Puffin4 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 The YHA shop used to be down there too. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I don't know if it's still there but I remember a little gun shop near West Bar, left hand side at the bottom of Snig hill...That was Arthur Turner's, a large double-fronted shop at 33-35 West Bar. In c. 1908 Arthur Turner took over the gunsmith's shop of Charles Maleham at 5a West Bar, and he remained there until the business outgrew the space available and he moved a few yards to the corner of New Street. The business was there until the 1990s when the building was demolished, and then moved to Infirmary Road where it remained until fairly recently. A web search brought up this page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 The YHA shop used to be down there too...Yes - it was a bit further along at 203 Gibraltar Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soft ayperth Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Anyone remember a furniture store called Bevans on Pinstone St? It opened in May 1955. It was advertised as trend-setting because it featured furniture arranged in their natural settings. I just don't remember it. I guess no-one else does, so the Star article was probably a lot of hype. I'm just trying to pinpoint significant newsworthy events in Sheffield for a writing project that I've undertaken. I'll pass on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynda Pender Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Anyone remember Chelsea Girl cc 1963/4 King Street thought I was the bees knees wearing clobber from there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprisestorm Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 I can remember Marshall and Snelgroves but cannot remember it being where Smiths is now. Anne Lennards ladies clothes shop was the one I remember being there, with H L Browns next to it on the corner. I remember trying on a dress in Anne Lennards when the shop assisstant came in the cubicle, (always when you were half undressed flinging the curtain back with a flourish so all the world could see you in your underwear) Said what a beautiful fit it was holding half the dressed bunched in her hand at the back. Linda was the dress shop on Snig Hll also a lending Library as I went there in the early 50's to borrow books for about 2d aweek. hazel Marshall and Snelgrove was very posh ..my late wife worked there ..it was near the grand hotel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Wilson Pecks, William Cann the music man, and another small music shop at the bottom of Carver St (But I can't remember the name) Maybe "Silverstones"??? Wasn't Canns at the bottom of Dixon Lane?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Bunneys at the bottom of the moor near Lewis Leathers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffin4 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Philip Cann the Music Man was indeed on Dixon Lane. I bought my first double bass there about 1955. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Here's an old Cann record sleeve with the Dixon Lane address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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