pgmetcalf Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Birley Spa is still standing and opens on special days for radio and TV I believe. Does anyone have photos of it in full swing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 What is/was it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shezza91 Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 What is/was it ? I believe its an old roman bath house, its located just off Birley Spa Lane in Hackenthorpe. I used to go to Birley Spa school when I was a nipper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgmetcalf Posted May 5, 2007 Author Share Posted May 5, 2007 I don't know about it being Roman but it was very popular in victorian times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrup Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Birley Spa is still standing and opens on special days for radio and TV I believe. Does anyone have photos of it in full swing? Found this site that might help. http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/featur...spa/index.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shezza91 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I don't know about it being Roman but it was very popular in victorian times. I stand corrected, it is a victorian bathhouse. Thanks. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceegee Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 There is a complete history of Birley Spa at http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield/birleyspahistory.htm It looks as though he has placed on-line a small booklet by T.L. Platts on the history of the Spa. There is also a photo of the Spa taken from the booklet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THYLACINE Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 There is a complete history of Birley Spa at http://www.chrishobb...yspahistory.htm It looks as though he has placed on-line a small booklet by T.L. Platts on the history of the Spa. There is also a photo of the Spa taken from the booklet What do you make of the 2 pictures on Chris Hobbs site, one called Birley Spa House the other, Residence and Bath House. They appear to be similar, the roof line, the chimney, the windows. But one is single storey whilst the other is 2 storey? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 I think what looks like single story is seen from (what is now) Birley Spa Lane, whilst the other view is from down the lane which leads to the spa. (if that makes sense) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 I think what looks like single story is seen from (what is now) Birley Spa Lane, whilst the other view is from down the lane which leads to the spa. (if that makes sense) Built on a slope .. www.geolocation.:Birley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Built on a slope .. www.geolocation.:Birley Well I was wrong in a rightish sort of way. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 This map from 1904 seems to indicate that Birley Spa was an Inn at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Birley Spa had a Tea Gardens for some years. In September 1857 Wm Budd was granted a wine and spirits licence at Eckington Brewster Sessions, but it presumably had a beer only licence prior to this. SH Index shows Wm Budd as landlord in 1854 (also known as "The Bath") Map of 1877 shows it as a public House. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 If you mean this one Edmund, it is a different place. It is the Birley Hotel on Birley Moor Road. About half a mile away at Frecheville, . Here in fact The Birley Spa isnt on the list at all Odd that The Birley Hotel should be known as "The Bath" though. Is there some confusion on the pubs list I wonder ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 If you mean this one Edmund, it is a different place. It is the Birley Hotel on Birley Moor Road. About half a mile away at Frecheville, . Here in fact The Birley Spa isnt on the list at all Odd that The Birley Hotel should be known as "The Bath" though. Is there some confusion on the pubs list I wonder ? Is the following a controversial statement - The Birley Hotel, 66 Birley Moor Road is a 1930's phenomenon. Maps of 1923 and previous show no pub there (or indeed any building). The Index has the licensees of the Bath Hotel AKA Birley Spa public house, recorded as being at the Birley Hotel. The Hobbs site also states that the public house at the spa was called the Bath Hotel and quotes licensees Budd, Lee, Bradley, Lomas. In February 1844 there was newspaper coverage of a court case which gave details of the repair work that had taken place to the spa in 1841. In that year Mr James Newton and Mrs Smilter-Lowe had been to the Isle of Man for their health and been disappointed. They were recommended to take the water at the Birley Spa, which some years previously had been in high repute as a curative Baths. It had fallen into disrepair however, so they arranged to have the bath puddled to fix the leaks. The contactor Mr Peter Hibberd did a good job, charging 10s, but had to take the two health seekers to court to (successfully) obtain payment. The baths were reopened on May 1st 1843, the managers being Mr and Mrs Eadon, who kept the baths open from 7am to 7pm (closed Sunday). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I wouldn't call it controversial Edmund, merely confusing. My original map clearly shows an Inn at Birley Spa, The present day Birley Hotel clearly seems to be a 1930's style building as you say There was, it seems, no building at 66 Birley Moor Road before that time. The alternative name was The Bath (Suggesting the Spa) I think that, what on the pubs list is called The Birley Hotel, has the wrong address, and that the keepers belong to the one at Birley Spa (under whatever name it had at the time) Does that make sense ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I wouldn't call it controversial Edmund, merely confusing. My original map clearly shows an Inn at Birley Spa, The present day Birley Hotel clearly seems to be a 1930's style building as you say There was, it seems, no building at 66 Birley Moor Road before that time. The alternative name was The Bath (Suggesting the Spa) I think that, what on the pubs list is called The Birley Hotel, has the wrong address, and that the keepers belong to the one at Birley Spa (under whatever name it had at the time) Does that make sense ? Vox, I agree with you! Further proof is in the Sheffield Archives - CA519 - Sheffield City Council, Planning Department: Planning Applications inherited from Chesterfield Rural District Council RefNo CA519/245 Title Birley Moor Road, Frecheville - public house "Birley Hotel" Description Original Chesterfield Rural District Council ref. 3706. Applicant: Mappins Masbro Old Brewery Ltd., Rotherham. Date 1937 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unitedite Returns Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 My grandparents and great grand parents on my mother's side originate from this area and I do remember being told that the Birley Spa was indeed an Inn at one time in it's past, and that it did provide accomodation for people seeking to "take the waters". As I would have been quite young during those childhood excursions to the spa, those visits would have taken place sometime during the early to middle 1960's and so, it is my belief that Birley Spa's previous existence as an Inn would still have been within living memory at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Asked my mom this morning. She's in her 80's. She says she remembers going there (The Spa) with her dad when she was very young, and having some refreshments. They stopped off whilst walking from the nearest tram stop (probably Intake) to a farm in Hackenthorpe village, where they were going to buy a puppy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I found this booklet on my shelf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Edmund Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 What a coincidence, I have rings round my bath, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I found this booklet on my shelf So do we consider this to be proof that the keepers, presently listed under Birley Hotel, do actually belong to the (presently unlisted) Bath Hotel / Birley Spa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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