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Milk Street Academy. 

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Brief History of Milk Street and the Academy

https://sheffielder.net/2022/11/03/milk-street-swept-away-by-the-construction-of-arundel-gate/

 

Book Plate for Mr Bowling's Classical, Commercial and Mathematical Academy, Milk Street, Sheffield. 

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Original at Local Studies MP 6443 M.

 

Leeds Library Special Collections, Milk Street Academy ( Sheffield) 

https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/participant/68118

 

Includes Milk Street Academy. 

https://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2017/05/good-job-reward-books-from-early-19th-century-english-schools/

 

Milk Street from Norfolk Street, Nos. 43-45 Harry Hartley and Son Ltd., hardware store (former Milk Street Academy). February 1964.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s17929&pos=7&action=zoom&id=20613

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s17930&pos=8&action=zoom&id=20614

 

A Plan of the Tenements and Ground held of the Earl of Surrey by the Heirs of the late John Trout and assigned by them to John Schofield containing in the whole 398 yards, 1778. 

Surveyor: William Fairbank II.

Property on the corner of Norfolk Street and Milk Street, including the School House (1771 Petticoat Lane); erectors of buildings named; measurements. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03211&pos=22&action=zoom&id=98297

A plan of the tenement and ground held of the Earl of Surrey by the heirs of John Trout and assigned by them to John Schofield. 1778.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03656&pos=23&action=zoom&id=99206

 

A Plan of the Sundry Tenements [property] of the Earl of Surrey in Norfolk Street, Arundel Street [Sycamore Lane] and Pond Lane. 1780.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04171&pos=25&action=zoom&id=104512

Shows Norfolk Street, Arundel Street, Bowling Green Lane, Pond Lane, Pond Mill Dam, Shude Hill, road to Pond Mill, Slaughter House Lane, Milk Street, Pond Well, Pond Well Hill, and Change Alley.

Note: Sycamore Street is named Arundel Street on this plan; probably by a mistake, as the Arundel Street shown on FC/P/SheS/745 (1787) is the same as the modern street.

Tenants: Joseph Ibberson, Joseph Mitchell, Ann Genn, Thomas Siddall, Margaret Nutt, Mary Naw, Robert Higginbottom, John Schofield, Eliz. Dickinson, John Linthwaite and sister, Eliz. Rodgers, Titus Salt, George Clark, James Kaye, Thomas Pearson, Robert Baxton, Thomas Lambert, John Hammond, John Walter, Thomas Laycock’s heirs, William South, Edward Hawke, Josephus Parkin, John Greaves, Thomas Law’s heirs, Thomas Darwin, Samuel Shepley, Thomas Wilkinson, The Whitelead Co., The Widow Newton, Samuel Broomhead, Robert Lambert, George Badger, Jonathan Hale, Joseph Hall, Sarah Chapman, William ?, Robert [Unwin], John Parkes, Richard Wilson, and others (illegible). 

 

The property which became John Schofield property is The Unmarked Property between Benjamin Damms & Milk Street was later part of the Milk Street Academy. 

Property between Norfolk Street and Sycamore Street, occupied by Benjamin Damms, John Barber and George Dalton, 1828. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04173&pos=21&action=zoom&id=104514

Shows: Milk Street, Mulberrry Street, George Street, and Sycamore Street.Tenants / owners: Benjamin Damms, John Barber, George Dalton and Thomas Caverley. 

 

Extract from: Reminiscences of old Sheffield, it's Street and its People. From letters Editor Robert Eadon Leader, from articles and letters in The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 1872/3. Page 247-248. 

Wragg:   ..... Near, in Milk Street, is Mr. Bowling's School, celebrated as being kept by the late Mr. J. H. Abraham, who, besides having the best school in the town, was of a mechanical turn of mind, for in 1822 he invented a magnetic apparatus for the protection of persons employed in dry grinding.

Twiss: A testimonial was presented to him in that year, "in token of respect for his talents, and in acknowledgment of his services to an afflicted class of workmen by his ingenious invention;" and he also received the gold medal of the Society of Arts for the same invention.

Johnson: Like many other things that are theoretically sound, the magnetic apparatus was practically useless. The great complaint against it was, I believe, that it was speedily choked with the fragments of metal attracted, and then the respiration of the workman was distressingly hindered.

 

Holy Green House, The Moor, between Eldon Street and Prince Street. Home of Thomas Holy, who entertained John Wesley there. Mr. Abraham, principal of Milk St. Academy, resided here, also used for boarders and evening classes

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Thomas Holy, a member of a very old Sheffield family of manufacturers and merchants lived at Holy Green House which stood in a large garden, with a long green lawn in front, on Sheffield Moor, between Eldon Street and Prince Street. Mr Abraham, the Principal of the Milk Street Academy, had Holy Green House for boarders and evening classes. Mr Abraham also resided here, but left in 1839. It was afterwards used by the Sisters of Notre Dame prior to their premises in Convent Walk. In 1870 it was the Ecclesall Club.

 

 

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