Demolished Housing, Pitsmoor Road, Woodside, Sheffield - 1

Image: © Terry Robinson Taken: 14 Feb 2010

The original Woodside area comprised of many terraced back-to-back houses which were demolished in the 1960s to make way for a new housing development. The 'new' Woodside Estate was made up mainly of Apartment Blocks with four Large Blocks, two Medium Blocks and eleven Four Storey Blocks ... the majority of these Four Storey Blocks were on the land shown in this view, with the blocks running at right angles to the road. The steps shown in the picture ran between blocks seven and eight. A superb picture clarifying my description can be seen on Page 4 - Figure 3 - on this link ... http://www.sytimescapes.org.uk/files/uploads/pdfs/sheffield/S22_Sheffield_Late_20th_Century_Municipal_Suburbs.pdf ... The 'new' Woodside Estate has also been demolished, with little to show of where it stood except for the Brick Walls and Pillars shown, which separated the Apartment Blocks from each other. These Walls and Pillars look to have been built much later than the 1960s giving credence to on-line comments about the estate having been renovated shortly before demolition! For another view of this road see ... Image

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