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Where does the name "Blonk" Street come from?


Andrew

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The cutler's apprentice could have been on the river Don. The weirs which powered the waterwheels were built in the 1500s and there's been a Walk Mill on the river Don since 1581. The first weir you come to on the 5 Weirs Walk, at Effingham St had a goyt (channel) leading from above the weir to the waterwheel at Walk Mill, to power grindstones for sharpening cutlery (although originally it had been a fuller's workshop). In 1841 the tenant was named on a census, as Geo. Hodgson, so still going in Victorian times!

By then there was an upper and lower Walk Mills workshop.

Source: "Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers" edited by David Crossley. Published 1989 see Local Studies Library. 

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