Sheffield retro: 26 of the best photos taking you back to the 60s, including lost landmarks
Sheffield retro: 26 of the best photos taking you back to the 60s, including lost landmarks.
From a crowded marketplace to school corridors, these photographs will transport you back six decades to the swinging 1960s.
They depict enormous changes in Sheffield, as a modernist masterpiece emerges on the hill and the M1 climbs over the roofs.
While those two icons remain recognisable on the city’s skyline, other iconic buildings and structures depicted in this retro photo gallery are no longer there.
The Tinsley cooling towers, which had served as twin beacons welcoming tourists home for so many years, collapsed in 2008.
The Hole in the Road tube, with its fish tank in the wall, was demolished before being filled in to make space for the new tram network in 1994.
These images will evoke memories of shopping in the 1960s, whether it was exploring the stalls at Castle Market, checking out the latest items at Walsh’s department store, or purchasing new gear at Sugg Sport.
They will also transport readers of a certain age back to the manufacturing floor, where sparks fly in dramatic images, and to their school days, with students chatting in the ancient grounds of what is now one of Sheffield’s largest secondary schools.
Sheffield Wednesday fans may view Hillsborough Stadium as it appeared from above, while Blades fans may know a club legend in his prime.
In other scenes, children are seen at a defunct bowling alley, a new ‘dreamland’ estate rises from the valley, and a luxurious hotel that once hosted many celebrities is depicted.
1. Walsh’s
Walsh’s department store in Sheffield, before its refurbishment in 1966. The front of the store was to be removed and rebuilt to suit the new road junction, which included the Hole in the Road underground.
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2. Tinsley Viaduct
Tinsley Viaduct on the M1 in Sheffield, shown shortly after construction in 1968, with Blackburn Meadows Power Station’s twin cooling towers in the background. The towers were dismantled in 2008. | Heritage Images / Getty Images Photo by Paul Walters Worldwide Photography Ltd.
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3. Castle Market
Castle Market, Sheffield, and the stores opposite in 1968, via Getty Images. Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive.
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4. School days
Pupils conversing on a stairway at Tapton Hall Secondary Modern School in Sheffield, 1960 | Heritage Images/Getty Images. Photo by Paul Walters Worldwide Photography Ltd.
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