The Tolling of The Bell - St Barnabus Church Highfield November 1907

 

For those that are not familiar with the church, St Barnabus Church is in the Highfield district of Sheffield. My grandfather Sydney Hemsworth was a choir boy there at the time of this outrage and would later marry there on 23rd September 1923.

This article is in fact a letter from Curfew Bell and appears in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph dated 20th November 1907

Clearly Curfew Bell is vexed by the bell and he does have a point inasmuch as a single tolling of the bell serves no purpose at all. In fact when he likens it to the bell heralding an execution it sounds rather macabre 

The church was redundant in 1990 and after having been a sheltered  retirement home for the elderly is was converted into 28 self contained flats. It was sold for  £1,825,000 in 2023.   

 

Broken with Pain - The Harrowing Life of Agnes Bland Sheffield November 1907

This advertisement appeared in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph dated 20th November 1907 in which Mrs Agnes Bland age 39 years old recounts her ailments that are really getting her down. So much so that she wonders if she will ever attain good health ever again.

But she has sought solace in Doan's Backache Kidney Pills which appear to be doing the trick. 

The reason why I was drawn to this advertisement is that I am related to Agnes - she is my great grandaunt - my great grandfathers younger sister. If these conditions is hereditary (have a genetic basis) it looks as though I may be reaching for mi Doan's.

(Note Agnes lasted another ten years dying in November 1917 at the age of fifty. She is buried in Walkley Cemetery.) 

 

5 Durham Road Sheffield - An Update

On 14th December 2024 I posted a blog relating to an incident that occurred in July 1960 at 5 Durham Road Sheffield . In the blog I speculated about the housing on Durham Road at the time and I have just found a postcard depicting the houses in question

 It is of course dominated by Westville J G Graves Mail Order Dept but on the opposite side are houses which would include no 5, the scene of the Pridmore tragedy. 

The scene is possibly from the turn of the twentieth century.  

The area nowadays is totally dominated by the buildings of the University of Sheffield which are uninspiring to say the least.  

 

 

Henry Henderson 1850 - 1930 - The Founder of Hendo's Relish - Sheffield - An update

 I have just posted an update to the article I posted to the site last year relating to Mr Henry Henderson - the founder of Hendo's Relish and in my opinion one of the finest condiments that have ever been invented.

The 1921 Census has the "retired drysalter" living at 1 Kenbourne Road Sheffield

Name Henry Henderson
Gender Male Marital Status Married
Age 71 Years 4 Months Relation to Head Head
Estimated Birth Year 1850 Birth Place Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire, England
Residence Street Address 1 Kenbourne Rd, Sheffield Residence Place Ecclesall, Yorkshire (West Riding), England
Occupation Drysalter Occupation Code 770/0 Employer Retired Employer Code 629
Parliamentary Division Sheffield Pb, Ecclesall Div. Registration district Ecclesall Bierlow Registration District Number 509
Sub registration district Ecclesall South Sub Registration District Number 4
Enumeration District Name Sheffield Cb Enumeration District 1 Schedule 33 Schedule Type Code E
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Henry Henderson 71 Years 4 Months Head
Eliza Ann Henderson 60 Years 5 Months Wife
Beatrice Henderson 37 Years 3 Months Daughter
William Henry Smithson 54 Years 10 Months Visitor
Annie Smithson 53 Years Visitor

But whilst I was researching this entry there was a link to the Find A Grave website and there was a rather impressive memorial to the Henderson family 

It is situated in Section S of City Road Cemetery, Sheffield and the grave number is Grave Number 9724. Section S is adjacent to the memorial wall and just along from the Crematorium