Bagley Dyke

[dunsbyowl1867]

I've long been intrigued by this brook/dyke as I used to hang around in Longley Park in my youth and walk through the woodland , through which it meanders by the Northern General Hospital, on my way to School. It then seems to disappear (into a culvert) in Fir Vale? travels down Owler Lane appearing briefly either side of Upwell Street by the Wesleyan Methodist Church before eventually joining the Don.

I assume it rises in Longley Park ?

Hers is an old photo of Longley Lane Bridge from Picture Sheffield before the woodland had grown and the bridge is much more obvious

Here is a photo looking from the other side of the road

Picture Sheffiled

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s14784

Here's a photo of the dyke in 2008

A green audit of the woodland and dyke by the NG Hospital

http://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/gree..._bagleydyke.pdf

A couple of photos Wincobank Hill side of Upwell Street

complete with rat!

And a couple the other side of the road

There is a Bagley Road adjoining Skinnerthorpe Road - soon to be demolished. Peter Harvey in his Street Names of Sheffield states ' from the old Bagley Lane which appears in Harrison's survey of 1637 three times and is spelt differently each time - Bagaley Lane, Baggalye Lane and Bagalie lane. Whatever the correct spelling it is belived to come from the name of a former resident of the area. Bagley Lane is still marked on maps of 1855 and would appear to be what became Upwell Street.

Anyone have any further information or thoughts.

[Guest Gramps]

I didn't realise there was still that much of it to be seen - great photos !

Bagley Dyke rises a little to the west of Moonshine lane, between here and Longley House it's shown as 'stream covered over' on the 1850s map. The old lane from Grimesthorpe to Bent lane was known as Bagley lane and there was a farmhouse where the entrance to the gas-works used to be known as Bagley Farm.

Before the railway was built the dyke flowed through Bagley farm and then along the side of Bent lane joining the Don just after Brightside bridge.

At one time there was a waterwheel on the dyke, about where the Homeric building was on Chambers lane, so there must have been a decent flow at that time but I imagine all the other little streams that joined it in Firvale now go straight into the sewers.

[Guest cds6uk]

been reading the posts - very interesting.

After it dissappears in longley park, it's then in the woods across longley lane as the photo shows.
If you follow the stream down until you're almost at the Northern General Hospital (where it goes underground again) you'll see a concrete wall that has had a section about 18 inches wide cut out of it, the stream flows through this cutout.

If you stand on this wall and look back you can see a large round depression in the ground. This would've been a large and quite deep man-made pond when the concrete wall was intact.

Anybody know what it was for and why it was drained ?

[syrup]

been reading the posts - very interesting.

After it dissappears in longley park, it's then in the woods across longley lane as the photo shows.

If you follow the stream down until you're almost at the Northern General Hospital (where it goes underground again) you'll see a concrete wall that has had a section about 18 inches wide cut out of it, the stream flows through this cutout.

If you stand on this wall and look back you can see a large round depression in the ground. This would've been a large and quite deep man-made pond when the concrete wall was intact.

Anybody know what it was for and why it was drained ?

I have found a number of articles with reference to Bagley Dyke from 1882 To 1884 with also a mention of a Fish Pond.

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Saturday, November 11, 1882

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Monday, December 11, 1882

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Saturday, June 16, 1883

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Friday, August 08, 1884

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Saturday, August 09, 1884

The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Saturday, August 09, 1884

[Ponytail]

Longley Lane Bridge over Bagley Dyke. 

Postmark 1909

The message on the reverse of postcard, it appears Jack is missing the walks in the area. The question is did he get to go "walkies" with Miss Jessie Lemon again?

 

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[Ponytail]

Longley Lane Bridge and Longley Hall Bailiffs Cottage

s07583

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=printdetails&keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s07583&prevUrl=

 

Longley Lane Bridge over Bagley Dyke

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s07584&pos=63&action=zoom&id=10836

 

[Ponytail]

Pond fed by the Bagley Dyke at the north end of the Northern General Hospital off Barnsley Road. 28th December 1978. u05439

Note: The pond does not appear on O.S Maps 1935 or before. 

 

 

Building works at Bagley Dyke Culvert, Longley Lane, Longley Estate, with Longley Park on the right. 20th September 1954.s14784

 

Bagley Brook in a rubbish blocked culvert under River Don Works that caused flooding in the Foundry. 1981.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02553&pos=2&action=zoom&id=44260

Copyright: British Steel Corporation #«ó

Notes: A recent heavy rainstorm in the Sheffield region caused an awkward job for River Don Works Building Services Department. The blocked culvert under the works caused flooding in the Foundry where casting pits filled with water. Rubbish thrown into Bagley Brook had blocked the culvert. In order to prevent a repetition of the flooding, Sheffield Corporation were going to fit a grid to stop rubbish being swept into the culvert where the Brook goes underground.

Copied from FFE News Thursday August 27th 1981. 

 

[Ponytail]

Explore Bagley Dyke. 

https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/interzone-bagley-dike-sheffield-november-2017.110809/

 

[SteveHB]

20 minutes ago, Ponytail said:

Pond fed by the Bagley Dyke at the north end of the Northern General Hospital off Barnsley Road. 28th December 1978u05439

Note: The pond does not appear on O.S Maps 1935 or before. 

 

https://maps.nls.uk/view/91793289#zoom=7&lat=1743&lon=4531&layers=BT

1938 - 1953

[Lysanderix]

On fine Sumer days ,the top class at Hucklow Road Junior School ,occasionally ,went on a nature walk through the “plantation” at the edge of the City General Hospital down to the dike ( we never knew it’s name) where we played games and then walked back up hill to school.

Our Head Teacher ,Miss Wragg, had the keys to a side entrance on Barnsley Road and we all enjoyed the change from the routine of preparing for the 11 plus…or Scholarship as it was still known!

I do not recall the pond!

[Parky]

One of the best features in one of the culverts on the Bagley Dyke (photo by me)
4ft Waterfall down into old brick pipe, its quite a beautiful sight!


It is under/inside the Upwell street Viaduct.

[Parky]

On 15/11/2023 at 17:19, Ponytail said:

 

Notes: A recent heavy rainstorm in the Sheffield region caused an awkward job for River Don Works Building Services Department. The blocked culvert under the works caused flooding in the Foundry where casting pits filled with water. Rubbish thrown into Bagley Brook had blocked the culvert. In order to prevent a repetition of the flooding, Sheffield Corporation were going to fit a grid to stop rubbish being swept into the culvert where the Brook goes underground.

 

 

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