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Exchange Street, Sheffield.
The Market Tavern, 27 Exchange Street, late c19-early c20.
The Market Tavern has seen more name changes than any public house in Sheffield. This may be its last - demolition is threatened.
The Blue Boar is a pub on Castlegate in the city centre of York, in England.
The Blue Boar was a Mediaeval inn on the street. Among its guests were Roger Cottam, envoy to Henry VII of England, and many Royalist soldiers preparing for the Siege of York. It was demolished in about 1730 and replaced by the current building, along with the neighbouring 1 and 3 Castlegate. A tradition states that the body of Dick Turpin was kept in the cellar of the pub overnight, after his execution, and that the landlord of the pub allowed patrons to see the body, for a small fee. An additional tradition claims that Turpin's ghost haunts the pub.
In 1770, the Robin Hood pub opened on the street, probably as a direct replacement for the Blue Boar, although it is not certain whether it occupied the same building. It became an important coaching inn, with coaches running daily to Hull and Leeds, and from 1816 also to Selby, along with less regular routes to Richmond, Barnard Castle, Howden and Bubwith. In Walter Scott's novel, The Heart of Midlothian, the Seven Stars pub is thought to be based on the Robin Hood.
The front of the pub was rebuilt in 1851, including a carriage arch leading to former stables at the rear, and the pub was extended into part of 3 Castlegate. In about 1894, the pub was again renamed, as the Little John. It has since been internally rebuilt, and an extension added. In 1971, it was Grade II listed, along with the attached cast iron carriage gates.
Between 1971 and 2011, it had another name change, it became The Little John keeping its connection with Sherwood Forest.
The Pub closed in 2011,but reopened the following year, returning to the Blue Boar name.
I believe the Blue Boar was once a resident of Sherwood Forest.
Castlegate, Sheffield.
Here, the River Sheaf re-emerges after passing through a long tunnel beneath Sheffield Railway Station. The Sheaf joins the River Don at this point. The tunnel carries an AD 1916 date stone.
On the left are the former gents toilets which, I believe, are Grade ll listed as an integral part of the listed Blonk Bridge (extreme left).
Sheffield's fast flowing rivers provided waterpower for the cutler's wheels that fuelled the city's early industrial success. But as Sheffield continued to expand and prosper, the rivers suffered. They were dammed and diverted, and in some places completely disappeared beneath the growing city. The age of railways and canals help to redraw the landscape of the city and by the 20th century Sheffield's ancient rivers were a mere footnote in the urban landscape.
The Castlegate in Aberdeen was chosen as the site for this beautiful Gordon Highlanders statue because this was the site of their original 1700s barracks before moving to the Bridge of Don. Castlegate Barracks was located at the end of Union Street and Castle Street, affording views over the harbour.
St Mary Castlegate is one of the largest of York's many medieval churches and is situated in the south of the old city centre. It ceased to be used for worship several decades ago and for a while was used as the city's heritage centre. Now the interior has been opened up again and used as exhibition space for contemporary art.
The building is mostly of 14th & 15th century construction and is marked by a tapering spire rising from a slender octagonal tower (a feature of a few York city churches). The interior is devoid of its old furnishings, all removed prior to its conversion to secular use, but some fragments of medieval glass survive, reset into a window at the east end of the south aisle.
I am not sure what the current opening times of the church are, but it is safe to assume it will be open as long as there is work exhibited inside. This is an imaginative and sensitive re-use of a redundant parish church and allows visitors to enjoy both the exhibits and the entirety of the building's interior, much more than its previous incarnation did.
Castlegate, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Left - Queen Victoria Memorial Nurses' Home (former), Castlegate, 1902-03.
Unlisted
On the corner - 53 George Street.
Unlisted.
At the end of the march up Union Street the Grampian Pipe and Drums played a final song and Laura McDonald of Aberdeen Trades Union Council addressed the crowds.
Gordon Highlanders Statue, Castlegate, Aberdeen which was unveiled by HRH Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay (Prince of Wales), 15th October 2011
Reinhardt Silbermann, of the KFSR (German International Brigades friendship group), with the Ernst Thälmann banner at the gathering at the Castlegate, Aberdeen. 18th October 2015.
Gas Offices (former), Commercial Street, Sheffield, 1874.
By ME Hadfield & Son.
For the Sheffield United Gas Light Company.
Grade ll listed.
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