Sheffield retro: 26 photos to bring back 60s and 70s memories

Trips to a much-missed cinema, meals at a takeaway that was once huge in the UK, and a landmark that towered over the city centre.

These photos will bring back many happy memories of life in Sheffield during the 60s and 70s for anyone who was around back then.

Wimpy was the biggest fast-food burger chain in the UK at the time, before being usurped by McDonald’s and Burger King.

The Gaumont cinema stood on Barker’s Pool for nearly 60 years before its closure in 1985 marked the end of an era.

The Crimean Monument was a hulking presence amid the shops at Moorhead, a reminder of a conflict more than a century earlier estimated to have left at least 500,000 people dead.

This retro photo gallery also shows Castle and Sheaf markets doing a roaring trade, cars running up and down The Moor before it was pedestrianised, the Peace Gardens before their big makeover, and the famous Hole in the Road subway with its fish tank in the wall.

All the photos featured are shared courtesy of Picture Sheffield.

Do these nostalgic images bring back any memories for you? What do you miss most about the 60s and 70s?

9. Station

Sheffield Midland railway station, showing cars parked outside and the new pedestrian subway | Jack Barnaby/Monica Frith Photo: Jack Barnaby/Monica Frith