Alfred Unwin, Steel Manufacturer & Merchant, Whiteley Wood & Blonk Street

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Alfred Unwin, steel manufacturer, Whiteley Wood & Blonk Street. 

Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862.

 

Whites Directory 1852

Unwin, Alfred, steel & file manufacturer, Whiteley Wood & St. James Street. 

Unwin, Henry & Co., iron & Steel merchants 9 St. James Street, steel converters, 49 Wicker & forgers, Whiteley Wood. h. Broom Cross. 

Whites Directory 1857

Unwin, Alfred, file and steel manufacturer, Whiteley Wood, warehouse, 13 St. James Street. 

Unwin Hy & Co., iron & steel merchants, steel converters etc., 11 & 13 St. James Street, works Whiteley Wood & 49 Wicker, h. Broom Cross, Cadman's ln, Tree Root Walk. 

Whites Directory 1862

Unwin, Alfred, steel and file manufacturer, Blonk Street & Whiteley Wood Forge.

Unwin, Henry & Co., iron and steel merchants and steel converters, 9 and 13, St. James Street and 49, Wicker. h. Broom Cross, Glossop Road. 

 

From Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers, edited by David Crossley with Jean Cass, Nevell Flavell, Colin Turner. 

Old Forge or Whiteley Wood Forge, Porter Brook. 

Extract.   "After 1835, Miss Silcock, grand-daughter of Thomas Boulsover took over the running of the Whiteley Wood Estate and in a lease to Henry Unwin & Co., there are two iron water- wheels, one 14ft diameter and 6ft wide, the other 12ft by 6ft 10in, together with a steam engine of about 12hp. Alfred Unwin appears in the first extant rate book of 1838/9 and is entered for the Forge until the mid 1860's but not until the 1870's is the steam engine entered."

Old Forge and Workshops (also known as Whiteley Wood Forge) Forge Dam, Whiteley Wood.

Dam and Forge

 

Elevated View of Forge Dam & Old Forge and Workshops

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10415&pos=34&action=zoom&id=13483

Old Forge (Whiteley Wood Forge) Plan 1826

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc06218&pos=31&action=zoom&id=144152

 

Whiteley Wood Forge

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Whiteley_Wood_Forge

 

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Sheffield Flood Claim. 

Henry Unwin, Steel Merchant & File Manufacturer, 49 Wicker. 

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=3-2689

 

Alfred Unwin, Steel Manufacturer, Blonk Street. 

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=6-5114

 

Richard Bayley, gentleman of Castle Dyke, for Furnace situated in Blonk Street in the occupation of Alfred Unwin. 

2 converting furnaces. One needing to be rebuilt the other, damage to the walls, roof and cellar arch. Damage to other buildings and foundation wall next to the river. 

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=4-3727

 

 

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Henry Unwin & Co. 

Broom Cross. 

1850's Map

 

1903 Map 

 

Link to. 

Before the Hallamshire was built. 

https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/18221-before-the-hallamshire-was-built/