Sheffield in 1861

[Edmund]

I've just bought a Kindle book for £1.50 ( link = Sheffield in 1861 - M Haslam  ).  It's a worthwhile read, though you need a Kindle or Kindle software on your PC.  There's a "look inside" preview facility on Amazon.

The main interest is a series of articles published in "The Builder" which takes you on a walk from the Cholera monument, through town, to the Crookesmoor dams, pointing out the sanitary low spots, but also other features.  These articles started an argument in print with Alderman Saunders, about the state of Sheffield.

Also interesting is what went on in the Workhouse at Christmas 1861.  I think the stories about how bad life in the Workhouse was possibly don't apply too much to Sheffield....