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Old rider member gave a very good explanation sometime ago: The 1808 map on Picture Sheffield shows that Blonk Street has been created between the two factories leased to Blonk &Co. The Blonks bought the Wicker Tilt hammer Forge from The Norfolk Estate in 1811. At some time the Company became Silcock Blonk & Co. As well as partnership there was a marriage of a Blonk daughter to a Silcock. From 1861 Benjamin Blonk and then Francis Huntsman bought up the shares from the heirs of the Silcock Blonk partners. This is the reason for the initials on the Blonk street end of the bridge over the Don.

Many moons ago, I used to be a Lift surveyor, we were given special criteria for examining them. They are built on an endless chain that goes round and round, reminiscent of a rosary or prayer beads, hence the name. I thought we still had one in Sheffield Uni?

The first time I used the paternoster in the University I ,like many others ,said a quiet prayer…so unsafe did it appear. Is that why the contraption is so named?🤨