Mystery Hotel 1912 ????????

[Paul E]

Sorry, Sue - getting confused - I meant the one you posted of the Station Hotel near wicker arches.   Any idea when this was built?

[mich b]

Hi Paul

See top of page 10 and I've put a similar link in to the Manchester Midland Hotel. It's clearly not our Mystery Hotel, but I think it illustrates the similarities in architectural style and the likelihood of it being a Railway hotel somewhere.

Happy googling!

Michelle 

[knightstemplar]

Paul E

Sorry cant find build date at the moment, googled it but info isnt coming up too tired(me).  Got to go bed.  Computer keeps crashing,  if it does it again its going thro the window.  See you all tomorrow.

Sue

[joanne56]

Have been following this thread with interest and have become quite addicted.
Following the Railway Hotel theory, and the "it looks similar in style to the Midland" I embarked on a quest and here is what I have come up with;
    The Midland Railway seemed to build Hotels where ever they built a Station; varying in size and style over time. There is one in Derby, Manchester, Morecambe and the big Daddy at St Pancras. So why not in Sheffield? Well there was a Midland Railway Hotel at the time of 1901 census and low and behold it appears to have been on a corner, the enumerator states that he covered, amongst other streets;

   "The left side of Pond St. from Harmer Lane to the Porter Brook: The Midland Hotel                (entrance in Sheaf Street or Station Road) and the Railway Station Premises."
     
        The info he put in brackets led me to assume the building went around a corner.
Have looked at old maps to discover where it might have been but Station road does not appear, although there are a couple of streets left blank off Sheaf St. so it could be one of those.
The Station was built or completed in 1870, and of course The Midland Railway have a Shield.

[bearkat]

There is a picture of The Midland Hotel on the Pictures of Sheffield site.  It is much smaller than the building we are looking for.  It is quite plain with a rounded end.


Were old Sheffield buildings of this time more likely to have been built of brick or local stone?

[liverpool annie]

I have been looking for pictures of the Marples Hotel ....... though I think it may have been too high !! 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/blitz/blitz.htm

Annie 

[bearkat]

It's that sort of style but 'our' hotel looks grander.

[jaywit]

There are a couple of things that have bugged me about this from the beginning. Firstly it is on flat ground and appears to be a good sized area of flat ground, which must cut down the possibilities of where it could have been in Sheffield, and secondly there appears to be a small enclosed 'garden' in front of the windows, would a city centre hotel of that period have that feature? I would have thought at that time not much would  grow in central Sheffield.

[liverpool annie]

Have been following this thread with interest and have become quite addicted.
Following the Railway Hotel theory, and the "it looks similar in style to the Midland" I embarked on a quest and here is what I have come up with;
    The Midland Railway seemed to build Hotels where ever they built a Station; varying in size and style over time. There is one in Derby, Manchester, Morecambe and the big Daddy at St Pancras. So why not in Sheffield? Well there was a Midland Railway Hotel at the time of 1901 census and low and behold it appears to have been on a corner, the enumerator states that he covered, amongst other streets;

   "The left side of Pond St. from Harmer Lane to the Porter Brook: The Midland Hotel                (entrance in Sheaf Street or Station Road) and the Railway Station Premises."
     
        The info he put in brackets led me to assume the building went around a corner.
Have looked at old maps to discover where it might have been but Station road does not appear, although there are a couple of streets left blank off Sheaf St. so it could be one of those.
The Station was built or completed in 1870, and of course The Midland Railway have a Shield.

Hi Joanne !

You've obviously put a lot of thought into that !!  the research sounds good .... even if it's not the right one !! ....... I just tried to find a picture .... but I can't find one ..... ( not my day today !!  ) can you ?

Annie