rag & tag open air market in its original site at bottom of Dixon Lane and bordering what used to be Sheaf St and Commercial St. Might be hard to do now with that monstrosity of a roundabout there and those supertrams occupying most of Commercial St. Well, they could do away with that roundabout for me.

Seconded a whole area ruined by the so called planners.

[stpetre]

The Mojo Club (Pitsmoor Road), but then the bands would have to come back and we'd all have to be eighteen again!!

 

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I can still remember the very particular smell of the hotdogs cooking in the foyer in the sixties. Wonder if they could re-create that?

 

Not if you knew what hotdogs were made from !

 

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PeterR - hadn't seen that photograph of the Royal Hospital - it's lovely to see the old place. Thank you for posting the link.

 

The Royal Hospital was in the shape of letter 'E', the back of it being the corridors and the three lines coming from that were the wards. The middle one ended up protruding out, longer than the others when the Miner's Welfare Block was added.

 

As for the Tinsley Cooling Towers, I too was very sad to see them go and still miss them when I use the M1.

 

I agree with the cooling towers, but were they actually in Tinsley? as they were part of Blackburn Meadows Power Station. And Blackburn is in...well.... I don't mean Lancashire.

Edited September 17, 2015 by stpetre
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[1789a]

Not if you knew what hotdogs were made from !

 

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Just the smell!

 

I never actually ate one

[Voldy]

To answer St Petre's query about the Cooling Towers location, yes they were in the Tinsley ward of Sheffield as the County Borough boundary encompassed the sewage works and the CEGB plant.

 

You will not find them on the 1/1250 Ordnance Survey plan of 1954 as at that time they were omitted being a security area (power station).I know because I was the Field Surveyor who worked on that particular plan and was hugely disappointed not to find them on the published sheet!

[stpetre]

To answer St Petre's query about the Cooling Towers location, yes they were in the Tinsley ward of Sheffield as the County Borough boundary encompassed the sewage works and the CEGB plant.

 

You will not find them on the 1/1250 Ordnance Survey plan of 1954 as at that time they were omitted being a security area (power station).I know because I was the Field Surveyor who worked on that particular plan and was hugely disappointed not to find them on the published sheet!

 

Thank you Voldy, for your answer and the reason about the Ordnance map.

[darylslinn]

Agree with most of these.Scandalous seeing so much fine architecture lost forever.

Would add Victoria Station.

Also Kings Head -Crosspool

Gatefield Club

Brincliffe Oaks.

 

Great shout !

Add to those, what's already been mentioned in the line of the old theatres through the city too and the Rex Cinema at Intake as well for me.

[stpetre]

Thank you Voldy, for your answer and the reason about the Ordnance map.

 

Also Voldy, that would explain why Neepsend Power Station or Royal Naval Ordnance (Cardiff Street) among other things are not on the maps. Thanks again.

[crookedspire]

I would bring back the Castle Market along with its smashing individual cafe areas .

This combined with all the little nooks and crannies around every corner made it the best Market hall in South Yorkshire.

 

Perhaps I'm been daft here, but I miss the old Castle Market got to know many traders in their many of which didn't move to the Moor Market. Yes the new market is nice and perhaps better but is not the same.