High House Road, Sheffield 6

[Sheffield History]

Does anyone remember High House Road, just off Penistone Road ?

If so what was it like and were there any shops etc round there ?

[SteveHB]

High House Road, 1967. picturesheffield

[vox]

Named after High House which used to stand near the bottom end.

High House 1920's

1950,s

Just behind the site of High House was/is The High House Brewery, part of which is still there.

Google Streetview

[Sheffield History]

We need a pic of high house now !

[vox]

We need a pic of high house now !

I've tried before.

Things I've found include this from Rotherhamweb - Edit: actually taken from Hallamshire: the history and topography of the parish of Sheffield

Pedigree of Bamforth of High House

George Bamforth was one of a large Sheffield family descended from John Bamforth. They acquired the Manor of Owlerton and neighbouring Wadsley. At the time they were taking a leading part in the area, the family became extinct, on the death of the only male heir George in 1739, at the age of 28.

His wife Margaret stayed at High House for 36 years, 20 of those as the wife of John Senior, who it is said was butler to her husband. Ann Bamforth, an unmarried sister of Margaret, resided at High House. On her death in 1779, the estate was left to William Bamforth of Tarlton in Lancashire.

The High House was sold to Christopher Oates whose son Charles resided here.

More here

Sort of explains where Bamforth Street and Burton Road get their names.

[vox]

Described as "a capital mansion in this township" in "Hallamshire: the history and topography of the parish of Sheffield"

[vox]

EXTRACTS FROM POST 1688 YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING WILL INDEXES AND ACT BOOKS

BAMFORTH, George, Esq., Highhouse, Sheffield, Oct 1739

OATES, Christopher, High House, Sheffield, gent, 24 Jul 1813

Ancestry.com

[vox]

Reminiscences ----

Leader Chapter 9

-------- After the death

of George Bamforth, the last of his race, by a fall from his

horse in I739, his widow married secretly her butler, John

Senior.* The alliance, though never acknowledged, the lady

remaining Madam Bamforth to the end of her life in I776, was

practically confessed in her will. In this, while bequeathing

much to her sister, who was made residuary legatee, she left

all her leaseholds in Sheffield to " John Senior, of High House,

gentlemen," absolutely, and her copyholds at Steel Bank and

Fairbarn and freeholds to him for life; after his death to

William Burton, her first husband's nephew, surgeon and

apothecary. This gave rise to an agreement which is worth

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* See ante, II5.

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mentioning as indicative of the surroundings of the town.

Senior desired, it would seem, to use the timber, of the

copyhold estate at High House, being part of the Fairbarn

tenement, in his occupation, for the repair of his leasehold

property, but William Burton objected. ----------

[vox]

Is this anything to do with The High House ?

London Gazette - no date

James Barron, late of Norton Hammer, near Sheffield,

Yorkshire, Manager of a Nursery Ground, and Selling

Seeds, &c. by Retail on his own account, at a Shop in the

Old Haymarket, Sheffield aforesaid, previously of Yorkplace,

White House-lane, near Sheffield aforesaid, out of

business, acd of Grove-row, Remstone, near Sheffield

aforesaid, Nurseryman and Seedsman, and carrying on

business at the High-house Nursery, and at Norton

Hammer Nursery, and having a Shop in the New Haymarket,

in Sheffield aforesaid, and formerly of the Old

Haymarket, Sheffield aforesaid, Nurseryman and Seedsman.

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Edit: published on the 27 May 1842

[vox]

This by email from Ron Clayton

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High House Road.

There is an excellent photograph of it on Picture Sheffield. Surely one of the steeper streets of Sheffield in its heyday. My late uncle, Norman Wigfield, lived, at the very top and used to slaughter [ I believe] and pluck poultry at the top property on the right. This was carried out in what used to be disused railway waggons or carriages. The properties at the top had deep cellars. Uncle Norman fought at Arnhem in the Duke Of Wellington's regiment and later moved his business to Mousehole Forge. The family once had a scare because of spiritualism activities and knockings on the wall from seances held next door.

An engraving of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 is also on Picture Sheffield and I believe shows High House at the bottom. I thought the name High House peculiar because of its location. A street sign referring to High House Terrace is preserved in the yard of the New Barrack Tavern on Penistone Road.

Please give my regards to that Mike chap from Lodgemoor who is a member of your learned Forum

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I've had a look for the engraving of High House but I can't find it

[Guest bullerboy]

I had some friends live on High House rd in the 60s their name was Baker,this rd ran from Cuthbert Bank down to Bamforth St.I remember the brewery,was it Richdales? all the houses were terraced.

[vox]

You could ask them for any old photos they might have then bullerboy, along with any other memories they may want to share.

[Guest bullerboy]

Sorry Vox they have long passed away.

[Edmund]

The route from Sheffield to Manchester in the 1822 edition of Paterson's Roads, has a note saying that High House was at that time occupied by Thomas Aldam Payne.

[vox]

Sheffield area so possibly the same person.

Thomas Aldam Payne
was born on 11 Oct 1787 and died in Jan 1857 aged 69

The Descendants of William Payne
www.pennyghael.org.uk

[vox]

Possibles, (can't be a common name)

"One of them, I think, William, had a son Thomas Aldam Payne, who lived at the house in Loxley built 
by M r Halliday"

Source

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SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER, 1857

January 4th

Decease, at Loxley of Thomas Aldam Payne, Esq., aged 69

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London Gazette year ?

WHareas a Commission of Bankrupt' is awarded and

issued forth against Thomas Aldam Payne, of Loxley,

in the Pariah of Ecclesfield, in the Colinty of York,

Dealer and Chapman, and he being declared a'Bankrupt is

hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners

in the said Commission named, or the major part of them,

on the 27th of November instant, at Six ot the Clock in

the Evening, and on the 28th day of the san.e month, at

Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon, at the Three Cranes

Inn, in Barnsley, in the County of York, and on the 31st of

December next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the

White Bear Imi, in Barnsley aforesaid, and make a full

Discovery and Disclosure of his Estate and Effects ; when and

•where the Creditors are to come prepared ,to prove their

Debts, and at the Second Sitting to clms.e Assignees, and

at the last Sitting the said Bankrupt is required to finish his

Examination, and the Creditors are to ussent to or dissent

from the allowance of his Certificate, AH persons indebted

to the said Bankrupt, or that have any of his Effects, are not

to pay or (It-liver the same but to vvhov.i the Commissioners

shall appoint, hut give notice to Messrs. Alexander and

Holmes, New Inn, London, or to Mr. Pigott, of Heiuiugfield,

near Barusley, in the County of York, Solicitor. •

[HughW]

High House Road appears in the opening sequence of Slade's film 'Flame'; see this thread:

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/313-slade-in-flame

and also this thread on the Walkley History site:

http://walkleyhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/slade-in-walkley/

[syrup]

High House.

In 1874 a Mr Blacktin lived there.

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Tuesday, August 11, 1874;

[syrup]

Hardress Dearden, High House. Share Holder Sheffield Yeast and Distillery Company.

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Saturday, April 01, 1893;