Guest Leipzig Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 Looking for historical information please regarding the White Houses, which were situated at the corner of Bramall Lane and Cherry Street. I think I read somewhere that the buildings originally took their name from the fact that they were situated on 'White Lane', which I think was the original name for Bramall Lane.http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05913 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 Looking for historical information please regarding the White Houses, which were situated at the corner of Bramall Lane and Cherry Street. I think I read somewhere that the buildings originally took their name from the fact that they were situated on 'White Lane', which I think was the original name for Bramall Lane. http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s05913&pos=1&action=zoom&id=9263 Originally White House Lane, there were two other White House Lanes. The one in the picture was renamed after Daniel Brammall (note the original spelling), he lived in the house and owned a file factory close by. From : Street names of Sheffield - Peter Harvey Hope it helps ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Daniel Brammall, File grinder Upper Lester Wheel (Baine's 1822) always assuming that is "The Man" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Daniel Brammall, File grinder Upper Lester Wheel (Baine's 1822) always assuming that is "The Man" More of a hint towards "who was the man that gave his name (incorrectly spelled) to the Street that is The Lane that used to be White House Lane that has these White Houses on it at some undetermined point in the past ?" which is quite some question he he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Resident, as of July 1865, George Kinder, White House, Brammall Lane. (Double M is intended, not a deliferoot speeling mistook) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 The White Houses seem to have been one of Sheffield's ancient homesteads, it is mentioned in a marriage entry for 1657 but is surely much older. As well as the farmhouse there was a row of cottages. The Bramall family transformed the old house into a gentleman's residence but the cottages continued to be let. One occupant of a cottage and workshop there was Herbert Hodkin, a plasterer, who with his business partner founded the the firm of Hodkin and Jones at Havelock Bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest skeets Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Looking for historical information please regarding the White Houses, which were situated at the corner of Bramall Lane and Cherry Street. I think I read somewhere that the buildings originally took their name from the fact that they were situated on 'White Lane', which I think was the original name for Bramall Lane. http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05913 Hi, One can see the Ebernezer Chapel on this photo which has been on one of Steves posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plain talker Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Resident, as of July 1865, George Kinder, White House, Brammall Lane. (Double M is intended, not a deliferoot speeling mistook) Eye howp yew ore nut Misticken abowt thit? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Hi, One can see the Ebernezer Chapel on this photo which has been on one of Steves posts If that is the Ebeneezer chapel in the background there is something wrong somewhere. It was on the opposite side of Brammal lane to the Whitehouses :confused: And I believe the family name was originally Bramhall but Sheffielders never had much truck with aitches he he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 The tall building with the fancy roof-line that can be seen in the background of the Whitehouses picture was probably a skating rink. In the 1910 directory it is listed as the property of Sheffield and Olympia Rinks Ltd., Shoreham street and Bramall lane. By 1917 the site was listed as Lockwood & Co., Engineers. It looks as though the Whiteshouses site was bought by the Anchor Brewery on Cherrry street and the main house let to the horse-keeper for the brewery's horses which were stabled on the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 The tall building with the fancy roof-line that can be seen in the background of the Whitehouses picture was probably a skating rink. In the 1910 directory it is listed as the property of Sheffield and Olympia Rinks Ltd., Shoreham street and Bramall lane. By 1917 the site was listed as Lockwood & Co., Engineers. It looks as though the Whiteshouses site was bought by the Anchor Brewery on Cherrry street and the main house let to the horse-keeper for the brewery's horses which were stabled on the site. See Olympia post by Dunsbyowl I assume the Olympia was on the corner of Bramhall Ln and Cherry st the location of the White House I think the ground floor of the Olympia survived until recently as Arnold Lavers offices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 See Olympia post by Dunsbyowl I assume the Olympia was on the corner of Bramhall Ln and Cherry st the location of the White House I think the ground floor of the Olympia survived until recently as Arnold Lavers offices. Thanks, - nice to have a mystery solved. The Whitehouse was still on the corner of Cherry street, in the photo you can see the frontage of the Olympia building beyond the cottages and beyond that the fence/hoardings that bordered the Sheaf House Athletics Ground. The Whitehouse photo looks to have been taken from an upstairs room of the pub that stood on the corner of Hill street and Bramall lane, and the Olympia photo taken from the bottom of Alderson place. That area was a stomping ground for me as a youngster and the ground floor windows of that Olympia building seem very familiar. We used to sneak in to Lavers via the side gate on Cherry street to watch the big saw working, —it was a 10 or 12 foot diameter circular saw (as often featured in the old silent films) and the huge tree trunks were fed onto it with an overhead crane. That would be around 1947/48...we usually got chased out by one of the workers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesD Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Two sets of my great-grandparents lived there, according to the census of 1881 and 1891. Sometimes shown as Whitehouses (one word). Different records show alternatively as being on Cherry Street rather than Brammall (or Bramall) Lane. The families concerned were Dickinson and Archer. I'm glad to see the picture of the premises. Such a picture has eluded me until this. Thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 2 hours ago, LesD said: Two sets of my great-grandparents lived there, according to the census of 1881 and 1891. Sometimes shown as Whitehouses (one word). Different records show alternatively as being on Cherry Street rather than Brammall (or Bramall) Lane. The families concerned were Dickinson and Archer. I'm glad to see the picture of the premises. Such a picture has eluded me until this. Thanks for posting https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Whites's directory 1879 Kelly's directory 1881 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesD Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 SteveHB Thanks for this documented information. John Archer's daughter Mary, married Charles Thomas Dickinson (1872) who lived at No2. (1881 census) Amongst their children was a son Frank who is shown in the 1891 census as 'silversmith's apprentice' so presumably working with his grandad John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alastair Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 And from Picture Sheffield - 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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