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I never realised we had so many collieries. I remember once reading that Dore had once had a coal mine with its HO in the Devonshire Pub. * I had the cutting framed and placed behind the bar. It caused some amusement amongst the old villagers for some to think they were drinking in a miners pub…others , mainly newcomers, thought it far from amusing. * a thin ,shallow seam of readily accessible coal.

Thank you Boginspro and Ponytail for your suggestions and additions regarding Lustre Silver. Thomas H. Blake would be a candidate as he had by 1885 launched his business in Holly Lane as an electro-plate spoon and fork manufacturer, but I do not think the "THB" is Thomas H. Blake. I see "TH" as the "concern" and a "B" for electroplate grade quality. That quote for Frederick Green & Sons, as shown by the respected site "silvercollection.it" could fit but I can not find the Sheffield trade directory entries that back up that sites suggested dating. I checked Sheffield directories around the suggested last decade of the 19th century dates that I could see on line, but found no Frederick Green & Sons. There will be directories that are not on line of course that may have the positive evidence that proves the suggestion. I just think the "Lustre Silver" question needs more answers. Kalfred

Markham Main Colliery. https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/doncaster/markham/ Houghton Main Colliery. https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/barnsley/houghton-main-colliery/

As most of my family appear to have lived around what is now Upperthorpe, Netherthorpe, through to the town centre along Solly Street and Townhead Street, I was hoping to find Coalpit Lane near there as I have a branch of my family living there. I know roads ‘disappear’ over time and wondered which map I should look at to see if there ever existed Coalpit Lane in this area. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Fairfield Inn, Neepsend Lane, Sheffield Was this also known as "The Owl' at one point?

Coal is found at different levels in the ground. And in different seams. The main seam would be the biggest deposit of coal in a seam. The seams were given names like Parkgate and Silkstone etc.

Yes, I believe it's to do with the fact that the pits are all removing coal from the same seam (layer) of coal.

My wife used to work for the coal board at Queens House in Sheffield dealing with accident claims during the eighties. Until the miners strike there were 56 collieries in Yorkshire. Only 6 had the word "Main" in the title. Barnsley, Hickleton, Houghton, Manvers, Markham and Yorkshire ( Doncaster ). From her recollections she believes these sites had multiple shafts and were linked. For instance Manvers was linked underground with Wath, Barnburgh and Kilnhurst but all the coal mined in these pits were all raised at Manvers.

Newspapers name a few beerhouses on Hawley Lane. (Omitting references to the Reindeer, as we know that is not our unidentified photo). Patrick Whitton, beer seller, Hawley Lane. Mention in: Sheffield Independent Friday 21 April 1876 (re. fines for short pints) William Hannay, beer seller, Hawley Lane. Mention in: Sheffield Independent Friday 21 April 1876 (re. fines for short pints) Unnamed Beerhouse, Hawley Lane. Mention in: Sheffield Daily Telegraph Friday 29 January 1875 (to let, apply Spring Lane Brewery) Cork and Bottle, Hawley Lane. Mentions in: Sheffield Daily Telegraph Friday 18 March 1881 (referenced in report of assault) Sheffield Daily Telegraph Friday 14 November 1879 (reference in report of someone stealing soldiers’ shirts) Eagle Tavern, 3 Hawley Lane, Silver Street Head. Mentions in: Sheffield Daily Telegraph 13 January 1877 (to let) Sheffield Daily Telegraph Thursday 26 February 1880 (use as committee room) Sheffield Daily Telegraph Friday 30 December 1881 (advert for servant) Sheffield Daily Telegraph Saturday 22 October 1881 (reference in report of abuse of a girl and assault of Henry Bockling, landlord) Sheffield Daily Telegraph Monday October 17 1881 (reference in report of soldier being robbed); Sheffield Daily Telegraph Wednesday 28 June 1882 (re. Henry Bockling, landlord, fined for knowingly having prostitutes on premises); Sheffield Daily Telegraph Monday 14 August 1882 (re. advert for pianist) Sheffield Daily Telegraph December 15 1883 (re. to let, apply Scotland Street Brewery)

Sheffield United Football and Cricket Club Ltd., Bramall Lane. - Ground Plan Showing Proposed New Terracing etc. 1901. Architect: Archibald Leitch (1866-1939) 40 St Enoch Square, Glasgow. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02022&pos=2&action=zoom&id=73831 Sheffield United Cricket and Football Club Ltd., Plans and a Elevations of new Terracing.1901. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02023&pos=3&action=zoom&id=74837 Sheffield United Cricket and Football Club Ltd., Seated Terracing next to Pavilion. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02025&pos=5&action=zoom&id=74839 New Seated Terracing next to Pavilion. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02024&pos=4&action=zoom&id=74838 Sheffield United Cricket and Football Club Ltd., Bramall Lane, Sheffield - New Grandstand, amended plan of drainage. Architect: Archibald Leitch (1866-1939) 40 St Enoch Square, Glasgow. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02026&pos=6&action=zoom&id=74840

Maggie May's, bar and restaurant, Trippet Lane. 2017. a03748 Photographer: Andrew Milroy Formerly No. 27, Brown Cow? Maggie May's, 23-27, Trippet Lane. https://publocation.uk/pubs/south-yorkshire/sheffield/maggie-mays It would be good to know what was on the sign at No. 27 (right) Is it Brown Cow? West Bank Lane from Trippet Lane, No. 23 Walter Trickett and Co Ltd., spoon and fork makers, Anglo Works, left. July 1969. s20375

No. 27 Trippet Lane and the junction of West Bank Lane. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02668&pos=19&action=zoom&id=44370 Former premises of Walter Trickett and Co Ltd., Anglo Works (extreme left) and No. 27 Trippet Lane with West Bank Lane between. 2001. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v03115&pos=2&action=zoom&id=44812 Former premises of the (Old) Brown Cow?

Hi Can anyone point me in the right direction to obtain a map of Sylvester Lane in 1880s? Ideally with the court/house numbers. Thanks in advance A

History of Booth & Co. https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Booth_and_Co#General A Map of the Lands and Works in the north park of Sheffield Park. 1788. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09966&pos=2&action=zoom&id=65481 Amongst others named: John Booth & Co. 19. Little Bank with House. 21.The Meadow. 22 & 20. Furnace Foundry and other Works. Road to the from Attercliffe Bridge, Dam and other Watercourses, Banks above the Dam and by the River. (Property near to Royds Mill Weir) Also Marked: River Sheaf; Hospital Grounds; Land held by Wm. Shipley; Road to the Farms in the Park, Cricket Inn Road; Castle Orchards; wear (weir); River Dun (Don); Simon Wheel Upper Dam; Simon Wheel Lower Dam; Simon Wheel; Walk Mill Wear (Weir); Royds Mill Wear (Weir); Furnace Dams; Dewee Close; Other Tenants: Thomas Taylor; Isaac Mower; Robert Rawson at Castle Orchards; Thomas Rodgers; Benjamin Blonk & Co. at Simon Wheel; John Woollas; John Froggatt; Benjamin Taylor; Samuel Revil; Hannah Hodgkinson; William Shipley; James Furniss; William Lord; R. Magnall and Ric'd Falkner; John Barber; James Kaye; John Steer; William Smith; William Kent & John Jowel. (Top of left of Map think it says) "Pencil? Numbers? Harrison Survey 1639. Also (parts listed) Surveyed W Fairbank 1789. A Plan of the Forges Tenements and works Brightside held of the Duke of Norfolk by John Booth and Co, drawn 1790, updated c.1810. (dated 2nd September 1811) https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01852&pos=1&action=zoom&id=18564 "The Fall from the top of Brightside Forge Wear (Weir) to the top of Brightside Paper Mill Wear to the middle of the wear at (a) is 8ft 7 1/2. From (d) to the south end of the wear at (b) is 8ft 5 1/2." "Held by the first long lease along with the Goights and Dam marked *. No. 3 New Forge and Rolling Mill with the Ground. No. 4 Dwelling House and Garden. No. 5 Close or Croft. No. 6 Forge and other buildings Dam Gardens & Lane leading to the Forge." Coloured Green (gives measurements) "Held by the second long lease Coloured Yellow No. 2 Two Houses with Gardens and other Ground." "Held by Common Lease No.1 A Close called The Holme. No. 7 The Island." (gives measurements) "* From the Compting House corner to the Company's Hedge next Lucy Southerons is Four Feet. August 5th 1804." Marked: River Dun (Don); Brightside Forge Wear (Weir); Forge & etc (Brightside Forge); Garden; Charcoal Yard; Road to Sheffield; Brightside Green; Road to Tinsley and Rotherham; New Forge & Brightside Paper Mill Wear (Weir). Also named: Earl Fitzwilliam's Land; John Whetham Esq.; Duke of Norfolk and late John Hartops. A Plan of the Houses and Ground near Brightside demised to J. Booth and Co. 1789. (Between Weedon Street and the River Don.) https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02690&pos=2&action=zoom&id=91532 Marked: Lane from Carbrook to Brightside & The Dun (River Don). Other Tenants: William Binks, tenant; Close held by the Widow of John Hartop. House, Garden, etc proposed to be taken of the Duke of Norfolk for the term of 99 years by John Booth and Co. 1796. (Between modern Effingham Road and the Park Furnace Dam.) https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03392&pos=3&action=zoom&id=98631 Also marked: Furnace Dam & Road to the works of J. Booth & Co. Iron Works of William Booth & Co, https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03547&pos=1&action=zoom&id=98880 Heald (Held) by a Common Lease: Upper Meadow; Lower Meadow; Little Bank; Above the Dam including the road and road by the River; upper part of H. Hodgkinsons Close. Heald by the first long lease: Old Dam with the goight leading to it from the River. Heald by second long lease: New Reservoir Banks & Watercourses round it. Furnace and other Works & Ground about them. House & Garden. Booth & Co. Park Foundry: (Copy) Minutes of meeting of the partners (Sayle, Shore, Binks, Hartop and Booth). 6th Jan 1825. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/39bd2d25-afae-4ae7-9af9-8a1f07e8159d

Part of Robert Brightmore's late premises at the top of Church Lane bought by Wild and Pass.1820, 1824. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04043&pos=4&action=zoom&id=90822 Also, other property of Wild and Pass and Ann Hancock in Orchard Lane and Sands Paver [Sands Paviours]. The plan has been cut and pasted to an outline of the adjacent properties and the first suggested line of Bow Street drawn across. Refers to John Sheldon, Orchard Lane, Church Street, William Pass, James Wild, Independent Methodists Society, Ann Hancock, John Milward, Bow Street. Firth College, Leopold Street / Bow Street, 1891 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc07488&pos=400&action=zoom&id=106877 Shows Sands Paviours.

The Golden Ball public house, No. 69 Campo Lane from Vicar Lane. 29th June 1986.s30843 The Golden Ball public house, No.69 Campo Lane. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t09557&pos=2&action=zoom&id=47272

Townhead Street looking towards Campo Lane and the Golden Ball public house, gable belongs to the Burns public house, St. James Church Spire in background. 1898.y00595 Group including landlord Tommy Ward outside the Golden Ball public house, Townhead Street/Campo Lane. s09419 Information with the photograph. "Tommy Ward 'Senior' is on the left." Interior of The Golden Ball. 1937.s07031 Information with the photograph. "Mr. T. W. Brookes, on the right, was the landlord and Mr Tom Ward the barman.The Golden Ball was popular with actors from the Playhouse." St. James' Churchyard and rear Golden Ball public house, No. 69 Campo Lane and No. 10 Townhead Street. u00720 Ordnance Survey Map 1890, sheet no. Yorkshire No. 294.8.16. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00082&pos=7&action=zoom&id=152826

I am new to this forum and have not been successful in my search for this topic in your files. I apologize if I am bringing up an old topic. I am seeking information on Benjamin Vickers, Master Cutler of 1799. I tried doing a search on your site for Benjamin Vickers, Master Cutler, 1799, but got nothing. In Robert Eadon Leader's "Reminiscences of Old Sheffield," there is a mention of Benjamin Vickers on p. 141, "Between Hicks lane and Workhouse lane was Mr. Benjamin Vickers, who was Master Cutler in 1799. He was uncle to the then Mr. Vickers of Mill Sands and granduncle to the late (1872-73) Master Cutler, Mr. T.E. Vickers." Mr. John Vickers, corn miller of Mill Sands, is my 3rd ggrandfather. His 5th son, Henry Vickers, who became a solicitor in Sheffield, is my 2nd ggrandfather. I am having great difficulty discovering who the parents of John Vickers were. I've been in on-line contact with two descendants of Edward Vickers, Henry's older brother, on Ancestry.com, and they don't know either. There are Vickers trees on Ancestry, but they have little documentation and I don't trust them. I'm hoping that information on Benjamin Vickers Master Cutler 1799, will throw light on the parentage of John Vickers as Benjamin's brother would have been John Vickers' father. On Ancestry I have found various documents with the name Benjamin Vickers. On Church Lane listed under Cutlers Company is a Benj. Vickers, proprietor, from 1781 (land tax documents). On Spring Croft there is a Benjamin Vickers, silversmith, who is paying tax on apprenticeship dues received in 1786, etc.. In 1817, there is an entry in Quarter Session Records, Wakefield, regarding a James Robinson's theft of blades, steel, and ivory from Francis Carr, Benjamin Vickers, and William Anderson. Are these Benjamin Vickers all the same man, or different men? I am showing my ignorance, but were cutlers ever silversmiths? Did people have workshops on different streets in the town? I've looked for a map of 1799 to find Hicks lane and Workhouse lane to see if Church lane or Spring croft are near by but haven't been able to find a map. Can anybody help me out? Yours in ignorance.

Junction of (foreground) Haymarket and (centre) Dixon Lane. 1960's p01431 This image was originally part of the Tim Hale Photographic Collection. It was purchased at auction in September 2019 through donations from members of the public and a grant from the Graves Trust. Corner of Dixon Lane and Haymarket (before the construction of F. W. Woolworth's) c.1959 s37986 Dixon Lane from Haymarket, after the demolition of Norfolk Market Hall. 1959.s14912 Dixon Lane, June 1952, from Haymarket, Norfolk Market Hall on the left, demolished 1959. s00327 Norfolk Market Hall and Castlefolds Market, Exchange Street on Ordnance Survey map, showing Dixon Lane. 1890. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y06786&pos=87&action=zoom&id=59990

Dixon Lane, (l. to r.) No. 26, Norfolk Arms, No. 24, T. Bates (Wallpapers) Ltd., paint merchants, No. 22 and 16a, William John King Ltd., provision dealers, No. 20, Rock Tavern, No.18, Dixon Meat Stores. s21768 Norfolk Arms public house, No. 26 Dixon Lane. August 1999.v04579 Dixon Lane (l. to r.) No. 20 Dewhurst, butchers; No. 18 Kings, delicatessen, No.16 Thurston's bakers; No.14 Thresher Drinks Store and side entrance to British Home Stores. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t14010&pos=56&action=zoom&id=151404 Dixon Lane and Castlefolds, F. W. Woolworths and Co. Ltd., right. 29th March 1962. s14903 Photographer: City Engineers Dept. Dixon Lane looking towards Haymarket, including No 26, Norfolk Arms public house, and British Home Stores, left; F.W. Woolworth and Co, right. 19th May 1975. s00174 Photographer: City Engineer and Surveyors 24122/2.

Tapton Hall, Shore Lane showing extension built 1968 by Hadfield, Cawkwell and Davidson. October 1988. s29369 s29367

Does anyone remember this firm, based in the East of the City, but I'm not cerrtain where. This photograph is the only clue to the existence of tjhe firm, taken, by the looks of it, in the 1920s or 1930s

S. Newbould’s premises on Little Sheffield Moor, and John Taylor’s house, 1787. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03771&pos=28&action=zoom&id=99407 Land purchased of the Duke of Norfolk by Samuel Newbould and Thomas Holy at Little Sheffield. 1803. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04083&pos=7&action=zoom&id=72460 Several fields between Broom Hall Lane and The Moor, across which Clarence Street was afterwards made. The line is indicated on this plan. Shows Broomhall Lane, Younge Street and Samuel Newbould’s property. William brother of Samuel Newbould. (Information from Grace's Guide, "The second son William (1749-1802) married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Holy, button manufacturer, and was in partnership with his father-in-law.") Ground on Little Sheffield Moor demised by the Marquis of Rockingham to T Holy and William Newbould, 1776. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03770&pos=27&action=zoom&id=99406 House, workshops, erected on the leasehold ground of Thomas Holy and William Newbould, [The Moor], 1790. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04259&pos=23&action=zoom&id=34922 Marked: William Newbould, T. Holy's house, warehouse, etc. (Information from Grace's Guide "The Newboulds were tilting at Loxley. Miller remarked: “Old Wheel Dam . . . would seem to have run both a tilt and a grinding wheel in the early part of the nineteenth century, when for seventy or eighty years, the property was owned by the Newboulds. Messrs. Samuel Newbould and Co. were tilters here for a considerable period but the Dentons leased the forge from somewhere about 1845 to 1885.”) Plan of an Estate situated at the Old Wheel in the Parish of Bradfield the property of S Newbould. 1820. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09601&pos=4&action=zoom&id=3529 Plan of land at Loxley intended to be sold to Samuel Newbould (part between Old Wheel Dam and Storrs Wheel), by W. and J. Fairbank. 1825. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09598&pos=6&action=zoom&id=44514

Map of Woodhouse Junction area, c.1855. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02940&pos=1&action=zoom&id=93148 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. From a volume of Maps of the Parish of Handsworth, based on the Enclosure Award Maps (1805) and corrected up to 1855. Dimensions of original: 34 x 51cm. Original at Sheffield City Archives: CA369/1.

Plan of Land near Portobello agreed to be leased by Benjamin Withers to Samuel Sharman and others. 1835. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03848&pos=38&action=zoom&id=99542 Marked: Glossop Road; Withers Street; Withers Lane; Cavendish Street.