duckweed Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Can anyone tell me how old this building is and its history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Number 120 on the 1950's map, I think? Flash Earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Circa 1890, Queen's Foundry at the rear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckweed Posted March 5, 2014 Author Share Posted March 5, 2014 The Queens Foundry was demolished in 1936 it says in a website called Swinton People. So could Sovereign house date from 1936 or is it an amalgam? The doorway looks quite old but the brickwork looks Art Decco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Taken from your photo, not very amusing is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Aerial photo from 1937 showing the building on the 1890 map still there: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Paradise Street to Silver Street, 1925. 98 108 Darwin, Yeardley & Co. Ltd., iron founders. 100 Senior & Wood, sheet metal workers. 122, 124 & 126 Norton John & Son, lead & glass merchants. 128 Woolhouse Harry, tobacconist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Paradise Street to Silver Street, 1965 directory. 108 British Paints (incorporating Charles Credland Ltd.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saw119 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 I've always assumed that the carving of the monarch is Elizabeth II. Doesn't look like Victoria to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Can anyone tell me how old this building is and its history? The entrance in photo 1 is a 1990's addition to give access through a glass tunnel to the tower block behind, I assume before this change it was a gateway of some sort. The brick work looks similar to the 1960's Queens House on the other side of the road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckweed Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 The brickwork does look modern but the stoneweork round the windows as well as the the arch looks older too. That was why I was wondering if it was some sort of amalgamation. Don't suppose anyone knows of a photo or drawing of the Queen's foundry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Early 70's view The building to the left is obviously older, since replaced '> http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;w01864&pos=1&action=zoom&id=47079 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I remember Credlands Paints also having an archway where their vans and lorries used to drive through. Been through it myself a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Plan of the Queen's Foundry, Queen Street and premises adjoining in Sheffield. 1842. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04225&pos=4&action=zoom&id=105209 Marked: Model warehouses, stable, stable loft, manure, old warehouse, shed, smiths and joiners shops, foundry, boring and turning mil, engine house, dwelling house, ash pit, privy, reservoir, counting house, fetling shops, sand and core shed, fitting shops, model and lumber rooms, and furnaces. Wardle & Bentham 1814-1815 Iron founders & Masters Darwin & Co., Queens Foundry, Chapeltown, Elsecar & Worsbrough. General & Commercial Directory of Sheffield. 1825. Darwin & Co. mill & engine work in all of its branches, Queens Foundry, Queen Street. White's General Directory 1849. Darwin & Co, New Queen Street, iron founders; stove grate; mill and engine work manufacturers, Queens Foundry, New Queen Street. Thomas Darwin, iron founder & etc. h. 77 Occupation Road. Whites Directory 1852. Darwin & Co. iron founders; stove grate; engine and mill work manufacturers, Queens Foundry, 68 New Queens Street. Thomas Darwin, iron founder & etc. h Handsworth. Whites Directory 1862 Darwin & Co. iron founders & stove Grate & etc manufacturers, Queens Foundry 68 Queens Street. John Darwin, public weighing machine proprietor, 68 New Queen Street. Samuel Darwin, iron founder & Co. (Darwin & Co) h. 8 Hanover Square. Thomas Darwin, iron founder & etc., h. Blenkarn Place, Rock Street. White's Directory 1872 . Darwin & Co. engineers, millwrights, iron founders; general stove grate manufacturers; silversmiths; coppersmiths; tinner brazier tool manufacturers, 98-108 Queen Street. Thomas Darwin, (D & Co) h. 99 Rock Street. Which Queen? Thought it would be Queen Victoria until discovered it was named Queens Foundry earlier. Probably Queen Charlotte wife of George III. Queen, 8th September 1761-17th November 1818. Crowned. 22nd September 1761. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Plan of a projected street between Queen Street and West Bar Green. 1817. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04217&pos=13&action=zoom&id=105201 Marked: Tenter Street, Pea Croft, West Bar Green, Silver Street, Paradise Square, Workhouse Croft, Queen Street, workhouse, reservoir, fitting up shop, boring mill, Foundry, warehouses, smiths shops, fetling shop [?fettling shop], counting house, lumber house and model chambers, engine house. Tenants / owners: John Haslehurst, W. B. Thomas, John Clayton, Joseph Whitehead, Samiel Eadon, Robert Burnand, S. B. Ward, George Smith, - Eyre, Charles Rhodes coopers shops, John White, John Darwin, Benjamin Hounswind?, John Sevrap?, and Edward Gains. Town land, extending from Broad Lane End to West Bar, 1778. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04287&pos=18&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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 On 20th June 1783 a 99 year lease at a rent of £5 2s per annum was granted by the Church Burgesses to Thomas Vennor, gentleman and John Read, merchant. On this land in Wade's Orchard, a chapel was built, and opened on 3rd December 1783. It was in a new road which was not yet officially named - it was to be either Fig street or Queen street - the latter prevailed and the chapel became Queen street Chapel. At this time George III was monarch and his queen was Charlotte-Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Luckily we are left with Queen Street, rather than Mecklenburg-Strelitz Street. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Think Queen Street Chapel deserves it own separate post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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