Sheffield has an interesting history of high rise living which stretches back quite a long way. In this selection I intend to present the remaining tower blocks and apartments which remain from the 20th century. Unfortunately there are only a small number left on the ground today.
Chantrey is the last remaining of three15 storey tower blocks up at the Jordanthorpe housing estate. The were demolished and rumour has it that this one also is not long for this world. Records show that the other two Jordanthorpe towers, called Ramsey and Rhodes were demolished October 2001 as part of the then Sheffield Council "Stock Reduction Programme"
These estates are on land which has only been in South Yorkshire and Sheffield for a few decades, across the fields are Dronfield and Coal Aston two small conurbations over the border in Derbyshire.
Here detail of the main doorway shows the tired state of of some of the rendering of the building on the residential floors and empty flats on the first floor
Even the Naming Plaque of the tower shows corrosion
All Photos taken by Author during August 2007
Plaintalker ( 2nd October 2007 )
the three blocks at Jordanthorpe were identical in construction and design to the three blocks at Deer Park, in Stannington, in the hillsborough side of Sheffield. they seemed to become unpopular for a couple of reasons, :- the brutalist look/ cheap-o construction making them damp and hard to heat, and the fact that they only had one bedroom. the single remaining block at chantrey is sheltered OAP housing, these days. you are correct, that the council are wanting to move the OAP's off here, and demolish the block.
you mention. with Chantrey, the other three blocks across on Gervase, Lowedges, which were demolished in the mid nineties or thereabouts. they were not the same as chantrey, they were the same as Callow in design. again, all three were one-bedroomed, which made them a bit unpopular. I have difficulty remember ing the name of the three lowedges blocks, one was definitely called Gervase. I think one was called "Toppham", and the other "Atlantic", IIRC (but don't quote me on that as gospel ! lol)
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