Mystery Hotel 1912 ????????

[J.J.]

Boy, Michelle ...I do not get a fleur de lis at all out of that ...But then you ARE the one with the stone cutters in the family... J.J.

Paul your url has <a> at the end of it for some reason...

[mich b]

Hi JJ

Its the Prince of Wales Feathers carved in the plaque. You can make out the shadows below each feather and there'd be a pin, or as in the link below, a crown holding the feathers and they splay out below hence the apparent symmetry below.

http://static.flickr.com/68/227990471_5088c5446d.jpg

Michelle 

[Paul E]

Thanks JJ - have modified the URL...

Michelle - is this the plaque you're looking at?

cheers

Paul

[Paul E]

The street sign is pretty illegible.  However, I think it's a fair guess to say that the second part is 'Road'.   The proportion would seem 'wrong' for it to be 'Street'.

This would make the first part no more than 5 or 6 letters.

What do you think?

cheers

Paul

[liverpool annie]

Looks like 2 words ......... theres a gap !! ....... maybe it's St ............. Road 

Just found this list ........ ( no St's on there !!  ) but would this help ??

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/webpages/streetnames.htm

Annie

[liverpool annie]

Here you go ! .... Paul will like this .... pictures of all the older pubs in Sheffield !! 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/photos/pubs3/aapubs.htm

I'm going to go through them too !

Annie 

[mich b]

Hey Paul,

I have circled the bit I was referring to

Can you see the fleurs de lys ?
I have sharpened the image

[Paul E]

I think I could be persuaded that it is a fleur de lys, yes!

I have to squint a lot though!

Just off to join Annie on a pub crawl! 


Paul

[Paul E]

We'll probably be able to rule this one out soon enough, but did anyone think the Brown Cow looked familiar?

Before you dismiss it out of hand, I was wondering whether a new set of windows on the building to the right might not disguise our mystery hotel?

But I think I'm clutching at straws after that lightening pub crawl - Gal, you're sure some drinker, Annie! 


Paul