Wheats Lane

[tozzin]

Does anyone have any history on this fantastic house on Wheat's Lane, I know that it may be addressed as North Church St but I always thought that where-ever the letter box is that's the address and what a fantastic door it has.

[SteveHB]

North Church Street (1925).

19 Watts John, collector of taxes.
19 Thompson Robert G. solicitor & commissioner for oaths.
19 Wilson Ernest, solicitor.

[SteveHB]

c.1903

[SteveHB]

North Church Street (1901, 1905, 1911).
19 Ryalls & Son, solicitors.

Probably the same building, unless the numbering changed.

Circa 1890

1879 directory.

[RichardB]

Previous on this.

[Edmund]

TO COWKEEPERS and others – To be Sold, Eight Acres of AFTER GRASS, in the Neighbourhood of Norton Lees, a portion of it being Clover. Water in the Field. Apply at 19 North Church street

from Sheffield Independent 24^th August 1861

[RichardB]

Everard : It was afterwards Farnsworth's, at the bottom of North Church street. Mr. Eadon lived in the corner
house of that street and Queen street. But North Church street was not opened through in those days. Below Wheat's
passage, leading from Paradise square, was a precipitous bank, which had not then been cut away. Below that bank and im-
mediately above the school, were the steps descending into the wood-yard, as at this day. That yard belonged to Mr.
Fox, who lived at the house at the other end, facing Paradise square. Projecting into the yard from Wheat's passage was
the house of Mr. Axe, round which the thoroughfare wound, emerging into Wheat's passage by another flight of steps.

Reminiscences : Source

Bit more :

Leonard : Pray spare us the old story about somebody who knew somebody else who remembered the Square as a corn-field.

Wragg : Why should we ? There are people still living, or were not long ago, who remembered it a field of oats,
entered from the top by Hicks' stile. An elderly lady, who died not many years ago, had gone with the maid to milk
her father's cows, which were pastured there. There seems always to have been a footpath across, which was, indeed, the
only thoroughfare from that side of the town. Pedestrians going up Silver street head (busier then, I believe, than
High street) had to cross to Wheat's passage by Mr. Ryalls' office, if they were going to the Market ; or if to the old
Town Hall, they went over Hicks' stile, up St. James's row (or West row, or Virgin's row, for it has borne all three
names) — there were steps at the bottom the whole width of the row — and then across the Churchyard.

[RichardB]