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Fulwood Road, SHEFFIELD, S10 3BH

This view takes in the whole of the shops on Fulwood Road, on the south side, from its junction with Manchester Road, through its junction with Glossop Road, to its junction with Witham Road at the far end. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1009397 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1013327 Things to note are the bus stop style sign for the church and its windows in the shape of a cross. Oxfam next door was Prices, a clothes shop and pricey by nature. The York public house http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/988360 can just be seen at the top of Glossop Road and the sign outside the Fox and Duck, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1007162 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1004601 which is visible above the parked silver car.

The building in the foreground is the Broomhill Methodist Church and it stands at the junction of Fulwood Road and Ashgate Road and was photographed from the bus stop on Manchester Road, the A57. The church is relatively new and replaces an earlier Wesleyan church of 1866–67, which was built in the decorated Gothic style, at a cost of £5,600 http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/Others/AshgateRoadChurch.jpg . That church had adjoining caretaker’s premises http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/Others/AshgateRoadHouse.jpg http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1141785 and was the home of my Grandfather and Grandmother. I also lived there from birth to about the age of three (1942–45) and was christened there. Both this and the previous church had a main entrance from Fulwood Road. The old church had access from Ashgate Road, the caretaker’s premises and another at the east of the building next to the boiler house. The entrance to the new church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/988110 cannot be seen here as it set back between the two larger portions of the building, part of which appears to be living accommodation – that which stands to the right. A visitor to Geograph tells me, the accommodation attached to Broomhill Methodist Church is social housing and is administered by two organisations dedicated to providing homes for young women as they learn how to be independent. The old church had problems, which developed in the mid 1970s. There were signs of serious structural problems and to compound these, the spire was struck by lightning, during or around 1980. A structural survey was carried out, which found that the walls were leaning outwards allowing the roof to settle and so the church was demolished in 1982. The new church was opened on 15th February 1998.

A close-up of the church standing on the site of a much earlier Wesleyan church, which was built in the decorated Gothic style. The entrances of the two churches are about in line, but the new church has its set further back and can’t quite be seen from here. The right–hand side of the building appears to be living accommodation of some sort, whereas the previous church had accommodation at the rear. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/987789 for another view of the church and some history about the old one. The white van is parked at the top of Ashgate Road, which had access to Fulwood Road in the past, but is now blocked off. Traffic also used to be able to turn right from Manchester Road.

Walking further east and looking back at the church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/987789 ...and working back towards me, we have, Oxfam, Fruit-A-Peel (groan), Your Nuts (groan, groan), SM Hair, the Post Office (which is only shown as one shop front in the Planning Portal), and then an unidentified shop, which appears to have been a florists judging by the Interflora sign. I should have taken a shot of the post box twins - drat! Note the A57 road marking, which is indicating the route to Manchester. Not that it is any big deal, but you nowadays find that main roads to anywhere circumnavigate a city, rather than go through it.

I took this shot of the front entrance about 2½ years earlier than my previous photographs and didn't see the need to photograph it again. For the main photograph and description see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/987789

This view of the church shows the front entrance and the Oxfam shop next door, which in the 40s and 50’s used to be called Prices, and it sold ‘posh’ frocks and other wearing apparel. This used to be a very busy junction with traffic travelling from five directions that could navigate anywhere, but that's mostly been stopped and is now controlled with traffic lights. It is also the A57 to Manchester, where I'm standing. For another view and a more detailed description http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/987789

Fulwood Road, looking towards the old Wesleyan Methodist Church (right), which was being demolished at this time. For a similar view before the demolition, see https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/16152-lightning-strike-on-broomhill-methodist-church/?do=findComment&comment=148995.