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I don't know its history but had a pint in there many times mostly after being in Concord Park for various activities.

It was known ,locally, as "Affertey's" after an earlier landlord. The pub had a large beer garden...where I was taken as a child and, latterly, took my children and a seperate single storey building which could be hired for "occasions". A great pub.... a regular "drinking hole" of mine... when the landlord ( an ex fireman) had a brass, highly polished firemans helmet securely fastened at the end of the bar ...although I can't remember drinking Hammonds there!

"African Trade" may be descriptive rather than apologetic. Until the late C17 there was the Barbary slave trade in which around a million (estimates vary significantly) people from the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (Spain, France, UK) and America were seized. The Barbary slave trade continued into the late C18 and remained a problem for shipping into the C19. Please don't attempt to take this as a justification, but it may help to understand better what people at the time were meaning.

Not a very good statement on a history site, “ would rather have an open space” we should be positive about these old thoroughfares of Sheffield, the obvious answer would be to erect gates at either end and lock them at 18:00 until 07:00 every day, with a good height to stop idiots climbing in

I don’t know when the Newmarket Hotel got its name but it’s not from the racecourse, it’s to commemorate the opening of the New Market nearby, I don’t know when the two words merged into one and didn’t it get a sign with horses on it, what’s Sheffield got to do with a horse racing venue?

I noticed the rather nice plaque marking William Marsden's birthplace earlier today. I hadn't noticed it before although press reports say it was unveiled last summer replacing the earlier plaque mentioned in the original post. I didn't realise Marsden was born in Sheffield. https://www.rmcmedia.co.uk/vibe/movers-and-makers/article/City-honours-Sheffield-man-who-founded-UKs-first-free-and-cancer-hospitals