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Nile Street, SHEFFIELD, S10 2PN

The street once had terraced back-to-back housing on both sides, a telephone exchange and a car showroom. All that's left is the telephone exchange, to the left and the vacant building on the right. The exchange was there in 1925.

Fulwood Road shops seen from the rooftop car park. The Hallamshire Hospital is visible on the horizon.

When I worked at Wade & Ellis, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/934074 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/983944 during the late ’50s and early ’60s, the shops here were very different. For a start, the shop frontages were, more or less, where the inside edge of the traffic island is. When they were demolished, the South Sea Hotel went with them. The shops included Patrick’s, Haberdashers – Horace Cooke, Watch Repairers – Arthur Davy & Sons Ltd., Pork Butchers and General Grocers – H Naylor, Decorator – Lamppost, Pet Stores – Collins, Bakers – Sine Electric Co. Ltd., Electrical Goods – Ellen Summers, Tobacconists and Shinnah Ltd., Ladies Outfitters. There was a passageway between the pet stores and the decorators, which led up some steps to a courtyard, houses, what appeared to be redundant stables, a Sports Good Manufacturers and Spooner Road. The courtyard was probably used to offload goods for the shops and beer barrels for the pub, but I never saw any delivery vehicles use it in the six years I worked for Wade & Ellis. Well, the Cottage Industry was demolished, the South Sea Hotel got rebuilt http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1006967 and a new block of shops went up, but instead of using the courtyard for parking, the shops were pushed back and a car park was built on their roofs. I don’t know why this all came about, nor if anyone thought it was an improvement, but the car park seem to have brought conflict http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1007127 and the South Sea Hotel just seems to have been dumped around the corner http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1006975. Ahead, at the traffic lights, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/988300 the traffic from Fulwood and Ranmoor, Lodge Moor and Crosspool, split into two lanes. The right-hand lane takes you into the city, by the Hallamshire Hospital. The left-hand lane takes you into the city, by the Western Park Museum, the Children's Hospital and the University buildings.

The cross roads at the heart of Broomhill. Looking towards Nile St with Whitham Road on the left and Fulwood Road to the right. On-a-Roll, to the right, was Spooner's butcher's shop years ago and my mother worked there. She and my father rented a house from him, which was up Bolehill Lane in Crookes. I was standing outside that shop one day and saw my father driving a tram car down Crookes road into Whitham Road. The trolley came off the wires and had to be put back on. I think he was too embarrassed to mention it later.

At its junction with Crookes Road, Nile Street and Fulwood Road. The Hallamshire Hospital is just showing above the trees.

The main crossroads in Broomhill. This road is the A57 through to Manchester. Take a left to the City or Hunters Bar or a right to Crookes, Walkley and Hillsborough. Straight on for Fulwood. Straight on, then bear right on the A57 for Lodge Moor and its hospital.

A telephoto shot of the main crossroads. It picks out the Posthouse Hotel of Fulwood Road and Manchester Road. It was called the Hallam Towers Hotel when first built. Some people think it was a disgrace to build it in the leafy suburb of Broomhill.

Crookes Road, Whitam Road, Nile Street and Fulwood Road meet here. The Hallamshire Hospital is visible on the horizon.