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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3523568,-1.5167538,62a,35y,325.79h,60.65t/data=!3m1!1e3

The house is still there. It is set back from the road and hidden by trees. The front lawn is what used to be the tennis court. I used to live on Ecclesall Road South and remember this house because of the tower like bay windows.

@tozzin Open fires are simply the best way to enjoy toast, and particularly crumpets. When I lived in the Black Country we had coal. It was such a disappointment when we moved back to Sheffield and had to put up with coke. But it got worse: then downhill to gas and now it's just the electric toaster. ☹️

Following on from previous topics, wonder whether anyone can come up with OS maps of this address just next to the Nether Edge Hospital. I believe it could have been called Lynwood. John & Annie Moorwood moved from Highbury House, 46 Kenwood Road some time after 1925 (as previous directory entries show they were at Highbury in 1925). John Moorwood died in 1940 and then the house was sold. Maps & directory entries over that period would be interesting to see. The property still exists but the gardens of properties along the side of Edgebrook Road backing onto Oak Dale Road were later much diminished as development of flats along Oak Dale Road took over the end of the gardens. The brook still runs parallel to those to roads. I have some 1930s 16mm film shot in the garden (though of poor quality) showing much of the same layout of circular lawn, bridge over the brook etc. as still exists. Any input appreciated. Thanks.

Thank you all, I was looking on the wrong side of Ecclesall Road where the Silver Hill roads are..... very exciting that the house is still there (my gt grandparents built it) and will have a look next time I pass that way. Attached here are the pages of the 1925 sale brochure - whoever wrote the script reckoned the place was "very compact and easily worked"!

I find it sad that houses are now built bereft of chimneys, open fires were the centre of family life, I do understand the problem of greenhouse gases but our contribution to the problem is like throwing a grain of sand into the Pacific Ocean, when you consider the couldn't care less attitude of the other far east and European country's.