They capture suburban life around Sheffield up to half a century ago, from the fringes of the city centre to the edge of the countryside.
This retro photo gallery shows thriving communities in Heeley, Pitsmoor, Mosborough, Grenoside and Stocksbridge, among other places, as they used to look.
Children are seen piling onto a roundabout in a popular playground, publicans are shown pulling pints at some of the city’s best-loved watering holes, and post offices, chippies, shops and other pillars of suburban life are captured too in these nostalgic black-and-white images.
Do these photos bring back any happy memories for you of life in the 70s and 80s around Sheffield, and what do you think of how things have changed since then?
5. Happy days
Children playing in Westfield Township, Mosborough, Sheffield. in February 1976 | Sheffield Newspapers
6. Picturesque
Farm land at Bradfield, Sheffield, looking back towards Strines, in July 1977 | Sheffield Newspapers
7. Room for one more?
The playground at Crookes Valley Park, Sheffield, in June 1976 | Sheffield Newspapers
