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  1. The NGH History Project has reproduced 100 copies only of the following - An enlarged facsimile reprint by the Northern General Hospital History Project, of two historical booklets relating to the Smilter Lane (Herries Road) Children's Homes, part of the old Fir Vale Workhouse SHEFFIELD UNION THE CHILDREN OF THE STATE SHEFFIELD'S SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT Reprinted from 'THE COUNCILLOR AND GUARDIAN' LONDON: COUNCILLOR AND GUARDIAN OFFICES 29, OLD QUEEN STREET, S.W. 1898 & The Scattered Homes for Children Historical Sketch . . And . . Record of the present position of the Homes, together with certain details and statistics . . . . . . . . Presented by the Children's Homes Committee to the Sheffield Board of Guardians, 20th March, 1907 SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD INDEPENDENT PRESS LIMITED, 21 FARGATE. 1907 If anyone is interested in obtaining a copy, price £4.50, just send me a private message. Lyn
  2. RichardB

    1828 Directory Advertisers images

    Frederick Stones Manufacturer of Hatchets, Cutlass, Trowels, Augers, Butchers Knives, Saws, Files etc Albion Works, Arundel Lane Page0015.pdf
  3. RichardB

    1828 Directory Advertisers images

    William Marsden Ladies Patent Plated Steel Busks Norfolk Lane Do not attract lightning. Page0012.pdf
  4. Thanks Dave, forgotten I'd started that one. Now, somewhere is a remarkable text piece describing Bailey Lane and the 1,000 or so people that lived along its (short) length (150 yards ??); windows and drainage below the level of the street; quite revolting really.
  5. RichardB

    Sheffield Hospitals

    City Hospital and Sanatorium, Crimicar Lane Spelling is Sanatorium in 1911 & 1925, Sanitorium in 1919 1911 H. Williams Egerton, Medical Superintendent Alexander Leggat, Senior Assistant Medical Officer Miss Annie Robinson, Marton 1919 HJ Egerton Hutchins William, Medical Superintentent [RichardB - suspect this is H Williams Egerton, as above] John Rennie, Visiting Physician Miss Annie Robinson, Matron. 1925 HJ Egerton Hutchins William, Medical Superintentent [RichardB - suspect this is H Williams Egerton, as above] John Rennie, Resident Physician Miss Annie Robinson, Matron. http://www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/
  6. RichardB

    Sheffield Hospitals

    Winter Street Hospital 1881-1976 Built 1881 at a cost of £20,000. It consisted of four blocks containing 80 beds and eight single-bedded wards (with airing courts on the roof). 1892 - the Nurses home was built, followed by an isolation block of four wards. 1898 - a row of cottages in Dart Square were taken over to house more tuberculosis patients. Before the First World War the main cases taken in were scarlet fever and diphtheria. Sheffield's Tuberculosis Scheme was discussed at meetings of the City Health Committee. In late 1913 the Council approved the principle of taking over cases of tuberculosis at that time dealt with by the Poor Law Authorities, and decided that there should be two separate sanatoria within easy reach of the city, one for men (150 beds) and one for women (c.100 beds). Approval was granted in January 1914 for the purchase of a site in the Rivelin Valley (for women); and in late 1914 it was decided that land at Buck Wood be purchased for site for male sanatorium. These were apparently not built, the onset of the First World War presumably putting an end to these plans. The hospital was handed over to the military authorities, to be used for military wounded, in March 1915. Wards had been prepared for this since October 1914 and the patients had been transferred out to Crimicar Lane Hospital on 25 February 1915. During the Second World War the hospital was again used for the military sick. After the war the hospital reverted to accommodating male and female tuberculosis cases, and had beds for 110 patients. Bed places were set at 103 in 1954 when beds placed in the middle of wards were removed to reduce overcrowding. Children at the hospital were transferred to Ash House Hospital School in 1957. Closure by March 1970 was proposed in November 1968; the patients would be transferred to Lodge Moor Hospital. In 1971 spending was approved to adapt the premises to form a geriatric day hospital with 40 places. In mid 1974 the 84 beds were too many for the staff to cope with and the number was reduced to 65. In October 1974 Trent Regional Health Authority put the upgrading of Winter St Hospital out to tender; during which works the patients were moved out elsewhere. On 10 December 1975 it was recommended that the proposal to rename the reopened hospital ' St George's Hospital' be passed to Sheffield Area Health Health Authority. ------------------------------- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/rec...m=2008-06-18#-1
  7. On Carver Lane, we lived in a bug-blackclock-mice-ridden hovel; toilet down the yard which was shared by four families. We were three brothers and slept in starvatious attic, no bedding, just old coats on bed. We didn't have a jerry and took the bucket upstairs. http://www.thestar.co.uk/memories/Home-was...ovel.3461886.jp
  8. SteveHB

    Loxley House in 1841

    Hi galena. take a look at this Topic ... Loxley House on Ben Lane, Wisewood, Past History
  9. RichardB

    Rotherwood Hall

    I was an apprentice electrician at Orgreave Coke Ovens from 1966 to 1970 and worked as a qualified tradesman until 1972 when I emigrated to Australia. I was amazed to see pictures of the confrontation at Orgreave on TV here in Oz. We came home to Sheffield for a holiday in 1995 and drove down Orgreave Lane. There were green fields and grazing sheep where the Coke ovens used to be. Seeing the picture of the Orgreave Plant on the BBC South Yorkshire website was quite a moving experience for me, it was the first time I had seen it since our first trip back home in 1978. I wonder what happened to Rotherwood Hall, the beautiful old manor house which had been converted to offices and a social club for Orgreave Plant Workers? It was situated in a wooded area between the coking plant and the colliery. I often wonder if it survived and if so, what became of it. From our correspondent, errr, Philip Geary ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/conten...e_stories.shtml
  10. Springfield school is situated at the bottom of Broomspring Lane and I did my infant and junior schooling there. As I have lived in Australia since 1962, I dont see these places very often but I did visit the school in 1979 and again in 1999. See if you can guess which is the 1979 photo :)
  11. The nearest I can get to a modern version of the previously mentioned view today. Those trees and bushes make it impossible to get the same viewpoint so here we are displaced eastwards to the corner of Northern Avenue and Spring Lane.
  12. At the bottom of Northern Avenue near its junction with Spring Lane is another entrance close to where the "pavillion" once stood
  13. vox

    Waterthorpe and westfield

    I want to say Edenthorpe Grove or possibly Lundwood but I don't think they are as old as 1979. Wherever it is it's near Camps Bottom. So I'm going to have to say the Bottom of Brook Lane. Not very confident because where I think it actually should be is either too modern or still not built on. :angry:
  14. Hi Steve I was up the valley this morning so I took a couple of photos. You'll see they're very different, Green House farm is very much a working farm, one of the few left in the valley. Brownhills on the other hand is very much a private residence. The photo is taken from across the valley, as it can't be seen from Brownhills Lane. Green House farm Brownhills Farm regards Bayleaf
  15. Bayleaf

    Shirecliffe Hall

    From Pawson & Brailsford's Illustrated guide to Sheffield and Neighbourhood 1862 SHIRECLIFFE. Shirecliffe is a spot as noted in the poetry of Elliott as the Valley of the Rivelin; and equally beautiful. It is, indeed, peculiarly interesting to the admirers of Elliott, as the spot where was situated the "gospel tree," under which "the Ranter," in the poem of that title, went on Sundays to preach. The peculiar title of " gospel tree," is not very appropriate, for the gospel preached in the poem consists principally of a denunciation of the Corn Laws and their supporters, mingled with sweet descriptive touches. Elliott himself stated that he drew this picture from life; and it seems probable that the actual spot described in the poem was once used as a place for preaching. The tree, which unfortunately no longer stands, was an ash; and Elliott drove a nail into it that his friends should be able to recognise it. We shall endeavour to describe the scene as it exists at the present time. First as to the road: The visitor will find an omnibus that will convey him to the Pitsmoor toll-bar, from which it is not more than ten minutes' walk to the spot where the "gospel tree" stood. He turns up Shirecliffe-lane, at the top of which, on the left, are the gates of Shirecliffe Hall, once the seat of the ancient family of the Mounteneys, but now the residence of the Watsons. A little beyond the gates there is a fine view of the adjoining country, reaching out as far as the villages of Handsworth and Laughton-en-le-Morthen. A little further on, to the left, we turn off into a quarry, and a pretty steep ascent leads us to the scene we have set out to visit. Formerly a view of the country on all sides could be obtained from one spot ; but the summit from which this was possible has been cut away in the quarrying operations. To see the whole district, therefore, it is necessary to go to places some little distance apart; and, passing from that where may be seen an expanse of country which includes Hoober Stand and Keppel's Pillar, we come to the principal view, an outline of which is given in the accompanying illustration. It is scarcely possible to imagine a more magnificent sight than is presented in the stretch of country laid out before the gaze. Three distinct ranges of hills undulate in the midst of the landscape, while these again are backed by lofty prominences, which tower up in the far distance, and mingle with their purple hues in the serene blue that is over all. In the middle distance two rivers, bright in the golden sunbeams, gracefully meander through the green fertile earth. Here a church spire rises up through the surrounding foliage ; there a slender bridge spans the placid stream; while yonder a chimney top peeps out through the green trees, the blue smoke curling lazily upwards. In the valley we see a fortress-like building of stone, extending over a wide range of ground; and this is backed by houses rising row above row on the hillside. At our very feet where we stand, a sea of green boughs stretches further than the eye can reach-its varying hues brought out in marked contrast by the bright sunshine, and the gentle, breezy rustling of the leaves mingling harmoniously with the sweet notes of the birds and the busy hum of the short-lived summer fly. The visitor cannot mistake the spot from which this view is to be obtained, in consequence of the very prosaic notice-" No Road"-put up on the tree on the right that skirts the eminence on which it stands. Though the " gospel tree" no longer exists, the place thus marked cannot be far from the site where it originally stood. It is necessary to remark that the accompanying sketch of this magnificent view merely gives a general outline of its leading features, for the obvious reason that it is so crowded with objects that it was impossible to represent them within so limited a space. Following the panoramic scene before us, let us trace the objects somewhat in detail. The mass of foliage at our feet indicates that below runs the Old Park and Cook Woods, extending on our right for some two miles, and on the left for perhaps a mile-in fact into the suburbs close to the town, which year after year encroaches upon its limits and threatens before very long its entire destruction, in the resistless march of brick and mortar. Of the three large hills which front us, that on the left comprises the suburb of Walkley, and its rising sides are covered with the freehold-land allotments and building-society tenements which are such pleasing tokens of the thrift of our working men. The Walkley hill shelves down on one side to the valley of the Don, and on the other to the Rivelin, which runs hidden from our view at the back of Walkley. The eminence in the middle is the range on whose side stands Stannington, with its church; and the third hill, on the right, gives local habitation to the villagers of Loxley. Between the verdant undulations of the Stannington and Loxley eminences and the brick-clad sides of Walkley hill, the Bradfield moors, clad in their purple heather, stretch across in the hazy background. Let us now come down to the comparatively level space between the foot of these eminences and the Old Park Wood at our feet. The hills surrounding the large valley below give it the shape of an amphitheatre, any great spectacle performed in which might be fully seen either from where we stand, or from any of the other eminences which are around it. The most prominent object is the vast pile of buildings on the left; which look as though they had been built in anticipation of a siege. These are the Barracks. In front of them winds the River Loxley. About the centre of the low land is the village of Hillsbro', where the Rivelin joins the Loxley, and both mingle with the waters of the Don, a short distance nearer Sheffield. The St. Philip's burial-ground is visible amidst the trees at our feet, on the right; and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Railway runs close to the burial-ground. It is very curious every now and then to see a thin volume of steam ascend gracefully out of the trees at our feet, and steal along until the cover of the foliage is passed, when the train dashes into sight and hurries as with irresistible power into the far distance. A passing railway train is visible in the illustration, but there is no trace of a bridge over the river near the same spot, this. having been constructed since the sketch was taken.
  16. Occupied 1919-1925 by one Leonard Slater a Metal Broker of George Slater Limited. Leonard moved from 102 Derbyshire Lane, Meersbrook where he lived in 1911. Also on Rundle Road at Kenwood Knoll was Charles Burrows Flockton F.R.I.B.A. (Architect) from 1911-1925.
  17. Tracy Kerridge

    Famous Sheffield Residents

    One and the same SteveHB. My father (and fellow artist) and Derrick were friends and worked together as signwriters. I have a pencil sketch - "George Kerridge by Derrick Greaves 1948". After many years dad had it framed and has written on the back: "Drawn at Woolens Sign Shop, Love Lane, Sheffield 1948 - The year that Derrick Greaves left sheffield for the Royal College of Art. Also the year that George Kerridge returned from India". Though the actual sketch shows signs of wear, I think that adds to it's charm - two mates practicing their drawing skills on eachother during their tea breaks! Hmmm wonder if Derrick has a "Derrick Greaves by George Kerridge 1948" stashed away somewhere ........... :)
  18. The version I heard was that it was the Council. They own several of the farms in the valley, and planned to build a golf course, which is why they demolished Bower Hill Farm, but never got around to doing anything else. The Bower Hill land is now mostly farmed by Greenhouse Lane farm.
  19. Guest

    Raynaldthorpe

    I'm pretty sure that in one of his books David Hey suggests that Raynaldthorp (or Renathorpe) later became known as Hatfield House/Farm on Hatfield House lane at Shire Green. Herteley or Hartley was a little hamlet close by hence Hartley Brook. May once have been within the manorial park of Cowley ???
  20. Wales Court (The Manor) 1930. Osbourne Family The Osbornes continued to increase their estates in the area. Sir Thomas Osborne was created Earl of Danby by Charles II and Duke of Leeds by William III. The two manors of Wales were united in 1775 when Francis Godolphin Osborne, later 5th Duke of Leeds, having married Amelia, daughter of the Earl of Holderness in 1773, purchased the Earl’s manor of Wales. On the death of the 7th Duke in 1859, the manor of Wales passed to his nephew, Sackville George Lane Fox, who became 12th Lord Conyers. His descendants lived at Wales Court which remained a home until the 1950s. The house was then converted into a mental hospital which it remained until 1980. I'm not so sure about the 1950's bit, the Manor was definitely a hospital in 1930 as the photo shows
  21. Guest

    Violet Leach nee Hancock

    Hi Julie Your Grans birth is probably this one: Registered: Dec QTr 1913 Violet HANCOCK District: Ecclesall Bierlow Vol 9c Page 799 Mothers Maiden name FELLOWS Other births registered HANCOCK with mothers maiden name FELLOWS Sep 1911 Ecc Bierlow 9c 750 Charles A HANCOCK Jun 1916 Ecc Bierlow 9c 759 Thomas W HANCOCK Jun 1919 Ecc Bierlow 9c 551 Colin HANCOCK The references quoted are needed to purchase relevant certificates to prove you have the right line. A possible marriage for your Grt Grandparents is: Dec 1893 Ecc Bierlow 9c 383 Herbert HANCOCK & Sarah Harriet FELLOWS This cert will give their fathers names and occupations, their ages and place of abode at time of marriage. Assuming these are the correct people, from 1901 Census Wood Lane Stannington Herbert HANCOCK age 32 Iron Worker born Sheffield Sarah H HANCOCK wife age 29 born Grimesthorpe Sarah H HANCOCK dau age 6 John A HANCOCK son age 4 Leading onto 1911 census Herbert 44 Engine Fitter Sarah Harriet age 36 Grimesthorpe Sarah Harriet age 16 born Pitsmoor John Arthur son age 14 born Heeley Harry son age 9 born stannington Jessica dau age 2 born Walkley Residing at 83 Greaves Street Walkley Viiolets sister Harriet maybe the one listed as Sarah Harriet? they often were called by their middle names Hope this helps Lozz
  22. Nice; where's Campo Lane ?
  23. I can't find a Whiteley Wood House in 1891. There's a Whiteley Wood Hall - the owners appear to be away because there is only a family called SLACK, with the Head as a gardener and eldest son as a groom/gardener. This may not be the right house though as the 1920 Directory says it is in Common Lane. Hugh
  24. Guest

    Cobbled Streets

    I think it was the apparent hill that threw me. I assume the photo looks towards Middlewood Rd if the old Post office is on the right? By the way, Hillsborough Place crosses the end of Hillsborough Rd and joins Holme Lane. Thanks for the update. :rolleyes:
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