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Sergeant Loosemore VC
Ponytail replied to Lysanderix's topic in Sheffield War Years and The Sheffield Blitz
Memorial in Clifford School Hall to Sgt. Arnold Loosemore, VC. 2009 a00444 To the Glory of God and in honoured memory of Arnold D. Loosemore, VC. OD. CM. Sergeant 8th Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. Educated at Clifford School in this parish. Awarded the Victoria Cross 'for most conspicuous bravery and initiative during the attack on a strongly held enemy position. He displayed throughout an utter disregard of danger. Langemarck [Belgium], 11th August 1917'. He died April 10th 1924 aged 27. For God and Country. Memorial to Johnson Family and Sergeant Arnold Loosemore, VC, Ecclesall Churchyard. March 2013. a00845 a00846 The Loosemore's - a patriotic Sharrow family. 1st June 1916. y07347 Seven brothers who are serving in the forces. They are the sons of Mr and Mrs G. H. Loosemore, 1 Lescar Lane, Sharrow Vale, Sheffield. Reading from left to right are:- Private Arnold Loosemore, Duke of Wellington's Regiment; Private George Arthur Loosemore and Private Harry Loosemore, both of the K.O.S.B.; Private J. J. Loosemore, A.S.C. of 35, Eastwood Road, Sheffield; Private John William Loosemore, Royal Engineers; Private Frank Loosemore, Royal Engineers; and Private Ernest Loosemore, of the York and Lancaster Regiment. They are all on active service. Image from Photographs from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1914-1917 vol. 2 (Local Studies 940.43 SSTQ)
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Sergeant Loosemore VC
Richard Ineson replied to Lysanderix's topic in Sheffield War Years and The Sheffield Blitz
He lived on Dyson Place off Sharrowvale Road, he was provided with a smallholding at Castleton after the war and I think his son lived on Lescar Lane, also off Sharrowvale Road. -
Thanks Southside, an interesting link. Before fans were introduced the usual manner of inducing circulation was a furnace low down in the upcast pit. Hot air rises (the stack effect) drawing the exhausted air out of the colliery. Prior to 1862 it was common in the northeast to have single pit collieries. The shaft was divided in two by a brattice of wood and cloth. One side of the brattice acted as upcast, the other as downcast. however at Harley the only shaft became blocked by a broken pumping engine beam and the men below suffocated before they could be rescued. Hence the 1862 act I mentioned above.
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Eadon's School's famous (in their day) pupils included Samuel Plimsoll, the sons of Thomas Firth (Mark, Edward, Charles Henry) and John Toothill (of John Toothill & Sons, St James' Row). Samuel Eadon was probably the son of John and Sarah Eadon - John was a schoolteacher, his school was in Red-Hill. Samuel Eadon M.A. graduated from Edinburgh University on 12th April 1834. In July 1836 Samuel Eadon M.A. F.S.A.S. (probably Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries Scotland) aged 25 married Ann Ash. The Whites Directory of 1837 shows Samuel running an academy in Beet street , his home was 7 St Georges Terrace. In July 1838 he moved the school from Beet street to a room belonging to the New Connexion Methodists in South street / Eldon street. Thus becoming the South Street School (Moor not Park) and in 1839 he added an "Initiatory Training Section" to the existing Junior and Senior Sections. Fees for the Young Gentlemen commencing their education would be one guinea per quarter (Junior fees were one and a half, and senior fees were two guineas) In 1840 Eadon was living at Pisgah Vale. In August 1848 his pupils presented him with a pair of fish slices. He did go off into some odd fields such as phrenology, homeopathy and hydropathy, taking on the role of a physician. In September 1850 the University of Erlangen (Bavaria) conferred on Mr Eadon the honorary degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts. He retired to live with his son also Dr Eadon, in Hambrook, near Bristol and died in December 1891 There is some information on this site, here: Mushroom Lane
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And the new tier of local government is all part of Regional Devolvement of powers…with a touch of “ levelling up” I imagine. It’s all down to politics….so let me say that the new scheme is a million times nicer than the Fitzalan Square of the 1960s when I started being a townie in my drinking habits. The old, smelly downstairs loos attracted a certain a”clientele”…so a quick visit was called for before a dash to catch one of the late trams to Lane Top.
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Methodist Churches in Sheffield
Ponytail replied to a topic in Sheffield Churches & Religious Buildings
Hatfield House Lane Methodist Church [former Primitive Methodist], from Winkley Terrace, c.1955. arc01197 Built 1883. First Chapel Wesleyan Methodist 1837, bought by Primitive Methodists in 1856. New School, 1948. Hatfield House Lane Primitive Methodist Church and School. c1906. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v00716&pos=21&action=zoom&id=42524 Hatfield House Lane Methodist Church. 4th November 2004.c00397c00398 Hatfield House Lane Methodist Church from Winkley Terrace. 4th November 2004.c00395 Interior, Hatfield House Lane Methodist Church. c00400
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An old chap who was still living on the Manor and an ex collier told me in the 1980s that he went down the Woodthorpe pit shaft and walked to the Nunnery end and came up that. Plus, the shaft that was present on the first map is now covered with slag.
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Something isn't seem right in that summary. Ever since the Hartley Colliery disaster of 1862 and the subsequent "Act to Amend the Law Relating to Coal Mines of 1862", all collieries must have at least two shafts. The top pit may have stopped raising coal and men travelling in it, but it would have to be retained for ventilation and escape purposes until the whole colliery closed down.
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There was a third pit just off the top of the map, which seems to have stopped quite early. The Incline track was a link to take coal from the lower pit to the Coke Ovens at the top. The top pit also stopped working before the lower pit. And you can see no trace of the track in the 1927 pictures. The tunnel under Mansfield Road was still visible from the Woodthorpe side in the 1970s and was bricked up. The other side was completely covered by the slag heap. The bridge abutments were still there, till the construction of the road to Applegarth. That destroyed three quarters of it, but left a small bit and the end stone with the caping. Which I think might be still there. The road filled in the rest. I assume the reservoir was to provide water for the steam engine to lift the pit cage. It was lined with cube shaped sandstone blocks, some of which went into the adjacent Boot house gardens for rockery purposes. Including that of 387, my house. I remember one had a fossil indentation of Cyclades on the front!
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The more northern pit lies on the 525' contour, the southern lies between the 625' and 650' so clearly the southern pit is a bit over 100' higher. Look also at the reservoirs, one has an embankment around its northern end, the other has a straight dam.
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The Story of Jack Timms, founder and builder of Pinegrove Country Club. University of Sheffield Alumni, 9th June 2022. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/alumni/news/story-jack-timms Pinegrove Country Club, Myers Grove Lane, Stannington. 11th June 1981. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s32165&pos=1&action=zoom&id=65384 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s32166&pos=2&action=zoom&id=65385 Pinegrove Country Club 2008. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/971256
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Penny Token of the Overseers of the Poor, 1812. s09460 Obverse shows West View of the Workhouse, Reverse shows Justice, standing with scales, on a pedestal. The Workhouse shown on these tokens was on West Bar. It was opened in 1733 enlarged in 1759, and demolished in 1829. Plan of a proposed Workhouse for Sheffield, between Broad Lane and Trippett Lane, c. 1791. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01855&pos=21&action=zoom&id=71280 Shows work rooms, store room, dining room, laundry, brew house, kitchen, boiling house, bakehouse, oven, pantry, bread room, matrons room, store room, governors room, overseer room, doctors rooms, taylors room, poor attending on overseers [room], sick poor [rooms], bath, cells, etc. Original in Sheffield City Archives: WC/2075M. Notice of a Meeting at the Workhouse on Pitsmoor, in order to make an assessment for the relief of the Poor. 15th November 1794. arc01184 John Walker, Chapelwarden; William Vickers and Henry Clarke, Overseers of the Poor. Printed by Northall, Sheffield. Original at Sheffield Archives (JC/29/42). Notice of a Meeting called to consider the grievances of those people affected by a new Regulation of the Assessments for the Township of Brightside Bierlow. 27th April 1795.arc01185 John Walker, Churchwarden; William Vickers and Henry Clarke, Overseers of the Poor. Printed by Northall, Sheffield. Original at Sheffield Archives (JC/29/43).
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The (old) Plumpers Hotel sited at the junction with Bawtry Road was rather a sharp turn and I remember as a child when travelling in the car with my parents, my mother always used to pipe up with a very nervous, "Careful Bob! it's a bad turning." which made me duck down in the back seat in fear of impending doom. In later years I don't think that turning was as nerve wracking as turning off Tinsley Roundabout when drivers realise they're in the wrong lane for Bawtry Road and others are gathering speed for the M1 slipway. Or coming from Bawtry Road drivers who think they can slip into the traffic on the island. After the demise of the steelworks in the area during the 1980's and being in rather an isolated position the Plumpers experienced a big fall off in trade and closed.
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Steel workers Pub, bottom of Shepcote Lane.
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Link to images restored: Mansfield Road looking towards the junction with Hurlfield Road with spoil tip on the right. 6th June 1955. u04511 Photographer: City Engineers and Surveyors Office. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u04511&pos=1&action=zoom&id=40008 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u04510&pos=1&action=zoom&id=40007 Also: Queen Mary Road, showing former Colliery tip at back of road (former Woodthorpe Colliery)s18968 Photographer: Press Photo Agency. Queen Mary Road, showing colliery tip (former Woodthorpe Colliery). s18969 Photographer: Press Photo Agency. Map of Richmond, Spring Wood and Woodthorpe, c. 1855. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02931&pos=5&action=zoom&id=93426 From a volume of maps of the parish of Handsworth, based on the enclosure award maps (1805) and corrected up to 1855. Marked: Richmond; Richmond Road; Lamb Hill; Woodthorpe Common; Woodthorpe; Intake;Turnpike Road; Springwood Cottage; Woodthorpe Colliery; Coal Pit; Spring Wood; Parish Boundary. Woodthorpe Colliery 1854-1930. https://www.mindat.org/loc-383123.html Nunnery Woodthorpe Pit 1854-1928. https://www.mindat.org/loc-380201.html Sheffield Collieries (Sheffield, Handsworth, Woodthorpe, High Green, Chapeltown) Wm. Stobart. Section of the several beds of coal and ironstone. 1817. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/c98cc644-645e-4203-9b6b-e3a7aea127c6
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Were these premises part of Queens Road Coal Depot? T. W. Ward, Coal Offices, (Queens Road?) 23rd September 1936.s07237
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BSC Plate Mill, Shepcote Lane, Furnaces© Gez
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Yes, it was loud!! Living at Brinsworth at the time, we thought the lad who lived over the back was having a loud party outside while his parents were away on holiday. Then realised it was the Springsteen Concert. It was louder than the Def Leppard Concert at Don Valley Stadium some years later, that after the Sound Check the day before was turned down a few notches. Set List: Tunnel of Love Express Tour Bramall Lane 9th July 1988 https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bruce-springsteen/1988/bramall-lane-sheffield-england-7bd7b294.html
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Thanks for the details…….brought back lots of memories especially of the shops and a few relatives! I have a vague memory of the greengrocer on Stubbin Lane being under a different name for a time before Jim Smith took over. Could that be why there’s no record of J Smith in Kelly’s?
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The only Smith listed on Stubbin Lane, 1957 and 1965, Mrs. Emma L Smith, at 98 Stubbin Lane.
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I also left home in 1965 to get married. We had bought a house off Elm Lane at Lane Top . “Aunt Gladys” and her sister ran the Mikado Drink Shop. I put a piece on here a while ago reminiscing about the place…the home made ice lollies and the back room where invited kids were invited to watch TV…….when TVs were a rarity!
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I left home in 1965 to get married and I expect I remember the greengrocers as Roses on the odd occasion I'd gone shopping with my mum to Firth Park (we lived at Sheffield Lane Top) My sister in law knew Jim Smith and he possibly took over the Bellhouse shop in the mid 1960s? I don't remember a Smiths Greengrocers on Stubbin Lane but do remember the Mikado drink shop where my father took myself and my sister every Saturday afternoon after we had visited Firth Park Library.
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Thanks SteveHB, opposite side of the road I was thinking of. Can you find a J. Smith, either Bellhouse or Stubbin Lane?
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Styans was on the corner of Bellhouse and Sicey, when it closed didn't it become a greengrocers? I only shopped with mum until I started school in 1956 and ran "messages" under strict instructions after that to certain shops; but have a memory of going into that shop as a greengrocers and thought that was Roses. Apologies Stunmon if my memory is muddled, I was trying to think of a Smiths on Bellhouse Road not on Stubbin Lane.
