"There is no place like home" 23 Orchard Road Walkley Sheffield - 1913

After the success of my previous blog (it only took 8 years!) I came across this photograph/postcard last week on an online auction site

It is a rather interesting photo of a young couple and I assume their first child - there is no information on the rear of the card. Below the image is the phrase "Yours truely C Bean" - I am not sure about that

name though

23 Orchard Road Walkey where the photo was taken is still there - it is behind the Asda store on South Road 

But like some many houses in the district it has been recently "redeveloped."  

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I wonder what the young family would have thought. If anyone can supply me with additional information on the family just mail me

   

A Double Wedding in 1920 Walkley Sheffield - An Update

On 20th March 2012 I posted a blog  - A Double Wedding in 1920 Walkley Sheffield which contained the following photo

At the time I stated

"I could not find any trace of "Bullors" in the 1911 UK census but enter the name "Bullers" and there are quite a few entries inj the Crookes/ Walkley area. But what I can't find are any entries for the marriages in the BMD registers. If her maiden name was Bullors/Bullers then you would expect her father and uncle to have that name but so far I have not been able to trace them "

But today I receive an e-mail from a reader of the blog who stated that the bridegrooms at the wedding were her mothers brothers and that their surname was BULLOSS. Armed with this information it was easy to pinpoint that date of the photograph - Monday 2nd August 1920.

Here are the details

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page 

Marriages Sep 1920   

Bulloss Albert Cantrell Ecclesall B. 9c 937   

Bulloss Herbert Harrison Ecclesall B. 9c 937    

Cantrell Edith Bulloss Ecclesall B. 9c 937   

Harrison Florence H Bulloss Ecclesall B. 9c 937

BULLOSS, Albert (Bachelor, age 27, Grinder, residing at 102 Woodwiew Rd).

    Married Edith CANTRELL, on August 2, 1920, by C J Watkins (Banns) at

    St John The Baptist Church, Owlerton.  Father's name is Joseph Bulloss (Forgeman).

    Married in the presence of Arthur Regnld Hauron, Ellen Bulloss.

    Page No: 95 Reg No: 190

BULLOSS, Herbert (Bachelor, age 21, Spring Knife Finisher, residing at 102 Woodview Rd).

    Married Florence Hannah HARRISON, on August 2, 1920, by C J Watkins (Banns) at

    St John The Baptist Church, Owlerton.  Father's name is Joseph Bulloss (Forgeman).

    Married in the presence of Ralph Krause, Louisa Bulloss.

    Page No: 95 Reg No: 189

1911 Census

Name: Herbert Bulloss

Age in 1911: 11

Estimated birth year: abt 1900

Relation to Head: Son

Gender: Male

Birth Place: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Civil Parish: Ecclesall

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County/Island: Yorkshire-West Riding

Country: England

Street address: 222 Bell Hagg Rd Sheffield

Occupation: School

Registration district: Ecclesall Bierlow

Registration District Number: 509

Sub-registration district: Ecclesall North

ED, institution, or vessel: 01

Piece: 27701

Household Members:

Name Age

Joseph Bulloss 44

Florence Bulloss 42

William Bulloss 22

Arthur Bulloss 19

Albert Bulloss 17

Louisa Bulloss 15

Ellen Bulloss 13

Herbert Bulloss 11

Frank Bulloss 10

George Bulloss 8

Florence Bulloss 7

Ernest Bulloss 4

Jane Bulloss 2

1901 Census (Note that the family surname as been transcribed as BALLAS

Name: Joseph Ballas

Age: 34

Estimated birth year: abt 1867

Relation to Head: Head

Gender: Male

Spouse: Florence Ballas 

Birth Place: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England Civil Parish: Nether Hallam

Ecclesiastical parish: Crookes St Thomas Town Sheffield Yorkshire England

Street address: 222 Bell Hagg Road

Registration district: Ecclesall Bierlow Sub-registration district: Hallam

ED, institution, or vessel: 38 Piece: 4343 Folio: 54 Page Number: 6 Household schedule number: 31

Household Members:

Name Age

Joseph Ballas 34

Florence Ballas 32

William Ballas 12

Arthur Ballas 10

Albert Ballas 7

Louisa Ballas 5

Ellin Ballas 3

Harbert Ballas 1

Frank Ballas 6/12

1939 Nationasl Register

Name: Joseph Bulloss

Gender: Male

Marital status: Widowed

Birth Date: 21 Oct 1866

Residence Year: 1939

Address: 44 Bromley Street Residence Place: Sheffield, Yorkshire (West Riding), England

Occupation: Forgeman Retired (Heavy)

Schedule Number: 166 Sub Schedule Number: 1

Enumeration District: KIDU Registration district: Sheffield 510/2

Household Members:

Name

Joseph Bulloss

William Bulloss

Jane Bunckley 

By the time of the 1939 Register Joseph was widowed - his wife Florence died ten years earlier in 1929. Living with Joseph was one of his sons William and possibly his married daughter Jane   

Ranby Road Sheffield - Then and Now

Whist I was researching the boating lake at Endcliffe Park - see previous post, I came across this postcard of Ranby Road. The road leads off from Rustlings Road and the aforementioned Endcliffe Park

 The photograph was taken from the bottom of Ranby Road looking up towards Greystones and shows the proverbial one man and his dog on a wet day in Sheffield. No date is given on the card but I would say it was circa 1910.

One hunderd years later and this is Ranby Road with Endcliffe Park (and the circus/fair) at the bottom of the road. Different world!

The Brief Life of Kenneth Toulson - Sheffield 1931 - An update

I have just posted this article to the site that appeared in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph dated 13th November 1931

 

The previous newspaper reports of the inquest and trial were vague as to the location of Kenneth's death but this revealed the location as being the boating lake in Sheffield's Endcliffe Park.

It surprised me because I never knew there was a boating lake in the Park but there actually was one.

 

According to the University of Sheffield the boating lake used to be "the second or middle dam used to power Holmes Wheel, a grinding mill , and was used as a boating lake until at least the 1950s, according to OS National Grid Tile SK3285 from 1952." 

Sadly it was also the site of young Kenneth's tragic death

Mrs Ivy Gill - the first woman from Sheffield to swim the English Channel - 13th October 1927

I was thinking of posting an article on Ivy's tremendous feat of swimming the English Chaneel in October 1927 but found that the event was amply covered on the Channel Swimming website that celebrates and records this feat. The above photograph was taken at Millhouses Park Open-Air Swimming Pool in 1929