Found this site a while back and stumbled across it again today :
The Making Of Sheffield (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~exy1/fh_material/Making_of_Sheffield/making.html)
May be of interest to those who seek some Sheffield history.

Originally posted by "Michael_W"

Found this site a while back and stumbled across it again today :
The Making Of Sheffield (http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~exy1/fh_material/Making_of_Sheffield/making.html)
May be of interest to those who seek some Sheffield history.

Looks interesting, I'll have a good read. Thanks for that.

I've read some of it and noticed how many Sheffield Streets etc are named after some of the people mentioned, also the old industrialists whose companies were of notoriety in Sheffield in years gone by.

I actually have a copy of the book, long since out of print of course. My father worked at the Star and was invited to help himself when they were reducing their own library of books.