Cracking set of early 90's photos from around Rotherham

[cobblers]

I was browsing Faceache and found these lot, Seem to have been taken mostly around Rotherham by someone who must have lived in/near Kimberworth Park and liked Granadas and buses and is a "mutual friend" with my auntie Jane.

 

 

Anyway:

 

 

 

I was 7 in 1993, but I can distinctly remember them building this Aldi and if you asked me when I would say "oh probably about ten years ago". My dad used to take me in the boozer round the corner (Midland)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway here's the link the the whole album, it's really worth going through and a load of pictures gave me an unparalleled feeling of comfortable nostalgia.

 

https://www.facebook.com/bus.pictures.9/media_set?set=a.1433932556822657.1073741914.100006177783748&type=3

 

The bloke can really take a good photo.

[mercrocker]

Those were the days....when people drove ratty stuff for reasons other than Pineapple.   Great uploads - I love stuff like this.

[sierraman]

Never knew the Aldi was that old, thought it was only a few year old...

[cobblers]

I would rather someone tell me it was a photoshop and that Aldi was built in 2005, cos I can remember thinking "Flippin Aldi! that place is for scrubbers!" as I saw it being built. I can't have been that much of a judgemental snob when I was 7, especially since I was the child of a woman from Dalton and a man from Kimmy park. Plus I shop at Aldi now almost exclusively.

 

Anyway:

 

My mates dad owned this if I remember correctly. Lived near Herringthorpe. I remember him getting us a load of MEGA out of date chocolate bars to sell at a bring and buy sale type thing in primary school, we made a flipping mint on them. One lasses fit mum worked for walkers and got loads of free crisps (and sacks them round things with slots in that came free in the bags, tazos or something so she still beat us.

 

I also remember him trying to jump start a metro off it on his drive after he changed the plug leads on it and got them in the wrong order.

[EssDeeWon]

Love those pics, I remember there being Granada's like that knocking about when I was a youngster.

[sierraman]

I'm from nearby, can recognise a lot of the places but then it's changed so much especially where the old library was demolished.

[Partridge]

Those pictures are epic. I love how he takes pictures of stuff nobody else would bother to. Brilliant.

[mat_the_cat]

I grew up in Chapeltown, but would sometimes go to Rotherham for a day trip. Later went to college there, so it holds some fond memories.

 

(Hoping for a photo of the 266 bus...)

[mat_the_cat]

 

[sierraman]

My mum worked at the Asda in Chapeltown whilst about 1987.

[vulgalour]

Very late 80s, while Meadowhall was being built and looked unbelievably modern and shiny and posh, I have a lasting memory of that part of road where the Cortina estate and two Escorts are shot and everything being covered in a horrible greyish oily grime.  I think that was the same trip when we were travelling in an old CF van to see the circus.  The circus was pretty disappointing, but then it was always going to be a let down after travelling from Staveley via Eckington and Halfway in the back of a CF with no windows and stacks of tyres and a park bench as seating.  I seem to remember the van was red.

 

Essentially, what I'm saying is my childhood was pretty shit and brilliant for the same reasons and Rotherham/Sheffield was really grimy in the late 80s and early 90s.  It's a lot cleaner these days.

[Ghosty]

Linked that to my '60/'70s glam rock obsessed, Brutalism appreciating leftie friend from Doncaster, naturally it's right up her street.

[sierraman]

There's not a great deal to Halfway apart from a 1970's housing estate and the tram stop. They've even knocked the Joseph Glover (previously The Mill) down.

[oldcars]

Massive want for the H plate Granada with the bodykit.

[Mr Lobster]

Wonder if the R11 lived to fight another day?

 

[Mr Lobster]

Some lovely pics there. A few of my favourites....

 

 

 

 

 

[sierraman]

The second one is Sheffield - haymarket unless I'm mistaken.

[PiperCub]

Petrol - 50p/litre. God, I can recall that. 

[Negative Creep]

Makes me sad that I have never and will never get to drive around streets that empty

[Sudsprint]

 

  On 07/11/2015 at 09:18, Mr Lobster said:

Wonder if the R11 lived to fight another day?

 

 

It was repaired but never the same - so she sold it on to some bloke who worked abroad for the government.

[vulgalour]

Colour picture looks like Worksop.  Shows how long ago it was since I was last there too, it looked pretty much just like that but with different busses.

 

I'd agree with sierraman on the Haymarket location.  Just to the right of the image is Castle Market (or rather was, it's part way through demolition last I heard).  I'm wondering where the photograph was taken from, it's quite a high vantage point.  Before I lived in Sheffield I'm told you could get up on top of the shops on your right as you walk down, so maybe it was there?  here's a 70s photo of the area.

 

[sierraman]

Where the picture was taken was an old nightclub, the name has left me, but maybe it was there. The colour photo is Bridgegate, Rotherham looking away from the Minster toward the County Borough. Who else is a fellow Sheffielder/Rotherhamer

[HMC]

Superb pics, love the ratty and tired mk2 granada pics, very of their time.

[LabRat]

Canklow service station was just down the road from muggins here. (Hail from sunny Brinsworth originally)

 

I can still remember Fatha Lab_Rat taking his MG Maestro there for new floor pans after an MOT fail... He was rather pleased when it only cost £20 to put right, circa 1992.

 

 

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[mat_the_cat]

  On 07/11/2015 at 18:59, sierraman said:

Where the picture was taken was an old nightclub, the name has left me

 

Corporation I think. I remember* quite a few nights there in the 90s.

[vulgalour]

Wasn't Corporation where the Job Centre is now?  Sticky sticky Corp, with it's cheap and probably watered down booze, questionable toilets and interesting people.  I only went a couple of times in the building off Devonshire Quarter but I've been away from Sheffield for a few years now and I'd heard rumour it was moving again.

 

I'll have to take your word on it that what I thought was Worksop is Rotherham, I don't know Rotherham very well having not been there often.  I was confusing it with Bridge Street, though I'm not really sure how.  Guess that's a broken memory that's been overwritten too many times.

 

On the plus side, when trying to find pictures to prove my memory to myself I did find this excellent snapshot of 90s Chorlton.

 

http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/when-we-still-had-furniture-shop-and.html

[sheffcortinacentre]

photo will have been taken from the walkway (gallery) that ran along the front of the first floor of the shops, the bottom one of the set is at firth park about a mile from my house looks the same now except post office is just a shop now, it was relocated into rear of what is now a jack fultons supermarket just out of shot to the right of the church on sciecy ave.

reg shop in this area.

great post recognise most of the places.

 

the corperation/jobcentre is about 1/2 mile from that pic on west street.

[seth]

  On 06/11/2015 at 22:16, cobblers said:

 

I've had enough of your insolence, Hirst. There's the door, close it behind you AND DON'T BOTHER COMING BACK IN THE MORNING.

[Alfamale]

I'm a sheffield lad and agree that the pics of the haymaket were taken from what were called the galleries IIRC. Who remembers the old flea market at the bottom of the markets, that was like a car boot sale without the cars, or glamour!

 

I knock the council on a regular basis but www.picturesheffield.co.uk is a fantastic resource for those who enjoy a dose of nostalgia.

[fordperv]

i love the picture of the rough w plate granny with circa 89-90 mk2 sierra L/LX spec wheel trims, i also have love for the H plate saloon with the RS accessory skirts