SteveHB Posted October 24 Share Posted October 24 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3642563,-1.5355162,15.83z?entry=ttu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 24 Author Share Posted October 24 https://www.copperplatepictures.com/products/valentines-series-postcard-whiteley-woods-entrance-sheffield https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3687163,-1.5191393,3a,72.9y,214.3h,89.71t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 24 Author Share Posted October 24 Thank you Heartshome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 25 Author Share Posted October 25 Could be Wire Mill Dam? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ponytail Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 48 minutes ago, SteveHB said: The couple dressed in their Sunday best are doing what my Grandad would call Promanading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 1 hour ago, SteveHB said: Could be Wire Mill Dam? Agree, I think it's Wire Mill Dam. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10394&pos=65&action=zoom&id=13534 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartshome Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 3 hours ago, SteveHB said: Could be Wire Mill Dam? It certainly is!! It was very well known for WINTER SKATING at one time, when we had 'proper winters', and they used it for MODEL BOATS as well. Our gang used to fish for FRESH WATER MUSSELS in there, much to the amusement of passers bye. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 There aren't many fellows in top hats to be seen there nowadays. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 26 Author Share Posted October 26 14 hours ago, Ponytail said: https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10394&pos=65&action=zoom&id=13534 Not convinced that this photograph is Wire Mill Dam? https://www.picturesheffield.com/Ref_Nos10394 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 26 Author Share Posted October 26 Wire Mill Dam s10392 Wire Mill Dam y01832 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartshome Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 3 hours ago, SteveHB said: Not convinced that this photograph is Wire Mill Dam? https://www.picturesheffield.com/Ref_Nos10394 Hi Steve. no, me thinks this is the IBBOTSON WHEEL DAM at Porter Glen, Whiteley Woods. The one that runs parallel to Westwood Road. There used to be the works down the bottom end, and in the early 1900s, Ibbotson ran a Tea Room. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 26 Author Share Posted October 26 1 hour ago, Heartshome said: Hi Steve. no, me thinks this is the IBBOTSON WHEEL DAM at Porter Glen, Whiteley Woods. The one that runs parallel to Westwood Road. There used to be the works down the bottom end, and in the early 1900s, Ibbotson ran a Tea Room. Circa 1903 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 Another image of Ibbotsons Wheel Dam. s10410 Porterglen Boating Dam, former dam belonging to Ibbotson Wheel, 4th Endcliffe Wheel, (also known as Upper Spurgear Wheel) Postcard postmarked 1907. For further information see: Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers edited by David Crossley. Ref: 621.21 SQ. I've contacted Mark Goodwill at Picture Sheffield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 26 Author Share Posted October 26 1 hour ago, Ponytail said: Another image of Ibbotsons Wheel Dam. s10410 Porterglen Boating Dam, former dam belonging to Ibbotson Wheel, 4th Endcliffe Wheel, (also known as Upper Spurgear Wheel) Postcard postmarked 1907. For further information see: Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers edited by David Crossley. Ref: 621.21 SQ. I've contacted Mark Goodwill at Picture Sheffield. So the Spire seen in the background, would be Saint John's Church, on Ranmoor Park Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartshome Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 2 hours ago, Ponytail said: Another image of Ibbotsons Wheel Dam. s10410 Porterglen Boating Dam, former dam belonging to Ibbotson Wheel, 4th Endcliffe Wheel, (also known as Upper Spurgear Wheel) Postcard postmarked 1907. For further information see: Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers edited by David Crossley. Ref: 621.21 SQ. I've contacted Mark Goodwill at Picture Sheffield. This is a nice Pic of the dam isn't it?. Yes, I emailed Mark too, as soon as I realised the Pic TITLE was wrong. Thanks H 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartshome Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 Here are 3 more Postcard Photo's from my own collection:- Although quite a few images of this are around, I got this one, as it says CHRISTMAS GREETINGS, it was posted 22-12-1907 but clearly, it is a summertime photo. Also note the house on the left behind the bushes! This was the Managers house to the works. This one was not posted so no date, but it's positively early 1900s, as the wall along the edge of where cars park now going along the drive round to the Forge Dam, is still there. This one also has no date, but is positively before 1924, as there is NO lower stone garden wall of Beech Dene, on the right edge, just soil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 Like Heartshome I fished for mussels at Wire Mill Dam (though always putting them back, usually at speed, in the direction of the ducks). Aged about 10 my Dad used to take me and my inflatable dinghy there, and I would row up and down. I used to imagine that I could see lots of sunken model boats on the bottom, and day-dreamed about using a long pole with a hook to "raise the Titanics". Thomas Boulsover started construction of the dam and goits in 1761. Originally it was a saw-mill with two dams. By 1794 it was a rolling-mill, with 8 troughs, and employed 8 men. After Boulsover's death, a Mrs Hutton is named as occupier in the rate books, and after 1800 Hutton & Mitchell operated it. After 1817 Mitchell Wreaks and Co. advertised as manufacturers of scythes, saws and edge-tools, though they also had premises in town. In 1826 there were still two water wheels, comprising four saw troughs with glazers, and six edge-tool troughs with glazers. On Samuel Mitchell's bankruptcy in 1832 half the works was put up for sale and the advert included a rolling mill, emery mill and circular saw mill as well as troughs. The Silcocks took over the Hall and works, Phoebe Silcock being Thomas Boulsover's grand-daughter. The 1841 rate book lists three wheels (probably buildings rather than water wheels) - an Emery wheel, a Saw wheel and a Cutler wheel. The emery wheel was often unoccupied. Possibly around 1855 the dam was was converted from two to one, and one wheel dismantled the remaining wheel driving a wire-mill. The final occupier was Charles Ramsden who advertised in 1865 as a "manufacturer of all kinds of cast steel wire, for crinoline, ropes, fish hooks, needles &c" In 1896 the Parks Committee purchased the Dam and adjacent property, as an addition to the existing Endcliffe Woods public park. The property was in two parts (25 and 16 acres) and cost £6,100. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 27 Author Share Posted October 27 Forge Dam, c.1903 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 27 Author Share Posted October 27 Ibbotson Wheel Dam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysanderix Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 It’s a part of our city I have to admit that I scarcely know ,and for years have had a distant memory of a lake and a narrow path.I have often wondered where it was …. from Devon to Cornwall…..and now I know! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy117 Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 11 hours ago, Edmund said: I used to imagine that I could see lots of sunken model boats on the bottom, and day-dreamed about using a long pole with a hook to "raise the Titanics". Unless they have dredged it, there's a couple of mine on the bottom from when I did model boats in the '70's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ponytail Posted October 28 Share Posted October 28 Plan of Whiteley Wood Works and Wire Mill Dam, Porter Brook, Whiteley Wood Road (formerly the works of Thomas Boulsover), c. 1826 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc06219&pos=235&action=zoom&id=102554 Plan of the Whiteley Wood Works and other property belonging to Samuel Mitchell and Co., [1826] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03974&pos=233&action=zoom&id=102552 Upper Forge (Forge Dam), Porter Brook at Ivy Cottage Lane, c. 1826 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc06218&pos=234&action=zoom&id=102553 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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