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  1. Ponytail

    Woodthorpe Colliery

    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
  2. Were these premises part of Queens Road Coal Depot? T. W. Ward, Coal Offices, (Queens Road?) 23rd September 1936.s07237
  3. Ponytail

    Norton Hall

    Norton Estate as Allotted for Sale. 1849 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y10811&pos=87&action=zoom&id=72807 Includes: A floor plan of Norton Hall (see also y11091); Little London Works; Meersbrook; Cliff Field; Four Lane Ends; Norton Lees; Norton Woodseats; Bolehill; Little Norton; Lightwood; Coal Aston; Land near Coal Aston & the Coal under; Greenhill; National School. Enlarged Plan of Maugheray. Sheffield Local Studies Library: S (25) 6A L.
  4. Ponytail

    Hemmingway Farm

    A plan of Hemmingway Farm near Sheffield: the property of the Duke of Norfolk, and now or late under Lease to Isaac Nodder. 1764. Surveyor: William Fairbank II. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03391&pos=213&action=zoom&id=98630 Fields between Cricket Inn Road and (modern Blast Lane), with the wheel and dam (Park Furnace) and part of the Coal-pit sough; Numerical list with field names and descriptions and acreages. Park Furnace and the Simon Wheel (the works on the south side of the River Don from the junction with the Sheaf to modern Leveson Street) (Lumley Street, Sussex Street, Effingham Road, Effingham Street) Also marked: Park Hill; Joseph Clay's Farm; Thomas Bridges's Farm; John Waites's Farm. Does anybody have any information about Hemmingway Farm? Did it have another name? When did it disappear?
  5. Lysanderix

    The Price of Carrying the Coals

    Many local steelworks had their own barges. Tinsley Rolling Mills brought coal to the works on their own craft until , I believe, the 1920s. One was wrecked and it’s remains could be seen when the River Don was in low water. One of the companies long serving workman, Darkie Hercock ,was actually born on one of the Companies barges.
  6. History dude

    The Price of Carrying the Coals

    It looks to me like something put out by the Canal companies about the impact of railways on their business. However, I would take the rail figures with a pinch of salt. As we know, the Railways slaughtered the canal traffic and the cost by rail and being cheaper was enough for them to get scared of this new method of transport. With something like that document, you have to take in the motives of who would pay for the expense of publishing it. The document does say "probable" costs. It might be something to do with the canal interests trying to stop Coal Companies actually backing or investing in future rail developments! Showing they wouldn't save much on the short distances and loose on the long ones. There was often some strong opposition to rail expansion.
  7. A plan of 1751 refers to the Mill Dam at Kellam Wheel as Clayton Dam. A map of part of the Close in William Aldam's possession proposed to be taken into the Lane near Clayton Damm containing 166 superficial yards, with the lane, etc adjoining. 1751. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03303&pos=16&action=zoom&id=98496 A simple plan including only the cartway and additions, a footway, a potato-piece and the Butts in Clayton Dam. Kelham / Kellam Wheel, also known as the Clayton Dam; this was on the River Don near Green Lane. Kelham Wheel The name derived from Kellam Homer, the town armourer, who along with George Smedley and John Swyfte were, in 1604 the earliest recorded tenants of the grinding wheel positioned on the head goit to the Town Corn Mill on the land of Earl of Shrewsbury. From the Court Leet of 1609, the tenants of the grinding wheel were required to open the by-pass goit when their wheel wasn't working to ensure a supply of water to the Town Mill. Tenants recorded: 1637; 1641 George Smedley & John Swyfte. 1650 & 1654 recorded as destroyed. 1664-1695, Kellam Homers' son, Kenhelm followed by his wife. 1701 & 1704, Mrs Whatmoore. 1715, James Crawshaw, 21year lease with a rent of £15 had to rebuild the wheel and also ensure the water supply to the Town Corn Mill. A series of repairs from 1712 in the Woodwards accounts suggests major rebuilding. 1736, Walter Briddon on behalf of Johanna Crawshaw. The wheel had two ends of 6 and 5 troughs. Goslings Map 1736 the wheel is shown built across the race. 1758, Mary Briddon was paying £30 rent for 8 and 7 troughs. 1760, William Bower the silk mill builder. The Earl of Surrey’s tenements in Long Croft, Gibraltar [Street] and Bower Springs. 1782 The names of a later date have been added by Josiah Fairbank, and the line of Russell Street and Green Lane, and Bowling Green Street, added. Tenants named. Kelham Wheel marked. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04123&pos=12&action=zoom&id=103838 Spring Street. Colson Crofts measured for the Duke of Norfolk, including the Cotton Mill, the Stream Engine Grinding Wheel, and T Holy’s land laid out in streets, 1805 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04089&pos=6&action=zoom&id=103413 Shows: Cotton Mill Co., goight to footbridge, Cotton Street, Bower Street, north side of an ancient cut of fish pond, Spring Street, Water Street, Pear Street, Plum Street, Love Street, Engine Street (changed to Steam Street) and steam engine grinding wheels. For more information regarding The Silk and Cotton Mill see separate post: "Cotton Mill Co., Cotton Street" Kelham Street. The Cotton Factory, the Cotton Mill (formerly Kelham Wheel) etc in lots for sale, 1815. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04087&pos=11&action=zoom&id=103381 1815, after a fire 1810 the freehold was sold, the larger of the two Cotton Mills became the Workhouse in 1828 and the smaller water powered Mill converted from the Kelham grinding wheel, also housed a 20hp Bolton and Watt steam engine, reverted to its original grinding use. 1822; 1828 & 1833 occupied by John Parkin, pen & pocket knife maker. John Parkin & Company https://hawleysheffieldknives.com/n-fulldetails.php?val=p&kel=2240 1835, 1837/8 Thomas Dunn of Dunn Wheel Co. A plan of a piece of land agreed to be purchased by Messrs Peace of Thomas Dunn. Land at edge of Kelham Wheel, 1837-1844. Shows Kelham Wheel Dam. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03643&pos=9&action=zoom&id=99194 1841 and 1850 Directories record John Pearson, a wood turner and circular sawyer. 1845 Rate Book records Dunn had bought the wheel and it was he as owner who made the Flood Claim in 1864 when the goits were not too seriously damaged. Thomas Dunn, coal owner of Richmond Hill, Sheffield, claimed for damage to Kelham Wheel, Dam & Sluice. https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=6-5362 After the Flood, the Wheel converted to a Corn Mill and was operated in 1875 by owner James Crossland and William Smith. 1879 White's Directory H & W, Ibbotson, corn millers & corn merchants, Britannia Corn Mills, Alma Street & Corn Exchange. Alma Street. Plan of Kellam Cottage and land adjoining as divided into lots for sale. No date. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04159&pos=14&action=zoom&id=104122 Marked: Marked: River Dun [River Don], Kellam Wheel Goight [Kelham Wheel Goight], Green Lane, shuttles, Kellam Wheel [Kelham Wheel], wash, Kellam Cottage [Kelham Cottage]. Tenants / owners: John Yealdon / Yeadon, John Crowley, Emmanuel Pearson, George Hattersley, James Armitage, William Charles, John Charles, William Charles junior and Henry Travis. Ordnance Survey Map 1890 (294.8.6) shows buildings astride the goit and named Britannia Corn Mills (top of map).The buildings were demolished 1975 but the nine stone piers are still visible. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;q00077&pos=1&action=zoom&id=108114 Water still flows from the shuttles at the head goit into the side race culvert, that formerly fed the silk and cotton mill was still being used for cooling in the rolling mill at Apollo Steels until 1986*. Nothing remains of the main Cotton Mill but traces of ancillary buildings in Globe Steel Works, Alma Street. Kelham tail goit is culverted beneath Alma Street and the outfall to the River Don, Nursery Street. * Information from: "Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers" edited by David Crossley with Jean Cass, Neville Flavell & Colin Turner. W.A. Tyzack and Sons Co. Ltd., Horsemans Works, Alma Street looking across the Mill Race from Kelham Island. t03710 Entrance to Kelham Island showing the rear of the Britannia Corn Mills. t07951 Kelham Island remains of the Britannia Mill and Mill Race. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u04111&pos=1&action=zoom&id=39621 Redevelopment of Kelham Island showing (background) the Fat Cat public house, No. 23 Alma Street t07955 Renovation work, Kelham Island showing (centre) Woodhead Components Ltd. and the Globe Steel Works, Alma Street. 1987 u12859 u12858 Renovation work, Kelham Island showing (back) Richardson Sheffield Ltd., cutlery manufacturers and Globe Steel Works, Alma Street. t14243 t08050 Renovated bridge, Kelham Island with Kelham Island Museum in background (right) t08039 Kelham Wheel. https://sheffielder.net/tag/kelham-wheel/
  8. MartinR

    The Price of Carrying the Coals

    Not always. Many collieries had their own staithes, but then other collieries had rail loading facilities. Wagons are often shunted and spend time in sidings awaiting the next train, boats keep going. Large consumers or merchants may have a private basin, then again they may have a rail connection. You'd need to know the detailed provision for each trip to get an idea of speed. The document is dated 1800-1850, but the start date is way too early, the S&D opened in 1825 and the L&M five years later so what the earliest rail to Sheffield was I don't know. At that early date what speed did railways operate at? Finally, coal does not deteriorate in the timescales we are talking about so does speed matter at all? 30 miles is a day's canal journey, but then add lockage time, may be a couple of days.
  9. A Statement of the probable cost of the carrying Coal along several Railways compared with the River Dun Navigation and the Canals connected with it. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc07567&pos=81&action=zoom&id=154933 Printed by G. Ridge, Sheffield, no date. Refers to Mr Chambers' Coal, Earl Fitzwilliam's Coal, Silkstone Coal, and Lord Fitzwilliam's Coal.
  10. Ponytail

    Sheffield Workhouse

    The Workhouse, the Story of an Institution. Sheffield West Riding of Yorkshire. https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Sheffield/ Building lots between West Bar Green and Silver Street, 1794. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04288&pos=825&action=zoom&id=105975 Marked: Sheffield Workhouse. Jane Taylor, William Wright, George Smith, Joseph Eyre, James Goulden, William Smith, Butcher, George Sybray, Matthew Walton, William Smith, and John Furniss. Town land, extending from Broad Lane End to West Bar, 1778. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04287&pos=824&action=zoom&id=105972 The plan has notes made in 1784. Marked: Broad Lane End, Hollis Croft, Rotten Row, West Bar Green, Pea Croft, White Croft, Hawley Croft, Gregory Row, Silver Street, Hick Stile Field, Queen Street, Workhouse Croft, and Workhouse. George Hounsfield, Samuel Radford, John Birks, George Allen, George Oates, John Haywood, Hollis Hospital land, Thomas Wilkinson, Josh. Bower of Hollis Hospital, Martha Hill, John Foster, William Thornton, John Thompson, Matthew Lambert, John Goodwin, Ebenezer Wall, George Greaves, Thomas Radford, Joseph Hepworth, Mary Cowley, Samuel Crook, Widow Bradshaw, George Pears, John Holberry?, Catherine Dixon, Mark Skeltens?, John Hobson, Stephen Green, John and George Wild, [?] Green, The Overseers of the Poor in the Township of Ecclesfield, Ecclesfield Workhouse [tenants of this parcel of land], John Longden, Mary Pearson, John Darwin and Co., and Samuel Marshall. Ground Plan for the intended workhouse for Sheffield, between Broad lane and Trippett Lane, c.1791. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01856&pos=268&action=zoom&id=71281 Brew house, wash house, coal house, bake house, wood store, flour store, men and boys work rooms, women and girls work rooms, dining room, boiling house, kitchen, pantry, courts and yards, matrons room, matrons store room, governor’s room, governors store room, committee room, school room, operation room, doctors shop, doctors parlour, coal store, cottages for respectable paupers and married couples and croft or garden. 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=267&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. Chamber Attic Storeys for the intended Workhouse for Sheffield, between Broad Lane and Trippet Lane, c.1791. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01857&pos=19&action=zoom&id=71282 Shows: Bedrooms, laundry room, porters lodging room, paupers sent for passes room, cottages for respectable paupers and married couples. Notice of Resolutions made at a General Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Township of Sheffield ... for the purpose of taking into consideration the present state of the workhouse and the best means of improving the same. 1804. Rev. James Wilkinson in the chair. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09967&pos=5&action=zoom&id=65482
  11. Ponytail

    Middlewood Hospital

    Built in 1872 as South Yorkshire Asylum; 1889-1929 The West Riding Asylum, Wadsley; Converted Spring 1915 into Wharncliffe War Hospital; 1930-1948 known as Wadsley Mental Hospital; 1948-1959 Middlewood (Mental) Hospital; 1959-1972 Middlewood (Psychiatric) Hospital. For more information see: Middlewood Hospital 1872-1972, Thorpe. Local Studies Ref: 362. 209 S. South Yorkshire Asylum - Plan of Estate. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01407&pos=7&action=zoom&id=65677 Shows: Hospital Buildings, including Female and Male Wings, Administrative Block, Nurses' Residence, Laundry House and Dining Hall, as well as Airing Courts, Drying Green, Boiler buildings, Wood and Masons' Yards, Farmery, Kitchen Gardens, Isolation Hospitals (2), Church, Nursery, Gardener's Lodge and Entrance Lodge. The extent of the estate shown is bounded by irrigation land and the River Don to the north north east, Worrall Lane to the west south west, land belonging to Elijah Eaton and Mr. Newton to the north, and land belonging to Messrs. Brooke and Sons, the Trustees of George Miller, and Mr. Fowler to the south. Whilst the date of the plan is unclear, the layout of the buildings shown correspond to a period covering approximately 1889-1901. The name West Riding Asylum was used between 1889 and 1929, and it is known that a second dining hall for women, adjacent to the female detached block, was built in 1901. This hall is not shown on the plan. Printed by Pawson and Brailsford, Sheffield. Scale: 1 inch : 22 yards. Four sections pasted together. Original at Sheffield City Archives X71/2/1. Asylum Entrance Gates & Middlewood Road. t08535 The Gate, looking towards Middlewood Road. s05403 Asylum Lodge. s05404 Kingswood Block, Wards 9 - 13, February 1990.s23410 Queenswood Block Wards 25-28 with Clock Tower Administration Block in the background. February 1990.s23414 South Yorkshire Asylum, Wadsley Park- Basement Plan. Feb. 1875. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc07350&pos=179&action=zoom&id=106493 Marked: tailor's shop, shoemaker's shop, attendant's rooms, scullery, wc, shoe rooms, dormitories, single room, day room, ashes, coal, lavatory, bath room, dressing rooms, etc. South Yorkshire Asylum - Workshops (boilerhouse, Bakehouse, Brewhouse, Weaving Shed etc.) Plan and Section. 7th Jan. 1871. Architect: Bernard Hartley. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc07351&pos=177&action=zoom&id=106489 Marked: smith's shops, boiler house (with boilers), bake house (with ovens), brew house, plumber, weaving shed, joiner's shop, bread store, malt [store], painter, yard, carpenters' shop, timber yard, urinals; bookbinder, upholsterer, hair picking room, mason's shed and old metal [store]. South Yorkshire Asylum - Washhouse, Laundry, etc., Plan and Sections, c.1871. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc07352&pos=178&action=zoom&id=106491 Marked: laundry, yard, drying closet, wringing machines, troughs for hand washing, washing wheel, copper, stock for rough clothes, rinser of galvanised iron, W.C.s and urinals, engine, bevel wheels, stone heeping pits, ironing stove, cold air flue, sorting and folding room, office, women's distribution room, hot water cistern proposed over engine house, women's lobby, women's receiving room, men's distribution room, men's lobby, men's receiving room. South Yorkshire Asylum - Laundry Residence Ground Plan, 1884. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc07353&pos=181&action=zoom&id=106546 Marked: day room, scullery, kitchen, W.C.s, nurse, buckets, single rooms, dormitory, bath room, dressing room, etc. South Yorkshire Asylum - Laundry Residence Chamber Plan, 1884. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc07354&pos=180&action=zoom&id=106541 Marked: dormitory, stores, W.C.s, nurse, single rooms, bed room, and single rooms. South Yorshire Asylum - Male Block, Second Floor, c.1908. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01414&pos=170&action=zoom&id=66496 Proposed Adaptation of Recreation Hall for Cinematograph Entertainments. 1924. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01413&pos=58&action=zoom&id=66495 Proposed Hospital for Tuberculosis Patients. 1925. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01415&pos=59&action=zoom&id=66497 Sanitary Accommodation for Ward 23. 1925 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01410&pos=55&action=zoom&id=65680 Southwood Block Wards 14-24, February 1990.s23409 Ward and Proposed Solarium. Ground Plan & Elevations. 1926 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01419&pos=63&action=zoom&id=66502 Proposed Solarium marked on Estate Plan. 1925. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01412&pos=57&action=zoom&id=66494 Northwood Block, Wards 5 - 8, February 1990. s23413 South Yorkshire Asylum Church Ground Floor Plan showing dimensions and layout of pews to accommodate 631 people. 1873. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01853&pos=175&action=zoom&id=3264 The Asylum Churcht06703 u01197
  12. boginspro

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    I may be wrong here and apologise if I am but the original picture put on by History dude looks to me like the tunnel/bridge at Coisley Hill just below the Block Houses on Coisley Road. If that is so as kids it was always known as The Tunnel though I think it was just quite a long under bridge. It seems to me to have been accepted as the bridge under Normanton Hill into Birley West pit but if you look at the 1938 picture above of a wagon loading coal at the land-sale site of the old Birley West site you can see how steep that hill is and the difference in gradient to the first picture.
  13. 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)
  14. 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
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. 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.
  18. 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)
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  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. Edmund

    Haymarket

    The site was the eastern end of the Fitzalan Market, which was offices (Fitzalan Chambers) where Tommy Wards' coal sales operation was. After demolition shop premises were built, one of which was Price's Tailors (1928) Ltd (trading as Fifty Shilling Tailors) which opened for business in mid June 1931.
  25. It appears that the tradition of naming collieries as "Main" originated in the North East at an early date. The "Main" seam coal was so attractive that even collieries that did not extract coal from the Main seam began to use the name, and "Main" became synonymous with Mine" :
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