dunsbyowl1867 Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I keep coming across large numbers of old postcards of Wyming Brook in Sheffield from the beginning of the last century. Anybody know why? I'd never heard of it before - I assume it's at t'other side of town from where I grew up. is it still a "beauty" spot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsavo Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 It's on the Redmires Road, past Lodge Moor hospital and maybe a mile or so past it. You come to a right turn which will take you all the way to Manchester Road by Rivelin Dams if you follow it. The favorite place to stop was just at this junction. There is a small stream for the kids to play. If you continue straight on you will come to a dam (Redmires?) and can walk from there to Stanage pole on the old Roman road and from there to Stanage Edge. An old favourite walk of ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Found this interesting article about a Sheffield family befriending a German pow, a mention of Wyming Brook in it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/personal_stori...a_bennett.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl1867 Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share Posted June 8, 2007 Found this interesting article about a Sheffield family befriending a German pow, a mention of Wyming Brook in it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/personal_stori...a_bennett.shtml Thanks Steve. That's a great story - was the prisoner of war camp at Redmires? re Wyming Brook - thanks for the map most times we visit Sheffield we go walking in Derebyshire, drive through Rivelin and onto Ladybower. Never noticed that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 The POW camp was off Redmires Road in the Lodge Moor area, opposite a pub called 'The Three Merry Lads'. O/S NGR of its location is ... SK2795 8598. MultiMap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huthwaite Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 A trip to Wyming Brook was a favourite of my family where we would make dams and picnic by the brook, if you continue towards Redmires Dam, there you will find on the left hand side of the road next to a gatepost, an old stone public house sign, I remember that it depicts fish but cannot remember any more, at this site there was a public house either built or converted to serve the navvies who were building the reservoir. Further on to your right there is the entrance to a large house known as Ocean View, I believe this served as the lodge to a much larger shooting lodge, which I remember came up for sale about twenty years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 The sign was for the 'Grouse and Trout Inn'. The next nearest fully licensed places were the Plough at Sandygate, the Rising Sun at Nether green, and the Norfolk Arms at Ringinglow. The Three Merry Lads and The Sportsman were Ale Houses then. The Grouse and Trout was a favourite destination on Bank Holidays, even though it meant the tram to Nether Green and a walk the rest of the way! It's said it lost its licence in 1913 because the owner, William Wilson of Beauchief Hall, who also owned the nearby grouse moors, believed that the advent of a bus service to Lodge Moor which was then starting would bring loads of Sheffielders who would trespass on the moors and ruin the shooting. The building was finally demolished in the 1950's, leaving just the lonely sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bangtidy Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Ive seen the sign yes very impressive and wasnt there a race course up there at sometime im sure ive read? Lodge moor was a place we visited often as kids and wed catch the 52 lodgemoor bus i think to terminus and head off across the opposite field and down round along steep embankment full of heather then down and round pass a dam then up a winding road passed a lake to wyming brook i believe and then along the road back to play on the three merry lads field overlooking the dam with refreshments, we used to have some great times they used to have a bouncy castle sometimes, them was the days...... Any one got any old maps of the area? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 That's right Bangtidy, the racecourse was built after the existing one near Broomhill was closed when the land was enclosed as part of the Parliamentary Enclosures. A group af businessmen decided to open a new course at Lodge Moor. It occupied approximately 65 acres facing the Three Merry Lads. It cost £15,000, and the first meetings, usually three days long, were held in1795 The course was elaborately designed and enclosed, (you can still see parts of the wall, the high well-built one just along from the 3 Merry Lads on the other side of the road and by racecourse farm on the other side) and included a grandstand. Horses and jockeys were accommodated at Racecourse Farm, the jockeys being housed above the horseboxes. The course was eventually abandoned after only 2 to 3 years, being too remote to attract the crowds. The site was subsequently used for Redmires Camp, and the adjacent field was used by the Royal Flying Corps for defending Sheffield from Zeppelin raids. After the First World War the council bought the site. Most of the huts were pulled down, the few that remained were used in the 1920’s as a smallpox isolation hospital during the outbreak of October 1925. The hospital was extended in 1926 and 1927. In 1939 the camp returned to military use as POW camp with barbed wire and searchlights. This was built on the parade ground of the former First World War camp. In 1949 it was reviewed as possible site for a housing estate, but was considered too remote. The Council finally sold the site last year I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dan Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 A trip to Wyming Brook was a favourite of my family where we would make dams and picnic by the brook, if you continue towards Redmires Dam, there you will find on the left hand side of the road next to a gatepost, an old stone public house sign, I remember that it depicts fish but cannot remember any more, at this site there was a public house either built or converted to serve the navvies who were building the reservoir. Further on to your right there is the entrance to a large house known as Ocean View, I believe this served as the lodge to a much larger shooting lodge, which I remember came up for sale about twenty years ago. Ocean View was a pub too i believe at some point in its life. As for the shooting lodge, that was called Stanage lodge and i lived there for 15 years from 1981. The drive to it is just before the roman road starts, there are two gateways, one for Stanage Lodge and another for Fairthorne Lodge which im told by my dad was the servants quaters for Stanage in years gone by. If you go upto Stanedge pole and look back at sheffield then turn 90 degrees to the left, you can see Stanage Lodge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carlie167 Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Just had a lovely afternoon at Wyming Brook. Yes it is still very much a beauty spot, and the walk up along the side of the brook itself is fabulous, but really gets the old circulation going!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmcee Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 There is also the man-made stone trench like conduit which was built back in the 1830s to supply water to sheffield.. it actually taps the source of the river Rivelin or an early contributary stream out on the moor, and bends round the side of the hill to redmires damn area, which wasn't a damn when the conduit was first built. This part of the conduit was half blocked off when I was younger but has been made open access recently. After redmires it runs past the old POW camp area, now a gypsy camp, and past the back of lodge moor hospital, now a housing estate, under the 'Spider park' and crimicar lane and past the back of hallam school. It used to originally run all the way to an underground resevoir in Crookes, the field opposite the Old Grindstone pub which has recently been built on (another bit of history lost). Apparently it used to have an aqueduct around the site of the new Tapton school and then go through a tunnel under Lodge lane hill to the underground resevoir opposite the grindstone. All I can remember was someone falling in it near hallam school "The back path" . I never knew what it was back then. I geeked up on it over the years. That part of the conduit has since been filled in. I went to redmires a couple of weeks ago and the top damn was empty and I noticed a single stone sticking up in the middle of the empty resevoir. A nearby old man told me it was a very old sign from the roman road saying something like "sheffield 5 miles" or something. Similar to the one on redmires road next to the golf course. hello btw this is my first post sorry for the off topic rambling. It's probably only of interest to people who know the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsavo Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Not rambling at all, Jmcee, an excellent, informative first post. Welcome and keep the posts coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I went to redmires a couple of weeks ago and the top damn was empty and I noticed a single stone sticking up in the middle of the empty resevoir. A nearby old man told me it was a very old sign from the roman road saying something like "sheffield 5 miles" or something. Similar to the one on redmires road next to the golf course. That's exactly what it is jmcee. It's a guide stoop for the old packhorse route out of Sheffield into Derbyshire, the same one marked by the Barncliffe stoop near the golf course. (And welcome to the forum!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huthwaite Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 The sign was for the 'Grouse and Trout Inn'. The next nearest fully licensed places were the Plough at Sandygate, the Rising Sun at Nether green, and the Norfolk Arms at Ringinglow. The Three Merry Lads and The Sportsman were Ale Houses then. The Grouse and Trout was a favourite destination on Bank Holidays, even though it meant the tram to Nether Green and a walk the rest of the way! It's said it lost its licence in 1913 because the owner, William Wilson of Beauchief Hall, who also owned the nearby grouse moors, believed that the advent of a bus service to Lodge Moor which was then starting would bring loads of Sheffielders who would trespass on the moors and ruin the shooting. The building was finally demolished in the 1950's, leaving just the lonely sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ginney Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Hi everyone, I have just found out that a distant ancestor had a farm at Wymingbrook, Redmires Rd. I wonder where abouts that was. This was in the late 1800's. Does anyone know about any farms up there ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hi everyone, I have just found out that a distant ancestor had a farm at Wymingbrook, Redmires Rd. I wonder where abouts that was. This was in the late 1800's. Does anyone know about any farms up there ? There's a cluster of 3 farms near the top of Wyming Brook, all named Wyming Brook Farm according to the Ordnance Survey! A little further over there's Peat Farm. the 1840 OS map only shows one of the three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 What a lovely topic I remember going to Wyming Brook for the day as a child; a real adventure We used to play by the stream all day You could buy jugs of tea at the farm at the T junction served on a tray with cups I always remember the tea tasting really good You could also buy fresh milk straight from the cow at the other farm on the road to Fulwood I still walk and bike it round there and it is still lovely The farms have gone a bit upmarket though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hi everyone, I have just found out that a distant ancestor had a farm at Wymingbrook, Redmires Rd. I wonder where abouts that was. This was in the late 1800's. Does anyone know about any farms up there ? Sorry but I have no ideas as to the date this photo was taken, and I can't make out what angle it was taken from? Obvious buildings, could they be farm/s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Sorry but I have no ideas as to the date this photo was taken, and I can't make out what angle it was taken from? Obvious buildings, could they be farm/s? Could the buildings to the left be Wyming Brook farm, on the right as you go up to the dams from the top of Wyming Brook, and the buidings in the centre could be the Grouse and Trout? Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsavo Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 If I remember rightly Redmires Dam is only accessible by road on two sides and ends in a car parking area near the track (Roman road) to Stanage Pole. Pic taken from the car park, maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 If I remember rightly Redmires Dam is only accessible by road on two sides and ends in a car parking area near the track (Roman road) to Stanage Pole. Pic taken from the car park, maybe? Thanks to Bayleaf for pointing me in the right direction, I would say that the photo was taken from the banking on the top dam, looking down the middle dam. Taken fom the bottom L/H corner in this image. And a virtual computer image here. By the way tsavo, your jpeg photo link don't work in my weather topic. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsavo Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Seems OK here. Try again? Laurence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Seems OK here. Try again? Laurence Not having it on my computer, just sends me to the forum log in page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsavo Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Sorry Steve, eill try removing it and reposting. Still working here though....very strange, maybe the cold got to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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