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A bit of late addition to this thread! Anyway, we currently live in Bassett's former residence on Norfolk Road which was built in 1851. We have some of the original handwritten agreements for sale from that time signed by George Bassett and I guess representatives of the Duke of Norfolk. Also further documents up to 1923 etc. I think some of these may be of great historical interest so please respond if interested.

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Hi.My name is Jack Vickers,i was born in Gleadless,Seagrave Crescent in 1947,i went to Gleadless county school and then Hurlfield,had lots of different jobs,mostly as a sales rep.Lived in Dronfield,intake,Bradway and now North Anston,been married for 51 years 2 daughters and 5 grandchildren.

It embarrasses me to have to post this here, welcome to Sheffield Geography...

Definitely need a new thread for this one!

Hi, all! I've been asked to introduce myself, so here goes. I signed up a few weeks back but have lurked around the site for a few years now. A work friend of mine mentioned the site to me a few years back. Once I started doing Google searches for Old Sheffield Photos, I found a lot of the links were to this site and I was impressed with the pictures I was seeing. I'm quite fascinated by the Broomhall/Broomfields/Broomhill areas of Sheffield, I've lived in the area all my life and I recently found about about the site called Britain from Above which ended a 3 year long search for detailed pictures of those areas. I'd found the odd ones on Picture Sheffield and in other random places on the internet, but these were exactly what I was after. Of course, now I've found those, it only poses more questions. I've learned quite a bit about the the old Sheffield from pictures and Old Maps and it's quite a revelation and also quite sad to see some of the things that have been pulled down, especially when you consider what was the replacement. There are still a few nagging questions about some areas of Sheffield. I'll get around to those no doubt. Thanks.

You're welcome! At the risk of information overload, if you look on 'Britain From Above', you can get a peek at the 'big house' and cottage - still standing in 1950 http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw031274 http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw031399 Check the green circles on the attached photos and zoom in as far as it will let you. The are hi-res and show lots of detail, like the gardens of the houses, Fulwood Road behind and lots of other features you can assimilate to the maps. (you need a sign-in to enable the zoom feature on BFA) Same colour scheme as before. Red for big house, Blue for cottage