Stone Victorian villas line winding roads, and Nottingham House is the corner pub the BBC used for Threads.
What Broomhill looks like
Stone built villas line Broomhill's roads, set back behind low walls and clipped hedges. Bay windows and gabled roofs repeat from house to house, with cast iron lamp posts and gravelled drives still running the length of some streets. The roads curve rather than run straight, following the slope down from Crookes Road toward .
The area's shops line Fulwood Road, a run of bay windowed terraces with ground floor storefronts, a post office and a newsagent under the upper windows. stands on the corner in red brick, three storeys with a rounded bay front and sash windows, its blue signage over the door. Stone built pubs and brick terraces sit close together along this stretch.
On , a long neoclassical terrace called stands behind railings with an Ionic portico and tall sash windows, its offices now empty. A few streets over on Crookes Road, keeps its own stone steps and cast iron gas lamp behind a low garden wall. The Royal Hallamshire Hospital's tower rises behind the stone houses on Glossop Road, visible over the rooftops and chimneys.
, a stone built pub with a green painted ground floor and hanging sign, stands on the corner of Whitham Road. runs between the villas to a former library built as a private house in 1870, its bay windows and stone portico still facing the street.
Shot in Broomhill
For the BBC television film Threads, the production used Nottingham House on Whitham Road for scenes of a Sheffield pub in the hours before a nuclear strike. Jimmy and his friends drink there before the news breaks and the bomb falls.
Threads, 1984
Nottingham House
The production used Nottingham House for the pub scenes early in the film, where Jimmy and his friends drink before the news breaks and the bomb falls. The pub sits on the corner of Whitham Road, its green painted ground floor and upstairs sash windows facing the junction. Street View
Stone built Victorian villas with bay windows and gabled roofs line Jesmond's roads at a similar scale to Broomhill, and both sit a short way from their city centre on ground that slopes toward a river valley. Jesmond's terraces are a close match for the 1870s through the 1900s. Jesmond's streets run straighter and its stone tends a deeper grey than Broomhill's, so a winding road with pale sandstone and a hedged front garden keeps the match to Sheffield rather than Newcastle. Try searching stone villas bay windows now.
The Grange in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Ilkley, West Yorkshire
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