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Coombe Road, SHEFFIELD, S10 1FF

The doorway and step height has been raised. Probably makes it easier to load and offload bags of plaster.

To the right, is Willson & Dowling Decorative Plasterers Ltd. This works has seen other trades including garage, upholstery and joinery.

Present day use for this old works, is Willson & Dowling Decorative Plasterers Ltd. It's seen a variety of professions, from garage, to upholstery and joinery. A friend tells me that it started life as, The Model Dairy Farm. A date stone reads, MODEL DAIRY FARM 1892. The lane runs from Crookes, down to the wooden fence and then does a ninety degree turn to School Road, so it can be approached from two directions. This has an advantage in that a rear side entrance door http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1148713 can be reversed up to for loading and offloading. Not a lot of room for manoeuvring though.

Unusually, two of the shops below have conservatory type additions to the frontages. They are Da Vinci Hair, Hairdressers, which back in the ‘60s was Darnell’s Drapers Shop – DJ’s News, which as the name suggest is a Newsagents as it was back then. Lastly is Mr B’s, Off Licence which was a Butchers Shop.

The flats are built on land once occupied by houses, shops and a pub - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1146605

Typically, the roads run steeply out of Crookes. This one drops down to Commonside and the route from Intake to Walkley, a former tramway.

On the right, just above Coombe Road is Mr B’s Off Licence and back in the ‘60s it was a Butchers Shop. Beyond the house is DJ’s News, which as the name suggests, is a Newsagents, as it was back then. Next door is Da Vinci Hair, Hairdressers, which used to be Darnell’s Drapers Shop. There are a couple more houses and between them and The Works Beauty Studio, is Wesley Lane. On this side of the road, just beyond Bute Street, was Ideal Upholstery Services - Charles Scruton, Hairdresser - Dow Electrics, Electrical Appliance Dealers and H Vicars, Fishmonger. All gone by the '70s. Charles Scruton, the hairdresser was a pleasant mild–mannered man. The problem with him was that he was good at his job and so the shop was nearly always full, which often meant a long wait.

To the right, is new build. When I lived in Crookes, there in the ‘60s, was a mixed range of old cottages, from 2–20 Crookes. At 22/24 was The Old Original Grindstone – 26/30 Raffo’s Gift Shop & Hardware Dealers – 34/36 Cecil P Oldham, Electrical Engineer and Bicycle Dealer. "Ernie", as we knew him, also ran a cycling club based in Totley. From 40–60, more houses in the row, which included Sam Hoole & Sons, Coal Dealers. At number 62 was Mrs A Redford, Fruitier and Greengrocer. All were gone by the ‘70s. Then comes Coombe Road, across which is Mr B’s Off Licence. Back in the ‘60s it was a Butchers Shop. Beyond the house is DJ’s News, which as the name suggests, is a Newsagents, as it was back then. Next door is Da Vinci Hair, Hairdressers, which used to be Darnell’s Drapers Shop. There are a couple more houses and between them and The Works Beauty Studio, is Wesley Lane. On this side of the road, just beyond Bute Street, was Ideal Upholstery Services - Charles Scruton, Hairdresser - Dow Electrics, Electrical Appliance Dealers and H Vicars, Fishmonger. All gone by the '70s. Originally, this was a tram route - Crookes to Handsworth.

Above Wesley Lane is The Works, Beauty Studio – Noah’s Ark, Public House – Superior Student Accommodation, Local Letting Agent – R Hayman, Butcher’s Shop. Back in the sixties, The Works used to be C Thomas Ltd., Bakers and next door to that, before it became a part of the Noah’s Ark, was Winfield & Sons Ltd., Decorators. The property above the pub was P M Hopkinson, Tobacconist. The corner shop has remained a Butcher’s Shop, but back then, it belonged to F Burrows & Sons.