vox Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 The 4 houses at this junction have unusual angled bays on the corners. One of them however has a rounded bay which goes up an extra story. Quite grand looking. I wonder why this one was built to a different design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Nosey neighbour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckweed Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 My son's favourite house. Ever since he was little he has dreamed of owning this house. Wonder if the original owner was an artist? There were a lot of artists living in the area. Still are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 It's number 80, Burcot Road by the look of things. YOUNG, Frank (Railway Clerk). 80 Burcot Road, Meersbrook, Kellys 1925 Sheffield indexers As an aside, Burcot Road is unusual in that it numbers towards town rather than the normal "out of town" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Burcot Road seems to have been built around 1896. In September 1900 the Sheffield Daily Telegraph reported; "BRUTAL MURDER IN SHEFFIELD DRUNKEN MAN'S CRIME CHAPELTOWN YOUTH STABBED TO THE HEART THE MURDERER ESCAPES ....the victim being Walter Hague, machine planer, who lived with his parents at Cowley Lane, Chapeltown... Hague came to Sheffield on Saturday evening in order to see Miss Alice Basford, a waitress at the New Carlton Hotel and Restaurant, High Street, Sheffield, to whom he had been engaged for some time... They ...had nearly reached the large gates which lead from Sheaf Street to the Rotherham Dock of the station...when Hague was seized from behind....The man had been stabbed, apparently with the large blade of a pocket knife.. The body was taken into the first-class waiting room, and Dr.Cairns, of 80, Burcot Road, who was at the station, made an examination, and confirmed the constable's opinion that life was extinct." It seems likely that number 80 was built for the Doctor, or at least that he was one of its earliest occupants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Good find Edmund. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 80 Burcot Road, Meersbrook. Cairns Charles Hodge M.n., C.M. surgeon. 1901 & 1905. Wynne Clifford J. F. deputy registrar of births & deaths. 1911. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckweed Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 So basically just a flashy Doctor. There goes my artist theory because of there being more light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Died a long way from Meersbrook? Monday, February 05, 1900. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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