SteveHB Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Apparently now enclosed by a new building Do we know anything about this chimney? Images courtesy of Google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl1867 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Apparently now enclosed by a new building Do we know anything about this chimney? Images courtesy of Google As is now Steve - Took this a couple of weeks ago - My the contractors must have been well impressed! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 As is now Steve - Took this a couple of weeks ago - My the contractors must have been well impressed! That's a good un Dunsby, any ideas as to what the new building is used for, and why it has a chimney stuck in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 39 Blonk Street William Hobson 1893 Mrs Ann Bradley 1911 Thomas Grofton 1919 all confectioners. Hope the Street numbers moved about a bit ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 41 Blonk Street William Percy Thane 1893 Edward Herbert Godfrey 1911 Edward Herbert Godfrey 1919 all Tobacconists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl1867 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 That's a good un Dunsby, any ideas as to what the new building is used for, and why it has a chimney stuck in it? I'm not sure if is occupied yet Steve. Do you think this is the chimney referred to ? ANOTHER "iconic building" on the banks of the River Don in Sheffield has been approved by planners at Sheffield Council to add to the pace of redevelopment in the area. A 16-storey glass tower is to rise on the site of the former Hancock and Lant showroom between Lady's Bridge and Blonk Street, hear the Hotel Bristol. The new building will be used for apartments, offices, shops and restaurants. The original plan has been upgraded from a 11-storey building to a 16-storey tower, which council officers welcomed as a "bold landmark" in an important city location. Under the plan a warehouse and other nearby buildings are due to be demolished, but two listed structures, Castle House and a crucible chimney stack, will be renovated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 45 Blonk Street James Cartledge 1893 (Shopkeeper & hair dresser) John Cartledge 1911, 1919, 1925 Hairdresser Addresses for John 1893 45 Blonk Street 1911, 1919 & 1925 45 Blonk Street & 3 Royal Exchange Buildings, Lady's Bridge Hopefully these addresses may help us work out where the numbers used to be. 3 Blonk Street used to be the Smithfield Hotel in 1893. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl1867 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 From SCC Planning applications 2004 "The application site consists of the Hancock and Lant’s showroom/offices and a temporary landscaped area adjoining the Blonk Street and Lady’s Bridge junction. The site includes the grade II listed Castle House, attached townhouse and a crucible chimneystack at 41 Blonk Street, listed grade II. There is also a large brick warehouse dating from the later half of the 19th century and single and two storey buildings adjoining Blonk Street." I hope this means members of the public can "visit" the stack ! "within the tower and recommended that a planning obligation should be imposed on any planning permission, regarding the management of the stack and access to it. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 and a crucible chimneystack at 41 Blonk Street, listed grade II. Alfred Hickman, Steel manufacturers, 47 Blonk Street (1925) Charles Woodhouse, Stone & marble mason & bricklayer, Blonk Street (1841) wild guesses now lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl1867 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Alfred Hickman, Steel manufacturers, 47 Blonk Street (1925) Charles Woodhouse, Stone & marble mason & bricklayer, Blonk Street (1841) wild guesses now A possibility Genuki - 1852 directory Hutton & Langley, engineers, millwrights, smiths, and lathe, fly, press, and tool manufacturers, Blonk street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Hodkin & Jones, Plasterer & building material merchant 269 Brammall Lane & 51-53 Blonk Street (1893) Mrs Miggins, Pie-crucible and custard-pie warmer, Blonk Street, 1879 One of these may be entirely fictional he he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 I'm now lost for words thinking, as I worked in Royal Exchange Buildings for twenty five years and never even knew about the chimney untill a few months ago. Well done Dunsby and Richard, fantastic info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 I'm now lost for words thinking, as I worked in Royal Exchange Buildings for twenty five years and never even knew about the chimney untill a few months ago. Well done Dunsby and Richard, fantastic info! I knew about the chimney, it's been mentioned on here before - somewhere. We're now "getting into it" a bit more :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl1867 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 I think this may be the source of it's importance Ward, Blonk, and Co. (Francis Huntsman,) steel tilters, Wicker Tilt http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/rec...m=2008-06-18#-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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