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  1. Plan showing location of New Market Hotel, proposed to be purchased and also leasehold premises to be surrendered. Shows Sheaf Lane, Sheaf Street, Sheaf Market, Broad Street, Pheasant Inn, Horse and Jockey and Queen's Head. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03510&pos=5&action=zoom&id=98730 OS Map surveyed 1889. 294.08.17 https://maps.nls.uk/view/231282561#zoom=4&lat=10269&lon=11559&layers=BT
  2. Sheffield Boys Working Home for Destitute Boys, Broomspring Lane. " We help those who try and help themselves." https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295480990436
  3. Link to: https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/9524-sheffield-boys-working-home-broomspring-lane/
  4. Boys Working Home at 82 Broomspring Lane, 1901 Census. Run by Alfred Stubbing and his wife Sarah. https://www.ourbroomhall.org.uk/content/explore/places/hospitals-and-homes/boys-working-home-82-broomspring-lane-1901-census See also the Comments below the article. "If you Check out the Sheffield Daily Telegraph 7/12/1918 there is an article about some of the former boys that served in WW1 By Nick Beeley (31/10/2017)" " My wife’s grandparents (Windle) also ran this home in the early 1900’s. She has a write up about it and photos of the boys during this period. Copies available to anyone interested. By Tony Biles (09/10/2015)"
  5. Sheffield Boys Working Home for Destitute Boys, 82 Broomspring Lane. 1889. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00003&pos=110&action=zoom&id=26303 Detail from Ordnance Survey Map, sheet no. Yorkshire 294-7-24. Sheffield Red Book, 1912 (page 207): The Sheffield Boy's Working Home was founded in 1881 to provide a home for boys in a state of physical or moral destitution, the relief of mothers of fatherless children; and to afford a measure of education and give the boys an opportunity of earning an honest livelihood; there is accommodation in the home for 40 boys; there is no workhouse atmosphere about the place, and boys are allowed to visit their friends on Sundays .. the home is supported by subscriptions, and by the earnings of the boys. No. 105, Upper Hanover Street (left) and Nos. 86-82, Broomspring Lane with Springfield School in the background. February 1974 82 Broomspring Lane was formerly the Sheffield Boys' Working Home. w01745 Nos. 82-88, Broomspring Lane, February 1974. w01743
  6. tozzin

    Hibbert's Art Shop

    Norfolk Street & Beyond Before we escape back to 19th century Sheffield, I must thank Jane Salt the Stars Archivist for helping with my research, back to when thing seemed more refined. The clue picture on page two shows decorative carvings on what is now the Wicker Herbalist Stores, formerly Hibbert`s Art shop on Norfolk Street. Hibbert Brothers vacated the shop in 1998, the Star covered this event with a brief history of William and James Hibbert, it was claimed, quite wrongly, that the shop had opened in Norfolk Street in 1833, in that year Henry Thomas, a Doctor/ Surgeon, was living and practising from his house at 79 Norfolk street, which wasn’t the original postal number of Hibbert's shop, it was originally 38, it is a fact that William Hibbert was conducting his business at 78 Fargate (now Exchange Gateway) as a carver and gilder and its listed as an artists repository, William lived on the premises, his brother in law George Marples had the same occupation and was going about his business at 31 Church Street and he lived at 59 Bernard Street with his family. John Hibbert, Williams brother was also a carver and gilder plus a picture frame maker, map stretcher and varnisher, John was based on Chester Street, this street has been lost completely, thank you Sheffield council. By 1849 Henry Thomas the Surgeon took on a partner for his practice because of his growing practice, John Taylor Porter changed the practice name to Thomas & Porter, John Porter had been living at 27 Norfolk Street, so it was just a short walk to the practice, I could only speculate on what happened to these two doctors but I suspect they two partners decided to retire, Henry Thomas died in 1882, while his partner John Porter had died just eight years before him, so they must have sold the practice prior to 1852 as by that year Doctor / Surgeon Thomas Chesman who was the senior surgeon at the Public Hospital, Later the Royal Hospital, was holding his surgeries from the practice, sadly Thomas Chesman left this life on the 9th of November 1874, as the years passed the property, had had its postal number changed twice from 115 to what it is today 117, in 1893 William Murfin the London & North Western Railway Co goods manager was living at the property which is now Mammas & Leonie’s Pizza Parlour. So it looks as though Hibbert Brothers moved into the premises round about the late 1890s are now supplying the needs of both professional and amateur artists in the town, so they had only been selling their wares from Norfolk Street for just over a hundred years not 164 as claimed but that’s irrelevant as its still an important part of Sheffield’s history. By 1905 William Hibbert was living at 96 Broomspring Lane and John lived at 9 Westbourne Road the other brother Samuel George was residing at 42 Brocco Bank. This area of the town was always busy especially when the Surrey Street Music Hall was open, this grand theatre was built in 1823, it was more than just a Music Hall as its largest room accommodated 1,000 people quite easily, this theatre was just one of many in the town, the Gaiety, the Britannia, the Grand, the Phoenix, the Theatre Royal and of course Tommy Youdan’s which was the Alexandre Theatre on Blonk Street, I cant name them all but it was a cut throat business and nobody made a fortune out of them, if one owner or manager was breaking the rules, a rival sent in a spy to report back which in turn an official complaint was made against them via the watch committee. The Surrey was regarded as one of the best, if not the best, the world famous violinist Paganini performed here to a rapturous audience as did Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, one celebrity who was small in stature but a giant on stage was General Tom Thumb who gained stardom through P. T. Barnum. Mr Charles Dickens, England’s greatest author, appeared here several times, in 1852 acting as manager and actor he performed along with Mr Wilkie Collins, in a play entitled “Not So Bad As We Seem”, the admission costs for performances like these really kept the general populace out of the theatre, ten shillings and sixpence and seven and sixpence were way above what a working man could afford, in 1873 it was decided it was too small and it was still used as a theatre, into the early twentieth century it was used by J.G. Graves the original mail order company, he gifted the people of Sheffield Graves Park and not the council it was ours. One job that was fiercely argued over with many fights breaking out on theatre nights, it was the lucrative road crossings that the ladies of the town had to cross in all their finery, what was the job you may well ask? It was the sweeping horse droppings from off the crossings, you can imagine the amount of horses in the town at that time and you cannot train horses just where to drop their apples, so any lady wanting to cross was approached by the sweepers and swept a clean path across the road for which he received a penny or tuppence. The Surrey Theatre stood in the exact spot where the Central Library now stands. In 1841 this house was the home of William Hibbert Picture Framer & Gilder, 96, Broomspring Lane
  7. Ponytail

    Toad Hole Cottages & Vestry House

    Toad Hole Cottages and Vestry House, Toad Hole Lane (now Southey Green Road), under demolition. u00487 For more details see 'It was all country then' by Sylvia Anginotti, p13-5. Toad Hole Cottages, 5th February 1937.u03089 u03090 Information with photographs: Position 5 (See Plan). Does this information relate to the book by Sylvia Anginotti? Toad Hole Cottages, Occupied the site of Ritz Bingo Hall, Wordsworth Avenue. Photograph shows Vestry House with spring water well by the wall.s11414 School Lane/Toad Hole Lane (now Southey Green Road) looking towards Toad Hole Cottages and Southey Green in the backgrounds00506 Information with the photograph. "Vestry House in the background" Toad Hole Cottages. s11631 Cottages Southey Green, Moonshine Line near the junction with Toad Hole Lane and Southey Lane. u00474 Information from Mick Armitage: Part of the old Southey Village and stood roughly where the current shops stand at the top end of Galsworthy Road just before it joins Moonshine Lane This property is refered to as Deerlands see Sylvia Anginotti's 'It was all country then' Ref: 942.74 SQ p16-18. The maps of the period are more likely for it to be Southey Village.
  8. BGlass

    Troughs and Wells

    The trough has been in the front garden of a house on Knowle Lane for several years and was much loved and admired. The house was sold a within the past year and the trough disappeared, presumably the owner has taken it with them, I hope so anyway.
  9. Edmund

    Haymarket

    The site was the eastern end of the Fitzalan Market, which was offices (Fitzalan Chambers) where Tommy Wards' coal sales operation was. After demolition shop premises were built, one of which was Price's Tailors (1928) Ltd (trading as Fifty Shilling Tailors) which opened for business in mid June 1931.
  10. Lysanderix

    Owler Lane High School

    I don’t think there was day release in those days.My Dads first job was as a delivery boy with Greggs bakery. He later went on to ESC and did some home study in engineering with ,what I believe was a private fee paying Sheffield based mail order study outfit called Bennet College. My only connection with Owler Lane was with the dreaded school dentist who practiced there on luckless children!
  11. johnm

    Owler Lane High School

    Hi Lysanderix. Yes my dad was same as yours . He was born 2 November 1915. He lived on Petre Street & went to All Saints Infants & juniors . Took exam (am sure you are right that it was the Scholarship exam) in 1927 when he went to Owler Lane Intermediate. He left school in summer 1930 age 14. He went to work at Firth Vickers & studied engineering at Sheffield Technical School ( I assume it was night school he went to although am not sure about that - could there have been day release back then ?). Happy Christmas, John
  12. It appears that the tradition of naming collieries as "Main" originated in the North East at an early date. The "Main" seam coal was so attractive that even collieries that did not extract coal from the Main seam began to use the name, and "Main" became synonymous with Mine" :
  13. Lysanderix

    Owler Lane High School

    Wasn’t it called the Scholarship? My Dad and your Dad were of a similar age and he also went to Owler Lane….until he was old enough(14?) to work
  14. Ponytail

    Broombank House, Glossop Road

    Ordnance Survey Map, sheet no. Yorkshire No. 294.7.23. 1889. Bottom left next to one another are properties named Broombank House & Broombank Mount. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00074&pos=13&action=zoom&id=106999 1850/51 published 1855. OS Map showing Properties labelled Broom Bank. https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345217#zoom=6&lat=5431&lon=9429&layers=BT The House labelled Broombank House, Glossop Road next to Five Oaks on the 1889 Map isn't labelled on the 1850's map. What appears to be 3 separate properties on Glossop Road/Clarkehouse Lane (1850's map) are labelled Broom Bank. "Broom Bank House" built by Francis Newton is above the label "Broomspring Vale" (1850's map) Shown on 1889 OS Map 294.11.3 as "Broom Bank" https://maps.nls.uk/view/231282594#zoom=2&lat=8939&lon=8447&layers=BT
  15. Ponytail

    Broombank House, Glossop Road

    Plan of Broom Bank House and other freehold property situate in Clarkehouse Lane belonging to the late Francis Newton, esquire, to be sold by auction. 13th June 1865. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y10826&pos=4&action=zoom&id=73501 Aunt Sally public house (formerly Lynwood House and Broom Bank House), Clarkehouse Road. June 1995.s34050 Built for Francis Newton (1796-1864), esquire. s34046
  16. johnm

    Owler Lane High School

    My dad James Henry Moore age 12 passed exam (don't know what it was called) whilst at All Saints school to go to Owler Lane Intermediate in 1927.
  17. Ponytail

    Dixon Lane in Sheffield City Centre

    Map of Sheffield Markets. 1847. Marked: Old Haymarket, Dixon Lane, Castle Folds, Exchange Street, New Market Ground and Fountain, Cheese Market, Corn Exchange, Road Street. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04188&pos=23&action=zoom&id=104947
  18. Ponytail

    The blue 'police box' next to the town hall

    Police Box, Ecclesall Road South and Abbey Lane junction. 23rd January 1958.s15179 Photographer: City Engineers Department. Nos. 2, 4, 6, Richmond Road, Handsworth (demolished 1960) and Police Box, Handsworth Road. 21st August 1958. t00468 Photographer: Llewelyn Roberts, Medical Officer of Health.
  19. Ponytail

    The blue 'police box' next to the town hall

    Meadowhead looking towards junction with Greenhill Main Road, Police Box right. 26th August 1966.s17884 Photographer: City Engineers Department. Norton Lees Lane, at junction with Derbyshire Lane, prior to removal of Police Box and (left) Nos. 9-11, Frank Clover and Sons Ltd., builders. 25th March 1954.s18416
  20. Ponytail

    The blue 'police box' next to the town hall

    Police Box near the junction of Norwood Avenue and Herries Road showing the junction with Longley Lane. 10th November 1960.s17156 Photographer: City Engineers Department. Police Box, Hatfield House Lane at the junction with Barnsley Road. 20th July 1955.s17161 Photographer: City Engineers Department. Police Box, Firth Park Roundabout, January 1949. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s15827&pos=39&action=zoom&id=18660
  21. Ponytail

    The blue 'police box' next to the town hall

    Convent of the Sisters of Charity, St. Vincents House, Broad Lane and Police Box on the corner of Red Hill (on right) September 1938.u00840 Photographer: City Engineers Department. Police Box, Nursery Street, No 30, Chadburns' Lenses Ltd, Opticians (Albion Works), Coroner's Court and Public Mortuary, right. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v00926&pos=68&action=zoom&id=42718 No date with the photograph.
  22. Ponytail

    Owler Lane School

    Link to: Owler Lane High School. https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/13344-owler-lane-high-school/
  23. johnm

    Owler Lane School

    I went to Infants school at Owler Lane 1949-1951 then on to Grimesthorpe until 1955. After that my parents got me transferred to Hucklow Rd so I could go to Hinde House when it was built in 1956 . It turned out to be a good thing for me as I did well there.
  24. History dude

    Fatal accident at Nunnery Colliery

    I think you mean Nunnery Colliery. Inquests are often covered in the local newspapers. There's an image below of the pit in 1951.
  25. My granddad Robert sustained a broken spine as a result of being crushed between a full tub of coal and the pit side of Nunnerley colliery on 14 May 1947. He died in the Sheffield Royal Infirmary on the 16th. The coroner for the City of Sheffield raised an inquest on the 17th. Would anyone know if I can see a copy of this? Also, would grandma have received any compensation? Many thanks, Derek.
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