Are there any experts on Walkley local history out there or does anyone know any books on the subject? I've got 4 stone and brick ruins at the back of my house and would like to know what they might be. Could they be Court houses like the ones lived in by the Walkley rioters of Providence Rd, or are they more likely to be workshops? If the latter what would have been made there? I have found lots of clinker in the soil. Any ideas of how to find out would be welcomed....
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Roobarbpie
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I've known the Walkley area most of my, plenty of my school friends lived there. I don't know much about its history but I know that it has a historical society of sorts.
I know that your request for information on Walkley history is an old post...but I have just been doing some idle surfing and have only just come across it.
I don't know whether you are still interested in finding out about the buildings in your garden...but I am one of the many archaeologists (or ex-archaeologists) that live in Walkley and have gathered quite a lot of information about the place as part of my MA in Landscape Archaeology.
I couldn't guarantee that I could tell you what was going on in your garden, but I would be happy to have a look and at least offer an informed guess!
I am one of those ex-archaeologists
More to the point, I have been a member of a local history group and am now much involved in researching the histories of local people buried in the local cemetery. (for the Friends of Walkley Cemetery).
If you read this roobarbpie, and are willing to pm me the location, I can use the records I am familiar with - maps, census, directories and other resources in Sheffield Archives to investigate.
hello, I used to live on Duncombe Street. The roof needed repairing and the roofer said lots of gable ends in Walkley were still littered by shrapnel when the Germans bombed Hillsborough Barracks. They missed...Hillsborough Barracks was a gravy factory at the time but the Germans were looking at WW1 maps when it was a Barrack. Duncombe Street was full of the 'old-timers' who had lived there for years. Fred who lived 2 doors down would always say hello. Watched Wednesday v Spurs, stood on the Kop, it was live on the beeb. I noticed the St Johns ambulance carry someone out on a stretcher. I didn't realise at the time....it was Fred.....he had a heart attack on the Kop and passed away....It would have been the way he wanted it....rest in peace Fred...Hope this has been of some use.
