Sheffield in 1927

[Sheffield History]

 

 

 

Sheffield in 1927. Looking upriver from around the Royal Victoria Hotel towards the City Centre

[Heartshome]

Our ancestors hard, dirty, dangerous work, often as not, rendered them ill, with the lack of healthy conditions

and low wages, so as not to be able to afford the proper healthcare. They suffered in those days, to put food 

on the family table, and pay their way in life, often living in squalid conditions. Dying much before their time.

YET! I find that so many of them were 'proud' to be producing CUTLERY, PEWTER, SILVER or STEEL products,

there seemed to be a honour among them, that they were Sheffielders, making items that went all over the

world, as well as for their own City.

Little would they have known back in those heavy industry days, that the future family members of the 

workers, would also be suffering as of now, being a result of the method used to produce those products.

                                                   Heartshome

 

[Lysanderix]

“Weer thers muck thers munny”….True for some ,but for many it was a recipe for a ….“poor ,brutish and short life.”

[Heartshome]

4 hours ago, Lysanderix said:

“Weer thers muck thers munny”….True for some ,but for many it was a recipe for a ….“poor ,brutish and short life.”

You're so right!  Sheffield was probably where that saying came from! also ending sometimes in ..... thers brass"

[tozzin]

12 hours ago, Heartshome said:

You're so right!  Sheffield was probably where that saying came from! also ending sometimes in ..... thers brass"

I assumed the  “ There’s Brass “ saying was more North Yorkshire or not South Yorkshire.