Who are the most famous Sheffielders of all time..

[Alan Ladd 10]

The most famous Sheffielder's will never be named in any book,will never have a star out side the Town Hall , a plaque on their front wall.

They are the nameless thousands that time forgot all about.

They are Ida the buffer in her paper leggings and muck encrusted turban buffing away at the silver knives ,forks,and spoons destined for the more famous tables of the well to do.

 

Then maybe Ernest the furnace man ,feeding the roaring flames wrapped in sweat cloth and flame proof apron as he teems and ladles the liquid metals destined for a journey to the car, plane, weapon and a thousand other uses through out the World making all these manufacturers rich [and famous] beyond Ernest's imagination.

 

The Grinder and fettler bent over their wheels swallowing dust and fumes that put them in graves or made them shadows of their former self long before their time.

 

The furnace bricklayers whose art of building intricate kilns, chimney's, arches with joints between bricks so tight that not even the slightest weep or blowback from the searing heat would penetrate .

 

These are the most famous and are forgotten by all but those who knew and walked among them, they are the ones who made Sheffield famous through out the World.

 

Well said Sir.

[Ridgewalk 97]

Well we all know that it's the so called "little people" who are the real heroes, the Unknown Soldier, instead of Public School, semi-Royalty like Churchill, the coal miner not the Minister of Industry, the school lollipop lady who stands out in all weathers to keep children safe, not some pampered silly Pop singer shoving cocaine up his nose. It's ordinary people who are heroes but that's not really answering this question is it, who are Sheffield's "

five most famous" ?

[Annie Bynnol 612]

What links the Wicker Arches, the London Underground and the Forth Railway Bridge?

 

Sir John Fowler 1817 – 1898 born in Wadsley, Sheffield

Civil engineer

Engineer for the world's first underground railway, London's Metropolitan Railway.

Pioneered the "cut-and-cover" method under city streets.

Wicker Arches

Chief engineer for the Forth Railway Bridge.

Grosvenor Bridge, the first railway bridge over the River Thames.

Torksey Viaduct of 1847, the first box girder bridge.

Chief engineer for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and the East Lincolnshire Railway, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and the Severn Valley Railway.

Main consultant behind the District, Hammersmith and City and Circle lines of the deep tubes of the London Underground.

Designer of London Victoria station, Sheffield Victoria station, Glasgow St Enoch station, Liverpool Central station and Manchester Central station.

Railway and engineering projects in Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Portugal and the United States

Invented the concept of "design and build" which ended the days of maverick engineers like Brunel and Bouch.whose "pet" ideas caused so many financial disasters and the damage to the esteem of British engineering.

Youngest ever president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Founder member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Millwall docks.

Steam engines for the tube.

Maps used for the relief of Khartoum.

[redted50 10]

What links the Wicker Arches, the London Underground and the Forth Railway Bridge?

 

Sir John Fowler 1817 – 1898 born in Wadsley, Sheffield

Civil engineer

Engineer for the world's first underground railway, London's Metropolitan Railway.

Pioneered the "cut-and-cover" method under city streets.

Wicker Arches

Chief engineer for the Forth Railway Bridge.

Grosvenor Bridge, the first railway bridge over the River Thames.

Torksey Viaduct of 1847, the first box girder bridge.

Chief engineer for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and the East Lincolnshire Railway, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and the Severn Valley Railway.

Main consultant behind the District, Hammersmith and City and Circle lines of the deep tubes of the London Underground.

Designer of London Victoria station, Sheffield Victoria station, Glasgow St Enoch station, Liverpool Central station and Manchester Central station.

Railway and engineering projects in Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Portugal and the United States

Invented the concept of "design and build" which ended the days of maverick engineers like Brunel and Bouch.whose "pet" ideas caused so many financial disasters and the damage to the esteem of British engineering.

Youngest ever president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Founder member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Millwall docks.

Steam engines for the tube.

Maps used for the relief of Khartoum.

 

A few years ago me and my wife sent off for a little information as regards the oririns of our surnames.We recived a scroll each depicting ourname origins,and mine being Fowler was surprised to see most of what you have put on here about Sir John Fowler.Very good reading and,by a strange coincidence I was born about 5 minutes from him on Wordsworth Ave...Hmm..I wonder? He does look a little like me..lol

[The Joker 10]

Prince Naseem.

 

Nobody outside of Yorkshire had heard of Sheffiield 'til the pint-sized pugilist came along.

[Solomon1 10]

Sean Bean

[bazza63 12]

Fred Pass, author off Weerz Mi Mam and Weerz Mi Dad,also poetry books, which raised thousands of pounds for ST LUKES HOSPICE. [Top Man]

[Carmen. 14]

Ida, the buffer, with her paper leggings!

I've worked along side of ''her,'' and been proud to do so.

Salt of the earth.x

[lazarus 68]

Totally agree with the sentiment. This city was made world famous by people like this.

This sentiment I proposed but I was told that the recipients have to be living, which is totally wrong, the ordinary working people of Sheffield made this City known through out the world.

[zep63 10]

put it this way, the world would not be what it is today without the invention of stainless steel , harry brealy.

[scoobz 10]

Jarvis Cocker from present times.

[VIEW2BUY 10]

put it this way, the world would not be what it is enemie without the invention of stainless steel , harry brealy.

 

Especially so regarding the amount of AMMO produced to deter if not kill enemies.