Guest Gramps Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 The Rivelin was a busy, busy river in the 19th. century and it's difficult to imagine so much industry in such a rural setting. Anyone who has the book Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers should find these maps useful but hopefully there is a wider general interest in our industrial past. I hope in time to produce similar maps for all the water power sites on our local rivers. Map Rivelin_1 1. Uppermost Wheel - pulled down and dam filled in ~1845 2. Rivelin Mill (Corn) 3. Rivelin Mill (Wire) also known as Upper Coppice wheel 4. Coppice Wheel also known as Second Coppice Wheel 5. Paper Mill also known as Third Coppice Wheel 6. Frank Wheel 7. Wolf Wheel also known as Rocher Wheel 8. Swallow Wheel Map Rivelin_2 (Swallow Wheel) 9. Plonk Wheel also known as Sawbridge, Siddal, or Bobby Wheel 10. Iron Wheel also known as Hind wheel 11. Upper Cut Wheel 12. New Wheel also known as Nether Cut or Kay Wheel 13. Little London Wheel 14. Holme Head Wheel 15. Roscoe Wheel also known as Hoole's, Holme Intake or Willow Bank Wheel 16. Spooner Wheel also known as Holme or Rivelin Bridge Wheel (the large un-named dam just upsream also supplied this wheel) Map Rivelin_3 (Spooner Wheel) 17. Bridge Wheel Also known as Rivelin Bridge Wheel or Hollins Bridge Corn Mill 18. Walkley Bank Tilt also known as Havelock or Hallam Wheel 19. Mousehole Forge 20. Grogram Wheel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 The Rivelin was a busy, busy river in the 19th. century and it's difficult to imagine so much industry in such a rural setting. Anyone who has the book Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers should find these maps useful but hopefully there is a wider general interest in our industrial past. I hope in time to produce similar maps for all the water power sites on our local rivers. Map Rivelin_1 1. Uppermost Wheel - pulled down and dam filled in ~1845 2. Rivelin Mill (Corn) 3. Rivelin Mill (Wire) also known as Upper Coppice wheel 4. Coppice Wheel also known as Second Coppice Wheel 5. Paper Mill also known as Third Coppice Wheel 6. Frank Wheel 7. Wolf Wheel also known as Rocher Wheel 8. Swallow Wheel Map Rivelin_2 (Swallow Wheel) 9. Plonk Wheel also known as Sawbridge, Siddal, or Bobby Wheel 10. Iron Wheel also known as Hind wheel 11. Upper Cut Wheel 12. New Wheel also known as Nether Cut or Kay Wheel 13. Little London Wheel 14. Holme Head Wheel 15. Roscoe Wheel also known as Hoole's, Holme Intake or Willow Bank Wheel 16. Spooner Wheel also known as Holme or Rivelin Bridge Wheel (the large un-named dam just upsream also supplied this wheel) Map Rivelin_3 (Spooner Wheel) 17. Bridge Wheel Also known as Rivelin Bridge Wheel or Hollins Bridge Corn Mill 18. Walkley Bank Tilt also known as Havelock or Hallam Wheel 19. Mousehole Forge 20. Grogram Wheel Re-did the Rivelin Valley walk in late 2007. Although these places no longer exist there is still evidence of them and of course the dams and weirs across the river are still there. Here is a picture marking the site of the Coppice Wheel (no4 on Gramps key). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Walked up from Bradfield and round Dale Dyke Dam this morning. May be too easy a question but - what is this stone, and others like it, there for? (I know by the way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Iron Wheel or Hind wheel (#10), though I have always known it as the Round Dam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Old Canny Street Kid Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 The Rivelin was a busy, busy river in the 19th. century and it's difficult to imagine so much industry in such a rural setting. Anyone who has the book Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers should find these maps useful but hopefully there is a wider general interest in our industrial past. I hope in time to produce similar maps for all the water power sites on our local rivers. Map Rivelin_1 1. Uppermost Wheel - pulled down and dam filled in ~1845 2. Rivelin Mill (Corn) 3. Rivelin Mill (Wire) also known as Upper Coppice wheel 4. Coppice Wheel also known as Second Coppice Wheel 5. Paper Mill also known as Third Coppice Wheel 6. Frank Wheel 7. Wolf Wheel also known as Rocher Wheel 8. Swallow Wheel Map Rivelin_2 (Swallow Wheel) 9. Plonk Wheel also known as Sawbridge, Siddal, or Bobby Wheel 10. Iron Wheel also known as Hind wheel 11. Upper Cut Wheel 12. New Wheel also known as Nether Cut or Kay Wheel 13. Little London Wheel 14. Holme Head Wheel 15. Roscoe Wheel also known as Hoole's, Holme Intake or Willow Bank Wheel 16. Spooner Wheel also known as Holme or Rivelin Bridge Wheel (the large un-named dam just upsream also supplied this wheel) Map Rivelin_3 (Spooner Wheel) 17. Bridge Wheel Also known as Rivelin Bridge Wheel or Hollins Bridge Corn Mill 18. Walkley Bank Tilt also known as Havelock or Hallam Wheel 19. Mousehole Forge 20. Grogram Wheel I don't know where this fits in, but here is a pix I did many years ago when I attempted to depict a Rivelin water wheel site from an old cutting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Old Canny Street Kid Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 I don't know where this fits in, but here is a pix I did many years ago when I attempted to depict a Rivelin water wheel site from an old cutting. I suppose really it is two workshops on the Rivelin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 I suppose really it is two workshops on the Rivelin! Looks very much like Holme Head wheel to me. There's a couple of colour photos on Picture Sheffield... http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10354&pos=1&action=zoom&id=13424 http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y01879&pos=1&action=zoom&id=48846 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Rivelin Nature Trail Booklet Not sure of the date, I remember 1st buying a copy of this in the late 60's early 70's, there is no indication of the date but I suspect this copy is late 70's As this booklet is now a few years old, I do not know if all the locations referred to are still accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Rivelin Nature Trail Booklet Not sure of the date, I remember 1st buying a copy of this in the late 60's early 70's, there is no indication of the date but I suspect this copy is late 70's As this booklet is now a few years old, I do not know if all the locations referred to are still accurate. Norfolk School science field trip with Man matthews, 1969 - 70 I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Known as the 'Nether Cut' or 'New Wheel' (edit: it has two names!) It's just down stream & next to where Rivelin Valley Rd (A6101) crosses the river, is this the section of road that was often referred to as the 'New Road' ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 I believe the whole of the road from Malin Bridge to Manchester road was known as 'the new road'. There are some photos of it on Sheffield Picture.com totally bereft of trees apart from a few newly planted saplings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Upper Cut Wheel This is infact the Nether Cut Wheel, *error pointed out by HughW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 1879 advert, Rivelin Paper Mills. 'Rope Papers' ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 I believe the whole of the road from Malin Bridge to Manchester road was known as 'the new road'. There are some photos of it on Sheffield Picture.com totally bereft of trees apart from a few newly planted saplings. E.g. It was built by the Council as a job creation scheme. They paid for it by diverting surplus funds from the Water Board. When the powers that be found out they were reprimanded as this was illegal, and they had to put the money back (in due course!) To her dying day my wife's great aunt called it the New Road. She died in 1983 aged 80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I was aware of the job creation scheme, not sure from where, but the Council playing fast and loose with public funds is a surprise....OTOH - perhaps not ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Upper Cut Wheel This image is incorrectly labelled on the postcard. It is Nether Cut Wheel rather than Uppercut. Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 This image is incorrectly labelled on the postcard. It is Nether Cut Wheel rather than Uppercut. Hugh Thanks for the correction Hugh, I was thinking the same at the time I posted the image. The Uppercut was just upstream at the other side of the road/bridge, if I am correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike142sl Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Thanks for the correction Hugh, I was thinking the same at the time I posted the image. The Uppercut was just upstream at the other side of the road/bridge, if I am correct. The hill in the background looks wrong to me - or has it just been eaten away by the quarry up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 On 15/12/2010 at 15:13, mike142sl said: The hill in the background looks wrong to me - or has it just been eaten away by the quarry up there. According to picturesheffield they say 'Nether Cut Wheel, (New Wheel)' yet the text on their postcard view also says Upper Cut on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 The cottages on the R/H side of Rivelin Valley Rd, above (upstream) of the bridge look same as in the postcard view. Image courtesy of Google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Dam #07 on map. The Wolf Wheel, also known as Rocher Wheel. S&R Ind: June 14 1884. ------------------------------------------------- And a later upstream view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 This map indicates that the Holly Bush was at one time called the Hollins Tavern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Looks very much like Holme Head wheel to me. There's a couple of colour photos on Picture Sheffield... http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s10354&pos=1&action=zoom&id=13424 http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y01879&pos=1&action=zoom&id=48846 #14 on map, Holme Head Wheel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Next one down: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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