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mickjj

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In 1874 a plan was produced by the Sheffield architects, Innocent and Brown, for the laying out of Leopold Street and the realignment of Church Street and Bow Street (now West Street). In 1876 the area between Orchard Lane, West Street, Orchard Street and Balm Green was covered by a huddle of old houses in two streets now gone (Smith Street and Sands Paviours). This site was bought by the Sheffield School Board (SSB) for building the Central Schools and offices for themselves. At this time, Mark Firth (of steel fame) was interested in founding an Adult Education College which he intended should become a University College, so the Board sold him part of the site at the corner of West Street. The new building, called the Firth College after it's benefactor, was opened by Prince Leopold (hence Leopold Street) in 1879.

Sands Paviours

Sands Paviours

Map 1855

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I also recall reading something about the Sheffield murderer/violinist Charles Peace operating around that area/time too

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The Peoples' College, Orchard Street, started in George street in 1842 by Rev R.S.Bayley, but moved to Orchard street shortly afterward.

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Part of Robert Brightmore's late premises at the top of Church Lane bought by Wild and Pass.1820, 1824.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04043&pos=4&action=zoom&id=90822

Also, other property of Wild and Pass and Ann Hancock in Orchard Lane and Sands Paver [Sands Paviours].

The plan has been cut and pasted to an outline of the adjacent properties and the first suggested line of Bow Street drawn across.

Refers to John Sheldon, Orchard Lane,  Church Street, William Pass, James Wild, Independent Methodists Society, Ann Hancock, John Milward, Bow Street. 

 

Firth College, Leopold Street / Bow Street, 1891

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc07488&pos=400&action=zoom&id=106877

Shows Sands Paviours. 

 

 

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