Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Stocksbridge, Yorkshire
- Ecclesfield, Yorkshire
- Woodhouse, Yorkshire (near Sheffield)
- Gleadless, Yorkshire
- Oughtibridge, Yorkshire
- Beauchief, Yorkshire
- Ewden Village, Yorkshire
- Bolsterstone, Yorkshire
- Grenoside, Yorkshire
- Deepcar, Yorkshire
- Fir Vale, Yorkshire
- Hillsborough, Yorkshire
- Fulwood, Yorkshire
- Greenhill, Yorkshire (near Dronfield)
- Norton, Yorkshire (near Dronfield)
- Midhopestones, Yorkshire
- Ranmoor, Yorkshire
- Sheffield, Cornwall
- Sheffield Bottom, Berkshire
- Sheffield Green, Sussex (near Uckfield)
- Hemsworth, Yorkshire (near Sheffield)
- Intake, Yorkshire (near Sheffield)
- Sheffield Park, Yorkshire
- Highfield, Yorkshire (near Sheffield)
- Greenland, Yorkshire (near Sheffield)
- Loxley, Yorkshire
- Holbrook, Yorkshire
- Greystones, Yorkshire (near Sheffield)
- Bolehill, Yorkshire
- Parkhead, Yorkshire
- Handsworth, Yorkshire
- Sandygate, Yorkshire
- Storrs, Yorkshire
- Whitley, Yorkshire (near Sheffield)
- Abbeydale, Yorkshire
Photos
393 photos found. Showing results 61 to 80.
Maps
709 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 73 to 3.
Memories
99 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Growing Up Teenager And Apprentice Kiveton Park Colliery
Hi, we used to live at Wales Bar in the 1960s and we got a house at Kiveton Park as my dad worked at the colliery. We lived on Stockwell Avenue (White City) for about 2 years then ...Read more
A memory of Kiveton Park in 1963 by
Underground Shelters On Figge's Marsh
In 1944, when I was six, bombs dropped at the end of our road in N. Mitcham (Caithness Road) rendering our home, and others, uninhabitable, and after spending one night at Woodland Way Community Hall we were ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by
Lovely Memories Of A Childhood In Hoyland
I moved to Hoyland in 1960 when I was 7 yrs old. Our family George, Lyn ,Jean and Elizabeth lived in a house named Kirk Farm House. It was a lovely old farmhouse that stood behind St Andrews Church, Market ...Read more
A memory of Hoyland in 1960 by
My Second Job
I worked as a junior technician in the Research Laboratory of the Sheffield Centre for the Investigation and Treatment of Rheumatism under the leadership of Dr Harry West and George Newnes, based in the Nether Edge Hospital.
A memory of Sheffield in 1959 by
St.Augustines Abbey School/College,Grange Road
My elder brother and I, attended the school between 1961-1969 as day-boys. I cannot find out why the school left Ramsgate to take premises in Westgate-on-Sea, and why the buildings in Ramsgate were ...Read more
A memory of Ramsgate in 1973 by
The Bungalow, Widmer End
I am writing in the hope that someone can shed some light on my maternal grandmother, Ethel Mary Wright. Ethel was admitted to St Peter's Home, Kilburn in January 1926. The admissions register when being admitted to St ...Read more
A memory of Widmer End by
Deepcar During The Second World War
I lived in the cottage next to the King and Miller and the Co-op stores, Deepcar then was a peaceful village. I attended Deepcar C of E school on Carr Road like most of the children in Deepcar. We attended St ...Read more
A memory of Deepcar by
Sheffield Lyceum
My first visit to this beautiful (and my favourite) theatre was to see Ronnie Hilton in the pantomime 'Sleeping Beauty'. It was then I fell in love with the theatre in general and the Lyceum in particular. It was a great loss to ...Read more
A memory of Sheffield in 1958 by
My Childhood In Ireby
I was born in Ireby in 1955. I had two sisters and a brother, Linda Val and Paul. My mum was born in Ireby and her dad John Coates (my grandad) lived around the corner in the cottages in the middle of Ireby. I went ...Read more
A memory of Ireby in 1966 by
A Child Of The Fens Remembers
I was child of Ramsey St Mary's in the period 1939 to 1960. My family lived in the last 'grey pebble-dashed' council house going north out of village (3/4 of a mile from Ponders Bridge). My father's name ...Read more
A memory of Ramsey St Mary's in 1948 by
Captions
124 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
In July 1905, when the king and queen came to Sheffield to open the university, tramway takings during the visit were a staggering £6664.
Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.
Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.
Hymn singing in Sheffield's public parks was allowed on Whit Sundays, and in 1912 a special dispensation was granted for a memorial concert in aid of the Titanic Disaster Fund.
Sheffield was just one of a handful of authorities at this date who still had faith in their tramway system.
The Ladybower Reservoir, the last in the series of three which flooded the Upper Derwent Valley, was built to provide water for Sheffield and the East Midlands.
The hydro operated its own coach and four to Sheffield and back several days a week.
Also featured is the Sheffield War Memorial, designed by Charles Carus Wilson and unveiled in October 1925.
Also featured is the Sheffield War Memorial, designed by Charles Carus Wilson and unveiled in October 1925.
Sheffield was once described by Horace Walpole as 'one of the foulest towns of England in the most charming situation'.
The church was restored in 1861 by Sheffield architect Joseph Mitchell.
Situated five miles north of Sheffield, the large parish of Ecclesfield was semi-industrialised by the late 18th century.
Now in private hands, up until the 1950s it and much other property in the village was owned by the Sheffields of Normanby Hall.
The restored cross in the centre of Woodhouse, a South Yorkshire village east of Sheffield, stands on an ancient stepped base and now features a sundial and a weathervane.
The first cricket match was played at Headingley in 1890, and Yorkshire County matches transferred to to the ground from the previous county pitch at Sheffield.
A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.
Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.
This view looks towards Barker's Pool, where Sheffield's first reservoir was built in 1434 to collect water from several springs on the hillside above West Bar.
Beauchief is now a northern suburb of Sheffield, but it was once part of Derbyshire.
Dronfield lies midway between Chesterfield and Sheffield, and has developed as a commuter town for both.
Eckington is another north-east Derbyshire town which formerly depended on the collieries which surrounded it, but which now is finding a new focus as a commuter town for Chesterfield and Sheffield.
These are the original university buildings at Western Bank, built between 1903 and 1905.The university was an amalgamation of three earlier institutions, the Sheffield School of Medicine, the Firth
For an industrial city, Sheffield has some very attractive suburbs with interesting buildings.
The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.
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