Does anyone out there recall the whereabouts of the Manor Wesleyan Chapel on the Manor Estate? I am told it was on Manor Park Crescent quite close to the Manor ruins. Unfortunately it was demolished in 1982, but I am trying to find out where exactly it was located and hopefully sweet talk someone local into taking a photo of the location for me. My gt gt gt grandfather founded the Chapel and I'm doing a spot of family history research. Many thanks. Katherine

try the www.picturesheffield.com web site

I live literally on the doorstep of Manor Castle ruins and all my family grew up around here. My mum used to go the church you're talking about a lot... it was called Manor Methodist Church at one point, and it was just across the road from the Manor Castle ruins, my mum knows the spot. If you get intouch I'll try my very best to help you out.
Chloé

Chloe, Many thanks for your reply to my posting. I would love to hear any of your Mum's memories of attending the chapel and who she remembers being there with, if she cares to pass them on. Sorry it has taken me so long to reply but I obviously forgot to tick the e-mail notification option and forgot all about my posting!

Might you be able to photograph the exact location for me?

Was your Mum baptised in the chapel by any chance? I have baptismal records dating back quite a long way because my Mum's family, the Cowlishaws, founded the chapel. If you wish to let me know your surname I could see if I hold a record for your family.

Apologies again for not having got in touch sooner and I hope you don't mind being contacted now.

Kind regards, Katherine Seavill :)

Hi
interesting to read about the Manor as I've been trying to find someone who used to live there in the fifties name of Mavis Betts or Mavis Richards

Hi
I have been collecting information about Manor Lodge and the surrounding areas for a few years as i am interested in the local history being born and bred round here. the original manor wesleyan church stood in the grounds of the Manor Lodge and in the early 1900s the new chapel was built at the top of what is now called Manor Park Crescent. (Didn't become the Crescent until 1950 when the estate was built)
I have a picture of both. they can be obtained from the local studies library in Sheffield.

Jack Cowlishaw who I would say is in his 70s lives at Dronfield may be one of your relatives I know that he has quite a number of pics of the newest Chapel.

iI have also had a newspaper cutting from the local studies with all the scholars on who went to the old chapel and there are many Cowlishaws on it. It gives their names and where they are stood. i think it was in the 1870w

Maureen.... was it where I think it was? Near that cul-de-sac up road from us?? Bungalows built on it now??
Your Leanne's just left our house.
Chloé

Chloe
Yes it was, there used to be allsorts of activities going off up there, from Sunday services , Sunday school, the brownies and the guides, bring and buy sales and jumble sales they had May Queens and midnight hikes for the teenagers, where they would take them supervised into the country and walk thru villages so as not to wake the locals. I bet that was fun. Also sitting on the grass listeneing to the first early birds singing at about 4am.
This was all stewarded and supervised, many buses would set off from pond street with the teenagers on. I wasn't there I have been told by people who were. Allthogh we lived just down the road we were not allowed to go to the methodist church.
Mo

Maureen,

Many thanks for all the interesting information and your memories about the Sunday school outings. These sound a lot more fun than my Sunday school memories from Manchester in the 1960s!

Do you happen to have any more detailed address for Jack Cowlishaw? I am not a native of Sheffield.

Many thanks.

Katherine Seavill

Sorry I do not have Jacks address or telephone number, he lives at Dronfield now. I think he will be at the next Xmas fayre which is on 22nd November, at William Temple Curch Hall Harborough Avenue Sheffield.
I know he has a friend who is in touch with him regularly, on Manor Park Crescent
I can pass a message on if you want ? Could you give me the name of your great, great, grand father or any other details which may be relevant to him and I will get back to you

Mo

Maureen,

Many thanks for your help. My gt gt gt grandfather was known to the family as "Praying" William Cowlishaw, who lived at Skye Edge, Sheffield and founded the first Manor Wesleyan Chapel. His son George oversaw the building of the second chapel (the one that used to be on Manor Park Crescent). I am descended from another of Praying William's sons, Thomas. My mother is Patricia Edna Cowlishaw, granddaughter of Thomas Henry Cowlishaw, (Thomas' son). Sorry, all very confusing!

I would be really grateful if you could pass on my address to Jack, who I am sure is also a descendant of Praying William, and say that I would very much like to get in touch with him to find out what more he knows about the church and possibly to see other pictures of it. My address is 65 Quantock Road, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 4PQ.

Many thanks again for your help in this matter.

Katherine Seavill

Katherine
I will pass this info onto his friend sometime during the next couple of days. I have also read about praying Wiliam, its very interesting
Mo

Maureen, many thanks for your help. Jack Cowlishaw has got in touch.

Katherine
Good ,let me know if you are related
Thanks

Maureen, Yes thanks, we are definitely related. I have found him on my family tree!

Got the message thanks katherine.

Hi,
Would i be right in thinking that the Cowlishaws who lived across from the Manor Castle ruins were the same family who had Stand House Farm where the school now stands, I can remember then taking the cattle into the fields at the end of Waltheof Rd in the late 20,s.

Hi,

As far as I am aware there were some farming Cowlishaws but I thought that they farmed at Nunnery Farm, which I am told was built over by the Parkway.

I am aware of another lady called Jane Cowlishaw who believes she has links to a farm in the Manor area, but the farm she was talking about was called Low Farm, I think.

Sorry I do not have any more detailed information on this.

Regards, Katherine Seavill

Yes the Cowlishaws did farm at Standhouse Farm where the school is now also the Cowlishaws had a farm called the Nunnery and Low farm (which i am told it was called) on the right hand side as you go up Manor Lane.
I will check out who lived at which one. As there were many Cowlishaws lived in this area I think they all linked at some point

All information thankfully received.

Maureen,

I am a bit confused. Are you saying that Nunnery and Low farm are one and the same thing or were they separate farms, likely to have been held be two different owners (albeit possibly from the same family tree) ?

Katherine

Hi katherine

There were many farms around here in the past and yes these were 3 of them all within a 15 - 20 minute walk of each other I would say.

The Standhouse farm on the Manor is where the Standhouse school is now. Well I think it has had its days as a school and is now used for all sorts of different things and is called Standhouse Centre.
Here lived Thomas Cowlishaw and Amelia and also Alice Ashbury.

The Nunnery farm was partly where the Sheffield Parkway runs into Sheffield, where the turn off is for Manor Park the farm would have been off to the left
Here lived Eva Cowlishaw - Harry - James - Mary -and Annie

I only heard about some of the Cowlishaws living at Low Farm yesterday, I have not found out any definite details yet, i will let you Know as soon as I do

These farms and the names I found in the Electoral rolls at the Local studies library Sheffield they are from the 1929 -1930 book

Maureen,

Many thanks for all the information.

Katherine.

Hello eveyone! My name is Prash- I'm a student at Sheffield University. As part of a project I am doing a study of the manor and darnell. I need any information people may have on these areas. eg. why were the streets made in the pattern of concentric circles. Major developments of the manor through the past. The effect of the Parkway on the area. Relationship with Darnell. Stories of peoples experiences in the manor would be really helpful. As well as any factual information. If anyone can help please e-mail me on ARA97PSS@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK I would really appreciate any help.

Thank you

Prash

Maureen,

Jane Cowlishaw has given me some information on Low Farm which she has been trying to post on Sheffgen but has been unable to so far. These are the occupants of Low Farm as far as she is aware from her records:-

1912 - Cowlishaw and Son, Farmers. Low Farm. Corker Bottom Lane

1916 - William Cowlishaw, Farmer, Low Farm,Manor Lane

1925 - William Cowlishaw, Farmer, Low Farm, Park

1926 - James Cowlishaw, Farmer Low Farm

Katherine

if yo go onto manor park cres you will see to bungleows thats exactly where the church was,i remember going to there bon fires with my grandad.....i still live very close to it now and i always think of the fireworks etc every time i pass it

if yo go onto manor park cres you will see to bungleows thats exactly where the church was,i remember going to there bon fires with my grandad.....i still live very close to it now and i always think of the fireworks etc every time i pass it

I hope you remember to act responsibly with your fireworks:|