Sheffield Workhouse

[RichardB]

The original workhouse was situated in West Bar and was opened in 1733, hence Workhouse Lane, a remnant of which was still there in my memory. Basically right about where the roundabout is. Number 11 on the Gosling map.

The Cotton Mill buildings (hence Cotton Street, Cotton Mill Row, and Cotton Mill Walk) were used as the Sheffield Union Workhouse from 1829 until 1881 (Fir Vale Workhouse opened).

18th June 1829 :

The paupers having been removed from old workhouse to the new one, formerly the cotton mill, they were treated to 280lb of beef and 320lb of pudding; 317 paupers sat down.

(Presumably the 600 pounds weight of food was meant for the lot of 'em, not each )

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One for the people visiting The Fat Cat ...

"map evidence suggests that the row of buildings backing onto Alma Street to the left of the current entrance to the Richardsons site (former Globe Steel Works) were not only part of the Workhouse, but also date back to the first cotton mill in 1805"

Globe_Works.doc

[Ponytail]

The Workhouse, the Story of an Institution.

Sheffield West Riding of Yorkshire. 

https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Sheffield/   

 

 

Building lots between West Bar Green and Silver Street, 1794. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04288&pos=825&action=zoom&id=105975

Marked: Sheffield Workhouse.

Jane Taylor, William Wright, George Smith, Joseph Eyre, James Goulden, William Smith, Butcher, George Sybray, Matthew Walton, William Smith, and John Furniss.

 

Town land, extending from Broad Lane End to West Bar, 1778. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04287&pos=824&action=zoom&id=105972

The plan has notes made in 1784.

Marked: Broad Lane End, Hollis Croft, Rotten Row, West Bar Green, Pea Croft, White Croft, Hawley Croft, Gregory Row, Silver Street, Hick Stile Field, Queen Street, Workhouse Croft, and Workhouse.

George Hounsfield, Samuel Radford, John Birks, George Allen, George Oates, John Haywood, Hollis Hospital land, Thomas Wilkinson, Josh. Bower of Hollis Hospital, Martha Hill, John Foster, William Thornton, John Thompson, Matthew Lambert, John Goodwin, Ebenezer Wall, George Greaves, Thomas Radford, Joseph Hepworth, Mary Cowley, Samuel Crook, Widow Bradshaw, George Pears, John Holberry?, Catherine Dixon, Mark Skeltens?, John Hobson, Stephen Green, John and George Wild, [?] Green, The Overseers of the Poor in the Township of Ecclesfield, Ecclesfield Workhouse [tenants of this parcel of land], John Longden, Mary Pearson, John Darwin and Co., and Samuel Marshall.

 

Ground Plan for the intended workhouse for Sheffield, between Broad lane and Trippett Lane, c.1791. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01856&pos=268&action=zoom&id=71281

Brew house, wash house, coal house, bake house, wood store, flour store, men and boys work rooms, women and girls work rooms, dining room, boiling house, kitchen, pantry, courts and yards, matrons room, matrons store room, governor’s room, governors store room, committee room, school room, operation room, doctors shop, doctors parlour, coal store, cottages for respectable paupers and married couples and croft or garden.

 

Plan of a proposed Workhouse for Sheffield, between Broad Lane and Trippett Lane, c.1791.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01855&pos=267&action=zoom&id=71280

Shows: Work rooms, store room, dining room, laundry, brew house, kitchen, boiling house, bakehouse, oven, pantry, bread room, matrons room, store room, governors room, overseer room, doctors rooms, taylors room, poor attending on overseers [room], sick poor [rooms], bath, cells, etc.

 

Chamber Attic Storeys for the intended Workhouse for Sheffield, between Broad Lane and Trippet Lane, c.1791. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc01857&pos=19&action=zoom&id=71282

Shows: Bedrooms, laundry room, porters lodging room, paupers sent for passes room, cottages for respectable paupers and married couples.

 

Notice of Resolutions made at a General Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Township of Sheffield ... for the purpose of taking into consideration the present state of the workhouse and the best means of improving the same. 1804.  Rev. James Wilkinson in the chair.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09967&pos=5&action=zoom&id=65482
 

 

[neddy]