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A stretch of Ellesmere Road located in the Pitsmoor area of Sheffield. This picture was taken on a fine Tuesday afternoon in late May.
©Jonathan Clitheroe
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©Neil Theasby
Dist:0.3km<br/>A view of Petre Street and the Don Valley from open ground near Grimesthorpe Road. Submitted to the BBC Domesday Reloaded project. [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-436000-387000/picture/3]]
©Martin Speck
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©Neil Theasby
Dist:0.3km<br/>The wooden gates and small sub-station to the left mark what was the entrance to De La Salle College; A catholic grant maintained grammar school founded in around 1921. The core of the teaching staff consisted of about six members of the De La Salle brotherhood. In 1977, following the full "comprehensivisation" of catholic secondary education in Sheffield, the school was merged with the largest catholic secondary school in Sheffield - St Paul's together they became All Saints and before long the De La Salle site was sold-off. Despite a desperate petition organised in my last year at the school (1976) the outstanding contribution of the De La Salle brothers to education in Sheffield is now no more.
©David Lally
Dist:0.3km<br/>Petre Street, an area dominated by light industry.
©Martin Speck
Dist:0.4km<br/>I have no idea what the original purpose of this building was (though it may well have been some form of place of worship). Throughout most of the 1970's it was utilised as the dining room of De La Salle College, a Catholic grant maintained grammar school which stood about half a mile away on Scott Road.
©David Lally
Dist:0.4km<br/>Taking this photo thirty five years ago you would have seen a continuous retaining wall, broken only by a gated foot-entrance where you could turn either left or right to ascend either of two two-flight steps which doubled back on themselves to meet together at the top. Behind standing about ten feet above the level of the road and about fifteen feet back was the Hall at the end of the single storey original school building, which for the last years of the college's life formed the Library.
©David Lally
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©David Lally
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©David Lally
Dist:0.4km<br/>The opposite view of [[846233]]. In the 1970s when I would go for school dinners in the building seen in the above link, there stood on this site a large Victorian Gothic church. As with all the building of that age in Sheffield at that time it was black from years of domestic and industrial air pollution.
©David Lally
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©Neil Theasby
Dist:0.5km<br/>Taken from a first floor window overlooking the cemetery on the north side
©Debbie Herring
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©Martin Speck
Dist:0.6km<br/>At the bottom of the hill is Sheffield's Northern General Hospital.
©Steve Fareham

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