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Whitham Road, SHEFFIELD, S10 2SS

Fulwood Road straight on and Crookes Road to the right.

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.

This row of shops, situated within a small triangle, is sandwiched between Nile Street and Newbould Lane. In the near distance you can just see the top of Broomhill Infants School, and beyond is the Hallamshire Hospital. The Yorkshire Bank is a commercial bank in England and Wales, a division of Clydesdale Bank, which in turn is a subsidiary of National Australia Bank. It mostly operates in the North of England, especially in Yorkshire. It was known as the Yorkshire Penny Bank. I suppose they dropped that title when decimal coinage came out. The Yorkshire 1p Bank wouldn't look very good.

Years ago the bank used to be the Williams Deacons Bank and the small addition to the left used to be Lotus - a shoe shop. Next door to that was Truelove - a ladies fashion shop. Now it is Wish Again. Trams ran along here and then double-deck buses. Now they run single-deck buses and have extended the route to Hillsborough. For an early Sheffield Transport Department tram shot taken by my father of a rebuilt Standard Car http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/TRAM251-BROOMHILLb.jpg A line drawing of mine of an earlier STD tram, which shows the only surviving example of Sheffield's Standard Cars http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/TRAM189-LINEDRAWING-1.gif A photograph of mine of an early STD double-deck Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Park Royal body, at Tinsley Railway Depot Open Day http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/STDBus1357.jpg Another photograph of mine of an even earlier STD double-deck Leyland Titan PD2 with Weymann H32/26R body, at Roscoe Bank http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/STDBus709.jpg The prototype Standard Car (numbered 1) was built by Cravens at Darnall, and entered service in 1927. Subsequently about 150 more were built at the Queens Road works and 25 were built by W.E. Hill & Sons in South Shields. From 1936–1939 the Queens Road works built redesigned Standard Cars, which were known as the 'Domed-roof' Class and had improved lighting and seats. The Leyland Atlantean was a model of double-decker bus built by Leyland (with bodies added by a variety of companies) in the United Kingdom from 1958 to 1986. The Leyland PD2s were built in the 1940s. I retain the copyright of the line drawing. Not to be reproduced without my permission.

A broader view of the previous photograph http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1009353 Another link, which explains how Williams Deacon's Bank became the Royal Bank of Scotland http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/companies/list/williams-deacons-bank-ltd.html

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.

Accommodation, pizza and stationery: what more does a student need?

Crookes Road, from left of the traffic lights. Tarrant’s – car accessories (closed), Tarrant’s Garage – a passageway leads to the garage, Alex Gage – optometrist, Mind – charity shop. Whitham Road, from right of the traffic lights. Ibex Design – printed T–shirts and tops, Halifax – banking, Oasis Pizza – café and pizza takeaway