Maplin Electronics, Hillsborough, Sheffield
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Maplin Electronics, Hillsborough, Sheffield
Image: © Terry Robinson Taken: 10 Dec 2008
This store has been on this site - opposite Hillsborough Barracks - for some years now ... I certainly remember it being there some 15 years or so ago. According to enquiries made via the Sheffield Forum ... these premises were used as a Petrol Station before Maplin took it over and converted it ... and I must say it does look like a Petrol Station from the 1970's. Before then, a Cinema / Theatre was on the site ... this was called The Phoenix and was named after its first owner Harold Phoenix. The Phoenix opened in 1911 and finally closed in 1960.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.400095
Longitude
-1.496878