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  1. johnm

    Brickworks in Sheffield ?

    On the general topic of brickworks its interesting to note that a brickworks could often be a very small enterprise eg a single kiln with around 6 cells which were used for a single company. This was the case with mines which used a lot of bricks so it made sense for the mine owner to make his own bricks. I live in North Yorks now, where most ironstone mines were like this & I guess Sheffield coal mines would be the same too.
  2. Bayleaf

    The Wedding Cake Registry Office In Sheffield

    When Arundel Gate from Castle Square to Furnival gate was being built, there was a delay because they uncovered a seam of coal, and the then Coal Board exercised their legal option of extracting the coal before work on the road could proceed. More recently, digging the foundations for one of the new buildings just off the roundabout at Furnival Gate they hit the coal again. And some distance away, it was reported in the Telegraph that the work on the extension for the Childrens Hospital (or was it the new Physics block at the Uni?) involved extracting a number of lorryloads of coal. Sheffield seems to be built on coal. Remind me, where do we get our coal? USA? Colombia? Russia?
  3. miamivice

    Holbrook colliery shaft

    It’s sort of at the apex of the corner between EMR and some other big unit. If as you approach the site from the back of the garage and bear right, it follows round to the enclosure. A lot of this is supposition but the stone gabions are where the outlet is for draining the adit, which according to the Coal Authority was stopped and a small pipe placed inbye to allow it to drain in 1997. So I’m guessing the original entrance to the Adit may have been where the gabions are or around that area and the drains altered slightly. Either way the chain link fence was full of warnings about ‘Deep Water’ so it’s possible the actual entrance is underwater and the various pipes act as an overflow. The water was deadly stagnant almost like that public information film deterring kids from messing about near water. I don’t know what it is but the whole area where the pit was gives me the creeps!
  4. lysander

    Sheffield Coal Mines

    Whilst researching the history of the formation of the NCB I came across a rather surprising entry for a Colliery Company whose registered office ,in 1948,was at the Devonshire Arms in Dore. Apparently, there exists a thin seam of coal, at no great depth, from which the "Dore Colliery Company" extracted coal by, presumably, open-casting. The coal was probably used to produce "white coal"* from local timber, which was then used for smelting lead. Totley and District is an early example of industrial scale production where ,by using "white coal" and water-powered bellows, much smaller quantities of lead could be smelted at any one time...thus freeing the lead smelter from his reliance on a prolonged wind in the right direction for his "Campaign", at what were known as "Bole Hills" . The Totley method also made the transportation of lead to east coast ports for shipping to London much easier, by virtue of it being produced in much smaller ingots than could be produced from a "Bole". Much of Derbyshire had effectively been deforested by the demand for wood for these campaigns and , consequently,the lead ore (galena) was brought by pack- horse over the hills into Totley, Beauchief and probably Crookes where wood was more abundant ( e.g Abbeydale Woods) Whether the company was still engaged in coal mining at the time of nationalisation is a moot point, but the knowledge that all the "posh" folk, living in Dore, were actually in an ex mining area caused quite a stir, some years ago, when I placed a small notice in the Bar area to the effect that the Dev was once the registered office for a coal mining company! My ancestor, living ( and dying) in Totley left all his lead smelting tools to his son in his will, dated 1672! * White coal is similar to charcoal.
  5. ken wain

    Holbrook colliery shaft

    Hi everybody, you may well have been wondering why I have not contributed to this topic earlier, but as with everything, time is of the essence. I have been spending a lot of time looking at all the evidence at my disposal, plus some additional research which enabled me to come up with what I think may well answer a lot of the questions raised. With regard to the newspaper article regarding Worrall's pit, just off Rotherham Road at Killamarsh, I can say that I am sure that this is the colliery operated by Mr John Joseph Worrall which he took over from his grandfather. It was situated on "Norwood Bank", midway between the Midland railway and The Chesterfield canal close to the Norwood Colliery on Rotherham Road. Known locally as "Norwood Lane".The colliery closed for three years in 1910 due to a slump in the coal trade and on resumption of work continued to work for a further 40 years until its closure in 1943. All the eight men working at the colliery were members of the Worrall family. Coal was drawn from the 60 foot shaft by a horse operated "Jenny Wheel". See below the photograph which was taken of Mr Worrall on Norwood Bank in 1939, standing beside the Jenny wheel with the horse harnessed to the operating arm of the wheel. If you look very closely to the right of the photo you can see the horse driver holding its harness! The diameter of the jenny wheel was such that enough rope was wrapped around it to allow for the depth of the shaft so the horse would only have to walk for one revolution of the wheel to raise or lower the coal tub up or down the shaft. . LUKE WORRALL, of Mosborough who was a farmer and local shopkeeper,went into partnership with a man named Hodgson and sunk two pits in 1830, one in "Beighton Hollows" on Hollow Lane which is just off the main Rotherham Road at Halfway and another smaller one further down the village, but I don't know its location. Hodgson's daughter was killed in the second pit just before Christmas in 1837. The Beighton Hollows pit is the one which I believe was the one which James Walton was referring to in his publication. I knew his son very well; as was mentioned earlier James was not a Councillor but his wife Dorothy was; She was the Lord Mayor of Sheffield for a While, James becoming the Lord Mayor's Consort. Worrall was a shrewd business man and very little money changed hands between him and his employees as they were forced to buy their food and clothing from his shop. Vegetables,milk and eggs e.t.c. were all produced on his farm, giving him the monopoly in the local community. Re Holbrook and Norwood collieries :- Between 1870 and 1872, J&G Wells sunk 3 shafts at Holbrook each being 13 feet in diameter. The shafts were sunk in close proximity to each other. No 1 shaft into the Silkstone seam, and a pumping shaft also into the Silkstone seam. The No3 shaft was sunk into the Parkgate seam. The photo below shows all three shafts close together along with the three winding houses, but it is of poor quality. The No 4 shaft which was a pumping shaft was sunk between 1884 and 1885 near to the roundabout in front of Morrisons car park on Rotherham Road. Although this was primarily a pumping shaft a few men worked underground and brought out a small amount of coal. Holbrook colliery had a bank of coke ovens and a wooden framed cooling tower. The coke ovens were modernised in 1908 but were eventually closed in 1935. I have been underground at Holbrook several times, but I will tell you about that later in a new topic. The photo below shows all three shafts close together, but it is of poor quality. Between 1865 and 1867 the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company sunk a shaft at Norwood, off Rotherham Road Killamarsh, into the Top Hard seam at 510 feet; I am very proud to say that my great,great grandfather Elijah Wain was the master sinker; He and his team completed the sinking without a single accident of any kind. Why the shaft was known as the No2 Shaft remains a mystery because the Holbrook and Norwood collieries were not connected and were at least three miles apart. Common belief is that J&G Wells gave it this name when they took over the Norwood colliery? I lived in Rotherham Road until I was 25 years of age and as a child I played around the colliery yard watching and riding on the shunting engine under the watchful eye of Mr Smith the engine driver who sometimes let me operate the regulator and drive the engine and operate the whistle. SHHHH! Those were the days. The company deepened the shaft to 1,000 feet into the Sitwell seam when they took over the colliery in 1916. The third seam, the Thorncliffe was reached via a Surface drift which was driven some 360 yards away from the colliery shaft. My grandfather worked underground at the colliery and non of my family could remember a second shaft. The colliery had a bank of coke ovens and a wooden framed cooling tower. A gasometer was near to the colliery just across the midland railway line. Look below for old photo of Norwood colliery and postcard from 1935 which shows Rotherham Road with Norwood colliery at the bottom of the road. You can clearly see the headgear, winding house,chimney and the coke ovens cooling tower. There was never a hint of the colliery having any connection with Holbrook only through ownership and it was always called Norwood Colliery. I hope this has helped answer some of the questions on these topics and look forward to your comments. Regards, Ken.
  6. RLongden

    Holbrook colliery shaft

    @Paolo Coopio I know where you are. Field Farm was on the site of where the bus garage is now. The top circle is where the path in between the bus garage and Woolley Brothers (abattoir) meets the railway bridge, with a right turn just beforehand on to a path, leading along the back of the bus garage. There has been some landscaping done along this path, but it quickly levels out and opens up into the track bed that is photograph #3 from @Unitedite Returns. The path is narrower than the photo at this point, but only due to the growth of thick brambles and adjacent to a steel fence, underfoot is littered with what looks like ballast, old coal and clinker. The path eventually drops down, over a timber footbridge, then continues back on the track bed, eventually passing under the railway bridge, underneath Station Road. This has also been landscaped to form a foothpath that bends to the right, to meet up with the footpath, created to run parallel to the road. The original railway line would have continued through where the stone-filled wire gabions have been stacked - recently cut and emptied by the local scroats! Its a path that we use regularly on our local walking circuits, so next time I’m down there, I’ll try and get five photos that represent the current images of the ones that @Unitedite Returns took, in June 44 years ago!
  7. miamivice

    Holbrook colliery shaft

    Edit checked the Coal Authority website, there looks like a mound covered in gabions thar is the outlet for the waste water adit from the pit. I could have looked inside the gates as the lock was broken, but call me a chicken but I didn’t dare.
  8. duckweed

    Sheffield Canal boatmen & stories?

    Extract from Mexborough & Swinton Times Issue Saturday March 26th 1910 Groping his way along the canal bank at Swinton, a “Times” man, the other evening, stumbled upon the most interesting old couple it has been his good fortune to meet of late. Their names are George Scholey and Elizabeth Scholey, and they live in a place called Kemp’s Yard, down by the water side. As they have lived on and near the water the greatest part of their lives there is nothing strikingly peculiar about this. George is 76 years old and his good lady will be eighty on Good Friday. George, therefore is hopelessly the junior, and the missus calls him “my lad”. George Scholey was born at Bolton on Dearne into a water-side family, and at the age of a few weeks he was taken on board one of the canal boats plying between Sheffield and Goole. He has been connected with the water ever since, and a fine fresh healthy life it is. His wife was born at Bramham, a little village near Tadcaster, and she went into service at Sheffield, where she met George Scholey and married him 58 years ago, going to assist him in the management of his boat. There are hardships in the canal service if, as you lie on your back under the trees some warm, hazy summer afternoon, and watch the keels floating lazily down the water-way, you form the impression that the bargee’s life is the life for you, just put a question or two to George Scholey before you allow the impression to take root. He will tell you that it is a constant round of tugging, loading, unloading, cleaning, and sleeping. It is health, and the old men it produces are not old men before their time, because it is the fresh-air life, and whatever dissipation the boatman may go in for, is counteracted by the hard work he has to do. George Scholey worked in a boat as soon as ever he had the strength to do anything useful at all. At the age of nine his father set him to unload a boat along with a man. That was at Lincoln, and it was a cargo of coals they were getting shut of, and he did his share. The benefits of education never came his way. He simply had to work until he could work no longer. He retired from the water last August, but to-day he can be seen pottering about the locks at Swinton, helping through captains who were toddling infants when he himself was a captain of ripe experience. And in return they gave him a bit of coal. That is a great concession to George, for, as he explained to our man. “You can’t get a deal of coal out of the Old Age Pension; it isn’t much to live on”. “So you do get the Pension?” our man enquired. “Oh, yes, we get five shillings each”. “It’s a grand thing is the pension,” broke in the old lady. “The man that brought it out ought to gain Heaven, I’m sure. It’s saved lots of decent old folks from having to go to the Workhouse”. George Scholey is the last survivor of a large and well known canal boat family. His brother, who kept the ferry at Mexbro’, died last year. Mr. and Mrs. Scholey have also suffered bereavement in their own immediate family. They have outlived eleven sons and daughters. There are two daughters and a son remaining. The son is a schoolmaster. The father cannot read his own name. At one time George Scholey was in fairly comfortable circumstances. His wages as captain of a keel only amounted to a pound a week, but that was reckoned fairly good pay at the time, and by industry and perseverance, he acquired a boat of his own, which he called the “Industry”. That was just about the time of his marriage. But trade was not too good, and the Sheffield Flood settled his financial hash. It carried away the big bulk of his moveable property. He was lying on the canal on the night of the Sheffield Flood, that night of horror in March of 1864. Curiously enough Mr. Scholey never knew anything about the flood at all until it was over. He slept peacefully through it all. The canal lay well away from the track of the terrible torrent. The first he knew of anything untoward was a rude awakening from a mate of his. “Come, get up, George,” said the man. “You’ll lie abed while all Sheffield’s flooded out”. George went and explored. “I shall never forget the sight while ever I live,” he said. “It was fearful. I saw dead bodies floating down the roads. I saw dead bodies in the houses, just as they had been drowned. It was terrible. I did not stay very long, you can bet. I came away with the vessel on the Monday morning”. What food for gossip for the old cronies of the canal that Sheffield Flood must have been! Scholey has been principally engaged in carrying coal, though he can remember the time when there was no coal around this district to carry. The first pit he remembers being sunk around here was Charlesworth’s Warren Vale pit, the coal for which is now drawn out of Thrybergh Hall pit, while the old Hemingfield pit started shortly after. Prior to that he used to do a good trade in limestone from Sprotboro’ to Sheffield, and he carried an occasional cargo for old Mr. John Lewis of the Swinton Potteries, which was then a prosperous concern under that management. He also used to “run” over to Elsecar for hard coals in the Potteries. It was in this direction that the old man met with the only accident of his career at Aldham Mills near Wombwell. He was jumping ashore when he caught the mooring rope with his foot, and, falling full length, broke his wrist and he stood the excruciating setting operation without a murmur. Unfortunately the bone was not properly set, and resulted in the partial disablement of the old boatman. For he was an old man at the time, the accident occurring during the time he was working for Mr. James Beevers, of Mexboro’, which was his last period of service. Mr. and Mrs. Scholey are, we believe, the oldest couple in Swinton. They are an intelligent and happy pair, and are well content to spend the evening of their lives watching the boats go by. Old George is neither a teetotaller nor a non smoker, and he has a grounds for thinking that his moderate indulgence in the luxuries of beer and bacca does him no harm. An occasional gill of beer, a weekly ounce of tobacco – that is all. But no doubt he would miss it if it were not there.
  9. RichardB

    Have I posted what I have of 1828 ?

    Not pretty ... just data ... keep looking, please tell me if I'm wrong ! Name Address Open Closed Span Score 25 1828 Abbey Hotel 944 Chesterfield Road, S8 1951 1 Abbeydale Abbeydale 1901 3 Abbeydale Station Hotel 348 Chesterfield Road, S8 1855 6 Acorn 20 Burton Road 1905 1912 7 2 Acorn 20 New Church Street 1834 1 Acorn 204 Shalesmoor, S3 1822 1960 138 16 Simon Wilson Acorn 52 Wicker 1856 1 Acorn Bracken Hill, Chapeltown 1901 6 Adelaide Tavern 48 Mowbray Street, S3 1871 1924 53 1 Adelphi 13 Arundel Street/Sycamore Street, S1 1849 1969 120 16 Adelphi 15 Martin Street, S6 1951 1917 ? #VALUE! 1 Admiral Rodney 592 Loxley Road, S6 1861 6 Albany Hotel 38-40 Gloucester Street, S10 1925 1 Albany Hotel Fargate/Surrey Street 1889 1958 69 2 Albert 2 Coal Pit Lane, S1 1797 1988 191 9 Albert 31 Sutherland Street, S4 1855 1996 141 13 Albert Hotel 117 Penistone Road, S6 1840 1913 73 2 Albert Inn 113 Broomhall Street, S3 1835 1992 157 2 Albert Inn 162 Darnall Road, S9 1871 Still open 137 1 Albion 12 Sylvester Street 1851 1926 75 12 Albion 23 Adsett Street 1860 1914 54 1 Albion 2-4 Earsham Street, S4 1951 Still open 1 Albion 35 Johnson Street 1839 1924 85 18 Albion 4 Mitchell Street, S3 1835 1925 90 14 Albion 46 Verdon Street 1855 1967 112 1 Albion 694 Attercliffe Road 1819 1942 123 12 Albion High Street, Attercliffe 1881 2 Albion Hotel 12 East Street, Park 1881 1 Albion Hotel 75 London Road, S2 1834 Still open 174 21 Albion Hotel Haymarket 1837 1 Albion Tavern 26 Lambert Street 1833 1896 63 2 Alexanda Hotel Dun Street, Attercliffe 1871 1 Alexandra 111 Eldon Street/14 Milton Street 1833 1956 123 7 Alexandra 549 Carlisle Street East 1865 1974 109 7 Alexandra Hotel 37 Furnival Road, S3 1871 6 Alhambra 78 Meadow Street/100 Hoyle Street 1871 1922 51 6 Alhambra Palace Vaults/Phoenix 1-17 Union Street 1871 2 All Nations 18 Water Lane 1797 1895 98 6 Alma Cottage 56 Duke Street 1845 1917 72 2 Alma Hotel 92 Trafalgar Street 1871 1 Alma/Fat Cat 23 Alma Street 1856 Still open 152 13 Amberley 221 Attercliffe Common, S9 1860 1961 101 9 American Stores 36 West Bar Green 1852 1893 41 5 Anchor 20 Pea Croft 1833 1900 67 1 Anchor 233 Solly Street 1854 9 Ancient Pine Apple 3 Radford Row 1797 1896 99 7 Thomas Wilkinson Angel 105 South Street, Moor 1821 6 Leonard Cowley Angel 15 Angel Street 1657 1940 283 20 Edward Hancock Angel 59 Sheffield Road, Woodhouse 1901 Still open 107 6 Angel 8 Market Street, Eckington 1911 1 Angel 87 Westbar Green 1825 7 Ellis Howe Angel Inn 151 Main Street, Grenoside 1901 Still open 107 5 Angel/Crown and Anchor 14 Button Lane or 18-22 Button Lane 1825 1956 131 17 Angler's Rest 46 New George Street 1841 1901 60 3 Anvil 106 Stannington Road, Malin Bridge 1825 Still open 183 12 George Thompson Anvil 152 South Street, Moor 1822 20 John Wright Anvil 24 Waingate 1822 1926 104 21 James Simpson Anvil Maker's Arms 119 Young Street 1871 1917 46 1 Aquaduct Tavern (Beerhouse) Aquaduct, Attercliffe 1833 1 Arbourthorne Errington Road, S2 1951 1 Army Hotel/Army Stores/Clifton/Anvil 45 Hillfoot/281 Penistone Road 1852 Late 1960's 4 Artillery Man 7 Bridge Street 1827 1 Arundel Arms 1 The Common, Ecclesfield 1881 5 Arundel Castle 257 Arundel Street 1833 1926 93 15 Arundel Cottage 49 Arundel Lane 1840 1918 78 1 Arundel Inn 1 The Common, Ecclesfield 1893 Still open 115 1 Athol Hotel 19 Charles Street/84-86 Pinstone Street 1901 50's/early 60's 8 Atlas 131 Carlisle Street East 1856 1922 66 3 Atlas 274 Savile Street 1860 1925 65 11 Australian Arms 49 West Bar 1825 1893 68 1 Bagshawe Arms Hemsworth Road, Norton Avenue 1901 Still open 107 3 Ball 106 High Street, Ecclesfield 1825 7 Ball 16 Pond Street or 203 Pond Street 1825 7 Mary Petty Ball 17 Scotland Street (Grindle gate) 1797 17 George Pallet Ball 2 Oborne Street or 2 Upper Osbourne Street 1856 4 Ball 23 Oborne Street 1825 5 Ball 26 Campo Lane 1824 14 Ball 27 Spring Street 1797 1903 106 13 Ball 28 Townhead Street 1822 1900 78 5 Hannah Marshall Ball 3 Norfolk Street 1821 1900 79 3 Benjamin Wolstenholme Ball 43 Mansfield Road, Intake 1871 Still open 137 6 Ball 45 Main Road, Intake 1911 1 Ball 46 Furnace Hill 1797 1920 123 16 John Bibbs Ball 50 Lambert Street 1796 1905 109 17 George Bray (3 Lambert Street) Ball 50 Pye Bank 1825 1957 132 9 Ball 60 Charles Street 1825 2 Ball 66 Upwell Street, S3 1830 Still open 178 7 Ball 72 Howard Street 1822 11 Amy Lamb Ball 8 Pits Moor Road 1833 2 Ball 83 Westbar Green 1822 3 Ball Broad Street, Park 1825 5 Francis Bletcher Ball Broom Bank 1828 1 Martha Wild Ball Darnall Hill 1825 9 Ball Garden Street 1834 1 Ball Gleadless 1901 5 Ball Grimesthorpe 1825 2 Joseph Wilkinson Ball Heeley Bank 1825 5 Richard Cameron (Upper Heeley) Ball Worral 1825 1 Ball 20 Hawley Croft 1780 1901 121 12 Ball in the Tree/Ball/Balli'th'Tree Clarke Houses 1837 4 Ball Inn 171 Crookes, S10 1825 Still open 183 12 John Skelton Ball Inn 182 Young Street 1835 1905 70 1 Ball Inn 230 Myrtle Road, S2 1951 Still open 1 Ball Inn 44 Broad Lane 1822 1906 84 14 Francis Bletcher Ball Inn 76 Burgess Street 1825 7 Frederick Daft (30 Burgess Street) Ball Inn 84 Green Lane 1821 20 Ball Inn Hallam Head, Upper Hallam 1881 1 Ball Inn Sandygate 1856 2 Ball Inn Spurr Lane 1901 4 Ball/Old Ball 31 Duke Street, Park 1822 1900 78 9 James Walton Ball/Old Bell in 1854 86 Carver Street 1825 1905 80 15 Ball/Orange Branch and Ball 64 Wicker 1822 1893 71 8 Ball/Ring of Bells in 1854 8 Pea Croft 1795 8 Edward Whiteley Balloon Tavern 21 Sycamore Street 1825 1900 75 5 William Baker Baltic Inn 420 Effingham Road 1833 2 Bank Street Hotel 24 Bank Street 1857 1900 43 1 Bank Tavern 4 Harts Head 1854 1 Bank Tavern 65 Norfolk Street 1871 1900 29 1 Banner Cross Hotel 967-971 Ecclesall Road, S11 1876 Still open 132 1 Barleycorn 38 Coal Pit Lane 1795 1988 193 18 Edward Middleton (53 Coalpit Lane) Barrack Tavern (New) High House Terrace, Owlerton 1862 1 Barrack Tavern/Old Barrack Tavern 217 Penistone Road/Hill foot 1822 14 John Saynor Barrel 1 Townhead Street 1825 1 Barrel 123 London Road 1825 Still open 183 18 Edward Allison Barrel 13 Pond Street 1825 3 George Robinson Barrel 134 Lord Street 1845 2 Barrel 3 Pond Street 1825 1 Barrel 36 Duke Street, Park 1822 1902 80 11 Thomas Simpson Barrel 36 Water Lane (5 Water Lane in 1834) 1796 1898 102 10 Francis Chambers Barrel 52 Pye Bank 1834 8 Barrel 64 Pinstone Street 1790 12 Luke Ellison Barrel 73-75 Solly Street 1901 4 Barrel 8 Charles Street 1822 10 John Newton Barrel 86 Pye Bank 1852 7 Barrel 9 Waingate 1833 1898 65 1 Barrel Bent's Green 1822 1 Barrel Bridge Houses 1828 2 Joseph Pearson Barrel Hawley Croft 1825 1 Barrel Holy Croft (Holly ?) 1822 1 Barrel Lane End, Chapel Town 1901 Still open 107 1 Barrel Mortomley Lane End, Chapeltown 1861 6 Barrel (Beerhouse) 13 Sims Croft 1833 1 Barrel Inn Damflask 1861 1 Barrel Inn/Fagans (1985) 69 Broad Lane 1821 Still open 187 22 Mary Ashton Barrel/Coach and Horses 756 Attercliffe Road 1819 6 Hugh Bradford Barrel/Little Barrel 40 Little Pond Street 1821 6 Barrel/Old Barrel 103 Pond Street 1822 1930 108 14 Thomas Pinder (Little Pond Street) Barrel/Old Barrel 31 Edward Street (Scotland Street) 1786 1906 120 16 Joseph Lingard Barrel/Old Barrel 75 Pea Croft 1822 1900 78 15 William Hoole Barton Vaults/Bartons Dream Shop 118 West Street 1893 6 Basin Tavern 36 Blast Lane 1852 6 Bath Hotel 123 Bramhall Street 1871 3 Bath Hotel 139 Broomhall Street 1849 1968 119 9 Bath Hotel 184 Burgoyne Road/Whitehouse Road, S6 1871 Still open 137 2 Bath Hotel 66 Victoria Street, S3 1895 Still open 113 1 Bay Childers 4 Bridge Street 1825 5 John Henson Bay Childers/Bay Horse/Horse and Cat/Queen Victoria/Westminster 8 High Street 1774 7 Elizabeth Brumby Bay Horse 1 Greystock Street 1860 8 Bay Horse 227 Attercliffe Common, S9 1862 1 Bay Horse 40 South Street, Moor 1822 18 Thomas Lee Bay Horse 46 Upper St Phillips Road 1845 10 Bay Horse 463 Pitsmoor Road, S3 1825 Still open 183 15 John Wright Bay Horse 53 West Bar Green 1821 1926 105 19 Cassey Crawshaw Bay Horse 9 Willey Street, Wicker 1871 1 Bay Horse Wadsley 1893 1 Bazaar 116 South Street, Moor 1828 13 Bedford Hotel 71 Penistone Road 1871 1903 32 1 Bee Hive Inn Dykes Hall Road, S6 1951 Still open 1 Beehive 115 Langsett Road 1871 1968 97 2 Beehive 13 Little Pond Street 1871 1910 39 2 Beehive 23 Spring Street 1833 1 Beehive 7 Bowling Green Street 1871 1925 54 1 Beehive Grimesthorpe 1871 1 Beehive Harthill with Woodall, Sheffield 1881 Still open 1 Beehive Hotel 20 Upwell Lane 1951 1972 21 1 Beehive/B-Hive/Rockwells/Foundry & Firkin/Bar S1 240 West Street/Glossop Road 1825 Still open 183 22 Thomas Wild Beeswing 46 Hartshead 1797 1905 108 8 Bell Market Street/Fitzalan Square 1796 1974 178 6 Bell Family & Commercial Hotel Norfolk Street 1881 1 Bell Hagg Inn Upper Hallam 1856 10 Bellefield Hotel 37 Bellefield Street 1825 1962 137 3 Bellefield House 70 Fawcett Street 1951 1 Bellefield Inn 14 Bellefield Street 1830 1962 132 3 Bellevue Hotel 116 Fitzalan Street 1871 1 Bellevue Hotel 282 Whitehouse Lane, S6 1871 Still open 137 9 Ben Lomond/City Arms 23 Eyre Street 1833 1908 75 14 Big Gun 7 Wicker, S3 1796 Still open 212 1 Bird in Hand 49 Broughton Lane 1861 2 Bird in Hand 82 Bridge Street 1833 1 Birmingham Arms 18 Lambert Street 1822 1900 78 13 Birmingham Arms 40 Greystock Street 1860 1920 60 2 Birmingham Arms 79 or 93 Matilda Street 1871 1 Birmingham Tavern 5 New Church Street 1822 2 Robert Gregory Black Boy/Old Black Boy 29 Bailey Lane 1822 1910 88 6 Black Bull/Bull 18 Church Street, Ecclesfield 1825 7 Black Bull/Bull 74 Hollis Croft 1822 1900 78 11 James Watson Black Bull/Bull Thurlstone 1881 1 Black Darling 75 Talbot Street 1833 1 Black Eagle 80 Wellington Street 1881 1 Black Horse 17 Edward Street 1796 1906 110 3 Black Horse 180 Upper Allen Street 1822 1960 138 20 Thomas Barrett Black Horse 64 Howard Street 1822 1902 80 16 William Denton Black Horse Pitt's Moor 1834 1 Black Horse Scotland Street 1822 1 Black Lion 24 Bank Street 1834 4 Black Lion 33 Snig Hill 1822 1920 98 14 Black Man 76 Scotland Street 1881 1 Black Rock 17 Castle Street 1797 1921 124 15 John Fordham Black Swan 1 Little Pond Street (also 15 or 60) 1822 15 Luke Staniforth Black Swan 21 Burgess Street 1822 1898 76 12 Black Swan 29 Snig Hill 1854 9 Black Swan 3 Fargate/5 Black Swan Walk 1797 14 Robert Platts Black Swan 60 Pond Street 1881 3 Luke Staniforth Black Swan Crofts 1825 1 Black Swan/Compleat Angler/Mucky Duck/Boardwalk 1 Snig Hill 1774 still open 234 6 John Crich Black Tiger 94 Pea Croft 1822 1 Blackamoors Head/Grey Horse 25 High Street 1675 1917 242 4 Blacksmith's Arms Hill Top, Ecclesfield 1825 2 Blacksmith's Arms Stumperlowe 1871 1 Blacksmiths' Arms Fulwood 1881 2 Blacksmiths' Arms Mill House, Thurstone 1881 1 Blake Street Hotel 53 Blake Street 1893 7 Bloomsberry 37 Albion Street, Crooksmoor 1838 9 Bloomsbury Tavern Oxford Street 1871 1 Blucher 672 Brightside Lane 1860 2 Blue Ball 25 Pye Bank 1822 6 Blue Ball 281 Main Street, Wharncliffe side, Oughtibridge 1881 Still open 127 5 Blue Ball 3 Norfolk Street 1822 1 Blue Ball 320 Haggstones Road, Worrall 1881 Still open 127 7 Blue Ball 67 Broad Street 1822 17 Blue Ball 91 Pond Street 1833 1910 77 1 Blue Ball Crookes, S10 1822 3 Blue Ball Darnall 1825 1 Blue Ball Hawley Street 1828 1 George Beardshaw Blue Ball Langsett Road, Wharncliffe 1951 1 Blue Ball Thurlstone 1881 1 Blue Bell 120 Worksop Road 1825 5 Blue Bell 13 Jehu Lane/4 Commercial Street in 1871 1821 11 John Barker Blue Bell 72 Silver Street Head 1871 1903 32 1 Blue Bell Attercliffe Common 1825 6 Mary Whiteley Blue Bell Harthill with Woodall, Sheffield 1881 Still open 127 1 Blue Bell/Old Blue Bell/Cavells 44 High Street 1787 11 Sarah Ellis Blue Boar 16 Cross Burgess Street 1822 5 Joseph B. Cross Blue Boar 26 West Bar 1774 1958 184 22 Robert Holland Blue Boar Workhouse Lane 1822 2 Blue Boy 9 Blue Boy Street, Allen Street 1822 1910 88 4 Joshua Stringer Blue Boy/Original Blue Boy 41 Shepherd Street, Moorfields 1829 1948 119 15 Blue Pig 19 Cross Burgess Street 1825 1 Blue Pig/Oxford 22 Workhouse Lane/Spring Street 1833 11 Blue Stoops High Street, Dronfield 1911 Still open 97 2 Board (Beerhouse) Hill Top, Attercliffe 1833 1 Boatman 20 or 26 Ball Street 1871 2 Boatman's Inn Norwood, Wales 1881 1 Bold Dragon Inn/Bold Dragoon 264 Langsett Road 1871 1 Boot and Shoe 79 Campo Lane (26 Cross Church Street in 1834) 1834 1905 71 2 Boot and Shoe/Boot and Slipper 52 Pinstone Street 1822 1898 76 11 William Featherstone Boston Castle 6 Castle Green 1797 1898 101 1 Boston/Derby Hotel 10 Lansdowne Road 1856 1963 107 6 Bowling Green Hotel 2 Upwell Lane 1856 Still open 152 11 William Birt Bowling Green Hotel and Tea Gardens Cherrytree Hill 1834 3 Bowling Tavern 55 Montford Street 1951 1974 23 1 Bradway Hotel/Hogshead/Miner's Inn Bradway Road, Bradway 1911 2 Bramwell 99 Upper St Philips Road 1871 1958 87 3 Brass Arms 1 West Bar 1856 1 Brave Old Oak 58 Charles Street 1871 1 Brelsford's Commercial Hotel 2 Dixon Lane/22 Old Haymarket 1881 1 Brewer's Inn 46 Blackmore Street 1871 1926 55 1 Bricklayer's Arms 8 Jehu Lane 1796 4 William Harris Bricklayer's Arms/Mad House 66 Hereford Street 1871 1968 97 2 Brickmaker's Arms 21 Newhall Road 1864 2 Bridge 2 Meadow Hall Road 1901 2007 106 5 Bridge 2 Pond Street 1846 2 Bridge 3 Sheffield Road, Dronfield 1911 1 Bridge 509 London Road 1901 3 Bridge Inn 1 Bridgehouses 1825 8 Bridge Inn 2 Blackburn Road, Brightside 1881 1 Bridge Inn 219 Pond Street 1796 1900 104 6 Bridge Inn 317 Penistone Road/Hillfoot 1856 1913 57 2 Bridge Inn 47 Hereford Street 1854 10 Bridge Inn 5 Bridge Street 1797 17 Jeremiah Ogden Bridge Inn 509 London Road, S2 1911 2 Bridge Inn 9 Carlton Road, Attercliffe 1881 2 Bridge Inn Brightside Lane 1862 2 Bridge Inn Ford, Ridgeway 1911 2 Bridge Inn Granville Street 1871 1 Bridge Inn Heeley 1856 4 Bridge Inn Hollowgate, High Green 1951 1 Bridge Inn Mortomley Lane End, Chapeltown 1881 2 Bridge Inn Thurgoland 1881 1 Bridge Inn Whirlow 1856 4 Bridge Inn (Beerhouse) 63 Pond Street 1833 1 Bridge Inn (or Bridgehouse Inn) 181 Nursery Street 1825 3 Bridge Inn/Bulldog 387 Attercliffe Road 1862 1940 78 9 Bridgefield 195 Fowler Street 1951 1960 9 1 Brightmore Tavern 23 Brightmore Street 1871 1 Brincliffe Oaks Hotel 9 Oak Hill Road, Nether Edge Road 1871 9 Britain Arms 120 Matilda Street 1820 1970 150 1 Britannia 101 Broad Lane 1834 2 Britannia 122 Portobello Street 1822 16 Sarah Tyne Britannia 24 Worksop Road 1876 Still open 132 2 British Oak 1 Mosborough Moor 1951 Still open 1 British Oak 227 Carbrook Street 1865 10 British Oak Oak Street, Heeley, S8 1871 1 British Queen Penistone Road 1871 1 Broadfield Hotel 482 Abbeydale Road, S8 1901 Still open 107 5 Brocco Hotel 167 Upper Allan Street 1871 1 Broomhall Tavern 105 Broomhall Street 1833 1964 131 16 Abel Roper Broomhill Tavern 484 Glossop Road 1849 Still open 159 12 Brooms (Beerhouse) Ughill, Bradfield 1861 1 Broughton 1 Broughton Lane 1864 1980's 2 Brown Bear 109 Norfolk Street 1822 Still open 186 17 George Whaley Brown Bear 26 Market Street, Eckington 1901 2 Brown Cow 1 Broad Lane 1822 6 Mary Wilde Brown Cow 25 Bridgehouses 1825 11 Martin Middleton Brown Cow Red Croft 1774 5 Jonathan Gould Brown Cow/Morriseys Riverside/Riverside Café Bar 1 Mowbray Street 1871 Still open 137 7 Brown Cow/Old Brown Cow 1 Radford Street 1822 23 George Fearn Brown Cow/Old Brown Cow 56 Wicker 1852 still open 156 14 Brown Cow/Old Brown Cow/Trippet Lane Arms 27 Trippet Lane 1846 10 Brunswick 15 Haymarket 1856 1975 119 10 Brunswick 46 Grimesthorpe Road 1883 1976 93 1 Brunswick 54 Thomas Street, Little Sheffield 1881 1964 83 10 Brunswick Hotel 30 Tilford Road, Woodhouse 1881 6 Brunswick Inn 16 Ellin Street 1871 1 Brushmakers Arms/Brick Makers Arms Coalpit Lane 1822 3 Peter Dawes Buckenham Hotel 33 Waingate 1822 1 Buckenham Hotel 62 Grimesthorpe Road 1876 1976 100 1 Bull Hesley Lane, Ecclesfield 1861 2 Bull and Mouth/Boulougne Mouth/Tap and Spile/Tap and Barrel 30 Waingate 1790 still open 218 18 Jonathan Broadbent Bull and Oak 26 Furnival Road 1820's 1 Bull and Oak New Cattle Market 1834 1 Bull and Oak/Front Room/Assembly Rooms/Sembly Rooms/Crown and Cushion/Sam Hills Parlour 76-78 Wicker 1715 1998 283 19 Joseph Woolhouse Bull Inn 95 Heeley Green, Heeley 1881 1 Bull's Head 18 Dun Street 1951 1 Bull's Head 2 Duke Street 1822 1902 80 13 Thomas Turton Bull's Head 2 Matilda Street 1881 5 Bull's Head 29 Cross Smithfield Street 1797 1925 128 1 Bull's Head 396 Fulwood Road, Ranmoor, S10 1871 Still open 137 7 Burgoyne Arms 246 Langsett Road, S6 1854 Still open 154 10 Burlington Hotel 7 Burlington Street, S6 1856 1957 101 10 Burlington Hotel 72 Wentworth Street 1871 1 Burn's Head Tavern 10 Townhead Street 1825 1900 75 9 John Cooke Burn's Hotel 12 Sheffield Road 1951 1 Burns' Tavern Carbrook 1871 1 Burnt Tree Inn 84 Allen Street 1871 3 Burnt Tree Tavern 83 Hoyle Street 1834 19 Burnt Tree Tavern Beerhouse 80 Shepherd Street 1871 1 Burton Arms 434 Attercliffe Road/Carlton Road 1871 1920 49 1 Bush Little Sheffield 1828 2 Issac Crookes Butcher's Arms 1 Langsett Road / Infirmary Road 1871 1959 88 1 Butcher's Arms 158 Gibralter Street 1862 1 Butcher's Arms 27 Townhead Street 1825 1900 75 1 Butcher's Arms 276 Shalesmoor 1825 1 Butcher's Arms 61 Bath Street 1871 1 Butcher's Arms Penistone Road 1871 1 Cambridge Arms 1 Coal Pit Lane 1736 6 Cambridge Hotel 452 Penistone Road 1836 1992 156 1 Canine Inn 34 Lambert Street 1825 1896 71 1 Canning Tavern 2 Bower Street 1833 2 Joseph Shirt (Norris Fields, a place) Cannon Spirit Vaults 30 Castle Street 1774 Still open 234 15 Cannon Spirit Vaults 8 Scotland Street 1822 2 Canteen Barracks 1856 3 Canterbury Hall Hotel 19 Pinfold Street 1833 1897 64 1 Canterbury Hotel 29 Egerton Street 1833 1910 77 1 Carbrook Hall 537 Attercliffe Common 1861 Still open 147 10 Cardigan 47 Ball Street 1881 2 Carlisle Street Hotel/Ma Bakers/Av-It-Bar 5 Carlisle Street East 1864 Still open 144 5 Carlisle Tavern 67 Carlisle Road 1862 1910 48 1 Carlton 17 Corporation Street 1871 2 Carlton 563 Attercliffe Road 1845 Still open 163 2 Carlton High Street 1901 3 Carter's Rest 123 Matilda Street 1830 2 Carwood 8 Carlisle Street East 1864 1986 122 7 Castle Inn 1 Water Lane 1822 2 William Holland Castle Inn 46 Snighill 1825 9 Castle Inn Bolsterstone 1861 Still open 147 2 Castle Tavern 1 Broad Lane 1837 1 Catherine Arms Catherine Street 1951 Still open 1 Chandler's Arms Bullstake, Later Haymarket 1780 1901 121 1 Chandos 217 Rockingham Street 1825 7 Chantrey Arms 11 Bramall Lane 1880 3 Chantrey Arms 733-735 Chesterfield Road 1951 Still open 1 Charlotte Tavern 17 Charlotte Street 1893 1925 32 4 Checquers 11 Hartshead 1822 1 Chequers Inn Dronfield Lane, Coal Aston 1951 1 Chequers or Old Cow (Beerhouse) 64 Coal Pit Lane 1821 14 Thomas Alsop Chequers/Checquers 19 Rough Bank, Park (Rough Lane, Park in 1834) 1825 11 Thomas Brindley Chequers/Checquers 61 Wicker 1822 1900 78 5 John Wilkes Chequers/Checquers/Old Chequers 4 Meadow Street 1822 15 John Wragg Chequers/Old Chequers 68 Weigh Lane 1825 8 Cherry Tree 37 Gibralter Street 1822 13 William Hutchinson Cherry Tree Bowling Green Cherrytree Hill 1856 Still open 152 4 Thomas Jenkison Chester Castle 62 Eldon Street 1849 1925 76 15 Clarence Hotel 109 Clarence Street 1833 1925 92 1 Clarence Hotel/Midland Railway Hotel 133 Pond Street 1825 1905 80 2 Clarence/Blue Bell/Norfolk Arms 56 High Street 1740 1900 160 2 Clarendon Hotel 1 Paradise Street 1871 1 Claywood Tavern (Beerhouse) South Street, Park 1833 1 Cleakham Inn Cornish Place 1800 2 Clifton (formerly Army Stores) 281 Penistone Road 1845 5 Clock 41 Porter Street 1833 1922 89 1 Clock Maker's Arms 122 West Bar 1833 1893 60 8 Club Gardens Inn 60 Lansdowne Road 1833 1967 134 1 Club Mill/Corn Mill Inn 20 Smithfield 1822 1930 108 14 Charles Greaves Coach and Horses 147 Carlisle Street East 1864 1936 72 1 Coach and Horses 156 Gibralter Street 1833 1908 75 2 Coach and Horses 194 High Street, Attercliffe 1856 3 Coach and Horses 37 Water Lane 1821 1898 77 11 James Rodgers Coach and Horses 756 Attercliffe Road 1901 6 Coach and Horses Chapeltown 1825 2 Coach and Horses Rotherham Road, Eckington 1901 2 Coach and Horses Sheffield Road, Dronfield 1951 1 Coach and Horses Station Road, Chapeltown 1901 5 Coach and Horses Stocksbridge 1901 4 Coach Makers' Arms 43 South Street 1822 3 Joseph Garside Cobden Hotel 40 Cobden View Road 1871 Still open 137 9 Cock 26 Wicker 1825 2 Cock 5 Bridge Hill, Oughtibridge 1825 Still open 183 8 Cock 59 Hollis Croft 1780 1901 121 19 James Booker Cock 76 Broad Street 1833 1910 77 4 Enoch Gillott Cock Wicker (67 Wicker in 1834) 1825 2 Cock Inn/Old Cock 11 Paradise Square 1822 1900 78 14 Thomas Ibbotson Collier's Arms (Beerhouse) 37 Duke Street 1833 1902 69 1 Columbia Tavern 10 Fornham Street 1871 2 Commercial 35 High Street 1856 2 Commercial 4-6 Bank Street 1901 3 Commercial Hotel 18 Button Lane 1797 1908 111 4 Commercial Inn 24 Haymarket c1800 10 William Taylor Commercial Inn 34 Button Lane 1881 1 Commercial Tap 3 Commercial Street 1862 1 Compass Inn/Earl Grey's Compass 28 Orchard Street 1834 1910 76 11 Consort 215 Eyre Street 1825 1903 78 1 Coopers' Hotel Brightside Lane 1862 1 Corner Pin 14 Wicker 1815 1917 102 10 Corner Pin 231 Carlisle Street East, S4 1864 Still open 144 1 Corner Pin 80 Allen Street 1833 1900 67 2 Cornish Inn 56 Cornish Street 1828 11 Thomas Hobley Corporation Arms 24 West Bar Green 1871 1 Corporation Hotel 37 Corporation Street 1871 7 Cossack 45 Howard Street 1821 still open 187 18 Joseph Goldthorp Crabtree 121 Scotland Street 1833 1902 69 9 Cremorne 155 London Road 1833 Still open 175 5 Cricket Ball 46 Sutherland Street 1862 3 Cricket Ball Inn 2 Savile Street East 1860 1918 58 8 Cricket House Manor Hill, Darnall 1825 1 Cricket Inn 20 Cricket Inn Road, Park 1822 1993 171 18 William Southern Cricket Inn Penney Lane, Totley Bents, Totley 1901 5 Cricketer's Arms 106 Bramall Lane 1871 Still open 137 9 Cricketer's Tavern Hyde Park 1837 1 Cromwell View 80 Spital Street 1911 1925 14 9 Crooked Billet 62 Scotland Street 1871 1 Crooked Billet Claywd, Shrewsbury Road 1871 1 Cross Daggers 14 Market Square, Woodhouse 1881 4 Cross Daggers 52 West Bar Green 1797 1926 129 12 Jervis Hanson Cross Daggers Cross Daggers Yard, High Street 1822 1968 146 4 Richard Greenwood Cross Daggers Cross Lane, Coal Aston 1951 1 Cross Daggers Upper Bradfield 1881 4 Cross Guns (Great Gun) 122 Sharrow Lane 1901 4 Cross Keys 4 Shude Hill 1821 3 Mary Brelsforth Cross Keys 400 Handsworth Road, Handsworth Woodhouse 1828 Still open 180 8 Paul Dodgson Cross Keys 41 Burgess Street 1871 2 Cross Keys 9 Bower Street 1825 1 Cross Keys 91 Peacroft 1822 1 Cross Scythes 147 Derbyshire Lane, Meersbrook 1901 Still open 107 5 Cross Scythes Baslow Road, Totley Rise 1951 1 Cross Scythes Four Lane Ends, Norton 1825 1 Crossfield Thorncliffe, Chapeltown 1881 7 Crosspool Tavern Crosspool 1871 2 Crown 116 Neepsend Lane 1893 1992 99 10 Crown 2 Albert Road 1901 Still open 107 5 Crown 2 Walkley Bank Road 1871 Still open 137 1 Crown 21 Meadow Hall Road 1901 Still open 107 5 Crown 24 Holly Street 1796 1810 14 8 Crown 52 Silver Street Head 1871 1903 32 1 Crown 54 Campo Lane 1796 1903 107 1 Crown Beighton 1905 2 Crown Handsworth, Woodhouse 1825 2 Joseph England Crown Hillfoot Road, Totley 1901 Still open 107 5 Crown 1 High Street 1710 1772 62 1 Crown (Old) 101 Highfield 1862 1 Crown and Anchor 18 Stanley Street 1830 17 Crown and Anchor 218 Bright Street 1871 7 Crown and Anchor 218 Fitzwilliam Street 1881 8 Crown and Blacksmith Owlerton 1825 1 Crown and Cushion 23 Broad Lane 1841 1 Crown and Cushion 6 Westbar Green 1834 2 Crown and Cushion Burn Cross, Chapeltown 1901 Still open 107 5 Crown and Cushion Wicker 1774 2 Crown and Cushion/Old Crown and Cushion 21 Old Street, Park 1825 18 William Ashmore Crown and Daggers Westbar Green 1828 3 Jervis Hanson (36 Westbar Green) Crown and Glove Upper Gate, Stannington 1825 7 Crown Hotel 137 High Street, Mosbrough 1951 1 Crown Inn 107 Corby Street 1860 1926 66 1 Crown Inn 23 Blue Boy Street 1835 1938 103 13 Crown Inn 24 Wicker 1774 7 Crown Inn 43 Summerfield Street 1871 7 Crown Inn 52 Harvest Lane 1833 1902 69 1 Crown Inn 87 Forncett Street 1865 still open 143 1 Crown Inn Campo Lane 1796 1903 107 1 Crown Inn Carbrook 1871 1 Crown Inn High Green 1901 6 Crown Inn Owlerton 1862 7 Joseph Burkinshaw Crown Inn Polka Street, Bridge 1871 1 Crown Inn Victoria Road, Heeley 1871 3 Crown Inn/Old Crown 13 Duke Street, Park 1822 1902 80 14 Mary Lawton Crown Inn/Old Crown 21 Blackburn Road, Brightside 1825 5 Crown Inn/Old Crown 21 Pinstone Street 1796 1898 102 11 Crown/Old Crown 35 Scotland Street 1797 Still open 211 14 Thomas Furniss Crystal Palace 52 Townhead Street 1797 1898 101 6 Crystal Palace Thurstone 1881 1 Crystal Wine Vaults (Beerhouse) 50 High Street 1856 1 Cumberland Head 35 High Street, Beighton 1901 3 Cup 112 Sorby Street 1866 1932 66 1 Cup 19 Paternoster Row 1871 2 Cup 4 Market Street 1821 1910 89 11 Thomas Ramsey Cup 52 Button Lane 1825 1 Cup (aka Gardeners Rest) 17 Dun Street 1846 8 Cup Inn 120 Duke Street 1871 1900 29 1 Cuthbert Arms 296 Langsett Road 1951 1974 23 1 Cutler's Arms 66 Edward Street 1871 1 Cutler's Arms 7 New Church Street 1822 11 Joseph Green Cutler's Arms 86 Fargate 1750 1883 133 4 Cutler's Arms Church Street, Attercliffe 1846 3 Cutler's Arms (Beerhouse) 27 Pond Street 1833 1 Cutler's Arms/Fara's Free House 74 Worksop Road 1841 Still open 167 10 Cutler's Arms/Old Cutlers' Arms 38 Fargate 1825 1910 85 10 John Daft Cutler's Inn 84 Fargate 1797 1883 86 1 William Harrison Cutler's Inn Hillfoot 1841 1 Daggers Inn Market Place 1825 1 Daniel's Rest 29 Cliffe Street 1871 1 David and Goliath 111 Devonshire Street 1841 1 Denison Arms 33 Watery Street 1845 Still open 163 11 Derby 10 Lansdowne Road 1901 4 Derby Hotel 25 Lawson Street 1951 1 Devonshire Arms 118 Ecclesall Road 1871 Still open 137 8 Devonshire Arms 23 South Street, Moor 1825 1940 115 18 William Hallam Devonshire Arms 405 Herries Road 1951 1 Devonshire Arms 51 Eldon Street 1871 1917 46 1 Devonshire Arms Division Street 1825 1825 0 5 William Broadley Devonshire Arms High Street, Dore 1901 1901 0 5 Dog and Gun 108 Carver Street 1797 1871 74 1 Dog and Gun 122 Trafalgar Street 1830 1910 80 1 Dog and Gun 18 Headford Street, S3 1833 1962 129 9 Dog and Gun Stephen Hill 1871 1 Dog and Partridge 112 West Bar, S3 1833 1893 60 1 Dog and Partridge 195 Carlton Road, Attercliffe 1881 1 Dog and Partridge 56 Trippet Lane 1797 Still open 211 19 Dog and Partridge/Goodfellas Gentlemans' Club 575 Attercliffe Road 1860 still open 148 7 Dog and Partridge/Nell's Bar 53 Coal Pit Lane 1821 6 Edward Middleton Dolphin Edward Street 1828 1 George Morton Dolphin Hotel 37 Division Street 1845 1895 50 3 Dolphin Inn New Grimesthorpe 1871 1 Don House Infirmary Road 1871 1 Don Inn 67 Penistone Road 1833 10 Dore Moor Hathersage Road, Dore 1901 5 Douglas Inn 209-211 Douglas Road, S3 1951 1 Dove and Rainbow 172 Portobello Street 1871 1 Dove and Rainbow 25 Hartshead 1782 still open 226 22 Samuel Pryor Dragon Inn 135 Infirmary Road, S6 1951 1 Druid Tavern 37 Bailey Street 1833 1900 67 3 George Johnson Duke of Clarence 15 Radford Row 1797 1900 103 3 Duke of York 135 Main Road, Darnall 1825 Still open 183 12 Thomas Brashaw Duke of York 35 Market Street, Eckington 1911 1 Durham Ox 15 Cricket Inn Road 1871 1993 122 9 Durham Ox 51 Exchange Street 1849 10 Dusty Miller 24 Nursery Street 1833 2 Eagle 80 Wellington Street 1841 11 Eagle Eldon Street 1871 4 Eagle Tavern 117 Duke Street 1881 1900 19 1 Eagle Tavern 26 Shepherd Street 1871 1910 39 1 Eagle Tavern/Cock and Bottle Hawley Croft 1871 1 Eagle Vaults 51 West Bar 1846 1905 59 7 Earl Grey 226 Moorfields 1833 1 Earl Grey 97 Ecclesall Road 1854 11 Earl Grey Silver Street Head 1834 2 Earl of Arundel and Surrey 528 Queen's Road 1881 Still open 127 6 East House 18 Spital Hill 1860 Still open 148 1 Ecclesall Tavern 273-275 Hanover Street 1951 1 Effingham Arms 19 Sussex Street 1854 9 Egerton Hotel 138 Fitzwilliam Street 1871 1 Elephant (Beerhouse) George Street, Philadelphia 1833 1 Elephant and Castle 117 Arundel Street 1854 10 Elephant Vaults 2 Norfolk Street & Market Street 1822 1968 146 18 Jonathan Brown Ellesmere Hotel 55 Ellesmere Road 1865 2 Ellis Street Tavern 21 Ellis Street 1871 1 Elm Tree 980 City Road/Intake 1871 8 Empire Canteen 16 Charles Street 1901 5 Enfield Arms 95 Broughton Lane 1925 Still open 83 1 Engineers 116 Carlisle Street East 1864 1916 52 5 Engineer's Arms/Providence Inn 45 Sussex Street 1871 1 Engineers Hotal 114 Charles Street 1871 1 Engineers Hotel/Dallas Bar/Barrow House Fowler Street, Wincobank 1881 6 Evening Gun/Cannon 8 Scotland Street 1797 3 John Booker Excelsior 1 Carbrook Street, Attercliffe Common 1951 1993 42 1 Exchange 40 Exchange Street 1833 1964 131 7 Exchange 53 Eldon Street 1951 #REF! 1 Exchange 64 Garden Street 1871 1 Falcon 13 or 15 Flat Street 1828 8 Thomas Smith Falcon 65 Pea Croft (Solly Street) 1822 7 Falcon Inn 18 Leicester Street 1854 8 Falstaff Hotel 3 Effingham Street, S1 1951 1 Farfield/Owl/Muff Inn 376 Neepsend Lane 1881 Still open 127 7 Farrier's Arms 145 Gibralter Street 1833 1900 67 1 Feathers/Old Feathers 46 High St Lane, Park 1822 8 Jane Mason Filesmith's Arms 128 Scotland Street 1871 1902 31 3 Filesmith's Arms 229 Attercliffe Common 1871 1993 122 2 Filesmith's Arms 40 Trinity Street 1797 1 Filesmith's Arms 61 Charles Street 1833 1901 68 1 Filesmith's Arms 66 Leopold Street 1881 1 Filesmith's Arms 91 Pea Croft 1825 1898 73 1 Filesmith's Arms Oughtibridge 1881 5 Filesmith's Arms/Silversmiths' Arms in 1854 1 Lord Street 1854 3 Firth Park 127 Page Hall Road, S4 1901 4 Firwood Cottage 279 Whitehouse Lane 1951 Still open 57 1 Fisherman's Inn/Fishmongers' Inn 115 Carlisle Street 1862 1917 55 2 Jonathan Ashmore Fisherman's Rest Tinsley Park Road, S9 1871 1980 109 2 Fitzalan Inn/"Top" Fitzalan 123 Fitzalan Street 1951 1966 15 1 Fitzalan Tavern 58 Fitzalan Street 1871 2 Fitzwilliam Hotel 14 Milford Street 1951 1926 -25 1 Fitzwilliam Hotel 55 Broomhall Street 1837 3 Fitzwilliam Hotel 72 Fitzwilliam Street 1854 7 Fitzwilliam Tavern Attercliffe 1834 1 Fleur De Lis 66 Fargate 1797 6 Fleur De Lis Totley Hall Lane, Totley Rise 1901 5 Fleur De Lis Inn Unstone, Sheffield 1901 5 Fleur de Lys 7 Angel Street 1796 1940 144 10 Ann Slack Florist 119 Broad Lane 1839 14 Flouch Inn Flouch, Hazlehead, Sheffield 1827 1 Forest Inn Rutland Road 1871 Still open 137 1 Foresters Arms 14 Union Buildings, Bridge Street 1854 13 Forester's Arms 373 Penistone Road 1871 1 Forester's Arms 45 Eyre Street 1881 1 Forester's Arms 91 Headford Street 1951 1917 -34 1 Forester's Inn/Yorick 57 Division Street 1834 Still open 174 11 Forge Inn 95 Newhall Road 1871 2 Forge Tavern Millsands 1871 1 Forge Tavern Pond Hill 1871 1 Fortunes of War (see also Turk's Head, New and Old !) 112 Scotland Street 1822 16 George Housley Fountain 4 Pinfold Street 1822 12 John Richards Fountain West Bar 1774 1 Fowler Street Hotel 37 Haywood Street 1901 5 Fox and Duck 116 Rockingham Street 1833 1 Fox and Duck 174 Pye Bank 1822 Still open 186 21 John Woodcock Fox and Duck 37 Fulwood Road/227 Fulwood Road, S10 1836 2 Fox and Duck 50 Broad Lane, Sheffield North 1822 1926 104 15 John Poole Fox and Duck Sheffield Road, S9 1951 1 Fox and Goose Bridgehouses 1828 1 John Woodcock Fox and Grapes 519 Meadow Hall Road, Wincobank 1901 5 Fox and Grapes Blackburn Road, Brightside 1881 1 Fox and Hounds Marsh Lane 1951 1 Fox House 11 Shirland Lane, 1 Ardmore Street, S9 1870 4 Fox House Orchard Street, Park 1871 1 Franklin Hotel 118 Sharrow Lane/Franklin Street 1871 1970 99 10 Free and Easy The Manor 1871 1 Free Masons Arms Norton Woodseats 1825 1 Free Trades Inn 66 Allen Street 1881 1 Freedom Hotel/Freedom View 26 Walkley Bank Road 1856 Still open 152 11 Freedom House 371 South Road, Walkley 1871 7 Freemason's Arms 8 Hartshead 1796 1893 97 1 Freemason's Arms/Mason's Arms 383 Walkley Lane 1825 Still open 183 12 David Thompson French Horn 34 Pea Croft 1797 1900 103 1 French Horn 7 Shude Hill 1780 1901 121 2 Friendship Inn Carbrook Street, Attercliffe 1871 1 Friendship Inn Stocksbridge 1861 6 Friendship Inn Tinsley Park Road 1871 Still open 137 1 Full Moon 25 Silver Street 1825 4 George Taylor Gaiety Palace/Cromwell's Varieties 100 West Bar 1881 9 Gardeners' Arms Brunswick Road 1871 1 Gardeners' Arms Oborne Street 1828 1 William Stones Gardeners' Arms Occupation Road 1862 1 Gardener's Rest 105 Neepsend Lane 1871 Still open 137 2 Gardener's Rest 55 Townhead Street 1871 1900 29 1 Gardeners' Rest 15 Dun Street 1881 7 Gardeners' Rest Cobden View, Crookes 1862 1 Gardeners' Rest/Ellis Street Tavern Ellis Street 1871 1 Garrick Hotel 6 Sycamore Street 1834 1917 83 10 Gas Tank Tavern 293 Arundel Street or 259 Arundel Street 1833 1901 68 2 Gate 45 Duke Street, Park 1825 1 Gate 76 Attercliffe Road/Hilltop 1871 1990 119 1 Gate 78 Penistone Road North, S6 1951 1 Gate Clay Wheel, Oughtibridge 1825 1 Gate Wadsley Bridge 1825 10 Joseph Wells Gate Inn 124 Pitsmoor Road 1871 2 Gate/Old Gate in 1854 10 Hollis Croft 1822 1955 133 19 Thomas Mirfin Gatefield 167 Infirmary Road 1845 1980 135 2 General Gordon Inn 49 Cross Bedford Street 1951 1 George 20 Savile Street East 1871 1920 49 8 George Hill Top, Stannington 1901 5 George and Dragon 20 High Street, Mosbrough 1951 Still open 1 George and Dragon 93 Broad Lane 1825 1958 133 14 George and Dragon 96 West Bar 1822 21 Henry Greaves George and Dragon Church Street, Ecclesfield 1825 6 George and Dragon High Street, Beighton 1901 Still open 107 5 George and Dragon/Old George and Dragon 17 Bank Street 1821 19 John Cooper George Hotel 52 New George Street; Little Sheffield 1834 15 George Inn 11 Market Street, Woodhouse 1881 6 George Inn 19 Market Place 1774 1910 136 7 George Inn Church Street, Attercliffe 1871 1 George Inn/George and Dragon/ Bodega High Street (70 Market Place, Hartshead Passage) 1781 1899 118 1 George IV 216 Infirmary Road 1833 1992 159 12 William Law George Street Tavern 1 Cross Gilpin Street 1951 1 Globe 107 Porter Street 1822 10 Francis Hulley Globe 52 Broad Street, Park 1825 1902 77 1 Globe 69 Scotland Street 1821 1 Globe Inn/Scream 54 Howard Street 1797 Still open 211 2 Golden Ball 1 Old Hall Road & 362 High Street, Attercliffe 1881 1 Golden Ball 203 Pond Street 1822 1900 78 5 Golden Ball 30 Burgess Street 1797 3 Golden Ball 52 Wicker 1890 4 Golden Ball 6 Campo Lane 1822 Still open 186 10 Anthony Pass Stephens Golden Ball 63 Duke Street 1839 1902 63 2 Golden Ball 83 Westbar Green 1828 1 John Woollen Golden Ball 838 Attercliffe Road 1825 1985 160 19 George Watson Golden Ball Broad Lane 1837 1 Golden Ball Carver Street 1822 2 Thomas Wilson Golden Ball Grindlegate 1825 1 Golden Ball Howard Street 1822 4 Amy Lamb Golden Ball Townhead Street 1828 16 Hannah Marshall Golden Ball/Ball 39 Forge or Shude Lane 1796 18 Martha Holland Golden Cock 82 Broad Street, Park 1821 16 Enoch Gillott Golden Cock Paradise Square 1822 1 Golden Fleece 12 New Haymarket 1837 6 Golden Lion 3 or 5 Forge Lane 1822 10 George Greaves Golden Lion 69 Alderson Road, S2 1951 Still open 1 Gooseberry Inn Pea Croft 1828 1 William Jepson Gower Arms 47 Gower Street 1871 Still open 137 7 Granby's Head 1 or 35 Hartshead 1822 6 George Lockwood Grand Theatre of Varieties West Bar & Spring Street 1901 4 Grand/Buchaneer Leopold Street 1911 1 Granville Inn 89 Granville Street, Park 1849 14 Grapes 11 or 13 New Church Street 1822 1896 74 10 Grapes 13 & 15 Queen's Street, Infirmary Road, Philadelphia 1854 3 Grapes 15 Lock Street, Philadelphia 1881 5 Grapes 1or 5 South Street, Moor 1854 2 Grapes 5 Pinstone Street 1837 2 Grapes 80 Trippet Lane 1821 Still open 187 20 Enoch Beale Grapes 95 Pond Street 1796 1924 128 10 Grapes Inn 99 Carlisle Street 1862 1898 36 1 Grapes Inn/Rovers Rest/Rovers Return 51 Gower Street 1868 Still open 140 1 Grapes Tavern 74 Furnace Hill 1832 1920 88 12 Mark Blackwell Great Britain 28 John Street 1871 3 Great Gun 13-17 Wicker 1854 8 Great Gun 186 Savile Street East 1860 1920 60 1 Great Gun 38 Greystock Street 1871 1932 61 1 Greaves Hotel 23 Orchard Street 1796 1925 129 6 Green Dragon 12 Queen Street 1825 1 Green Dragon Church Street, Dronfield 1911 2 Green Dragon/Old Green Dragon in 1854 42 Fargate 1822 1926 104 17 Green Dragon/Old Green Dragon in 1854 89 Carlton Road, Attercliffe 1828 8 George Drabble Green Man 23 Broad Street, Park 1822 1902 80 13 Benjamin Wilby Green Man 9 New Church Street 1821 1890 69 12 Green Seedlings 57 Bailey Street 1822 1902 80 13 Francis Newton Grey Horse 15 Crown Alley, Park 1871 2 Grey Horse 25 Blast Lane 1871 3 Grey Horse 25 Stoke Street, Attercliffe 1850 1938 88 18 Grey Horse 36 Sheldon Street & Cross George Street 1881 2 Grey Horse 55 Chester Street 1871 4 Grey Horse/Blackamore Head 39 High Street 1675 1917 242 #REF! Soloman Perkin Greyhound 122 High Street, Ecclesfield 1881 Still open 127 6 Greyhound 185 Gibralter Street 1796 19 Jonathan Wolstenholme Greyhound 77 Pond Street 1796 1930 134 1 Greyhound 822 Attercliffe Road 1830 Still open 178 5 Greyhound Inn Sheffield Road, Dronfield 1951 Still open 57 1 Greyhound Tavern 3 Pinfold Street 1796 2 Greyhound Tavern 38 Hermitage Street 1871 2 Greystones Tavern Greystones 1871 4 Griffin Inn 5 Spital Street 1871 1966 95 6 Griffin Inn 8 Town End Road, Ecclesfield 1881 5 Grinder's Rest/Brittania Inn 43 Charles Lane 1871 2 Grouse and Trout Redmires, Upper Hallam 1871 1913 42 8 Grouse Inn Penney Lane, Totley Bents, Totley 1951 1 Guards Rest/Widow's Hut 41 Sorby Street 1879 1971 92 1 Hadfield Hotel 26 Barber Road 1871 Still open 137 8 Haigh Tree Inn/Old Hague 1 Bernard Road 1825 4 Halfway 195 Attercliffe Road 1870 1959 89 2 Halfway House 30 Station Road, Mosbrough 1951 1 Hallamshire 157-159 Lydgate Lane, Crookes 1871 Still open 137 8 Hallamshire 182 West Street 1871 Still open 137 8 Hallamshire Ball Street 1864 1 Hallamshire Hotel Wentworth Road 1871 1 Hallamshire House 49 Common Side, Crookes 1893 8 Hallcar Tavern/Grove 2 Carwood Lane 1951 Still open 1 Hammer and Pincers Bent's Green, Ecclesall Bierlow 1822 Still open 186 8 Hampton View 231 Langsett Road 1871 1972 101 2 Hare and Hounds 27 Nursery Street 1822 Still open 186 18 James Frow Hare and Hounds 7 Church Lane, Dore 1901 Still open 107 5 Hare and Hounds 72 Duke Street 1871 1910 39 2 Hare and Hounds 77 Uppergate Road, Stannington 1881 6 Hare and Hounds Bradfield (Church Street ?) 1861 1 Hare and Hounds Carsick Hill 1871 1 Hare and Hounds Wadsley Bridge 1825 2 George Hoyle Hare and Hounds/Old Hare and Hounds 51 Trinity Street 1821 14 Martha Cooper/David Scott Harlequin 26 Johnson Street 1822 Still open 186 11 Harlequin Inn 55 Stanley Street 1871 4 Harold Hotel 32 Harold Street 1905 2 Harp Tavern 33 Walker Street 1871 1 Harp Tavern Little Sheffield 1837 1 Harrow Bridgehouses 1828 1 Josiah Greatorex Harrow/Old Harrow 80 Broad Street, Park 1822 15 Harwood House 82 Hill Street 1841 1 Havana Hotel 57 Meadow Street 1881 2 Havelock Inn 106 Upper Allen Street 1881 1 Haw Tree/Hawthorn Tree Snowhill, Park 1822 7 Joseph Wilson Haychatter Bradfield (Church Street ?) 1861 1 Heeley and Sheffield House Gleadless 1881 Still open 127 6 Hen and Chickens 3 Castle Green 1821 Still open 187 19 Mary Kinder Hereford Arms 17 Hereford Street 1871 1 Hermitage 11 London Road, Little Sheffield 1822 Still open 186 22 Mary Roddis Highcliffe Hotel Greystones Road, S11 1951 Still open 1 Highgreave 205 High Greave, Ecclesfield 1881 Still open 127 4 Highland Laddie Ranmoor 1854 4 Hill Top Hotel 69 Attercliffe Road 1860 1961 101 2 Hillsborough Inn 2 Holme Lane 1851 15 Hodson Hotel 110 Carlisle Road 1860 1970 110 1 Hole in the Wall 70 Saville Street 1893 1992 99 5 Hollin Bush Hollins End, Gleadless 1881 Still open 127 5 Holly Bush Rivelin, Stannington 1901 5 Hope and Anchor 223 Solly Street 1849 13 Hope and Anchor 52 Pye Bank 1833 2 Hope and Anchor 7 Bridgehouse Hill 1822 8 Issac Champion Hope and Anchor Attercliffe 1828 7 Mary Blythe Hope and Anchor Hotel Mowbray Street 1833 9 Horse and Garter 24 Water Lane 1821 5 Thomas Crownshaw Horse and Garter 32 Bridge Street 1833 7 Horse and Groom 80 London Road 1833 1916 83 1 Horse and Groom Attercliffe 1828 3 William Priest Horse and Jockey 10 Tenter Street 1821 4 George Sykes Horse and Jockey 14 Sheaf Street, Park 1825 1900 75 6 Horse and Jockey 19 Pond Hill 1797 6 Horse and Jockey 638 Attercliffe Road 1833 still open 175 8 Horse and Jockey Norton 1825 1 Horse and Jockey Wadsley Bridge 1879 8 Horse Shoe Bellhouse Road, Shire Green 1825 6 George Jowitt Hospital Tavern 13 Park Hill Lane 1828 19 Thomas Knight Howard 94 Howard Road 1901 4 Howard Arms 5 Suffolk Road 1871 1 Howard Hotel 2 Howard Street 1871 Still open 137 2 Howard Hotel 59 Howard Street 1871 Still open 137 6 Howard Hotel 94 Howard Road, S6) 1951 1 Huntsman Inn 101 Sorby Street 1860 1932 72 1 Hussar/Old Hussar 51 Scotland Street 1816 1927 111 23 Luke Arnold Hyde Park Cricket Ground Inn St John's Road 1828 7 William Wright Hyde Park Inn Hill Top, Unstone 1911 2 Imperial 45 Robertshaw Street 1881 9 Imperial Castle Street 1881 5 Industry 118 Porter Street 1833 1920 87 1 Industry 206 Dunlop Street 1951 1 Industry 34 Broad Street 1797 1972 175 13 William Midgley Industry 67 Fitzwilliam Street 1871 1 Industry South Street, Park 1822 3 Industry Inn 147 Young Street 1871 1917 46 2 Industry Inn 2 Mowbray Street 1871 1 Industry Inn 24 Savile Street East 1860 1940 80 1 Industry Inn Darnall 1871 Still open 137 2 Industry Inn Dun Street, Attercliffe 1871 1 Industry Inn Green Side, Chapeltown 1861 1 Inkerman Tavern 12 Alma Street 1871 1 Iron Man/Iron Arms Pye Bank Mount 1871 1 Ivy Cottage 184 Broomspring Lane 1871 1 Japanese Kiosque 31 Surrey Street 1901 1 John Bull 126 Rockingham Street 1871 1 Jolly Bacchus Holly Lane 1871 1 Jolly Crispin Pond Hill 1834 1 Jolly Grinders 8 Porter Street 1833 1896 63 1 Jolly Sailor (Beerhouse) 5 Blast Lane 1833 1 Junction 354 Brightside Lane 1871 5 Junction Station Road, Woodhouse 1901 Still open 107 5 Kelvin Grove 227 Infirmary Road, Gatefield 1833 1959 126 14 King and Miller 16 - 33 Headford Street 1856 1 King and Miller 16 Norfolk Street 1822 1908 86 11 Joseph Cooper King and Miller 4-6 Manchester Road, Deepcar 1881 Still open 127 4 King and Miller 60 Trafalger Street 1854 6 King William 1 Alma Street 1825 8 King William 1 Holly Street 1828 1898 70 8 William Fearnley King's Arms 12 Commercial Street 1825 1973 148 5 King's Arms 17 Fargate 1797 1898 101 12 Benjamin Smith King's Arms 2 Haymarket 1797 1898 101 7 King's Arms Tap 2 Old Haymarket 1797 1 King's Head 1 Change Alley 1572 1940 368 18 William Woodhead King's Head 29 Canning Street 1825 12 King's Head 33 Holly Street 1822 1 King's Head 709 Attercliffe Road 1853 Still open 155 2 King's Head Dun Street, Carbrook 1871 1 King's Head Manchester Road, S10 1905 3 King's Head Neepsend 1825 1 King's Head Poole Road, Darnall 1905 3 King's Head Rockingham Street 1828 1 Thomas Gould King's Head Tapton Hill 1862 1 King's Head Hotel 105 Martin Street 1871 1 Kossuth Trippet Lane 1854 1 Labour in Vain 62 Princess Street 1871 1920 49 1 Lady's Bridge 2 Bridge Street 1881 1993 112 6 Lamb 31 Howard Street 1825 1903 78 2 Amy Lamb Lamb 6 Radford Row 1828 1896 68 4 George Bailey Lambpool 291 Attercliffe Common/Hilltop, Attercliffe 1870 1988 118 3 Lansdowne 2 Lansdowne Road 1854 1991 137 10 Leavey Greave Hotel 26 Leavey Greave Road 1871 3 Leeds House 3 Norfolk Street 1834 1 Lescar 303 Sharrow Vale Road 1881 Still open 127 5 Lincoln Castle/Old Lincoln Castle 2 Penistone Road 1849 2 Lincoln Castle/Old Lincoln Castle 24 Brocco Street 1841 14 Lincoln City Arms 114 Clarence Street 1845 1963 118 1 Lincolnshire House Silver Street 1828 1 William Booth Lion and Lamb 22 Pea Croft 1871 1900 29 1 Lion and Lamb 46 High Street, Eckington 1905 2 Lion and Lamb 6 Shude Hill 1833 2 Lion and Lamb Radford Row 1846 1 Lion Hotel 3 & 5 Wicker 1881 1 Lion Hotel 4 Nursery Street 1828 1980 152 5 Thomas Ellis Little Angel 94 West Bar 1854 3 Little Tankard 11 West Bar Green 1825 1893 68 6 Thomas Ellis Little Tankard 29 Little Pond Street 1825 3 Live and Let Live 36 Hawley Croft 1871 1903 32 2 Livery Stables 32 Union Lane 1852 1911 59 10 Local Fields Tavern 151 Attercliffe Road 1864 1932 68 1 Locomotive 2 Fowler Street 1871 1 Locomotive 49 Carlisle Street 1862 1932 70 9 Lodge Inn 143 Newhall Road 1870 2 Lodge Inn 47 Spital Hill 1852 1969 117 6 London Apprentice/Old London Apprentice 1 West Bar Green 1797 1896 99 12 Thomas Moseley London Apprentice/Old London Apprentice 77 Spring Street 1822 14 Samuel Beadle London House 112 West Bar 1893 1905 12 3 London House 25 Pinstone Street 1796 1898 102 1 Lord Conyer's Arms Wales, Sheffield 1881 1 Lord Nelson 166 Arundel Street 1871 Still open 137 2 Lord Nelson 184 Greystock Road 1868 1951 83 10 Lord Nelson 60 Broad Street 1871 2 Lord Rancliffe Arms 95 Lord Street, Park 1833 1904 71 3 Lyceum 153 Langsett Road 1854 1972 118 10 Lyceum 19 Pond Hill 1871 6 Magnet Southy Green Road, S5 1951 1 Mail Coach 149 West Street 1800 Still open 208 5 Malin Bridge / The Cleakum Inn Holme Lane 1833 Still open 175 9 Malton Hotel 35 Burton Street 1901 1980 79 4 Manchester 4 Division Street 1849 9 Manchester Hotel/Manchester Railway Hotel/Harlequin 108 Nursery Street 1849 Still open 159 11 Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Inn 88 Furnival Road 1854 4 Manor Castle Inn 82 Edward Street 1849 12 Manor Inn Darnall 1828 2 Willian Henry Woolhouse Mansfield Hotel 73 Division Street 1871 1 Marquis of Waterford 2 Russell Street 1852 4 Marshall Tavern 133 Pye Bank 1951 1960 9 1 Mason's Arms 130 Duke Street 1833 1900 67 1 Mason's Arms 14 Capel Street 1951 Still open 1 Mason's Arms 14 South Street, Park 1871 1900 29 3 Mason's Arms 17 Castle Street 1833 3 James Watson Mason's Arms 18 Bridge Street 1797 1898 101 1 Mason's Arms 2 Carson Road, S10 1951 Still open 1 Mason's Arms 2 Shude Hill 1833 1900 67 1 Mason's Arms 270 Langsett Road 1871 Still open 137 3 Mason's Arms 43 Campo Lane 1797 1905 108 1 Mason's Arms 47 Pearl Street 1858 1960 102 2 Mason's Arms 58 Duke Street 1833 1 Mason's Arms Attercliffe Road 1825 1862 37 2 John Eyre Mason's Arms Crookes 1871 1 Mason's Arms Hillfoot 1864 2 Masons' Arms 842 Chesterfield Road 1901 4 Masons' Arms Broomspring Lane 1871 1 Matilda Tavern 100 Matilda Street 1825 Still open 183 13 Maunche 14 Corn Exchange Buildings 1901 4 Meadow Inn 89 Main Road, S9 1951 1 Meadow Street Hotel 110 Meadow Street 1849 still open 159 12 Mermaid 6 Orchard Street 1822 14 Charles Clegg Merry Heart 110 Spital Street (Tom Cross Lane) 1893 12 Middlewood Tavern Oughtibridge 1861 6 Midland 18 Turner Street 1871 1 Midland 2 Spital Hill 1862 1972 110 6 Midland Chesterfield Road, Dronfield 1901 4 Midland Greenside, Chapeltown 1901 5 Midland Hotel 2 Alfred Road 1870 still open 138 6 Midland Railway Inn/New Inn 119 Saville Street 1846 3 Midland Station Hotel Pond Street 1871 5 Miller's Arms 51 Carlisle Street 1862 1940 78 1 Millers' Arms Salter's Brook, Dunford Bridge 1881 1 Millhouses Hotel 951 Abbeydale Road, Millhouses 1905 Still open 103 3 Millsands Tavern 12 Millsands 1841 5 Millwright's Arms Millhouses, Ecclesall 1871 2 Milton Arms 272 Rockingham Street 1871 1963 92 6 Milton Arms 4 Bailey Lane 1825 5 Jesse Frith Milton Arms 81 London Road 1871 2 Milton Hotel 14 Milton Street 1862 1 Milton's Head 29 Allen Street 1825 1958 133 18 Thomas Robinson Miner's Arms 198 Arundel Street 1871 1 Miner's Arms 750 Attercliffe Road/High Street 1871 1 Miners' Arms 115 Carr Lane, Dronfield, Woodhouse 1901 Still open 107 3 Miners' Arms 125 Warren Lane, Chapeltown 1861 Still open 147 1 Miner's Arms (Beerhouse) 42 Duke Street, Park 1833 1 Miner's Arms (Beerhouse) Manor 1833 1 Miner's Rest 61 Cricket Inn Road 1871 1 Miner's Rest 7 East Street, Park 1871 1 Miner's Tavern Blast Lane, Park 1846 3 Minerva 103 Penistone Road/Hillfoot 1833 1959 126 14 William Ball Minerva 69 Charles Street 1833 still open 175 7 Minerva Tavern 26 Bright Street 1833 1 Mitre 27 Orchard Street 1822 1910 88 3 Benjamin Hartley Mitre Tavern 32 Change Alley 1871 1929 58 2 Montgomery Hotel 225 St Mary's Road 1881 2 Monument Tavern 190 South Street, Park 1871 1921 50 2 Monument Tavern 35 Button Lane 1871 1 Monument Tavern 61 South Street, Park 1871 1922 51 1 Moon 13 Silver Street 1854 3 Morpeth Arms 108 Upper Allen Street 1833 1960 127 14 Moseley's Arms 81-83 West Bar & Paradise Street 1849 Still open 159 14 Moulder's Arms 25 Corby Street 1868 1 Moulder's Arms 43 Green Lane 1830 1904 74 2 Moulders' Arms (Beerhouse) Attercliffe 1833 1 Moulders' Arms (Beerhouse) Dun Street 1833 1 Moulder's Return 7 High Street Lane, Park 1833 1901 68 1 Mountain Deer 14 Orchard Lane 1871 1 Mowbray Inn 8 Mowbray Street 1849 2 Mowbray Tavern 53 Sussex Street, Park 1862 3 Mulberry Tavern 2 Mulberry Street 1825 still open 183 13 Municipal Inn Burgoyne Road 1871 1 Murray's Arms 13 Queen Street 1797 6 Thomas Watch Museum 25 Orchard Street 1797 1988 191 6 Myrtle Inn Alexandra Road, Heeley 1871 1 Nag's Head 273 Shalesmoor 1833 still open 175 4 Nag's Head Holdworth, Loxley 1901 Still open 107 3 Nag's Head Jehu Lane 1790 5 Jonathan Tasker Nag's Head Sheffield Road, Dronfield 1911 2 Nag's Head (Beerhouse) Attercliffe 1833 1 Napier Hotel 28 Lord Street 1833 6 Napier Hotel 95 Napier Street 1871 Still open 137 6 Napoleon 85 Carver Street 1833 1921 88 1 Napoleon Tavern 34 Green Lane 1825 1912 87 6 Navigation House 9 Castle Hill 1822 1897 75 4 John Simmonite Neepsend Tavern 114 Neepsend Lane 1834 1974 140 19 Nelson 34 Union Street 1854 6 Nelson Inn 13 New St, West Bar 1824 1 Nelson/Hind/Nelson Rock Bar Moorhead 1901 4 Nevilles Tavern Camop Lane 1825 1 New Anvil 114 Duke Street, Park 1833 1 New Ball Inn 56 Upper Oborne Street 1871 1 New Barrack Tavern 601 Penistone Road 1854 Still open 154 7 New Barrack Tavern Hillfoot 1856 1 New Bridge Corporation Street 1901 1 New Britannia 72 Rockingham Street 1871 2 New Brunswick 86 Upper Allen Street 1833 1950 117 3 New Bull & Oak 26 Furnival Road, Park 1833 2 New Crown Inn 406 Handsworth Road, S9 1951 Still open 1 New Gas Tavern 5 Sussex Street 1871 1 New Hall Tavern Sanderson Street 1856 1 New Inn 10 Montford Street 1871 2 New Inn 108 Ecclesall Road 1834 12 New Inn 183 Duke Street 1828 Still open 180 14 William Hunter New Inn 2 Bellefield Lane 1841 3 New Inn 2 Penistone Road 1833 14 Joseph Henderson New Inn 211 Carbrook Street 1871 2 New Inn 23 Maltravers Street 1871 2 New Inn 378 Brightside Lane 1858 1910 52 1 New Inn 48 Bernard Street, Park 1833 1 New Inn 94 Harvest Lane 1854 1959 105 7 New Inn Bracken Hill, Chapeltown 1905 2 New Inn Gleadless 1881 4 New Inn Hemsworth Road, S8 1951 1 New Inn Shales Moor 1834 2 New Inn Sheffield Road, Hackenthorpe 1901 4 New Inn Victoria Road 1871 1 New Inn Wadsley Bridge 1861 5 New Inn (Beerhouse) Stocksbridge 1861 1 New Inn/New Bridge Inn 4 Penistone Road North 1822 Still open 186 5 Elizabeth Wilkinson New Market Hotel 20 Broad Street 1825 1972 147 13 New Market House New Street 1881 1 New Market Inn 13 Exchange Street/Castle Folds 1833 1921 88 11 New Market Inn New Cattle Market 1846 1 New Music Hall Tavern 116 Barkers Pool, Fargate 1881 2 New Red House 25 Dunfields 1871 2 New Shades 32 Hartshead 1822 1 New Star Hotel & Music Hall 2 Spring Street & 1 Coulston Street 1881 1 New Tankard 41 Sims Croft 1825 1900 75 1 New White Lion 23 Wicker 1825 1991 166 11 Newbury Tavern Sussex Street 1854 1 Newcastle Arms 35 Newcastle Street 1854 1905 51 5 Newcastle House 27 Castlefields 1871 4 Newfield 14 Denmark Road 1881 5 Newhall Gardens Brightside Lane 1862 1 Nimrod 164 Portobello Street 1871 1 Noah's Ark 197 Mansfield Road, Intake 1911 Still open 97 2 Noah's Ark Four Lane Ends, Handsworth 1854 2 Noah's Ark Hollins End, Gleadless 1881 3 Norfolk 224 South Street, S2 1951 1 Norfolk Handsworth 1881 2 Norfolk Handsworth 1905 2 Norfolk Arms 1 St Mary's Road 1881 1 Norfolk Arms 159 Upperthorpe Road Norfolk Arms 18 Sands Paviers, Bow Street 1822 13 John Wright Norfolk Arms 2 Suffolk Road 1871 Still open 137 2 Norfolk Arms 26 Dixon Lane 1833 Still open 175 14 Richard Brown Norfolk Arms 39 Shepherd Street 1833 1930 97 2 Norfolk Arms 5 Norfolk Street 1825 1900 75 6 Norfolk Arms 56 Savile Street East 1871 1940 69 4 Norfolk Arms 58 Tenter Street 1881 1 Norfolk Arms 85 Clarence Street 1841 1968 127 1 Norfolk Arms 91 Granville Street 1849 11 Norfolk Arms Grenoside 1881 Still open 127 4 Norfolk Arms Hollow Meadows, Stannington 1901 4 Norfolk Arms Manor 1822 4 Norfolk Arms Pinstone Street 1881 1 Norfolk Arms Ringinglow, Upper Hallam 1871 9 Norfolk Arms Rivelin, Stannington 1881 1 Norfolk Arms Tinsley Road 1881 1 Norfolk Arms White Lane Top, Chapeltown 1861 8 Norfolk Arms/Bronx 208 Savile Street East 1864 7 Norfolk Arms/Club 160 160 Attercliffe Road 1831 8 Norfolk Arms/Club Xes 195 Carlisle Street 1860 Still open 148 7 Norfolk Hotel 64 Mowbray Street 1871 5 Norfolk Hotel 98 Barkers Pool 1871 1898 27 1 Norfolk Hotel Shrewsbury Road 1871 1 Norfolk Tap 224 South Street, Park 1871 5 Norfolk Vaults 28 Dixon Lane 1854 6 Norfolk Vaults 74 Townhead Street 1871 2 Normanton Spring Inn Normanton Spring, Woodhouse 1901 5 North Pole Inn 62 Sussex Street 1854 12 Norton Hotel Meadow Head 1951 1 Nottingham Castle 72 Edward Street 1833 1 Nottingham House 23 Watery Street 1871 2 Nottingham House Whitham Road 1871 1 Nottingham House Hotel 13 Bridge Street 1871 3 Number One 1 Duke Street 1871 1 Number One 49 Silver Street 1854 1903 49 1 Number Two 63 Silver Street Head 1849 1903 54 5 Nursery Tavern 8 Johnson Street/Stanley Street 1825 3 William Chadwick Odd Fellow's Arms 19 Cross Burgess Street 1837 1 Odd Fellow's Arms 202 Duke Street, Park 1856 11 Odd Fellow's Arms 38 Pitt Street 1846 3 Odd Fellow's Arms (Beerhouse) 26 Furnace Hill 1833 1893 60 2 Odd Fellow's Rest 53 West Street 1835 1893 58 1 Odd Fellow's Rest 94 Button Lane 1830 1908 78 1 Old Albion 103 Hill Street 1951 1 Old Ball 8 Grindlegate 1822 2 Old Ball Green Lane 1828 3 Joseph Bray Old Bird in Hand 28 Spring Street 1796 1 Old Blue Ball Bradfield Road, Owlerton 1825 Still open 183 14 Old Blue Bell 31 High Street 1710 Still open 298 11 Old Boy's Rest 51 Hermitage Street 1891 1 Old Bradley Well/Terminus Tavern 150 Main Road, Darnall 1825 Still open (Terminus) 8 James Robinson Old Brewery Tap Broad Street 1871 2 Old Cart and Horses 2 Wortley Road, Mortomley, High Green 1881 Still open 127 5 Old Cherry Tree 186 Gibralter Street 1822 4 Old Cricket Ground Inn 371 Darnall Road, Darnall 1871 5 Old Cricket Players 69 Coal Pit Lane 1822 2 Old Cross Scythes Totley 1901 3 Old Crown 133 London Road 1825 Still open 183 3 Old Crown 343 Handsworth Road, S9 1901 4 Old Crown 710 Penistone Road 1871 Still open 137 5 Old Crown 8 Duke Street, Park 1852 1903 51 5 Old Crown Inn 137 London Road 1822 Still open 186 10 Joseph Benson Old English Gentleman 34 Shude Hill 1796 1917 121 11 Old Feathers 43 High Street, Park 1846 1 Old Feather's Inn/Prince of Wales' Feathers 46 Bard Street, Park 1881 5 Old Five Alls/Five Alls 168 Infirmary Road 1833 11 Old George 6 Bank Street 1834 2 Old Golden Ball 3 Lambert Street 1822 1 Old Green Dragon 469 Attercliffe Road 1774 1950 176 7 Old Grindstone 3 Crooks 1822 Still open 186 13 George Steade Old Haigh Tree 192 Bernard Street, Park 1854 3 Old Half Moon Inn 64 Allen Street 1845 1910 65 2 Old Harrow 34 Harvest Lane 1822 1959 137 15 Old Harrow Main Street, Grenoside 1825 Still open 183 5 Old Harrow White Lane, Gleadless 1901 Still open 107 4 Old Heavygate Wharncliffe Road 1871 Still open 137 1 Old Horns Inn Upper Bradfield 1861 Still open 147 5 Old House at Home 34 Radford Street 1796 1 Old House at Home 42 Bailey Lane 1830 1922 92 2 Old King John 35 Attercliffe Road 1860 1926 66 1 Old Light Horseman 155 Penistone Road, Philadelphia 1822 1991 169 22 Maria Dixon Old Mill Tavern 4 New George Street/Boston Street 1833 1900 67 1 Old Number Twelve Old Haymarket 1871 2 Old Oak Tree 13 Silver Street 1871 1903 32 1 Old Original Grindstone 22 and 24 Crookes 1871 8 Old Queens Head 40 Pond Hill 1851 Still open 157 4 Old Raven 61 West Street 1854 1903 49 1 Old Red House 35 Fargate 1780 1917 137 5 Old Stair 16 Lambert Street 1822 2 Old Tankard 17 West Bar Green 1834 6 Old Turk's Head 108 Scotland Street 1822 1902 80 12 Jonathan Youle Old White Hart 7 Waingate 1756 1898 142 2 Old White Lion 3 Wicker 1822 5 Old White Swan Brightside Bierlow 1825 3 Omnibus 766 Attercliffe Road 1951 1 Orange Branch 28 Hollis Croft 1821 15 Rawson Allen Orange Tree Tavern 7 Orange Street 1871 1 Original Grindstone Crookes 1871 1 Original John Bull 6 Division Street 1846 1 Osborne House 35 Hartshead 1862 4 Ostrich Inn 39 Mitchell Street 1871 2 Owl 51 Penistone Road 1951 1 Oxford Blue/Wellington 15 Burgess Street 1822 1898 76 6 Samuel Linley (Wellington) Oxford Hotel 83 South Street, Park 1871 1930 59 5 Oxford House 131 Moore Street 1951 1 Oxford/Blue Pig Spring Street & 22 Workhouse Lane 1825 3 Pack Horse Inn 2 West Bar 1822 1902 80 15 John Smith Pack Horse Inn 23 Pack Horse Lane, Mortomley, High Green 1861 Still open 147 6 Painters' Arms 76 Queen Street 1871 1 Painters' Arms Lee Croft 1828 1 Moses Evers Palace Inn Bakers Hill 1833 9 John Wright Palatine Hotel 54 Malinda Street 1871 2 Palm Tree Tavern 35 Palm Street, Walkley 1871 Still open 137 2 Paradise Inn 36 Campo Lane 1871 2 Paragon Hotel 131 Thomas Street 1871 1 Park Gate 39 Bard Street 1881 2 Park Hotel Wadsley Lane, Hillsborough 1911 Still open 97 2 Park House South Street, Park 1834 4 Park Inn 51 Cricket Inn Road 1871 1 Park Inn St Johns Road, Park 1881 1 Parkgate Inn 39 and 41 High Street, Park 1871 2 Parkside Inn 73 Sussex Street 1854 7 Parkwood Hotel 16 Douglas Road 1881 5 Parkwood Hotel Norfolk Road North 1871 1 Parrot Inn 9 Button Lane/9 Moor Head 1825 1908 83 10 William Flint Parson Cross Hotel Deerlands Avenue, S5 1951 Still open 57 1 Paul Pry 64 Pea Croft/88 Solly Street 1828 1925 97 9 Robert Winter Paul Pry 88 Solly Street 1901 3 Peacock 11 Hoyle Street 1825 17 Michael Mawson Peacock 200 Fitzwilliam Street 1849 16 Peacock Knoll Top, Stannington 1825 Still open 183 6 Pearl Street Tavern 93 Pearl Street 1871 1 Pedestrian Tavern 238 Forncett Street 1871 1922 51 1 Perseverance 108 Savile Street East 1871 1932 61 1 Peter's Hotel 121 Lord Street 1849 11 Pheasant 10 Broad Street, Park 1797 1910 113 16 John Yates Pheasant 123 South Street, Moor 1822 3 John Dutton Pheasant 40 Carver Street 1825 1898 73 2 Pheasant 41 Gower Street 1879 1 Pheasant 50 Green Lane 1881 1 Pheasant 51 Bailey Lane 1830 1902 72 1 Pheasant 8 Russell Street 1833 2 Pheasant 86 or 96 London Road 1854 Still open 154 9 Pheasant 9 Hoyle Street 1833 2 Pheasant Barnsley Road, S5 1951 Still open 57 1 Pheasant Button Lane 1833 1 Pheasant Church Street, Attercliffe 1871 1 Pheasant High Lane, Ridgeway 1911 Still open 97 1 Pheasant Mount Pleasant, Wadsley Bridge 1861 1 Pheasant Oughtibridge 1881 Still open 127 5 Pheasant Oughtibridge Lane, Wadsley 1861 1 Pheasant Sheffield Lane Top 1828 6 Harry Swinden Pheasant Sheffield Lane, Pitsmoor 1825 1 Pheasant 40 Carver Street 1825 1898 73 1 Pheasant (Beerhouse) at the Aquaduct, Attercliffe 1833 1 Pheasant (Beerhouse)/Stumble Inn 436 Attercliffe Common 1833 Still open 175 10 Pheasant Inn Brightside 1871 1 Pheasant Inn Orchard Street/Harvest Lane (Apple Street ?) 1871 1 Phoenix Hotel 56-58 Charles Street 1893 5 Phoenix Inn High Lane, Ridgeway 1951 Still open 1 Pie House 5 Scotland Street 1825 1 Pilot 2 Green Street, Bishop Street, Moor 1849 8 Pine Apple Tenter Street 1834 1 Pitsmoor 448 Pitsmoor Road 1951 Still open 1 Pleasant Inn Carbrook, Attercliffe Common 1881 1 Plough 20 Milner Road, Attercliffe 1825 10 Plough 228 Sandygate Road, Sandygate 1854 Still open 154 9 Plough 28 Broad Street 1854 10 Plough Church Street, Attercliffe Road 1828 6 William Gray Plough Goule Green, Upper Hallam 1825 1 Plough Low Bradfield 1901 3 Plough (Beerhouse) 56 Harvest Lane 1833 1 Plough (Beerhouse) Darnall 1833 1 Plumber Tavern Hillfoot, Penistone Road 1825 1 Plumpers 36 Sutherland Street 1871 1989 118 1 Plumpers (Beerhouse) 3 Trippet Lane 1833 1 Plumpers Hotel Sheffield Road, S9 1951 1 Plumper's Inn 49 Duke Street 1854 1921 67 10 Plumpers' Inn Tinsley 1825 5 Pomona Gardens 163 Ecclesall New Road 1854 Still open 154 8 Poplar Tree Tavern 180-182 Broomhall Street, S3 1951 1 Porter Cottage 66 Porter Street 1825 1905 80 1 Porter Tavern Sharrow Moor 1854 6 Portland Arms 184 Rockingham Street 1871 1 Portland Arms 59 Portland Street (39 ?) 1871 2 Portobello Tavern 248 Portobello Street 1849 8 Potter's Arms/Pitcher and Glass 20 Workhouse Croft/Paradise Street 1854 3 Presser's Arms 20 Burgess Street 1797 1927 130 1 Prince Hotel 100 Pomona Street 1871 1 Prince of Wales 103 Sussex Street 1881 1 Prince of Wales 11 Church Street, Eckington 1901 3 Prince of Wales 12 Bardwell Street 1893 6 Prince of Wales 127 Upper St Philips Road & 25 Fawcett Street 1881 5 Prince of Wales 143 Gibralter Street 1833 1902 69 1 Prince of Wales 19 Charlotte Street 1901 3 Prince of Wales 20 Adsett Street 1862 1 Prince of Wales 271 Shalesmoor 1825 2 Prince of Wales 301 Langsett Road 1833 1921 88 1 Prince of Wales 37 Westfield Terrace 1854 1 Prince of Wales 38 Sycamore Street 1821 1898 77 15 John Cadman Prince of Wales 49 Egerton Street 1833 1910 77 1 Prince of Wales 67 Meadow Street 1871 1 Prince of Wales 73 South Street, Park 1871 1 Prince of Wales 82 Saville Street East 1864 1920 56 1 Prince of Wales Banner Cross, Ecclesall 1834 Still open 174 12 Prince of Wales Crow Head, Hazlehead 1881 1 Prince of Wales Neepsend 1862 1 Prince of Wales New Grimesthorpe 1871 1 Prince of Wales Weir Head, off carbrook street 1871 1 Prince of Wales/Frog and Parrot 94 Division Street & 37 Westfield Terrace 1871 Still open 137 9 Princess Hotel 199 Bright Street 1871 2 Princess Hotel 199 Fitzwiliam Street 1881 6 Princess Royal 28 Langsett Road 1871 1 Princess Royal 72 Trafalgar Street 1871 1 Princess Royal Woodhouse Mill, Handsworth 1854 5 Princess Royal Hotel 680 Retford Road, Woodhouse 1951 1 Printer's Arms (Beerhouse) 74 Carver Street 1833 1 Prospect House Walkley Street 1871 1 Prospect View Hotel 500 Gleadless Road 1951 1 Puddler's Arms 73 Earsham Street 1870 1 Pump Tavern 79 South Street, Moor 1825 still open 183 16 George Saville Punch Bowl 12 Coulson Street 1797 7 William Gray Punch Bowl 140 South St Moor 1822 1938 116 12 Hannah Fielding Punch Bowl 236 Crookes 1822 Still open 186 6 John Wragg Punch Bowl 35 Bridge Street 1822 15 James Smith Punch Bowl 50 Silver Street Head 1822 1903 81 12 Thomas Lindley Punch Bowl 57 Wicker 1828 3 Thomas Fellsten Punch Bowl 95 Hurlfield Road, S12 1951 Still open 1 Punch Bowl Spring Street 1854 1 Q in the Corner/Shrewsbury Hotel 17 Paradise Square 1822 18 Ann Sykes Quarry Hotel Walkley Street 1871 1 Queen 1 Whitehouse Lane (67 Whitehouse Lane in 1871) 1871 3 Queen 88 Savile Street East 1871 1920 49 3 Queen Gatefield 1854 2 Queen Adelaide 32 Bramall Lane/1 Hermitage Street 1825 19 George Beavis Queen Ann (Beerhouse) Green Lane 1833 1 Queen Caroline 44 Westbar Green 1821 2 Queen Hotel High Street, Mosbrough 1825 Still open 183 1 Queen Street Hotel 57 Queen Street 1774 1920 146 9 Queen's 37 Dun Street 1825 1970 145 2 Queen's Ground (Queen's Hotel) 401 Langsett Road 1833 Still open 175 6 Queens Head 40 Pond Hill 1871 5 Queen's Head 20 Sheaf Street, Park 1825 13 John Taylor Queen's Head 4 Campo Lane 1796 5 John Fordham Queen's Head 660 Attercliffe Road 1825 1990 165 19 John Smith Queen's Head Main Road, Ridgeway 1951 Still open 57 1 Queen's Head Mortomley, High Green 1861 6 Queen's Head Ridgeway 1854 2 Queen's Head Hotel 1 Queen Street, Portmahon 1871 2 Queen's Head Inn 14 Castle Street 1797 1921 124 16 William Travis Queen's Hotel 85 Scotland Street 1797 still open 211 10 Queen's Hotel Baker's Hill 1854 1 Queen's Hotel Nook Lane, Stannington 1861 4 Raby's Inn 16 Westbar 1862 1 Raglan Inn Arundel Street 1881 1 Railway 31 Wicker 1833 1900 67 6 Railway Rotherham Road, Beighton 1901 4 Railway Wadsley Bridge 1881 Still open 127 5 Railway Hotel 184 Bramhall Lane 1871 Still open 137 3 Railway Hotel Brightside 1871 1 Railway Hotel Hazlehead 1881 1 Railway Inn 70 Nursery Street 1833 12 Railway Inn Station Road, Chapeltown 1881 4 Railway Tavern 46 Carlisle Street East 1864 1907 43 1 Railway Tavern 64 Princess Street, Attercliffe Road 1864 1912 48 2 Railway/Stadium/Noose and Gibbet 97 Broughton Lane 1871 Still open 137 8 Ram 82 Pea Croft 1830 2 Ram Inn 15 Kenninghall Street 1866 1914 48 1 Ram Inn 272 Rockingham Street 1854 2 Ran Moor 330 Fulwood Road, Ran Moor 1854 Still open 154 11 Randall Hotel 29 Randall Street 1871 2 Raven 12 Fitzwilliam Street 1833 Still open 175 9 Rawson's Arms 161 Attercliffe Road 1868 1941 73 1 Rawson's Arms 85 Tenter Street 1833 1896 63 10 Red Deer 18 Pitt Street 1825 Still open 183 6 Red Hill Tavern 33 Red Hill 1796 1 Red House 168 Solly Street 1796 Still open 212 13 Red House Lee Croft 1871 1893 22 1 Red Lion 103 Eyre Street 1871 2 Red Lion 109 Charles Street 1821 Still open 187 18 John Sanderson Red Lion 145 Duke Street, Park 1821 Still open 187 19 Jonathan Goulder Red Lion 15 Smithfield 1825 12 John Doughty Red Lion 18 Johnson Street 1825 1 Red Lion 202 Shalesmoor 1833 1917 84 1 Red Lion 32 Union Lane 1871 1 Red Lion 39 Hartshead 1825 1903 78 8 Issac Marshall Red Lion 51 Lambert Street 1839 1 Red Lion 52 Coal Pit Lane 1796 18 Daniel Kite Red Lion Church Street, Dronfield 1951 1 Red Lion Gleadless Town End 1854 Still open 154 6 Red Lion London Road, Heeley 1846 6 Red Lion Lower Heeley 1825 9 John White Red Lion (Beerhouse) 34 Bridgehouses 1833 1 Red Lion/Old Red Lion 93-95 Penistone Road, Grenoside 1881 Still open 127 4 Red Lion/Old Red Lion in 1854 35 Holly Street 1822 Still open 186 16 Joshua Perkington Red Lion/Old Red Lion in 1854 622 Penistone Road 1825 9 Red Place Tavern 91 Garden Street 1833 1910 77 2 Reform Tavern 41 Smithfields 1833 1925 92 1 Reform Tavern (Beerhouse) 12 Chapel Street 1833 1 Reform Tavern (Beerhouse) Green Street 1833 1 Reformers 39 Duke Street 1833 1902 69 1 Rein Deer 139 Devonshire Street 1841 11 Rein Deer 39 South Street, Park 1830 1934 104 12 Rein Deer Hawley Lane 1833 1905 72 5 Reindeer Castle Foulds 1822 3 Margaret Healey Retford Arms 88 and 90 Harvest Lane 1871 1 Reuben's Head 117 South Street, Park 1833 1904 71 1 Reuben's Head 16 Shepherd Street 1830 1 Reuben's Head/Ruben's Head 63 Campo Lane 1825 1905 80 3 Reuben's Head/Rubins Head 43 Burgess Street 1822 1898 76 14 Rifle Corps Hotel 137 Carlisle Street East 1860 1958 98 10 Rifle Tavern 15 Bower Street 1852 11 Rifle Tavern Duke Street 1871 1 Rifleman's Canteen 94 Charles Street 1871 3 Rising Sun 127 Corby Street 1879 1917 38 1 Rising Sun 146 West Street 1849 1903 54 4 Rising Sun 38 Matthew Street 1871 1 Rising Sun 45 South Street, Park 1834 1910 76 2 Rising Sun 471 Fulwood Road 1911 Still open 97 2 Rising Sun 67 Hermitage Street 1871 7 Rising Sun 88 Sorby Street 1879 1 Rising Sun Abbey Lane, Parkhead 1911 Still open 97 2 Rising Sun Hunshelf, Stocksbridge 1881 4 Rising Sun Little Common, Ecclesall Bierlow 1825 5 Rising Sun Nether Green, Ran Moor 1871 6 Rivelin Stannington 1905 3 Rivelin View Bell Hagg Road 1871 3 River Don Inn 712 Brightside Lane 1857 2 Robert Burns Townhead Street 1834 1 Robin Hood 46 Ellesmere Road 1854 Still open 154 3 Robin Hood 86 Duke Street, Park 1822 1950 128 17 Robin Hood Inn Millhouses 1825 Still open 183 10 Robin Hood/Robin Hood & Little John Little Matlock, Stannington 1861 Still open 147 6 Robin Hood/Robin Hood & Little John in 1854 548 Attercliffe Road 1825 17 William Bailey Rock 51 Carlisle Street East 1864 1932 68 1 Rock House 170 Rock Street 1951 Still open 1 Rock Inn 42 Pye Bank 1951 1958 7 1 Rock Inn Crane Moor 1881 1 Rock Inn Green Moor, Hunshelf 1881 1 Rock Tavern 20 Dixon Lane 1796 1972 176 19 Rocket Inn 106 Upper St Philip's Road 1830 1920 90 1 Rockingham Arms 194 Rockingham Street 1825 17 Sarah Morton Rodley Inn 97 Leadmill Road 1893 1970 77 2 Rodney Loxley 1828 7 Thomas Wilde Rodney Arms Doncaster House, 33 Fargate 1821 1898 77 6 William Wagstaff Roebuck 1 Charles Street (1-3 Union Lane) 1790 Still open 218 2 Roebuck 34 Porter Street 1837 1 Roller's Tavern 70 Princess Street, Attercliffe Road 1871 1926 55 1 Roscoe Arms 65 Hoyle Street, 40 Hoyle Street in 1854 1833 1917 84 4 Rose Crane Moor 1881 1 Rose Hill Foot 1854 1 Rose Potter Hill, High Green 1951 Still open 1 Rose and Crown 12 Waingate 1765 1926 161 17 James White Rose and Crown 154 High Street, Eckington 1905 2 Rose and Crown 21 Paternoster Row 1821 15 Richard Ashton Rose and Crown 245 Main Road, Darnall 1911 2 Rose and Crown 31 West Bar 1797 1903 106 1 Rose and Crown 9 Holly Street 1822 7 Ann Williamson Rose and Crown Common Side, Wadsley 1861 1 Rose and Crown Hann Moor, Stannington 1822 8 Rose and Crown Silver Head Street 1822 2 Rose and Crown Stour Lane, Wadsley 1881 5 Rose and Crown (Beerhouse) 15 New Street 1833 1 Rose and Crown (Beerhouse) 17 Scargill Croft 1861 1 Rose and Crown (Beerhouse) Andrew Street 1833 1 Rose Cottage 70 Cricket Inn Road 1881 2 Rose Inn 41 Work House Lane 1787 1849 62 4 Rose Inn 627 Penistone Road 1851 Still open 157 8 Rose Tavern 39 Little Pond Street 1833 1900 67 1 Rotherham House 27 Exchange Street 1797 11 Rover's Rest 104 Allen Street 1871 1 Rover's Rest 51 Gower Street 1871 1 Royal 1 Abbeydale Road 1871 Still open 137 5 Royal 1 Exchange Street 1901 3 Royal 2 Arthur Street 1871 1 Royal 2 Bradfield Road 1951 1990 39 1 Royal 233 Langsett Road 1833 1921 88 2 Royal 617 Attercliffe Common 1870 1 Royal 65 Earl Street 1905 1 Royal 86 West Street 1833 1893 60 2 Royal Dungworth, Stannington 1861 Still open 147 4 Royal Southgate, Eckington 1905 2 Royal Woodhouse Mill, Handsworth 1905 3 Royal Albion Hammond Street/Finlay Street 1881 1 Royal Exchange 283 Langsett Road 1871 1921 50 7 Royal Exchange 64 Garden Street 1881 5 Royal George 167 Greystock Street 1870 1 Royal George 498 Brightside Lane 1866 1 Royal George 60 Carver Street 1833 1970 137 13 Royal George 60 West Bar 1871 1893 22 1 Royal George 94 Cricket Inn Road 1871 3 Royal Hotel 106 Eyre Lane 1834 7 Royal Hotel 24 Waingate/Old Haymarket 1797 1928 131 5 Royal Hotel 65 Earl Street 1871 3 Royal Hotel London Road & 1 Abbeydale Road 1881 1 Royal Hotel Tap 6 Waingate 1862 3 Royal Lancer 66 Penistone Road; 18 Penistone Road in 1854 1854 9 Royal Mail 131 West Street 1828 1893 65 9 Samuel Eyre Royal Oak 109 Corby Street 1871 1920 49 1 Royal Oak 11 Hollis Croft 1822 Still open 186 15 Joseph Steer Royal Oak 12 Lancaster Street & Neepsend Lane 1881 9 Royal Oak 136 Lansdowne Road 1860 1967 107 1 Royal Oak 16 Allen Street 1828 1930 102 4 Ann Adams Royal Oak 17 Cemetery Road 1871 Still open 137 7 Royal Oak 23 Walkley Bank Road 1951 1 Royal Oak 250 Savile Street 1862 1956 94 7 Royal Oak 29 King Street & 15 Watson Walk, Market Place 1774 1940 166 11 Royal Oak 44 High Street, Beighton 1901 4 Royal Oak 44 West Bar Green 1797 6 Charles Hobson Royal Oak 53 High Street, Mosbrough 1951 Still open 1 Royal Oak 60 Earsham Street 1864 Still open 144 1 Royal Oak 64 Garden Street 1856 1 Royal Oak 83 Pond Street 1796 1930 134 18 Jervis Leyland/Layland Royal Oak 89 Upper Allan Street 1825 1933 108 10 Royal Oak 91 Thomas Street 1871 1 Royal Oak Broad Lane 1846 1 Royal Oak Chapeltown 1881 1 Royal Oak Deepcar 1881 4 Royal Oak Hollin's End, Gleadless 1881 1 Royal Standard 156 St Mary's Road 1833 Still open 175 9 Russell Tavern (Beerhouse) Ecclesall New Road 1833 1 Rutland Arms 86 Brown Street 1833 Still open 175 12 Rutland Hotel 80 Neepsend Lane & 3 Rutland Road 1893 8 Saddle 96 West Street 1825 1992 167 20 Benjamin Armitage Salutation 126 Attercliffe Common (Hill Top in 1871) 1870 2 Salutation 170 Wortley Road, High Green, Chapeltown 1881 Still open 127 6 Salutation 85 Upper St Philip's Road 1833 1965 132 12 Salutation 85 West Street 1852 1893 41 1 Salutation Silver Street Head 1821 2 Sandy Gate Sandy Gate, Upper Hallam 1857 1 Saracens Head 88 & 90 Grimesthorpe Road 1881 1 Saracens Head Ecclesfield 1825 1 Saw Mill Tavern 42 Sidney Street 1881 1 Sawmaker's Arms 1 Neepsend Lane 1834 1966 132 11 Sawmaker's Arms 40 Burnt Tree Lane 1871 1 Sawyer's Arms 20 Silver Street 1822 1 Scale Cutters Arms (Beerhouse) 50 Westbar Green 1833 1 Scarborough Arms 104 Milton Street 1830 1963 133 1 Scarborough Arms 13 Rockingham Street 1871 1 Scarborough Arms 34 Addy Street 1841 Still open 167 7 Scarborough Arms 79 Fargate 1797 1890 93 9 Scissorsmith's Arms 114 Harvest Lane 1871 1919 48 1 Seven Stars 36 Pinfold Street 1787 9 Ann Beet Seven Stars Shire Green 1825 2 Mary Oxspring Seven Stars Trippet Lane 1787 18 Ann Beet Shades/Shades Vaults 20 Watson's Walk 1797 1940 143 15 Samuel Turner Shakespeare 106 Well Road 1901 Still open 4 Shakespeare 146 Gibralter Street 1821 Still open 187 19 Benjamin Beet Shakespeare 51 Allen Street 1833 1 Shakespeare Oak Street, Heeley 1871 7 Shakespeare Upper Heeley 1828 4 Martha Robinson Shakespeare/Crown and Shakespeare 16 Sycamore Street 1822 1965 143 16 William Hakes Shakespeare/Shakey 196 Bradfield Road, Owlerton 1854 Still open 154 8 Sheaf House Hotel 329 Bramhall Lane 1816 Still open 192 5 Sheaf Inn 11 Effingham Road 1849 6 Sheaf Tavern Cattle Market 1837 1 Sheaf Tavern Sheaf Street, Park 1825 1900 75 3 John Thorp Sheffield Arms 107 Upwell Street, Grimesthorpe 1830 Still open 178 8 Sheffield Arms 42 Meadow Street 1818 1948 130 14 Sheffield House Grimesthorpe 1871 1 Sheffield Moor 114 South Street, Moor 1881 4 Sheldon 27 Hill Street 1841 Still open 167 4 Shepherd Inn 118 Duke Street 1830 1910 80 1 Ship 31 Water Lane 1796 1898 102 11 Robert Fowler Ship Inn 284 Shalesmoor 1833 Still open 175 8 Shoulder of Mutton 19 Top Road, Worrall 1825 Still open 183 5 Shrewsbury Hotel 109 South Street, Park 1830 1934 104 13 Shrewsbury Tavern 26 South Street, Park 1825 1920 95 1 Sicey Green Hotel/Shiregreen Hotel 416 Sicey Avenue, S5 1951 2008 57 1 Sidney Hotel 23 Haymarket 1822 2 Sir Admiral Lyons 176 Eyre Street 1833 1908 75 2 Sir Francis Burnett 5 Pond Hill 1822 1910 88 4 Jonathan Challenger Sir John Falstaff 48 Wicker 1821 1911 90 16 William Cooper Sir Robert Peel 157 Carlisle Street 1862 1917 55 1 Smithfield Hotel 29 Furnival Road 1871 2 Smithfield Hotel 31 Blonk Street, Park 1881 4 Smithy Door Tavern 26 Hawley Croft 1833 1893 60 2 Social Tavern 38 Bailey Street 1833 1902 69 6 Soldier's Return 42 Water Lane (8 Water Lane in 1854) 1797 1896 99 1 South Sea Hotel Broomhill 1854 11 South Street Hotel 71 South Street, Moor 1854 9 Sovereign Inn 70 Rockingham Street 1834 9 Sovereign Inn 118 Portobello Street 1871 3 Soverign 70 Sheffield Street 1854 1 Spirit Vaults 112 West Bar 1871 1 Split Crow Spring Street 1861 1 Sportsman 100 Walkley Bank Road 1901 Still open 107 4 Sportsman 125 Thomas Street 1825 1963 138 10 Sportsman 133 Infirmary Road 1830 1913 83 1 Sportsman 14 Bridgehouses 1822 11 Mary Matthewman Sportsman 20 Coal Pit Lane 1833 Still open 175 16 Sportsman 20 West Bar 1797 1893 96 2 Sportsman 33 Bridge Street 1825 1898 73 4 Sportsman 504 Attercliffe Road 1870 Still open 138 13 Sportsman Barnsley Road 1901 4 Sportsman Benty Lane, Cross Pool 1901 Still open 107 2 Sportsman Darnall Road 1871 1 Sportsman Harvey Clough Road, Norton Woodseats 1901 4 Sportsman High Street, Ecclesfield 1825 6 Sportsman Main Street, Hackenthorpe 1901 Still open 107 4 Sportsman Town End, Stannington 1881 Still open 127 5 Sportsman Worrall Road, Wadsley 1861 Still open 147 5 Sportsman Group/Grove 851 Penistone Road 1833 1989 156 10 Sportsman Inn Carlton Road, Attercliffe 1871 2 Sportsman Inn Lodge Moor 1871 1 Sportsman's (Beerhouse) 23 Hollis Croft 1833 1 Sportsman's Arms Deepcar 1905 2 Sportsman's Cottage 74 Button Lane 1825 1908 83 1 Sportsmans Group 5 Fargate 1829 2 Samuel Roberts Sportsman's Inn 10 Denby Street 1901 Still open 2 Sportsman's Inn 155 Marcus Street 1871 13 Sportsman's Inn 31 Maltravers Street 1871 1 Sportsman's Inn 41 West Bar 1828 8 William Norman Sportsman's Inn 84 Sheldon Street 1871 1 Sportsman's Inn Bridgehouses 1828 8 Mary Matthewman Sportsman's Inn Oak Street, Heeley 1871 1 Sportsman's Inn Pits moor 1828 10 Joseph Yardley Sportsman's Inn Walkley 1825 8 George Hobson Sportsman's Inn (Beerhouse) 4 Paternoster Row 1833 2 Sportsman's Rest 45 Park Hill Lane 1871 2 Spotted Cow 70 Russell Street 1871 1 Spread Eagle 19 High Street 1822 1890 68 7 Robert Cariss Spread Eagle 39 West Bar Green 1797 1903 106 2 Spread Eagle 80 Wellington Street 1854 1 Spread Eagle 9 Fargate 1794 1896 102 7 Spread Eagle Chapel Walk 1871 1 Spring Tavern 74 New George Street 1891 2 Spring Vale Hotel Spring Vale Road 1871 Still open 137 6 Springwood Inn 67 Freedom Street, Walkley 1871 5 Springwood Inn Hampden View 1862 1 Springwood Inn Hastilar Road South, S2 1951 Still open 1 St George's Tavern 35 Broad Lane 1825 1921 96 4 Joseph Shirtcliff St Ledgers Pinstone Street 1825 1 St Patricks Tavern (Beerhouse) 18 Castle Green 1833 1 St Philip's Tavern 228 St Philip's Road 1825 12 Stafford Arms 30 Stafford Street 1854 8 Staffordshire Arms 38 Sorby Street 1864 Still open 144 2 Stag 2 Wilson Street 1871 2 Stag 45 Carver Street 1822 1898 76 11 Thomas Outram Stag 83 Pea Croft 1834 7 Stag Malin Bridge 1828 1864 36 4 Peter Webster Stag Wadsley 1822 3 Mary Barker Stag Inn Market Street, Woodhouse 1911 Still open 97 2 Stag Inn Pond Street 1871 2 Stag Inn/Old White Hart in 1854 14 Castle Green 1841 1898 57 6 Stag's Head/Sharrow Head in 1854 Sharrow Head 1822 Still open 186 16 Robert Marples Standard/Royal Standard 38 West Bar Green 1893 6 Staniforth Arms 261 Staniforth Road Stanley Arms #NAME? 1825 5 Stannary Inn 2 Green Lane 1881 1 Star 15 Orange Street 15 1/2 Orange Street in 1871 !!!) 1833 2 Star 16 Silver Street 1752 1 Star 26 Haymarket 1780 7 William Rodgers Star 38 Pea Croft 1822 11 Joseph Swinden Star 39 Cemetery Road 1871 1 Star Owlerton 1825 2 George Woodhouse Star Rural Lane, Wadsley 1825 7 Star and Garter 82 Winter Street 1871 Still open 137 8 Star Hotel 35 High Street 1797 1900 103 3 Star Inn 181 Gibralter Street 1822 16 George Smith Star Inn 49 Danville Street 1883 1960 77 1 Star Inn 8 White Croft 1822 9 George Wild Star of Brunswick 65 Cemetery Road 1871 2 Star of Lemont 29 Hermitage Street 1891 3 Star Vaults Market Place 1871 1 Station Inn 147 Pond Street 1796 1910 114 1 Station Inn 165 & 167 Granville Street, Park 1881 2 Station Inn 732 Attercliffe Road 1951 Still open 1 Station Inn 86 Wicker 1849 Still open 159 14 Station Inn Brightside 1871 7 Station Inn Harmer Lane, Pond Street 1871 1 Station Inn Naseby Street 1901 3 Station Inn Oughtibridge 1881 6 Steam Clock 352 Brightside Lane 1871 1917 46 1 Steam Inn (Beerhouse) Johnson Street 1833 1 Steelmelter's Tavern 107 Carver Street 1871 1898 27 1 Steer's Hotel Haymarket 1862 1 Strines Bradfield Dale 1861 Still open 147 5 Strong Arm 1 West Bar 1796 6 Suffolk Hotel 24 Turner Street 1871 1 Sun 110 Lansdowne Road 1871 1 Sun 134 West Bar 1833 7 Sun 78 South Street, Park 1854 1959 105 10 Sun Inn 12 Walker Street 1833 1 Sun Tavern 27 Haymarket 1790 1955 165 5 Sunny Bank Hotel 74 Powell Street 1881 2 Surrey Arms 176 Granvile Street 1854 4 Surrey Arms Inn Hollow Meadows, Stannington 1861 1 Surrey Vaults 86 West Bar 1871 4 Swan 8 Burgess Street 1828 1 Joseph Emmott Swan Main Road, Ridgeway 1911 Still open 97 2 Swan Hotel 2 Snig Hill 1797 1 Swan Tavern 74 Duke Street 1833 1902 69 1 Swan with Two Necks 28 Furnival Street 1821 17 John Dyson Swiss Boy (Beerhouse) Sheldon Street 1833 1 Talbot 36-38 Blast Lane 1881 4 Talbot 40 Hoyle Street 1871 8 Talbot 57 New George Street 1891 2 Talbot Blackburn 1905 3 Talbot Arms 39 Water Lane 1833 1895 62 2 Talbot Arms 50 Cricket Inn Road 1849 5 Talbot Commercial Hotel 71 Arundel Street 1881 5 Talbot Inn 19 Talbot Road 1871 1976 105 3 Tankard Little Pond Street 1825 8 Thomas Kay Tankard and Punchbowl 94 Broad Street 1822 1910 88 11 Charles Haslehurst Tankard Inn 1 Stocks Hill, Ecclesfield 1825 6 Tankard/Old Tankard/Great Tankard 115 West Bar 1791 1896 105 9 Peter Deakin Target 12 Infirmary Road 1871 1 Target 40-42 Reuben Street, Park 1881 1 Target 75 St Johns Road 1951 1 Tavern Campo Lane 1825 1 Tea Gardens 90 Grimesthorpe Road 1850 Still open 158 4 Temperence Hotel 4 Market Street 1854 1 Thatched House Tavern 2 High Street 1849 1928 79 10 Theatre Tavern 37 Arundel Street 1774 14 Thomas Wiley Thompson's Hotel and Dining Rooms 20 Old Haymarket 1871 1 Thorncliffe Arms 135 Warren, Chapeltown 1861 Still open 147 6 Three Colliers (Beerhouse) Canal Side, Attercliffe 1833 4 Three Cranes 46 Queen Street 1822 Still open 186 17 Benjamin Smith Three Horse Shoes 190 Norfolk Street & Charles Street 1905 2 Three Horseshoes Jehu Lane/Commercial Street 1846 1940 94 6 Three Horseshoes Hotel & Oyster Bar 72 Norfolk Street 1849 1940 91 7 Three Legs 30 Union Lane 1871 1 Three Merry Lads 610 Redmires Road, S10 1951 1 Three Merry Smiths 55 Holly Street 1871 2 Three Pigeons 117 Carver Street 1825 6 Three Pigeons 20 Button Lane 1787 1908 121 1 Three Stags Heads 24 Pinstone Street 1822 1898 76 13 James Waterson Three Travellers Inn 82 Snig Hill 1825 2 Three Tuns 128 Bridge Street 1821 12 John Armitage Three Tuns 39 Silver Street Head 1822 Still open 186 15 James Staniforth Three Tuns 55 Leopold Street/Orchard Street 1822 1987 165 18 John Higginbotham Three Whitesmiths 1 Bridge Street 1791 1898 107 14 Mary Darling Tiger 7 Radford Row 1822 1 Tinsley Hotel 2 Sheffield Road 1901 4 Tontine Hotel Haymarket & 2 Dixon Lane 1786 1850 64 14 John Lambert Town Arms 166 Duke Street, Park 1839 1902 63 4 Tramcar 851 Attercliffe Road 1868 1961 93 1 Tramway 112 London Road 1901 Still open 2 Travellers Snig Hill 1780 11 William Richardson Travellers Southy, Wadsley Bridge 1881 4 Travellers Thompson Hill, High Green 1861 4 Travellers' Deepcar 1881 3 Travellers' Ecclesfield Common 1825 Still open 183 8 Travellers' Inn 208 High Street, Attercliffe 1871 2 Travellers' Inn 72 Penistone Road 1697 Still open 311 4 George Mills Travellers' Inn 784 Attercliffe Road 1825 still open 183 14 William Banks Travellers' Inn 82 Newhall Street 1862 1 Travellers' Inn Broomhill 1834 2 Travellers' Inn Oxspring 1881 1 Travellers' Inn Wadsley Bridge 1825 6 Travellers' Inn Wharncliffe Side 1871 1 Travellers Inn (Beerhouse) 67 Scotland Street 1833 1 Travellers' Inn/"Low Drop" Vaughton Hill, Stocksbridge 1861 1 Traveller's Rest 106 Broad Street 1852 1902 50 6 Traveller's Rest 135 South Street, Moor 1846 14 Traveller's Rest 406 Langsett Road 1854 1921 67 11 Traveller's Rest Brightside 1871 1 Travellers' Rest 535 City Road, S2 1951 Still open 1 Travellers' Rest 93 Langsett Road South 1951 Still open 1 Travellers' Rest Cricket Road 1871 1 Travellers' Rest Deep Pits, Intake 1871 2 True Briton 61 Brown Street 1871 1 Truro Tavern 189 St Mary's Road 1881 2 Tudor Tavern 5 Arundel Street 1833 1 Tunnel 89 Pye Bank 1871 1 Turf Tavern 15 Arundel Street 1871 1 Turf Tavern 336 Handsworth Rd, Handsworth 1881 Still open 127 4 Turf Tavern 65 Westbar 1871 3 Turf Tavern 77 West Bar 1871 1 Turk's Head 108 Scotland Street 1834 5 Turk's Head/Old Turk's Head 118 Scotland Street 1825 1910 85 13 Elizabeth Priest Turner's Arms 4 Burgess Street 1833 1898 65 1 Turner's Arms Brown Street 1871 1 Turners Tea Gardens Ecclesall New Road 1846 1 Tuscan Tavern 17 St Thomas Street 1852 12 Twelve O'Clock Saville Street 1825 8 Twelve O'Clock Walk Mill 1822 3 Hannah Greaves Twelve O'Clock Inn 1 Attercliffe Road 1825 13 Umpire 9 New George Street, Little Sheffield 1856 9 Union 1 Division Street 1837 3 Union 12 Bridgehouses 1822 12 Samuel Lockwood Union 14 Scotland Street 1797 4 Thomas Hunt Union 16 Lambert Street 1825 2 William Cockin Union 18 Fargate 1825 1910 85 5 Matthew Coxon Union 2 Coalpit Lane 1828 #REF! William Axe Union 38 Furnace Hill 1822 4 Joseph Taylor Union 61 Silver Street Head 1818 1903 85 11 Mary Bramley Union Cherry Tree Hill 1854 5 Union Norwich Street 1833 1 Union Inn 651 Attercliffe Common 1871 1940 69 2 Union Inn Leadenhall Market 1862 1 Union Inn Union Road, Sharrow 1881 Still open 127 4 Union Tavern 14 Newcastle Street 1833 1905 72 1 Union Tavern 24 Union Lane 1871 2 Union Tavern Cotton Mill Road 1833 1 Upperthorpe Hotel 137 Upperthorpe Road 1833 Still open 175 10 Viaduct Inn 108 Corby Street 1871 1930 59 1 Viaduct Inn 79 Wicker 1854 still open 154 8 Victoria 1 Upper St Phillips Road 1871 2 Victoria 115 Washington Road 1871 1 Victoria 136 Savile Street East 1871 2 Victoria 170 Gibralter Street 1881 6 Victoria 29 Fargate 1846 1 Victoria 325 Langsett Road 1871 1972 101 3 Victoria 42 Jericho Street 1852 8 Victoria 631 Attercliffe Road 1841 8 Victoria 923 Penistone Road 1901 1982 81 4 Victoria Jericho 1862 2 Victoria Arches Tavern 2 Savile Street 1860 1918 58 3 Victoria Arms 193 Arundel Street 1881 1 Victoria Gardens (or Hotel) 248 Neepsend Lane 1852 1992 140 12 Victoria Hotel 146 Carlisle Road 1881 5 Victoria Hotel 203 Gleadless Road 1901 1 Victoria Hotel 237 High Street, Attercliffe 1881 1 Victoria Hotel 27 or 33 Furnival Road 1852 9 Victoria Hotel 40 High Street 1862 1 Victoria Hotel 80 Addey Street 1871 2 Victoria Hotel Bath Street 1871 1 Victoria Hotel New Grimesthorpe 1871 1 Victoria Park Hotel Clarkehouse Road 1862 1 Victoria Station Hotel & Refreshment Rooms Furnival Road 1852 2 Victoria Station Hotel/Royal Victoria Station Victoria Station Road 1871 still open 137 4 Victoria Vaults Langsett Road 1871 1 Victoria/Queen Victoria in 1854 40 Mulberry Street 1796 1900 104 3 Vine 162 Cemetery Road 1871 Still open 137 2 Vine 7 Hodgson Street 1871 2 Vine 81 Brunswick Road 1871 1961 90 6 Vine Tavern 38 Broad Street 1833 1910 77 1 Vine Tavern 4 or 11 Hartshead 1825 1893 68 11 Richard Alexander Vine Tavern 49 Newhall Road 1871 1902 31 2 Vine Tavern Furnace Hill 1825 2 Mary Corker Virginia Vaults 64/66 Queen Street 1871 1917 46 2 Vulcan 51 Hawley Croft 1833 1 Vulcan Tavern (or Inn) 53 Sussex Street 1871 6 Waggon and Horses 1 Scargill Croft 1861 1 Waggon and Horses 13 Arundel Street 1821 3 Waggon and Horses Mill Houses 1822 Still open 186 12 Wagon and Horses 236 Gleadless Road 1901 4 Wagon and Horses Langsett, Stocksbridge 1881 Still open 127 1 Wagon and Horses/Old Wagon and Horses in 1854 2 Kent Road, Upper Heeley 1828 9 George Barker Wagon and Horses/Waggon and Horses Market Place, Chapeltown 1825 7 Walkley Cottage/Cottage/ The Old Cottage Hill Street, Walkley 1828 Still open 180 11 Sampson Cropper/Crapper Warm Hearth Stone 1 Town Head Street 1790 1896 106 14 Samuel Moore and Co Washington 23 Washington Road 1854 9 Washington 79 Fitzwilliam Street 1849 Still open 159 14 Waterloo Tavern 18 Pinstone Street 1796 1898 102 1 Waterloo Tavern 3 Andrew Street 1833 2 Waterloo Tavern/Waterloo Turf Tavern 26 Watson's walk 1774 1906 132 14 Hannah Ashley Waterman's Rest 1 Sussex Street 1871 2 We Three Loggerheads Inn 30 Hawley Croft 1830 1889 59 1 Weighhouse Inn 168 Duke Street 1839 1902 63 1 Weir Head Hotel 1 Sutherland Street 1856 1926 70 1 Weir Head Inn 287 Attercliffe Road 1862 1 Well Run Dimple 58 Fargate 1793 1896 103 7 John Allison Wellington 1 Henry Street, Portmahon 1871 Still open 137 7 Wellington 683 Attercliffe Common 1854 1 Wellington 720 Brightside Lane 1871 still open 137 6 Wellington 78 Macro Street 1871 1 Wellington 79 Fitzwilliam Street 1871 1 Wellington Roscoe Place 1846 1 Wellington Arms 90 Wellington Street 1871 1 Wellington Inn 124 Carlisle Road 1868 1 Wellington Inn 222 Main Road, Darnall Road 1871 Still open 137 9 William Hardcastle Wellington Inn (formerly Hero and His Horse) 58 Langsett Road 1849 Still open 159 9 Wellington Tavern 21 Coal Pit Lane (Cambridge St by 1871) 1822 18 Elias Shirt Wellington Tavern Castle Folds 1825 1 Wentworth Arms 262 Rockingham Street 1833 12 Wentworth House 18 Wentworth Street 1854 8 Wentworth House 78 Button Lane 1825 1917 92 1 Wentworth House Hotel 26 Milford Street 1833 Still open 175 1 Wentworth Inn 156 Wentworth Street 1856 2 West End 71 West Street, Eckington 1901 3 West End Hotel 412 Glossop Road 1854 Still open 154 8 West Street Hotel 128 West Street 1852 still open 156 11 West Street Vaults 112 West Street 1852 1893 41 3 Westcourt Shades 2 Scargill Croft 1846 1 Westminster High Street & Mulberry Street 1901 3 Weston Park Hotel 96 Weston Street 1951 1 Wharncliffe Arms Burncross, Chapeltown 1881 Still open 127 4 Wharncliffe Arms Wharncliffe side, Oughtibridge 1881 Still open 127 5 Wharncliffe Arms/William McReady 42 West Street 1787 11 Wharncliffe Hotel 127 Bevercotes Road, S5 1951 Still open 1 Wharncliffe Hotel 13 King Street 1893 2 Wheatsheaf 11 Bridge Street 1849 12 Wheatsheaf 149 Harvest Lane 1854 4 Wheatsheaf 18 Penistone Road 1841 1897 56 1 Wheatsheaf 2 Platt Street 1905 3 Wheatsheaf 21 Button Lane 1833 1920 87 1 Wheatsheaf 46 Sims Croft 1871 2 Wheatsheaf 74 Bailey Lane 1833 1904 71 1 Wheatsheaf 81 Eyre Lane 1833 1 Wheatsheaf Park Head, Ecclesall 1825 7 Whirlow Bridge Ecclesall Road, Parkhead 1881 4 Whitby Hotel 106 Addey Street/1 Arthur Street 1871 1846 1960 114 2 White Bear 10 High Street 1780 1900 120 12 George Moor White Bear Stocks Hill, Ecclesfield 1881 5 White Hart 119 Worksop Road 1825 1992 167 9 W Weightman White Hart 140 St Philip's Road 1871 Still open 137 2 White Hart 32 Church Street, Eckington 1825 4 White Hart 62 Russell Street 1849 Still open 159 11 White Hart 64 Doncaster Street 1881 1 White Hart Church Street, Attercliffe 1834 6 W Weightman White Hart Greenhill 1825 Still open 183 5 White Hart High Green, Chapeltown 1861 5 White Hart Oughtibridge 1825 Still open 183 6 White Hart/Old White Hart Waingate 1825 12 Charles Hammond White Hart/Old White Hart in 1854 Attercliffe Road 1828 3 George Whitehead White Horse 18 Effingham Street 1849 4 White Horse 275 Solly Street 1822 14 John Saville White Horse 34 Copper Street 1822 13 Joseph Drayton White Horse 65 Malinda Street 1871 1 White Horse 76 Matilda Street 1881 2 White Horse 83 South Street 1834 1 White Horse Gregory Row 1787 1 White Horse Market Place, Chapeltown 1825 6 White Horse Norfolk Road North 1871 1 White Horse Wadsley 1825 3 Nicholas Bramhall White Lion 110 Barker's Pool 1796 1920 124 11 White Lion 12 West Bar Green 1796 1903 107 4 John Allan White Lion 2 Wicker 1825 6 Elizabeth England White Lion 30 Bailey Street 1871 2 White Lion 37 Queen Street 1856 6 White Lion 37 West Bar Green 1796 1903 107 9 White Lion 54 Woodside Lane 1871 1 White Lion 61 Division Street 1871 2 White Lion 86 Queen Street 1825 1903 78 2 White Lion Carbrook Street 1871 1 White Lion Lower Heeley 1825 Still open 183 16 George Reynolds White Lion (New) 12 Wicker 1837 2 White Low Upper Hallam 1871 1 White Swan 105 Brightside Lane 1881 1 White Swan 3 Fargate 1825 1 White Swan 36 Charlotte Street 1871 1905 34 1 White Swan 75 West Bar 1797 1903 106 13 Thomas Crooks White Swan Greenhill 1825 Still open 183 5 White Swan Hotel 105 Meadow Hall Road 1893 5 Whitesmiths' Arms (Beerhouse) 47 Russell Street 1833 1 Who Can Tell 33 Botham Street 1951 1974 23 1 Why Not ? 27 Clun Street 1864 1 Wicker Brewery Hotel/Hole in the Wall 70 and 72 Saville Street 1871 6 Wicker Tilt 2 Wicker 1854 1 William IV Russell Street 1834 2 Willow Tree 147 Portobello Street 1871 6 Wincobank 72 Newman Road, Wincobank 1911 Still open 97 2 Windsor Castle 21 Silver Street 1825 1896 71 6 Windsor Castle 50 School Croft 1797 1907 110 1 Windsor Castle 70 Tenter Street 1834 3 Windsor Hotel 35-39 Southend Road, S2 1951 Still open 1 Wine and Spirit Vaults 2 Market Street 1862 1 Wine Vaults 47 Scotland Street 1901 3 Wine Vaults Silver Head Street 1837 1 Wisewood Inn 539 Loxley Road, Loxley 1881 Still open 127 4 Woodburn Hotel/Woodbourn 2 Lovetot Road 1871 1 Woodburne Hotel 2 Worthing Road, Attercliffe 1893 1 Woodman 137 Edward Street 1824 12 Woodman 158 Woodside Lane 1833 1962 129 1 Woodman 166 South St Moor 1822 16 James Marshall Woodman Inn 87 Carlisle Street East 1834 1935 101 3 Woodseats 457 Chesterfield Road 1901 4 Woodside Tavern 126 Woodside Lane 1854 1940 86 1 Woodthorpe Arms 102 Mansfield Road, Intake 1881 4 Woolpack 2-4 Percy Street 1871 1 Woolpack Flat Street 1825 1 Woolsack 277 Upper Allen Street 1871 2 Worthington Hotel South Sheffield 1881 1 Wortley Arms Wortley 1881 1 Wrekin 143 Carlisle Street East 1864 1936 72 1 Wybourn Tavern Cricket Inn Road, Park 1854 Still open 154 8 Ye Old Cart and Horse 2 Wortley Road, High Green 1951 1 Ye Old English Samson 1 Duke Street, Park 1881 1 Yellow Ball Nether Hallam 1822 1 Yellow Lion 12 Haymarket 1787 1928 141 18 William Wright Yellow Lion 59 Clifton Street 1796 1 Yellow Lion Apperknowle 1911 1 Yellow Lion Coal Pit Lane 1736 12 Elizabeth Shaw Yeomanry Hotel 32 Norfolk Street 1833 1896 63 2 Yew Tree Coal Aston 1911 1 Yew Tree Malin Bridge 1825 Still open 183 18 Benjamin Shaw York Hotel 247 Fulwood Road 1871 6 York Hotel Broomhill 1854 4 York House 20 Nag's Head Court 1822 1 Yorkshire Cricketers 79 Pea Croft 1833 1895 62 1 Yorkshire Man/Yorkshireman's Arms/Lion's Lair 31 Burgess Street 1796 Still open 212 10 Yorkshire Stingo 50 Division Street 1833 16
  10. History dude

    Coal men in Sheffield

    He used to deliver to our house on the Manor right up till the 80's when the council fitted gas central heating. I remember wondering if we were going to get coal delivered during the coal strike of 1984. Craig complained about how the council switching people to gas central heating was killing his business. However he was getting very pricey with his coal.
  11. A DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OF SHEFFIELD in my remembrance wrote in the year 1832 at the time the Cholera was raging in Sheffield. BY JOSEPH WOOLHOUSE. FORE WORD BY MR. HENRY RICHARDSON. The year 1832, when Joseph Woolhouse wrote his interesting paper on "Old Sheffield as I knew it," was a year of great importance. It saw the commencement of the Dispensary (now the Royal Hospital), the destruction of the old Cutlers' Hall, and the erection of the present building in Church Street, the first election of Parliamentary representation for the town, the enfranchisement of three thousand five hundred voters, and the visitation of "the Cholera," which played great havoc in the town. Whilst Woolhouse was writing in his spare moments, as timekeeper at Sheaf Works, the hundreds of pages in manuscript, which I possess, he took great pains to closely watch the developments of the town. It was early in the year 1832 when a proposal was made at the Meeting of Governors connected with the General Infirmary (now Royal Infirmary) to establish for the use of the town a Dispensary connected with the institution. The proposal was negatived by a large majority, the minority, under the leadership of several prominent medical men, including Dr. Arnold Knight, immediately called a meeting and decided to step forward in the dispensing of medicines for the poor and needy. At the meeting called by the minority it was decided to go forward with the movement, when Rules were adopted, and Dr. C. F. Favell, M.D., was elected Hon. Sec., premises were acquired in Tudor Place, and this useful work proceeded. Simultaneously with the opening of the Dispensary the town was visited with an outbreak of the Asiatic Cholera, not unexpected, as many writers have asserted. Preparations were already in hand, it having already appeared in other parts of the country. In the November previous a communication on this subject, from Dr. G. Calvert Holland, who had journeyed to Sunderland to investigate this awful disease, then raging in the country, had recently been elected Physician to the Infirmary. The Board of Health was formed to deal with the epidemic, on which Board James Montgomery was a distinct figure. It also included other prominent public men, including John Blake, Master Cutler, who fell a victim to the disease. The medical faculty was fully represented. A full and complete history of the epidemic is to be found in Dr. John Stokes' "History of the Cholera Epidemic," published in 1921, and is in the Reference Department of our Free Library. "Woolhouse" also mentions cases in which he refers "to the extreme careful skill of the medical profession." During the time "Woolhouse" was writing his interesting memoirs, the contractors were pulling down the old Cutlers' Hall, and in June, 1832, the corner stone of the new Cutlers' Hall was laid by John Blake, a filemaker of Upperthorpe, who died of Cholera, and was interred at Clay Wood. Underneath the corner stone of the Cutlers' Hall was placed a number of coins, specimens of cutlery, newspaper records, &c. "Woolhouse" in Gleanings, Vol. III, page 60, refers to the illuminating of St. Paul's Church Clock and the consternation it created. Of the local conditions we are assured of the liberality of the overseers, who "announce that the allowance made to landlords paying poor rates on cottage property, shall be reduced from 50°/0 to 33~, trade being very depressed, with little prospect of improvement, the poor rate costing 83;,~ per week as against 41;~ per week in 1831." The Debtors Gaol in Scotland Street was kept busy, whilst Little Sheffield Gaol (Ecclesall) was so full that personal execution was stayed. The Government of the town was represented by a selected body known as the Police Commissioners, under an Act passed in 1818. Close upon 100 persons formed this body politic, who elected a Treasurer, a Clerk, a Surveyor, a Collector, 50 watchmen and other officers, and were restricted to spend not more than 113 in the ~. The annual rentals in 1832 amounted to .,£5,073 7s. 6d.; and in that year they appointed " street keepers. " The Post Office was in Norfolk Street. in the shop at the corner of Arundel Street. Mr. Wreaks was Postmaster, and the postal work of the town was carried out by five letter carriers. The coaches went to and fro from the Tontine, King's Head, Angel, Commercial Hotels, whilst the carriers were mostly from stores and warehouses in Arundel Street. At this period in the valleys were forty Grinding Wheels (water), sixteen in Rivelin Valley, eight on the Loxley, and the remainder on the Rivers Don, Sheaf and Porter. It is now twenty years since I acquired a series of manuscripts written by Joseph Woolhouse between the years 1821 and 1842. They are in five sections, written upon foolscap paper and enclosed within wrappers or coverings of brown paper. A distant relative of the author informed me that they were written when Woolhouse was in reduced circumstances and that he lent them for a small charge to those interested, or read them aloud in various public houses in the town. Their thumbmarked condition is evidence of frequent use. Since the late Mr. R. E. Leader wrote the notes upon Woolhouse's "description" I have traced the following information concerning him. Woolhouse was born in 1778 and was the son of Joseph Woolhouse, cutler, to whom he was apprenticed. He obtained his freedom as a cutler in 1804, and in 1821, when living at 2 Newhall Street, was described as a Table Knife Cutler. About 1833 he found employment as timekeeper at Sheaf Works, and in his various writings he mentions certain events concerning these works. His connection with Sheaf Works has been traced to 1849, when he was 71 years of age, but no later information about him has been found. Woolhouse was present at the opening of the Cutlers' Hall in 1833, and also at the dinner given by the Master Cutler to the Freemen of the Company in celebration of that event. He left an interesting account of these gatherings in which he says that the Freemen were received by the Master and Mistress Cutler and on entering the Hall were regaled with "a bun and a glass of ale." At the dinner, he states, the Master Cutler had the oldest Freeman of the Company seated on his right. This was George Beardshaw of Wincobank, a relative of Woolhouse's, who was 93 years of age and who was brought to the dinner in the carriage of Mr. Thomas Dunn, the ex-Master Cutler. Amongst the toasts at the dinner he records the following: "May Yorkshire wives be like Sheffield knives, highly polished and well tempered," and "Eternal destruction to false marks on all Sheffield made goods." Apart from the "description" printed above this "true old Sheffield Blade" left many interesting jottings upon the old town. Amongst these is a list of the "wells" which supplied the populace with water, and a description of Sheffield streets and alleys in 1732, gleaned from various sources. Mr. Leader's annotations have added very materially to the value of Woolhouse's "description." In his last letter to me Mr. Leader asked what had been done with the MS., and when it would be published; my great regret is that it was not possible to issue it during Mr. Leader's lifetime. The fact that it is now printed in the Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, would, I am sure, have afforded pleasure to Mr. Leader, for he took an intense interest in all the Society's work. In conclusion may I place on record my thanks for the valuable help Mr. Leader always gave to me in my researches into the history of "Old Sheffield." His help was given unsparingly, and not to me alone, but to all those who delved into the past of our old town. In offering and publishing this interesting brochure, I am urged to do so by many friends who, having read its publication in the Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, suggested its publicity in book form and at a reasonable price, that the artisans of this important city may glean something of the city in its early days. The reader may note that "Woolhouse" in his Description deals with the streets and with buildings he remembers; with the industrial conditions of the period he says little, still he gives a vivid impression of the streets and walks that existed in our great-grandfathers days. It is my intention shortly to publish the list of wells which supplied the town with water, and his quaint statements concerning them. The paper was written when horse-less buses were unknown, when cabs were used, and which have since disappeared; when "hansom cabs," with the perched driver at the rear, with the "enquiry hole at the top" were unknown, and have since gone into oblivion. In the eighteenth century the "Sedan chair" was popular, and rows of them stood for hire in Norfolk Street, when the ladies of Sheffield held their Assemblies in the old building still existing. Much more may ~be written in this strain, but the progress and advancement of this city during my lifetime has been remarkable, and I dedicate this humble reproduction to one of Sheffield's leading citizens, who, having watched the progress and given untold ability to this advancement, I commend as an example to future generations. Fulwood, 1926. A DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OF SHEFFIELD in my remembrance wrote in the year 1832 at the time the Cholera was raging in Sheffield. BY JOSEPH WOOLHOUSE. PREPATORY NOTE. Firsthand recollections of the former state of Sheffield which go back to the eighteenth century, are so rare that it may be reckoned a piece of good fortune that the following description "wrote in the year 1832" has come into the hands of Mr. Henry Richardson, the Treasurer of the Hunter Archaeological Society. In 1798 Joseph Hunter, then a boy of 15, began a series of "Perambulations" but he did not carry them far at least, as printed, they are only a fragment. Besides these, there have been published from time to time in the newspapers, the memories of venerable citizens, and these, up to the date of that book, have been embodied by me in Reminiscences of Old Sheffield. But few of them reached back, in actual personal knowledge, beyond the earlier years of the nineteenth century. And the value of the present jottings lies more in telling what the writer had himself actually seen, than in what reached him through hearsay. Reference to various authorities shows him to be singularly accurate as to the former. As regards the latter well, he reflects inbred popular myths. He confirms much already on record, and adds new items. There is not much known about him. His age when he wrote has not been ascertained, but there is internal evidence that points to about 1775 as the time of his birth. Thus he faintly remembered the old barns removed to build the Tontine Inn some time before it was opened in 1785, and he had been in the wooden Shambles replaced about the same time. He was a school-boy when Church Street was widened in 1785, and as a young man he served in the Sheffield Independent Volunteers during six of its eight years existence 1794 to 1802. He saw the fire at the Cotton Mill in 1792. So that he would be somewhere near fifty-seven years of age in 1832. That he had a true Sheffielder's affection for the town is evident, and that he had historic instincts is shown by the fact, of which Mr. Richardson informs me, that he left behind him the Manuscript. of "The History of Sheffield in the County of York, " in six parts, written between the years 1826-1842. This he was accustomed to lend out to readers, for a small payment. But judging from the first part, which alone I have seen, it has none of the personal interests of the "Description," being almost entirely copied from well-known publications. I have had some difficulty in restraining a pen trained in journalistic traditions, from interference with many sentences which might have been more clearly expressed. But in the main, and with some amendments of punctuation, it has seemed better to retain quaint language reflecting the manner in which those of the author's class would talk. That is to say, would talk on Sundays, not in the workshop, for while it is charged with Sheffield phrases, there is, unfortunately, a scarcity of dialectic words. Occasionally we get these as in the story of the lame man who was "frighted by the barghast," and whose escape was hindered because his wife had "the door made. " It will be noted, too, that people took "kits" and "flaskets" to the wells, for water. The constant use of "was" where grammar requires "were ", is, of course, characteristic of a period when people were accustomed to say "you was, " but the epithet "elegant" has an American flavour. It is rather surprising to find an old Sheffielder speaking, Yankee fashion, of "a very elegant bowling green"; "an elegant country house"; "a very elegant town pump," and so forth. I trust that my annotation may serve to remove certain obscurities and enable the reader to sift fiction from fact. R. E. LEADER. (Richard A. Brant note : Leaders comments are those which follow the number in round brackets) BEGINNING WITH THE OLD CHURCH YARD TAKING THE PARISH CHURCH FOR MY GUIDE. From the Church to Shales Moor coming from the Church, the first place of note was the old Town Hall, built in the year 1700. It stood at the South East Corner of the Church Yard. It was built of Stone for the use of the Town. The Sessions was held here, and the Magistrates used to do all their business in it. There was Steps went up on each Side the door on the North Side into the Hall, also a flight of Steps facing up Church Lane for the Magistrates and other Officers to go into the Hall. The prisons was underneath the Hall. The door was on the South Side and faced nearly up Fargate, so that when any person was Confined you had an opportunity of seeing them. I have peeped many a time when a boy thro' the small round hole to see persons whom perhaps I knew. Their friends had an opportunity of giving them Vituals, but people often gave them Liquors. I have heard many a drunken prisoner bawl there. There was 3 Prisons, 2 for men and 1 for women. There was a dwelling over the woman's prison; someone lived there to keep the hall clean etc. The Stocks was in front of the Building, facing down High Street. Lionel Smilter the Town Crier, lived in a dwelling under the Hall. There was some large Gates at the East Corner of the Hall and went in a slanting direction across to the corner of the house once occupied by Mr. Watkin [Walker] Confectioner. The Church yard was enclosed by a low Stone wall only on the North and South sides. There was a few old houses on the West side, built with no regularity. The road to the Church was on the South, fronting Cutlers' Hall and [the other, already mentioned] South East by the Town Hall. On the North Side, from the top of Paradise square was up a flight of perhaps 12 or 14 Steps out of Campo Lane opposite that Grocer's Shop, it was a Grocer's shop at that time. These steps had a rail in the middle. There was only one door on the North Side the Church, the same as now. These steps used to lead direct to that door, no St. James Street nor St. James Church. St. James Row and the East Parade is took from part of the Church yard. {1} Where the News Rooms are, used to be some very old buildings belonging to the Church where they once cast a Set of Bells for the Church. All mason work belonging to the Church was done here. {2} Church Lane was made wider in the year [1785] by taking a part of the Church yard. When a boy going to School and passing by the Church yard at the time when they was widening this street I have seen them dig up dead bodies very often, there was a deal of noise in the Town at that time about it. 1 The description of the Churchyard here given relates to the year 1785, when the widening of Church Street, and the making of St. James Row (originally called Virgins Row) by taking strips from the south and west sides led to the erection of iron railings. Similar palisading was added on the north side in 1791 - but East Parade was much later, dating from the time of the removal of the Town Hall in 1808. The walk opposite the Cutlers' Hall to the south door of the Church had been made in 1725 as a sort of safe approach for the Cutlers' Company, who paid for its construction and were responsible for its repair. Besides the steps at the north west corner, which remained after the St. James Row had been made, there were others at the north east corner into the Churchyard by the Boys' Charity School. The Girls' Charity School, now the offices of Messrs. Gibbs & Flockton, was the first building erected in St. James Row (1786) on part of the Vicarage Croft. Mr. Wigfull tells me that there is evidence of a north door into the Church, opening into the north aisle, opposite to the second bay from the west; and facing a similar entrance from the south. In the re-building, 1790-1805, other doors were substituted in a somewhat different position. These were closed in 1856, when the western entrance was made. Mr. Woolhouse was right in taking it for granted that everybody knew "that grocer's shop" at the corner of Paradise Street and Campo Lane; for there Thomas Newton and his successors did a large trade on small premises by supplying cutlers with emery, crocus and glue. Many of us remember it. 2 From 1722 the Capital Burgesses rented a "laith," or barn, on the property of the Heatons, for the accommodation of workmen during church repairs. In 1745, departing from the usual custom of obtaining bells from distant foundries a peal of eight was here cast, or recast, by one Daniel Hedderley, the metal being also locally supplied. The barn is always spoken of as "in the churchyard" until 1809 when, East Parade having been made, it "adjoined" the Churchyard, and having been used by the masons during recent rebuilding, its tenancy was then given up. It is possible that the Award relative to an alleged encroachment in 1636 quoted in H.A.S. Transactions, i. p. 74, related to this site. For the position of the East Parade News Room see H.A-S- Transactions. i. p 156- 10 The Town Hall was pulled down in the year 17‹-[1808] and the street made wider and in its present form. The High Street was composed of very low old-built houses, a many pulled down and others new fronted. I believe there was once, a little above the middle of this street, stood a Priory, and I believe that yard leading from Gales' Shop to High Street was once called Prior Row; and this Street, High Street, was then called Fryars Gate. {3} Where the present Shambles are built once stood the old Shambles built of wood and very dirty. I only remember seeing these old Wooden Shambles and being in them some several times. {4} There was a cross (the same was removed into Paradise Square) stood at the top of Pudding Lane (now King Street). A little lower down the Street stood the old Angel Inn, The most noted inn between London and Edinburg, kept then. by Mr. Samuel Peech, a very wicked but honest man. {5} A little lower, opposite the Sign of the Castle, once stood a Cross, (but before my time). {6} There was no Bank Street, nor do I believe that Street took its name from the Bank. But there was where the Bank now is, some very old houses stood as tho' they was upon a piece of rock or high bank, say 2 or 3 yards higher than the Street or road. As the Street was very imperfect at that time and a considerable deal higher than now, with a number of old houses all the way down Snig Hill. West Barr was in the same direction as now, only some new houses have been built and a number of old ones new-fronted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 I have on various occasions refuted, by the production of definite evidence, the fiction, persistent since the publication of Gosling's plan in 1736, that the original name of High Street was Prior Gate; and "Fryars Gate" is altogether mythical. Prior Row was never the passage between High Street and Hartshead now known (after many changes of name) as Aldine Court. It was the name of the houses along the north side‹that is, they were Prior Row in High Street. The houses on the south side were never described as Prior Row, but in High Street "over against Prior Row. " There is not the slightest historical basis for the statement that there was once a Priory in the street. "Shambles" has become so generally regarded as a synonym for slaughter- houses as to make it necessary to remember that Sheffield clung tenaciously to its primary, and etymological meaning a bench or stall, on which goods, and especially meat, were exposed for sale. When, in 1786, the butchers were relegated from the open street to better, but duller habitations within four walls, and with them the vendors of butter, eggs and poultry, the name was transferred with them it remained the Shambles, not the Market. Fruiterers and others continued outside until the demolition of the Debtors' Gaol in King Street, in 1818 (on the site now occupied by the Norris Deakin Buildings) made a void which they filled to the great relief of the congested streets but with some loss of picturesque but slovenly litter. (For Killing Shambles see Note 3). 5 The Irish Cross. The Castle Inn stood at the corner of Water Lane, facing Angel Street. 6 This somewhat confused paragraph seems to suggest that Bank Street took its name from the rather abrupt descent of the ground towards Snig Hill and the commencement of West Bar - apparent enough farther on, in Scargill Croft and New Street. But there is nothing more certain in Sheffield nomenclature than the fact that Bank Street, made in 1791, was run through "the orchard or garden " of the bankers, Shores, and took its name from their bank the structure of which is still seen behind and above the shop at the corner of Angel Street and Bank Street. It was originally intended to call the latter Shore Street. By 1793 it had become known as Bank Street. 11 There was an old Workhouse at the end of West Barr, at the Bottom of Workhouse Croft. This Workhouse was considerably enlarged in my time and was entirely pulled down in the year 1829. At the North side of this Workhouse stood a Quantity of old houses, upon West Barr green. They was pulled down to make the large opening Street at the west end of West Barr green. These houses proceeded nearly to the bottom of Lambert Croft. At the bottom corner of Lambert Croft stood a Public house kept by Charles Kelk.{7} It stood within the Street and was pulled down to make the Street uniform at the bottom. Gibraltar Street was a deal narrower in places than now, and there was a long walk on the right hand going on, and all was fields and Gardens to the Cotton Mill, a Mill which stood upon the ground where the Workhouse now stands. The Lancasterian School was then a Rolling Mill belonging to one Parkin. The Public house opposite the Lancasterian School, (Sign of the Greyhound) was kept by John Hinchcliffe, one of the acting Constables of Sheffield. This was the last house in Sheffield that way; beyond the Lancasterian School was all fields and gardens. On the right hand side and near to where Ebenezer Chapel now stands was a bowling Green, a very elegant one kept by John Hinchcliffe.{8} My father used to frequent this Green often and I have been many a time to accompany him home when a boy from this Green. The Shales Moor commenced here. It was a piece of Waste ground reaching from the bottom of Trinity Street to where the Roscoe Factory is built. It was there where the Farmers used to deposit the manure which they brought out of the Town. There was some Steps to go over into a Field called the Coach gate, this is now Hoyle Street, which led up to Mr. Hoyle's house. There was a Carriage road through this field up to Mr. Hoyle's House and a small brook of water run through it and from here this water was conducted underground into the river.{9} It goes just under the doors and windows of those houses in Cornish Street, thro' Green Lane into the river. It was what used to overflow at Crookes Moor dams. Proceeding on, now Cornish Street, was a very large and neat Bowling Green belonging to the Cleekham public house. Afterwards a large Steam grinding wheel was built and the green destroyed; then the wheel was destroyed, and Mr. Dixon's white metal manufactory built upon the ruins.{10} 7 Charles Kelk was dead in 1797, and the house was kept by his widow, and West Bar and West Bar Green so teemed with public houses that the sign of this is doubtful. 8 Hence Bowling Green Street. 9 Hence Watery Street. 10 Cornish Place. The main Turnpike road went on this way at that time up past Morton Wheel which is now Vulcan Works,{11} and a foot-road used to strike into the fields a little above Cleekham Inn on the left hand and come out again near the bottom of Pack Horse Lane (now the Lane leading up to the Barracks).{12} My GrandFather kept a public house in Green Lane and this Cleekham Inn was also one at that time. The large house (I don't know who dwells there now), with the Pallasades and Trees before it, was built upon the place where my GrandFather kept ale. I can remember the same workshops my GrandFather had; they was standing but not the house. The foot road at that time came up close by my GrandFather's house and kept up by the water side to the front of the Cleekham Inn. There was a long walk fenced on each side with a Stone wall, came from the end of Spring Street (or Spring Croft called at that time) up Long Croft to Green Lane, and not one house built between Spring Croft and Green Lane. My mother saw them building the first Silk Mill. The Contractor or overlooker for the building boarded at their house in Green Lane‹while the Mill was building. This Mill was burnt down several times, I saw it myself each time. The present Workhouse stands upon the same ground as the Mill used to do. Kelham Wheel was part belonging to the Mill. {13} We will now return to Gibraltar Street. On the left hand side as you proceed to Cupalo Street, there used to be a Cupalo at theTop. This Street is much as it were; same by Copper Street, and Trinity Street and Snow Lane. Smith Field has had a many houses built in it. Mr. Morton, Silversmith (Mr. Thomas Dunn, Table Knife Manufacturer, married his Daughter). I knew this Mr. Morton very well and he told me himself that he dug the first sod up in Smith Field to build his house upon, and he built the first house in ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Morton's Wheel was very ancient. Vulcan Works on its site have become Rutland Works. The Owlerton Road ran much nearer to the river than at present. 12 The old Barracks at Philadelphia. When the Langsett Road was widened it went through these. The present Barrack Lane indicates approximately their position. The last part of this sentence is rather obscure, but it probably means that the writer having followed the turnpike to Morton Wheel, returns to Cleckham Inn (Cornish Place), and describes a footpath leading thence on his left in the direction of the present Infirmary Road once rural Whitehouse Lane; whence Causey Lane led to Upperthorpe and Daniel Hill. Now it is interesting to find Mr. Woolhouse speaking of Pack Horse Lane hereabouts, because it suggests (and additionally in conjunction with "Causey Lane"), a connection with that Racker Way which Mr. T. Walter Hall traced from Walkley Hall to Stannington. H.A.S. Transections, i. p. 63. Nor is the interest removed if this interpretation be wrong, and the writer meant that Pack Horse Lane led to the old Barracks. Because there is thence also an approach to Daniel Hill, but from the other side, by what is now called Woollen Lane. Further, what has become Infirmary Road is marked, on early nineteenth century maps "Walkley Road." 13 The silk mill, built in 1758, became a cotton mill. It was burnt down in 179~, and again in 1810. 13 Smith Field. What is now Allen Street was a very deep narrow Lane. My mother used to come from Green Lane to Sheffield to School sometimes up this lane. It was then called Cuckoo Allen Lane because they generally heard the Cuckoo sing first in this lane as they went to School. The House now occupied by Mr. Hoyle was my GrandFather's nearest neighbour, as Green Lane was all Tanyards belonging to Mr. Aldam of Upperthorpe‹no house between this house (now Mr. Hoyle's) and Green Lane. This Elegant Country house as it was then, belonged to a very eminent Lawyer, called Redfern (oftener by the name of Devil Redfern). These Hoyles is descended from him. This House in my Time was situated in the midst of Fields, Gardens, and pleasure grounds. There was a row of Aspen trees from Allen Lane to Burnwell as high as most houses, used to shade the road as you approached to the house, also very elegant privet hedges, and a very large Rookery, a large Dove Cote, etc. etc., Stables, out-buildings, etc. etc. etc.{14} There was no road any higher than the passage from top of this Allen Lane into Scotland Street on the left hand; going up on the right hand was this walk over-shadowed by these fine trees I have just mentioned. Our servant girl used to fetch water from the Burnt Tree from Lambert Croft. In Summer time there was branches of water, only one in some streets, and a person (they used to call him Water John) used to come twice a week and blow a Horn at the lop of Lambert Street as there was one [branch] fixed there and you used to take your Kit or Flasket. He would have filled it twice for a penny. But then in Summer this water used to run short and you was compell'd to fetch it where it was most to be had. This Burnt Tree water was plentiful. I have gone with the servant girls on a Summers evening and I believe you would have met above 20 upon the same errand. The lasses used to be very fond of going there for water. 14 Mr. William Hoyle, attorney and Clerk to the Cutlers' Company from 1777 to 1792, married a daughter of John Redfearn whose wife was a Fretwell of Hooton Levett‹whence the later Fretwell Hoyles. Hoyle succeeded to Redfearn's practice and house, which latter is sometimes described as at Portmahon, at others as Netherthorpe. Portmahon has fallen into disuse, surviving in little more than the name of a Baptist Chapel. The position of Netherthorpe, the antithesis to Upperthorpe, is indicated by Netherthorpe Place. The house stood at the present corner of Hoyle Street and Meadow Street, the entrance to its grounds being in Burnt Tree Lane, which curved round them. The lane still exists between Meadow Street and Doncaster Street, but it has been straightened. Meadow Street is a comparatively modern improvement. 15 Brinsworth's (or more probably Brelsforth's, for the name is found in all manner of spellings Orchards became Orchard Street FROM THE OLD CHURCH TO CROOKES MOOR. I have mentioned what an old, low, dirty Street Church Lane was. Proceeding up, there was Brinsworth Orchards {15} on your left (this Street was not all built at that time). On your right is now Vicar Lane but there was no St. James Street, no Vicar Lane, no St. James Church. These places was the Vicarage Crofts. The next Street up Church Lane was Solomon's Row (now Smith Street). This Street used to be called Bloody Row. The following circumstancegave it that name. One Solomon Smith and his son going to Chesterfield Races, a Gentleman's carriage happened to be coming from Chesterfield to the Race Common, a little on this side of Stone Gravels (my Father has shewn me the place very often). The son, then a boy, threw a Stone and frightened the Gentleman's horses. The Gentleman ordered his Footman to horsewhip the boy for so doing. The boy got over a wall and run across the fields, the Footman in pursuit after him. There happened to be in one of the fields some old Coal Pits. The Footman overtaking him began of horsewhipping him and drove him into one of these old Coal pits, so that the boy was killed upon the place. The Father had the case investigated into; The Footman was committed to prison to take his trial. The Gentleman bargained with this Solomon Smith for so much money not to appear against the man at the Assizes, so by that means the man was acquitted. With this money he (Solomon Smith) sold his son's life, for he built Solomon 's Row or Bloody Row, as it was once called (it is now Smith Street). {16} When I was a Boy it was reported that this Street was haunted. My aunt used to live in it for a number of years, and I have heard her and the rest of the family say that they have heard dreadfull noises in the Street at midnight many a time. Past this street you proceeded (inclining rather to your right) on Pinfold Street (now Bow Street),{17} Pinfold Lane, very old low houses; the Pinfold same as now. On your left was Blind Lane, a very narrow old Street; the houses was unregular built, no West Street. All at the back of Blind Lane on your right hand was fields and Gardens. This Blind Lane continued a very narrow .street untill it came to the top of Coal Pitt Lane. The Balm Green, on your left hand; this Balm Green was composed of very old houses, but no regular Street. At the entrance of Blind Lane on your right hand was a foot road (in 16 Smith Street has been swallowed up in Leopold Street. This story of Miser Smith is one of many. It has been told before but not so fully as here. Local gossip fixed the sum left by Smith at his death at £60,000. He was reputed to have justified the omission of any provision for his housekeeper from his will by the remark: "Why should I ? She has had an easy place, she has earned a good deal of money by sewing at nights, and I found her a candle." 17 Bow Street was never Pinfold Lane or Pinfold Street. It was made in connection with Glossop Road in 1821, through old tenements and cutting across a narrow "jennel" called Sands Paviours, which ran from Orchard Lane to Pinfold Lane between Smith Street and Blind lane (Holly Street) 15 being now) at the back of the Brown Cow. {18} This footpath led into the fields to go to Broom Hall and Broomhall Spring and Crookes Moor that way. No Carver Street, where Carver Street Chapel now Stands was fields. I have exercised with the Regiment of Loyal Independent Sheffield Volunteers under Colonel Athorpe, in which Regiment I served for 6 years, upon the same place where the Chapel now Stands, very often. {19} From this Chapel to Sheffield Moor was all Fields. Proceeding on Trippett Lane, this was a narrow Street, nearly same as now. Bailey Field (now Street) was not complete. This was the last street on the right hand. Going forward, on your left hand was, (and is yet) a narrow passage which used to lead from Trippett Lane into the Fields, and a foot path leading from here over the fields into Back Fields, From the bottom of this narrow passage was a lane leading into the fields out of Trippet Lane to go to Broomhall Spring. {20} Forward on, Trippett Lane was a very deep narrow lane and rose up to a high hill at Portobello. No Bailey Lane; from where Bailey Lane now is to Crookes Moor, was all Fields and Gardens. Where St. George's Church now stands was a particular high hill, it was Gardens and supposed to be the pleasantest Gardens about Sheffield. Turning down Broad Lane on your right hand was all Cornfields as far as Bailey Field; on your left hand was houses but unregular built. No Red Hill Street. Proceeding down Broad Lane at the bottom on the left hand is Garden Street, this was not a Street at that time but partly Gardens, no road through into Red hill.{21} 18 'The writer, after a divergence along Blind Lane to Balm Green, here returns to the junction of Pinfold Lane with Trippett Lane. The footpath he speaks of still exists and is known as West Bank Lane. It emerges in West Street opposite to Carver Street, and has (or had) a branch to Rockingham Street. 19 The Loyal Independent Volunteers were in being from 179~ to 1802. Carver Street Chapel was built in 1805. 20 'This description of the footpath is not clear. No doubt there were several up the slope of the hill, leading towards the lane which became Broomhall Street and, on the right, towards Convent Walk. Back Fields, or Back Lands, often written Black Lands, was the whole region extending north to south from West Street to Sheffield Moor, east to west from Coal Pit Lane to Broomhall Street and Fitzwilliam Street. Coal Pit Lane marks the division between the Townships of Sheffield and Ecclesall, and along the Back Lands Division Street was run, across it Carver Street, Rockingham Street and Eldon Street. The populace converted Back Lands Lane (Broomhall Street) into Black Lambs Lane. 21 Garden Street Chapel was built in 1780, and there were not A few residents in Garden Walk, as it was usually called, by 1787 - Although there was no street at Red Hill there was access over its Waste to the Brocco Going up Townhead Street this was once the principal head of the Town. The Town at one time ranged very little higher than this Street. It was a deal more hilly than at present and a considerable deal narrower. There was formerly some very good public wells in this Street. On the left is Rotten Row. I believe this Street retains more of its ancientness than any other Street in Sheffield. The water course still continues to run in the middle of the Street, as most streets did 50 years ago. This was once a very populace street leading to the Town Head Cross, etc., it is not a very popular street at this time. {22} At the top of Town Head Street stood the old Grammar School, the road in front of this School was raised so as to be even with the roof. A little below in the yard was the old Writing School, John Eadon, Master.{23} I learnt at this school under Mr. John Eadon. The Grammar School is now removed into Charlotte Street at the top of Broad Lane. The first public Brewery was first established at the top of Townhead Street, the proprietor was Mr [John Taylor 1756]. {24} Going along Campo Lane is Holy Croft, {25} there is very little alterations in this Street except at the bottom which used to be very narrow and a good Stone house built in this Street. This large house (it was all in one) was untenanted a many years when I was a boy because say'd report in those days it was haunted and no one durst live in it ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (22) The popular name for Rotten, or Ratten Row, indicated the sordid neglect befalling a thoroughfare whose proper designation was Radford Row, so called from Thomas Radford, Redford, Radforth or Redforth, the principal owner who lived and had his works hard by. He was Master Cutler in 1725, the year of the rebuilding of the Cutlers' Hall, when he made a curious claim for compensation for the loss of certain perquisites his predecessors had enjoyed. His house was in recent times a well-known fishing tackle shop at the bottom of Broad Lane End. Like Red Croft, in Trippett Lane, the houses of Radford Row made an island, their backs to Broad Lane End, and ran from the bottom of Townhead Street (which Gosling marks as Well Street) to Tenter Street. The Town Trustees tinkered at this squalid purlieu in 1831; later, as one of the most noisome haunts of iniquity in the town. it was wholly swept away and its site makes the eastern side of the space at the bottom of the new Hawley Street. (23) John Eadon was Master of the Free Writing School from 1760 to his death in 1810. For many years he was also writing master at the Grammar School. Mr. Woolhouse's caligraphy is one of many proofs that penmanship was not the neglected art it seems to be in the schools of to-day, but Mr. Eadon does not appear to have had a great success in teaching him grammar. Eadon's Arithmetical and Mathematical Repository survives as testimony to the author's skill in figures. Like many other schoolmasters of his period he did some land-surveying. Sims Croft, now abolished, was made through land on which the two schools had stood. (24) The statement that John Taylor established in 1756 the first public brewery in the town, where afterwards was The Warm Hearthstone, is manifestly culled from 7 he Sheffield Local Register. But there was an earlier one in Scargill Croft, for in the Leeds Mercury for May 17th, 174g, Thomas Elliott vaunted the products of the "Sheffield Brew-house" there situate. (25) Sheffield could never make up its mind whether to call this Holy Croft, or Hawley Croft which is not, perhaps, surprising, since the earlier generations of the Holy wrote themselves Awley and Hawley. The old house referred to is apparently one described in Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century, p. 176, as bearing the date 1721, though there was another in the same street dated 1729. The former is believed to have been the residence of John Smith, Master Cutler in 1722. After that it became the Ball Inn, kept by Jonathan Beardshaw, following whom was Thomas, or as he was usually called, Squire, Bright. As he was one of the twelve persons designated in the directory of 1787 as "Gentleman," it is possible that he was a descendant of one of the Bright families of Whirlow, etc., although here he was a rate-collector. The initials on the 172g house were those of Jonathan Moor, Master Cutler in 1723. 17 (what a dark age). Proceeding on Campo Lane there is a few old houses pulled down and new ones built, but it is yet a very narrow Street. There is a remnant of a part of an ancient wall still standing on your right hand. I have no doubt but ere long this street will be made considerable wider to the top of Paradise Square. This square in my Parent's time was a Cornfield called Hicks Stile field. My mother has seen Corn grow in this Square. I will relate one circumstances to show what the 17 Century was. My GrandFather as I have said in the former part of this work, lived at Green Lane and kept a public house. He likewise carried on the Trade of Pocket Knives. One of his men was lame and compell 'd to have Crutches to assist him to travel for a number of Years. His residence was in Gregory Row. My mother has mentioned his name often. This person was out late one evening and had to come on Campo Lane, he saw (or fancied he saw) the Bargast (as it has been frequent]y called) Coming towards him on Campo Lane.{26} At that time the Paradise Square was a field and a Stile at the top to go over. When he first saw this goblin he thought within himself " If I can but get over this stile into the field I can go down the hill merrily. " Gregory Row was a very narrow Row or Street at the bottom of Paradise Square. This was a very high hill at that time. The bottom of the present Street has been raised 3 or 4 feet in my time. He managed over this Stile, but the fiend gained ground of him. Faster he went and faster it followed, he ran with his Crutches till his fears came thicker and faster, and this demon still getting nearer, when, being about the middle of this field (the Square) seeing this goblin close at his heels, he there dropt his Crutches and away went he without them, and never stopt or look'd behind him until he got home (he lived in Gregory Row, a very narrow thoroughfare out of West Bar Green and came out at the bottom of Silver Street at the back of the now Sign of the Little Tankard). The wife had the door made, but him being in such a fright had not patience to wait until she opened the door but burst it open. He told the wife what was at the door, but she was the worse frightened at him coming without his Crutches than at the Bargast. However they were a little reconciled and went to bed. He could not rest from fright etc., got up at daylight the next morning to go in quest of his Crutches; he found them in exactly the same place where he dropt them. He went to his work the next morning and his Shopmen was nearly as frightened to see him come trotting to the shop without his crutches as he was when he saw the Bargast. However he was so overjoyed that he gave his Shopmen a treat of some ale, and they spent the day Cheerfully; and he for his own part never used Crutches again while he lived, and he lived a many years after this. So much for this Bargast. 26 Hunter (Glossary) says the Barghasts were peculiar to towns or places of public concourse, not to the country, the features by which they were distinguished being long teeth and saucer eyes. This is borne out by the examples of the use of the word in the English Dialect Dictionary. It quotes Grose's remark that the Barghast was a ghost "commonly appearing near gates and stiles"; and a Cumberland definition, "a boggle that haunts burial places" both of which characteristics are appropriate to the story above. This Street, Campo Lane, is supposed to take its name from a camp being there in the time of the Romans. At the end of this Street once stood the old Boys' Charity School, an Ancient looking building. The back yard went into York Street.{27} This street (York Street) is much as when I first knew it. At the end of Campo Lane on your left is Figtree Lane, a very ancient Street; also New Street, this was a very narrow, hilly Street and a public well at the bottom. It is supposed that the Vicarage was once in Figtree Lane; the dwelling is now a Currier's Shop. {28} The narrow passage from the end of Campo Lane into New Street (called Figtree Lane) all around here was orchards only a little before my time. Where Queen Street Chapel is built was figtree Orchard or Wade's Orchard. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 The "Ancient-looking" Boys Charity School was erected 1710, with its front to the Hartshead. When rebuilt in 1825, East Parade had been made, and thereafter the School looked to the west instead of the north. 28 The delusion, shared by many, that the Vicarage was once in Figtree Lane, is a misunderstanding of the fact that here were the houses of two of the Assistant Ministers, bequeathed by Robert Rollinson. The Vicarage was always where Messrs. Eadon's Auction Mart stands, at the corner of St. James Street and St. James Row. For an account of the Currier s Shop of Joseph Smith, and his sons, afterwards librarians at the Mechanics' Library, see Reminiscences of Old Sheffield, p. 23. "The shop was a stone building, apparently two centuries old, with small leaded window panes. " As Mr. Woolhouse says nothing of the large figtree or figtrees, which once grew here, and gave the street its name, I suppose they had vanished when he wrote. FROM SNIG HILL. TO THE LADIES BRIDGE. There appears nothing new in Hollis Street only when the river rose to an uncommon height. Mr. Jonan. Green who is still alive has told me that he has seen the water from the Millsands rise as high as the Steps leading into the Sign of the Three Travellers, at the top of the Street.{29} Bridge Street used to be called Under water on account of it being so low as it was under the level of the river. Then they ascended into by 3 steps from the Isle. To go over the Ladies Bridge you had to ascend a flight of Steps, and Wagons carts etc used to go through the river {30}. (29) By Hollis Street is meant the street in front of Hollis's Hospital. That institution was removed to Whirlow in 1903, just two hundred years after its foundation. I put in this note to prevent confusion with Hollis Croft, which was made on land called "Brocho Hill" purchased by Thomas Hollis in 1727, and vested by him in the Trustees of the Hospital. The Three Travellers, a noted carrier's inn, stood in the now open space at the bottom of Snig Hill (30) We may safely reject this statement of a carriage bridge being obstructed by a flight of steps. Sheffield gossip had probably, in the course of passing down from generation to generation, confused the talk of the elders about steps having once led from the lower level of "T'Under Watter" up to the Dam Gate End of the bridge, and taken it to mean steps on the bridge itself. The House (now next to Mr. Rawson's Brewery gate is now a Cooper's Shop) had 4 or 5 Steps to go into the House, the Chamber of which is now the Cooper's Shop. The Water Lane was a very hilly street leading into Millsands. Very few houses in Millsands. The Town Mill for grinding the Town's Corn, as was the ancient custom, was here. I judge the same Mill occupied by Mr. Vickers, as he has upon his Cart Tickets "Town Mill. " There was formerly from the top of Millsands Stones set up in the river for people to pass over to Bridge Houses. My father has seen them and gone over them.{31} 31 See Note 42. 32 The above passage needs some elucidation to make it intelligible to the modern reader, especially now that the fussy meddlesomeness of our municipal ~vise- FROM THE CHURCH (THE PARISH CHURCH) TO THE LADIES BRIDGE. The High Street I have mentioned, when you arrive at Change Alley no alteration here only old houses (new fronted). Passing these on the right hand was [on the top] some low old houses which they pulled down to make the new Market. There was no Market Street. A little below the (now) Market Street was a low public house Sign of the Star, where Mr. Roger a publican now dwells, a very noted public house, (one Mr. Littlewood kept it; he is now living). Where the Commercial Inn now stands was a Hair dresser's-Shop and house, one of the first in the Town, as it was a very good and genteel trade at that time. This hair dresser the Landlord wanted from off the Premises, to pull them down to make the Commercial Inn, so they unroofed the house before they could compell the tenant (the Hair dresser) to leave. This house fronted Jehu Lane as well as down the Bull Stake Here, of course, Mr. Woolhouse is speaking of what he had heard, not what he had seen. I also venture to question the statement that there was once a ford here. acres has flouted immemorial usage by merging what was the Fruit Market in High Street. If, in the year 1784, you had stood near the bottom of Pudding Lane (King Street) with your back to the Bull Stake (Old Haymarket), and had looked southwards, you would have seen on your left, on the line of the properties on the lower side of Fitzalan Square, the narrow Jehu Lane, leading to Baker's Hill; at its western corner the barber's shop of Peter Jeeves or Jervis. To its right, other tenements and then, projecting somewhat, the house spoken of above as, later, the Star Inn. Beside and behind this were the Slaughter-houses, and facing it, an open space used as a Swine Market. Before 1797, Swine Market and Slaughter-houses had both been removed, the New Markets supplanting the former and Market Street being run through the site of the latter. And in a few more years, the order was (left to right) Jehu Lane, the Commercial Inn, Theaker's Coffee-house, the Star Inn, Market Street. Jehu Lane was always a very narrow, dirty street. The reason as I have read of the name of Jehu being given to this lane was when Mary Queen of Scots (who was a prisoner nearly 16 years at the Castle and Manor House in the Park under the guardianship of the Earl of Shrewsbury) was going from the Castle to the Manor House through this lane was then the road. The Coachman in driving thro' this lane used to make use of this expression to his horses "Jehu," which from that circumstance derived the name of Jehu Lane, and continues so to be called to this Day.{33} 33 This wild guess as to the origin of the name, Jehu Lane, and its wide acceptance, does more credit to the imagination and credulity of Sheffield than to its erudition. It is enough to say that the obvious way from the Castle to the Manor was down Dixon Lane and over Sheaf Bridge. To thread the narrow Jehu Lane and crooked Shude Hill was a roundabout way of seeking unnecessary trouble. From here going down Bull Stake on the right hand was all very low ancient houses with most of them courts before them and steps to descend from the Street into them, as far as Dixon Lane. Lower down stood the Castle Laiths. These they pull'd down to build the Tontine Inn. I can only just remember these.{34} (34) As the Tontine was opened in 1785, we get here a guide to the limit of Mr. Woolhouse's personal reminiscences and thus distinguish them from hearsay. Where the Town Hall stands was some old Houses, built with no regularity, from this corner to the corner of Castle Green. Castle Street was called True Love Gutter, but from what I can't tell.{35} 35 Truelove's Gutter took its name from a resident family named Truelove. Down Wain gate was a very hilly Street and a many old houses irregularly built, no Killing Shambles, we cross over the Bridge into the Wicker. There was very few houses on the left hand side from the Bridge to Bridgehouses; on the right hand was all Gardens. The houses on the right hand going down the Wicker was in no form; an old house or two stood in the middle of the now Turnpike road, the Sign of the Cock, which was a calling-house for all the Grimesthorpe people. It was then a very narrow road to Handly Hill. Handley Hill was a deal higher than now .{36} 36 By Handley Hill, Spital Hill is meant. The house of the Handley family, Hall Carr, was near where the Victoria Corn Mills now stand in Carlisle Street. The Turnpike road went under this hill and came with a bow to the Sign of the 12 o'Clock. The road came in just at this side of the 12 o'Clock. The present Turnpike road was all Gardens and the foot road was close by the houses, on the right hand going on this road was called the Pickle. {37} the Turnpike road from top of Handley Hill to Grimesthorpe was a very narrow deep lane and the foot road was along the fields on the right hand side until you came to the narrow lane going down to Hall Car Wood, then you cross'd the turnpike and the road went along the fields on that side and thro' that little wood nearly at Grimesthorpe. The Lane was so deep that I have seen a Cart laden with hay in the turnpike and I could have strode on the top of it from the field. {38} (37) The Twelve o'clock Public House and tollgate stood where Savile Street and the Attercliffe Road diverge. The Pickle was on the right hand side of the latter. (38) What used to be known as Occupation Road is meant. As that name implies, it was not a turnpike road, hut a semi-private country lane for the accommodation of the farms to which it led. It is now one long monotonous town street, and it goes by the name of Grimesthorpe Road. We will now return to the Bottom of Snig Hill to go to Bridge Houses. The Street called Goulston Street going past the sign of the Punch Bowl, leaving Spring Croft on your left. Spring Croft from here was partly field on the right hand side and when you was going along this Street, on your right you could see across the fields into the Bridgehouses. At the far end of this .street turning up Bower Spring was a large Garden belonging to the Workhouse. At the bottom, on your right hand Corner going up, a little above, is yet Bower Spring, a running water which has supplied this end of the Town with good water before I was born. I have fetch'd many a hundred Gallons from it myself, to the top of Lambert Street. It was dry in the year 18‹, but Mr. Benj, Beet, a particular friend of mine, lived at Sign of the Shakespear and many of the water troughs is in his backyard under ground. He applied to the Town Trustees concerning this and they order'd him to make such search for this water as in his Judgment was best. After much labour and expense they found it again to the joy of the whole neighbourhood. It was above 3 months quite dry (this he told me himself) and it now runs as plentiful as ever. It was never known to fail before that time. {39} Now return to the Sign of the Punch Bowl Corner of Spring Street for the Bridgehouses. (39) The reference here to Bower Spring throws light on certain minutes in Records of the Burgesses. The first (p. 440), 6th Oct. 1824, directs the Clerk "to enquire into the title of the Town Trustees to sower Spring and the ground immediately around it; and to ascertain by what authority the same has been lately obstructed and encroached upon; and to take such measure for the removal of the present obstructions and encroachments, and for returning the premises to their former state, as may be found advisable.~ Then five years later, 11th November, 1829 (p. 452), " Mr. Ellison undertook that the premises at sower Spring, held of the Duke of Norfolk by one Beet a publican, shall be restored to their former state, and thrown open to the public as heretofore. " Next, 7th Sept. 1835, inquiry is again to be made into the right of the Trustees to Bower Spring, and how far they can comply with Messrs. Warburton & Co.'s (brewers) application lo take in and enclose the same. Proceeding down this narrow Street towards the Bridge Houses there was no street on your right hand leading to Ladies Bridge.{40} 40 There was a thoroughfare for foot passengers long before, known as "Under the Water,~ and it had been made available for vehicles under the name of Bridge Street, earlier than 1808. But in this, and what follows, the writer is speaking of the state of things in his early life, or even before his own recollections. Compare my account of Coulson Crofts in the H.A.S. Trans- actions, i. pp. 365~. There is now a Malt Kiln at the bottom of this Street on your left hand. From here to the Bridgehouses was all fields and a very large Orchard. [on] The Orchard and fields from here to Bower Spring nothing was built. The road from this Malt Kiln I have before described was very narrow and the fields on your left hand was called Norris Fields, belonging to Mr. Norris in West Barr, a very opulent Razor Manufacturer, who lived in West Barr (once Master Cutler), but the French War so reduced his circumstances that he was an inmate at the Duke of Norfolk's Hospital and Died there. Proceeding past these fields was a large Orchard belonging to Mr. Burgin, Gardener, West Barr Green. This road continued till you came to a Small wooden bridge [over the goyt]. On the right side of this lane, for Street it was not then, lived one William Potts, [who; kept a public house (now Mr. Smith's). {41} 41 William Potts is described in the 1787 Directory as Victualler, Colston Croft, and in 1797, as of 20 Bridge Street. Under James Smith the house was known as The Punch Bowl‹as it still is. It is close to the narrow walk leading to the Town Mill and must not be confused with the more notorious Punch Bowl near by at the corner of Spring Street and Coulston Street once kept by Alfred (better known as Spotty) Milner. He was Drum Major in the Loyal Independent Sheffield Volunteers, this was a low old house. When the river Dunn used to swell I have seen it rise 3 Feet high in this house, there was a small Garden before the house. Proceeding forwards was a high wall. To the far end of the lane (now Street) only a few Garden Houses and 2 or 3 small Baths was built and young men and young women used to frequent them very much in Summer time to bathe. When you got to this Small bridge you continued on your left hand, same as now, only where the houses now is was a Orchard which you went round. The Kelham Wheel, on your right hand same as now to Bower Spring it was a small wheel at that time and called Kelham Wheel. This small bridge at the end of Bridge Street is now made of bricks and one arch leading to the Bridge Houses. There was 2 large fields between this small river and the River Dunn, but nothing built upon them (the cast metal bridge not built). Before this cast metal bridge was a wooden one over the same place and before this wooden one was Stones set up about 21 a yard higher than the water for people to pass over. My Father has passed over these stones many a time in coming that way from Grimesthorpe and he lived there with his Parents until he was at age. Then he came and resided in Sheffield. {42} 42 As the wooden bridge was erected about 1726, it is evident from this that the stepping stones remained and were even used, at least by boys, after the bridge was built The iron bridge replaced wood in 1795. It is interesting to note that the writer's father, h1 coming from Grimesthorpe to Sheffield, chose the way of Tom Cross Lane and Bridgehouses, thus unconsciously adhering to ancient tradition by taking what, in a recent lecture, I maintained to be the line by which the Romans reached Sheffield. 23 One of these Baths I have been speaking of was kept by a person of the name of Brocksop. He was a tall man and he and Mr. John Crome, printer, was the only 2 persons in Sheffield who wore Cock'd Hats as these hats was going out of Fashion when I was a boy. These 2 persons wore them some years after I was a man, say till I was upwards of Forty. FROM THE CHURCH TO BOTTOM OF SHEFFIELD MOOR OR (NOW) SOUTH STREET In going up Fargate there was houses built on both sides. The Lords House stood a little on the North side of the present Norfolk Row. A very elegant old House, it was inclosed by a Wall in a half Circle and Palisaded. The present Duke of Norfolk was born in this house. This I expect is the reason why it was called the Lord's house, he being Lord of the Manor. Where Norfolk Row is was a narrow foot passage into Norfolk St. From the Lord's house backwards was a large yard from the house to Norfolk Street called Stewards Croft where the Regiment of Loyal Independent Sheffield Volunteers used to parade. I belonged to this Regiment myself and has paraded in this Croft for a number of years. Above the present Norfolk Row on your left is Peper Alley leading to the Unitarian Chapel. This Chapel I believe to be the oldest Chapel in the Town built in the year 1700. The first brick house built in Sheffield was built in Pepper Alley and pulled down in 1837. Some thousands of persons went to view it. It was supposed to be built of such perishable material that it would soon yield to destruction, but it is yet standing and is likely to continue so to do. On your left is Pinstone Lane. No alteration much in this Street. The former name was Pinching Croft from, it is believed, this reason. In former times it was the sport of Shrove Tuesday to throw at Cocks in this Croft in this manner. A person, a man, would introduce a Cock alive and any person who would pay a Penny or twopence for each throw with a Stick at Certain paces from the Cock, if he knoct the Cock down with the Stick, the Cock was his. Persons who had Cocks used to get a good deal of money out of apprentice boys etc. every Shrove Tuesday in this manner.{43} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 43 A nobody of light is thrown on this strained derivation by Hunter's Glossary, where we read "Pinch"; a game which consists in pitching half-pence at a mark. " A form more usual than Pinching Croft, was Pincher Croft, and sometimes Pinson, but these, as well as Piston (like The Pickle, the Wicker, Campo Lane, Jehu Lane and others), have never been satisfactorily elucidated. The most reasonable suggestion, though mere conjecture, is that as, dialectally, to pinch is to be niggardly, or to stint, the Croft was mean in size and contracted in shape as if nipped by pinchers‹as pincers are usually called (Mr. Addy says pinsors). On your right hand is Brinesworth's Orchards (now Orchard Street~ These before my time was Orchards belonging to a person of the name of John Brinsworth. This street was only partly built in my time. At that end next Far Gate used to be a large sewer discharging itself just at the end of this Orchard Street. It was then called Sow Mouth. Proceeding forward was a many very low old houses on both sides the street. At nearly the top on the right hand stood Barker Pool a large square of water enclosed by a stone wall. I have seen it full of water many a time. It was built in the year l~ and destroyed in the year 17‹{44}. This Pool was made by one Mr. Barker living at Balm House, a large Farm house supposed to be situated in Coal Pitt Lane, as there was Orchards etc. where now Back Fields is, and went in a range to Balm Green. This Pool continued until it became a public nuisance as Dogs, Cats etc. used to be drowned in it. This Pool was first made to be used in Case of Fire in the Town. The Town at that time was so small that when they discharged this water out from this Pool, it run down every street in the Town. From this Pool to the top of Coal Pitt Lane was very narrow. Two carts was scarcely able to pass in this Street. The water road (or sink) used to run down the middle of nearly every Street in the Town. I think the only one is Ratten Row at present which runs in this way. When they pulled the old houses down from this Pool to the top of Coal Pitt Lane they found an excellent well in one of the Kitchens belonging to these old houses and has now erected a very elegant Town Pump upon the same place. The Houses where the Well Run Dimple Public House now stands is upon the exact piece of ground where Barker Pool formerly stood. 44 Mr. Woolhouse was judicious in leaving the date of the building of Barker Pool blank. For it is unknown. l once wrote: "The tradition is that one Barker of Balm Green took steps to make some sort of reservoir.... and it puts the date as 1434. All we know certainly is that in the year named there was a 'Barker of Balm' and that there had been a William Barker in 1379." The earliest definite mention of the Pool is in 1567. A plan of it, and its surroundings in 1793, the date of its abolition, will be found in Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century, p. 153. "Well Run Dimple" was the sign of a public house on, or about, the site of Mr. Cadman's book shop. Going down Coal Pitt Lane, this street used to be a very narrow low lane. There has been buried many a Hundred good Self-Tip handles and good bone nogs in this Street. I lived in this Street 26 years and it has been twice dug up and set again while I lived in it. At each of these times I have seen the men dig up barrows full of good Self Tip handles, when they was thrown away they no doubt did not know the way to straighten them as they appear'd all to be Crook'd, and I have seen the men dig up many a wheelbarrow full of bone nogs, but not fit for use, but they have sold them to Mr. Saml. Pass who lived opposite the Well Yard and used to buy bone dust. He told me himself that: he has paid the men 2 Pounds in one week for these nogs as bone dust. The men had this for their allowance for Drink. Nearly at the top of the street is a large dwelling (now turned into two) house which has a Court before it. Mr. Linley, Shear Smith, lives in part of it now. This is said was once the old Cutlers' Hall. {45} A little below on the right hand upon the hill is a range of houses above the Chapel. These was once all in one and is supposed was Balm House, as there used to be a large open yard and a deal of Stabling in my time, and behind this house was Orchards, gardens, etc. up to Balm Green. This Balm Green was the green belonging to this Balm Hall. Next to these houses is a Chapel built in the year [1774]. It has belonged to a many different Sects to my remembrance. {46} They are at present Methodists. A little below this used to be a Green and a number of good wells and troughs for water. There was one good well in my time as I lived upon the Well Yard; I have seen and got water from it hundreds of times. I saw this well made up as it had become a public nuisance for they used to drown dogs etc. in it. I remember a Certain time when a person who lived a little above this well at the house where the Pallisades is and a drain came from out of his Celler into this well. The person had a Rum Cask burst in his Cellar and the Contents drained into this well. The first person who came to the well for water in the morning was very much surprised at the singular taste and Colour of the water. The news soon spread in the street and a merry Jovial day it was to many, for it was many a time emptied of its Contents that Day. This Street has been considerably raised at the bottom and settled at the top end. The last time it was repaired they took some (I believe many hundreds) loads of earth etc from this street, and raised Sheffield Moor (now South Street). I have no doubt but Sheffield Moor was raised 4 feet in the middle from rubbish from Coal Pitt Lane. At the bottom of this street stood a sugar manufactory pulled down in 1834 or 5. My wife's Father (Abraham Moore) went to London for the model and he built it. It is now in a very ruined state (as the proprietors has built another near the Wicker) and is expected to be soon pulled down. 45 It was an old popular delusion that this, and other houses on which some Master Cutler, in his pride of office, displayed the Cutlers' Arms, had been the Cutlers' Hall. It is hardly necessary to say that all the Cutlers' Halls, in succession, have been on the present site. 46 The first Chapel in Coal Pit Lane was built by Edward Bennet, an Independent, who himself discharged the functions of Minister. In 1790 Howard Street Chapel was founded, largely through a bequest he left for the purpose. It was his father who, earlier, had been mainly instrumental in providing the early Methodists with their first two Meeting houses. The Coal Pit Lane Chapel gave place in 1835 to one erected for the Primitive Methodists. {47} What is now South Street was then Sheffield Moor. There was only a few straggling houses from the Sign of the Parrot, bottom of Coal Pitt Lane to the bridge at the bottom of the Moor. I have called this a bridge, but it does not deserve that name, as it was only a single plank or two laid to cross the river. ~arts etc. used to go through the river. From the bottom of Coal Pitt Lane to the bottom of the Moor, Cows, Horses, Asses, etc. used to be grazing all the day through. I have seen numbers of them in the daytime. 47 The sugar refinery was established by the above Edward Bennet who, in London had picked up a wife and some knowledge of "sugar baking." The Abraham Moore referred to is described in the 1797 Directory as a bricklayer, in Carver Street. At the time when Mr. Woolhouse wrote, the sugar refinery was in the hands of Samuel Revell, who, in 1836, pulled it down and removed to Nursery Street. Mr. Holy’s house and the Workshops (then a Button Manufactory) now Mr. Abraham's School. I his house etc. stood by itself, and the footroad used to go close by it. Mr. Kirkby's house a little above this last-mentioned place was then a pleasant Country house. It is yet standing.{48} I here was a few other odd houses here and there. 48 Mr. Holy's House, afterwards J. H. Abraham's (or rather, Miss Abraham's, for he taught chiefly in Milk Street) School, faced South Street at the southern corner of Eldon Street. I think it is now occupied by a club, and stands behind a line of shops. Kirkby's house was in Button Lane, where Eldon Street crosses it. The Ladies' Walk was where now Porter Street is. I his was a most pleasant rural walk from the top to the bottom of the Moor to the bridge. l his bridge was rather better than the last I have described, but this was made of wood flat and only one person at a time could pass over. I have waited many a time for my turn to go over. The Carts and Horses etc used to go through the river. This walk was shaded from top to bottom with elegant trees and ma(le entire by wooden railing. This used to be a particular walk for the Females on a summer's evening. From the Top of the Moor (now Porter Street), coming down Norfolk Street there was no house on your right hand until you came to the Assemby Room, all was fields down to Pond Lane, called Alsop Fields. There was a narrow walk from (now about Surrey Street) used to go direct into Pond Lane.
  12. In the post war, pre 1962 gale prefabs on the Arbourthorne each prefab had one of these huts outside in the back garden, totally above ground level like the one vox's granddad had. the sheds were secure lockable but had no windows or lighting so were dark when the door was closed. The purpose of them for the prefabs was as both a garden shed and a coal bunker, - the bottom half furthest from the door being fenced off internally for the storage of coal, delivered weekly by a local coal merchant. Being made of 2 thin asbestos sheets packed with wood shaving between for insulation the prefabs were notoriously cold in winter and only had a small coal fire in the living room. Having a flat roof and only being about 8 or 9 feet tall, most of the heat went straight up the chimney. There was a ducted central heating system from the fire to warm the 2 bedrooms, but this was ineffective and frequently delivered more soot than heat into the rooms. We frequently used electrical heaters or paraffin heaters, common at the time, for winter heating in other rooms. We also used a lot of coal in cold weather hence the need for such a large coal shed. As the prefabs were built during and immediately after the war the use of Anderson shelters in this was a very clever use of surplus wartime resources An Anderson coal shed can be seen outside this prefab Also 2 of them can be made out in the back gardens of the 2 prefabs, behind and to the left of the dog
  13. Have no recollection of Fess Parker visiting the Abbeydale , Dave. We were regular patrons but for some reason I remember seeing the Alamo at Woodseats Palace resplendent in my mums homemade Davy Crockett hat. This resembled a sheepskin tea cosy with a tail. Incidentally, I remember vividly, collecting labels from Armor Star tinned products such as corned beef and peaches , sending them off and getting Davy Crockett memorabilia ,which in our case amounted to a few badges and balloons. i think if you ate the equivalent of a cow in tinned corned beef you got a free hat. A further recollection of that period is of my next door neighbour turning up with a Davy Crockett pistol which was like a flintlock replica. Totally uselss in army games or cowboy games where silver six shooters or black Lugers were the essential authentic kit. The only time he used it again was when he was sat on top of our coal house playing Capt Dan Tempest from the Buccaneers.
  14. rover1949

    Mystery Tar Works

    I was idly looking at the side by side maps of the this area just to see how the coal industry changed the landscape, - in 1890 it was all farming. I noticed a little place called California, the name exists today just as a road name. Which came first, the US State or the Yorkshire hamlet?
  15. neddy

    Parkwood Road Railway Bridge

    There were three railway bridges on Parkwood Road, one a footbridge still there and leading to a footpath, one taken down in the 50's leading to the coal drops, and one still there on Parkwood Road leading towards the refuse tips.
  16. Roger Arevalo

    Mystery Tar Works

    I think whatever it was there was probably some kind of gas handling there. Just because so much to do with coal involves gas - whether syngas from pyrolysis and distillation, or methane from mine workings. Now that I think of it, does mine water have gas dissolved in it that coud be separated and used? Not saying that's what it was but it'd be an interesting idea if a facility brought up both mine gas and water and used them to process each other. Also you could have just replied at the bottom of the thread - you don't need to quote the entire original post. 🙂
  17. rover1949

    Mystery Tar Works

    It looks like a temporary water treatment plant on the edge of a larger construction site. Dirty water goes in at the left, through filter presses and comes out clean on the right. Gas goes up the chimney. Two possible applications; (1) before developing a large coal field several test bores were drilled to establish what lay beneath or (2) landfill sites have vents installed to release leachate (dirty water) and gasses as the ground settles. Either case would need some treatment plant to dispose of the ground water.
  18. Roger Arevalo

    Mystery Tar Works

    That's fascinating and puts a new spin on it. This is from the analysis from Allen Hatheway and offers some explanations: View the image from its upper right, along a line of visual progression, toward the lower left corner. 1) This is very-much a “typical” single coal-tar still. 2) There are two men standing (for image-scale). Both men would be assigned to the individual pot still shown in the view. 3) The still feeds directly into the UK-pattern RR tar tank waggon 4) I judge the image to date from post-WW-I 5) All tar stills were dangerous from fires and explosions and o Were not enclosed within built-walls o Were separated from each other (if more than one) 6) This is a ‘batch’ still (probably 2000 Imp. gal); not a ‘continuous’ still. 7) At the upper end of the view is a non-involved steam-driven ‘donkey-engine-powered’ crane riding on perpendicular rails; such as can be brought around to move incoming rail tank waggons, such as the lower-left man stands upon. 😎 The upper-right dark-tone (”ge” overprint) is the brick-and-steel batch still. 9) Cooling-Water tank (man standing on top) to supply the tripple- compartment still-vapor condensor, into the selected sp. gravity-grade of tar “oil” being produced in the particular “batch.) 10) Rectilinear, three-compartment “condensor.” 11) Unidentified vertical cylinder, possibly a separate vacuum pump off-line from the gravity-feed line to the large distilled-product-’ stained, open-topped tar-product storage tank, This whole still may have a duplicate tar still located off-view, to the right. The Yorkshire Tar Distillers had multiple tar distilleries, at presently unknown locations. The company apparently was in business as recently as 1989. Particularly significant is the horizontal tanks aren't a permenant part of the plant but dismountable tanks carried by rail cars or lorries. They were just left on site until they were full. It's disorientating because modern tyre and plastic pyrolysis plants look nearly identical, but built the other way around. Their horizontal cylinders are the ovens the raw material is cooked in, not tanks where the end product is collected. Just noticed the 8 and closed bracket has been converted automatically into a smiling face with sunglasses. Think I'll leave it that way. 😄
  19. History dude

    Can you cross these bridges?

    The more recent image reminds of the song with the lyrics "They pave paradise, put up a parking lot". Yes I did myself have a wonder around Google aerial views. And looked around in disgust as the city centre has turned into a place to park cars. Despite the coming of Supertram. The older bridge is the one that fed the Soap House Depot. It linked via a line to Woodburn Road, entering the main lines at the back of the Signal Box. There would have been another bridge over the Nunnery lines in a dead straight alignment of the older bridge and would have cut through the pipe bridge, which was of course put in later. This took the line to the Woodburn Road box. As Soap House was a coal and coke depot, then linking it to that point would take it to the Nunnery Colliery, just past Woodburn box. By the way the railway company who named the single box, left out the letter "O" of Woodbourn Road, by mistake.
  20. Roger Arevalo

    Mystery Tar Works

    The plot thickens. I've just discovered something called a bituminous suction gas plant. It's the only other thing I've seen that looks like what I saw in both scale and appearance. Gas suction plants were made by several companies including Campbell Gas Engine Company in Halifax. I'd discounted significant gas production because the site didn't have a gasometer (or if it did it was a really small one). But the brochures say one of the selling points of suction gas is not needing a gasometer. They're power sources for other industries so if there was one there it would have to be connected to some other part of coal byproducts processing. There'd be no reason for one to be sat on its own surrounded by fields. Maybe ammonia and benzole recovery as well as tar.
  21. Keith_exS10

    The Bennett College

    9ķ . I see there have been several threads here and on the Sheffield Forum re the Bennett College, a subject I know a little about. Referring back, RichardB's post in 2009 taken from a GLIAS post of some ten years earlier is a reasonably fair overall historical summary but with which I have two slight minor problems. The first aim was to show a student had reached a certain standard. I am not aware that the College ever suggested the use of letters after the name as a result of receiving a diploma. The second aim was always to prepare students to take exams set by professional bodies who are exacting in their standards. A hard way either way just to get a few letters. The squadron leader's comments are odd considering the armed services have been encouraging the gaining of qualifications at all levels for years before that. Mr. J.H. Bennett (properly "The Govenor" but always known to the staff as "The Old Man") was originally a book salesman who realised there was a need and a market for education resulting in him originally setting up business in Regent Street. Both my father and his younger brother went to work at the College when they left the old Central Secondary School in the 1920s . In fact their education wasn't over as they were both required to get professional qualifications in their own time to act as tutors. (Chartered Institute of Secretaries and a degree in Electrical Engineering respectively ). Certainly by 1930 the College had moved to Melbourne Avenue into what was always supposed to have been the vicarage of the local church, which I have always had doubts about, purely based on the enormous room sizes and that internally it didn't look domestic. Heating was by hot water radiators only , from a coal boiler in the cellar, no fires or chimneys about the place rather suggests office use. No doubt someone will know. The site www.gracesguide .co. uk/bennett college has adverts from 1916 to 1960. In particular the 1935 version is worth study as a concise account of the philosophy, a fair selection of courses and the method of working of the business. This site also shows that both the photos of J.H.B. and the front of the building and the slogan " Let me be your father" were only used rather irregularly pre WW2 and not for very long. The slogan however was discontinued post WW2 but took a long time dying so the ad men got it right. . The delightfully described "overbearing and pontifical old man" by RichardB must have been an early example as it does not appear. from 1916 on. The later head and shoulders photo was Mr. J.H. Bennett himself. Originally very Edwardian, in 1933 it became a more modern one . By WW2 the adverts were slimmed down to more a less a catalogue of courses and the prewar florid prose and his photo diappeared permanently, except for one revival marking 50 years in 1950. The 1936 advert is interesting in that for the first time the picture of his son N.C.J.Bennett also appears, with the slogan changed to "big brother," supposedly the inspiration for George Orwell. I personally don't remember that slogan being used again by the College although RichardB insists it was, right to the end. I would be delighted to find any examples of the " be your big brother" ad. with Norman Bennets photo which have so far eluded me. I have wondered if this impression of building size in the prewar advert was the cause of a recurring problem.. Several times a year a student, often from Africa, would arrive with his case under the belief that it was a residential college with teaching facilities. Father always said he felt sorry for them, having saved the fare, made the journey and then been disappointed. I asked how he dealt with it, the answer being the same as now; point them in the direction of what passed for social services in those days for the state to deal with. I suspect it was the result of not fully reading reading the adverts which are fairly clear in this respect. I see there is still a recent reference to "grandfather attending" BOX's 2009 aerial view post is correct. Looking closely at it, the drive up the side can be seen as can a narrow covered path continuing in a straight line up the grounds of the neighbouring house. The College bought this property on Westbourne Road after WW2 and the path up to it was.added. It was used mostly for paper storage, a staff room for use at lunch time and any other odd purpose. One of its main attractions was an enormous very old mulberry tree on the lower lawn. Berries as big as your thumb, heavy crop and perfect with a drop of cream. Never had any as good since. It had another unsuspected feature which the College would not capitalise on. To the left on the aerial view is what would now be a garage but was and maybe still is is a proper Edwardian "Motor House" as prescribed in period journals as being necessary to protect the owners new car. A set of tall doors into a white tiled building with a pit in the centre. This had a set of stairs down and was also tiled. There was a large stone slab bench against the house wall. There was a full glass roof which fortunately had survived the blitz and gave maximum light. Exactly as the book said. Peel Street garage knew of its existence and for many months pestered the College to rent it to them as extra work space. The answer was always a firm refusal. It was very useful though. The family car spent enough time over the pit. There was one problem however. The drive sloped down from Westbourne Road and there was no drain in the pit. After a sharp shower wading about in several inches of water and working overhead lost it's appeal. The main College building had three floors and three areas.; the tutors were on the front halves of the two floors, the female clerical staff at the back away from the windows and the typing school up in the attic. This fascinated me. I learned my typing on the grandmother of all machines. Most of the College work was copy typed with some dictation and typists were not to be had, hence their own school in the roof.. Something like twelve or fifteen desks and typewriters with blank keys. Instead, hanging down from the roof in front was a cloth keyboard diagram about eight feet by six in old money 0 so the girls had to look up to it. It was there for the first week, and was then rolled up for the second final week. I said I thought that was a bit much. Father's response was that they soon learned. The other thing which struck you was that everywhere you looked there were filing cabinets. There was a formal front entrance, strictly limited to Himself. Everyone else used the side door up the drive. There was a carpeted staircase behind the right hand office, also strictly limited to Himself for going to and from his carpeted office on the first floor front. Everyone else used the uncarpeted wooden floors and central staircase at the side of which was a hand operated lift, goods only. Fraternising was discouraged. I have thought how to describe the regime. Now long gone, I think Dickensian is appropriate. Timekeeping was strictly enforced, 9 hour day, five and a half day week, 8 a.m to midday Saturday. Father with some twenty years service could contemplate a two week French holiday for three in 1940 on his £5 weekly salary. (Actually it took another fourteen years to realise) Paid holidays were allowed, except that J.H.B. said a week was seven days only. Consequently stopping on a Friday afternoon would have required a return to work on the morning of the following Saturday week. Not doing so would have counted as being off for eight days. To travel on two Saturdays meant working till midday on the first of them. Properly dressed at all times. On one occasion he passed by as a typist was halfway up the staff stairs. Catching a glimpse of underskirt she was fired on the spot. By WW2 commonsense had prevailed. The College produced it's own text books with the assistance of Pawson and Brailsford on Norfolk Street who got a very desirable monthly order for paper and office supplies which continued to the end. The tutors were organised in sections under a senior and were in general responsible for writing the appropriate textbooks and courses including updating them, quite often without being credited. My uncle produced the electrical ones; father did the fire, law and the bookkeeping and accountancy subjects plus my favourite light reading, "Police Duties". which got him into trouble with the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire over copyright. If necessary, any qualified person could be paid to write a specialist course to order. One I remember doing so was the Professor of Spanish at Western Bank. Later I acted as go-between for the college in Berkshire and a lady in Bardney, just outside Lincoln. Certainly post WW2 there was also an invisible network of "Outside Tutors" who collected homework, marked and commented on it, brought it back for any typing and then posting. My favourite was the Rev. Halliday, Vicar of St Mathias Church somewhere in the Pomona Street area. Being in his words able to do his parish duties, cycle round the handful of parishioners and compose his sermon in one long day, for the rest of the week he retired to his fully equipped workshop practicing his trade by making foundry patterns for the local steelworks and the odd bit of beautiful cabinet making, plus marking any wood subject homework for the College. Anybody suitable could be pressed into service. A folder dropped in my lap one teatime. "Query for you. Man wants to know about the Great Western's only Pacific." (Railway Engineering student) With an interest in railways it was no problem. "Do it now" was implicit. Family didn't get paid though. The system was essentially simple; once started the student received the necessary text books,and the first lesson for study, entirely at his own pace. In the fullness of time the completed answer paper would come back, be marked and recorded, any corrections or comments made and returned with the next lesson. Every effort was made to return marked papers and the next lessons as soon as possible though there was no guaranteed turn round time but three days was an unofficial aim where possible. In the end if the student had made the grade he would be told so and sent a large certificate with the subject on it. No question of copying at a distance; the secret is a set of questions based on what has gone before, not the same as. Whether the student then sat any other qualifying exams for his occupation was up to him. The adverts make the point of preparing a student for that eventuality which may answer simonr's point re recognition. For many years regular business came from the police courses and the promotion exams; constable to sergeant and sergeant to inspector. The College ultimately set the exams (actually father again) if a force did not have it's own system. These were to demonstrate a knowledge of current statute law. For no obvious reason they got marked and assessed on our dining room table and the results sent to the police as evidence. Actual promotions when and if were up to them. Advertising was in the hands of an agency somewhere and must have cost a small fortune. Periodicals of all kinds seemed to be the usual thing, worldwide but particularly in the U.K. A copy of every one came to prove publication, briefly checked and then spread about. For years I read every issue of The Aeromodeller and Model Engineer plus irregular copies of various Indian magazines. (One article I remember was the uses of dried cow dung, information I somehow never needed ).The use of a "Dept.No....." in the address was the old dodge Every advert and periodical had a number so sorting by the mythical department showed which placements were most effective. Later I did discuss the need for the College and whether it served any purpose. My father's comments after many years in the job were that hereabouts we were used to qualifications as having or not having H.S.C., H.N.D., City and Guilds, B.A., B.Sc. and so on. Out East particularly there were accepted intermediate grades such as Failed B.A., simply because at that time there were so few who got there that anyone who had sat and not passed also had a value.. As course enrolments kept coming in a lot of people were obviously prepared to put themselves out in their own time to gain knowledge and the College was there for the purpose. One post has suggested that the rise of the Technical College caused the early decline in correspondence colleges. Not strictly true; the majority of the Bennett College business was from overseas where there were no facilities, which were in truth only gradually being provided. The College needed it's own dedicated large mail van delivering and collecting each day and my stamp collection grew quite nicely. Before anyone asks I have no idea of weekly, annual and overall totals, I have to say that before WW2 Mr. J.H.Bennett as owner was the driving force and very much present and in command. Little pigs had big ears and father didn't mince his words after hours. As to the Bennett family, his daughter was in London having married Douglas Birkinshaw who is now forgotten but did appear regularly in distant BBC documentaries among the small group of engineers setting up prewar trial television services. Son N.C.J.B. (Norman) had been in the business since about 1921, " helping Dad" per 1936 advert but I cannot be sure what he did. Whatever the situation J.H.B. was in charge. As a firm it was a private limited company with the family as directors. One post seems to find this somehow unusual. May I suggest a study of the Companies Act and the limitation of liability in case of failure. Comes the war and Mr. and Mrs Bennett disappear out of trouble into the Old Hall Hotel at Buxton for the duration along with the company somewhat elderly sit up and beg Rolls Royce. I believe that Mr. Bennett did occasionally put in a brief appearance on Melbourne Avenue. Norman Bennett went into the R.A.F. as did my father. My uncle left for pastures new at Scunthorpe Technical College in 1942. For the duration it was a case of ticking over with the senior men and whoever they could get, which was to cause problems after the war. Father had become a senior after some twenty years service and found his post filled by an Eastern European refugee who declined to give way, in spite of government regulations requiring returning servicemen to be given the same or better jobs as they had had previously. For some months things were strained and according to my father people had other priorities. Life was a bit uncertain for us for a while but things gradually improved. I never met Mr J.H.Bennett , in fact my only distant contact was when I rose very early to drive Father to his funeral at Buxton early in 1946.. In attendance were his wife, his son Norman and wife from Sheffield , his daughter Mrs Florence Birkiinshaw and her husband up from London, I think Miss Marguerete Nolan, head of female staff and my father, head of the tutors, (and repairs, lift, boilers, fire extiguishers and anything Miss Nolan didn't do.) Norman Bennett who I knew moderatly well then became officially The Governor and I now have to choose my words carefully. Tactfully put he was not like his father, not much get up and go so to speak, rather more your carry on as before sort of type. Nice enough personally though I found. Mrs Bennett seems not to have been a director and spent the rest of her days at Buxton. To have someone on hand to sign cheques and so on Miss Nolan was elevated to the Board. The firm's accountant Councillor Oliver Holmes, sometime Lord Mayor was also invited on the Board. Life carried on and then my father was also offered a seat on the Board. My impression was that Norman Bennett then became something of a figurehead. No photos or slogans in the adverts that I have seen.......For the record Norman only reigned till his death in mid 1955. In effect then the three locals took over right to the end with Oliver Holmes in the chair and I believe Mrs Birkinshaw was still connected at a distance. Someone has suggested some sort of tie up with The International Correspondence School Certainly the I.C.S was watched to see what they were doing and that was all. So far as the College went they were independent and stood on their own. Mentioning I.C.S. or putting an 's' after Bennett would incur extreme displeasure. Somewhere in the early 1950s it was decided that there should be one or two overseas sales promotional tours to look into local needs and educational conditions and maybe drum up trade. This brought to light somthing I had never heard of, the existence of representatives of the College in the central African countries, (and maybe elsewhere.) To this end Oliver Holmes and father would go and in time cross the full width from Kenya to Nigeria as they still were. This was at a time when talk of independence was just beginning. Unknown local reps. would run a publicity campaign in the month or so before their arrival, organise gatherings arrange car hire and all else. Photographs would be needed to be sent out for the posters. A photographer was engaged to take father at his desk and came with a bag of spectacles, hats , caps, false beards and the Lord knows what else. Father was allowed to hold his own pipe, point with it, suck it and do ùwhatever. Ultimately several poses were chosen, the final one being him seated, full face as Director of Studies, looking over the top of a pair of half glasses. So get on with the organising. All went well till someone pointed out the Africans would be looking for a man with half glasses coming off the aircraft, as per photograph, except that he didn't wear glasses. Panic. Mother and I knew he had difficulty reading, a family failing but he wouldn't admit it. A quick word to the family optician, Wraggs at Rustlings Road end who when father went in a rush for glasses with plain lenses, contrived to test his eyes, get lenses made and fitted him out as per advertising photos.We had tried for years to do just that. . In summer the two of them went on the first trip, two weeks as were all the others. For practical reasons I had a 'VW Beetle which father disliked and thoroughly disapproved of. To his horror one was waiting for him to drive round Africa. It performed well for them but still only got grudging acceptance. No problems weatherwise. On his return he had obviously looked into future developments particularly after the probable independence and was not very optimistic.. Later in November the pair of them went to the West Indies and then the Bahamas. That apparently went reasonably well but a crafty stopover in New York had been arranged. Disaster.. Arriving in light suits for warm places, they landed in a blizzard. I enquired what had they done then. Got a taxi to the nearest store, bought a heavy coat each and booked the next flight home. It was perhaps tactless of me to suggest that perhaps they should have looked up November weather in New York on one of their courses before they started. Not well received. Father later did two more solo trips to Africa with no more positive results. On one trip he tacked his holiday on the end so he and my mother could have a week in Rome in the hottest month of the year. Not a good idea and again nothing very promising from Africa either. On a visit back home about 1959 father casually dropped it out that the business was being sold to the Cleaver Hume Press, technical book sellers. Jobs had been offered to many of them, including the female staff, who might wish to go. Most didn't . That part of Berkshire was notoriously expensive even before the advent of the M4. When that was built by Newbury it it got worse. Technically from here on it is a bit of non-Sheffield history but there isn't much of it. One post uses the expression of it fading away which is a slight over-simplification. It left the city The new location was Aldermaston Court, a major country estate which had however sold off a large part of it's land to The Atomic Weapons Research Establishment ; C.N.D. marches to and from and all that. Fortunately that was well away and the College staff still had some glorious views over the front grounds. Ultimately father decided to go to do the same job as did his secretary. Not a nice time as the old college had to be kept going while van loads of office equipment and numerous filing cabinets were shipped out. Concurrently the new college was set up, local staff were sought ( not easy; all the locals worked for A.W.R.E.) and the business was transferred gradually down south. Ultimately it was up and running. Father and his secretary ran the whole thing much as usual. Not surprisingly the other two directors didn't move and all Bennett family connection ended but the name carried on. One change which I know happened was that the Cleaver Hume advertising agency took on the College account. I met the new man but the name meant nothing. In passing l mentioned that I found the then current slogan "Drinka Pinta Milka Day" irritating. Not well received . "That's one of mine" so obviously they were using a major agency but whether that made any difference to the College business never became obvious to me. The moving spirit now was Joe Cleaver, who lived in the New Forest and spent much time in his empire which he was then expanding. Gentlemen in those days wore big belted coats and trilby hats. Once a month he would pickup father from Aldermaston and head for the London office in the Porsche, foot to the floor fast lane driving. And back again in the afternoon. Speed on four or two wheels was not father's thing. I asked him what he thought of the journey. Apparently he pulled his belt up, pulled his hat down, slumped down and shut his his eyes till they reached London. That sounded about right. .Unexpectedly after about three years Macmillan made overtures to Cleaver Hume and took them over. A company Macmillan-Cleaver was proposed but never materialised and the various parts srill carried on as before. By now father had reached sixty five and there was some pushing at at a higher level for him to go. He had a trick up his sleeve; there had been machinations back in Sheffield regarding his pension as a director which he had borrowed on for the move south so he owed them money ( Damn silly thing to do and he should have known better) He had a contract which kept him in work till seventy to repay it. Counsel's opinion was sought but there was no way round so he stayed on. I asked who had drawn up the contract. "I did" I might have guessed. So finally at Christmas 1971 at six months short he got the tea service, six months pay, told he could have six months holiday and then don't bother to come back. The College continued on and it gets a bit vague. Clever- Hume Press website is there but has nothing on it. Father settled down for eighteen months, went shopping one evening, sat in his chair and quietly died. The last time I met Joe Cleaver and his wife was at Reading Crematorium for the funeral, still full of life. Ten years later the College was closed, for one or possibly two reasons. I do believe that learning by post was a dying business by the 1970's. The other may have had an effect. In 1982 Joe Cleaver fired his handyman and his wife for generally bad behaviour. This resulted in the man's return with two others and the murder of Joe and the other four in the house and the torching of the property . In court three life sentences were handed down. To any one thinking about looking it up, don't bother. It's grim reading. It may be a curious coincidence but this and the closure of Cleaver Hume and the Bennett College all occurred not long apart. I was glad father didn't see it. Ending on a brighter note, still in Sheffield, atitudes post-war changed. The directors had carpeted floors but the prohibition on the use of the front door and carpeted stairs still stood. Other than that things were easier although the typing school was still needed. No clocking in, timekeeping always was the province of the section heads to enforce. Hours had been shortened to a civilsed 9 a.m. start. On occasion my father decided things were getting a bit lax, so turned up early and told each individual they were late. The last girl came up the drive about twenty minutes late. " You're late" " Yes aren't I" , walking straight past him Father decided there was no answer to that. I pondered what The Old Man would have done. The odd thing which struck me over the years was that there never was an official oddjob man. Somehow father seemed to have time to step in. Fire extinguishers require regular checks; that being in one his courses in his early career, father kept it to the end. Actually this was vitally important in an old building with wood floors and furniture plus several tons of paper about the place. The College had a no smoking rule for obvious reasons years before the recent government orders.The day an extinguisher malfunctioned and he came home with white foam all over a dark suit took us some time to forget. As the registered keyholder, father was always on call. Late one evening we were roused by a young policeman who had seen a light on and would he come. Getting dressed father sent the bobby back on his bicycle to watch while he got the car out out. Ultimately they met up in Melbourne Avenue and the bobby pointed out the light. Father we understood took pleasure in pointing out that the light was actually on in the building next door. Many years later they might have found the Yorkshire Ripper instead. One thing which happened in the early post-war years was a tramp ringing the bell asking for a hand out. Naturally father was called in in the best Pass-it-up-the -line tradition and a small sum changed hands. After this had been repeated a few times he said so to the next one to come out of curiosity. He was told that the gatepost had the tramps symbol for being a good touch and had it pointed out to him. By the end of the day it was gone and the visits stopped. (Google tramps gate signs and see) Coal for the boiler came in sacks by the lorryload and on one occasion a lorry was spotted going down the drive with some still on and Father in undignified hot pursuit. And I didn't see it After that he personally stood in the road and counted them off. The coal merchant shall remain nameless. To me this was wrong but as I expected it had always been like that, so what?.There was an efficient educational system but all the day to day running details were left to somebody, but who. As one who lived on the edge of correspondence education, I think the peak was between the wars with a gradual decline from about the mid 1950's.but the demise took longer than is generally thought. Pity there is so little archive material about. I never came across any formal statistics and when the business shifted down to Berkshire there was a fair clearout of older material. For those who would like to know more I can only say "So would I". Overall I think the Bennett College served it's purpose for as long as it was needed and now has passed into history, as has my late father's response to an expression not now in use. When arranging a meetimg, anyone saying " I will meet you at your convenience " got his stock answer. "No no. I use my office, there's more room". .
  22. Runningman

    Buck Wood, Gleadless Valley

    I have come across a copy of a report by the Northern Archaeological Associates produced in 2001 re Buck Wood. It is part of a study titled ' Fuelling the Revolution ' The Woods that Founded the Steel Country. Contained within is a map of the wood showing the location together with 34 ten figure grid references of historical positions, none of which it is commented could be securely dated, but the majority thought to be post medieval. 34 is a surprise to me, not realising the wood contained so much of interest. A 1996 assessment of the woods archaeology recorded the existence of a medieval bank and ditch, a fact known to the many amateur historians with an interest in the wood. Sites identified include 2 boundary banks ( possible spoil remains ) and a boundary wall, a track, various pits ( charcoal, white coal, quarry and coal prospecting ) What are described as 3 terraces ( processing areas ) platforms ( possible charcoal burning ) a gulley ( possible drainage from the housing estate ) and a hollow. Periods attributed to the locations are Medieval, Post Medieval and Modern. One of the banks in the north west of the wood is thought to be the remains of the boundary of the Sheffield Deer Park., this bank further in the wood has been disturbed by the construction of the adjacent housing development. Comment is made about the presence of litter, tipping and scattered rubbish from the adjacent estate. All the sites are classified as of lesser archaeological importance with the exception of the Deer Park Boundary. Damage by tipping and erosion due well worn footpaths has been a long term problem. I will add that my Grandfather in the 1920's dug for coal as did many Heeley residents during times of hardship.
  23. tozzin

    Fitzalan Square

    I firmly believe that the upsurge in litter and dumping was caused by the building of new homes without fireplaces and in older houses electric and gas fires being fitted which left thousands of people with nowhere to burn rubbish, my dad used to "bank" our fire up at night with potato peelings so by morning the fire was still in and the house was warm. Not everybody could afford to but loads of coal so vegetable bits, old shoes etc were saved for the fire, we would never have thought to drop any litter outside unlike todays litterers.
  24. Unitedite Returns

    "Chirstmas Jobs"

    Spent most of my Christmas, and for that matter, my Easter and Summer holidays working at the British Steel Coking and Chemicals Plant, at Orgreave. That would have been 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. Of course, having family connections helped a good deal, but it provided a great financial help in funding my way through University. In fact, I would earn far, far more by this holiday work, than the total annual worth of my student grant. Generally, I was assigned to the 'yard staff', which of course, meant general labouring, but in reality, you were there for holiday and sickness relief, so I did get to work on the coal tipper grates, coal blending houses, coke ovens, in some of the chemical processing works, and from time to time, with the brickies, and in the Orcot Factory, the test oven facility and such. The pay was excellent, especially for a generally skint youth such as myself, and it was a fantastic insight into working life and for what was to come later. I even learned how to drive a dumper truck, fork lift truck, and tractor there. The on-site canteen served good, plain food, and their chips were a definite favourite. There where all sorts of premiums paid for working overtime, such as for a 'double-un', (sixteen hour shift), or even, a 'treble-un', (twenty-four hour shift). If you did either one of those, you got free-meal tickets. The work at times could be hard, as you would expect, and today, in hindsight, some of the jobs would be deemed very hazardous. However, when that age, you consider yourself invincible don't you? If you worked in the anthracine plant, and didn't wear barrier cream, then you got an exaggerated kind of sun-burn. If you worked on the coke-oven tops, and didn't keep moving about, the soles of your boots would stick to the deck - and they didn't last that long either. The heat could be tremendous and in order to keep you hydrated, you were given these white salt tablets, about the size of a two-pence piece, which you dissolved in dilute orange juice - but it still tasted vile. Most memorable moment - one dark, very wet Christmas night, about two o'clock in the morning, standing on top of the access platform above the gas pipes which carried the exhaust gases from number six coke oven battery to the condensers and scrubbers. About forty feet or so, up in the air, on a three feet wide walkway - four of us, bawling out Christmas carols very badly to the lads below, working on the 'guide bench'. Another memorable moment - working on the coke grate, where the coke car dropped the quenched coke into a long, sloping hopper with row of manually operated gates at the back, which you used to feed the coke onto the conveyors which carried it over to the coke screens, for grading and loading into railway wagons. Of course, you get a lot of sulphurous gases off of freshly quenched coke - if any of you have ever doused a coal, or a coke fire with water - you will know what I mean. So, in order to mitigate the taste on your throat, you smoked a lot, and you kept your cigarettes on a 'shelf' at the back of the walkway over the coke conveyor. One night, I was working with an old hand, and I noticed that my cigarettes were going down at a rapid rate. Being young, inexperienced, and a little in awe of this old hand, I thought that I would try and be politic. So, I said, 'keep an eye on my fags will you - someone keeps coming down and nicking them'. 'Better not let me catch the b******' he replied, 'there aren't enough for three of us'. By the time that the attached photograph was taken, 30/09/1990, number six battery, to the left-hand-side was already out of use, and the gas pipes, whose approximate route is denoted by the red lines, long dismantled. However, the 'guide bench', and coke hopper are still extant - denoted by yellow arrows.
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    Coal Smoke

    In the late 70's, when I was still at secondary school, I used to supplement my "income" by working Friday nights and Saturday mornings for a coal dealer, whose business was focused around Handsworth, Woodhouse, Canklow, Brinsworth and such areas. My father did so, as well. At that time, the prices were:- Coal: £0.60 per bag [cwt] Coke: £0.75 per bag [cwt] Smokeless £1.11 per bag [cwt] - this being "Room heat" briquettes, made at the Coalite Works at Bozer. What amazes me now is that I could actually work out people’s bills in my head, without the assistance of a calculator back then and give them the right change. We collected most monies on a Friday night. Regular bad payers were “rewarded” by receiving extra quantities of fines [“Slack” we called it], in their deliveries. There always seemed to be plenty of “slack” in the coal received in railway wagons. I still love the sight and smells of an open coal fire and the shapes made by the flames always seemed to be very therapeutic. Many a time, I fell asleep watching the fire, when I was young. My grandparents, who lived in the centre of Woodhouse, retained their coal fire in the “living room” and their “range” in the kitchen until 1976, or thereabouts, when the property was modernised. I must admit, that I greatly miss “a proper coal fire”, although, perhaps not the shivering wait for the thing to regain its strength, on cold, winter mornings, in the days before central heating.
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