Godfrey Maps of Sheffield 1901 - 1905 Index of names dwellings S-Z,

[Guest Gramps]

Slitting Mill Cottage, Slitting Mill lane, Sheet 295.01 Attercliffe 1903

This cottage stands on the site of one of the oldest recorded iron works in Sheffield. The slitting (ie rolling) mill was originally a 'finery' and forge where pig iron from the Shrewsbury blast furnaces at Wadsley and Kimberworth was processed into malleable iron in the 16th. century. Known as the Upper Forge or Hammer, it was one of two powered by water taken from the Don at Sanderson's weir. The Shrewsbury estate accounts record that 89 tons of iron were produced here at the 'Upper Hammer' in 1587.

Detail from Fairbank's 1795 map of Sheffield.

The forge was converted to a slitting mill in the 1740s but by 1819 industrial activity seems to have ceased and at some time thereafter the goit was filled in and the site became a farm. The buildings shown on the 1905 map are probably the remnants of Slitting Mill Farm occupied in 1876 by George Darwin and possibly twenty years earlier by Benjamin Seaman.

In the twentieth century the site was reunited with its industrial past, built over by the Industrial Steels Company on Stevenson road.

[Guest Gramps]

Shirle Hill, St. Andrews road/ Cherry Tree road, Sheet 294.11 Ecclesall & Sharrow 1903

The house was originally built by the Hall family. A James Hall aged 65 was living here in 1841 along with Mary Hall aged 20.

In 1853 the house was let to Sir John Brown and then sold to him in 1857. A that time there were several houses known as 'Shirley' so Sir John Brown renamed this property as 'Shirle Hill'. It was in this house that Sir John Brown entertained the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, on his visit to Sheffield in 1862. In 1864 Brown moved into his grand new mansion, Endcliffe Hall, and it was then occupied by his managing director, William Bragge.

In 1914 the house was used as a reception centre for Belgian refugees who had sought asylum in Britain.

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05903

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=t03484

The house was altered some time after 1857 and the new large wing on the west side added, but there seems to be some uncertainty whether Sir John Brown or William Bragge was responsible for this.

Later history not known. I used to pass the house, cycling home from school in the 1950s, and always admired it.

Sources:

A History of the Parish of Sharrow, Mary Walton, 1968

Old Sharrow and Nether Edge, Nether Edge Neighboorhood Group, 1985

[Guest Gramps]

Sharrow Head House - can't see a post for this but it's on the map.

The first known house here is believed to have been built in 1664 (from a dated lintel stone). John Battie was the tenant when he died in 1747 and his son William Battie bought the house in 1759. William like his father was an attorney and steward to Earl Fitzwilliam, he built a new brick house in front of the old house in 1765. About 1790 the house came into the ownership of Alexander Mackenzie the Vicar of St. Paul's church via his marriage to Margaret Smith, a descendent of the above John and William Battie.

In the late 18th. century, on the boundary of the property was an 'old and ruinous' inn, probably opposite the top of Frog Walk. Sharrow lane and Psalter lane were turnpiked in 1758, but there was a bridle-way from Sharrow Head down to the lower end of Little Sheffield that will have been used by travelers from Ecclesall and beyond from ancient times, providing a passing trade here for many years before the turnpike act. Vicar Mackenzie bought this old inn and had it pulled down in 1805. To replace it he built a new inn nearby on Psalter lane and 'Christened' it the Stag's Head which was his family crest.

Map 1795

Sharrow Head House was later occupied by John Newbould, a lawyer, the son of Samuel Newbould of Bridgefield Works, and in 1850 bought by Wilson Overend, a Sheffiled surgeon. George Wostenholm became the owner in 1865 and from 1869 to 1873 it was used by the Anglican Girls' Industrial School, for the training of poor girls. Later still the tenant was Maurice de Lara Bright mentioned in some of the photos below (no connection with the local Bright families - he was a Jewish immigrant).

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05637

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05639

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05635

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=u02783

(This last photo also seems to show the original 17th. century house which was demolished in 1902)

Source:

A History of the Parish of Sharrow, Mary Walton, 1968

[dunsbyowl1867]

List updated with information Gramps 19/3

Shirle Hill, St. Andrews road/ Cherry Tree road, Sheet 294.11 Ecclesall & Sharrow 1903

The house was originally built by the Hall family. A James Hall aged 65 was living here in 1841 along with Mary Hall aged 20.

In 1853 the house was let to Sir John Brown and then sold to him in 1857. A that time there were several houses known as 'Shirley' so Sir John Brown renamed this property as 'Shirle Hill'. It was in this house that Sir John Brown entertained the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, on his visit to Sheffield in 1862. In 1864 Brown moved into his grand new mansion, Endcliffe Hall, and it was then occupied by his managing director, William Bragge.

In 1914 the house was used as a reception centre for Belgian refugees who had sought asylum in Britain.

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s05903

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=t03484

The house was altered some time after 1857 and the new large wing on the west side added, but there seems to be some uncertainty whether Sir John Brown or William Bragge was responsible for this.

Later history not known. I used to pass the house, cycling home from school in the 1950s, and always admired it.

Sources:

A History of the Parish of Sharrow, Mary Walton, 1968

Old Sharrow and Nether Edge, Nether Edge Neighboorhood Group, 1985

[dunsbyowl1867]

[Picture Sheffiled link for The Tower, Barnsley Road, Pitsmoor Main list updated

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s13969

[Guest skeets]

Shirecliffe Grove

Shirecliffe lane

Sheet 294.04 Sheffield (North) 1905

Photo pw February 2009

HI Bayleaf As a young lad we used to go up by the side of Firshill school, there were some allotment gardens to the right ,a steep path led to several small fishing ponds. O pposite there was a large house with a high stone wall and l seem to recall this gate[ pictured,] set in this wall afew years later someone had a riding school behind this wall , am l in the right area. or was it up Shirecliffe Lane on the right Skeets.