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Heavygate Road, SHEFFIELD, S10 1PG

In the city of Sheffield there is much friendly rivalry between supporters of the city's two professional football teams. In "The Princess Royal" it appears that Wednesdayites are predominant - hence the not-so-subtle insult of a United sticker on the toilet seat in The Gents.

By the junction of Slinn Street and Matlock Road - looking beyond to The Don Valley.

Historic pub on Matlock Road, Steel Bank. Undergoing conversion into dwellings.

These steps lead down from Heavygate Road to Fir Street ... and up again! The building to the left is the two-storey toilet block ... so over the years many a desperate lady would have been glad of these steps to get down to their loo! Image Image Image

As with many of the public toilets in Sheffield, these were built by Sheffield Corporation Tramways primarily to serve the tram drivers at tram termini. Consequently, they were male toilets. The council later built female toilets, which are not visible in the picture. The Heavygate toilets are particularly interesting in that they are a two-storey structure. Visible is the top floor, the male toilets. The female toilets are in the lower floor, accessed from Fir Street down the steps at the side. In the picture is a student filmcrew who were making a documentary about public toilets in Sheffield.

The door to the Ladies - situated on the lower level - is just visible behind the Ivy. The Gents is up top on Heavygate Road. This is well described by J G Harston in his linked picture ... see ... Image Image Image

The wind has blown the snow into in an interesting shape.

This Grade II-listed former Roman Catholic chapel - with school rooms beneath it - was built in 1872, whereas the residential reformatory, beyond the chapel - but attached to it - was opened in this former boarding school building i.e. "Howard House" but renamed St Joseph’s. Later, between 1887-1931, the premises became a residential “Industrial School for Roman Catholic Girls”. Even later still later, after a period of closure, it reopened in 1934 as St Joseph’s House for Mentally Handicapped Women and Girls, receiving referrals from across Gt. Britain. By this time additional buildings had been added on site. In 1971 its management was assumed by the Sheffield Health Board, although the Sisters of Charity continued to staff it. In 1974 however, the nuns withdraw their services at the time that the more stringent regulations relating to meeting the educational needs of individuals with learning difficulties came into being. These facilities closed permanently in 1983 and these buildings are currently occupied by a Buddhist community. (See also: http://saintjosephshome.weebly.com/download-the-booklet.html) The South Yorkshire Housing Association hoped to convert the chapel into apartments but the planning authorities determined that it should remain in use as a religious establishment. The housing association were however, granted permission to build numerous houses on this site, the front doors of which now face the chapel.

These gateposts were the original entrance to the actual Bank House ... now replaced by Flats and Houses on Bank House Road.