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Blocked well shaft outside old Register Office. The well supplied water to Truswell's Brewery, Eyre Street.

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Is there still evidence of it? 

 

Inscription by the Old Register Office, off Arundel Gate. 

Inscription reads. Site of well. Former Eyre Street Brewery. 210 feet deep. Circa 1800. Filled 1988.

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There seems to have been a few wells discovered in centre of Sheffield in the 1960's during redevelopment. 

Well in Sycamore Street showing Pond Street bus station behind. 20th May 1965. 

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Well on site of Cole Brothers, Fargate. 26th June 1965.

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Well on Campo Lane, 21st October 1966.

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Well in yard to Norfolk Street side of Walker and Hall Ltd. March 1965. 

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Also earlier:

Old Well discovered when clearing site of an old house back of Empire Works, Norfolk Street, pump delivery pipe bored out of solid wood. 1938.

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And later:

Well in the former building of Pawson and Brailsford, printers and stationers, Parade Chambers, No. 1, High Street/East Parade. 

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Came across this linked pair on A57 Manchester Road below Bell Hagg.

The higher one may be a later addition as not on the map below 

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Tidily linking the well s and trough theme, there's two stone troughs at "The Potters Well" spring in Midhopestones

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Kittling Troughs. 

Plan of Freehold Estates in the Hamlets of Owlerton and Wadsley in the Township of Bradfield in the Parish of Ecclesfield for sale by auction. 27th October 1857.

 

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Included in the Sale. 

Lot 1. A Parcel of Pasture Land with a valuable frontage to the Halifax and Sheffield Turnpike Road, called the Kittling Troughs, (tenant Benjamin Oates).

Lot 2. A Parcel of valuable Building Land with a frontage to the Halifax and Sheffield Turnpike Road called the Large Kittling Troughs. 

Are they named after Horse Troughs or something totally different?

 

Lot 11. A Parcel of Building Land with three valuable frontages to the Turnpike and Public Roads, called the Well Field and part of Machin Field (tenant James Roberts).

 

Edit: Found this photograph of Kitling Croft Farm, Penistone Road. 

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Sheffield Flood Claim  No. 4763 Benjamin Oates, cutler and farmer, claim for Kitting Crofts. 

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On 30/10/2023 at 15:09, Ponytail said:

Former horse trough from Hunter's Bar, now in a field bounded by Hangram Lane and Cottage Lane. Hangram Lane Farm in background. June 1996. 

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Snowy Sunset, Whiteley Wood Green, Sheffield. (The Old Horse Trough Was Formerly At Hunters Bar.)

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Horse Trough at Hunter's Bar. 

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Entrance to Endcliffe Park, Ecclesall Road from Hunters Bar showing old horse trough (centre) 26th February 1933. 

 

Roundabout, Hunter's Bar, Ecclesall Road, showing the old horse trough. Entrance to Endcliffe Park, centre. 17th January 1955. 

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Hunter's Bar showing Horse Trough 1904. 

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Hunter's Bar, Ecclesall Road, from Junction Road. Endcliffe Park, left. Horse Trough, centre. 

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Water trough from the yard of the Tontine Inn, Haymarket. 

Trough was taken from the yard of the Tontine Hotel, 22 Old Haymarket which was an important Coaching Inn in the 1800's.

Removed to Kenwood House, Sharrow c.1850 according to an article in the Edgar Allen Works and Sports magazine, c. 1928 (Sheffield City Archives: BC/19/2)

Tontine Inn built 1785 and probably the largest public house in Sheffield at the time with 12,000 sq foot of banqueting hall on the 2nd floor. It had stabling for 60 horses and its own brewery; cottages for the footmen were built behind the Hotel. It was one of the three main coach departure centres for routes all over England; the others were The Angel, Snig Hill and The Kings Head, Change Alley.

Demolished in 1851 to make way for the Old Norfolk Market Hall. 

 

Is the trough still there? Are/were people informed the history of it? 

 

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2 hours ago, SteveHB said:

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It isn't in the field at Hangram/Cottage Lane anymore!!  it 'disappeared' a good few years ago.

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1 minute ago, Heartshome said:

It isn't in the field at Hangram/Cottage Lane anymore!!  it 'disappeared' a good few years ago.

Suppose it was too much of a temptation for someone. Hope they didn't smash it up. Perhaps one day someone will see a photo and say, "That's just like ours" and start to research its origins. 

You can live in hope. 

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50 minutes ago, Ponytail said:

Suppose it was too much of a temptation for someone. Hope they didn't smash it up. Perhaps one day someone will see a photo and say, "That's just like ours" and start to research its origins. 

You can live in hope. 

My friend, who lives just down the road, thinks it may have been sold!

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12 hours ago, Heartshome said:

My friend, who lives just down the road, thinks it may have been sold!

 

12 hours ago, Heartshome said:

My friend, who lives just down the road, thinks it may have been sold!

 

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14 hours ago, Ponytail said:

Suppose it was too much of a temptation for someone. Hope they didn't smash it up. Perhaps one day someone will see a photo and say, "That's just like ours" and start to research its origins. 

You can live in hope. 

 

13 hours ago, Heartshome said:

My friend, who lives just down the road, thinks it may have been sold!

 

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On 30/10/2023 at 11:21, Ponytail said:

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t11620  Water trough, Thorn House Lane, Brightholmlee. 2009.

Photographer: Mary Rhodes. 

Situated just after the sign for Brightholmlee and before the junction with Brightolmlee Road. 

 

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2 hours ago, SteveHB said:

 

 

I will ask my friend to try and find out if it IS still with the farmer, though no one has seen it.

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On 30/10/2023 at 11:27, Ponytail said:

Is this trough still there? 

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Water trough at corner of Devonshire Terrace Road and Causeway Head Road, Dore. 13th September 1983.

 

Yes

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WATERING TROUGH GREEN
Close to this stone
Is the site of one of the
Six historic greens of Dore
The adjacent water trough
Was used for horses until
The middle of the last century

 

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3 hours ago, SteveHB said:

 

 

THIS IS THE TROUGH THAT WAS AT HUNTERS BAR, THEN IN HANGRAM FIELD. - 

THEN Bayleaf photo IN A FRONT GARDEN AT BENTS GREEN 2013.

Information about the Hunters Bar Trough states, it was dedicated to Henry Wilson.

So my friend was right, the farmer had SOLD it.

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12 minutes ago, Heartshome said:

THIS IS THE TROUGH THAT WAS AT HUNTERS BAR, THEN IN HANGRAM FIELD. - 

THEN Bayleaf photo IN A FRONT GARDEN AT BENTS GREEN 2013.

Information about the Hunters Bar Trough states, it was dedicated to Henry Wilson.

                                                                                              Regards Heartshome

Yes, Edmund worked that one out, a while ago 🙂

 

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Probably long since gone but good to record all the same: Broom Hall Spring, Spring Garden Well. 

An extract from: "Reminiscences of old Sheffield, it's streets and it's people." edited 1875 by R. E. Leader from articles and letters from The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 1872/3.

Page 153.

"Our old friend's description of Broomhall Spring, which he remembered when he was about 10 years old — in 1791 — was very interesting. "I very well remember," said he, "coming with my father through the wood called Broomhall Spring. It extended from about Wilkinson Street to Broomhall Park. It was full of very fine oak trees, with very little underwood, and the turf was soft like that of a park. I remember very well seeing the trees and the grass, and the sunlight gleaming among them. Not long afterwards the wood was cut down. The Government was then wanting a great deal of oak timber for ship-building, and the trees in Broomhall Spring were sold for that purpose. The roots were dug up, and the land turned into the gardens of which we have been speaking."The inscription on the stone over the trough was still there up to 1836. It ran: — "Spring Garden Well. To the public use, by the Rev. James Wilkinson and Philip Gell, Esq. Freely take — freely communicate — thank God" its site is now enclosed in the garden of the house at the corner of Gell Street and Conway Street."

What is there now on that corner? 

 

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1 hour ago, Calvin72 said:

 

 

 

What's the saying, Impossible straight away, miracles take a little bit longer. 😂🤣

 

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