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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

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

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)

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

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.

Just a couple of bits of background - The Wilson Road Synagogue opened in April 1930. The Jewish burial Hall and Cemetery at Blind Lane, Ecclesfield was consecrated on 4th September 1932. (When I was a school a father of one of the boys was the caretaker of the cemetery and this lad always had loads of pocket money because he used to dig graves for his dad! - beats a paper round!)

My family were millers in and around Sheffield for over two centuries. They owned a mill at Aldewarke and in 1773 took over Pond Mill. The latter was roughly in the area of Leadmill Street today and had both steam and water power. My Great Great Grandfather Joshua Wigfull built a Maltings alongside the mill. The lease on Pond Mill terminated in 1860 by which time he had sold Aldwarke. By 1866 Pond Mill was demolished. The business continued as Joshua Wigfull and Sons at Sheaf Steam Corn Mill on Forge Lane. In 1885 they moved into the newly built Star Corn Mill on Walker Street swithcing to roller milling in 1890. A new mill was built on the same site in 1911 and by 1947 it was a very large mill by any standard. I believe it closed shortly afterwards due to family circumstances. Pond_Mill.BMP

St Mary's Lane was a narrow street of Hermitage Street, so Hermitage Steel was probably somewhere in the area. Hugh

Unfortunately although buildings are marked on the maps, there are no farm names. The maps for the 1637 survey have disappeared, but have been painstakingly reconstructed by G Scurfield. Ask at the library for the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol 58, 1986. His report starts on page 147, and includes his reconstructed maps. The Enclosures maps are in the Sheffield Archives on Shoreham Street. If you've never been to the Archives have a look at their website as you have to join before using any material, and they require various bits of ID. There was at least one other of these 'double' farms in the valley. Hangingwater Farm stood where the block of flats now stands on Hangingwater Road, but at the other side of a small lane was Manor Farm. They were so close they look like one farm on the map. The research threw up quite a number of farm names which do seem to have disappeared, and one of the on-going tasks is to try to track them down, though I suspect many or most are underneath the houses now. Bole Hill is also 'Bore Hill' in the Sheffield A-Z. I think it's one of the deliberate errors map publishers incorporate to trace whether anyone is copying their maps for publication without their permission. Aren't maps wonderful things!

Hello Hugh and thank you for the reply. I know it is Frank Wood, I have a letter here to Frank Wood Esq and the address you gave : 36 Sharrow is on it....Frank Wood is my husbands father. The letter I have is a Notice of a call on shares.... Addressed to Frank Wood Esq, 23 Harefield Road, Sheffield. Telegrams: Wood 36 Sharrow: The letter is dated August 9th 1917 and there is a heading on the paper reads: Wood, Walsh & Company Ltd. General Engineers. There appears to be an address something like: 65 St Marys Lane but then that is blacked out and a new address of Aizlewood Road is added. It is signed Wood Walsh and Co. E Scott Robinson (Secretary). We also Know Frank had shares in Hermitage Steel? this is another we know nothing about.. Thank you kindly Woody

OK, here comes the commercial break! The Friends of the Porter Valley are about to publish a history of farming in the Porter and Mayfield valleys, and I did a lot of the research for it. It appears on the 1791-1805 Upper Hallam Enclosures Act map, and earlier in the Harrison Survey of 1637. Field names in the valley are a fascinating topic. many still have names that go back centuries. A couple of years ago I organised some fieldwalking in a field at School Green Lane near some field boundaries that show evidence of dating from Romano-British times, and we found pieces of pottery from every century from the 13th to the present, as well as some lead slag that may be from the furnace on the Bole Hill off Blackbrook Road.

Broomspring Lane, wife Ivy. Authentic replicas of Bowie knifes etc. Fred died January 1986.

Hi Mike You've actually found it. the cluster of buildings on Douse Croft Lane is actually two former farms. The ones nearest the road are Douse Croft Farm, the ones set further back now called Peter Wood Cottage are really Peter Wood Farm, immediately below Peter Wood itself. I'm afraid I can't give you any pointers as to which land it farmed, and I'm still trying to work out the photos mentioned! The steep bank was probably the sloping land near the bottom of the hill on the left called Washer Lands. (That name goes back to the 17th Century at least). The Mayfield Brook runs in the bottom, and that's presumably the river next to which they set up their tents. Regards Bayleaf

Map 289 - Worrall, Long Lane, Kirk Edge Rd, Stubbing Ln SK3091 © Crown Copyright 1959, Reproduced by kind permission of the Ordnance Survey

Indeed it is! Which is a very modern setting for a King Edward VIII postbox (I wonder if it has always been in that particular spot?). The canopy was good though - it kept the rain off while I took the picture. ;) It was easy to find once I had these directions from Chris Smith at Flickr: "I notice you ask where the other one in Sheffield is - according to the Letter Box Study Groups list it is at in S 6 Box number 528 - PO, Leppings Lane (BP/SPAR garage) Grid ref SK333910 UK." I don't think I would have given that particular postbox a second glance otherwise.

Map 257 - Woodseats, Meadowhead, Abbey Lane, Chesterfield Rd, Holmhirst Rd, Cobnar Rd, Graves Park (part) © Crown Copyright 1956, Reproduced by kind permission of the Ordnance Survey

Map 256 - Woodseats, Meadowhead, Abbey Lane, Chesterfield Rd, Holmhirst Rd, Cobnar Rd, Graves Park (part), Chancet Wood © Crown Copyright 1951, Reproduced by kind permission of the Ordnance Survey