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Can't help with the old farm names on School Green Lane but just to correct one thing - Bore Hill is actually Bole Hill. It appears that some maps have this area all wrong?

Does anyone remember the elaborate drinking trough that used to sit in the field where Hangram Lane meets Cottage Lane in the Mayfield Valley. It was removed several years ago but I wondered if anyone knew what happened to it. It was a bit more special than the usual troughs and suspect it was made from basalt. It's also in the back of my mind that it was previously a drinking trough that used to sit on what is now the Hunters Bar Roundabout when it was a Toll Bar. Any memories gratefully received.

That's a really interesting photo. TY for sharing it. I was struck - even knowing the architect was the same person, how similar that shot is to the "worship area" in St Mary's, Bramall lane. One could be looking at the same church in both instances. I also notice the Xmas tree in the bottom left corner...

The one on Broad Lane. Unfortunately not working.

The above passage needs some elucidation to make it intelligible to the modern reader, especially now that the fussy meddlesomeness of our municipal ~vise- acres has flouted immemorial usage by merging what was the Fruit Market in High Street. If, in the year 1784, you had stood near the bottom of Pudding Lane (King Street) with your back to the Bull Stake (Old Haymarket), http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry..._circa_1800.txt

1850's map has Harmer Gardens roughly in the area just below Harmer Lane, http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.378911&a...r=0&src=msl

I can only presume that Harmer Gardens was in the Pond Street area of the City (Harmer Lane) But I may well be wrong ? A mention here about Harmer Lane and some surrounding gardens, Parish of St Pauls I'm pretty sure that some sh member with a lot more knowledge, will correct me.

Hi Reddles, ^ You don't happen to be a sign writer, do you ? ^ St Georges Church Brookhill/Broad Lane is still standing, A Link Here and an aerial view here FLASH EARTH. Finding Harmer/Hamer Gardens ? will take a little longer. Steve

Hi Bus Man. Thanks for reminding me of that lane down the side of Woolworth's. I used to live on Wadsley Lane and I used to walk down to Hillsborough every Saturday morning. The Saturday shopping trip included going to the butcher's shop at the corner of Hillsborough Road, opposite Woolworth's, then walking past Woolworth's, down that small road and to Tesco. My cousin, Malcolm Allen, was the butcher's assistant. The pub on Bradfield Road, next to Tesco, is called the Ball Inn (or at least it was), and the small lane is still there (according to Google Earth). I have no recollection of a flour mill in that area, but there were lots of steel mills and forges along Pensitone Road. My grandfather, Charlie Allen, ran a steel mill at the bottom of Leppings Lane (where Law Brothers later set up their garage). In the mid-1960s I worked for 3 months at High Bridge forge on Penistone Road. Curently, I am living in Barbados :)

Hello. Thank you for your message. I did manage to get in contact with a Mark Whiehouse who I think is on the Loxley Council and he found the graves. I received an email from him on 8 April this year and I quote: "I’ve found the graves of your grandparents and aunt. I’ve taken a few photos and will try and download these and email them to you later. Next time that you come to visit let me know and my wife or myself will show you where the grave is.". But since then I have heard nothing despite sending Mark several emails. He did not give his contact number and I could not find any details in the phone book! Pity because we passed through Loxley in August this year and we could have seen the graves. I think your assumption that the grave is near Long Lane is probably right. I did ask Mark if he could decribe where on the plan the grave is but there was no reply. I will now try and send to him again. Regards CDWL

The last time I looked Holy Trinity was still there on Nursery Street-corner of Johnson Street, Flash Earth St. Michaels and All Angels stood on the area between Burton Road and Neepsend Lane, Flash Earth St Michaels Vicarage and later hall at Vale Road Parkwood Springs

Sorry, but the Lees are not in the bit of the churchyard I've mapped. I've only done the Eastern section in any detail and there are six other sections including the terrace. I was interested in early burials of the 19th century, and it would appear that yours are more than likely in the later Section NE2 near Long Lane. I'll have alook in the records when I'm next at Sheffield Archives. There is a site plan at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancest.../planloxley.htm As you will see, there are only row J's in the west and NE2 sections. Greenfieldswood

For the last twenty years I have been collecting mill/grinding stones from Cat Lane Woods. Someone else in the area has been doing the same but they have now moved house and taken the stones with them .I know of a couple more stones that are still there but can only be seen in a dry summer. Anyone any idea why so many grind stones are in the Meersbrook?

I also just decided to Google for McCloskeys Apocalypse as I suddenly remembered them during an exchange on Friends Reunited. I lived near the Minerva Tavern until I left home for Uni in 1971. I'm also sure that I once saw McCloskeys on stage at the Art College at the top of Psalter Lane as support to a band called the Pink Fairies (I think!). It's all very hazy now but that would have been 1970 or 1971. I can't really remember the performances but this was the same time as I was seeing the likes of Rory Gallagher and Led Zep in Sheffield and I certainly remember them! Anyone else at the McCloskeys / Pink Fairies gig? Richard

Thankyou all for your replies . We made our visit .starting at the site of FCH..We found the school that my Gt Aunt attended .It was Moorfield School in David lane .then onto Christhurch Fulwood....It all went well and we enjoyed the day and Annie recalled many memories.. Dave

Hi Gill A bit negative this one but apparently Hague Lane was named after William Hague, a mason, beerhouse owner, shopkeeper and property owner, ( a busy lad!), who died in 1894. He owned the Oxford Hotel, 4 shops and 14 cottages in the area. (From Peter Harvey's 'Street Names of Sheffield)

HI, I can recall living at4 houses that had coal chutes, [coyle olyes] the coal grate had a ring on the inner side, with a chain that was hooked to the wall of the cellar,these grates were fitted in a rebate, in a large slab of stone, in my early days we lads used to earn a penny or so[ if the person had lost or misplaced their key] by squeezing down into the cellar chute and up into the house to let them in that is if the gratechain was off, which most were, even if this chain was on with countless bags of coal hitting the stone slab the rebate was worn away so with a bit of [jiggerling theres an old Sheff; saying] we were able to get down the chute, these grates were used for other things like throwing at shop windows and such like, l remember a bloke on our street being locked out, blind drunk, throwing one though the window and climbing in, he was not in a position to do it again for along time, as l recall, even when people advanced? to the estates, with a coal store at the side under the stairs it was still called the[coyle oyle] Happy days Skeets

MR. WILSON'S LETTER ON SHEFFIELD. To the Editors of the Northern Star. If you think the inclosed extract from a letter, addressed by Mr. Wilson, late of Broomhead-hall near this place, to Mr. Andrews of Sheffield, will be sufficiently interesting for your pages, the insertion of it will oblige ANTIQUUS. Sheffield, Nov. 20, 1817. The Oltl Church is said by Camden to have been built in the time of Henry I. but from what authority is uncertain : if this be the time, probably Wm. de Lovetot wae the founder, or principal benefactor, being lord of the manor and a very religions man, for he was the founder of Worksop Priory, in the county of Notts. From them it came to the Furnivals by Maud, daughter of William de Lovetot, who married Gerald de Furnival : he gave a third part of the Tithes, Oblations, Obventions, and the glebe of Sheffield Church to the Abbey of Worksop, where several of their predecessors were buried. The Vicarage of Sheffield was first instituted in the year 1308. Thomas Furnival procured a license from King Henry III. in the fifty-fourth year of his reign, 1270. to make a castle at Sheffield; it was a place of considerable strength ; and was surrendered to the Earl of Manchester the 10th day of August, 1644, by Major Thomas Beaumont, the governor, and was raised in 1648 and 1649. Thomas de Furnival obtained a charter, twenty-fourth Edward I. 1296, for a weekly market at Sheffield, and a fair yearly, on the eve-day and morrow after the feast of Holy Trinity, with free warren in all his land« here. He granted a charter of privileges to his free tenants of the town of Sheffield, 4th August, 1297. He claimed a custom, which had continued from the conquest, of assembling all his men. or tenants, in Sheffield, Whiston, and Treeton manors, holding by military service, who met in the Wicker, in armour, and were led in ranks to the town-hall and back again, every Easter Tuesday, which was continued to the year 1715. My father always lent one Thos. Bamforth, of Water-lane, his horse and sword that day ; who, from leading them up a great many years, acquired the appellation of Captain Bamforth. I suppose the custom of heading these men up, which had continued in my family, arose from Adam Wilson, of Broomhead, having been shield-bearer or esquire to Thomas Lord Furnival in the Scotch wars, in the time of King Edward I. who gave him some lands which I still possess, for his good services in those wars : several old men, not long since dead, remembered this custom, as old Mr. Wade, Mr. Thos. Radford, &c. and perhaps some still living. I am uncertain who built the Manor, but think it was built by the Talbots, probably about the time of Henry VII. or perhaps sooner. Lady's Bridge, so called from the chapel of the Virgin Mary, upon or near it, was built 1 Henry VII. 1486. The School was first established by patent from King James I. 1604.* The Church Burgesses were first instituted by Queen Mary's letters patent, 8th of June, the first of her reign, 1554. The Cutlers were incorporated 21 James 1. 1623, by act of parliament.] When clasped knives or tnrntangs came in use, or were first made, I cannot find. Before the Cutlers were incorporated, they were governed by orders from the Earl of Shrewsbury, to whom they paid their marks-money ; when the Town Burgesses were first made I cannot find, having mislaid the papers relating thereto. • ------------------------------------------ * It will be seen from a former paper in our work, page 411, that the first step towards tbe formation of the school was the bequest of Smith of Crowland, Lincolnshire, though it was not regularly established an a Free Grammar-School till the grant of the patent from King James I. ------------------------------------------ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2AkIAAA...brr=1#PPA515,M1

My grandparents had a grate at the front of their house on Jenkin Road, Brightside. That was inded a bugger of a hill! The coalman would come and tip the coal straight into their cellar through the opened grate. The cellar was a spooky place. After the houses were demolished it was quite sad to see the coal grates still there in the pavements. My great grandad was a carter and lived on Hawke street. Luckily he had a clever horse who when after a session, my G-Grandad was in his "cups", the horse would make its own way home whether he was conscious or not!

I was doing a bit of family history research and found that in 1851 my great-great-grandfather, William Green, was a coal dealer in Netherthorpe. I took this to mean that he would have used a horse and dray to carry bags of coal from one of the Sheffield collieries to houses in his trading area. It struck me that, since Sheffield, like Rome, is built on seven hills, the poor old horse would have had a bugger of a job once it got away from the level suburbs by the Don. I can vaguely remember "coal holes" and chutes going from the pavement to the cellar, but I can't remember much about horse-drawn stuff (except for the rag-and-bone man). I'd be interested in comments from anyone else who has looked into the subject.

Yes, I could not agree more ! Dunsbyowl. Owler Brook Nursery First School (formerly Owler Lane County School, Owler Lane) 1990 picturesheffield From Map #61.

Came across this photo - even the small remaining stones have more character than the abomination behind!

Fulwood Cottage Homes are now called 'Moorside'. They are off Blackbrook Road just north of Harrison Lane. Have you come across Marjorie Dunn's book For the Love of Children about the homes? It is out of print but you may find a second hand copy or there are copies in the Local Studies Library in Surrey Street. Hugh

Sorry if this as been mentioed but as a child in the 60's (And before transit says anything I mean the 1960's) I remember walking down the little lane next to woolworths at hillsborough and comming out in the pub yard on bradfield road - sorry cant remember name. But on the left behind woolworths was a place that always had lorrys (ERF's/AEC's) with floor sacks on dont know if it was a warehouse or a mill.

Horse and Garter 24 Water Lane Open 1821 Closed Comments 1822 address 35 Water Lane 1821 Thomas Crownshaw 1822 Thomas Crownshaw 1825 Thomas Crownshaw 1828 Thomas Crownshaw Earlier 19 May 1812 Mortgage by way of lease Richard Sellers Mexborough to Thomas Crownshaw 16th August 1831 Thomas Crownshaw, Sheffield victualler, Insolvent. 28 October 1831 Thomas Crownshaw Bankrupt.