History dude Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 What is known about the refuse depot on Lumley Street. When did it come into use? What changes it went through? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 Ref No:s12535 Title:Refuse Collection Lorries, Lumley Street Location:Sheffield_Nunnery Date:1915 Date Period:1900-1919 Photographer:Cleansing Department Copyright::SCC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 I have contacted the Sheffield Archives so hopefully they can give us more information on when Lumley Street first opened. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 Councillor Holiday Published: August 15 1895 (Councillor Holiday). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 Published: August 22 1896 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 December 23 1899, extension in progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 Published: September 15 1897 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Wow, Sentinel steam lorries! But what are the ones with the boxy protruding bonnets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tozzin Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Just received an answer to my enquiry email from the Sheffield Archives. Thank you for your E-Mail regarding when the Lumley Street refuse centre opened. According to our online catalogue there is amongst the Council Minutes (Ref: CA-HEA/1/9) from 1892 mention of the Council being recommended to purchase a site in Lumley Street for a refuse destructor. In the Minutes which cover 1894 a surveyor was requested to prepare specifications for a refuse destructor on Lumley Street (CA-HEA/1/11). Council Minutes for 1894-1895 appear to indicate that George Longden and Son had been awarded the contract for the erection of destructor buildings on Lumley Street (CA-MIN 30). The Sheffield Cleansing Department Annual Report for the year ending 25th March 1898 held at the Local Studies Library (352.4 SQ) states that ‘So far back as the year 1892, the present site in Lumley Street was purchased for the purpose of erecting thereon a Refuse Destructor and a six cell Destructor has been erected, capable of burning 60 tons of wet ashpit refuse without the aid of coal or coke, per day of 24 hours.’ Therefore it would appear the refuse destructor on Lumley Street would have opened between 1895 and 1898. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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