Hi,
I'm doing a project at college about the Great Sheffield Flood and Hillsborough Barracks and wondered if anyone could help me out with some information?

Thanks

Did you Google ?

All you are likley to need and more...

http://www.mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/flood.html

Theres loads of stuff in the local history section of the library including genuine documents from the time such as coroners reports and parliamentary questions and answers.

There is also an annual Flood walk but I'm not sure who runs it. In the past the Council Ranger service did one.

I did an essay on the flooding a while back for a Uni course and included a number of photos taken at the dam as it looks today

Here's a link to Karen Lightowler researching all flood victims family's.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/k_lightowler/a_lightowler.htm

Check out a book called "The Dramatic Story of the Sheffield Flood" by Peter Machan.

What information do you need?

March 1st 1864. If you look around the entrance to the Morrisons at Hillsborough Barracks you can see a level line of where the flood reached up to, there may be one on the Wicker Arches but I am not sure about that.

March 1st 1864.

March 11th ;)

Hugh

The Sheffield Flood Claims Archive http://extra.shu.ac.uk/sfca/ is an amazing resource.

two examples
1) a firm lists its lost or damaged stock http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/claimDetails.cfm?claim=1-146

2) a householder lists his lost or damaged property http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/claimDetails.cfm?claim=1-676

There were 7294 claims :shocked:

Hugh

Thank you, i'm going to check out all the links now!

There were 7294 claims :shocked:

Hugh

An ancestor of mine was one of them, - living on Green Lane at the time of the flood.

For anyone with SKY tv, just spotted this in this weeks Sheffield Telegraph.

Propellor TV (channel 195 SKY)

"The Forgotten Flood, about the great Sheffield Flood of 1864, gets its first UK tv transmission this weekend".

"Directed by Phil Parkin for Sharrow based VeryMuchSo productions, the 30 minute documentary is being shown on Sunday".

stangely there is no time given for the broadcast.

Now listed on their website for 8pm.
http://www.propellertv.co.uk/

Hugh

Do you have any idea if it is to be repeated and if so, when ??

Thanks

I believe you can find a carved stone round the corner from the bottom of Spout Lane at Loxley marking the height of the flood there.

An ancestor of mine was one of them, - living on Green Lane at the time of the flood.

Some of my family were killed in the Flood too. Have you been in touch with Karen Lightowler?