Play

16th April 1856

Theatre Royal, Sheffield

A consultancy paper currently being reviewed by DCMS ( http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/119783999?access_key=key-1o44si4yjbeg02mrvh4d) is aimed at better defining Britain's creative industries.  A worrying recommendation of the paper is that DCMS removes traditional crafts (Heritage crafts) from this category as it seems Craft is not Creative!! This will have a significant impact on practitioners to receive forms of support, access to finance, provision of training, marketing of output etc.

There are of course significant implications for the Sheffield that many of us know and love. Traditional / Heritage crafts occupy a number of important and iconic buildings and landscapes in Sheffield and without inclusion in the creative industries list, they risk being subjected to a diminishing pool of support. If we lose Heritage crafts from Sheffield then we risk losing the character of some unique districts. Those of you who have supported the recent Portland works campaign will know how important this is.  Do please take time to sign the UK government petition at https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49537/signature/new, and please visit the heritage crafts website or their facebook page or blog and make comments. It is one thing to sign a petition but it would be good if Sheffielders could comment/testify to the added value that living amongst heritage/traditional craftworkers brings to the city.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/may/16/hi-de-hi-star-paul-shane-dies

 The author, a Quaker from Sheffield, made two trips to America. He traveled extensively throughout the areas surrounding Philadelphia as well as Baltimore and New York. His journal incorporates a number of interesting anecdotes concerning the Black people and their treatment, the Quakers in America, the Indians, etc.

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I remember the iconic black & white shot from a previous anniversary appearing in the Golden Frame calendar which I seem to have lost

Can someone please provide a few details?

Thanks.

relative, one called Harold Hampton, known as Keg, who was notorious in the area for being in and out of

prison and in trouble with the police. Apparently he was locked up for assaulting a policeman from the Flying Squad, 

a chap called Lunn in the 1930s and was linked to a murder by the canal at some point.

Does anyone know of him or this murder?

Grand American Attraction !

First Visit to Sheffield of Junius Booth's Play and Company, In the Great Realistic and Dramatic Production, entitled - Way Out West by Junius Booth.

Junius Booth was the grandson of the American actor Junius Brutus Booth, and nephew of Junius Wilkes Booth (Abraham Lincoln’s assassin). His play ‘Way Out West’ depicted, according to this playbill for Sheffield’s Alexandra Theatre, “in truthful form a chapter from the lives of those pioneers who “blazed the Trail” for civilization in the Far West of America”. Set in the “Big Flume” Hotel and other locations on the Carson Trail, the play employed a “Pack of Real Wolves” for its effect. The playbill also states that “the Caribou-Hide Sleeping Bag used in the Hut was made by the United States Government and carried by Lieutenant Peary on his dash for the North Pole”. 

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Picture, maybe

http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/3616-beerhouses/?p=119657

But in the same area there is Brunswick Primary School, Brunswick Retirement village, so where does the name Brunswick come from with regard Woodhouse

closed pub link 

Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th of May
10am - 4pm

Knife-maker and artist metalworker, Duncan Edwards will be displaying a range of handmade knives for sale at Shepherd Wheel.

Using traditional Sheffield techniques including hand forging, grinding , and engraving, Duncan has produced a range of both modern and traditional knives, as part of ‘Galvanize’, Sheffield’s festival of Contemporary Metalworking

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/all-libraries/todays-messages/localhistory.html

I'm looking for a wad of 'BELL' burials that are driving me nuts!, I have checked others such as TPC and Brightside to no avail.

Specifically William Henry BELL died 1909

Ellen BELLdied 1909

Jacob BELL died ?

...and also various other members of the clan.

Cheers

The information that we have is that he was born in 1915 in Ecclesall Bierlow. Gilbert married Monica Kempster on 12th April 1941 at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Forbes Road in Sheffield. According to the GenesReunited web site he died in Sheffield in 1945 (between Jan - Mar) aged 29 although my colleague had been told by her mother that he died in 1948.

Ideally we would like to find out where he is buried as my colleague would like to visit his grave. I have tried doing a search on the Sheffield Indexers web site but no records appear for this name.

Thanks for any help!

Thanks, John

It includes sections on a branch line to Beighton which the company built and the Sheffield District Railway with which it was associated.

http://www.blurb.co.uk/books/4280589-the-lancashire-derbyshire-east-coast-railway

SH Link - As it used to look

I'm sure there's a picture of it on here, taken in last year or two. While it was standing empty.

(the first two exterior views are modern, dating from 1904!)

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/results.aspx?index=0&mainQuery=&searchType=all&form=basic&theme=&county=SOUTH%20YORKSHIRE&district=SHEFFIELD&placeName=Town%20Hall

I wonder if it still looks like this?

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/results.aspx?index=0&mainQuery=&searchType=all&form=basic&theme=&county=SOUTH%20YORKSHIRE&district=SHEFFIELD&placeName=Silverdale

One reason why Sheffield people went mad for fish tanks could have been the Hole In The Road fish tank!

Shops selling them appeared all over Sheffield. One of my favourites was one called Aqua Marine Tropicals up Broad Street. But most people knew it has Gordon's, after the chap that ran it. Even if you didn't buy your fish from him, you went to him for advice or if you had sick fish!

I rather suspect many of us got into fish keeping from School biology lessons. At Hurlfield they had several large tanks to study fish. I suppose it was cheaper and more practical than keeping cows!

By the 80's a massive place was set up on West Bar, called the International Aquatic Centre. That had a room that got so hot it was like going to the tropics! After that the craze seems to have died. All that left is a few odd shops scattered around, and the odd Garden Centre that mostly stocks pond materials. The last vestiges of the Tropical Fish phase to hit Sheffield.

Back in 1978 if you mentioned a Neon Tetra or a Guppy to anyone in Sheffield chances are they would have known what you were talking about. Do the same today and they would think you were talking about aliens or some kind of computer game. 

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It happened in the year nineteen forty- four

Ten young lives from that day were with us no more

They were flying a B17 bomber plane

A ten man crew “Mi Amigo” was her name

Returning from a raid over Denmark

Badly damaged and struggling back to her mark

Her radio dead and engine misfiring

The skin in tatters from all the shell firing

A nurse plane was left to guide her way home

But they lost sight in the clouds and presumed she was gone

But the pilot valiantly tried to find the English coast

He needed to reach Charleston but managed Sheffield, their last post.

It was just before five on that February day

Children in Endcliffe Park with a football to play

Mi Amigo couldn’t wait she had to come down

She spiralled and tried to land in the Park ground

The pilot he saw the children playing there

He lifted the nose and tried to climb in the air

There is a Memorial Stone in the park these days

They planted ten oak trees for the boys they couldn’t save

The boys were all American aged twenty-one to twenty-four

February Twenty Second, they were lost far from their home shore

The Pilot determined he missed the children and hit in the trees

Heroes to the parents of the children playing in that February freeze

My mother watched the plane as it struggled overhead

The engine sound and smoke from it filled them with dread

They had souvenirs made from the Perspex nose of the plane

But they are now lost like the lives of the boys that were claimed.

Written By Mandy Tams  Mi Amigo.doc   23K   4 downloads

It was the anniversary in Feb of 
10 American boys that died in a Park where I played as a child.
  My mother would normally have been playing there with the others
 but she watched it from her sick bed at home as the plane passed yards
 from their roof. Although she was an eyewitness this information is 
from A book By D Harvey called Mi Amigo Sheffield's Flying Fortress 

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Can the administrator/an administrator of this forum please contact me privately.

I have sent two messages via the 'contact us' link at the bottom of the page in the last month, but there's been no reply. 

Should bring back memories for DaveH, apart from these are Sheffield and Ecclesall, whereas we used to have Brightside and Carbrook at school.

So when were third pint bottles discontinued and can these type of bottles be dated

1856 Beerhouses "A"

John    Adcock        Woodside Lane
Peter    Allen        Arthur Street
Thomas    Allender    26    Furnace Hill
William    Allison    22    New Church Street
George    Allsop    92    Eyre Lane
Samuel    Alvey    78    Harvest Lane
Samuel    Andrew    53    Ecclesall Road
John    Archer    81    Little Sheffield
Thomas    Armeson    114    Washington Road
William    Ashforth    65    Norfolk Street
Thomas    Ashmore        Saville Street East
John    Ashton        Langsett Road
William    Askey    36    Hawley Croft

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Coming home from work one evening I noticed a large stain on the pavement outside Mr Millers house and two of the iron spikes on top of the railings had been snapped off. The poor man had been on the roof fixing the slates. His wife, standing at the top of the ladder had seen him fall.

A few days later, by sheer coincidence I met a man at Firvale shops looking for directions to Mr Millers house. He was a stocky man with a weather-beaten face, huge hands and obviously not used to wearing a collar and tie. It was Mr Miller's brother from Poland. When I showed him the house he broke down and wept. And I think I did too.

January 2013

Today April 2013

I’m trying to learn about Sheffield’s first automatic telephone exchange. I’ve seen a suggestion that this was opened in the mid-1920s, but can’t locate details. (Several Forum threads deal with telephones, but nothing seems to cover the first automatic exchange.)

Can anyone help, please? Where was it? When? Did it cover all of Sheffield? Etc!

Peter Warr

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rygqy

Available for 7 days on the iPlayer.

Does anyone have any old photographs of the original tower/gardens, or photos of how it was when it fell into disrepair? We're also interested to know any stories or any other information or experiences anyone might have about this site that they can share.

Thanks

There are some particularly good photographs on the Great Central Railway Society website, particularly of engines at Neepsend Shed, [page 11 of the gallery contains the most]

Enjoy!

http://www.gcrsociety.co.uk/photospage11.html

"the most hideous town in creation",

Not keen then ?

"a wilderness of tightly-packed rows of minimum standard housing".

Might be an interesting read if we can find it.

Mike Spick explores the history and topography of Sheffield in twenty-six parts, arranged in alphabetical order. 

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