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We are going to try and compile a list of Sheffield cinemas and their addresses. If you can think of any that are missing please let us know - post a message below telling us the name and location (and any memories you have !) SHEFFIELD CINEMAS ABC - Angel Street - http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=189 Adelphi - Attercliffe http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21384 Anvil - Charter Square - ( name changed from Cineplex in 1983) http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=209 Central Hall - High St. Beighton http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21310 Chapeltown Picture Palace - Station Road Cinecenta - Flat St / Pond St (now part of Odeon Complex) http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21387 Cineplex - Charter Square. (became The Anvil Civic Cinema in 1983) http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21369 Crookes Cinema - 194 Crookes http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s02788 Darnall Cinema - Catcliffe Rd. Darnall http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08093 Don Cinema - West Bar http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s20381 Gaiety Theatre & PH - West Bar http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...?showtopic=3099 http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s20386 Greystones Picture Palce - Ecclesall Road http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s02693 Hillsborough Park Cinema - Hillsborough - http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=184 http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21389 Kinema - Hillsborough http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=661 Scala Cinema - Junction of Western Bank and Winter St. http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s20678 Studio 5,6,7 - The Wicker - http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=208 Studio 7 - The Wicker - http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=208 The Abbeydale Cinema - Abbeydale Road http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s02723 The Albert Hall - Barkers Pool (present Cole Bros site, 2008) http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s01459 The Balfour - Darnall - Local name for the Darnall Picture Palace. The Capitol - Sheffield Lane Top (became Essoldo in 1950) Carlton cinema Arbourthorne sheffield. Opened August 1938 The Central - The Moor http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s01231 The Chantrey Picturw House - Chesterfirld Rd http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21388 The Cinema House - Barkers Pool http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08044 The Cinema House - Ecclesfield http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21315 The Classic - Fitzalan Square - http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=146 The Coloseum - Spital Hill http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08049 The Darnall Picture Palace, Staniforth Rd. (Known locally as The Balfour) Opened 1913. The Essoldo - Sheffield Lane Top *name changed to Essoldo, April 1950 The Essoldo - Herries Rd Southey, Southey Green http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21367 The Essoldo - The Common, Ecclesfield The Forum - Southey Green - http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=537 The Gaumont - Barkers Pool - http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=187 The Globe - Attercliffe Common - Opened 1913. Closed 1959. The Grand Picture Palace - Spring St The Heeley Palace - Heeley http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21363 The Heeley Colloseum - Heeley http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=538 High Green Cinema - Thompson Hill, High Green, Chapeltown. - Opened January 1914. The Hippodrome - Cambridge Street http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s01462 The Landsdowne - London Road http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=c01151 The Lyric - Main Rd. Darnall http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s02715 The Manor - Manor Top http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08047 The Norfolk Picture House - Duke Street http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21393 The Odeon - Flat Street http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21271 The Olympia Palace - Bramall Lane http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...l=bramhall+lane The Oxford - Addy Street http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08088 The Palace - Manchester Rd, Ecclesfield http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s09347 The Palladium - Walkley http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08085 The Paragon - Firth Park http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08078 The Park Picture Palace - South Street http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s19604 The Pavilion - Attercliffe http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21360 The Phoenix Theatre - Hillsborough - http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=186 The Plaza - Handsworth http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s02718 The Ranch House - (or the Flea Pit, local name for The Weston, St Philips Rd. The Regal - Staniforth Rd. Used the building shell of The Theatre Royal. Opened October 1935. The Regent - Barkers Pool (became Gaumont 1946) http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08040 The Rex - Intake http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s21349 The Ritz - Parson Cross The Rosco - Shalesmoor - Opened 1910 as The Peoples Electric Palace. Renamed Rosco, 1922. The Roxy - Idesworth Rd The Royal Picture House, Staniforth Rd. - Opened Boxing Day, 1896 as Peoples Theatre, Attercliffe. Renamed the Theatre Royal in 1897. See Regal Attercliffe. The Star - Ecclesall Road http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s02709 The Sunbeam - Barnsley Rd http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...?showtopic=1379 The Union Palace - Union Street http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...?showtopic=1472 The Unity - Langsett Road http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...p?showtopic=478 The Victory - Upwell Street. - Opened October, 1921. The Walkley Electric Palace - 28 Fulton Rd http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/i...?showtopic=2120 The Weston - St Philip's Rd. Tinsley Palace - Sheffield Rd http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08076 Wincobank Picture Palace - Merton Lane http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s08092 Woodseats Palace - Chesterfield Rd http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s02423 Note: Cinecenta - Flat St / Pond St * The text included within this picturesheffield image may be incorrect, see post #51

Foundation Sheffield was not historically a rugby league area but in 1984 Gary Hetherington, at that time in the later stages of his playing career, decided to start a new professional club in the city. Hetherington was both manager and player in the first season, building the team using experienced players from traditional areas. He also began signing up promising young players, one of whom was Mark Aston, later to be a critical part of the Eagles' survival as a club. The first games were played at the Owlerton Stadium, but after stadium safety became an issue the Eagles began their nomadic journey around South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, playing at several temporary venues including Hillsborough, Bramall Lane, Saltergate and Oakwell. Finally in 1991 the World Student Games was held in Sheffield and the newly built Don Valley Stadium became home for the club. Progress On the field the club progressed steadily, improving their league position until in 1988/89 they finished third in the league table and made it to the Premiership final at Old Trafford. In the final they outplayed Swinton, beating them by 43-18 and gaining promotion to the top flight of rugby league. They survived one season but were then relegated. This was a temporary decline as they immediately regained their place in the First Division, winning the second division title and Premiership. In 1992 they reached the Yorkshire Cup final, losing to Wakefield Trinity. Despite this, the Eagles became a fixture in the top flight over the next few seasons, with notable firsts including being part of the first game of the SuperLeague era (against the ill-fated Paris Saint Germain franchise in 1996) and being the first English team to beat an Australian team on English soil in the World Club Challenge in 1997. When a Rupert Murdoch-funded Super League competition was first proposed, part of the deal was that some traditional clubs would merge. Sheffield were to merge with Doncaster to form a South Yorkshire club that would compete in Super League. This, along with other proposed mergers, were strongly opposed by supporters and never materialised. Wembley 1998 May 2, 1998 is the greatest day in the history of the Sheffield Eagles. Having beaten Leigh, Egremont, Castleford and Salford the Eagles faced the mighty Wigan at Wembley Stadium in the final of the Challenge Cup. Wigan were overwhelming favourites with a side containing some of the best players of the modern era, including Andy Farrell, Jason Robinson and Henry Paul. Sheffield coach John Kear devised a game plan that was executed perfectly by the team on the day. Star of the show was scrum half Mark Aston, who won the Lance Todd Trophy as man of the match. The Eagles led from start to finish, running out 17-8 winners in one of the biggest upsets in the history of the competition. Dark days Just as the club seemed to be on the verge of its greatest period, following the win in the Cup Final, things began to go wrong. The expected increase in attendances didn't happen and the team didn't perform well, finishing close to the relegation zone only one year after the Wembley triumph. In late 1999 the club accepted an offer from the RFL to merge with the Huddersfield Giants, making a new team Huddersfield/Sheffield Giants, playing games in both Sheffield and Huddersfield. This team (known disparagingly within the rugby league community as Shuddersfield) lasted only one season before reverting to the Huddersfield name. The main reason for this was the lack of acceptance of the new venture by both sets of supporters, but in particular in Sheffield. Between the end of the Super League season and the start of the next semi-professional season (only 3 months) legendary player Mark Aston reformed the Eagles from scratch with the support of the Super League clubs and Barrow and entered the Northern Ford Premiership taking Bramley's vacated place. Rebirth From 1999 to the present the Eagles have played in the semi-professional leagues, first the Northern Ford Premiership and then the second division of the LHF Healthplan National League. Mark Aston assumed the role of player manager, continuing on the field until 2004, when he officially retired from playing. After the 2004 season Mark replaced his father Brian as Chief Executive, bringing in a new head coach in Gary Wilkinson at the end of the following year. As soon as the new club was reformed, it vowed to never overstretch its finances to achieve success. This made life difficult as the Eagles were denied the money received by other clubs in the NFP for TV rights as part of the deal that allowed them to re-enter the professional leagues. In 2003 the team finished top of National League Two and reached the Grand Final, agonisingly losing 13-11 to the Keighley Cougars. Victory would have sent the Eagles into National League One, but this was not to be and a second play-off against the Batley Bulldogs ended in failure for the demoralised squad. Until 2006 the team struggled to match this effort, with key players retiring or being signed by bigger clubs - young players Mitchell Stringer and Andy Raleigh went on to sign for Super League clubs. At the start of the 2006 season Gary Wilkinson was brought in as coach and the team finished in second place, qualifying for the play-offs for the right to join champions Dewsbury Rams in National League One. On September 22nd 2006 they beat the Celtic Crusaders at the Don Valley Stadium to qualify for the Grand Final for a second time. In the Grand Final on October 8th they beat Swinton Lions 35-10 to be promoted to National League One. To the surprise of many Wilkinson resigned as head coach on October 15th 2006, citing personal reasons. National League One is a springboard to a potential return to Super League, although this may also be dependent on the RFL's adoption of a franchising or licensing system. As Sheffield Eagles' chairman Ian Swire, remarked, after the 2006 Grand Final victory, "We showed on Sunday that we can compete, and that in the near- to not-too-distant future we will get back into Super League".

The Jessops Hospital for Women Sheffield Hospital for Women In 1875 Dr Aveling, an Ecclesfield practitioner, moved to Sheffield. Deciding that a seperate hospital for women would be of great benefit to the town he issued a circular asking for funds. However except for a few vague promises he got little response.Six years later Dr Aveling tried again and this time with the cooperation of two other doctors Jackson and keeling, he was able to rent for �60 per year, a large house in Fig Tree Lane. The Sheffield Hospital for Women, as it was called when opened in 1864 was equipped with six beds, which were soon fully used. Ninety nine patients were treated during the first sis months and the number increased each successive year. In 1865 three extra beds were provided, but even with these the small hospital could not cope with the demand. Jessops Hospital for Women By 1875 the small hospital in Fig Tree Lane had become quite inadequate, so Thomas Jessop, owner of a large Sheffield steelworks bought land at Leavygreave and built the Jessops Hospital for Women. This was opened in 1878, the entire cost of the building, over twenty-six thousand pounds, being borne by Jessop. With this much larger building, accomodation for fiftyseven inpatients could now be provided. Much progress and expansion followed and in 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, there were beds for 151 patients. Also new extensions were in the process of being built. During the air raids on Sheffield in 1940, the hospital suffered severe damage, but rebuilkding speedily got underway, By 1943 the new extensions were completed and this enabled 217 beds to be in full use. Today (1978) there is provision or 239 beds, the hospital being and approved training school for midwives. The above is an extract from the book "A Popular History of Sheffield" by J Edward Vickers (1978) Jessops Wing In 2001, the Jessops Hospital for Women on Leavygreave Road was closed and the hospital moved to a newly built maternity hospital at the rear of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital on Treeroot Walk. Its now renamed Jessops Wing (presumably to mean a wing "of the Hallamshire Hospital"). Since the above articles were published the hospital has been demolished. The Original bulding (obviously before the Henderson Relish plant) This shows the original building Arial shot showing how the hospital grew 1950

Take a look at the picture below.. If I'm right - isnt this the site of the old 'Chuck Ranch' restaurant ? The site is exactly the same today

CLUB WOW LOCATION Valley Centertainment Park, Broughton Lane, S9 2EP INFORMATION Club WOW DJ Andy Brown PICTURES Pictured above - Jeni Jay - Britney Spears tribute act that appeared at Club Wow We need your help here folks - do you have any pictures of the place ? If so post below and tell us..

The Cemetery Riots At Sheffield - 1862 The Sheffield Magistrates were engaged for several hours on Saturday in investigating the extraordinary proceedings at Wardsend Cemetery, near that town. It will be remembered that on Tuesday night a large crowd of people, exasperated beyond all control by the horrible disclosures that had been made of the manner in which human remains were desecrated, broke into the sextons house and set it on fire, Mrs Howard narrowly escaping with her life. Damage to the extent of £500 was done at the house and at the cemetery. The mob searched for the sexton, but could not find him, fortunately for him. As the news of the discoveries spread through the town the parents and relatives of many of the persons buried in the ground proceeded to the place, and numbers of them began excavating the graves in order to satisfy themselves that the remains had not been tampered with. In several cases no trace of the coffins could be found, and this, of course, greatly increased the excitement. The most revolting discovery of all, however, was made in an unused part of the cemetery grounds, where was found a large hole, roughly covered with earth and planks, and containing about twenty coffins, and a box in which were the remains of a man who had been dissected at the Sheffield Medical School. It was found that underneath the coffins was a mass of human remains several feet in thickness, which were alleged to have been accumulated by the throwing of dissected bodies into the hole without coffins, and the emptying of bodies from coffins removed from graves in the cemetery. A number of coffins, and twenty four coffin plates, removed from coffins which had been placed in the ground within the last three years, were found in the stable. The examinations of the place which were made in the course of the week disclosed such a state of things, that the Bench were loudly called upon to interfere to punish the offenders and secure the future protection of the public. Mr. Jackson, chief constable, said he had to apply to the magistrates to aid him in the investigation of the circumstances which had notoriously occurred at Wardsend burial ground and at the sexton's house, he stated that on going to the cemetery he found in the side of the hill a large hole. It had the appearance of having been arched, but there were boards driven in at the side to support it. The hole had been covered with planks and earth, but this the people had removed. He saw a square box containing what evidently were the remains of a man, as also a number of coffins, twenty inches broad and fifteen or eighteen inches deep. By the directions of one of the magistrates he had the square box removed to the cemetery stable. Having got another box made sufficiently large to hold the one taken from the hole, he had it and the body put into this new box and brought to the police office here. It was a deal box, about three feet six inches long, twenty inches broad, and fifteen or eighteen inches deep. The box did not appear to have been buried. The body had evidently been dissected, the flesh having been removed from the bones. Evidence was given to show that the body found in the box had been received from the Medical School in the ordinary way, and that an interment certificate had been given by the incumbent, although the remains had not been interred. Mrs. Harriet Shearman was sworn, and said,--I am the wife of William Shearman, miller, Philadelphia Mill-Yard. My little boy, Edward Charles, died about eight months ago ; he was then two years and one month old. He was interred at the St. Philip's ground on the twenty third of September last. The grave was made on the left hand side over the hill, on the lower side from the railway. I paid ten shillings for the fees of burial to the sexton, Isaac Howard. I only saw a little bit of earth put on the coffin at the time. He told me I could have a family grave by paying a further sum of twenty two shillings within the year. In consequence of what I heard I went up to the ground on Wednesday, a little after noon. I went to a large pit there was in the cemetery, and saw some coffins there. Some of them had the lids off, and in one of these I recognised the features of my own child. I got it taken out of the pit with the coffin, and caused it to be taken to my own house. When I got it home I examined the coffin, and found it was the same wood. I found the piece of "bump" sheet which I had placed beneath the head of the child. I am quite sure from the features, and from this sheet, that it was my child. When I left the grave at the funeral the sexton was there. He had the care of the grave at that time. We have another child there, or it should be there. The hole where the body was found is about two hundred yards from the grave where we left my child. I looked into the grave, but cannot recollect whether the soil was firm or soft, as it had been previously dug. There were funerals going on in the ground at the same time. I don't know who performed the service. My first child was interred in the ground three years ago. This child was not buried in the same grave, because we had not bought the ground. We have not looked for the coffin of the first child. Mr. Jackson.--I have other women who have similar cases to this, but they are not here today. Robert Dixon.--I am a labourer in the service of Mr. Oxspring, of Wardsend. I know Isaac Howard, the sexton of this cemetery. I agreed with him to go and live in his house in the graveyard. I cannot tell exactly the day of the month, but it was some time in March last. Shortly after I had gone there I observed a curious smell in the room above the stable. I thrust some knots out of the deal boards, and looked down into the stable. We had then been there two or three weeks. I saw about twenty coffins- some of persons about fifteen and sixteen and ten years old--others were those of stillborn children. None of them appeared to be the coffins of grown up persons. I had seen Howard lock and unlock this door, and knew he had the key. The coffins were not covered over with anything, and were lying on the ground, piled in heaps on the top of each other. I saw some broken up coffins piled in a corner by themselves--the wood appeared to be new. Those pieces are there now. The day I flitted ( last Monday ) I and several other men saw in the stone shed near the house four or five sides and lids of coffins. they were in a dark corner of the shed. Did you ever really see a body, or only coffins in the shed? I lifted up the lid of one coffin, in the shed, about six weeks ago. The night following the body had been removed from the coffin, but the coffin remained in the shed. I lifted the lid with my toe, and saw the face of the body. It looked very fresh, as though it had been buried a week or two. It looked like the face of a boy about fifteen years of age. I looked at the coffin the same night, after Howard had set off to Sheffield. Had seen him go. He put two corpses into a box. One appeared to be ten, and the other fifteen, I saw the same coffin empty in the shed the same night. I afterwards went and looked through the holes in the floor. Tell the magistrates what you think you saw him doing.-- I came home earlier than usual. I thought he looked very ***** and "sheepish" in my eye. I had had suspicion of him before. I saw him go in and out of the house and go up the burial ground. I went upstairs and looked through the holes in the floor, and waited till he came back into the stable. He appeared to be cutting off the leg of a child about ten years old. The child lay on two planks, and he had a carving knife in his hand. I saw him put the bodies into a box. He put the lid on and went outside the door, and came in again immediately. He put the box on a barrow, and went to the river side. I saw him put two bodies into the box. The stable is not so large as the room overhead, in which I was. The holes were large enough to admit my finger. There is a small slide window in the top of the stable, with only four or five panes in it. I once found the stable door unlocked, about three weeks ago, and saw about twenty coffins and twenty four coffin plates. I took the plates away and gave them to Mr. Oxspring. They are the same he has given to the chief constable. I had previously told Mr. Oxspring, and was acting under his advice in what I did. The sexton asked me to take the house. We have had a quarrel, but were good friends before I left the house. I met him on the burying ground. I asked him if I could cultivate a bit of ground, and he consented on condition that the ground should be given up if there were any Catholic funerals. He spoke very angrily to my wife about the place, and I wished to see him, and told him he had better take those bodies out of the coach house before he said anything to my wife. We parted good friends. I have once been in trouble for stealing some corn, four years ago, at Ellerby Hall. That is the only thing I have ever been in to my knowledge. I had married just before. Mr. Jackson.--He was tried and sentenced to six months imprisonment. Witness.--Mr. Oxspring and Howard have been good friends. I don't know anything about an action for impounding cattle. I told Mr. Oxspring about six weeks ago what was going on, and he advised me to go into the stable if I had an opportunity. Bethia Dixon wife of the last witness---We went to live at the house in the graveyard on twenty-fourth of March. When we first went I noticed a peculiar smell in the room over the stable, and it got worse. I spoke to the sexton about the smell, and he said he would remove it--it would go away. The smell made me ill, and I had a miscarriage in consequence. I have seen the porter from the Medical School go up the burial ground. He came more than once. I first saw him there on the Thursday in the second week we went to live there, which would have been on the third of April. I told the sexton that the man had been to see him, and the man came again on the Friday morning, but he did not see the sexton. I told the sexton again, and he said he had seen him, but he (the porter) had no money for him, and until he got some money he (Howard) should not let anything else go. I have seen a man named "John" who assisted Howard, remove coffins from graves, and put them in the open shed. The sexton afterwards put them in the stable. The men opened the graves and removed the coffins from them. These graves were not distinguished by mounds of earth. Judging from the size of the coffins which "John" and Howard removed, I should say that they were those of children about ten or twelve. About a fortnight ago I saw Howard remove some coffins from the stable into a large pit. He took some in the day time, and towards evening he got the assistance of another man. I saw a man named Coldwell helping him. Before I was married I lived four years in service in Mr. Warhurst's of Ecclesall Road. I never saw any other person at the pit than Howard and the two men assisting him. I never saw any funerals performed at that pit. There was one small place open, so as they could slide a coffin into it, but it could be made larger. The pit was covered with planks, and a thin layer of earth. There were planks placed against the hole when they were not using it. I remember the holes being made in the floor of the room over the stable. I looked down and saw coffins there. I have looked on several occasions when my husband has been away. Mr. J. Barber, surgeon, was examined, and stated the manner in which bodies were obtained for the purposes of dissection at the Medical School from the workhouse. No bodies were obtained except by legitimate way. The inquiry was then adjourned until Friday next

60's for me....long afternoons and evenings in the Summer holidays chilling in Hillsborough Park....... Penguin Cafe across from park Cinema at night when I was 16/17.....Squirrel on Middlewood road and Mussoms ( the arab owned cafe on Holme Lane)...where all the bikers hung out

THE BALL INN LOCATION Ball Street/Green Lane INFORMATION Used for many years as a paint store-cum-decorators suppliers PICTURES

SHEFFIELD DATES OF INTEREST 1865. February 4th. - Garotters in Broomhall Park; one sentenced to penal servitude for life, a second for fifteen years, the third for five years. March. Last meeting of Inundation Commissioners, £455,164 claimed, £276,821 awarded by Commissioners. October - Visit of the Social Science Congress to Sheffield, Lord Brougham, 86 years old, presiding. Papers by Sir H. Phillimore on "Jurisprudence," Dr. J. C. Hall, John Wilson, Wm. Dronfield, Tom Hughes, Q.C., M.P. (author of Tom Brown's School Days), Professor Lankester, Professor Fawcett (the blind Postmaster General), Alderman Sanders, Mr. R. E. Leader, Mr. Gainsford on "A Sheffield Assize," Mr. Samuel Plimsoll, Mr. Ibbotson on "Benefit Building Societies," Mr. Frank Wever on "The Sheffield Savings Bank," Mr. S. B. Auty on "Building Societies," and a conference held during the visit between Professor Fawcett and the file smiths, the visitor seeking information respecting a possible introduction of machinery into their trade. So admirably managed was the visit that when everything had been paid there remained a surplus of £192. 1868. First year collections for medical charities, £1,169 16 10. 1870. Opening of New Midland Station. 1873. March 20. - Sheffield Water Bill passes House of Commons. Death of Miss Harrison, Weston: charities, £65,000. Town Trustees offer £50,000 towards street improvements. December - Fall of shop property, Fargate: Askham's and Proctor's premises. 1874. Sheffield Guardians buy Fir Vale House for new headquarters. 1875. Midland trains Sheffield to London do the journey in 3 hours 36 minutes. Prince and Princess of Wales open Firth Park. 1876. First cab shelter:- Glossop Road. Largest armour plate so far rolled--Cammell's, for the Italian Government, size 18 ft. by 5 ft., 22 inches thick, weighing 35 tons. Opening of skating rink in Glossop Road. Tramways Co. suggests traction engines, not horses, for the cars. Opening of Children's Hospital, Brook Hill. 1877. Increase in population in 16 years, 96,958: total population of Sheffield at the time, 282,130. Sheffield's increase is larger than that of any other provincial town. Sheffield's first cocoa house opened at Highfields. Foundation stone laid of new asylum at Dore. Purchase of 50 acres of land authorized from Duke of Norfolk, for new cemetery. Cost of land, £13,625, total cost estimated at £27,000. Decision to found a truant school at Hollow Meadows. 1878. Fulwood Road formally opened. A terrible year in local trade. No dividends from Brown Bayley's, Dixon's, John Round & Son, Hawksworth & Co., Midland Iron Co., Sheffield Forge & Rolling Mills, W. Cooke & Co., Yorkshire Engine Works, Sheffield Patent Brick Co. 1879. Mr. William Bragge's priceless library and collection of paintings destroyed in the fire at Birmingham Free Library. The Blind Institution at Broomhill opened. The Firth College, costing £20,000, opened by Prince Leopold. November - The last meeting of the old School Board. The Wostenholm Memorial Hall opened by Archbishop of York. 1880. Norfolk Drill Hall opened with a Ball. Coming of age of the Volunteer movement. Sheffield Amateur Parliament first meeting. Speaker, Rev. A.G.Tweedie; Clerk, Mr. Wm. McBrair; Prime Minister, Mr. Robt. Eadon Leader; Leader of the Opposition, Mr. A. Muir Wilson. In the week ending October 2nd, 2,716 messages put through on local exchange. Rainfall in October, 3.59 inches within two days. First Quarter Sessions in Sheffield. 1881. Local Association for preservation of footpaths formed. Electric light at Davy Bros. and Cyclops Works and Hoveys. December - Corn Exchange opened. 1882. First meeting of Sheffield Burial Board. May - Sheffield Water Works Co. formulate scale for private baths. The Alhambra, Union Street, burned down. 1883. Victoria Gardens, Totley, opened by Mr. Josh. Mountain. Mr. W. J. Clegg appointed first Official Receiver in Sheffield. Important meeting in connexion with Technical Education in Sheffield at the Albert Hall. 1884. Right-of-way action in Ryecroft Glen. Duke of Norfolk offers £3,000 towards Technical Education in Sheffield. October 31 - Hunter's Bar removed. December - Under the Redistribution Bill Sheffield has five Members of Parliament. 1885. First meeting of Sheffield Reform Club, privately opened August 14th. Wm. Cooke & Co.'s workmen give a week's work in relief of the bad trade. Council purchases Endcliffe Woods as public park. Council institutes cycling by-laws. Lawn Tennis tournament on Bramall Lane ground. Messrs. Flockton & Gibbs' plans for Mappin Art Gallery approved. September - "The Mikado" first performed in Sheffield. Red Indian Missionaries in Sheffield. 1886. New Sewage works opened. Formal opening of Technical School. Trade Union Council discusses the question of Labour Members of Parliament for Sheffield. 1887. Vickers' capital increased from £250,000 to £1,500,000. June 20 and 21. Queen's Jubilee celebrated in Sheffield. September - Hexthorpe railway accident. Small Pox scourge in the town, in December, 800 to 1,000 cases known. 1888. Lead Poisoning in Redmires water. Sheffield Water Co. formally handed over to the Corporation. January - Excursions and many other trains stopped on local railways through the small pox. The Archbishop of York issues a form of prayer during the epidemic. February - Lodge Moor Hospital completed with 120 beds. In the same month, the Council discusses lead poisoning and scarcity of water. On July 8th, 1888, it is reported that not since the previous July until that date have any cases of small pox been reported. Hammer and Pincers public house, Fulwood, opened as temperance inn. August - Sheffield's first cycling tournament at Bramall Lane. Mr. Asquith addresses the Hallam Women's Association. Mr. G. A. Sala opens the Sheffield Press Club. 1889. Company formed by Mr. Emerson Bainbridge and others to buy a site in Fargate for the Y.M.C.A. Visit to Sheffield of the Shah of Persia, and Guardians' protest at not being invited to the function. September - Proposed Amalgamation of Sheffield and Ecclesall Unions. 1890. July 4. Haigh's buses run for the last time to Broomhill. 1891. First suggestion of a Sheffield Bishopric. Lord Salisbury ignores it. Influenza epidemic in Sheffield, April-May: e.g., week ending April 11th, 1 death; April 18th, 7 deaths; April 25th, 55 deaths; May 2nd, 112 deaths; May 9th, 100 deaths; May 16th, 54 deaths; May 23rd, 20 deaths; May 30th, 14 deaths; June 6th, 4 deaths. 1892. Messrs. Walker & Hall install an old age pension movement for their staff. February 10. Council Chamber lit by electric light. 1893. Town Trustees decline to give land in Church Street for Jubilee Library. The South Yorkshire Building Society's affairs out of the hands of the Liquidator in July, after seven years investigations, the expenses being £24,841, and the amount paid to creditors £92,981. Mr. E. S. Foster was liquidator, and his work was very favourably commented upon at the time. The coal strike in Sheffield in 1892, lasting a week, estimated to have cost the Midland Co. £456,924, the M. S. & L. £130,408, and the Great Northern £166,248. The M. S. & L. compelled to withdraw its service between Sheffield and Leeds through lack of coal, and the Sheffield Independent publishes a list of pits remaining idle after the strike had been called off, where, previously, 211,000 men had been employed. The Sheffield Gas Co. estimates its losses at £27,000, and raises the charges to the consumers by threepence per 1,000 feet. The M. S. & L. Co. reports that as a result of the strike it is impossible to pay a dividend on ordinary stock or on ten million pounds worth of preference stock. 1894. February 28th. - The death of Madame Patey occurs immediately after the gifted songstress had sung "Three Fishers went Sailing," at a concert at the Albert Hall. The M. S. & L. Railway decides to go forward with the scheme to London. May 23rd. - A course of eighteen holes is laid out at Lindrick for use by members of the Sheffield and District Golf Club. May 29th. - Coal is won in the new pit at Hickleton Main at a depth of 542 yards. First annual meeting of the Sheffield Social Questions League. In its abbreviated form the Social Questions League became rather notorious in the city. Lord Rosebery visits the Atlas Works and those of Walker & Hall. 1895. Sheffield's Cottage Homes opened by Sir Walter Foster. June - The family of the Leaders cease having an interest in the Sheffield Independent. In a survey of the year 1895, it is reported that the only armour plate orders received during the year were confined to Brown's, Cammell's and Vickers'. In 1894-5, 23,000 tons of armour plate had been ordered from those companies by Government, and it was difficult to estimate how valuable the Harvey process was to Sheffield. In the first six months of 1895 there is severe depression, the effects of the coal war, 1893, still being very severely felt. In the latter part of the year there comes the rebound and from all parts of the world constant demand for everything that Sheffield can supply. 1896. February - Umpire in compensation case in connexion with the re-building of High Street, gives Messrs. John Walsh Ltd. £28,844, against the sum of £66,248 asked for. May - W. Cooke & Co. Ltd., Tinsley Steel and Wire Works, declares a dividend for the first time in 21 years. City Council decides, with three dissentient votes, to purchase Whiteley Woods for £6,000 as a public resort. The Sheffield Tramways system formally handed over to the Corporation at midnight, July 10th. On November 14th the restrictions on speed of automobiles removed. December 3rd. - The City Theatre is known as the Lyceum Theatre. 1897. February - The old Tramways Co. wound up, shareholders receiving £5 15s. 6d. per £10 share. March 25th. - Corporation refuse destructor first used, cost £21,000. May - Duke of Norfolk sells 3,672 acres grouse moor and farms for £63,000. May - Duke of Norfolk gives Roe Park, 20 acres, to Sheffield for ever. Queen Victoria in Sheffield. Opening of Town Hall. Contents of the Conservatories at the Botanical Gardens sold by public auction. August - Harveyed plates pierced by Hadfields shells, with a velocity of 1,940 ft. per second, the plates being eight feet square by six inches thick. August - Electric light is installed in the Sheffield Parish Church. October - Cammell's capital increased from £1,050,000 to £1,750,000. 1898. January - Scheme for a Sheffield Bishopric approved by the Privy Council, with a house and an income of £3,000, not £2,000 as originally proposed. February - Terms arranged for purchase by Corporation of electric light undertaking. Rebuilding of Sheffield Midland Station decided on, to cost £215,888. April - Opening of the Howard Gallery in Chapel Walk. April - The Duke of Norfolk sells The Farm to the Midland Railway Co. May - The City Council seeks powers whereby the city boundaries be extended by 3,615 acres. May - Poll for purchase of the electric light undertaking; votes for, 28,130; against, 1,965 1898. June - The Sheffield Bishopric scheme abandoned, the Archbishop of York explaining that it would not be desirable to proceed for some years to come. July 9th. - The City Accountant produces figures showing that the precise cost of the New Town Hall buildings was £182,128 15 5. The Great Central main line to London is opened for coal traffic on July 25th. October 1st. Farewell dinner of the Botanical Gardens Committee at the Masonic Hall. The Upperthorpe and Steel Bank and Walkley Omnibus Co. wound up as a direct result of the competition with the trams. The Council decides to purchase the Market rights from the Duke of Norfolk for £530,000. November 7th. - The first actual extension of the tramways service between the Parish Church and Harcourt Road. December - Electric light undertaking wound up and handed over to the city, each shareholder receiving £213 8 0. for every £100 of stock in the Company, and the undertaking transferred to the Corporation on December 31st. - This year saw a very marked advance in house building in the city. The birth rate was 33.85, and the death rate 20.24. Extension of the suburbs in 1898 was most marked at Hunter's Bar, Fir Vale, Abbeydale and Darnall, for, "as the trams go out, the houses go up." 1899. August 7th. - Deaths in one week 258, or 17.5 per 1,000 of the population. August - The City Council authorized to purchase the Bole Hills. September - Open air treatment for consumptives introduced in Sheffield. October - First Annual Dinner of the Sheffield University College. The year's review declares that the new Corporation Bill had done wonders for Sheffield. Land for buildings had been obtained from Mr. J. D. Leader's estate at Walkley, the Tramways Committee lent £5,000 towards building of 20 cottages in Hands Lane, and the Bill was bringing in a greater Sheffield, drawing within the civic net outlying districts such as Norton, Beauchief, Meersbrook, Abbeydale, Hillsbro', Wincobank, part of Tinsley and Catcliffe. In the Sheffield Telegraph there appeared at that time the following: "Cottage houses are rising like exhalations all around; the trams are proving the great building agent, and what were not so long ago wind-swept fields are now beehive colonies. In Crookes, houses are arising as though by a magician's wand." 1900. Wincobank Hall is taken over by the Salvation Army as a centre for rescue work. The local Trade Review at the end of 1900 declares that "the coal trade has enjoyed a period of great prosperity at the expense of the general trade of the country." 1901. February - The statue to the Duke of Norfolk is erected, costing £1,589. The Sheffield Telegraph Local Reservists' Fund closes at £5,860. British Christian Endeavour Mission in Sheffield, with 5,000 delegates. September - Amalgamation of Queen Street and Garden Street Congregational Chapels. November - Total population of Sheffield under Corporation Bill increased to 408,994. November - First proposal to move the University College to St. George's Square. 1902. January - Col. J. E. Bingham advocates through the Press an amalgamation of employers to fight the Trade Unions, and so get fair terms, and offers £10,000 towards such a combination. January - Vickers Ltd. acquire a half share in William Beardmore Ltd., Glasgow. January - E. H. Lemare's farewell to Sheffield, an organ recital on the Albert Hall organ. Grants by the Technical Instruction Committee: £10,210, as against £9,506. The Vickers-Beardmore combine approved by shareholders in increase of capital to £5,200,000 by creation of 400,000 new ordinary shares. February - Sheffield electric system increased from single to double phase alternators to make the supply more readily applicable to power purposes. The memorial to Queen Victoria placed in Barker's Pool, Mr. Alfred Turner being the architect. Vickers' profit for the year, £501,292. March. The Town Trustees give £9,000 towards the funds of the Victoria College. Peace proclaimed at Pretoria, ending the Boer War. Great public rejoicing. June - Census figures for Sheffield show 205,233 males and 203,837 females. August - Coronation of King Edward VII and public rejoicings in Sheffield. September - Viscount Kitchener in Sheffield. November - Coronation festivities in Sheffield cost £4,711. 1903. Dispute at Denaby; 500 evictions; good order preserved; chapels used for sleeping purposes; outside men brought in and ensuing scenes. Endowment of the Sheffield University. The Duke of Norfolk; £8,000, Sir Hy. Stephenson £5,000, Sir Frederick Thorpe Mappin £5,000, and on December 5th total gifts amount to £50,079. The Great Central runs a train between Sheffield and London, doing the journey in three hours exactly, 164 miles. 1904. The new Motor Car Act in force in Sheffield. Grant of £16,000 from the Wesleyan Million Fund to Sheffield, plus £4,000 to the New Central Mission. March - The Privy Council declares its willingness to approve a University for Sheffield if convinced that the financial status be sound. April - Zone tickets come into being round Sheffield. Profit on the trams for the year stated to be: gross £79,578, nett £27,309, accumulated surplus £143,369, deducting grants in relief of rates and renewals. August - The Monolith removed to Endcliffe Woods. August 14th. - World's record established on the Broomhead Moors for nine guns- 2,743 grouse. The valves closed at the Langsett Reservoir, which had taken seven years to build, with a capacity of 1,400,000,000 gallons. The ceremony conducted by Ald. T. R. Gainsford. October 26. Sir Robert Hadfield President of the Iron and Steel Institute. Opening of the lift from the Wicker to the Victoria Station approach. 1905. February - Mr. Samuel Roberts seconds the Address in the Commons. Passive resisters in Sheffield, and 141 have orders made against them by the Sheffield and Ecclesall Unions for non-payment of rates. The gold medal of the Iron and Steel Institute awarded to Prof. J. O. Amold. Sheffield Crematorium opened. The financial status of the Sheffield University assured with all the large works contributing sums from £1,000 to £2,000. Princess Battenberg in Sheffield to unveil Queen Victoria's monument. July - Wedding in Fulwood Chapel, the first for 25 years. The Sheffield Education Committee purchases the University buildings in Bow Street for £32,183, with a proviso that of that amount; £16,699 shall be spent on the adaptation of Wesley College to modern requirements. King and Queen in Sheffield: Opening the Sheffield University Buildings. Fourteen of the Village Homes at Fulwood belonging to ihe Ecclesall Guardians brought into use, 108 children from the workhouse being taken there. Opening of the first session of the Sheffield University. The final statement respecting the Queen Victoria memorial published, showing receipts £3,570 with £3,000 paid to the architect, Mr. Alfred Turner, the balance being given to Queen Victoria Nurses Association. November - Annual meeting of Governors of Sheffield University, showing that the new buildings at Western Bank, with land and furniture, cost £98,000; the new Technical School, St. George's Square, £13,300, the total cost being £138,500. Total endowment shown as £124,570. The Sheffield Education Committee completes its scheme of scholarships and bursaries, making an educational ladder from the elementary schools to the University. What is described as the largest casting ever made is the work of the Brightside Engineering Company for Cammell & Co., weighing 84 tons. The Trade Review, December 31st, 1905, declares that the year had been in striking contrast to 1904. Instead of constant depression, there had been a well marked and continuous upward tendency, broadening especially in June and onwards. Less had been heard from the unemployed in 1905 that in any other great industrial centre. 1906. January - Mr. Asquith's meeting at Norfolk Drill Hall wrecked by Suffragettes. Meetings of Iron and Steel Institute in Sheffield. Subscriptions towards the visit £3,667. May - First Empire Day display at Bramall Lane under Mr. Batey's control; 40,000 people witness the spectacle, with 10,000 children taking part. Work commenced by the staff at the Sheffield Training College on September 11th. The College was opened on October 8th by the Right Hon. A. H. D. Acland. September 18th. - The opening of Firth College as Central Secondary School. Opening of the re-formed Wesley College as King Edward's School on September 19th. by Mr. Augustine Birrell. Record for Sheffield's trams: year ending September 25th, £70,295. Mr. S. Meggitt Johnson gives £5,000 towards a country annexe to the Hospital. November - Princess Christian opens Bazaar in Cutlers' Hall. November 8th. - The honour of knighthood conferred on Mr. W. E. Clegg. T The first subscription towards Sheffield's Bishopric comes anonymously from Bristol, a sum of £1,000. November - Town Trustees give £1,000 per annum for three years to the Sheffield Infirmary, £1,500 to the University movement, and £500 to the Engineers towards a new headquarters. November 19th. - Members of the Sheffield Musical Union go to London, and in Queen's Hall sing Bach's "Sing ye to the Lord." Her Majesty the Queen and other Royalties present. The Kind-hearted Brigade, instituted in Sheffield by Miss Lillie Harris, Lady Editor of the Sheffield Telegraph, holds exhibition of dolls at the Cutlers' Hall; a large subscription list results in dolls and toys being given to 10,000 poor children who then attended. Messrs. Osborn close the public grinding wheel, The Tower, because there is little demand for hulls; this step marks the gradual disappearance of "the little mester" from Sheffield industry. Trade throughout the year boomed; local firms working at full pressure. 1907. January - Inaugural meeting of the Guild of Help in Sheffield. January - Sir Henry Holdroyd opens the new Technical school. January - Sheffield Shakespeare Society formed. Mr. Haldane again visits Sheffield, inspecting the Technical school and the great East End works of Vickers and Jessops. February 9th. - Last issue of the Sheffield Argus, the first issue of which was on sale on October 6th. of the previous year. The Sheffield Press Club closed after thirty years history; noted for its annual dinners with famous guests, and more for its unique late suppers at which practically every notable actor was a guest during his visits to Sheffield. March - Baslow Hydro sold to R. H. Mabbott, of Blackpool, for £11,000. Col. Hughes resigns the position of Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce after holding it for twenty years. May - The Town Trustees give £3,000 towards re-building of the Sheffield Royal Hospital. The first municipal bowling green opened in Sheffield at Meersbrook. June - "Tarspra" first put on Sheffield roads largely through the advocacy of Mr. C. D. Leng. June - Japanese Admirals visit Sheffield works. July - Literary and Philosophical Society in its new home, Church Street. July - Mr. G. S. Baxter succeeds Mr. J. F. Moss as Secretary to the Education Committee. July 27th. - Trial trip of the Lusitania, the largest vessel in the world, from the yards at Clydebank of John Brown & Co., a vessel destined to be torpedoed during the war. August - Opening of the Crofts Vacation School. The Sheffield Guardians declare a profit of £316 on their farm. Staff difficulties arise in the Town Hall on the resignation of Mr. H. C. Sayer, Town Clerk, and of Mr. W. E. Hart, Deputy Town Clerk. It is decided to appoint a new Town Clerk at a salary of £1,250 per annum, with Mr. Sayer consultant for a definite period, the salaries of the department being reduced from £2,600 to £2,250. The Town Clerkship thereupon offered to Mr. Hart, who declines it in August. Motor charabanc smash at Moscar Top; four of the 29 passengers killed by the vehicle colliding with a telegraph pole. September 1st. - The new Rivelin road opened to the public. September 14th. - First issue of the Sheffield Football and Sports special. The Town Trustees give £2,500 to the Technical School for high speed tool testing plant. September - W. Nicholson, Head Smoke Inspector of Sheffield, at a Sanitary Inspectors' Conference in Llandudno, produces figures showing that Sheffield has more bright sunshine than most of the large towns. Sir James Crichton Brown thereupon asks for a definition of "Sheffield sunshine," and is supplied with the methods of recording sunshine in Sheffield and their reliability. Southbourne bought as hall of residence for men students at the Training College, the total cost being £10,000, of which £6,275 is paid by the Board of Education. September - A new tramways record, £73,514. September - Mr. J. H. Yoxall meets 108 new teachers at the Mappin Art Gallery. Mr. Samuel Roberts lectures in Sheffield on the Dangers of Socialism. Mr. H. J. Wilson replies by asking for tolerance in the matter. October - The original home of Ruskin's treasures at Walkley sold for £800. The first movement towards Town Planning occurs through a meeting in the Town Hall of fifty authorities on the subject. November - Cammell Laird get into difficulties with the Government, involving resignations. During this year very great activity occurs in iron and steel over most of the year until October, when there comes a general easing off in orders. In the lighter and the artistic trades depression occurs chiefly in cutlery and silver plating. 1908. January - Mr. George Hall's will originally contained a bequest of £50,000 on trust to be applied as his brother might direct to the foundation of a Clara Hall bequest, the income of which should go to deserving spinsters within a radius of eight miles of Sheffield, but this was revoked by a codicil on the day of testator's death. January - The first "motor cab" seen on Sheffield's streets. January - The last parade of the Hallamshire Rifles as such, Col. Hughes in an inspiring speech asking all present to join the Territorials. Mr. Robert Holmes appointed the first Sheffield officer under the Probation of Offenders Act. General Sir John French chief guest at the dinner of the Chamber of Commerce. February - The old Shrewsbury Hotel, Paradise Square, turned into a Girls' Friendly Institution. March - The coming of age of the Sharrow Cycling Club. April - It is reported that many Congregational churches are in want of pastors, notably Baldwin Street (Attercliffe), Fulwood, Mount Zion, Tapton Hill, and Wicker. Cammell Laird Ltd.'s disastrous year-- no dividends in final six months. April - Mr. Amold Muir Wilson returns from a trip round the world. Sheffield Trades Council welcomes the Old Age Pensions Act. Opening of the Annexe to the Royal Hospital at Fulwood through the generosity of Mr. S. Meggitt Johnson, who gave £5,000 towards this object. A notable campaign in favour of free speech all through the summer; many prosecutions and, in every case, fines imposed. June - The Sheffield Bishopric Fund amounts to £35,000, and it is decided to go to Parliament. Knighthood conferred on Mr. R. A. Hadfield and Colonel Chas. Allen, and at the same time Professor Henry Jackson, a Sheffielder, receives the dignity of the Order of Merit. July 1st. - First Degree Day at Sheffield University. Degrees conferred on the Duke of Norfolk, George Franklin, Colonel Vickers, C. H. Firth, Professor Henry Jackson (Cambridge), Professor Hicks, Dr. Ripper, and Professor Amold. Opening of the Borstal Club, Button Lane, the premises formerly being the Oddfellows' Arms. July - The British Medical Association pays its third visit to Sheffield. The Franco-British Exhibition in London produces extraordinary enterprise by the railways, trips at 5/6 return being run. September - TheVictoria Hall opened. October - Sandwiches provided for the unemployed, and a great Labour demonstration against it. November - Mr. Ramsay MacDonald speaks at Attercliffe at a Labour meeting. November - "Hunger Marchers" put in an appearance in Sheffield. Mr. Bonar Law lectures in the Albert Hall on Tariff Reform. November - 100 skilled Sheffield workmen start from Sheffield on a hunger march through Lancashire and Yorkshire seeking work and collecting. December - It is reported that £80,000 is withdrawn from the banks by works clubs and other workmen's societies. With great distress prevailing in the city, the G.P.O. makes an effort to provide unemployed with work at Christmas, but finds four out of every five useless. 1909. January - It is reported that on the register there are 5,033 unemployed, and that of these 3,049 are married. Temporary work is found for 2,155. Mr. Amold Muir Wilson entertains 2,000 Walkley children in January, and, later in the month, a further 4,000 at Attercliffe. February - The Right Rev. Cosmo Lang becomes Archbishop of York, paying his first visit to Sheffield on February 7th. of the same year. March - Great snowstorm in Sheffield, sixteen inches within thirty hours, total weight estimated at 2,875,000 tons on the 23,000 acres of the city. Sir Robert Hadfield pleads that Sheffield, like Woolwich, is entitled to the irreducible minimum in Government orders. March - Mr. Stuart Wortley introduces Sheffield's Bishopric Bill in the House of Commons. The Children's Act comes into force. April 26th. - The Prince and Princess of Wales open the Edgar Allen Library at the University, and the donor gives £5,000 to the Infirmary and £5,000 to the Royal Hospital. Duke of Norfolk presents Norfolk Park to the city, a gift valued at £60,000. May 21st. - Mr. Asquith, then Prime Minister, speaks in Sheffield with noisy interruptions by the Suffragettes. In May it is reported that during the most severe periods of distress the Lord Mayor's Fund amounted to £6,850, of which £6,500 had been distributed; 7,000 cases had been investigated, and 80,000 tickets of various kinds given out. June - Mr. Joseph Pointer's maiden speech in the Commons very favourably commented on. September - The Rivelin tunnel completed to carry water from the Derwent Valley to the Corporation reservoir at Rivelin. The tunnel is 7,623 yards long, and has taken five years to build, its total cost being £150,000. The two parties of workmen meet in the tunnel on September 20th. September. The river Don diverted, and new housing areas thereby formed. October - Colonel Sir Chas. Allen resigns the colonelcy of the Sheffield Artillery, and is succeeded by Colonel Chas. Clifford. October - Mr. W. F. Wardley, in an outspoken speech, refers to "the vile reptiles who are eating away Sheffield's trade." November - In the last year the Guild of Help had investigated no fewer than 8,700 cases, the first year of its existence. November - It is announced that the University has been enriched by the Hunter bequest of £15,000 for a Chair of Pathology. During this year trade is simply hand to mouth throughout. 1910. January - Record week for the trams, £6,742, as against £6,664 when the King and Queen were in Sheffield in July, 1905. Sheffield Simplex builds its first aeroplanes. March - Mr. A. J. Hobson declares that the new French tariff is ruinous to Sheffield, especially in respect of high speed steel, twist drills and electroplate. Sir George Franklin presented with his portrait, painted by Ouliss. April - Old Colours of the Hallamshire Rifles deposited in the Parish Church. April - Sir Robert and Lady Hadfield visit Japan and are honoured by the Mikado. The meetings of the Iron and Steel Institute are held in Sheffield. Death of King Edward; all places of amusement closed throughout the city, and general mourning. May - The Sheffield Coal Exchange opened. May - Alderman Brittain appointed Town Collector on the death of Sir Frederick Mappin. The Holly Court estate is offered for £40,000, but is sold to Mr. F. A. Kelley for £7,000. July - Prominent men in Sheffield discuss tar macadam. Colonel H. K. Stephenson and Colonel Chas. Clifford purchase the Redmires Racecourse as a training ground for Volunteers. August - Sixty Sheffield labourers leave Sheffield by special train for Southampton, there embarking as firemen on a White Star liner. British Association meetings are held in Sheffield, August 3lst--September 7th. President, Rev. Professor Bonney (Cambridge). A Town Planning Conference takes place at the Sheffield Town Hall. The Trade Union Congress meets in Sheffield, September 12th--17th. Dr. Coward and his Choir go to Germany for a week's concerts. September - Lord Hawke resigns the captaincy of the Yorkshire cricket team. Sir George Franklin opens new sports ground at Norton in connexion with the University, and deals with England's excessive devotion to sport and games; heedless, perhaps, of the Duke of Wellington's dictum that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. October 18th. - The Poor Children's Holiday Association takes 100 little ones to the seaside and 257 for a country holiday, each child being away for a fortnight. November - Judge Adshead Elliott discusses the decentralizing of towns. November 15th - When the making of aeroplanes becomes an industry in Sheffield, it is recalled that a Sheffielder, Stringfellow, built his monoplane seventy years before. November - Within the same week Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. A. J. Balfour address great political meetings in Sheffield. December - The Stock Exchange takes over the old G.P.O. as headquarters. In this year trade is fairly good in Government orders, but very poor for railway material. There has been a distinct advance in best crucible steel and special alloy steel. December - Viscount Milton born, the christening taking place at Wentworth Woodhouse on February 11th, the baby being wrapped in the historic veil given by William the Conqueror to the Fitzwilliam family. Seven thousand guests entertained at the christening, and 50,000 people assembled in the park at night to see the fireworks, with an ox roasted on the North Hill. 1911. January 1st. - The centenary of the Upper Chapel celebrated. January 12th. - Mr. J. C. Clegg, as Chairman, presides over the first meeting of the Sheffield Labour Exchange Advisory Committee. On January 20th. it is humorously observed that midnight in Sheffield lasted longer than anywhere else, because of the faulty clocks, there being a difference of eight seconds in the strike in the centre of the city. January 21st. - The Archbishop, speaking in Sheffield, says it is necessary for the Church of England to take off its coat and go into the world in its shirt sleeves. It is becoming too desperately respectable. January - The local Church Extension Scheme produces new churches at New Hall, Darnall, and certain mission churches. January 25th. - The Drapers' Company of London gives £15,000 for a new wing of the Applied Science Department of the University, this largely through the kindly offices of Judge Denman Benson. Sheffield Chamber of Commerce creates a special fund of £10,000 to protect Sheffield's trade name and reputation. February - Removal of the last toll bar in Sheffield, that at Meadow Hall. The Corporation pays £1,400 or 18 years purchase to free the road. The judge of the County Court deals with the failure of a fried fish shop after being transferred from Jew to Gentile. It is suggested the failure had come about through the Jews withdrawing their custom because the cooking utensils had not been blessed by the Rabbi. March - It is suggested that local collieries do as is done in Germany, and make the miners change their clothes before going down so as to make certain no matches are carried into the pits. April - The Duke of Norfolk gives to the city Coppice Wood, Rivelin, for a King Edward VII Cripples' Home, with five acres of land. It is reported in March that Congregationalism in Sheffield included 4,199 members, 728 teachers, 8,022 scholars, an increase on the year of 49 in members and a decrease of 199 in scholars. March - The Sheffield Choir starts on its world's tour. It extended over six months, the tour being organized by Dr. Chas. Harris. 34,000 miles were covered; 134 concerts were given in Canada, Honolulu, the United States, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and South Africa. The audiences had amounted to 860,000, 74 receptions had been attended, and the total cost was £60,000, leaving a deficit of £5,000. When Mr. Joseph Ward became President of the Sheffield Sunday School Union in March, 1911, there were 159 schools, 4,238 teachers, 40,347 scholars. April - Miss Cleghorn becomes the first woman President of the National Union of Teachers. On May 25th the official figures of the census are published showing that Sheffield stands first in population in the municipalities of Yorkshire. The figures are: Sheffield 454,653, Leeds, 445,568; the ratio of increase since the previous census being Sheffield 11.14% and Leeds 3.87%. In May, Sheffield becomes the first municipality to insist on compulsory notification of consumption. The extraordinary summer of 1911 will be well remembered, and June 8th was the last day of three weeks of exceptionally fine and hot weather, the maximum being 80 degrees on that day. Mr. James Dixon's observations respecting drought were published at Fulwood. They recorded that from January to August those observations had shown a rainfall of 13.51 inches as against a 25 years average of 22.08 inches, and in the summer of 1911 the smallest rainfall had been during July, when only 0.21 inches had fallen against the average for the month of 2.81 inches. The Coronation of the King and Queen is celebrated in Sheffield in very loyal fashion. There is a children's pageant at Bramall Lane, where 30,000 people are present to watch myriad evolutions by 15,000 children. The street decorations are regarded as unsurpassed, medals are distributed to the children, and souvenir programmes to 80,000 school children. Other entertainments are given to the aged poor, 17,000 all told; band performances and fireworks in the parks, bonfires at Sky Edge, the Bole Hills, Ringinglowe, and Old Park Wood; and Coronation oaks planted. In the evening a ball is given at the Town Hall, and the passing of the inevitable illuminated car through the streets rounds off a great day. In July, what is spoken of as the largest steel ingot ever rolled, weighing 130 tons, is produced by Cammells Ltd. In July, representatives from Canada, South Africa and Australia visit Sheffield's large works. A visit also paid to Chatsworth. Mr. Edgar Allen's medico-mechanical institution in Gell Street opened for free treatment of the wage-earning classes, Mr. Allen bearing the entire cost of equipment and maintenance for three years. In August an epidemic of diarrhoea in Sheffield extends over seven weeks, the deaths attributed to it being, week ending Aug. 5th, 34; Aug. 12th, 50; Aug. 19th, 68; Aug. 26th, 54; Sept. 2nd, 52; Sept. 9th, 50; Sept. 16th, 29; Sept. 23rd, 34. Payment of £400 per annum to Members of Parliament comes into force on August 14th. The great railway strike of 1911 brings from Mr. Pointer, M.P., the expression that a sympathetic word would have prevented it, but a bullying tone had precipitated it. In September the Charity School removed to its new quarters at Psalter Lane from East Parade. On September 6th T. W. Burgess, of Rotherham, swims the Channel from the South Foreland to Cape Griznez in 22 hrs. 35 min., being second to Captain Webb in this enterprise, Webb's swim taking place in 1875. In October Professor Amold, in one of his notable lectures, speaks of smoke as Sheffield's life blood. The opening of the tower of St. Vincent's Church, White Croft, which was due to the generosity of Mr. Philip K. Wake, takes place on Oct. 29th, the ceremony being conducted by Cardinal Logue, the first Cardinal to visit Sheffield since the days of Wolsey. Sheffield Corporation's Bill is before Parliament in December, 1911, adding a million and a half to the debt, through street improvements, extension of trams, the Ewden reservoirs, the cost of the Rivelin Road, the superannuation of Corporation officials, and pensions for workmen. December 30th. - Mr. John Tudor Walters, M.P. for Brightside, is honoured by a Knighthood. 1912. The trams create a new record in Christmas week, 1911, £7,499 13s. 0d. against £7,214. In January three areas laid out in Sheffield for Town Planning. In February, Vickers complete E2, a first-class submarine for Great Britain. A curious theory expressed by experts when, in February, Sheffield, Derby and Leicester are afflicted by a scourge of typhoid. It is thought it is due to the consumption of mussels, contaminated by sewage, taken from the rivers Exe and Teign. The State Insurance Act involves many Friendly Societies. The Fitzwilliam Friendly Society is wound up in March with 123 members and funds for division amounting to £7,399, or £60 each. The Norton New Sick Society is also wound up, the 40 members sharing acccumulated funds of £2,047, and the Norton Old Friendly Society follows with 72 members and funds amounting to £1,500 for division. Tinsley absorbed by Sheffield on April 1st, adding to the city a rateable value of £35,000 and a population of 5,690. On May 1st the Shops Act and half-day closing comes into force. June 24th. - First meeting of Sheffield Insurance Committee. On July 15th Sheffield has its first real summer's day of the year, and to that point summer had been one of the wettest and coldest ever remembered. H.M.S. Audacious, the first British-built warship for Great Britain, and built by Cammell Laird & Co., launched at Birkenhead. The final service is held in Townhead Street Chapel on Sept. 22nd, after the building had been sold to the Roman Catholics, with which sect the Jews were also bidding. It is explained that the reason for sale was because of a dwindling congregation, and it is stated that the proceeds will be used to assist needy Baptist congregations in the city. In September Sheffield becomes owner of a new park, relatives of Dr. Payne, of Loxley House, giving 70 acres of Wadsley Chase to the city as open space. In October the Town Trustees begin laying out the Machon House estate, Fulwood, as a garden suburb. The year 1912 saw a great boom in the history of all towns identified with the steel and iron industry, and "the bedrock on which it rested unquestionably lay on armament orders, Sheffield's many orders coming from almost every quarter of the world and trade being very good throughout." Mr. Rossiter Hoyle, then Master Cutler, speaks strongly during his year of office of the inclination of young men in the city to accept clerkships as their life-work when the great works are crying out for skilled manipulators in steel. 1913. At the annual meeting of the Sheffield Savings Bank in January, it is stated that the amount due to depositors has been increased during the year by £59,000, and that if the coal strike and the operations of the Insurance Act had not interfered, this sum would have been increased by a further £50,000. January - The first unemployment benefits under the Insurance Act received by 300 Sheffield workmen. The first town-planning area approved by the Council-- that at Ecclesall, Woodseats and Abbeydale. On May 23rd the tablet in memory of the Sheffield soldiers who fell in the Boer War is unveiled. The York Diocesan Conference held in Sheffield for the last time. December - Opening of the Sheffield Diocesan House. December - 100th Concert by Sheffield Amateur Musical Society. Chief performance: "The Dream of Gerontius." December - Estimated cost of education for year ending March, 1915, £412,283, an advance on previous year of £9,832. 1914. January - Medical Officer's report shows that 1913 was a healthy year in Shefheld, the death rate being 15.7 as against the average for previous ten years of 16.6. Only twice had it been lower, 14.2 in 1910, and 14.3 in 1912. February - A 10,500 h.p. turbo-alternator, said to be the largest in this country, started at the Corporation Electricity Station by the Lord Mayor. March 11th. - Fiftieth Anniversary of the Sheffeld Flood. March 21st. - The Rev. Dr. Hedley Burrows, first Bishop of the new Diocese of Sheffield, "accepted and invested" in York Minster by the Arch-bishop of York. March 27th. - Vickers declare a dividend of 12% on the ordinary stock after a record in profits, £911,996, being £32,000 over the previous record in 1906. April 2nd. - All the collieries in Yorkshire close down, it being estimated that 170,000 men are on strike. The ballot of the Yorkshire miners on the question of accepting the proposals submitted by the Conciliation Board especting the Minimum Wage dispute and returning to work at once results in 27,259.for, and 11,393 against; majority for returning to work, 15,866. April - The new Mortuary and Coroner's Court opened. May 1st. - Dr. Hedley Burrows enthroned in Sheffield Cathedral as Sheffield's first Bishop. May 5th. - The Master Cutler presents to the Chamber of Commerce a gold enamelled badge, set with diamonds, to be worn by the President annually elected by the Chamber. The Chinese Ambassador and his wife visit Mr. Arthur Balfour in Sheffield. June - Annual meeting of the Federation of Master Printers and Allied Trades of Great Britain opens its 14th Conference in Sheffield, the delegates being received by the President, Mr. G. E. Stembridge. June - Governors of Sheffield University decide that Latin shall no longer be a compulsory subject. June 16th. - Sir John Bingham, at York, makes a striking appeal for national service. June 18th. - Sir Robert Hadfield entertains Herr Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach in Sheffield. July - Chas. S. Jagger, a former student in the Sheffield Technical School, awarded the Rome Scholarship in sculpture on the recommendation of the Faculty of Science of the British School at Rome. August 4th. - War declared and Sheffield Territorials mobilize.

Here's a list of Sheffield streets, roads and places pre 20th Century LIST OF STREETS IN SHEFFIELD circa 1700 Balm Green Broad Lane Bull Stake Campo Lane Castle Fold Castle Green Castle Green Head Castle Hill Church Lane Far Gate Fig Tree Lane or New Street Hartshead High Street Holling Lane or Blind lane - later Holly Street Irish Cross Mill Sands New Hall Street Pinfold Lane Ratten Row Redcroft Scargill Croft Snig Hill The Isle The Underwater Townhead Street Waingate Water Lane West Bar West Bar Green IN 1821, Ainley yard, 72, Newfield Albion row, Broad lane end Albion square, 20, Solly street Allen Street, Gibraltar street Allen yard, 13, Smithfield Allot's yard, 18, Porter lane Alpha cottages, Highfield Alsop row, 5, Porter lane Andrew street, Wicker Andrew's yard, 29, Furnace hill Angel street, Market place Appleyard's yard, 21, Furnace hill Armitage yard, 13, Gaol street Arundel street, Norfolk street Arundel lane, Arundel street Backfields, Division street Back lane, Division street Back lane, 18, Wicker Back lane, Rockingham street Back broad street, Park Bacon island, near Hillfoot Badger's row, 25, Portobello Bailey lane, Trippet lane Bailey street, Trippet lane Baker's hill, Market street Baker's yard, 36 Peacroft Bail yard, 56 Pond street Ball yard, 1, Young street Balm Green, Bailey street Bank street, Angel street Barber's court, 20, Radford street Barber nook, Crooks moor Barker's yard, Backfields Barlow's yard, Broad street, Park Barnet street, Snowhill Barns yard, 12, Cross Smithfield Barracks, Pennistone road Barrel yard, 17, Little Pond street Barrel yard, 15, Edward street Barrett's yard, 14, Allen street Bates square Top of Westbar green Bath yard, Philadelphia Batty's yard, Dyer's bridge Batty's yard, 22, Furnace hill Batty's yard, 17, Young street Beach's yard, 1, Solly street Bealey's yard, t2, Young street Bealey's yard, 37, Hereford street Beal's yard, 43, Solly street Beardshaw's court, 39, Allen street Beardshaw's yard, Allen street Beast market, Wicker Beaver's Buildings, 2, Pye bank Beet street, Broad lane Belk's court, 60, Scotland Street Bell's square, Trippet lane Bennett's court, 12, Radford street Bennett's lane, Forge lane Bingham's yard, 35, Radford street Bingham's yard, 10, Young street Birkenshaw's yard, 11, Orchard street Birtle's yard, 1, Young street Bishop street, Tudor street Black Swan yard, 7, Burgess street Black Swan yard, 3, Fargate Blast lane, Canal bridge Blank street, Wicker Blue bell yard, 43, High street Boot yard, Redhill Boot and Shoe yard, Pinstone street Bower spring, Westbar green Bower street, Spring street Bower's buildings, 27, Pye bank Bower's yard, 33, Nursery Bowling green street, Gibraltar street Bradley's yard, 5, Hollis croft Bradow row, 83 Rockingham street Bradwall row, Baley lane Brammall lane, Bennett's wheel Brick pond side, Broad lane Brick yard, 20, Green street Bridgefield, Barnsley road Bridge houses, near iron bridge, Nursery Bridge Inn yard, Bridgehouses Bridge street, Lady bridge Brightmore's yard, 6, Garden street Brightmore's yard, Church street Bright street, South street Bright's row, Hawley croft Bright's yard, Lee croft Britannia place, 41, Garden street Broad lane, Townhead street Broad lane end, Tenter street Broad street lane, Broad Street Broad street, Park Brocco street, Solly street Brook hill, head of Broad lane Brook's open, 20, Nursery Broomhall lane mill, Shemeld's croft Broomhead square, Park hill Broomhead yard, 39, Hoyle street Brown Cow yard, 7, Brighouse hill Browne street, End of Pond street Brown's yard, 106, Eyre street Bunting's yard, Hereford street Burdekin's yard, Bridgehouses Burgess street, Balm green Burgess Yard, 44, Pond street Burgin's Yard, 6, Harvest lane Burton bridge gardens, Pond street Button lane, Foot of Carver street Buxton's yard, 8, Copper street Cabbage alley, Cheney square Cadman's court, 13, Fargate Cadman's yard, 67, Eyre lane Calver square, Duke street Campo lane, Hartshead Canton place, Upperthorpe Carpenter street, near Iron bridge Carr's yard, 24, Smithfield Carr's yard, 68, Newfield Carver lane, Division street Carver street, West street Castle folds, Castle hill Castle green, Castle street Castle hill, Bottom of Hay market Castle street, Foot of Angel street Caton square, 33, Nursery Cayley's yard, 45, Garden street Centre fields, Infirmary road Change alley, 29, Fruit market Chapel lane, 23, Chapel street Chapel street, Bridgehouses Chapel walk, 5, Fargate Chapman's yard, Redhill Charles lane, back of Charles street Charles street, Union street Cheney row, Norfolk street Cheney square, New church street Cherry tree yard, Gibraltar street Church street, top of High street Clay hole, 78, Bridgehouses Clayton's row, 20, Wicker Cliff's yard, 3, High street Cloth houses, 10, Gaol street Clough hill, near Clough o ugh wheel Club, yard, Mill sands Club mill yard, 20, Smithfield Coaldwell's yard, 54 Porter lane Coal pit lane, Balm green Colley's yard, 28, Lambert Street Colliers row, Mansfield row, Park Copley's yard, 88, Broad lane Copley's yard, 6, Portobello Copper street, Gibraltar street Corn hill, Sully street Corn market, Market place Cotton mill bridge, Cotton mill lane Cotton mill lane, Longcroft Cotton mill row, Cotton mill lane Cotton mill walk, Cotton mill lane Cotton street, end of Bridge street Coulson croft Coulson street Coulson street, Westbar Cranshaw's court, Shales moor Cranshaw's yard, Green lane Crawshaw's yard, 39, High street Creswick square, 24, Pond hill Cricket Inn lane, Snowhill, Park Crooks croft Hospital walk Crooks moor, end of Broadlane Crook's yard, 43, Hollis croft Crosland square, 72, Allen street Crossland yard, Broad street, Park Cross Burgess street, Burgess street Cross Keys yard, 4, Shade hill Crossland's yard, 81, Allen street Cross Orchard street, Orchard street Cross Smithfield, Smithfield Cross street, 12, Chapel street Crown alley, Duke street, Park Cumberland street, South street Cupola street, 21, Gibraltar street Daisy walk, 52, Allen street Daniel hill, Upperthorpe Davy's yard, 74, Bridgehouses Dawson's yard, Snow lane Dearman's yard, Trippet lane Denton's yard, 3, Chapel street Dewsnap's yard, 5, Furnace hill Dickenson's yard, Cotton mill lane Division street, Carver street Dixon's lane, Hay market Drury's houses, 30, Gaol Street Duke's lane, back of Duke street Duke street, Broad street Duke street, South street Dunfields, Shales moor Dunfield's court, Dunfields Dun wheel, Cotton mill walk Dungworth's yard, 18, Cumberland street Dyer's bridge, Pond hill Dyer's yard, Wicker Eadon's yard, 43, Peacroft Earl street, South street East bank, Pond street East parade, Church yard Edward Street, Scotland street Eel's houses, 56, Rockingham street Elliott's yard, 14, Furnace hill Emmett's court, New street, Park Emsworth's court, 6, Radford street Emsworth's court, 33, Radford street Emsworth's yard, 8, Radford street Ethcate yard, 13, Edward street Eyre lane, bottom of Surrey street Eyre square, Wicker Lyre street, Surrey street Eyre's yard, 28, Fargate Fanshaw's yard, 99, Eyre lane Fargate, 25, High street Favell's yard, 78, Fargate Favell's yard, 70, Spring street Field's yard, near Hillfoot Fig tree lane, 12, Bank street Fire brick yard, Wicker Fisher's court, Bridge street Fisher's yard, 34, Smithfield Fish market, King street Flat street, near Market street Flint well, Balm green Flockton's houses, near Allen street Flockton's row, 66, Rockingham street Flockton's yard, 7, Jessop street Flockton's yard, 26, Division street Forge lane, 20, Cumberland street Forge lane, Shudehill Foundry lane, Duke street Francis Yard, 29, Peacroft Frith's court, Snig hill Froggatt's yard, Wicker Fruit market, near Haymarket Furnace hill, Westbar green Furnace yard, 24, Scotland street Furnace yard, High street, Park Furnace yard, Garden street Furnace yard, 50, Nursery Furnace hill, Nursery Furniss yard, 40, Eyre lane Furnival street, end of Union street Gaol street, South street Garden square, 90, Broad lane Garden street, Broad lane end Gate yard, Coal pit lane Gell street, Portobello street George street, High street Gibraltar street, Westbar green Gill's yard, 6, Chapel street Glave's yard, 86, Peacroft Gooden's Yard, 8, Bright street Goodlad's houses, near Allen street Grayson's yard, 62, Newfield Grayson's yard, 19, Scotland street Greaves yard, Pond street Greaves yard, 47, Harvest lane Greaves yard, 11, Gibraltar street Green lane, near Roscoe place Green lane, 28, Pye bank Green Man yard, Broad street, Park Green street, Gaol street Greenwood's yard, 42, Nursery Grindlegate, Tenter street Grove houses, Hill top Hadfield's Court, 6, Love street Hadfield's row, 9, Gaol street Hadfield square, 8, Gaol street Halbert square, 3, Spring street Hallamgate, near Reservoir Hallatt's yard, 20, Nursery Hallcar place. Wicker Hall's Yard, 56, Sully street Hall's yard, 19, Orchard street Haly bank, Highfield Hammond's yard, 95, Pond street Hammond's yard, Trinity street Hancock's yard, 60, Hollis croft Hanson's square, Walker street Hardy's Yard, Cotton mill lane Harmer lane, Pond street Hartram's yard, 31, Sully street Hartshead, Watson's walk Harvest lane, Bridgehouses Hattersley's yard, 11, Bright street Haukridge yard, Duke street, Park Hawksworth's yard, 34, High street Hawley croft, Campo lane Hawley's yard, 41, Jessop street Haymarket, Market place Haymarket lane, Haymarket Headford court, Headford Street Headford street, Young street Hereford lane, 13, Cumberland street Hereford Street, South street Hibberson's yard, 12, Sycamore street Hick's lane, West bar Highfield, Little Sheffield High house, Pennistone road High street, Market place High street, Broad street, Park Hill foot, Pennistone road Hill's court, 65, Broad lane Hill's court, 53, Wicker Hill's yard, 54, Nursery Hill's yard, 59, Wicker Hill's yard, 32, Young street Hobson's court, 8, New church street Hobson's yard, 86, Duke street, Park Hodgson's court, Little Sheffield Hodgson's yard, 2½, Pond hill Holbert's yard, 21, Trinity street Holdsworth's row, 9, Shales moor Holdsworth's yard, 15, Jessop street Hollis croft, Broad lane end Holly street, Balm green Hop yard, Clough wheel Horrax yard 79, Fargate Hospital walk, near Sheaf bridge Howard lane, Pond street Howard street, Norfolk street Howden's yard, ½4, Hollis croft Hoyland's yard, 16, Peacroft Hoyle street, 29, Shales moor Hudson's yard, 34, Harvest lane Hughes yard, 36, Smithfield Hughes yard, Lambert street Infirmary lane, Shales moor Isle, Bridge street Jehu Lane, Haymarket Jenkinson's yard, Bailey lane Jepson's yard, 25, Edward street Jerico, Allen street Jessop street, South street Jessop's yard, Carver street Johnson street, 29, Nursery Joiner street, 39, Nursery Jones's yard, King street Keaton's square, Wicker Kilham island, Dun wheel King street, Angel street King's Arms yard, 42, Fargate King and Miller court, 79. Norfolk street Kirby court, 6, Steelhouse lane Kirby lane, High street Kirby lane, Park street Kirby's yard, 21, Cross Smithfield Lambert's croft, Westbar green Lambert street, Trinity street Lambert's yard. Pye bank Law's yard, Hollis croft Leavey greave, near Brook hill Lee croft, Campo lane Lee lane, Brightside Lindley's yard, Newfield Lindsley's yard, Copper street Little Pond street, Shude hill Little Sheffield, bottom of South street Littlewood's yard, 9, Sycamore street Long croft, Dunfields Lord's yard, 29, Trinity street Love at, eel, Spring street Low street, South street, Park Machan's yard, 50, Harvest lane Maiden's row, 27, Duke street Mansfield road, Duke street, Park Market place, bottom of High street Market street, Fruit market Marple's yard, Hollis croft Marple's yard, Solly street Marshall's yard, 80, Rockingham street Marshfield, 32, Portobello Martin's yard, 2½, Broad lane Matthew's yard, 28, Young street Mayer's yard, Duke street, Park Meadow bank, Pond street Meadow street, 10, Allen street Meeting lane, Bank street Milk street, Norfolk street Mill lane, Bridge street Mill lane court, 40, Bridge street Millsands, Bridge street Moorfields, Gibraltar street Moor street, Tudor street Morton's court, 3, Brick yd. Green street Morton's houses, Allen street Morton wheels, Philadelphia Moseley's court, 8, Townhead street Mulberry street, High street Nag's Head court, Haymarket Nag's Head yard, Haymarket Naylor's yard, Chapel street Naylor's yard, Solly street Neepsend, Harvest lane Nell's yard, Rock street Nelson's row, Wicker Nether hallam, Crooks moor Nether slack, Penistone road Netherthorpe, Allen street Newbould's court, 9, Young street New Church street, Norfolk street Newfield, near Iron bridge Newhall street, Snig hill Newhill, Sheffield moor Newmarket Street, Norfolk street New meadow street, Allen street New street, Bank street New street, Park New street, Queen street Newton's court, 32, West bar New town, Park Norfolk lane, Surrey street Norfolk row, 62, Norfolk street Norfolk Street, Market street Norrisfield, Love street North street, Queen street Nowell's yard, 52, Gaol street Nursery, Wicker Nursery lane, 15, Wicker Nursery row, 20, Nursery Nursery walk, Lady bridge Oakes houses, Duke street, Park Oborne street, Bridge houses Old Steam Engine yd. Crook's croft, Park Old street, Broad street, Park Onion's yard, 13, Porter lane Orange street, Broad lane Orchard lane, Orchard street Orchard lane, Park Orchard place, 12, Orchard street Orchard street, Church street Osborne's yard, 11, Smithfield Owen's yard, 44, High street Palfreyman's yard, 39, Newfield Paradise square, Campo lane Paradise street, Paradise square Parker's yard, West bar Parkgate, Broad street, Park Park hill, New street, Park Parkin's yard, Jehu lane Parkin's yard, 78, Peacroft Parrot yard, 110, Sheffield moor Parsonson yard, 16, Smithfield Paternoster row, Pond street Peace yard, 4, Smithfield Peacroft, Tenter street Penistone road, Moorfields Pepper alley, 25, Fargate Pheasant yard, Sheaf bridge Philadelphia place, Penistone road Pickle, Wicker Pinder's yard, 33, Arundel street Pinfold lane, Church street Pinstone street, Norfolk street Pitts moor, Bridge houses Plant's yard, Highfield Pond hill, Flat street Pond hill, Sheaf gardens Pond lane gardens, Dyers bridge Pond Street, Flat street Porter brook, Jessop street Porter lane, Porter street Porter street, Union street Port Macon, Meadow street Portobello, Rockingham street Potter's yard, 85, Eyre lane Prince of Wales yard, 1, Sycamore street Prince's yard, Edward street Prince's yard, Young street Providence row, Allen street Pye bank, Barnsley road Queen's Head yard, Castle street Queen street, Bank street Radford row, Townhead street Radford street, Mien street Ramsden's court, High street, Park Rawson's yard, 21, Harvest lane Rayner's yard, 4, Pond street Redcroft, Pinfold lane Redhill, Broad lane Red place, Solly street Robert's yard, Garden street Robinson a yard, 27, Meadow street Robinson's yard, 40, Harvest lane Rockingham lane, Garden street Rockingham place, Rockingham street Rockingham street, Broad lane Rock street, Chapel street Rodger's court, 3, Norfolk street Roscoe place, Hoyle street Rough bank, Park Rowarth's yard, 43, Charles street Royal Oak yard, 9, Pond street Royston's yard, 9, Young street Russel's yard, 20, Union lane Rutherforth's yard, 78, Broad lane Sambourn square, 7, Edward street Sands paviours, West street Sargent's buildings, Wicker Sargent's yard, Lee croft Saunder's square, New street, Park Saville street, Rotherham road Saxton's yard, 47, Gaol street Scantlebury's yard, 7, Copper street Scargill croft, 7, Bank street School street, Duke street, Park Scotland street, Westbar green Senior's row, 20, Spring street Shales moor, Moorfields Shales square, Duke street, Park Sharrow grange, Highfield Sharrow green, Highfield Sharrow Head, Highfield Sharrow lane, Highfield Sharrow moor, Highfield Sharrow mount, Highfield Shaw's yard, Meadow street Shaw's yard, 65, Newfield Sheaf gardens, the Banks Sheaf island, Pond street Sheaf street, Pond hill Sheard's yard, 14, Orchard street Sheffield moor, South street Sheldon's square, 24, Orchard street Sheldon's yard, Wicker Shemeld's croft, Forge lane Shepherd's yard, 14, Hollis croft Shepherd's yard, 14, Newfield Shepherd's yard, 26, Peacroft Shepherd's yard, 17, Solly street Sherley hill, Sharrow grange Shillitoe's yard, 72, Eyre lane Shouter's yard, 29, Waingate Shude hill, Baker's hill Siddall street, Broad lane Silcock's square, 16, Pond hilt Silver street, Westbar green Silver street head, Lee croft Simscroft, Townhead street Singleton's yard, 8, Chapel street Slack's yard, Allen street Sleigh's lane, 4, Carver street Sleigh's yard, Carver street Smith street, Scotland street Smith's yard, 10. Edward street Smith's yard, High street, Park Smith's yard, 14, Doily street Smith's yard, 35, Nursery Smith's yard, 27, Snow lane Smith's yard, Spring Street Smith's yard, West bar Smith's yard, 41, Wicker Snig hill, Angel street Snowhill, Broad street, Park Snowhill, Scotland street Solly street, Peacroft Souter's lane, Townhead street South street, Park South street, Sheffield moor Spinning street, Coulston croft Spitalfields, Wicker Spital hill, Pickle Spooner's yard, Tenter street Spring gardens, Thomas street Spring lane, Broomhall lane Spring street, Coulston street Spring street, Snig hill Stacey's yard, Furnace hill Stacey's yard, 35, Scotland street Stafford yard, Redhill Stag's Head court, Pinstone street Staley's yard, Rockingham street Staley's yard, 27, Young street Staniforth yard, Duke street, Park Stanley street, 1½, Wicker Steelbank, Crooks moor Steelhouse lane, 84, Westbar green Stephenson's yard, 77, Westbar green St. James' row, Church street Stone yard, George's street Stoney croft, near Iron bridge Styran's yard, 33, Broad lane Styring's court, 1, Cross Smithfield Surrey street, Norfolk street Swallow's yard, 21, Smith street Sycamore hill, Union lane Sycamore street, Arundel street Sykes field, 22, Porter lane Sykes square, Pinstone street Sykes yard, Church street Sylvester gardens, Porter brook Taylor's yard, 36, Harvest lane Taylor's yard, Millsands Taylor's yard, 10, Townhead street Taylor's yard, Trinity street Tenter street, Westbar green The Banks, near Clough wheel Thomas street, Broomhall lane Thornton square, 23, Green street Three Cranes yard, 18, Queen street Tilt yard, 50, Pond street Timm's yard, Lee croft Townhead cross, Townhead street Townhead street, Church street Trickett's yard, 47, Coalpit lane Trinity street, Gibraltar street Trippet lane, Pinfold lane Trippet yard, 37, High street Trough yard, 2, Whitecroft Tudor place, Tudor street Tudor street, Sycamore street Turner's yard, 22, Bright street Turner's yard, 31, Norfolk street Twelve o'Clock, End of Wicker Tyas yard, 56, Peacroft Tyas yard, 26, Meadow street Type lane, Nursery Union lane, Charles street Union street, Norfolk street Union yard, near Iron bridge Union yard, 60, Peacroft Upper Edward street, Edward street Upper meeting yard, 25, Fargate Upper slack, Penistone road Upperthorpe, Infirmary Vicar lane, Church street Vicker's yard, 30, Edward street Vicker's yard, 43, Garden street Vicker's yard, Hillfoot Waingate, Haymarket Wainwright's square, '23, Norfolk lane Wainwright's yard, 86, Eyre street Walk mill, Twelve o'Clock Walker street, 23, Wicker Walton's yard, Cornhill Warbleton's square, 18, Eyre lane Ward's court, 58, Scotland street Ward's square, 1, Duke street Warmbath yard, Green lane Water lane, Angel street Waterloo place, Green lane Water street, Spring street Watery lane, Roscoe place Watson's walk, Angel street Weaver's yard, Campo lane Weigh lane, Shales square Wellington street, Carver street Well's yard, 50, Coalpit lane Well's yard, 36, Newfield Well's yard, 87, Pond street West bar, Snig hill Westbar green, West bar West Don, Philadelphia place Western bank, Broad lane Westfield lane, Pinfold lane West lane, West street West street, Church street Wheatcroft row, 12, Chapel street Wheats' yard, 70, Carver street Whieldon street, Broad lane Whieldon's yard, Red hill White Bear yard, High street White Bear's walk, Norfolk street White croft, Tenter street Whitehead's yard, Hawley croft Whitehouse lane, Infirmary lane Whitelock's yard, 2, Long croft Wicker, Lady bridge Wicker lane, Nursery street Wigfold's yard, 2, Smithfield Wilkinson's court, 22, Meadow street Wilkinson's court, 16, Peacroft Wilkinson's street, Gell street Wilkinson's yard, 85, Duke at. Park Wilkinson's yard, 12, 14 & 27, Young st. Willey's square, 31, Nursery Willey street, Wicker Willey's yard, 61, Wicker Wilson's yard, 18, Haymarket Wilson's yard, 18, Orchard street Windle's yard, 2?, Lambert street Woodcock's row, 66, Eyre street Woodcock's yard, 24, Pond street Wood grove, Hill foot Woodhouse yard, 16, Young street Woodside, 12, Harvest lane Woolhouse yard, 11, Peacroft Woolhouse yard, Broad street, Park Woollen's yard, 28, Radford street Workhouse croft, Paradise square Workhouse lane, West bar Worstenholm's yard, Carver street Wright's houses, Providence row York street, 31, High street Young street, South street Young's yard, 11, Portobello

There is one, yes. You follow Livesey Street round the back of the stadium, until you get to the scrapyard (and the lane goes off to the right towards the Farfield Inn, but you don't follow it round there). There is a footpath up the hill right in front of you, follow that and the graveyard is just up there - I remember going there as a kid and getting freaked out by it!! It is hidden by trees on Google Earth/Flash Earth, so follow it round to get to: Latitude: 53, 24, 31.1 N Longitude: 1, 29, 22.6 W (ish)

There used to be two Esseldo Cinemas one on Barnsley Road at Sheffield Lane Top and the other at Southey Green. They were very grand places with statues set in alcoves on the side walls. They both had balconies as well as "Dress Circles". The on a Southey is where the Tesco is now and the Barnsley Road location was the "Adelphi" bingo hall for a number of years but I believe it has since been demolished

A few more for your list. Taking trains from Victoria Station and the steps that went from the Wicker up to the platforms. SUT tours in Pond Street where we always got the coaches to away games. A number of Department Stores, Cockaynes, Walshes,Robert Brothers and Pauldens(which became Debanhams) The Sidewalk Cafe on Chapel Walk. The Centre Spot Cafe on Snig Hill Longley Park Swimming Baths The Kop at Hillsborugh without a roof. Watching Yorkshire play Cricket at Bramall Lane. Buse on the Moor and Fargate. The original Trams. Sexy Rexy The original Mullberry Tavern. The Old Blue Bell The Haufbrauhauss. The Wapentake More to follow as I remember them.

The flood was way before the picture. The river does run stronger nowadays in the absence of the Niagara Dam and weir -but the road was pretty much raised for the building of the bridge, and connecting Middlewood road to it. If you go there now, you'd see how raised Middlewood Road/Catchbar Lane was raised in relation to Leppings lane by looking from the bridge towards the old Cinema/bingo hall - that was built on the level of those roads and Leppings lane was below it. Also, If you look at the river nowadays too, to prevent flooding, everything around it was built to a safe level above, so effectively the area was built up.

Imagine you're stood where the Gas shop is now, on the corner - looking down Leppings Lane. The bridge will be now where the river is.

Leppings Lane is one of those stand-out road names in Sheffield, mainly becoming famous for being the road to the away-end of Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium (and later, the venue by which the Hillsborough Disaster occured). The name of the road came about from around the end of the 19th Century, when it was simply a dirt-path which had to cross the River Don that runs through Sheffield. In order to get from one side to the other, you had to navigate the 'Leaping' (Or 'Lepping') stones. in the picture below (dated 1881), you'd be looking from what is now the Catch-Bar Lane junction area, down towards the dog-leg near the stadium. Hillsborough stadium itself will be erected towards the top-right area of the picture.

Prominent in the area are the Burgon and Ball buildings, which run quite a distance along Holme Lane, to the River Loxley. This picture shows the edge of the huge Burgon and Ball building by the river:

Law Bros. Roundabout is situated at the junctions of Penistone Road, Penistone Road North, Herries Road North and Leppings Lane and is known locally as 'Law Bros. Roundabout' due to the name of the large Esso garage situated on the Leppings Lane-Penistone Road North corner. The petrol station area now features a small convenience store with post office, garage, car wash and Burger King franchise - in the past the corner featured a curved terrace of houses, including the old local Wadsley Bridge Post Office, Sandwich shops and travel agents (also part of Law Bros.). However, the junction has changed dramatically over the years - just behind where Law Bros. Petrol station now stands, on the River Don, there was a weir known locally as 'Niagara Falls'. This Americanised name still remains in the area with The Niagara Sports Ground, the area of which was at one time a small dam that fed the weir. A smaller-but-similar type weir can be found a little further along the river nowadays, which is also now referred to by people who know of it as 'Niagara' (this one can be found where the river runs behind the Sheffield Wednesday training gound, off Middlewood Road). The following picture is a view from Herries Road North, looking towards Leppings Lane. Penistone Road runs across the picture. The house in the view is right at the bottom corner of Leppings Lane and is dated around the 1920's. Of course, this area has now completely changed and you'd now be looking at the huge roundabout which is the first real indication of entering Hillsborough from Junction 36 of the M1 motorway. Now part of the Hillfoot Steel buildings, the following picture shows the old Corporation (SYT) Bus Depot on Herries Road North, near the roundabout. I remember attending 'open days' here as a kid. Note again, the lack of a roundabout.

A host for many cup Semi-Finals, Hillsborough was the venue for the 1977 match between Manchester United and Leeds United. This picture shows a spot of bother between the two at the Leppings Lane end, where mounted police begin to move in. Notice Quinns old shop being the last of the terrace.

WOW ! Fantastic pictures -especially the one of Holme Lane which looks sooooo different now !!

A couple more Sheffield Tram pictures: This tram, destined for Nether Green, is on the route frequented by Steve in his post above - this one is passing by Hillsborough Park. Heading down 'Barrack Hill' (Langsett Road), this tram has just passed Hillsborough Barracks and is heading fowards Hillsborough Corner. A picture viewing along Holme Lane (From Hillsborough Corner, towards Malin Bridge), a number of houses on the right of this scene have been demolished, but you can make out the Tram Sheds (disused and abandoned during the time of this picture) about in the centre of the picture.

HILLSBOROUGH CORNER The juction of Middlewood Road, Holme Lane, Langsett Road and Bradfield Road is known locally as 'Hillsborough Corner'. Some people refer to Hillsborough Corner as being this whole shopping area district, however the term historically refers to the very junction itself. This is almost the gateway into Hillsborough, with it's shops and amenities, it is almost a town-within-a-town. The face of the actual junction itself has changed many times over the years, most dramatically so in the late-80's, early-90's as developments took place to accomodate the Supertram - particularly the turning from Langsett Road onto Holme Lane for trams on the blue 'Malin Bridge' route. The Langsett Road-Holme Lane corner is now very much open space, with an inset bus-stop where buses can pull in without disturbing any traffic or trams heading for Malin Bridge. A little peer over the walls reveals a small river embankment, which runs under the bridge towards the Hillsborough end of Langsett Road. Over the years, this corner has been occupied with buildings, now demolished - including the 'White Buildings' as they were known in the early part of the 20th century (named because of it's white facade). The White Buildings later made way for a newer brick-type set of buildings and hosted many shops and cafe's (notably Coffee 'n' Cream, right on the corner in the 80's) and I remember one of the shops here was used makeshiftly as a radio studio for a local temporary radio station for a few festive periods when it had gone without use for a couple of years. The Holme Lane-Middlewood Road corner now stands almost derelict since Oxfam's shop ended their long tenancy on the very corner of the site. Much the same shape as it has been for a ver long the curved corner has housed a number of different shops along the years along the run of both roads, including Newsagents, coffee shops, take-aways, etc. Around the turn of the 20th century and for many years that followed, it was occupied by the 'Hillsborough Inn'. Clothing stores have always seemed to dominate the Middlewood Road-Bradfield Road corner, most recently the now vacated 'Greenwoods' traditional gents clothing shop. The shop currently stands empty with rumours of a modern 'Subways' sandwiches franchise being introduced to the site. Above the shop itself is the Trickshots snooker club, accessible via a door a short way down Bradfield Road (Between the amusment arcade and wht is now know as 'The Shakey' pub - formerly the Shakespeare). Before Greenwoods, the shop was for a long time occupied by Burton's the tailors. Around the turn of the 20th century however, the site was Bush's grocers shop (pictured with the Hillsbrough Inn opposite above). Legends bar is now the current occupier of the last corner, Bradfield Road-Langsett Road. Legends has been present since the mid-late 90's but before that was for many years associated with Timpson's shoe-shop. The familiar green-writing on cream-background shop front encased a small, but very well stocked shoe-shop where I remember going each year for my shoes for school (pictured opposite Greenwoods above).

Apparantly there was a Peter Stringfellow opened/owned bar called Down Broadway that was an underground place on High Street near where Cavells bar is now. It didn't have a licence and instead served coffee's, but did have live bands on After a year or two the Stringfellows decided to go upmarket and it closed down. They then opened the Penthouse Nightclub on Dixon Lane In the late 60s and early 70s Down Broadway would not let anyone in who was wearing jeans including denim skirts. The DJs used to take their jobs very seriously at Down Broadway. As well as Motown, they also pioneered a lot of the early reggae music, Trojan and all that. One of the dj's there used to use the Isley Borthers' version of "I Hear a Symphony" as his theme. Does anyone have any memories of this ? Was it a club or a coffee bar or a pub ?

PETER HARRAP When asked his age, Peter replied somewhat uncertainly, 'Ooh, er, 20'. The son of a mining training officer, Peter studied at Sheffield University and was doing quite well until a Currah Microspeech unit decided to destroy his Spectrum and thus plunged him into a life of games designing. Like so many other young programmers, Pete started with 'a little ZX81' and then skipped a big ZX81 by selling some camera equipment to buy a Spectrum. He taught himself machine code programming on the 81 and 'basically transferred that to the Spectrum'. Until meeting Ian Stewart and Kevin Norburn in Just Micro, Pete used to do some hacking and design programs to alter existing games. His city redesigner for Ant Attack was sent back because Quicksilva told him they were already developing something themselves; although this never appeared, Zombie Zombie did allow the player to rebuild and change the city. Peter Harrap hit the headlines (literally) with his first game, the CRASH Readers Award winner, Wanted: Monty Mole. A wicked sense of humour was apparent in the game, and it is this angle that is most noticeable in the follow up. Apart from programming entire games, Pete is responsible for many of the Spectrum graphics in other Gremlin games, he has designed the main character in Beaver Bob, for instance. This led to some ribald comments on Bob's suggestive style of walking - the irrepressible Harrap humour sometimes verges on the - well, naughty. Monty on the Run is the true successor to Wanted: Monty Mole. Like its forerunner, it is a platform game with many and varied elements. Perhaps the most significant is the fact that Monty can now somersault rather than just jump. When asked whether the Commodore game Impossible Mission might have been a (forgive the pun) springboard, Pete just smiled. The story, as we know, so far: Monty Mole, suffering from a shortage of coal owing to the miners' strike, enters a mine to steal some. After many misadventures he meets Arthur Scargill and is sent to prison for theft. His friend, Sam Stoat, has a go at rescuing him, but fails in the attempt, so Monty is left to complete his sentence. With time on his hands he takes to the prison gymnasium and becomes super fit, learning to somersault in the process. He gets out of gaol and tries to flee to Brazil. This is where the action of Monty on the Run takes place, as he boards a ship and tries to escape to France. Money is of the essence, and fortunately there are gold sovereigns to be collected, but in order for the ship to sail, Monty has to perform several tasks, all of which require the right tool for the job. On top of that there are hosts of malcontents trying to stop him. The 'orrible 'arrap has programmed in numerous devious traps, some of which are so mind-bogglingly cruel it's mind-boggling. There are lifts with nasty habits, teleport beams which are only safe if they are a certain colour and some of which can deposit you in a lethal situation. Objects to be collected are placed in almost impossible positions, and often, after hours of trying to reach them, they turn out to be useless or, worse still, positively dangerous. This is not a game for the squeamish! Peter, who is quietly spoken, tends to a calmness that is belied by the mischievious delight he takes in setting the hapless player up for a pratfall. But I've no doubt that thousands will be queueing up for a custard pie in the face by October when Monty on the Run is released.

A GREMLIN IN THE WORKS Interview with Gremlin Graphics from CRASH magazine, July 1985. Quietly sitting at home one evening last summer, watching the evening news and with computer games far from my mind, the peace was shattered when this platform game suddenly appeared on the screen. Startled with injured surprise that some upstart new company should dare to feature a new game on telly before letting CRASH know, all I caught of the item was that it had something to do with Arthur Scargill, flying pickets and a mole. It seemed trendily topical - another cheap bunch jumping on the games bandwagon with a rip-off idea timed to catch the miners' strike? The company's name was Gremlin Graphics. In the event CRASH wasn't missed out. We got an early Spectrum version, doctored so we would could visit any room in case none of us were able to withstand the flying pickets or the infamous crushers, and thus we were introduced to the delights of Wanted: Monty Mole, and became acquainted with Gremlin Graphics, the company that won the 1984 CRASH Readers Award for the best platform game - far from a rip-off. That was in July. Gremlin Graphics has now been going for a year and it seemed time to visit Sheffield and find out how things were going. HOW TO GET A GREMLIN GOING Alpha House, Carver Street is a gaunt Victorian office block that might once have been fashionable but now lies virtually, though tidily, empty. The Gremlins refer to it as 'the prison', an impression reinforced by the long, narrow corridors painted in institution maroon and cream. Gremlin Graphics has two rooms which for some obscure reason are situated high up in the building and quite some way from the ancient lift which no-one seems to use. When I spoke to Ian Stewart, Sales and Marketing Director, about the visit, he told me to stop outside a shop called Just Micro. This turned out to be a thriving and very busy computer shop which is owned by Ian and his partner Kevin Norburn, the Financial Director of Gremlin Graphics. A phone link between the shop and the office, soon brought Ian down to greet me and drag me away from the beeping, squawking screens that lined three walls of the shop's interior. The corridors of Alpha House may have been prison-like, but once through the door and into Gremlinland, a different atmosphere pervaded. Of the two rooms, one is a general office, and the other, larger, room is equipped with desks, computers and screens for the in-house programming team. The programmers had gathered specially for my visit (more to give a third-degree on CRASH reviews than in my honour I suspected - the usual reason programmers want to talk to magazine people), and were busy falling over the ubiquitous C5, which seems to have taken over from the Porsche as a software house vehicle. I never did ask what it was doing up there on the third floor. Before founding Gremlin Graphics Ian Stewart had already accumulated 12 years retailing experience culminating in a group managership for Laskys, but the itch to work for himself proved too strong and he joined forces with Kevin Norburn to open a computer shop. 'When Kevin and myself had opened Just Micro, we always said as soon as the shop got rolling and we found the time and the necessary programmer, that we would like to have our own software house.' The shop did get rolling and the first necessary programmers transpired in the form of Peter Harrap and Tony Crowther. Ian and Kevin were well aware from the start that they would have to put together a professional team to get safely off the ground. Tony Crowther, already well known for his Commodore programs Loco, Son of Blagger and Killerwatt, was made a company director and went on to write Potty Pigeon and Suicide Express for Gremlin before differences on the board led to his leaving the company. Looking around to ensure good distribution, Ian reckoned Geoff Brown of US Gold, who had just started Centresoft distributors was going to be a power and invited him to become managing director. But it was with young Pete Harrap that Gremlin really got going. GOLD COAL DIGGERS 'Peter Harrap first came to us with a complaint,' Ian recalls, 'which was that his Currah Microspeech had blown his Spectrum up.' At the time Pete was at university. He was into hacking and programming to some degree and had written a program that allowed you to redesign and rebuild the city in Quicksilva's Ant Attack. He sent it to them, but Quicksilva declined to use it. Over the protracted matter of Currah getting the damaged Spectrum repaired, Pete visited Just Micro a lot. As Ian says, 'We got to know him quite well, and although I think he got aggravated on a number of times, we made a friend more than anything else. We said to him, 'well you're into programming why don't you spend a bit more time on it and develop a game?' So we got talking and I came up with the idea of a mole, and we decided it would be a platform game. Pete's father is a mine training officer, so we decided to use that and put the game underground - a mole can go above or below ground, which adds variety. As he was writing it the miners' strike developed, so we introduced different criteria into the program to tie in with the strike like the flying pickets and the effigy of Arthur Scargill.' It was the caricature of Scargill that gave Ian a hook upon which to hang his launch. Eight radio stations, national newspapers and national television news gave the game coverage. 'It was a useful boost, but it was a lot of hard work, it didn't just happen - wheels within wheels to see the program got the exposure it did. Really, from that point we've grown to the stage we're at now.' LOOKING BUOYANT With so many software houses finding themselves in a dodgy condition lately, I asked Ian what he felt about Gremlin's position in the market after one year. 'I see it as being very healthy. As far as other software houses are concerned, their approach must be to be very careful about who they deal with and make sure their advertising expenditure is reasonable but not too low-key. They will also have to be careful about the quantity of games released through the year, with the fear of damaging the sales of one product up against another. I don't mind marketing my product against someone else's, but not against my own. It's a waste of advertising for one, and obviously the programmers don't get the rewards they should do from the sales their programs achieve.' Ian reckons the business has got much tougher over the past twelve months and that it is no longer easy for people to set up a software house and make a success of it. 'If we were starting this July instead of last July, it would be a totally different story. We came in at the right time with the right product and the right marketing and it worked for us. Now you have to have a track record, and the way you go about presenting games to a distributor has got to be professional. The way you market the product has got to be sensible and you must have your programs ready well in advance. I think we're hitting a happy situation at the moment where we're able to backlog software so we can release it when we want, but we propose to keep releasing right through the summer to keep the name in the forefront. I would like to think that Gremlin will be one of the top five software houses by the end of the year. On the Spectrum there are several planned releases kicking off with Beaver Bob (In Dam Trouble), followed by Grumpy Gumphrey - Supersleuth and Metabolis, and then onto October and the pre-Christmas release of Monty on the Run. In addition there are releases planned for the Commodore 64, some conversions and some originals, as well as games for the C16 and Amstrad, All of which must be keeping Gremlin Graphics very busy, and it seems that Ian is thumbing his nose at the traditional summer slump. 'Obviously the sales figures that you achieve over Christmas are double those you achieve for the other times of the year, but I think keeping the market buoyant for the rest of the year is very important. I don't mind getting lower sales through the summer - it keeps the Gremlin name prominent; and it keeps the programmers busy - it's important for them to be able to work twelve months of the year rather than six and it's important for us to have revenue coming in for twelve months of the year rather than six! I would hate to think I was holding product back just for Christmas.' Looking at 'the prison' there is obviously plenty of room to expand, should they wish to. At present Gremlin employs four full-time in-house Z80 programmers all writing for the Spectrum, Pete Harrap, Chris Kerry, Shaun Hollingworth and Christian Urquhart. A company called Micro Projects consisting of three programmers write Gremlin's Commodore games and conversions, and Ian is investigating other talent. 'I would like to see our in-house personnel double this year, to a maximum of ten, so that we have at least one programmer who is competent on one of the major machines, by which I mean Spectrum, Commodore, Amstrad and Atari. That means we are on the look out for more programmers and more product.' The Gremlins gathered: left to right, Shaun Hollingworth, Kevin Norburn, Ian Stewart, Chris Kerry, Peter Harrap and Christian Urquhart. UNSOCIAL HOURS Although the in-house team are employed full time, few of them work consistently at the offices, preferring to spend some time there but more at home working. 'Programmers tend to work rather unsocial hours and as the time required might mean them working all day and then into the small hours they find it easier to work in the comfort of their own homes. But they do come into the office at least once a week.' With this sort of working flexibility, I wondered whether there was any sense of 'team spirit'. 'Oh yes,' Ian replied instantly, 'each programmer will discuss each other's work and they'll discuss various routines that they're using, the gameplay elements within the game and various graphics - Peter Harrap does a number of the graphics for other people, he has a bent towards designing graphics and he's very quick. The bulk of the ideas for games come from the Gremlin office,' Ian continued, 'we have brain bashing sessions, sit down and discuss the types of program we would like to put out - I'm the culprit as far as the characters go. What tends to happen is that general ideas are thrown about and then the programmer goes away and draws up a plan of the way the program could work. Then we discuss that again before the programming starts, so we end up with a sort of storyboard. It works very well, because you can identify the areas that you could make within the program or the improvements you can make before it actually gets started. There's nothing worse, and it has happened to us, to be halfway through a program and find that it's not going to work. If you had sat down and spent a little more time at the outset you would have identified all the problems and saved a lot more time. I refuse to continue with something that I may not be happy with at the end.' Before moving into the programming room to have a look at the new games coming along, I asked Ian, thinking of Monty on the Run, whether he thought platform games were a played out genre. 'Oh no, definitely not. Hopefully with Monty on the Run you'll see a different element enter platform gameplay. We have introduced some further exciting elements which I think the public will like. We see it as a great improvement on Wanted: Monty Mole and I think it will get a bigger following.' Is he irritated when other companies try to jump on the success bandwagon of Monty Mole, or, as Software Projects has suggested, that platform games like Monty Mole are jumping on the success bandwagon of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner? 'Artic's Mutant Monty was a direct hype of a number of games. We didn't feel inclined to do anything about the fact that they had used 'Monty' and were obviously hyping off the success of Monty Mole. As to Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, Miner 2049er was the first, and as to whether the people that originated that program feel the same as Software Projects, I don't know. I see no reason to diminish our own glory when they've had such a nice success with both programs, and they are both very good programs. Perhaps it's a case of being a little bit jealous, I don't know, maybe Monty Mole's better.' One thing for certain is that Monty on the Run is very much better than Wanted: Monty Mole. The mean elements of the first game have been made even meaner in the second. As Ian comments, 'That is Pete Harrap's sheer bloody-mindedness. If people thought the first Monty was bloody-minded, they'd better look at the next one! He's done some very funny things on it. CHRIS KERRY Chris is the baby of the team at 18 (19 in December), but of the team he has the longest list of credits to his name. He wrote his first game at 16. It was called Gremlins and no one wanted it. Computers first cropped up on the second year computer course at school, but failed to catch his interest. Then in the third year he joined a computer group. 'We just used to mess about, but I became interested in how they actually worked. Then the ZX81 came on the market and I got me sister to buy me one, and I learned to program machine code on that. When the Spectrum came out I got one and spent a year trying to figure out how to do the screen because it's got a right weird way of storing things. In the end, I really learnt to program by listening to other people and by reading magazines.' After writing a Galaxian type game, Chris turned out Jack and the Beanstalk which Thor accepted and released. 'It wasn't very good, but you learn from your mistakes. The screen pictures were good, but the graphic movement was terrible!' Chris wrote two more follow-ups to JATBS, Giant's Revenge and The House that Jack Built. All these games featured heavily and brightly coloured backgrounds which distinguished them from almost every other program on the market. It was a trademark he kept when he moved over to Gremlin Graphics and produced the second Monty game, Monty Mole is Innocent. Chris is now finishing off Metabolis, which is a departure graphically for him. The way the character is used in the game is quite comical, and there are what Ian Stewart calls 'some nice, silly little touches to it.' You play one of the last human beings free of the evil influence of aliens that have taken over the planet and are turning people into monsters. You haven't entirely escape the effects of their plans, however, being a bird with a still-human brain. It is a giant, colourful maze, full of hazards of course, through which you just guide your birdman until discovering the potion that returns you to a human form. Having once again become human, you still possess the abilities of a bird, so you can fly as well as walk. One of the nice little touches is the reference to infamous Gremlin crushers, but these do not kill you outright - they just flatten you for a while. Metabolis looks like being the most unusual program Chris Kerry has written.