Fashion boutique Lift Up Your Skirt And Fly, Norfolk Street, December 1967. Image titled "Sheffield Graphics" by JR James.

            Lift Up Your Skirt And Fly was a banned lyric in "Desdemona" by the English cult band John's Children. With the song being released on 24th May 1967, and this image known to have been taken in December of that year, it is believed the shop was named in opposition to the BBC's decision to ban the song by boutique owner Roger Howe, who went on to become a business associate of Peter Stringfellow.

The entrance to Lift Up Your Skirt And Fly was on Norfolk Street, but the start of Howard Street may be seen to the right - indeed, looking carefully in the reflection of the blue painted shop front, the towers of the Norfolk Park estate may be seen. The image is looking approximately north east, so therefore the towers may be seen to the south east.

These buildings in this photo were soon demolished for the construction of the "Sheffield Town Hall Extension" or 'Egg Box Building', with the alignment of Howard Street, at this, its most westerly end, also being lost under the Town Hall Extension. With the demolition of the Egg Box building, the alignment of Howard Street is now approximately where Millennium Square lies.

The slides in this archive were used lectures presented by Professor JR James of the Department of Town and Regional Planning at The University of Sheffield between 1967 and 1978.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Sheffield (show map)

Taken on: August 13, 2013

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