Why Wybourn - An Introduction

The Where ...

The Wybourn estate is close to Sheffield city centre lurking behind the iconic but once-despised Park Hill flats, now including very desirable yuppie accommodation. (map above, top left)

At its opposite end (map bottom right) is the historic "Manor", one of the several million places where Mary Queen of Scots was incarcerated. The really historic bit is somewhat bashed about these days ...

... but you may enjoy your wedding in the grounds with the remaining "Lodge" as a picturesque backdrop.

They do provide tents for weather protection.

The area was uninspiring scrub land dotted with a few ancient hereditaments ...

Wybourn estate was a 1920s City Council development, built to provide more appropriate accommodation for those moved out of some of the worst of Sheffield's slums. fbb can find no pictures of building in progress, but our readers can get an impression of what was on offer.

The surroundings were not particularly beautiful with Nunnery Colliery nearby ...

... of which the tip remained well into fbb's younger days (part visible below right).

The Nunnery area remained very "industrial" ...

... until the arrival of the Sheffield Supertram ...

... which tidied things up a bit.

Another arrival was the Sheffield Parkway which delivers traffic from the M1 right into the city centre ...

... with the super road (a k a traffic jam) running across the top of the above aerial view.

One "highlight" of the industrial north of the estate was once Sheffield Abbatoir.

This predated the Wybourn estate which was developed on the hillside top right in the above artist's drawing.

Of course, the estate was promptly served by Sheffield Transport with route 46 grazing the development and the 56 diving into the estate.

In fact, it is only recently that route 56 has changed somewhat. Until the recent extension, it was the shortest seven-days-a-week traditional bus service in Sheffield.

Tomorrow, The Now.

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Modelling Bomb Damage

This seems a odd thing to do but fbb guesses that aircraft kit bashers may with to enhance their dioramas with appropriately busted buildings. What fbb did not know was that Airfix offers a range of resin-cast buildings for the enthusiast to colout and enhance for this purpose.

Here is a selection, all of European models.

Oddly, some are 1:76 (OO gauge scale) and some ...

... are the same as model aircraft at 1:72.

One model might be difficult to use ...

... unless the surrounding area was so badly damaged that only the steps remain.

fbb can create bashed-in model buildings just by unwanted incompetence!

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Why Three Tanks?

Talking of incompetence ....

... more later!

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Livery Delivery

Trent Skyline ...

... 199 Buxton to Manchester Airport.

Becomes High Peak with at least one bus obtained from Your Bus, Derby ...

... repainted into a Skyline livery ...

... or painted again as just a plain 199.

Skyline 199 runs every 30 min Mon to Sat and every hour on Sundats.

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 PLEASE NOTE 

This weekend the fbb's Fellowship Meetings (Sunday and Monday) demand much attention. Blogs will be varied as usual but linked day-by-day with musings on Wybourn estate, Sheffield.

 Next Wybourn blog PLUS : Sat 5 July