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  1. Went for a lockdown walk yesterday to a couple of the locations shown on your water wheel app. We walked up through Ecclesall Woods past Rycroft Mill, not a lot to see there! carried on up to Whirlow Bridge, had a look around the excelent Whinfell Quarry Gardens, before taking the footpath past the Whirlow Wheel and Mill Pond. The path follows the Limb Brook (originally called "Fenny Brook") up the valley to where the Brook rises at Ringinglow Came across a bit of info about the Wheel on this derelict places website. https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/industrial-sites/35780-whirlow-mill-sheffield-january-2018-a.html?s=d05c1aa546c874aeb1cfa35f141e1d93
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  2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_9ck-uOgc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_9ck-uOgc
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  3. The station was opened, without ceremony, on 1 February 1870 and the first down train to arrive was the 06.15 from St.Pancras. The local press commented; " We have witnessed more fuss over the opening of a drinking fountain". Contemporary descriptions describe "rock faced wall stones...tool dressed and in the style of architecture...Grecian with Gothic headings>An iron and glass roof above the four 700ft x 30ft platforms was supported on 42 columns and a 105ft footbridge was provided. Two open docks were built at the north and a single covered dock at the southern end. Three signal boxes were built.Two expresses and four fasts were sent to London daily and 79 trains passed through the station daily. Taken from:Rail Centres No11 Sheffield by S.Batty, Ian Allen,1984.
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