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  1. Ponytail

    Lodge Moor Hospital

    Copied from Wikipedia. "In 1955 the Board recommended that Crimicar Lane should no longer be used as a hospital and the tuberculosis Huts were demolished at that time.[2] All patients were transferred to Lodge Moor Hospital on 31 May 1956.[1] The hospital stood empty for some time before the remaining buildings were demolished to make way for the housing which now stands on Westminster Crescent. All that remains of the old hospital are the perimeter wall and the main gates which have a memorial plaque attached to them.[1]" Full Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimicar_Lane_Hospital Crimicar Lane Hospital, Sheffield https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/2fecb3e5-bc53-4b16-96d4-5df8d95893df Including Information: Crimicar Lane Hospital and Sanatorium was opened in November 1902 for the reception of smallpox cases. It consisted of two wards, each accommodating 21 beds; an isolation block accommodating four wards each with two beds; also an administrative block, laundry and disinfector. Prior to the First World War the hospital was primarily for cases of smallpox, but consumptive (tuberculosis) patients were admitted if smallpox cases were lacking. In 1915 a temporary wooden ward was erected to accommodate 48 patients and an extension to the administrative block was built in 1916. Many patients were those associated with the cutlery industry: grindstones and buffing wheels created a huge amount of gritty dust. Silicosis was the cause of great mortality, as was tuberculosis which was often associated with the "dolly polishing" of silverware. In 1950 the hospital had accommodation for 53 patients. In 1955 the Planning Committee of Sheffield Regional Hospital Board recommended that the use of the premises as a hospital be discontinued and that the patients be moved to Lodge Moor Hospital. The buildings were to be retained pending instructions from the Ministry of Health. The patients were all transferred out of the hospital on 31 May 1956; the patients at Commonside Sanatorium also being transferred to Lodge Moor at around the same time. The hospital buildings were later demolished to make way for housing; all that remains are the part of the perimeter wall and gates (2004). Administration The hospital was administered by Hospitals Committee of Sheffield City Council, established under the Public Health Act, 1875. In 1927 this committee became a sub-committee of the Health Committee. At the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948 management, like other hospitals formerly administered by the Council, passed to the Sheffield No 3 Hospital Management Committee of Sheffield Regional Hospital Board (SRHB).
  2. Heartshome

    Lodge Moor Hospital

    It seems strange, that there are photo's of the Isolation Huts & Demolition at the Crimicar Lane Hospital, yet, despite much searching, I have never found any of the Huts that were at Lodge Moor
  3. Ponytail

    Lodge Moor Hospital

    Lodge Moor Hospital was originally built in 1887, opening its 12 wooden wards on the 20th February 1888 as the Borough Smallpox Hospital. Demolition of Tuberculosis Huts, Crimicar Lane. 1955. s23386 s21093 View taken from an upstairs room of the main Crimicar Lane Isolation Hospital showing the WW2 concrete roofed air raid shelter. By June 1898 it was decided to add permanant stone buildings to comprise of accommodation for 146 patients. The administation block and isolation wards were occupied in 1901 and 6 wards each with 22 beds were completed by 1902. The Clock Tower and the Lodge at the main gates were completed in May 1903. For more information see: Lodge Moor Hospital 1887-1987, Lodge Moor Cenenary Brochure Ref: 362.11. See also The Hospital on the Moor, the spinal injuries unit Lodge Moor by Ella Goddard Ref: 362.197482. Clock Tower, Main Entrance, Lodge Moor Hospital. 30th October 1990. s23347 Administration Block, Lodge Moor Hospital. s23355 Infectious Diseases Wards (West Wards), Lodge Moor Hospitals23354 Respiratory Function Unit, Lodge Moor Hospital. s23353
  4. Springvale House Open Air School, pre-1968. s30481 This school had accommodation for 140 'delicate' pupils and was officially opened by Councillor A. Neal in October 1919. s30482 Also an entrance drive to Springvale on the OS Map 1889. 294.11.3 from Park Lane. https://maps.nls.uk/view/231282594#zoom=3&lat=7572&lon=9797&layers=BT
  5. William West occupant of Windy Hill Farm, gave up farming in November 1864, he died aged 69 at the Shrewsbury Hospital in June 1867. In 1865 W Hodgson was the occupant (no sign of any sale of the farm itself). In March 1868 William Dodson was the occupant (he had some brasses from a threshing machine stolen by an employee). In November 1890 the Norton Ploughing Association met at the Bagshawe Arms to present William Dodson with a silver cup, as first prize for the best cultivated farm within six miles of Norton. In October 1891 William decided that he was leaving the neighbourhood and advertised all his live and dead stock for sale - this included 4 horses, 18 cattle and 20 sheep. In 1892 J.H. Bryars, a veterinary surgeon, was the occupant of Windy House Farm. Again there was no notice of sale, so the farm was presumably rented. In January 1891 William saw a man in his brother Edward's field in Strawberry Lane, Darnall, with a gun. He challenged him and the man presented a game licence in someone else's name. The man raised his gun and looking along the barrel said "If you come a step further I shall blow out your brains". The muzzle of the gun was about a yard from William's chest. He swept his stick up and knocked the gun upwards, whereupon it went off. In May, the man (William Siddall) was fined 30s and costs for the trespass and for threatening Mr Dodson he was bound over to keep the peace for 6 months, On leaving Windy House, William Dodson went to farm at Sprotbrough ("The Shires"), with his brother (?) John an agricultural horseman on the farm. William became a Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Council in 1915-16 and was prominent in the foundation of the National Farmers Union. He died in a Doncaster nursing home in March 1929. He was twice married (Eliza died aged 44 in June 1877), and he left a widow (Elizabeth) and one son.
  6. SteveHB

    The Reverend Thomas Best

    Cherrytree Orphanage, Mickley Lane, became a Leonard Cheshire care homre
  7. Ponytail

    The Reverend Thomas Best

    Cherrytree Orphanage, Mickley Lane, Totley. Founded in Sheffield about 1863 by E.P. Taylor, Esq. Foundation stone laid 21st August, 1867 by John Webster Esq., Mayor of Sheffield. Total cost £4,000. 1872. s07784 Picture taken from the 8th report, 1872. In 1868, Mr Taylor, transferred the property to trustees. The institution, which was supported by voluntary subscriptions and a Goverment grant, had for its objects the boarding, clothing, and education of poor children who had been deprived of both their parents, irrespective of religious belief ot nationality. Miss Stronach was matron in 1906. Cherrytree Orphanage, Mickley Lane, Totley. 1963. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s35076&pos=2&action=zoom&id=70519 Cherrytree Homes, Mickley Laneu06868 Buildings used to house 1 carer and around 6 children, built around 1969. Once completed the original Cherrytree orphanage was subsequently turned into an old peoples home (Information care of Sharon Parkinson). Presentation to Cherrytree Orphanage, Mickley Lane. 14th February 1967. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s07784&pos=5&action=zoom&id=11019 OS Map dated 1935, showing Cherrytree Orphanage & St George's Farm, one time home of John Ruskin. y12786
  8. Link to: Manor Road Names. Question asked how did Windyhouse Lane get its name. https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/5470-manor-road-names/
  9. Ponytail

    Living Conditions

    Canal Cottages, Tinsley Park Road (demolished 1958) showing the Electricity Sub Station (right) and Sheffield and SYK Navigation from Broughton Lane Bridge. Photographs taken 8th May 1957 by Kodak Medical, Medical Officer of Health. Llewellyn Roberts. Properties demolished 1958. s24779 Mr. Vincent Lawrence Bryan with his children Stephen John; Kathleen and Pauline Mary in front of Nos. 7-12, Canal Cottages, Tinsley Park Road with the Sheffield and SYK Navigation right. s24778 The Bryan Family children who lived at No. 5 showing Nos. 6-1, Canal Cottages, Tinsley Park Road, looking towards Electric Sub Station and Chemical Works.t00515 Information from Stephen Bryan who can be seen, aged around 18 months, with his sister Kathleen aged about 4 years. Stephen loved to play with the brush in the puddle that frequently gathered in the yard. Mr. Vincent Lawrence Bryan in the doorway of No. 12 and Nos.11-7, Canal Cottages, looking towards Broughton Lane Bridge. t00514
  10. Ponytail

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Woodhouse Junction signal box. 1978. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s41720&pos=45&action=zoom&id=81661 Woodhouse Junction Signal Box.13th May 1981.s41716 The wall at the base was built during the war to protect the original structure. 21st February 1989s41717 Woodhouse Junction signal box. 21st February 1989.s41721 Track repair equipment at Woodhouse Junction. 13th May 1981. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s42766&pos=34&action=zoom&id=83648 Diesel locomotive towing coal trucks at Woodhouse Junction. 13th May 1981. s42769 Further information from J Thickitt: Formerly known as Woodhouse East Junction, where trains towards Lincoln or Grimsby had diverged eastwards from the ex-Great Central Railway main line (closed as a through route in 1966). Among the differences to image reference number s42768 (which was photographed on the same day) are the obviously full Merry-go-Round hoppers hauled by a different class of locomotive. Diesels had been re-numbered during the early-1970s, this one becoming a member of Class 47 (the identification is deduced by the presence of a ventilation-cowl above the windscreen, here viewed in silhouette, see u09073) The taller, brown vehicle extreme left on the nearest track was known on the railway as a van (meaning a covered waggon). s42768 Diesel locomotive towing coal trucks at Woodhouse East Junction. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s42768&pos=36&action=zoom&id=83650 Mr Thickitt refers to Picture Sheffield No. u09073. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u09073&pos=2&action=zoom&id=95913
  11. Ponytail

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Colliery Engine 'Birley No. 5', most probably at Beighton Colliery Sheffield Coal Co.s15051 Hudswell Clarke 0. 6. 0 ST 'Orient', shunting locomotive built for Birley East Colliery. 1890. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v00054&pos=32&action=zoom&id=41924 Colliery Engine 'Birley No. 6, Peckett 0. 4. 0 St' and Coal Wagons at Brookhouse Colliery with Water Cooling Tower in the background. 31st March 1938. s15047 Built Bristol 1925 Works No. 1653 Colliery Engine 'Birley No. 6, Peckett 0. 4. 0 St' and Coal Wagons at Brookhouse Colliery. 31st March 1938.s15046 Steam Locomotive W D G Peckett 0. 6. 0 ST at Brookhouse Colliery. 1956. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v00057&pos=9&action=zoom&id=41927 Steam Locomotive Hudsweel Clarke 0. 6. 0 ST 'Orient' at Brookhouse Colliery. 1956. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v00055&pos=8&action=zoom&id=41925 Steam locomotive T R G at Brookhouse Colliery. 26th November 1966. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v00056&pos=2&action=zoom&id=41926 Reminiscences from John A Thickett: 23 November 1966, a Saturday afternoon, saw me loafing beside the ex-Midland Railway line at Beighton. The reason was to see a railway enthusiast's special (in this context meaning an excursion) on its way towards Rotherham. During my wait I was surprised to see activity on a different line, about a quarter of a mile to the south of my position. An anonymous, shining-green tank-engine hauling open waggons was carefully negotiating a steep descent in the Rother Valley (see the white gate visible in s35507). After a while the same engine stormed sure-footedly back with another rake of waggons, this time empty. The waggons all had the initials 'U.C.C.' (United Coke and chemicals) painted in white on their sides. A minute or so later I heard the engine suddenly shut-off, no doubt because at its summit the climb had eased into level ground. These out and back runs occurred several times during my sojourn here. Mr Thickitt watched this activity for several hours from beside the main line railway/Chesterfield Road. Photo Mr. Thickitt refers to s35507 Beighton Castle area in the 1950s View northwards showing, gently curving away through the centre of the photograph, the largely freight-only, ex-Midland Railway Old Road . (The line running between Chesterfield and Rotherham, which was built years before the route through Sheffield city centre). Note this line has four tracks. On the left skyline a viaduct carried the ex-Great Central Railway's Sheffield to Lincoln line over the Old Road and the River Rother. To the right of the line towards Rotherham, the 'North Staveley Curve' leaves eastwards, perhaps still to access North Staveley Pit. On the 1:25000 Ordnance Survey map, surveyed during the 1950s, the line continued eastwards into Brookhouse Pit yard. (This line should not be confused with the out of picture but nearby, ex-Great Central Railway 'Waleswood Curve). The focal point of the scene, an eye-catching, white gate identified the boundary of a private-owner line. In this case operated (in the mid-1960s) by United Coke and Chemicals and leading (along a short, steep ascent) further east to Beighton Coking Plant. (this Beighton site was beside Brookhouse Pit and some distance from Orgreave Coking Plant). Further left, in the mid-ground to the west of the river was the Ex-Great Central Main Line (not visible) with Beighton Station not far ahead. Observe the bridge over the River Rother; a footpath across this had been reassuringly walled-off from the railway track! The river itself shows a vertical deep bank suggesting the Rother had already been canalized and embanked to prevent flooding. These works possibly occurred during the 1950s. Beyond the white gate, the sheet of water was probably a flash , the local name for a pond or lake formed by mining subsidence. Housing puncturing the skyline was on Park Hill, Swallownest. Information from J Thickitt.
  12. Ponytail

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Derailed wagons at Woodhouse Mill after the crash. 29th February 1908.s03808 About 12-45 on Saturday morning, a Mineral Train was leaving the East Junction, when an Emigrant Special from Liverpool to Grimsby, containing about 300 passengers, travelling at nearly 30 miles an hour, dashed into its rear.The terrible impact caused the immediate death of Goods Guard Rowley. Fireman Clark was pinned beneath the Engine, and it was two hours before he was released: he succumbed to his injuries the following day.Walter Howell, Driver of the first engine, was very badly injured and scalded. Driver Borland and Fireman Jarred both of Liverpool, escaped without injuries, although their engine was almost overturned. For more information about Birley East Colliery see: Winding Up a History of Birley East Colliery, A Rowles Ref: 622.33 SQ. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s03809&pos=57&action=zoom&id=7398 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s03810&pos=58&action=zoom&id=7399 Train Crash at Woodhouse Junction. 29th February 1908. Photographer: W. Gothard s03778 Train crash on the Birley Colliery Line. 1919. s03807 Coal Wagon at Birley West Pit. 31st March 1938.s15045 Birley West Pit, unloading coal wagon. 31st March 1938.s02331 PhotographerT.Ws02331. Ward and Co. Birley Colliery Mineral Wagon No. 2494, taken at wagon shop. s15037
  13. Ponytail

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Map of Woodhouse junction area, c. 1855. Includes Green Gate Lane; Birley Vale Branch Railway, Beighton Branch Railway, Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway; River Rother; Woodhouse Colliery; Woodhouse Mills; Shirecliffe Brook; Cinderhill Green Road; Furnace Lane, Woodhouse Junction Station; shaft. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02940&pos=40&action=zoom&id=93148 Woodhouse (extract from Ordnance Survey of 1935, revised to 1948) https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y06745&pos=12&action=zoom&id=59925 Derbyshire sheet XII NE and Yorkshire CCXCV. Birley East Colliery, Woodhouses10732 For more information about Birley East Colliery see: Winding Up a History of Birley East Colliery, A Rowles Ref: 622.33 SQ. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10733&pos=42&action=zoom&id=13859 Viewed from Hackenthorpe side. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10735&pos=44&action=zoom&id=13861 East Birley Pit, late 19th century, view from Sally Clarkes. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t00216&pos=47&action=zoom&id=31083
  14. Hartley Old Pit was started in the 13C, the first records mention it in 1291. It was abandoned in 1844. The Hester pit, aka New Hartley Colliery, (for which I quoted the depth) was then started and reached the low main coal on 29 May 1846. It was a single pit colliery. It was sealed after the disaster of 16 January 1862 and never reopened. In 1874 a new colliery consisting of the Hastings and Melton pits was started nearby which eventually broke into the old workings in 1901. The whole colliery was abandoned in 1959 leaving 70 years of coal below ground. Both Hartley and New Hartley collieries had workings reaching out beneath the North Sea. Thanks for the info on the Sheffield collieries. I've re-read page 20 and can't see a mention of the Watt engine. Page 20 is "Instructions to the Founder" concerning the making of the corf. The description of "The Fire Engine" starts on page 37. Just in case we're looking at different publications, the URL is https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-coal-viewer-and-eng_1797/page/n19/mode/2up WE both agree that the point of the book is to promote his own designs and inventions, it was the lack of even a passing reference that surprised me, that's all.
  15. Curr in his "Coal Viewer and Engine Builder" does mention Watt, briefly on page 20, but the point of his book is to promote his own design of engine which he does in great detail. In 1835 the maximum depth achieved in the North East was 1,590 feet at Monkwearmouth Colliery which was on the deepest part of the coalfield. Other collieries there were also deep - Jarrow, Gosforth and South Hetton around 1.100 feet, though Jarrow brought the coal up in three stages, the maximum lift being 780 feet In 1819 the average depth of Sheffield collieries was 360 feet. There were several shafts at the Hartley colliery and it can be confusing which one is being referred to - for example the "Old Pit" sunk in 1754 was 191 feet ( = 64 yards = 32 fathoms) and the "Mill Pit" sunk in 1830 was 437 feet ( = 144 yards = 72 fathoms)
  16. Edmund posted this lease which has Colliers Row marked: A plan of the late John Curr’s leasehold property in Sheffield Park [Duke Street] 1823. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04185&pos=3&action=zoom&id=104944 Marked: Furnace, foundry, gardens, proposed roads, Colliers Row, Clay Wood Road, ropery, Duke Street, [road] to Granville Lane, Robert Calver, Is this the same Colliers Row or was there another at a later period? Colliers Row, Long Henry Street, Park, from junction with The Green, left. January 1940. u00198
  17. Ponytail

    Living Conditions

    Ex-Railway type van in a deplorable condition, placed on waste land and housing a man and wife and their child aged 1 year and 9 months, and another adult female, both females were pregnant. 31st August 1950. u01685 Photograph shows an ex-railway type van placed on waste land in June 1950. The van measured 8' 9 long, 5' 0 wide and was 5'7 high. The van was in a poor condition and there was no sanitary accommodation or water supply, lighting was by candles and there was a coal fired, metal stove inside the van. The van was generally in a deplorable condition, and the site around was littered with refuse. The occupants were a man and wife and their child aged 1 year and 9 months, and another adult female. Both adult females were expectant and both had other children, either with foster parents or in childrens homes. The occupants were eventually found accommodation by the Social Care Department. u01684 u01686
  18. Hi Martin, Watts patent monopoly was extended by Act of Parliament up to 1800, so no doubt there would be a cost implication. Newcomen's engine continued to be installed at collieries in large numbers during the period of Watt's patent. The Newcomen engine was much simpler and cheaper than Watts' engine, and Watt's advantage of economy of fuel was irrelevant when operating at a coal mine, as opposed to say tin mines (Watts machinery did well in Cornwall). I think that long ropes tended to be produced for nautical applications (as your Chatham example). Even where deep pits operated (such as in the North East), their lifts were in sections, and most other colliery depths were much less than the average UK sea depths. An anchor rope for a ship would have unknown and variable depths to contend with, whereas the requirement in a colliery was known and fixed.
  19. Ponytail

    Pest Control

    Nos. 322 JKS Pest Control (former corner shop); 320, Ray's Furniture Store; 318-316; 314, Carl Gough, dental technician; 312, H. Skelton, jeweller; 310, Hair Magic, ladies hairdressers and 308, Bramall Lane from the junction with Harrington Road. August 1974.s24897
  20. Interesting that Curr's The Coal Viewer, and Engine Builder's Practical Companion is of 1797. It describes in detail a Newcomen engine, but no mention of the Watt engine which had come onto the market in 1776 - quite a revolutionary year.
  21. Eyre Street, Lots of Thomas Fisher and Edwin Unwin, in George Curr’s land late Dr Frith's, [1827] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04101&pos=5&action=zoom&id=103589 Shows Jessop Street, Jessop Lane, Eyre Street Earl Street and Eyre Lane. Owners / Tenants marked: Thomas Fisher, Edwin Unwin, William and John Alsop / Joseph Foote. According to the article in the Star, dated 19th January 2023. "John’s brother, George (1749-1826)" Is this "George" or another relative?
  22. The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion, by John Curr of Sheffield. Quite a difference in Price! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viewer-Builders-Practical-Companion-Sheffield/dp/1379973619 https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/61/Curr-John-The-Coal-Viewer-and-Engine-Builder-39s-Practical-Companion-only-edition-Shef/1?view=lot_detail&auction_no=1002 https://www.michaelkemp.co.uk/products/author/JOHN CURR, of Sheffield Or download: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-coal-viewer-and-eng_1797
  23. John Curr obtained a patent for flat rope in November 1798. John Currs 1798 flat rope patent The rope was made by stitching together several round ropes. The advantage was that for winding up coal from a pit the flat rope effectively increased the diameter of the pulley as the load neared the top, allowing the speed to increase, the weight of rope decreasing as it wrapped around the pulley. Initially he bought in round rope from others, to stitch together using machinery which was situated on the site that would later be the lake in the grounds of "The Farm" and was within yards of his new 1803 house, Belle-Vue. By 1803 he had made arrangements for a warehouse in Tipton to service the West Midland Coal industry with his products. In April 1803 the cost of the ropes was a shilling per pound, with a month's credit, and the coal masters to pay for the carriage by barge. The ropes were warranted to last as long as six to eight round ropes of equal weight. Almost immediately though, users found problems with durability due to the quality of the round rope incorporated in Curr's product. Curr investigated and obtained two further patents: in March 1806 for spinning hemp to make yarn, and in August 1806 for twisting that yarn to make round rope. He then commenced making his own round rope in various sizes up to 7 inches in circumference. In 1807 Curr's patent round ropes were also being made in the ropery of W.Bourne and Son at Hull, for shipping use. Curr's round rope was a good product in itself and contributed to the quality of his flat ropes. Description of Currs Rope patents By 1813 rope production was so successful that it warranted a dedicated ropery building. The works he put up in 1813 (see Fairbanks' plan), was between his house, Belle-Vue, and the town, the land being an addition to the land already on lease from the Duke. Plan of Currs Leases from the Duke There were four storeys to the works, the three lower ones were occupied as cottages or perhaps warehousing, and the rope making was carried out on the fourth, which was continuous for the length of the building. The ropery crossed the already existing South Street, so an arch was required to allow traffic along the street. Derbyshire Archaeological Society Bulletin No 15 (Spring 2000) refers to two Josiah Fairbanks field books in Sheffield Archives (ref SAFC FB 137 & 138 ) which supposedly show a railway between Curr's (flat) "Rope place" on the site of The Farm's lake, and the later (round) Ropery. By 1820 Curr had sold the rope patent rights and manufacturing machinery to Richard and William Furley of Gainsborough, who also maintained a warehouse in Tipton. When no longer required to operate as a ropery, probably in the 1840s, the building was reduced in height and partitioned, to facilitate its use as 2 room cottages. Possibly some of the lower storeys had previously been used as warehousing for raw materials and finished goods. The length of Ropery Row was originally about 270 yards and it was still the full length in 1823. By 1831 the row had been broken up with a section in the centre removed, so it was down to about 180 yards. The 1850 map shows it as comprising 2 sections - "Low Ropery" which was probably where the meeting rooms were, west of South street, and the eastern section comprising 22 dwellings, 100 yards long. Large rooms remained in existence above the Low Ropery section. In the 1850s there was a school there. The United Methodist Church (Shrewsbury Road) were based in the Row in the late 1850s, and in 1872 there was a Temperance Hall. Political meetings of 500 electors were held there in 1886 and 1892. In 1876 Sale Memorial Church (St Lukes) was erected on this site of the western end of the Ropery, part of which had been purchased and demolished for the purpose. In 1841 the census showed almost half the one-up-one-down cottages in the Row unoccupied and in that year Mr. Mudford was operating a ropery in a large room above three of the cottages. From the 1851 to the 1911 census the cottages were numbered 1 to 21 and fully occupied. The Row was demolished in 1912, at which time there was a chip shop at one end, seen in the PictureSheffield photo (incorrectly dated as 1925 - it appears in a 1912 newspaper article about the demolition). Ropery Row before demolition 1912
  24. Plan of Whiteley Woods (Part 1) -section from Dead Lane to Forge Houses. 1897. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09356&pos=15&action=zoom&id=63677 Plan of Whiteley Woods (Part 2) -Whiteley Woods (Part 2) - section from Oakbrook Road to Dead Lane. 1897 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09358&pos=16&action=zoom&id=63679 Plan of estates at Rand Moor [Ranmoor] and Nether Green in the township of Upper Hallam the property of John Eyre. 1830. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03994&pos=59&action=zoom&id=102815 1. Farm House with barns, stables, yards and gardens, 2 Small Croft, 3 Stackyard Field, 4 Upper Bank, 5 Broad Field, 6 Broad Field Bottom and Lower Bank, 7 Ibbotson Wood, 8 Four Days Work, 9 Broom Field, 10 part in the road, 11 Upper Lords Field, 13 Porter Wheel and ground open to it, 14 Woody Bank, 15 Dam, 16 Low Porter Field, 17 Middle Porter Field, 18 Middle Porter Field Bottom, 19 Near Porter Field Bottom, 20 Near Porter Field, 21 Rough Field and Fox Croft, 22 three dwelling houses with an outhouse yard and gardens, 23 garden, 24 farm house, yard, dwelling houses and garden, 25 House Field, 26 Woody Bank in [?House Field]. Names include Elizabeth Hawkesworth, John Beale, William Andrews, Susannah Ibbotson, George Stringer, Thomas Binney, Jos. Biggin, Hannah Elliott, George Parker, Edmund Wilson, Ebenezer Marsden, Geo. Worrall, William Fox, Mary Trippet, William Wilson. Shows Water Lane, Porter Bridge, road from Bents Green, Road from Whiteley Wood, Dam, Porter Wheel, Porter Brook, Ibbotsons Wheel, Ibbotson Wood, Spurgear Wheel Dam, Road to Lydgate, Road to Sheffield.
  25. Upper Forge (Forge Dam), Porter Brook at Ivy Cottage Lane, c. 1826 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc06218&pos=56&action=zoom&id=102553 Detail from Plan of the Whiteley Wood Works and other property belonging to Samuel Mitchell and Co., [1826] (arc03974). Plan of the Whiteley Wood Works and other property belonging to Samuel Mitchell and Co., [1826] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03974&pos=55&action=zoom&id=102552 From left to right: Dam, Upper Forge, Old Dam, road from Brookhouse Green, wood, plantation, meadow, plantation, dam, Whiteley Wood works, forge, plantation, Bottoms Wood, The Heys, part of Dodge Field, part of Little Field, Woody, Croft, Holme Bank, dam, wheel, Porter Field, road to Sheffield and road to Nether Green. Key: In Upper Hallam - Forge Dam Banks and land adjoining, plantation, lower part of Dodge Field, Upper Holme Bank, Lower Holme Bank, road through Holme Bank, road along Porter field, Porter field, grinding wheel, dam goight banks, etc. In Ecclesall Bierlow - House Woody Bottom Lane and wood, plantation and goight, meadow, road along top of plantation, road through meadow, plantation and rad through, dams with the banks, Whiteley Wood Works Houses, Bottoms Wood, the Heys the part pasturable, road and remaining part, road from the Heys to Whitley Wood Chapel, plantation and chapel, part of Little Field, Woody Bank, Croft, road to the grinding wheel and Woody part adjoining the River. Whiteley Wood Works and Wire Mill Dam, Porter Brook, Whiteley Wood Road (formerly the works of Thomas Boulsover), c. 1826. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc06219&pos=57&action=zoom&id=102554 Detail from Plan of the Whiteley Wood Works and other property belonging to Samuel Mitchell and Co., [1826] (arc03974).
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