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During the present cold spell the canal is frozen over.

This panorama is almost a 180 degree view of the canal

Fine, fine picture. Thank you.

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Panorama view of the Grain Warehouse,

built about 1889 by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Rail Company.

It was used to store off-loaded corn for distribution to local Mills & Breweries.

Similar view taken today

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During the present cold spell the canal is frozen over.

This panorama is almost a 180 degree view of the canal

Don't walk on the ice Stuart, it can be dangerous if it breaks and drops you in the canal.

There was an item on TV news yesterday about some canal boat people somewhere in Yorkshire.

They live on their boats and the boats can't move because they are ice bound.

Their living quarters on the boat are below deck and therefore below water (ice) level

I can't image the boat hull being all that good an insulator so it must be freezing cold for them.

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These 2 brick pillars/piers are obviously the remains of the old railway bridge which once linked Park Goods Station to the main line.

When was this bridge demolished

Are there any photos of this bridge.

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These 2 brick pillars/piers are obviously the remains of the old railway bridge which once linked Park Goods Station to the main line.

When was this bridge demolished

Are there any photos of this bridge.

I also wonder when the bridge was demolished?

It can be seen in the first 90 seconds of this 1959 film from the Yorkshire Archives

and on a couple of picturesheffield photos ..

Park Station Bridge

Park Station Bridge 02

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Canal wharf in 1854

William Codington, jun. wharfinger

to the Dun River Co.

Mrs. Ann Brown, coal merchant.

Joseph Clarke & Co. coal merchants.

Rhodes & Smith, coal merchants.

Joseph Henry Sales, coal merchant.

John Whaley, wharfinger & boatowner.

George Wharam,

agent to John Whaley's steam & sailing vessels,

& agent to Brownlow, Pearson & Co.'s Hull & London & foreign steamboats.

Gardam, Earl & Woodall, insurance brokers, shipping agents,

wharfinger's & proprietors of regular clipper schooners.

Robson & Hartley, potato merchants

Cowling Joseph & Co. potato merchants

(canal gates)

(wharfinger. n. owner or manager of a wharf.)

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Canal Wharf, 1925

(Wharf street)

Furley & Co Ltd, canal carriers.

Hull, Goole & Sheffield Transport Co Ltd, canal carriers.

Alex Meek & Sons, shipping agents.

W Bleasdale & Co Limited, canal carriers.

Canal Weigh Office

22 Newton Charles, coal merchant.

21 Charles Dawson, railway wagon repairer.

20 William Clarke, coal merchant.

19 A M Coggan & Co, coal merchant.

19 Samuel H Pilley, coal merchant.

16, 17 & 18 Jonathan Longbotham & Sons Ltd, coal merchants.

13 J Moore & Son, coal merchants.

Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation Co (weigh office)

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Here's a view of the Terminal (Grain) Warehouse in 1826, just 7 years after it was built. The only way to get a "then and now" view would be from one of the offices in the Straddle Warehouse which is now "in the way" (and has been since 1900)

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Here's a view of the Terminal (Grain) Warehouse in 1826, just 7 years after it was built. The only way to get a "then and now" view would be from one of the offices in the Straddle Warehouse which is now "in the way" (and has been since 1900)

attachicon.gifCanal Terminal Warehouse 1826_1.png

The engraving pre-dates 1826, bottom left is the Duke of Norfolk's Hospital & Chapel (Shrewsbury Hospital),

rebuilt on Norfolk Road in 1823, think the old hospital was demolished within twelve months.

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The engraving pre-dates 1826, bottom left is the Duke of Norfolk's Hospital & Chapel (Shrewsbury Hospital),

rebuilt on Norfolk Road in 1823, think the old hospital was demolished within twelve months.

The Act to enable the move of the Hospital was passed in 1823. The Local Register says that work on the new hospital commenced in July 1825. The Act to remove the markets to to old hospital site was passed in May 1827. In May of that year the new Chapel at the Hospital was opened. In September 1828 there were still cases of looting of lead from the roof of the Old Hospital Chapel.

I'd assume that the new premise were ready before the old hospital was demolished, so I guess the old buildings could well have still been in place during 1826?

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The Act to enable the move of the Hospital was passed in 1823. The Local Register says that work on the new hospital commenced in July 1825. The Act to remove the markets to to old hospital site was passed in May 1827. In May of that year the new Chapel at the Hospital was opened. In September 1828 there were still cases of looting of lead from the roof of the Old Hospital Chapel.

I'd assume that the new premise were ready before the old hospital was demolished, so I guess the old buildings could well have still been in place during 1826?

Sorry, my mistake.

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