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Rock Street, SHEFFIELD, S3 9JA

Now devoid of housing, but back in the 1970s the whole area was built-up with houses just like the one on the left with the semi-circular roof. At that date these houses would have been thought of as 'cutting edge' design. A row of these houses still exists in Pye Bank Road, see ... Image ... The view over Sheffield City Centre will always have been fantastic, but in the 1970s wouldn't have included a Big Wheel or a huge Tower Block! On the right of the tree is Andover Street which is also in the same sorry condition, see ... Image

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.

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.

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

One of the original Sheffield Board Schools, designed by architects Innocent and Brown. The school opened in 1875 and closed in 2003, when a new school was opened nearby on (also) Andover Street. The original school building is a Grade II listed building and is securely 'locked up' awaiting conversion into (probably) apartments. There are some superb views from the front of the building of Sheffield City Centre. I believe that the school was closed for a period during WW2, following a bomb explosion nearby which broke most of the windows and caused some minor damage. During this closure the pupils were sent to other schools in the vicinity. For additional views see ... Image Image Image Image Image Image Image

This view from Burton Road shows the 'two storey' rear to the shops on Andover Street ... from the front they are just single storey. Pye Bank School can be seen behind the shops. See ... Image and Image

Playground and entrance ... what memories there must be from 128 years of use. For more information about the school, and additional links, see ... Image

This entrance was marked for Infants and Girls ... and is on the left side of the front of the school ... the boys (only) entrance was on the right side of the school ... Image ... For more information about the school, and additional links, see ... Image

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

This view from Shalesmoor shows the 'two storey' rear to the shops on Andover Street ... from the front they are just single storey ... and Pye Bank School on the right. This former school is in such an elevated position it can be seen from many parts of Sheffield. See ... Image and Image