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  1. Steel & Garland, stove grate manufacturers, Wharncliffe Works, Green Lane Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862 https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Steel_and_Garland Advertisement 1868 Whites Directory, Steel & Garland, Wharncliffe Works, Cornish Street & Green Lane. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y12629&pos=58&action=zoom&id=124774 Wharncliffe Works 2000 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t10174&pos=10&action=zoom&id=131805 Derelict Wharncliffe Works 2004 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v01964&pos=4&action=zoom&id=43300 Wilson & Murray, surface grinder, Wharncliffe Works former premises of John Lucas Ltd., iron founder. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;v02632&pos=5&action=zoom&id=43905 Wharncliffe Works 2013 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;c04262&pos=8&action=zoom&id=91849 Wharncliffe Works 2016 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;a01997&pos=9&action=zoom&id=117007
  2. Ponytail

    Dixon Lane, bridge over the river.

    The Canal Basin measured for the Duke of Norfolk, with the line of Exchange Street plotted, [1817] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04186&pos=50&action=zoom&id=104945 Marked: The Wicker, Blonk Street, Ladys Bridge, weir, River Dun [River Don], intended bridge [Blonk Bridge], Wain Gate, Town Hall, Castle Hill, Castle Street, Castle Folds, Hay Market, Tontine [Tontine Inn], Dixon Lane, Sheaf Bridge, River Sheaf [intended bridge], Broad Steet, hospitals and chapel [Shrewsbury Hospital], shuttle, warehouses, [canal] Basin, Soap House. Plan of Sheffield Castle about 1700 (1706?) drawn in the 1930s https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09509&pos=56&action=zoom&id=64229 A plan of the House, Croft, etc. near the Hospitals held under the Duke of Norfolk by George Crook, containing in all 3a [acres], 3r [rods], 3p [perches] 1769. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03384&pos=61&action=zoom&id=98620 Land between Broad Street, the River Sheaf and South Street. Crookes [Crook's] Croft, on the west bank of the Sheaf, south of the Shrewsbury Hospital; new Coal Road marked, with acreage taken for it; buildings, summer house and well; acreage of the whole. Coloured, on parchment. (Sheaf Lane, Sheaf Street, Granville Hill, South Street, Shrewsbury Hospital)
  3. Ponytail

    Kelham Wheel & Britannia Mills

    Britannia Mills 1879, 1901 & 1905 White's Directories H & W, Ibbotson, corn millers & corn merchants, Britannia Corn Mills, Alma Street & No. 19 (1901) 44 (1905) Corn Exchange. 1879, Henry and William Ibbotson living at Somerset Villa, 57 Burngreave Road. 1901, Henry and William Ibbotson, corn millers living at Shirecliffe House, 108 Shirecliffe Lane. 1905, Charles; Henry D; William, corn millers & Susan Ann Ibbotson living Shirecliffe House, 108 Shirecliffe Lane. Morning Telegraph Obituary Index. Henry Ibbotson of Britannia Corn Mills 27th December 1903 Henry Davis Ibbotson of H & W Ibbotson, Britannia Flour Mills 29th November 1930. H. and W. Ibbotson, Britannia Mills, corn millers, Alma Street, Kelham Island. t03724 Lorry belonging to H and W Ibbotson, corn millers of Alma Street, Kelham Island. t07661 Photograph from records of the Hallamshire Tyre and Motor Company at Sheffield Archives. Registration no. HWA 996. Presentation to the foreman, Mr. Johns who was leaving to take up a position at another mill. Part of caption on reverse reads: 'all office and work people together'. u10814 Extreme back (in arch with cap on) Aaron Rianowski? (original is difficult to decipher) Ibbotson's Boundary Line Plaque, Kelham Island, September 1978. w01425 Photographer David Cathels.
  4. 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.
  5. Ken Loach film - filmed in Sheffield - starring Bobby Knutt I need to find this on video or dvd Does anyone know where I can get a copy from ?
  6. 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. -----------------------
  7. Map showing the position of the Cleakam (Cleakham) Inn, above Green Lane near to Morton Wheel. Not to be confused with Cleakum Inn at Malin Bridge. Plan of lands in dispute between the townships of Sheffield and Nether Hallam describing them as they were in the year 1783 according to a survey thereof made by the late William Fairbank of Sheffield. Dated 1826. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03895&pos=2&action=zoom&id=97344 The ground concerned includes Upperthorp [Upperthorpe], Port Mahon, Nether Thorp [Netherthorpe] and the land between White House Lane (Infirmary Road) and Morton Wheels. Includes John Addy's house, Lidgate Field, Shales Moor Close, White House Lane or Walkley Road, Penistone Turnpike Road, old road from Owlerton to Sheffield, Green lane, Cleakam Inn, Morton Wheel and Morton Wheel Dam, River Dun and Bacon's Island etc. Cornish Street was previously known as Cleakham Wheel Road. A plan of the building lot in Cleakham Wheel Road [Cornish Street] taken of Thomas Shepherd by Henry Ibbotson. 1823. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04196&pos=6&action=zoom&id=105072 Globe Works shown. Sheffield History A-Z Public Houses List: Cleakham Inn, Cornish Place. Open 1800 Closed Span Comments: open circa 1800; 1822 Cleakem Inn, Green Lane 1822 Amelia Facey/Faser/Fraser 1825 Thomas Hobley According to Michael Liversidge in his book "The definitive A-Z listing of Sheffield Public Houses. "...the only known fact was that the landlord was the owner of a bowling green, which was attached to the Cleakham. A Thomas Hobley or Thomas Copley was the landlord in 1839."
  8. 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
  9. I’m currently researching the Sheffield to Tinsley Canal, when researching lock 10 Wharf Lane and the surrounding industries I found a post on Sheffield History dated January 2017 by Sheffield History member Lysander. in that post when writing about Tinsley Rolling Mill a mention was made about a tragic accident involving a lorry. I’ve attempted to find a date for this incident and any other information but to no avail. As I’m a new member I can’t message Lysander and would appreciate any information on this matter. Thank you
  10. Ponytail

    Owler Lane School

    Owler Lane School, Owler Lane. p00100 On this site the original building opened by Rev. J. Gilmore, May 1889; Senior Mixed Department opened by Mr. A.W. Warner, Nov 1901; Infant Department opened by Coun. S. Osborn J.P. Aug 1911. In 1947 re-organised as Secondary (Intermediate), Secondary Modern and Infant School. Secondary (Intermediate) School transferred to Hinde House Comprehensive School 1963. See: City of Sheffield, Education Committee, Handbook of Information, 1964/65. Owler Lane High School (formerly Owler Lane Secondary (Intermediate) School), Owler Lane and the junction with Rushby Street.13th July 1964. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;S24584&pos=18&action=zoom&id=27365 Earl Marshal Campus, formerly Owler Lane Secondary School, Owler Lane showing the old Boys and Girls entrances. 21st April 1993. s24585 Owler Brook Nursery and Infant School formerly Owler Lane County School, Earl Marshall Road. 21st April 1993.s24702 Rushby Street showing Earl Marshall Campus (formerly Owler Lane School) looking towards Owler Lane. 21st April 1993.s26603
  11. Ponytail

    The Corn Exchange

    New Corn Exchange, built early 1880-81, Broad Street, right. s00292 Corn Exchange - built for the Duke of Norfolk in 1881 The Central Hall of the Corn Exchange was gutted by fire in 1947 and the offices surrounding it were demolished in 1964. Engraving of the newly built Corn Exchange, Broad Street, right. s22437 H.W. Brewer (Etcher) u02332 The Shah of Persia [Iran] in England - scene in the Corn Exchange, Sheffield, during the presentation of an address from the Mayor. 1889.y11829 Image from The Graphic, 20 July 1889. Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1834 L. Architects drawing for the Old Corn Exchange, Broad Street erected 1830. This design was never built. s41155 Architects design for the old Corn Exchange - 1830 (this was not the adopted design) s01896 The old Shrewsbury Hospital, Castlefolds, founded 1616. The Corn Exchange later stood on this site. 1st January 1819.s07452 E. Blore, Artist Plan of part of the town of Sheffield, comprising the site of the present and proposed corn, hay and cattle markets, also various improvements connected with the latter. 1827. With illustrations of proposed Corn Exchange, elevation of the houses fronting the new Hay Market, and an elevation of the bridge over the Dun [Don]. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04183&pos=14&action=zoom&id=104936 Reference a - Proposed Corn Exchange and office, b - erections on each side of Corn Exchange, c - weighing machine, d - row of shops. Inns in the immediate vicinity of the present Hay and Corn Markets 1 George, 2 King’s Head, 3 Angel, 4 Commercial, 5 Yellow Lion, 6 Tontine, 7 Healeys Hotel. The sites of the present Hay, Corn and Cattle markets are coloured red, and proposed are coloured blue. Other improvements are shown in yellow. Marked are: Market Place, Angel Street, Angel Inn, old Corn Market, King Street, Post Office, Change Alley, Kings Head, Fruit Market, Market Street, Norfolk Street, John Street, Commercial Inn, Hay Market, Yellow Lion, Pond Lane, Shude Hill, Fish Market, Dixon Lane, Tontine Inn, Castle Folds, Castle Hill, Healeys Hotel, Sheaf Bridge, River Sheaf, canal bridge, proposed Hay Market, proposed Corn Market, Broad Street, Canal Basin, Canal Warehouse, Market for fat cattle, lean cattle and milch cows, pig market, sheep market, River Dun [River Don], Willey Street, Blonk Street, Wicker, Cattle Market, Ladys Bridge, Bridge Street, Wain Gate, Town Hall, Killing Shambles and Castle Street. Sheffield Markets. 1847. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04188&pos=16&action=zoom&id=104947 Marked: Old Haymarket, Dixon Lane, Castle Folds, Exchange Street, new market ground, Cheese Market, Corn Exchange, Broad Street. New Corn Exchange - plan showing groups of desks. 28th November 1881. Architects: M E Hadfield and Son, Architects, New Corn Exchange Chambers. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04419&pos=8&action=zoom&id=151747 Corn Exchange - office doors, panels and rails, etc., c.1881? Not dated. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04417&pos=6&action=zoom&id=151745 Corn Exchange - doorway, etc., c.1881? Not dated. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04418&pos=7&action=zoom&id=151746 Maunche Hotel and Corn Exchange, Exchange Place / Wharf Street on Ordnance Survey Map. 1890. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y06787&pos=3&action=zoom&id=59989
  12. LeadFarmer

    Troughs and Wells

    Not sure if this counts? Located in a stream towards the bottom of Carter Hall Lane near Town End, past Charnock Hall school. Photo taken from Facebook..
  13. 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=1&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. Note a trade directory of 1829 lists Parker, Potts and Denton as Edge Tool Manufacturers of Arundel Street; and - Hibberson, as a carrier (with carriages to Hull, Liverpool, Manchester and Cheshire) Land sold by Parker, Potts and Denton to their neighbour, James Hibberson. No date. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04034&pos=2&action=zoom&id=103279 Shows Arundel Street, Arundel Lane, Sycamore Street, and Parker, Potts and Denton's premises, comprising cart house (hay loft), stable and workshops. Also shows James Hibberson's new stables. Plan of the freehold premises in [Arundel] Street and Sycamore Street belonging to Parker, Potts and Denton. 1828 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04035&pos=3&action=zoom&id=103280 Shows: Arundel Street, Arundel Lane, Sycamore Street, and Parker, Potts and Denton's premises, comprising cart house (hay loft), stable and workshops. Also shows James Hibberson's property, together with a theatre further up Sycamore Street (at junction with Arundel Street) [?Theatre Royal].
  14. Morton Wheel, Philadelphia Works & Bacon Island (Isle) Morton Wheel is recorded in the earliest surviving Norfolk rentals in 1581, but let as north and south ends, which usually suggests 2 halves of one structure. Robert Hobson rented the south end for 20/- and Hugh Attwell the north. 1604, the tenants: Ellis Younge & Robert Shawe paying £4/20/- 1637 Harrison Survey: Thomas Wright, James and Robert Creswicke and William Walton renting 'one half of Morton Wheel' with Robert Sorsby, George Hobson and Edward Creswick the other half. List of Wheels 1641: The two Creswickes, Walton and Matthew Webster rented, 'one cutler wheel called Morton Wheel' for £ 7/10/- Sorsbie, Hobson and Edward Creswicke the same amount for 'the other Morton Wheel' suggesting there were two wheels; not until the middle of the c18th were two separate sites are identified. The Creswickes continued to lease until 1720s. Two groups of tenants took a 21year lease 1666. The Norfolk Estate woodward accounts records repairs in 1676 1716, Leases to cutlers and scissor smiths include Samuel Creswick. An inventory for George Greaves, scissor smith dated 1739 lists. 'goods, working tools, 4 grinding stones, 4 caulks valued at 15/-; 4 glazers; 9 pulleys, 2 horsings, 4 axle trees, a wheel band, a wheel kitt and trough value £2/10/- and 'the goodwill of one original grinding trow at Morton Wheel' £70. Another source; 1760 Rate Assessment reveals: the lease of 1738 instead of the tenant, the landlord paid Land Tax, Poor Rate & Highway Assessment. In 1759 Bradshaw, Overseer of the Poor wanted to double the rate, when the Norfolk Estate refused, he distrained goods at the wheels, the tenants of which then had grounds for 'action of trespass' as none of the 'goods' belonged to the Estate. The document listing the stones removed identifies 'first; second; third and Nether Wheel.' 1739 rentals, records 'New Wheel' which is probably refers to the now named Nether Wheel. 1789 Lease separates "Upper & Lower" Wheels. 1794 recorded separately, with 41 troughs at Upper and 16 at Lower, Samuel Smith working them both. 1800 Nether Hallam Rate Book, Smith recorded for the first time. Land of Samuel Ashton & Co. and George Sybray, at Morton Wheel, [Penistone Road] 1794. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03682&pos=5&action=zoom&id=99253 Map of two parcels of ground near to the Morton Wheel. 1795. Ground between Penistone Road and the Morton Wheels Dam. Yardage and owners given. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02714&pos=4&action=zoom&id=91681 1801 Smith, Hoole & Co., were working 87 troughs. 1807 Norfolk Estate sold the Wheels; over 30 years shares changed hands several times; by 1814 named Philadelphia Works, main partners being Parkin & Hounsfield after 1828 the Butchers; 1844 William & Samuel Butcher alone. 1850 and 1865 Rate Books record a steam corn mill and a tilt forge in part of the works;. indications that Water Power no longer used as no head and fall recorded. The other part, water power still available for the tilt forge and rolling mill. Water power still available 1874 & 1901, William Bury & Co. in occupation at the forge & rolling mill with engine house included with the head and fall still recorded. Little to be seen of the site apart from the Weir and shuttle into the former head-goit. Upper Dam was built over, no buildings remain. Tail-goit which also took water from the lower wheel also built over. Head goit of Nether Wheel not shown on 1892 OS map, nothing remains of the dam either. Buildings and overflow from the dam to the river shown up to 1843 maps have also disappeared. Information from: Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers, edited by David Crossley with Jean Cass, Neville Flavell & Colin Turner. Shown on this Plan of part of the townships of Sheffield and Nether Hallam which is in dispute. 1826. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03896&pos=3&action=zoom&id=97354 The ground concerned includes Upperthorp [Upperthorpe], Port Mahon, Nether Thorp [Netherthorpe] and the land between White House Lane (Infirmary Road) and Morton Wheels. Includes John Addy's house, Lidgate Field, Shales Moor Close, White House Lane or Walkley Road, Penistone Turnpike Road, old road from Owlerton to Sheffield, Green Lane, Cleakham [Cleakham Inn], Morton Wheel and Morton Wheel Dam, River Dun and Bacon's Island, Waterworks, Poor House, Bellefield House, Daniel Hill, Infirmary, Philadelphia, West Dun, Barracks (old Cavalry), Bowling Green, a Tavern [possibly the Cambridge public house], St Philips Church, Globe Works, Roscoe Place, Hoyle Street, Dun Street, Moor Fields, Green Lane, etc. Ordnance Survey Map, sheet no. Yorkshire No. 294.3.25. 1889. Philadelphia Works bottom left. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00037&pos=8&action=zoom&id=103541
  15. 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
  16. Does anyone have any information about the so called 'Dry Cottages' on Trap Lane. We walk quite frequently down Trap Lane and have noticed what appear to be well built steps and wall remains. We were once informed by passers by that there were a number of cottages just up from the Meadow Farm on Whitely Wood Road. They were supposedly not connected to a water supply and so got their name. I tried to find an early map but was unsuccessful. Any ideas?
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. We already have a thread on the tramway that John Curr may have been associated with in the transport forum here. But I think that he qualifies as a Sheffield celebrity of sorts. Born in about 1756 in County Durham he moved to Sheffield some time before 1776. Eventually he became the manager of the Duke of Norfolk's Sheffield collieries. He married Hannah Wilson (18 May 1759 - 10 June 1851) in about 1785 and they had at least eight children: Elizabeth Curr (1782 - 1812) John Curr (1783 - 1860), emigrated to New South Wales. Author of Railway locomotion and steam navigation: their principles and practice Mary Ann Curr (1786 - 1868) - married Louis Armand Beauvoisin In 1822 (info from Beauvoisin) Teresa Curr (1790 - ?) Rev. Joseph Richard Curr, baptized at Sheffield 14 April 1793. Died at Leeds 30 June 1847 Harriet (Gertrude) Curr, born in Sheffield 2 Sept. 1795 and baptized four days later at the Catholic Chapel there. Died 30 May 1868. Nun of the Institute of Mary at York Edward Charles Curr (1 July 1798 - 16 November 1850), also emigrated to New South Wales, Secretary of the Van Diemen's Land Company 1824 - 1841. Married Elizabeth Micklethwaite at Sheffield and had 11 children. Author of Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land (factlet: the town of Sheffield in Tasmania was named by Edward Curr after his hometown) Juliana Curr (1800 - ?), married Thomas Ellison at Winwick parish church on 13 October 1828; may have also married a Beauvoisin (info from Beauvoisin) He made a number of innovations in coal mining/railway technology whilst at Sheffield, some of which are described in his 1797 book The Coal Viewer, and Engine Builder's Practical Companion. He died at Belle Vue in Sheffield on 27 January 1823. He was catholic and was buried at the catholic chapel which preceded St. Marie's church on Norfolk Row.
  20. Ponytail

    The Hollis Hospital

    Hollis Hospital, left side fronting Bridge Street. y01867 Founded 1703 by Thomas Hollis, who purchased the first Dissenting meeting-house in Sheffield, called the New Hall and adjoining house and had it converted into 16 dwellings for poor women. Built 1776. Demolished 1901. Hollis Hospital, entrance on Newhall Street. 1900.arc02334 Photographer: Yates, Fargate. Original at Sheffield City Archives ref. MD7596/3. Hollis Hospital, inside the hospital premises; from a photograph taken across the yard. 1900.arc02335 Rear of Hollis Hospital and Schools, building on right fronts Bridge Street. Buildings on left fronts Court No. 1, Water Lane. u03278 A plan of Hollis's Hospital in Sheffield and several adjacent tenements which belong to the Trust. 1789. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03803&pos=31&action=zoom&id=99474 This Plan shows position of Hollis Hospital on the extreme right. The Earl of Surrey's tenements between Bower Street and New Hall Street, [1781] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04286&pos=34&action=zoom&id=105965 Shows: Bower Spring Lane, Spring Croft, Steelhouse Lane, Workhouse Lane, Hicks Lane, New Hall Street [Newhall Street], footway to Bridgehouses, Under the Water, Town Mill Wheel and Town Mill. John Hawksworth, Jno. Askwell / Ashwell, John Wainwright, Ann Genn, Joseph Frisket, Samuel Broadbent, W. Fowler, James Foulds, Thomas Fox, Widow Warrington, Samuel Matthews, Denis Belk, William Fox, John Deykin, wardens of a club, Ann Young’s heirs, George Greene, Joshua Wright, Samuel Bates, Matthew Fenton, George Greaves, Robert Dring, John Brownell, Thomas Holy’s heirs, William Booth, Ann Newton, Francis Sayles, heirs of Nicholas Hick, William Thompson, James Mellor, heirs of Samuel Smith, John Robinson, Samuel Hirst, Thomas Smith, Thomas Taylor, John Fox, Samuel Norris, John Vickers, Samuel Camm, Joseph Wildsmith, George and Philip Smilter, Mary Pashley, Joseph Ashforth, Hollis Hospital. Plaque from Hollis Hospital. y00590 Leighton in the conversation below obviously doesn't quote it word for word, but the gist of it. Edit: All is revealed in a later posts containing another Plaque and in the Hollis Hospital.org. History.... Leighton quoting from an earlier "modest but ancient building" near the Cathedral with a Plaque. Extract from articles and letters from The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 1872/3, edited by Robert Eadon Leader 1875. "Reminiscences, it's Streets and its People." Page 111. "Leighton: Standing with its side to Newhall Street and facing Millsands is Hollis's Hospital, or, as it used commonly to be called, Brown Hospital, built on the site of the first Dissenters' Chapel in the town. Its history is to be found in Hunter's Hallamshire; but the inscription on the Newhall Street- side, over a blocked-up doorway, may be recorded here, for although there seems to be no present prospect of its obliteration, when such things do disappear there is no recovering them : — "This Hospital, for sixteen poor aged Inhabitants of Sheffield or within two Miles round it, And School for fifty children, were founded by Thomas Hollis, of London, Cutler, 1703, And further endowed by his sons,Thomas Hollis, 1724, and John Hollis, 1726, And rebuilt more commodiously by the Trustees,1776." Everard: While almost everything else round here has changed, this building remains the same, close to busy thoroughfares, and yet, as it were, removed from them. Stepping down here, only a few yards from the noisy streets, has to some extent the effect of getting into a Cathedral close." Pages 189 &190. St. Thomas's Day in Hollis Croft. "Leighton: An old Hollis Croft public-house was "The Cock." Wragg: Yes, it was once kept by the father of the Mr. Jonathan Beardshaw, who has been mentioned as landlord of the Ball, Hawley Croft. His widow and his daughter's husband, named Henderson, also kept it. Leighton: Passing down the street, a few days ago, I found myself standing opposite to the house. I was sorry to see that the Cock had lost some of the *** plumage which adorned him so well 40 or 50 years ago; yet he still holds up his crest as proud as ever, and is ready to do battle as in the days of yore against all who shall presume to poach upon his domestic domain. I thought of the days that are long gone by, and of the old song : — "Bright Chanticleer proclaims the dawn. And spangles deck the sky." Again, "My Lord, the early village cock hath thrice Bid salutation to the morn." And again, that it was St. Thomas's Day. All hail to the founders of the Hollis Hospital, from whom the Croft takes its name. They are to be found recorded within the grounds at the bottom of Snig Hill, and a full history is given in Hunter's Hallamshire. The Trustees in their wisdom, and no doubt with the best intentions, let the ground in Hollis Croft on building leases for 900 years, the front at Is. per yard, and large pieces of ground at the back for nothing. That they were generous souls is sufficiently proved by their allowing three guineas to the tenantry to enable them to enjoy a good old English dinner. It was held at the "Cock," on St. Thomas's Day, and these are the names of some of those who took a delight in attending. There were three brothers of the name of Shepherd, two of whom I knew. They were invariably together, one of them walking about a yard in advance of the other. Other two brothers were Samuel and Benjamin Marples. I had the pleasure of knowing them well — honesty and truth were in them, and when one died the other could not live; he did not long survive his friend, his companion, his brother. Now, whatever I have said in praise of the above applies equally to those I shall mention below — Mr. Philip Law, Mr. John Spencer (Matthias Spencer and Son, Pea Croft); and oh, what delight I feel when I meet his venerable figure, and look upon his cheerful countenance. He will long be remembered. Mr. Jonathan Beardshaw, of whom more anon; Mr. John Hawksley, Mr. James Wild (of whom you have heard before), Messrs. Shirtcliffe, Skinner, Barraclough (Messrs. Wingfield and Rowbotham), Benjamin Leathley, Thomas Makin, Charles Sanderson, and various others. Their descendants are still amongst us, keeping up the good names of their families. The dinner is over, the usual loyal toasts are given, the land-lord ordered; the spirits, the lemons, the sugar & etc, are brought in, and Mr, Beardshaw, in accordance with the time-honoured custom, is called to mix the punch. He consults his friends. A little more lemon, says Mr. Wild; a little more sugar, says another; and the mirth begins. Mr. Beardshaw is called upon to sing his song of the "Flat Backs": — " To mak 'em we are willin, A basket full for a shillin, Red herrins and potatoes Our bellies to be fillin." But though times were bad with them, they could still be generous with the ale, and "Pray the' gie Steen (Stephen) a sup, for he is varry dry, his throat is full of smithy sleek, the wind has been so high." Other songs followed. The old warlike ones were not forgotten. "Let the song go round, let the shouts resound, Let the trumpet sound on Spanish ground; Let the cvmbals bang, with a merry, merry clang, To the joys of the next campaign — To the joys of the next campaign." Amidst all the mirth and jollity which prevailed, one thing was never forgotten, a subscription for the poor widows of the street. It was always a liberal one, and I have no doubt carried comfort and consolation along with it. It is not always a pleasure to recall the past, but in the course of a pretty long life I have experienced a full share of bright sunshine, to which I can look back with pleasure; and some of the moments I passed on St. Thomas's Day, at the sign of the " Cock," are among these. Several of those whom I have named above could well afford to ride in their own carriages, but they were plain men, and would have felt ashamed to have been seen in them; but in these days, when wealth is accumulated by leaps and bounds. "Some drive along with four in hand. While others drive at random, In wisky-buggy, gig or dog-cart, Curricle or tandem." Twiss: When speaking of fraternal affection of Samuel and Benjamin Marples you might have added that, inseparable as they were, it was the rarest thing in the world to see them without their wives. The four were always together, and formed a most harmonious quartette." Plan of the property in Sheffield belonging to the Trustees of Hollis' Hospital let on building leases, 1855 (copied 1859) includes Hollis Croft. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09970&pos=27&action=zoom&id=65489 Ordnance Survey Map, sheet no. Yorkshire No. 294.7.15 1889 (Hollis Croft can be seen bottom right, The Cock P. H marked about halfway up). https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00060&pos=63&action=zoom&id=106069 Hollis Croft Sheffield, Cock public house and mystery medieval coin. https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/hollis-croft-sheffield-cock-public-house-and-mystery-medieval-coin Hollis Hospital Trust, Sheffield. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F109998
  21. Ponytail

    Bramall Lane

    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
  22. Lysanderix

    Shire House, Nether Shiregreen

    The last time I travelled along Nether Shire Lane …..a few years ago…the old farmhouse was still there……the only non Council House on the road. I wonder what is it’s history and is it still standing?
  23. 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
  24. Edmund

    Sheffield Coal Mines

    From "The Century's Progress" 1893. For some reason the book is available on a cat enthusiast website, well OCR'd and with engravings. It covers many smaller business's in Sheffield, often in some detail. Link: 1893 The Century's Progress - Yorkshire Unquestionably one of the most important commercial institutions of Sheffield is the Nunnery Colliery Company, Limited, which supplies most of the public institutions of the town with coal, and also, directly or indirectly, provides at least one half of the inhabitants. The business was originally established in 1868. The Nunnery Colliery was formerly the sole property of the Duke of Norfolk, under whom it was worked until seventeen years ago, when a number of capitalists succeeded in converting it into a limited liability company. The managing director is Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, J.P., a gentleman who is well known and held in high estimation throughout a wide commercial circle. Mr. William Black is the secretary. The head offices at Corn Exchange Buildings are handsomely appointed, with a spacious board- room and private rooms for the heads of the several departments. A large clerical staff is provided with all the modern appliances for the rapid transaction of a large amount of commercial correspondence and other business. The Company have a branch office at 58, West Street, and also offices in London. They have also fine depots in Sheffield, which are known respectively as Soap House, in Blast Lane; Salmon Pastures, in Attercliffe Road; Nunnery, in Woodbourn Road and Cricket Road, to all of which the Company have their private line of railways; Manor Pit, within a stone’s throw of the old Manor Castle; Woodthorpe Pit, in Intake Road. There are, likewise, two additional depots, one at Heeley Station, on the Midland Railway, and the other at Wadsley Bridge, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. The Nunnery Colliery Company are producing Silkstone and Parkgate coal at the Silkstone, Parkgate, Manor, and Woodthorpe pits, which are all situated in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. The output of these pits is about seventeen hundred tons per day. As they are raising the Silkstone coal at three different pits, they are enabled to guarantee promptitude in the execution of orders for this favourite fuel. They also manufacture upwards of two hundred tons per day of the finest washed steel melting coke, for which they have a large demand in Sheffield for crucible steel melting, where it is held in very high esteem. In the large stables and stable yards of the Company there is accommodation for from eighty to one hundred horses and carts. All these vehicles are in constant use, and the Company are, therefore, able to supply coal direct from the pits to the cellars of their customers. The saving which is thus effected by dispensing with the usual charges for railway carriage and hire of wagons enables the Company to deliver coals at the lowest possible prices. A large amount of money has recently been spent by the Company in providing the most complete mechanical arrangements for thoroughly picking and cleaning the coal. The coal is tipped over vibrating riddles, by means of which the small coal is entirely separated from the large. The large coal is carried slowly by belts into carts and railway trucks, and all impurities are picked out by a number of men and boys placed on the two sides of the belts. The management of this great business in all its departments is most energetic, and all its details, industrial as well as commercial, are constantly under the personal supervision of the managing director and the secretary. The Company contemplate sinking two new pits to the Silkstone and Parkgate seams, in the neighbourhood of Darnell, at an early date, which will very considerably increase the already large output of both house and manufacturing coal.
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