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Rowland Street, SHEFFIELD, S3 8DE

Dating from the 19th century, for many years rail-carried coal trucks would empty at this point.

Bricked up facade of the Mowbray Street Steel Works which were registered under the name John Nicholson and Sons, makers of springknives, table knives and razors between 1847 and 1953. The company became part of the Neepsend Steel and Tool Corporation whose head office was about a quarter of a mile away http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1301873 .

The Mowbray restaurant and wedding venue in Sheffield.

Like Gray Street on the left of the tree and further down the hillside ... see ... Image ... in the 1970s this street was lined with houses like those on Pye Bank Road, see ... Image ... I wonder what will become of this area? It was givn a new lease of life 40 years ago, but now needs another.

This rare survival of a mid-C19th back-to-back makes for rather a pathetic sight. Grade II listed. Most of its contemporaries were cleared in the 1930s.

The original Woodside area comprised of many terraced back-to-back houses which were demolished in the 1960s to make way for a new housing development. The 'new' Woodside Estate was made up mainly of Apartment Blocks with four Large Blocks, two Medium Blocks and eleven Four Storey Blocks ... the majority of these Four Storey Blocks were on the land shown in this view, with the blocks running at right angles to the road. The steps shown in the picture ran between blocks seven and eight. A superb picture clarifying my description can be seen on Page 4 - Figure 3 - on this link ... http://www.sytimescapes.org.uk/files/uploads/pdfs/sheffield/S22_Sheffield_Late_20th_Century_Municipal_Suburbs.pdf ... The 'new' Woodside Estate has also been demolished, with little to show of where it stood except for the Brick Walls and Pillars shown, which separated the Apartment Blocks from each other. These Walls and Pillars look to have been built much later than the 1960s giving credence to on-line comments about the estate having been renovated shortly before demolition! For another view of this road see ... Image

Pye Bank Road is 'closed off' for safety reasons half way along its length by this barrier. From this point there is no more housing so access isn't required. The brick and railing boundary on the right is from the 1970s Woodside Development ... the remnants of which are shown and described in this picture ... Image

Operated by Lafarge.

As see and described in ... Image ... Pye Bank Drive - which runs off Pye Bank Road at this point - is also 'closed off' to traffic at this point. The houses at the top of the hill are on Andover Street close to the former Pye Bank School.