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School Road, SHEFFIELD, S10 1GQ

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

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.

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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.

One of the many pubs in the area. 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.

The relief work on the pub wall says: – NOAH’S ARK TENNANTS’ CELEBRATED ALES & STOUTS. The small single–storey building below the sign is, Superior Student Accommodation, which in the ‘60s used to be P M Hopkinson, Tobacconist.

Between Wesley Lane and School Road is the Noah's Ark, one of the many pubs in the area. 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. The pub is opposite a path to the Church of St Thomas.