The boys outside the pub look as if they have come from the pit. There are three balls hanging above the shop next to the pub, the sign of the pawnbroker. On the opposite side of the road is W. Hoyle's shop at the bottom of Johnson Street.
Picture Sheffield reference: s11823

A house and cart waits outside the pub, a man, woman and dog walk towards the camera, and it looks as if a cart is being unloaded on the opposite side of the road.

The garage sign was advertising Knowles' garage. Opposite the Friendship are shops, now demolished, and the corner of Johnson Street. There is both a horse-drawn carriage and a motor car in this photograph.

A motor lorry looks to be making a delivery.

Amelia Herbert’s doorway in the foreground. Her husband Joseph was an invalid (1891 census); he died in 1895. Her son Randal Herbert (James Randall Herbert) later ran it, although his occupation was always given as engineer. Randal lived in this house next to the pub from being a 9 year old child in 1881 to at least 1939, a period of over 58 years.
Picture Sheffield reference: t05737

Charlie Lewis's landau in front of Randal Herbert’s shop. This became the TSB Bank in later years.

The photograph shows the Friendship with its relatively new façade of 1903. Hunter’s shop (later Smith Wilkinson’s) can be seen on one side, and in the foreground is a draper’s shop (established 1884) and two of the three balls of the pawnbroker’s shop can just be seen. It was in these two buildings (originally cottages owned by the first landlord George Batty) that the Co-operative Society began life.

Photo credit: Ian Sutton

Photo credit: Ian Sutton

View of Stocksbridge from a chimney showing the back of the Friendship (far right, with bay window). All the houses in the foreground have been demolished. Also shown are Victoria Street and Common Piece.

From the Sheffield Independent 9 February 1934; this is from the supplement to this paper advertising the Sheffield, Rotherham & District Licensed Victuallers’ Association to celebrate their 100th anniversary / centenary. Tom Batty was a member.

This photograph is on display in the pub