[deer_stop]

can anyone help, i'm an art student who has currently been given a project on local history. well i'm from sharrow and i was wondering if anyone has any stories about the are or interesting bit of info, memories etc?

please help!

[Classic Rock]

There was a discussion about Sharrow Lane not long ago, but that's more to do with its current situation. Try Sharrow Community Forum on London Road, they should be able to advise you.

[ronni2]

if you are still looking for help with sharrow history i may be able to help just email me cheers ron

[Waltheof]

If you want something interesting, try the General Cemetery. The office in the newly restored gatehouse can help you with the history etc. You can also consult the website: www.gencem.org

Also at Sharrow Head there are many historic buildings--an 18th century mansion tucked in behind Sharrow Head House...the stone buildings on the triangle between Psalter Lane and Sharrow Vale Road, which date from the 1790s, and of course Wilson's Snuff Mill, which has also been in operation since the 18th century. There used to be many water wheels along the Porter Brook. You can buy a facsimile of the 1903 6" Ordnance Survey map of the area and see a lot more.

Incidentally, the name itself is from the Old English word "scearu" (related to modern "shear") which means something cut off--so called because it was an old administrative division separated from the surrounding ones. (By the same token, the classy suburb of Fulwood just means "mucky wood"!)

Hope all this helps

[peterw]

Most of the land in Sharrow originally belonged to the Duke of Norfolk, as did the original 18th century buildings that constituted the shear smithy and the cottage rented by Joseph Wilson before 1750. The house, if you look at it, begins near the end of the reservoir and is single storey (17th century) next to it is a two-storey addition (18th century), then the main door and a further building which is 19th century. The older part of the snuff mill (Bottom Mill, not Top Mill) was built in the 17th century when the Wilsons were shearsmiths. I lived in the house with my parents who were caretakers there before and during the war.

[Floridablade]

Originally Posted by deer_stop

can anyone help, i'm an art student who has currently been given a project on local history. well i'm from sharrow and i was wondering if anyone has any stories about the are or interesting bit of info, memories etc?

please help!

My family lived on Priory Terrace with the back of the house on Sharrow Lane. You may like to research the Shop run by an old couple during the war who baked the most wonderful bread. It was a mixture of potatoes and flour. One day I was walking by the Static water tank when I saw 2 lads throwing an army officer into the tank,all three in uniform. It appeared the two soldiers had come out of the pub on Sharrow lane and not saluted this officer,he was T.A.,the 2 soldiers being a bit worse for wear picked him up and trhew him into the tank. I was working at Gowers then delivering groceries,which leads me onto another story.

A local councilor was talking to the manager,both stood in the passageway between the shop and the storeroom when the councilor reached down and grabbed a handful of baccy from a small barrel,this was on saturday morning. Next saturday he was there again but when he put his hand in this time all he got was black treacle, I 'd switched them over.

[Floridablade]

Originally Posted by peterw

Most of the land in Sharrow originally belonged to the Duke of Norfolk, as did the original 18th century buildings that constituted the shear smithy and the cottage rented by Joseph Wilson before 1750. The house, if you look at it, begins near the end of the reservoir and is single storey (17th century) next to it is a two-storey addition (18th century), then the main door and a further building which is 19th century. The older part of the snuff mill (Bottom Mill, not Top Mill) was built in the 17th century when the Wilsons were shearsmiths. I lived in the house with my parents who were caretakers there before and during the war.

My sister worked at the snuff mill for about 2 years,Jean Kay during the war.

[Floridablade]

Football was introduced to the world from the bottom of Sharrow Lane if you would like to research. Sheffield Club which still exists but plays in Dronfield and I believe won the World cup beating London.

[muffinman]

i would very much like to talk to peterw as i am living in the snuff mill now as me and my wife are the current caretakers and i am trying to get some history of the place

[Plain Talker]

I believe that the priory area was called this because there was a priory there back in eighteen hundred and frozen to death.

Club Garden road was named for the Club_Gardens, or allotments that were there before the area was built-up, around the 1850s/60s/70s (there are corresponding dates on stones, on various houses in the area confirming these dates; my own house, as a kid was built in 1866)

PT

[only_me]

Does anyone know the history of the building that was the D.H.S.S. in the early 70's. I think it may now be called the hub????????????.

[Plain Talker]

I thoght the hub/ mount pleasant house was the driving test centre, after it'd stopped being an Orphanage?

the fact that it was a Driving Test centre was why it was nicknamed "the learners", (that's what it was known as locally).

[only_me]

Hi Plain Talker, what you say must be correct, how daft am i, we had a gang called the learners mob around there so hence the name lol.

[Plain Talker]

ooh! when did you hang around there, "only_me"?

I lived by there in the 70s

[Greybeard]

There is a fairly detailed history of the Sharrow district in three small books by Mary Walton, who was an archivist at the Central Library and also lived in the district.

A History of the Parish of Sharrow, Sheffield.

A History of the Parish of St Peter, Abbeydale, Sheffield.

A History of the Parish of St Barnabas, Highfield, Sheffield.

These contain far more local history than just the details of the Anglican church in the area.

[Plain Talker]

I used to be the caretaker of this church:-

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-...f.refno=s04321

the church secretary wrote a book of the history of the church,in the 1980's called "Three Names, One Church, A History of Sharrow St Johns Church"

the church was originally a "Methodist New Connexion" chapel, built in about 1889, the congregation outgrew the original chapel, so in 1906, a hundred years ago this year, there was opened a new, bigger sanctuary, with the original becoming a church hall.

in WWII, John Street methodist chapel

http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-...f.refno=s19428

was bombed, and the congregations joined together, adding the name of john st chapel to Sharrow's.

it was very interesting to read the names of local dignitaries and "minor celebs" in the history of Sharrow church, such as the Caudle family, who used to own the haulage/ removals firm at the corner of Charlotte and Queens Roads.

I believe another chapel was also incorporated into the church, from somewhere around the Summerfield St/lansdowne road/moorfoot area, but i cannot remember the details unfortunately.

[only_me]

Originally Posted by Plain Talker

ooh! when did you hang around there, "only_me"?

I lived by there in the 70s

I lived on Abbeydale road near to Horner rd from 1970, i went to cecil road (st barnabus) school. A load of us hung around the learners from around 71/72 ish. Can you remember the corner shops like Fitzgerald's and Adrians chip shop, was that Sitwell rd?.

[Plain Talker]

Originally Posted by only_me

I lived on Abbeydale road near to Horner rd from 1970, i went to cecil road (st barnabus) school. A load of us hung around the learners from around 71/72 ish. Can you remember the corner shops like Fitzgerald's and Adrians chip shop, was that Sitwell rd?.

I remember Fitzies shop very well; my mother used to shop there, and she always used to comment that the chap who owned it must have been Psychic, cos he ALWAYS seemed to know EXACTLY how much th e cigs were gonna go up by, in the chancellor's budget, cos he always managed to put his prices up by that amount, the morning the budget was to be announced.....

I also remember well Roses beer-off, on the corner of Horner rd and abbeydale rd... Mrs Rose always used to call us kids 'sausage', or 'soss-pot' lol.

the other beer off was up at the top of cecil rd, on Sitwell rd, big double fronted thing, it was, opposite that house that stood on its own next to the special school (the house the woman was murdered in about 20-odd yrs ago) (my friend eve lived next door to that beer-off).

at the top end of sitwell rd, there were a couple of shops, around the junction of vincent rd, with the electrical shop, Sharrow Electrical, on the left, and the butchers on the other side on the two corners of asher rd, and I forget what the shop on the other corner was... some kind of grocers, IIRC.

I can't remember Adrian's chippy, unfortunately. I DO remember the chippy on the terrace at the bottom of sharrow lane, and the (slightly better one) on Club Garden Rd, (which was where my mum preferred to send us, if we were having a treat of a fish-and-chip supper.

There was a bakery, painted yellow outside, opposite Fitzies, on the other corner of Mount Pleasant Road and Sitwell Road. The old chap who lived opposite us often used to ask me to run an errand to fetch him a small loaf, "very well-done on't top" for him.

do you also remember Dunbar-Cookes' fish and Game shop near the post office? and Bob's "corner" shop which is now "Beers and Steers"?

sigh, Happy days! lol

PT

[only_me]

Originally Posted by Plain Talker

I remember Fitzies shop very well; my mother used to shop there, and she always used to comment that the chap who owned it must have been Psychic, cos he ALWAYS seemed to know EXACTLY how much th e cigs were gonna go up by, in the chancellor's budget, cos he always managed to put his prices up by that amount, the morning the budget was to be announced.....

I also remember well Roses beer-off, on the corner of Horner rd and abbeydale rd... Mrs Rose always used to call us kids 'sausage', or 'soss-pot' lol.

the other beer off was up at the top of cecil rd, on Sitwell rd, big double fronted thing, it was, opposite that house that stood on its own next to the special school (the house the woman was murdered in about 20-odd yrs ago) (my friend eve lived next door to that beer-off).

at the top end of sitwell rd, there were a couple of shops, around the junction of vincent rd, with the electrical shop, Sharrow Electrical, on the left, and the butchers on the other side on the two corners of asher rd, and I forget what the shop on the other corner was... some kind of grocers, IIRC.

I can't remember Adrian's chippy, unfortunately. I DO remember the chippy on the terrace at the bottom of sharrow lane, and the (slightly better one) on Club Garden Rd, (which was where my mum preferred to send us, if we were having a treat of a fish-and-chip supper.

There was a bakery, painted yellow outside, opposite Fitzies, on the other corner of Mount Pleasant Road and Sitwell Road. The old chap who lived opposite us often used to ask me to run an errand to fetch him a small loaf, "very well-done on't top" for him.

do you also remember Dunbar-Cookes' fish and Game shop near the post office? and Bob's "corner" shop which is now "Beers and Steers"?

sigh, Happy days! lol

PT

The last time i heard of the Fitzgeralds they had a coach bussines out beighton way. I can remember the Roses well, i lived in the same yard lol, also the shop corner sitwell/cecil rd, a mate called David had a saturday job there. Yes can remember Dunbar-Cookes, there was also a laundry and fruit n veg shop there. Can you remember the childrens film foundation films they would show around once a month at the highfield library?. Happy days

[Floridablade]

There was a blind school on Sharrow Lane in the 40/50s and I wouldn't be surprised if a certain politician went there.