Crookes

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The once distant village suberb of Crookes, was established as a place to stay, when a break from city life was required. High on a hill, and surrounded by open fields and moorland, it had superb views of the city below and the villages in all other directions.
The main road through the centre is called simply " Crookes ", and is heavily populated with a wide variety of shops. Many of the adjoining roads are named with reference to the views once afforded from the location such as :-

Cobden View Road
Loxley View Road
Stannington View Road
Many of the origional buildings in the area were stone built cottages, and these can still be seen today, along with the later built constructions from the 1860's when a rapid population expansion happened in the suburb. And by the early 1900's most of the land had been laid out as streets. The core of the origional village was where the school and St. Thomas' Church still stand.
     In the area there were many quarries and reservoirs, because of the once high and rugged terrain. And an area toward the Western Park and Netherthorpe areas is today called Crookesmoor, 200 years ago it was a bleak moreland.
 
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Ball Inn
171 Crookes
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cobden View Hotel
40 Cobden View Road
            
Hallamshire Hotel
155 - 157 Lydgate Lane
          
 
Mason's Arms
2 Carson Road
            
Noah's Ark
94 Crookes
            
Old Grindstone Inn
3 Crookes
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Princess Royal
43 Slynn Street
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The Punch Bowl
236 Crookes
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Walkley Cottage
46 Bole Hill Road
            

The Punch Bowl has a crazy number of funny shaped  pool tables. And is very popular with younger drinkers.

The Ball Inn used to have a concert room at the back, where regular brass band concerts were held, and was once the weekley venue of a fish club, ( not fishing ) where aquarists would presumably have drowned their sorrows, while waxing lyrical about the wonders of guppy's, swordtails and kissing gouramis. However the establishment has been refurbished out of all recognition, since those halcyon days !

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