Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month March 2019

[Mick Hobday]

My family home was only a few hundred yards from this spot, overlooking the busy junction of London Road and Chesterfield Road.  In the early 1950s I would sit for hours looking through the window watching the traffic go past and I remember seeing vehicles exactly like the ones in the photo.  I would date the photo anytime between 1935 and 1955, but more likely late 1940s. The photographer may have caught a scene where there happened to be no post war vehicles on view, Sheffield in those days wasn't a place where you would see the latest models!  It's hard to see, but a couple of cars immediately behind the large truck appear to be possibly later 1930s styling.

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I just found this, dating the photo as 1940-1959.

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend...ction=zoom

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Also this, same spot, probably same photographer on the same day, looking even more post war:

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend...m&id=20614