The End of a Bowling Green Prince of Wales Ecclesall Road South Sheffield - July 1939

For those readers who are not familiar with the Prince of Wales it is situated on the corner Carternowle Road and Ecclesall Road South in the Ecclesall district of Sheffield.

I have avoided calling it a public house as it is in effect a restaurant that happens to sell drinks as a side line. Its main function is to sell food to its customers pure and simple.

It has no architectural significance as the premises have been renovated several times in the last thirty or so years. The original name was the Prince of Wales and was named after the future King Edward V11. But in the late C20th the Prince of Wales name was ditched and it became firstly The Woodstock and then more bizarrely The Baltimore Diner. Unusual names to say the least!

But for most of its existence it was a large public house serving the local community. And it appears that it was also a hotel

And on 11th July 1939 this report appeared in the local press 

   

According to the report it had one of the oldest bowling greens in Sheffield that must have been laid down in 1752.

The car park is still there and when I drove past it last month, the entrance to the car park had a pot hole that was certainly up there with Sheffield's best!