Bayleaf Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 An interesting question on t'other forum. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 1925 Flash Earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 c.1853. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 There doesn't seem to have been a "Battle of Beulah Kop" that I can find and the house seems to pre-date the South African Wars. That is unless it took place since the house has been adapted for student accommodation . There seems to have been a fashion for naming districts and houses after biblical references. Just up the hill towards Crookes was Mount Pisgah with Pisgah House, Pisgah (Hadfield) Dam. Down at Owlerton there is a Beulah Road but that was renamed from Beverley Road when the land north of the River Loxley came into the city in the early 1900's to avoid duplication. Perhaps the original owner wanted a biblical (Hebrew) name and added Kop because it stands on a hill overlooking the (then) town. HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 1862 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danny Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Holy Thread revival!!! Anyway, . I drive passed here a few times a week. It is now fenced off. At some point, without me noticing until i saw a picture on the thread in the link above, it has acquired some awful rendering, thankfully they havent covered the houses name though. Bit of an oddity this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 "Beulah" is in South Africa...It is a tract of agricultural land near the Sterkfonteindam Nature Reserve. The word is a biblical one, used for Israel and was also used by John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress when he described the "Peaceful Land". It is possible that some earlier owner had visited Beulah, liked the place with its Biblical connection, and named the house to remind him...a bit like several Sheffield works which were named after American cities with whom the owners had done excellent trade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Coincidentally - Beulah Library film. Beulah Rd Sheffield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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