A View From A Hill - Sheffield 27th December 2014

 A couple of photographs that were taken on the morning of Saturday 27th December 2014. We were going to visit our daughter in West Yorkshire but due to the snowfall and the total absence of any attempt to clear the snow, we stayed in.

This blog is the 69th I've posted in 2014, one more than 2011, and 27 more than last year!. Hopefully I may be able to better that next year and so all that remains is to wish my readers a Very Happy New Year!  

Florence Nightingale - The Sheffield Connection

From The Sheffield Weekly Gazette dated October 2005

Roy Marsden - The Lawnmower Man of Sheffield

From the Sheffield Telegraph dated Friday 9th April 1999

The house is quite near to the mausoleums at Moscar and the site of 1907 Moscar tragedy when three people were killed in a charabanc accident

Helen Hoole 1935 - 1925

This small obituary appeared in The Sheffield Star dated February 17th 1925 and refers to the death of a Helen Hoole at the age of 90. The Hoole family were well known in the Crookes area in the nineteenth century. Her father-in-law was a former Lord Mayor of Sheffield and lived in Hallamgate House on Crookes Road. The house was demolished in the early 1960's so that The University of Sheffield could use the land to build the Tapton Halls of Residence. These are now being demolished so that the land can be used for smart executive housing! 

I believe she was the wife of Francis Hoole's son Charles 

But what did interest me was the fact that her brother Mr Ensor Drury was a leading freemason in the city. I did contemplate posting an article about the family  - she was not very well known in Sheffield" But when I checked I found that there was excellent information on The Sheffield Freemasons Website

The family can be found in 1881 living at

Dwelling: No 5 Whitham Rd Census Place: Ecclesall Bierlow, York, England
Source: FHL Film 1342119 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4633 Folio 119 Page 27
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Robert F. DRURY M 48 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Head
Occ: Solicitor For Paitent (Agent) And Valuer Of Machinery
Sarah DRURY M 44 F Sheffield, York, England Rel: Wife
Frank T. DRURY U 24 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Clerk To Above
Auther J. DRURY U 20 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Commercial Clerk
Charles DRURY U 19 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Commercial Clerk
Robert DRURY U 17 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Commercial Clerk
Miarce S. DRURY U 15 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Bernard E. DRURY U 13 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Gilbert N. DRURY U 10 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Ensor D. DRURY 10 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Joseph H. DRURY 8 M Sheffield, York, England Rel: Son
Occ: Scholar
Frances J. DRURY 5 F Sheffield, York, England Rel: Daur
Maria M. KNIGHT U 17 F Sheffield, York, England Rel: Serv
Occ: Nurse (Domestc Sert)
Florance ROBERTSON U 18 F Sheffield, York, England
Rel: Serv
Occ: Cook (Domestic Sert)
 

Final Curtain at The Sheffield Playhouse - November 1978

I came across this article whilst researching for something completely un-related. It is often the case. It brought back a couple of memories from a different era!

 The Sheffield Star 13th November 1978

There are a couple of photographs on the excellent Sheffield History forum that show the Playhouse as it neared its end

 

George Arthur Deffley died 17th October 1918

In August I posted I've posted an article to the site about the terrifying death of Alice Deffley who was the daughter of the licensee of the Bridge Inn at Ford Ridgeway Sheffield.

Four months later I received additional information from a descendent of Alice Deffley

" Blanche's father George Deffley was killed in the First World War when she was only 3 so she had two heart rending tragedies by the time she was 13. She was pulled from pillar to post before she left home and went into service. One of her positions was living in the Tower of London looking after the children of the niece of the Keeper of the Keys. Not many people can point to a room in the Tower and say that their mother in law lived there. I suppose a few Royals could say that  they had relatives who lived ( and died) there. She (Blanche) went on to have a full life and was dearly loved and respected by her children and grand children who she adored.
We never managed to find Alice Deffley's grave in Ridgeway church although we searched quite a few times. However we did manage to take her to France to see her fathers grave. It was very emotional and was reported in The Sheffield Star on 1st Nov 1999.
It really is the end of an era and a lost way of living-for good or bad."

I checked with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and found the following entry for George

Rank: Private
Service No: 50060
Date of Death 17/10/1918
Regiment/Service Essex Regiment 11th Bn.
Grave Reference: V. A. 1. Cemetery PREMONT BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information:

George Arthur Deffley Private 50060 served with the 11th Bn., Essex Regiment and died on Thursday 17th October 1918. He is buried in Premont British Cemetery at Aisne, France (Plot 5, Row A, Grave 1). He enlisted in Sheffield and was formerly Private 64979 of the North Staffordshire Regiment

Name: George Arthur Deffley
Birth Place: Eckington, Derbyshire
Residence: Sheffield
Death Date: 17 Oct 1918
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Sheffield
Rank: Private
Regiment: Essex Regiment
Battalion: 11th Battalion
Regimental Number: 50060
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 64979, North Staffs Regt.

A Walk in Crookes Sheffield - Sunday 14th December 2014

Sunday 14th December 2014, 1.30 to 3.30pm.  Meet Chris Hobbs outside the Grindstone Pub (3 Crookes, S10 1UA).  This 2.5 mile tour explores the less-well known aspects of Crookes past and its people.

These are my notes from the walk

Hallamgate House was built for Francis Hoole and family and was occupied by him in 1790, if not earlier. The house stood out in its locality in terms of scale and had an ornamental garden

 Later occupants were:

Peter Frith, optician, from 1839 - 1844;

Charles Hoole, grocer & tea dealer, 1846 - 1879;

Arthur Wightman, solicitor, Justice of the Peace for the City of Sheffield, Town Trustee, Trustee Birley’s Charity, Governor of the Sheffield Royal Grammar School, member of the Council of the University of Sheffield, from 1879-1924;

G.Graves Ltd, wireless manufacturer from 1929-1948, who turned the house into the ‘Hallamgate Works’ and sold it to Plessey Ltd. The site was acquired by the University in 1963 and demolished to make way for the (now empty) student halls of residence.

Demolition underway December 2014 - private executive housing

Pisgah Dam and Dam Cottage

School Road – Sewage Destructor Lamp

Blakeney Road Corner Shop - 2011

Spring House  - Warrington Slater of Slater Bros

Spring House

He had a very simple system, he used to build a row of houses and then mortgage them for as much as he could get, and with the money (and other money that he put to it) he'd build another row of houses and so on and so forth, so that eventually he finished up with a tremendous lot of houses and also a tremendous lot of mortgages, and finally, of course, this led to his downfall because when the South African war started the mortgagees got in a panic, money was very, very tight, they all called the mortgages in and nobody else would take them up and so the old chap was ruined, bankrupt.....

He also bought a mansion in School road, it was called Spring House, a big old-fashioned stone-built house situated facing the top of Conduit Road and on the corner of Western Road and School Road, and it composed the whole of the land where there are very many houses built on now. It had a high wall, it must have been at least ten feet or probably more, round, and a sort of wicket gate let into it to get into the garden. It had large rooms and upstairs was more like a rabbit warren as regards cupboards and room and lofts and all manner of things and we, as children, we used to have a terrific time playing hide and seek etc. Round about it, it had a lovely garden, they used to grow figs, grapes and all manner of things in the greenhouses. They had a gardener, and it was a real nice job....

Western Road

The Laurels -  Spring Villa Jewitts Bakery - Commonside

Hallamshire Proprietary Bowling Club - Steel Bank

October 2010

74 Townend Street James William Edington - Edington was born in Dowlaw Berwickshire, and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where after a distinguished career as a student, he graduated M.B., ChB.,with honours in 1913 and gained his M.D. with honours in 1920. Soon after qualification he served in the was as a captain in the R.A.M.C., being awarded the Croix de Guerre for his services in Salonika. From there he was invalided home and became attached to the Cantebury District Laboratory and later took charge of the Shorncliffe District Laboratory. In 1919, after demobilisation, he went to Bradford as an assistant bacteriologist, and from there he came to Sheffield in 1921 to take charge of the University Public Health Laboratory under the direction of the late Professor J. S. C. Douglas. In the course of a few years the service grew to very large proportions and Edington worked increasingly in organising his  department so that it could deal with the ever-increasing volume of work coming from the Sheffield City hospitals and from the hospitals of the surrounding districts. In 1931 a Chair of Bacteriology was created in the University of Sheffield, and Edington was the natural choice for this appointment; he was also appointed honorary bacteriologist to the Royal Infirmary, Royal Hospital, the Jessop Hospital for Women, and the Children's Hospital

Killed in a road accident 1939

Princess Royal

St Timothy’s Church

Bolehills - Harry Wragg – Bolehill Lane

CrookesPicture Palace  

The Crookes Picture Palace opened its doors on 2nd December 1912. The building was primarily a brick building with a cement frontage. Above the entrance to the cinema were some embossed decorations and the name "Crookes Picture Palace". The front of the building was flush with the adjoining shops and a blind alley ran down one side of the building to accommodate the queues waiting to see the films. From the small foyer a door on the right gave access to the stalls whilst a series of steps lead up to the rear of the auditorium. The auditorium was a single floor with the audience only sitting in front of the stage. A heavy red curtain covered the screen when not in use.  A raised section at the rear had a steeper rake than the rake in the stalls. The overall capacity of the cinema was 660.

The proprietors of The Picture Palace were Hallamshire Cinemas Ltd. In 1931 a Western Electric Sound System was installed. The cinema remained open until 2nd April 1960 when it shut its doors for the final time. The last film to be shown was the Brigitte Bardot classic "Babette Goes To War" and "Senior Prom" with Jill Corey.

129 Crookes

Wesley Hall - Crookes

St Thomas Church Crookes

Appeal 1837

"The district of Crookes, including Tapton,Steven Hills,Crookes Moor Side etc.at this time contains a population (which is rapidly increasing) of 1500 souls, nearly destitute of Pastoral superintendence and instruction. To provide for this lamentable destitution, a few friends of religion and The Established Church commenced a subscription for building a Small Church..."

Sheffield City Hall Ballroom Re-opens October 2005

From The Sheffield Weekly Gazette dated Thursday 20th October 2005 

Sadly neither myself or my wife were invited to the "Barkers Ball" but from the report is looks as though the "glamorous guests" had quite "a bit of a do."

Still the re-opening of the City Hall Ballroom brought back thoughts of an event that was pivotal in my life.

Thursday 9th November 1950 at a dance in the City Hall Ballroom is where my dad met my mother for the first time. Where's mi DeLorean!! 

For a History of Sheffield City Hall read Neil Anderson's excellent book

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Births Marriages and Deaths - 16th November 1974

I came across this cutting the other day. It came as quite a surprise as I had totally forgotten about it. It marks "my coming of age" - I am unsure if people still bother with marking the date. The only thing I can remember is that on the previous day I passed my driving test at Handsworth.(Sheffield) and so I was "rather chipper" which is saying something in 1970's Britain! 

How my dad lost his teeth - Friday September16th 1938

From The Yorkshire Post Friday 7^th July 1939

From The Telegraph and Independent 7^th July 1939

My dad only spoke about it once and that was towards the end of his life. He said that he lost half his teeth when he came off his bike in a collision and ended up hitting a wall. He was given the choice of having "them put back" or "having the lot out" He chose the latter!

My dad and his dad Clem rode bikes all the time but it is the one thing my dad put his foot down about - I was not to ride a motor-bike at all. Of course I did not know about his accident until years later which explains why he did not want me to ride a bike.

I only found this out last week. The award is about £19000 in today’s money which was a sizable sum for a 18 year old in 1939. At least he could afford some top notch dentures!

I have also left the article that proceeded the one that related to my dad's award. It refers to the thoughtful musings of Mr Beverley Baxter in the previous nights Sheffield Star 

"and frankly I find much to convince me that it (war) will be avoided" 

Less than two months later war was declared mmmm....and we all know how Germany resolved their labour shortages!

A Walk Around Darnall Sheffield - Friday 28th November 2014

Darnall – ‘From Medieval Manor to Industrial Centre’

Friday 28 November – 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm

This circular walk of about 2 miles around the centre of Darnall will look at the growth of the area from a medieval village to becoming a central part of Sheffield’s Industry. It will also include the tale of Charles Peace – a notorious 19th Century Sheffield murderer, who was subsequently mentioned in Sherlock Holmes novels. Meet Chris Hobbs at the junction of Staniforth Road and Prince of Wales Road 

Darnall was initially a small hamlet usually included with Attercliffe

Attercliffe - Worksop 1761 turnpike road up until 1860's called Worksop Road but then the section through Darnall became Darnall Road and Main Road

Older route going back to C12th

Little documentation C17th and C18th Transfers of property by sale and inheritance

1763 Coal mining 1810 Enclosures 1815 Sheffield - Tinsley Canal started

1819 - 158 houses 7 homesteads 2 schools 2 public houses - The Ball and The Old Bradley Well 1 butchers 1 blacksmith 1 wheelwright 1 cutler 8 workshops 2 steel furnaces assortment of farm buildings - just 7 owned rest tennants/rented

1861 243 1871 492 1881 760 1891 870 houses - Dunkirk Square - Main Road

C19th housing expansion - earlier houses on main routes and then side streets - 1855 map

Blurred boundaries with surrounding districts - 340 acres 

A Hall was built by the Staniforth family in the centre of Darnall in 1723; in 1845 this became a private lunatic asylum

 Transport in those days consisted of trams and a few cars. Darnall was a terminus for tram cars with tram lines on Staniforth Road and Darnall Main Road.

Darnall New Ground was laid out for cricket in the 1820s. Although only used for a few years before being replaced by a ground at Hyde Park, it was described as the finest in England.

Holy Trinity church, the first in Darnall, was built in 1840, followed by a hospital in 1855 and a school in 1875. By the mid C19th, it was a centre for farming and coal mining, and was known for its amateur greyhound racing.

There were three cinemas in Darnall called the Balfour Cinema, the Lyric and the Darnall Cinema. They have all been pulled down.                    

                                

12 out of the 20 schools which were thriving in the area during the 1950's have been closed down, though some have been converted into community centres, store places and orkshops.

Name: Former Sanderson's Darnall Steelworks and Don Valley Glassworks, Darnall Road

List entry Number: 1021424 Date first scheduled: 24-Oct-1977 Date of most recent amendment: 17-May-2007 - Reasons for Designation

By the late 19th century, Sheffield was one of the world's most influential industrial cities. Underpinning its manufacturing base was the quality of the steel it produced contributing to the international success of the city's cutlery and edge-tool industries. A particularly significant development in this supremacy was the invention, by Benjamin Huntsman in 1745, of crucible steel: cast steel produced using crucible furnaces. This technique allowed the production of high quality carbon steel of superior quality to blister steel that was produced in cementation furnaces. This major technological innovation secured Sheffield's economic position as a major metal trades centre; the two manufacturing processes (cementation and crucible) together were known as the 'Sheffield Methods'.

By 1843 Sheffield was producing 90% of British steel and almost 50% of European output. Although by later in the 19th century other countries had developed bulk steelmaking industries which outstripped Sheffield in terms of quantity, the city retained its reputation for quality with a wide range of special steels, the preferred means of production remaining the crucible process which continued to be used up until the 1970s. In 1860 there were over 200 cementation furnaces in Sheffield of which only a single example, in Hoyle Street, still survives in complete form.

Over half of their output of blister steel was then converted to crucible steel in large numbers of crucible shops spread across the city. Darnall's large crucible shop and continuous range of four small interconnecting crucible shops with their ancillary rooms are unique survivals in Britain. The large crucible shop is the sole remaining example of a building used to produce the quantity of crucible steel required for large-scale castings, a method which was generally superseded by new methods of bulk steel production in the later C19th . Small crucible shops are also rare survivals with only fifteen other small crucible shops remaining in the Sheffield area. None of these other examples are organised as an integrated unit as are the four at Darnall, and few are of such a complete state of survival. Although long disused, the features that provide the technological and historical interest of these buildings all survive well. The national importance of the monument is further heightened by the in situ survival of archaeological remains. This includes the remains of the Siemens gas fired crucible shop with its gas plant which are of particular national significance because no other surviving remains of a gas fired works are known to survive in the country.

The archaeological remains of the 1830s steel works are also of particular interest as they will allow an understanding of the development of steel production through the mid 19th century, complementing the evidence provided by the later standing buildings. Any surviving remains related to the cementation furnaces will be of particular importance given the very rare survival of such furnaces nationally. The surviving standing structures including the offices, boundary wall and entrance buildings, contribute significantly to the site by allowing an appreciation of the character and appearance of the original works, as well as an understanding of its organisation. Any deposits of waste materials and discarded tools and equipment will retain technological information that will compliment surviving documentary evidence.

The Don Glass Works dates from a period of rapid growth in the glass industry, when technological advances facilitated the mass production of glass for a growing market. Glass has been produced in England since the Roman period, although field evidence is scarce until the late medieval period. From the early 17th century there was a change in the fuel generally used from wood to coal resulting in a shift in glass production centres to the coalfields, Sheffield and Barnsley being important areas for the industry nationally. The manufacturing process involves three stages, fritting, melting and annealing.

Limited archaeological work at the Don Glass Works site in 2005 confirmed that there is good potential for the survival of significant buried remains such as the lower level of the glass cone complete with its below ground flue system and other furnace features, together with ancillary buildings and deposits of glassmaking waste and other material. This archaeological potential combined with the documentary evidence for the site justifies its inclusion within the scheduling.

The association of the glassworks with the establishment of Darnall steelworks provides additional interest with the potential for surviving evidence of the cross fertilisation of technology between glass and steel production in the mid 19^th century. Taken as a whole the monument represents a uniquely well preserved, nationally important complex tracing the evolution of the site from an early 19th century glassworks to a 20th century steelmaking centre.

The monument includes standing, earthwork and associated buried remains of a steelworks established in the late 1830s, as well as the buried remains of a late eighteenth century glassworks. The site retains its original boundaries to the north (Darnall Road), east (Wilfrid Road) and south, but has been partly truncated to the west in the 20th century by later steel works and other redevelopment.

HISTORY Originally agricultural land in the 18th century, the Don Glassworks is possibly the glassworks that was advertised for rent in the 1793 Sheffield Register. It first appears, but is not named, on a survey of 1795 which matches a more detailed plan of 1819. This 1819 plan labels the glassworks and shows other details such as a short terrace of houses within the work's plot to the east of the glass cone. In 1835 the glassworks was leased by Sanderson Brothers, one of Sheffield's largest steel producers, who then established Darnall Steelworks on adjacent land to the south. It is thought that Sanderson Brothers leased the glassworks to aid their steel business, learning from glass manufacturing technology, possibly adapting the glass cone into a cementation furnace.

However the glassworks, still shown by the 1853 Ordnance Survey map, reverted to glass manufacture by 1859 under the management of Melling, Carr and Co., and ceased production, with the demolition of the glass cone, by 1905.

Sanderson's 1830s steelworks complex, incorporating both cementation and crucible furnaces, was depicted in a contemporary illustration and shown on the 1853 Ordnance Survey map. After Sanderson's became a limited company in 1869, they abandoned their works at West Street, Sheffield, and expanded their operations at Darnall. Additional land was purchased and further crucible furnaces and administrative buildings were built in 1871-2. This included two parallel ranges of small, single storey crucible shops with a large crucible shop to the south. All of these shops were coke-fired,providing a total of 132 melting holes, the large shop housing 48 melting holes, with the small shops having 12 each. In 1873-4 a Siemens gas-fired crucible shop, complete with an adjacent gas production plant, was built to the west of the large coke fired shop. This gas-fired shop was about the same size as the coke-fired large shop and provided the equivalent capacity of 60 coke-fired melting holes. In 1934 Sanderson's passed their Darnall works to Kayser Ellison, the operators of the steelworks on land immediately to the west that was established in 1913. Kayser Ellison used electric arc furnaces and although they operated the older Darnall works plant for a while, soon switched to all-electric melting, expanding their works with the demolition of the 1830s cementation furnaces, which had been working into the 1920s, and the western range of small 1870s crucible shops. In 1960 a company merger resulted in the whole complex being operated by Sanderson Kayser Ltd. Following the merger, the gas-fired plant was demolished, but its site was not redeveloped and significant buried remains are believed to still survive in situ.

CHARLES PEACE

His will dated February 7, 1879, and made at Armley Gaol, Leeds. Peace, a murderer twice over and probably the most famous cat burglar in Victorian England, was hanged on Shrove Tuesday, February 25. It had taken the jury just 12 minutes to convict him of the murder in Sheffield of Arthur Dyson at Banner Cross three years before.

In it Peace bequeaths all he has "to my dear wife Hannah Peace now residing now residing with my son in law William Bolsover, of Hazel Road, Darnall." According to JP Bean, author of Sheffield Gang Wars and writer on the city's history, the story went that Charlie signed the will the day before he was due to hang, when his brother Dan visited him.

In Darnall, the Peace family lived near Mr. Arthur Dyson, an American civil engineer and his English wife, Katherine. "Mrs. Dyson is described as an attractive woman, 'buxom and blooming'; she was dark-haired, and about twenty-five years of age," Irving writes.

Surprisingly, the 6-foot-5-inch Dyson was no match for the diminutive Peace, and Charlie, who apparently had a roving eye, soon became enamored of Katherine. The extent of their relationship remains in dispute to this day, with Peace swearing as he readied himself for the hangman, that Katherine Dyson was at one time his mistress. Mrs. Dyson, for her part absolutely refused to admit anything other than an innocent friendship with the burglar."

Shortly before he was hanged for murder, Charles Peace expressed remorse for having lived a life of crime and told his parish minister that he hoped after death humanity would forget his name. While nearly everyone who knew him during his last weeks agrees that his repentance for his crimes was sincere, his humility in the face of his demise is certainly uncharacteristic. He may have simply been trying to appear humble and contrite before an old friend. In any event, heartfelt or not, Charlie's wish did not come true.

It is a testament to his notoriety and skill as a criminal that Charles Peace would be immortalized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and included as one of the few real criminals to ever attract the attention of the world's greatest consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. In the short story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, Holmes is discussing how the most brilliant criminals often have talents outside their chosen fields: "A complex mind," said Holmes. "All great criminals have that. My old friend Charlie Peace was a violin virtuoso."

Peace was indeed skilled with musical instruments, particularly violins and other strings, although it was his ability as a cat burglar that gained him wealth and fame in late 19th century England. As adept as he was with music, Peace was equally accomplished as a cat burglar, or "portico thief" as they were known in Victorian England. During his lifetime, few people knew his face, but many all over England knew his name and his deeds. Charles Peace epitomized the master criminal, and like the foppish highwaymen of earlier times, helped cast crime in a romantic light that obfuscated its true nature. His bold offenses and almost supernatural ability to escape from the clutches of the law embarrassed Scotland Yard and entertained the public. When he was finally caught, his bizarre life story captivated readers and spawned stage plays, novels and stories of England's master thief.

Even as a murderer and burglar, Peace has his admirers: "Not only had he reduced house-breaking to a science, but, being ostensibly nothing better than a picture-frame maker, he had invented an incomparable set of tools wherewith to enter and evade his neighbour's house," wrote historian Charles Whibley in his work, A Book of Scoundrels. "He lived the king of housebreakers, and he died a warning to all evildoers, with a prayer of intercession trembling upon his lips. At a single stride he surpassed his predecessors; nor has the greatest of his imitators been worthy to hand on the candle which he left at the gallows.

DUKE OF DARNALL - RUSSIAN EDNA

WILLIAM WALKER

William Walker, a resident of the settlement, is one of several people rumoured to have been the executioner of Charles I of England. At the door of the chancel of St Peters Parish Church, in 1700, was buried William Walker of Darnall Sheffield, who is supposed to have been the executioner of Charles I. Walker was a person of considerable standing in the neighbourhood, and was at all events a violent republican, and the translator of a book entitled " Vindicire contra Tyrannos." ' Handbook of Yorkshire 

SHEFFIELD BLITZ - 15th December 1940

Largest loss of life in a single incident on the "second night" of the blitz

COLEFORD ROAD

Appleby John 60 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Armstrong Joseph 44 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Armstrong Leonora 41 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Bloor Arthur 18 yrs 15 Dec 1940 117 Coleford Road,

Bloor Harry 54 yrs 15 Dec 1940 117 Coleford Road,

Brown Frederick 38 yrs 15 12 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Gascoigne Cecelia 46 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Gascoigne John 50 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Hall Lawrence 38 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Hallam Winifred 15 yrs 15 Dec 1940 117 Coleford Road,

Hemmingfield Walter 54 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Howard Edward 62 yrs 12 Dec 1940 Coleford Rd ? Sheffield,

Salisbury Victor 42 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post,

Air Raid Warden. Husband of Florence May Salisbury, of 300 Greenland Road, Darnall.

Winter Frank 50 yrs 15 Dec 1940 Coleford Road ARP Post

Winter Frank, corn merchant, 110 Coleford Rd, Attercliffe. (1925)

Now a Business Park