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  1. Ponytail

    Balloon

    Plan showing the Balloon Tavern, Sycamore Street. Plan of the premises in Arundel Street and Sycamore Street belonging to Parker, Potts and Denton, and of the adjoining premises belonging to James Hibberson, 1827. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04033&pos=293&action=zoom&id=103278 Shows Arundel Street, [Arundel Lane], Sycamore Street, foot road from Pond Street, John Wilson's furnaces, stable, carriers warehouse, counting house, brewhouse, gateway, house, passage, Balloon Tavern, workshops, merchant's warehouse, etc. Sheffield History A-Z Public Houses Listing. Balloon Tavern, 21 Sycamore Street Open. 1825 or earlier, Closed. 1900 Span. 75. 1825. William Baker 1828. William Baker 1830. William Baker 1833. Francis Chambers 1834. Francis Chambers (died 18/2/1837, Lung inflammation, aged 49) 1854 Joseph Birks [6 Sycamore Street]
  2. Ponytail

    Edgestones

    Shows Edgestones Jessop Street & South Street. Improvements in South Street, Coalpit Lane, Balm Green and Hereford Street, with a selection of part of South Street and Jessop Street, 1825. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04251&pos=2&action=zoom&id=105413 Marked: South Street [The Moor], road from Manchester, Younge Street [Young Street], Bennets Lane [Bennett Lane], Hereford Street, [Jail, Fail, Tail Street?], Bright Street, Cumberland [Street], Jessop Street, T. Holy's garden [Holy Green], Earl Street, Rockingham Street, Landers Lane, Duke Street, Carver Street, Ward Street, Porter Lane, Union Street, Sugar House, Furnival Street, Coalpit Lane, Burgess Street, Cross Street, Pinston Street [Pinstone Street], St Paul's, Charles Street, Norfolk Street, Balm Green, Far Gate, an Division Street.
  3. Ponytail

    Breweries A-Z

    Plan of Thomas Rawson and Co., Pond Street Brewery, c. 1832. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04208&pos=22&action=zoom&id=105173 Marked: Pond Street, Arundel Lane, houses, malt houses, joiners shops, stables, shed, coopers shops, scalding room, malt warehouse with vat houses under, drying kilns, boilers, engine house, coat yard, brew house, dwelling house, kitchen, counting house, Harmers open [presumably Harmer Lane]. Owners / occupiers marked: Septimus Priestley and Joseph Levick. Shows progression of plan https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04206&pos=20&action=zoom&id=105169
  4. Ponytail

    Edgestones

    Is this the same sort of thing as previous post or are they just measuring the road out? Section of land near Broad Lane. Not dated. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04051&pos=128&action=zoom&id=57011 St George’s Square. Section near Broad Lane, for St George’s Church, 1806. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04054&pos=129&action=zoom&id=61724 St George’s Square. Section across the lower street in Broad Lane for St George’s Churchyard, 1806. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04053&pos=130&action=zoom&id=62214
  5. Ponytail

    Reminiscenses Of Old Sheffield

    Plan of Sugar House, Union Street, Sheffield, the property of Mr Revel. December 1826. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01830&pos=133&action=zoom&id=71183 Improvements in South Street, Coalpit Lane, Balm Green and Hereford Street, with a selection of part of South Street and Jessop Street, 1825. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04251&pos=2&action=zoom&id=105413 Marked: South Street [The Moor], road from Manchester, Younge Street [Young Street], Bennets Lane [Bennett Lane], Hereford Street, [Jail, Fail, Tail Street?], Bright Street, Cumberland [Street], Jessop Street, T. Holy's garden [Holy Green], Earl Street, Rockingham Street, Landers Lane, Duke Street, Carver Street, Ward Street, Porter Lane, Union Street, Sugar House, Furnival Street, Coalpit Lane, Burgess Street, Cross Street, Pinston Street [Pinstone Street], St Paul's, Charles Street, Norfolk Street, Balm Green, Far Gate, an Division Street. A plan of the ground before the front of John Hoole's House [between The Moor and Porter Street] 1796. Surveyor: William Fairbank II. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03494&pos=3&action=zoom&id=98790 Shows Sugar House. Also Marked: Turnpike Road; Porter Lane, Samuel Broomhead Ward; Sugar House not marked on this Plan but used as a point of reference. Plan of John Hoole's tenements near the Sugar House,1788. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03704&pos=4&action=zoom&id=99280 Marked: Little Sheffield Moor West; Porter Lane; Union Lane; a fourteen foot lane; a twenty foot lane; Joseph Swift's leasehold. Probably Joseph Swift was leasing the property known as Sugar House?
  6. "Dun Street which runs between Shalesmoor and Green Lane is no longer than 100 yards and at one time had no dwellings only public houses: the Bulls Head; the Queens and the Gardeners Rest." An extract from "The definitive A-Z of Sheffield Public Houses" Michael Liversidge (see Bulls Head Hotel entry) Only the Gardeners Rest, Dun Street is marked on Ordnance Survey Map, sheet no. Yorkshire No. 294.7.10. 1890. https://maps.nls.uk/view/231282471#zoom=4&lat=10675&lon=11119&layers=BT Comparing the Plan of Joseph Read's property at Shalesmoor, 1826. and OS Map 1890. The Gardeners Rest is probably the property coloured light blue and marked Joseph Bendelow. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04245&pos=40&action=zoom&id=105405 Plan Marked: Dun Street, Green Lane, Cornish Street, Read Street, Moor Fields. Also: William Hobson, John Sutley, Joseph Bendelow, John Waile [Wale], Thomas Wolstenholme, Joseph Stovin, Ann Jenkinson, James Wolstenholme. There are three "Public Houses" on Dun Street making Sheffield Flood Claims David McFeaden, Inn Keeper, The Queens Hotel, Dun Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=6-5116 John Frith, Publican,The Cup, Dunn Street. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=4-3449 The Cup changed name to the Gardeners Rest. From Sheffield History A-Z Public House List. Cup/Gardeners Rest,13-15 Dun Street. Open.1845 Closed. Span Comments 1919 and 1925 11-15 Dun Street. 1845-46 John Machin 1849 John Machin 1851 - 52 John Machon 1854 John Machon 1856 Edwin Colley 1857 Edwin Colley 1859 Francis Parkin 1862 William H Clark 1863 William Spencer 1864 - 65 John Firth 1868 John Frith [ Cup ] 1871 James Pickard 1876 John Taylor [ Gardeners Rest ] 1879 John Taylor 1881 John Taylor 1883 John Taylor 1887 to 1889 Frederick May [ Gardeners Rest ] 1890 John Adamson [ 17 Dun Street ] 1893 John Adamson 1895 -6 Henry Edwards 1898 William Crampton 1900 John Henry Horry [ 13 -15 Dun Street ] 1901 Albert Thompson born 1852 / Henry Levien (11 to 15 Dun Street) 1902 Harry Levien 1903 Harry Levien 1905 George Henry Lingard 1907 Joseph Clare [ Gardeners Rest ] 1910 John Clare 1911 Lawrence Clare 1912 Lawrence Clare 1913 Frederick A Wittard 1916 -17 Frederick A Wittard 1919 to 1921 Benjamin Wood 1922 to 1924 Mrs Mary J Wood 1925 Samuel L Rooker 1929 John William Corbridge 1931 to 1933 Mrs Florence Corbridge 1936 to 1939 Walter Woollen 1942 Walter Woollen 1944 Walter Woollen 1948 Walter Woollen 1951 Walter Woollen An extract from The Great Flood at Sheffield, 11th-12th March 1864. "In a yard in Dun Street, Green Lane, an old man named Dennis M’Laughlin was drowned in his bed. He lived alone in a room on the ground floor, which was flooded up to the ceiling. In an adjoining room lived the old man's donkey, and there it died by the same calamity which overwhelmed its master. Another family living in the same yard had a narrow escape. They too slept on the ground floor; but they were warned just in time. They rushed out in their night clothes, almost up to their necks in water; but soon reached the house of a neighbour, where they were safe." List of dead. Dennis McLaughlin, age 74 Dun Street. (Was it the Bulls Head Yard?) The Bull's Head. Elizabeth Maskrey, Beerhouse Keeper, Dun Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=4-3687 Edward Maskrey, saw grinder, Bull Head Yard, Dun Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=4-3933 Margaret Chatterton, spoon buffer, At Bulls Head, Dun Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=4-4057 John Horne, labourer, Bull's Head Yard, Dun Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=4-4246 Thomas Dyson, saw handle maker, Bulls Head Yard, Dun Street, Sheffield https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=5-4719 Claim on behalf of Ann Elizabeth Driver for "Injury" Annie Elizabeth Driver, servant, Dunn Street, by her Guardian and next friend Elizabeth Maskrey, Beerhouse Keeper, Dunn Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=9b-165 (Could this also be Bulls Head Yard?) James Trickett, razor grinder, Yard in Dunn Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=2-1980 From the following photographs, Bull's Head, next to junction with Dun Lane. (opposite the Gardeners Rest?) The Bull's Head public house, No. 18 Dun Street.1986. t01071 It's reported the pub had a rough reputation earning the nickname 'Devil's Kitchen'. Sign appears to read "Old Albion CX? Beers & Stouts" Probably an Old Albion Brewery Pub. Shirley's Wools, former Bull's Head public house, No. 18 Dun Street at the corner of (right) Dun Lane. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t10227&pos=10&action=zoom&id=90844 No. 13, Shirleys Wools, former Bulls Head Hotel (right), Dun Street looking towards Green Lane Works. 1991.s26227 Dun Lane from Dun Street looking towards Dunfields with former Bulls Head Hotel, left (Shirley's Wools). 1st August 1985.s26229 Also has been the premises of Shalesmoor Upholstery. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t10291&pos=15&action=zoom&id=91159 Reportedly converted into offices and offered for rent 2003. Bulls Head the property coloured orange and marked, James Parkinson. Building lots in Joseph Read's land, in Dun Street, Read Street and Cornish Street, 1826. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03741&pos=24&action=zoom&id=26564 A smaller scale plan of the plots not marked on FC/P/SheS/1053L. (see arc04345 beginning of this post) Probably the premises of the Bull's Head marked James Parkinson Moorfields. Plan of the ground between Green Lane and Gibraltar. 1824. By John Leather, land surveyor. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04168&pos=32&action=zoom&id=104372 Shows Green Lane, Dun Street, New Street [Dun Fields or Acorn Street], Ebenezer Square, Ebenezer Chapel, Bowling Green Street, Hunters Lane, Ebenezer Street, Spring Street, Cotton Mill Walk, Lancasterian School, Gibraltar, Chapel Street, Moor Fields [Moorfields], school, Allen Street, Holmes Lane. Owners / tenants marked: Abraham Ibbotson, Thomas Cornshaw, James Parkinson, Richard Holmes, John Brown, James Jenkinson, Richard Holmes, and Joshua Fowler. From Sheffield History A-Z Public Houses List: Bull's Head, 18 Dun Street, S3 Open. 1851 Closed. Span. 1859 Elizabeth Maskrey 1889 Mrs Sarah Furniss 1891 James Furniss 1901 Joseph Buttery [ census born 1873 ] 1937 Byron Arthur Yates 1938 Alice Lynden 1939 Mrs Alice Lynden 1942 Alice Lynden 1944 John Haley 1948 George C Mannion 1951 Arthur Sawdon. ___________ Queen's / Queen's Head (Queens Head Hotel) 37 Dun Street, S3. Open. 1825 Closed. 1970 Span. 145 1841 William Walker 1871 George Walker (Beerhouse) 1876 George Walker 1889 John Cole [beerhouse] 1900 Frank Naylor [beerhouse] 1901 Frank Naylor [census born 1866 ] 1912 Frank Naylor 1937 Mrs Florence Anderson [beer retailer only] 1938 Mrs Florence Anderson [Queen's Head] 1939 John H Johnson [Queen's Head] 1842 Horace McMullen [Queen's Head] 1944 Henry Lewin [Queen's Head] 1948 Henry Lewin [beer retailer only] 1951 Mrs Grace Lewin 1958 Brian Salmons to 1968 Brian Salmons Information Received by email from Brian Salmons. I was thrilled to see the Queen's at 37 Dun Street, Shalesmoor listed on your website http://www.sheffield...733 My father and mum (Mr Brian Salmons and Mrs Kathleen Salmons) were tenents of this Whitbread pub from the late 50s until 1965 and I grew up there. As I remember it was actually called the Queens Hotel and only opened in the evenings on weekdays. Best regards, Brian. Further information Thanks for your mail. I know for certain is that we moved out in March 1965. I was born in 1958 and they were already at 37 Dun Street then.They were married in 1956 and lived for a few months with Dad's mum before moving to the Queens so I am sure they did not take over from Mrs Gracie Lewin. When we were there it was a Whitbread pub and we used to go to the Brewery HQ on Lady's bridge. I recall it was the Queen's Hotel and remember we had lodgers.
  7. Ponytail

    Norfolk Market Interior

    Section of New Market Hall [Norfolk Market Hall] Shows indoor fountain. M. Hirst. May 1851. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04428&pos=105&action=zoom&id=151781 Interior of Norfolk Market Hall. In the centre was a fountain of Green Moor stone. The sides and ends of the market were divided into about fifty shops. Double ranges of stalls ran down the centre, so the Market was divided into four avenues. 1862. s01865 Erected by Henry Charles, 13th Duke of Norfolk, on the site of the late Tontine Inn. Opened Christmas Eve, 1851. Constructed of brick, with stone basement, quoins and dressings, in classic style. The west front was rebuilt 1904-5 with shops opening on to the Haymarket. Demolished 1959. Taken from Pawson and Brailsford's Illustrated Guide to Sheffield - 1862. Plan of Norfolk Market Hall, showing Exterior and Interior. 1847. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04188&pos=15&action=zoom&id=104947 Marked: Old Haymarket, Dixon Lane, Castle Folds, Exchange Street, New Market Ground, Cheese Market, Corn Exchange, Broad Street. Sweet Stall in Norfolk Market Hall decorated (most likely) for the royal wedding of the Duke of York (future George V) 1893. w00386 Marks and Spencer, small wares dealers, Norfolk Market Hall. The Green Moor stone fountain can be seen in the background. 1901. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s00296&pos=39&action=zoom&id=4284 Marks and Spencer, small wares dealers,1901. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s01871&pos=40&action=zoom&id=5689 L. and A. Wilkinson, stationers, No. 26 Norfolk Market Hall, possibly the first stall to sell records. 1902. s00294 Interior of Norfolk Market Hall s00294 Mrs Thompson outside her shop, Miss Bush and Thomas Albert Glossop in background. Possibly 1935 Shopping Festival. v03852 Photographer: Sheffield Daily Independent. Florists Stall. t08967 Interior of Norfolk Market Hall. y02727 Norfolk Market opened Christmas Eve 1851 for sale by retail of miscellaneous goods, flowers and a small quantity of food. For more information see: City of Sheffield, Municipal Markets, a brief description with Historical Notes relating thereto Jubilee Edition 1949 Ref: MP 4065 M For more photographs of Norfolk Market Hall see: https://picturesheffield.com
  8. A plan of the Cutler's Steam Grinding Wheel with the small tenements and vacant ground adjoining the same situate in the Nursery, Sheffield. 1822. By John Leather, land surveyor. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04148&pos=10&action=zoom&id=104078 Marked: Spital Hill, Stanley Street, Johnson Street, Andrew Lane, engine yard, smiths sop, boilers, geering [gearing?], engine house, proposed mill, tenement and sough from the river. Nursery Steam Grinding Wheel also known as Shiloh Works. Advertisement for William Chadburn, Brass and Iron Founder, Nursery Steam Wheel, junction of Stanley Street (left) and Johnson Street. Works also known as Shiloh Works. 1828. s10911 Taken from Blackwell's 1828 Directory of Sheffield. Undated newspaper cutting. On the Johnson Street side of the Shiloh Works in Stanley Street, Sheffield is this interesting old tablet. The inscription reads: "Nursery Steam Grinding. Rebuilt by W. Chadburn, 1825." Above there are the remains of a clock dial. s09994 Situated on the Johnson Street side of the Shiloh Works (main entrance off Stanley Street). Refers to William Chadburn, Brass and Iron Founder. Sheffield Flood Claim. Alfred Chadburn, Steam Grinding Wheel Proprietor. Wood Bank, Burngreave Road, Sheffield, for Claim as Owner for damage & loss of rents at the Nursery Steam Grinding Wheel. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=1-1210 James Thorpe. horn cutter, Chadburns Wheel, Sheffield living at 36 Fitzallan Street. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=4-3629 Henry Palmer, wood turner, Chadburns Wheel, Stanley Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=6-5046 Sarah Kenworthy, Administratrix of George Kenworthy, late Number 11 Nursery Lane, spinster living at Mr. Chadburn's, Nursery Street; late Number 11 Nursery Lane. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=6-5352 Sarah Kenworthy of Nursery Street Administratrix of George Kenworthy late of No.11 Nursery Lane. Claim for the child of late George Kenworthy. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=9a-100 The claim suggests George Kenworthy died as a result of the Flood; however he isn't on the list of named dead published in "The Great Flood at Sheffield" Did he die because of complications afterwards or is he an omission to the published list? Employees at Chadburns Wheel, Nursery had their Claim for loss of wages dismissed. John Gormley, spring knife cutler of 8 Bate's Square. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=1-1224 John Mason, spring knife cutler of 113 Hammond Street. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=1-1227 James Allender, spring knife cutler of 4 Furnace Hill. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=1-1228 On War Service for Thomas Oxley Ltd., Shiloh Wheel, Stanley Street. 15th April 1916. s09993 Sheffield Telegraph 15/04/1916 (See also Sheffield Independent for same date) An elephant and two camels doing Government Work for Messrs. Oxley Ltd. of Sheffield. A load consisting of three heavy boilers is being drawn along with comparative ease. Shiloh Works were at Shiloh Wheel also known as Nursery Steam Grinding Wheel see Directory 1919-20. s00065 Thomas Oxley Ltd. https://hawleysheffieldknives.com/n-fulldetails.php?val=o&kel=1319 Stanley Street from Spital Fields, showing old works formerly known as Nursery Steam Grinding Wheel also known as Shiloh Works. Johnson Street in background. 10th June 1943. u02690 Johnson Street from Stanley Street, showing old works formerly known as Nursery Steam Grinding Wheel also known as Shiloh Works. Occupied at time of photograph by Strongs British Twist Drill Ltd & No 27, Johnson Street, Grocers (on left). 10th June 1943. s17536 Photographer: Estate Surveyors Department.
  9. Rentals of the Wicker Wheel start 1581 in Norfolk Estate Rentals, Nether End let to William Newboulde, South End John Beighton. 1604.William Sanders and Thomas Beighton. 1639 & 1641. Smedley and Birley. 1650.William Birley, John Stainforth and William Homer. 1664 & 1670. Birley half the wheel, other half shared by Stainforth and William Stacey. Good records of repairs, notably to the Wicker Weir for which a temporary dam had been constructed in the early c18th while tenanted by Joseph then Mary Webster. 1716. New lease to cutler Benjamin Pearson had the requirement to improve the race, forebay and wheel pit with newly quarried stone. Shown on Goslings 1736 map of Sheffield. Under Pearson tenancy it remained a grinding wheel. 1737. Development by Wilson the successor of Pearson developed two Tilt Forges. 1746. Wicker Wheel is named, but 1748 a nominal rent of 5/- paid for Wicker Tilt indicating a possible expansion on going. 1752. Joseph Wilson a new lease including the Wicker Tilt added to the Wheel & Tilt at Lady's Bridge. The two sites are separted on maps, with the goit to the wheel shown behind buildings on the south east frontage of the Wicker. Information from: "Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers." edited by David Crossley with Jean Cass, Neville Flavell & Colin Turner. 1785. leased to Blonk & Co and again named in the 1794 list. Plan of B. Blonk and Co's Wheel in Castle Orchards, [Furnival Road], 1787 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04189&pos=806&action=zoom&id=104959 Marked: River Dunn [River Don], The Dam, the wash, River Sheaf (with bridge), old dam, goight, etc. A map of the parcels of ground demised by the Duke of Norfolk to John Eyres. 1789. Corner of the Wicker and Blonk Street, showing part of Lady's Bridge. Also marked, Wicker Tilt Yard. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03443&pos=230&action=zoom&id=98715 Lady's Bridge in 1802, Wicker Tilt (right) The name Lady's Bridge was derived from a small chapel, dedicated to Our Lady, which formerly stood at the west end of the bridge under the wall of the castle.s07499 Text reads: "Lady's Bridge Sheffield in 1802; so called from a chapel of the Virgin Mary on or near it. Built in the time of Henry VIIth 1486 A.D." 1810. Blonk, purchased the Tilts from the Norfolk Estate, recorded in Rate Books and Directories until 1871. Blonk Wheel, and ground and premises held therewith. 1834. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04190&pos=7&action=zoom&id=104960 Marked: River Dun [River Don], River Sheaf (with bridge), new line of goit arched over, new cattle market, canal basin, reservoir, Blonk Wheel, weir [and Effingham Street]. Artists Impression of Lady's Bridge, Wicker, Tower Grinding Wheel in background, Wicker Tilt in foreground. 1844s07500 Henry H. Earl (Etcher) Presented to the Cutlers Company by C.D. Pettinger ESQ. April 1918. 1849. Tennants were Cocker Brothers and still 36 troughs at the grinding wheel. After a period of heavy rain resulting in the bursting of the Dale Dyke Dam at Bradfield, over the night of 11th-12th March 1864 the torrent of water gushed down the River Loxley and into the River Don resulting in much loss of life and devastation to properties. Extract from "The Great Flood at Sheffield." "When the flood was at its height the scene on the Lady’s Bridge at the top of the Wicker was most extraordinary. The water came rushing down between the buildings on each side with a force that made the Lady’s Bridge quake and tremble. Against the bridge were piled up trees, logs of timber, broken furniture, and debris of every description. The light from street gas lamps revealed to spectators, of whom they were a good many, some of the horrors of the scene. The arches of the bridge were nearly choked by the accumulation of rubbish, and the impeded waters rose to a fearful height, breaking over the parapets of the bridge, and rushing across Mr. White’s slate yard over the broad thoroughfare of the Wicker. Here might be discerned a man in a state of nudity, and who had been swept down by the flood, clinging to a lamp post in order to avoid being carried away, and there he perished, as much from the benumbing influence of the cold as from the effects of the water. In the Wicker the shutters of many of the shops were washed down, the doors burst open, and the contents of the shops carried away or destroyed. The losses sustained by many tradesmen here were very serious. In Blonk Street the flood deposited several dead bodies, as well as a vast heap of timber and broken rubbish. The wall at one end of Blonk Bridge was knocked down, together with a portion of the enclosed Cattle Market. The Wicker Tilt was submerged to a great height, and the Killing Shambles across the river were filled with water. Much injury was done at the Tower Wheel, and also at the Hartford Steel Works." The extent of the damage done is evident in the Sheffield Flood Claims some naming employees and giving details of contents of the premises. (claim included for Cockers, Wire Mill, Nursery Street) Wards Blonk & Co. Benjamin Huntsman, Francis Huntsman, Sarah Rimington, Proprietors of Wicker Tilt, Wicker, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=3-3294 James Cocker, merchant and steel refiner and manufacturer of cast steel wire etc., for Water Wheel House repairing & damages done by the Inundation of the Works of the Claimant situate in Blonk Street. (includes named employees) https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=5-4828 The Engine damage resulted in Cocker Brothers claiming 3 weeks loss of wages for the following named workmen, although the claim eventually dismissed. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=1-343 A claim by Thomas Tildes Cocker and Samuel Cocker, trading in Co-partnership under the firm of Cocker Brothers, manufacturers of steel, files, wire etc. and general merchants, Nursery Street, Sheffield for damage at the works and loss of employees and wages. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=5-4676 Edmund Cocker, Wire Drawer of 117 Nottingham Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=10-918 George Morton, wire drawer at Cocker Brothers, Nursery Street Wire Mill of 45 Nottingham Street. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=1-87 Thomas Cocker, wire drawer. Howard Hill, Steel Bank, Sheffield for loss of wages at the works of James Cocker, Blonk Street. (claim withdrawn) https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=1-921 Jonathan Wilson, wheelwright, Blonk Street, Sheffield. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=5-4652 1870's Wire Mill had been built although the head and fall of the wheel was still entered in the Rate book of 1871, James Cocker still using water power, confirmed in the 1874 & 1895 lists. B. Huntsman, Wicker Forge, Lady's Bridge. y13250 Image from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield by Pawson and Brailsford, p.133, 1889. O. S Map 1890, including Naylor, Vickers and Co., Millsands Steelworks, Exchange Brewery, Wicker Tilt, etc., Lady's Bridge https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y06791&pos=11&action=zoom&id=59986 1895. Vickers are recorded drawing wire using a low breast wheel. The tilts tenanted by Huntsman had no head and fall recorded; indicating steam in use. Confirmed by recording an ancient and obsolete wheel. Water was taken from the Weir at Lady's Bridge. The Tilt and Wheel sites have been built over. Lady's Bridge and Wicker Tilt (Huntsman's Forge), No. 2, Wicker, before 1901, occupied by Benjamin Huntsman, owned by Ward, Blonk and Co. steel tilters and forgers. It was demolished in 1901. s07493 River Don from Lady's Bridge, No 2, Wicker, Wicker Tilt also known as Huntsman's Forge, occupied by Benjamin Huntsman and previously by Blonk and Co., foreground, left. Blonk Street Bridge in near distance, Tower Grinding Wheel in background. 1896. s12220 s12219 Building construction at the side of the River Don between Lady's Bridge and Blonk Street This building was occupied by Hancock and Lant from the 1950s. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10087&pos=5&action=zoom&id=13247 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10088&pos=6&action=zoom&id=13248 Previously occupied by Wicker Tilt, Royal Exchange Buildings, Lady's Bridge from Castlegate, erected around 1900 comprising shops, stables and housing. 4th April 1989s24239 Section of 1890 O.S map showing Exchange Brewery, Lady's Bridge Bewery, Bridge Inn, Bull and Mouth Public House, Wicker Tilt. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y06790&pos=217&action=zoom&id=59987 Is the structure in front of Lady's Bridge the sluices? https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v00968&pos=246&action=zoom&id=42757 Remains of a Crucible Stack Furnace, IQuater Apartments and Retail Development, Blonk Street. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u05789&pos=34&action=zoom&id=41178 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u05790&pos=35&action=zoom&id=41179
  10. boginspro

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Great stuff, I walked that line many times, in the 50s/60s, from The Red Hills / Birley West site all the way to Birley East but had totally forgotten about that bridge. This brought back many memories of this area but looking it up now is very disappointing. Back then you could learn a lot from the historic remains easily found by just walking around., A friend of mine still lived in the valley below Birley East Pit. Now what looks like indiscriminate planting of so many trees has masked a lot of the history. If I ever get back there I would love to search for some of the remains that I do remember. -----------------------
  11. History dude

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    If you look at R Longden's map and at Fields 504 and 505 at the top end, you can see that the cutting cuts away and indicates a bridge over lane/path. If you look in the background of my photo, you can see the school building of City School, which ties in nicely with the modern academy on the modern satellite image and following it down the large green blob of trees might indicate that the bridge is still there. So the "tunnel" is not a tunnel, but a bridge with the railway line on top and the path below it. I have had a look around Google Street View, and modern buildings now block the original view I took in the 1980s. However, there is a footpath at the back which can be accessed via Haxby Street and the cul-de-sac off it. Near where the large building that crosses over the boundary line of the estate.
  12. Ponytail

    Shops, Hereford Street

    Not Part of the Shops built by Thomas Rowbotham. H. Thomas, horse flesh dealer, No. 28 Hereford Street. Sign reads: Horse Flesh Human Consumption. rb00024 Photographer: Ray Brightman, FRPS AFIAP DPAGB Hon PAGB. From The Ray Brightman exhibition collection. Hereford Street, premises include Peter Worth, Estate, and Insurance Agents, No 26, Jn. Mace Ltd., Pet Stores, No 28, H. Thomas, Horse Flesh Dealer, No 30, William Marsden and Son, Bakers. March 1965. s17124 Photographer: Estates Surveyors Department. Hereford Street at junction with South Lane, premises include No. 21 City Exchange, secondhand radio and television supplies, Nos. 23 - 25 Yospa Gordon, retail jeweller, No. 27 Wm. Talbot, Butcher. March 1965s17129 Photographer: Estates Surveyors. Hereford Street at Forge Lane junction, looking towards The Moor, No 14, Thos. J. Austin and Sons (Butchers) Ltd., No 10, Telefusion Ltd., Television Supplies. March 1965.s17122 Hereford Street after the demolition of Nos. 45 - 47 Bridge Inn, premises still remaining include No. 41 A.P. Smith and Bros. Ltd., butchers, No. 39 Fras. Turner, tobacconist, No. 35, Ernest Speechley, snack bar. July 1961.s17120 Photographer: J Lythgoe.
  13. RLongden

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Yes you’re right, the line was in a cutting as it went under Coisley Hill, as you can see from the map detail https://maps.nls.uk/view/125651476 Also, you can see in the image, the photographer must have been stood on the pavement on the bridge, with Stone Lane to their left and the two cottages on the right… the rail line is just out of shot on the right. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s43471&pos=11&action=zoom&id=85665 An aerial view from 1939, taken over Frecheville, looking over towards Stradbrooke Road, you can see Birley West Colliery in the junction of Linley Lane and Normanton Hill. The rail line passes under Normanton Hill, curves right in an arc, through the fields and it disappears off the right edge of the page, before it crosses Coisley Hill. https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW062831 Amazing really that roads and houses have encroached on the area, yet the route it still visible today 😁
  14. Lemmy117

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Thanks to that map it seems there was a bridge on Coisley Hill which I was not aware of. From the current pictures it seems the cutting has been filled in next to Stone Lane to bring the path up to road level. That's the good thing about this site, you learn something new every day!
  15. RLongden

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    The line cut the road at 2 points. 1) Coisley Hill and 2) Normanton Hill. 1) You can see where the track bed was, as it’s now a part of the Trans Pennine Trail. It crosses Coisley Hill just up from Stone Lane, where the kerbs have been dropped either side 2) Just above the end house on the right going uphill, you can see the wall either side and the ‘drop’, where the tunnel cut under the road. Assume the level of the ground was backfilled to accommodate the houses, though if you peer over the wall/fence, it is still well below road level The trace of the line can still be seen in the vegetation, wall and property boundaries Hope this helps to visualise the route and crossing points?
  16. boginspro

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    I may be wrong here and apologise if I am but the original picture put on by History dude looks to me like the tunnel/bridge at Coisley Hill just below the Block Houses on Coisley Road. If that is so as kids it was always known as The Tunnel though I think it was just quite a long under bridge. It seems to me to have been accepted as the bridge under Normanton Hill into Birley West pit but if you look at the 1938 picture above of a wagon loading coal at the land-sale site of the old Birley West site you can see how steep that hill is and the difference in gradient to the first picture.
  17. Plan of freehold premises in Forge Lane agreed to be purchased by William Gregson Hinde, Thomas Marrian and Henry Bolsover of William Webster. September 1837. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03568&pos=178&action=zoom&id=98910 "A right of Road from Forge Lane through the covered passage into the yard at the back of the Public House is sold to these Premises and which road is to be used in Common with the other Premises of William Webster." Marked: Forge Lane; Golden Lion Public House; covered passage; joint wall; grate; midden; privy; passage & brewhouse. Also marked: John Grundy & late James Shemeld. A Map of the dams, goights and other works belonging to the Pond Forge Co together with some other intermediate properties. 1820. Shows Forge Lane and Premises marked T Rawson & Co., probably the Golden Lion. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04213&pos=22&action=zoom&id=105197 Forge Lane later named Shude Hill. Golden Lion situated next to Ponds Works and backed onto Ponds Dam. Shude Lane, derelict premises, opposite Ponds Works, building on extreme left was No 2, Golden Lion public house. s02113 Shude Lane, Left Image, Shude Lane from junction of Shude Hill and Pond Street, Marsh Brother's Pond Works, right, second building on left, No 2, Golden Lion public house, Right Image, Shude Lane looking towards Shude Hill from junction with Shemeld Croft. 1889. s02112 Photographer: Marsh Brothers Chimney belongs to Electric Light Works. Buildings on right were demolished several years later. Shude Lane, derelict premises, looking towards Shude Hill, premises on right include No 2, former Golden Lion public house. s02114 Shude Lane, derelict premises, opposite Marsh Brother's Ponds Works, No 2, former Golden Lion public house, left. s02115 Sheffield History A-Z Public Houses. Golden Lion 3 or 5 Forge Lane (also 2 Shude Hill) Open. 1822 Closed. Comments. 1882 Old Golden Lion 1822 Mary Webster 1825 Mary Webster 1828 George Greaves 1830 William Swallow 1833 William Swallow 1834 James Askam 1837 Samuel Gray 1839 James Bland 1841 John Branch 1845 John Askham 1846 John Askham 1849 Alfred Denial 1851 Alfred Denial (5, Forge Lane - census) 1852 Alfred Denial 1854 George Elliott 1856 J. Staniforth 1859 F. Middleton 1862 William Etches 1864 Mary Baxter Alfred Denial - 1851 census. 5 Forge Lane.
  18. Estates of the late Joseph Ellin, esquire, very valuable freehold building land, villa residences, works and dwelling-houses in and near Sheffield. 1868. (property near Sylvester Wheel) https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y11246&pos=59&action=zoom&id=82993 Bramall Lane; New Hereford Street; Sylvester Street; River Porter; Jessop Street; Eyre Lane; Jessop Lane; Arundel Street; tail goit. Messrs Robertson & Carr; Executors of the late William Butterell & John Snow.
  19. Ponytail

    Bee Hive

    Artists Impression of the Bee Hive Hotel, No 240, West Street. Portland Lane, right. St. George's Church in background. The railings were there 1870-1880.s06859 Extract from: Reminiscences of old Sheffield, it's Street and its People. Editor Robert Eadon Leader, from articles and letters in The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 1872/3. Page 155. "I well remember the time when the house, now enlarged and occupied as the Bee Hive public-house, was built in the cross garden walk (now Glossop Road) just mentioned, which terminated at the top of Broomhall Street. (then called Black Lamb Lane) It was erected by a shoemaker, named Thomas Rose. He was a little man, wore top boots, and kept a hive of bees in the garden beside the house. He got a license for the house and called it the Bee Hive. His pear tree (in the sketch) on the front yet retains enough vitality to show yearly a few leaves. With the exception of the old houses with gardens and palisades at the top of West Street, and the large house in Broomhall Street, beside which until lately the rooks have built, there were, I believe, no houses (except some garden cottages) from Portobello down to Holy Green, and the top of Bright, Gaol, and Young Streets. All the intervening space was occupied with fields and gardens." It was in 1817 that the Town Trustees agreed to lend towards the making of a Turnpike Road from Glossop to Sheffield providing the said road enters the town through West Street. and as the Beehive was earlier than Glossop Road we can fix the date of its erection somewhere in the opening years of the nineteenth century. s00470 Photographer: B E Drury There was also stabling to the rear. Photographs by C H. Lea of the Bee Hive Hotel in 1913.y01684 Night soil carts passing the Beehve Hotel, Portland Lane, right. Night Soil Carts collected the human waste from the Earth Closets, Water Closets (WC's) gradually replaced them. y01682 A Bill Poster on West Street at the junction with Portland Lane; balancing on his ladder across from the Beehive Hotel. y01683 Ordnance Survey Map, sheet no. Yorkshire No. 294.7.25. 1889. Bee Hive Hotel top left. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00075&pos=7&action=zoom&id=107161 Bee Hive Hotel, 10th February 1982. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s21408&pos=3&action=zoom&id=24014 In the 1990s, The Bee Hive was extended and renamed the Foundry and Firkin. No 248, West Street Post Office, (later incorporated into the Foundry and Firkin) https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t09986&pos=3&action=zoom&id=90513
  20. Ponytail

    Holly Bush

    Holly Bush Inn, Hollins Lane, Stannington. 1973.u11810 Elevated view of Rivelin Valley Road (bottom) and Hollins Lane at Hollins Bridge, River Rivelin with Hollins Bridge Corn Mill (Riverlin Bridge Wheel) left; Holly Bush Inn (centre) and Hollins Farm (left) u05747 Holly Bush Inn, Hollins Lane, viewed from Walker Lane. 19th April 1978.s21806 Rivelin near Woodend View, Hollins Bridge Corn Mill, (known earlier as Rivelin Bridge Mill, prior to conversion to corn mill) and Dam, Holly Bush Inn, Holly Lane, behind Mill, Hollins Farm (side view) in background. u01693 Map of the Rivelin Valley Estate. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y10390&pos=8&action=zoom&id=66881 Taken from a Report of Special Conference regarding the Development of the Rivelin Valley, Sheffield City Council, Sep 1934. Rivelin Mill, Rivelin Valley Road, Rivelin Hotel, St Michael's RC Cemetery, The Hagg, Roscoe Wheel, Hollins Bridge Mill, Holly Bush Inn, Walkley Bank Tilt, Walkley Bank Plantation, Mousehole Forge, Holme Head Wheel. E Partington, Estates Surveyor. Geography, photograph every grid square. The Holly Bush SK3288. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1701642 Star Pubs & Bars, Holly Bush, includes photographs of the interior. https://www.starpubs.co.uk/pubs/holly-bush-sheffield
  21. Ponytail

    Student Nurse Accommodation

    Norwood Grange, junction of Longley Lane, Herries Road and Norwood Grange Drive. 15th March 1983 s38698 December 1988.s38697 December 1988s38696 Norwood Grange now a Care Home. https://www.norwoodgrange.co.uk/
  22. Ponytail

    Green Oaks Inn, 1841 Census

    Greenoak House, Baslow Road, Totley At the time of the photographs (about 1900), rented from Ebenezer Hall of Abbeydale Park, by Athol Capron and family. The house was formerly a Farm and Greenoak Inn. Converted and extended into a family residence in the late c19th. See 'Totley District in Old Photographs', by Brian Edwards, Cat. No. 942.74 S. Mickley Lane, Totley, with a view of the buildings on Baslow Road including Greenoak House (the former Greenoak Inn). The smaller part in the middle was the original Greenoak Inn, built 1812. The extension on the right was added much later when it became Greenoak House. The part on the left was added early 1900's. s11439 The family of Athol Capron (consisting of his wife, 4 children and donkey) moved into Greenoak House in 1899, paying £90 p.a. rent to Ebenezer Hall of Abbeydale Park. Greenoak House from Baslow Road. s06092 Family of Athol Capron in Humber car at Greenoak House, Maurice (front seat), John (behind), Clare (on lap) and Gérard. 1906. s09007 From Donkey Field. Mrs. Capron and Maurice.s06089 Greenoak House from Baslow Road. A. C. Capron, Maurice (son) and Roy (dog) with village boys.s06087 Mr and Mrs Athol Capron with children, Maurice (with Roy the dog) and either John or Gerard in pram. s06088 In the yard, Greenoak House, Mr and Mrs Athol Capron with children- Gerard? in Father's arms. Maurice with the garden boy and Roy the dog.s06090 Mr Athol Capron, Maurice (son) and Roy the dog. 1906.s06091 General View of Greenoak and Heatherfield, Totley, leading to Main Avenue, before houses were built.s11438 Early construction of Heatherfield Estate, Baslow Road, Totley Rise. The Crescent, left. Greenoak Toll House is behind the telegraph pole. y01872 Photographer: R Sneath
  23. Ivy Cottage, Osgathorpe, corner of Barnsley Road and Batley Street with houses on Crabtree Lane in the background. 1905. s13399 u10512 Photographer: J.E.Vickers Former Pitsmoor Side-Bar or Catch-Bar. Ivy Cottage was built to catch Wayfarers travelling up Barnsley Road, who'd by-passed Pitsmoor Toll Bar by turning up Osgathorpe Road. Hence the phrase Catch-Bar as they 'had' to pay here. Tram No. 512, Barnsley Road looking towards Fir Vale, showing No. 307 Ivy Cottage, former Pitsmoor Side-Bar or Catch-Bar at the from the junction with Batley Street (left) and the junction with Osgathorpe Road (right). April 1960.s25156 Photographer: Mr. D.J. Smithies.
  24. Ponytail

    Furnace Hill

    Link to: Little Man's Museum /Grapes Inn, Furnace Lane. https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/12408-little-mans-museum-grapes-inn-furnace-ln/
  25. Ponytail

    Furnace Hill

    Snippets of information about Furnace Hill from an extract of: Reminiscences of old Sheffield, it's Street and its People. From letters Editor Robert Eadon Leader, from articles and letters in The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 1872/3. Pages 129-131. Twiss: There is a curious story told of the manner in which the further part of Westbar was raised to its present level. At one time, it is said, that portion between Westbar Green and Gibraltar Street was so low, that a person standing at the bottom of Furnace Hill might with ease have leapt upon a load of hay passing down the street. There was then a converting furnace at the bottom of the hill, which was worked with only one box or pot. By some mismanagement the whole mass of iron was melted together in one huge solid block of steel, there being in the furnace at the time some ten tons of metal. Nothing could be done with this when it was cold, and after it had lain in the yard a great number of years, proceedings began to be taken for filling up the road below. The best employment that could be thought of for the mass of steel, was to let it go towards filling up the road. The tradition has been handed down by very old men, and if there be any truth in it the steel is still there, waiting to astonish some antiquaries of the future. Wragg: The Bower Spring troughs were reputed to contain the best drinking water in the town. It came from Furnace Hill, as was proved when Messrs. Hudson & Clarke erected their engine. That stopped the water, and Messrs. Gaunt & Turton's works were then built where the troughs had been. Johnson: It was Mr. Turton who built the Bower Spring works in the old Workhouse gardens, leaving Mr. Gaunt on Furnace Hill. This would be between the years 1825-8. The history of Mr. Gaunt 's business is worth tracing. It was sold to Richard Griffiths, who, having come to the town from his native Wales as a carter to Brittain and Wilkinson's, of Carver Street, got initiated into the mysteries of steel converting, and ultimately became manager at Sanderson's. His son, for whom the business was intended, died; his son-in-law let it slip, and it was sold to Thomas Gatley, the son of a gardener at Attercliffe who had kept one of the stalls on the King Street side of the market. Young Gatley was himself apprenticed to Isaac Deakin, penblade maker (son-in-law of George Merrill, fork maker, Harvest Lane), and afterwards had a scrap shop in Gibraltar Street, near "The Cherry Tree." Then he was at the bottom of Furnace Hill, late Mr. Joshua Wortley's. Having acquired money, he bought Gaunt's business, and subsequently sold it to Mr. Wm. Jackson, Sheaf Island Works. He acquired much of the property about here. Like so many other worthies whom we have had to notice, Mr. Gatley was connected with Queen Street Chapel — until 1834, when he seceded and was the means of establishing Mount Zion Chapel, the congregation of which met in a room over a shop in Carver Lane while the chapel was building. Leighton: Furnace Hill was formerly called "t' Cock Tail;" I haven't the remotest notion why. "The Cock Tail Lady" was celebrated by Mather; and "Buck Hathard," the son of a tailor, was also one of the "characters" it produced. Mr. Peech, a scissor manufacturer here, was the father-in law of Henry Steel, who has made himself a name among the frequenters of the turf, and "t' Cocktail" had the honour of contributing a soldier to the Life Guards in the person of Samuel Wragg, who, and his son as well, was a cutler here. Wragg: The Quaker family, the Broadheads, have been associated with Westbar and the neighbourhood throughout the present century. Mr. John Broadhead, then a maltster, was in Scotland Street, next door to the chapel. Then he came to the bottom of Furnace Hill, subsequently crossing to the other side of Westbar, where the grocer's shop has been ever since. Mr. John Broadhead died in 1838. It is a little singular that not only did his son Alfred succeed to his own grocery business, but that four of his five daughters married grocers. Johnson: Two trade notes may be made here. One is that "frame polishing" may be said to have had its birth in Furnace Hill — that is polishing spring knives without the aid of steam or water power. It was originated by l Mark Blackwell (landlord of "The Grapes") and his brother George, by way of resisting a strike of the grinders. And it succeeded too. The other is that the first nail cut in Sheffield is said to have been made down the yard by the "Dog and Partridge the old public-house almost opposite to the bottom of the hill. Wragg: The Andrew family is closely identified with this locality. Old Joseph Andrew was a prosperous grocer and tallow chandler in Furnace Hill before this century began. Three of his sons, Isaac, Matthew and Joseph, were grocers, the first-named in West bar at the corner of Hicks Lane, the second in Charles Street, and the third, first (1825) in Paradise Square and afterwards (1833) in West Bar Green. Two other sons, twins, were William Henry and Albert George. They succeeded to the business of Messrs. George Butler and Co., spring knife cutlers, in Trinity Street, which was afterwards removed to Trinity Works, Eyre Street, the old premises becoming Mr. Longden's foundry. Isaac Andrew was, in his later years, blind. His brother Joseph was the father of John Henry Andrew, steel manufacturer, a member of the present Corporation, and of Mrs. Crowther, Fargate. The Butlers employed a larger number of men than any other house in the trade when the "statements" of 1810 and 1814 were made.
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