Sheffield Local History:
References and On-line Information

• Under Five Sovereigns; The Story of Joseph Rodgers

• The History of Labour in Sheffield S. Pollard (photocopy)
  1. Chapter 1
     1. Working Class Conditions
     2. Leisure, Religion and Education
  2. Chapter 2 THE SHEFFIELD LIGHT TRADES AT THE ONSET OF THE AGE OF STEAM

• Holy Trinity Wicker: Parish Magazine 1907   

• The Recollections of (Sheffield by) Eliza Lockwood (1822-1896)

• History of the Sheffield City Battalion R.A.Sparling - 1920:
  • I. ANSWERING THE CALL ... ................ 1
  • II. DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE ... 8
  • III. THE EARLY DAYS ABROAD ... ........ 18
  • IV. FRANCE AT LAST! ... ........................26
  • V. THE BAPTISM OF FIRE ... ... ................33
  • VI. EVE OF THE SOMME BATTLE ... ........47
  • VII. THE GALLANT FIGHT FOR SERRE ... 55
  • VIII. STRANGE INCIDENTS AND A WINTER'S TALE ... 75
  • IX. THE ADVANCE ON PUISIEUX ................88
  • X. ADVENTURES ON Vimy RIDGE ... ........99
  • XI. STORMY DAYS OF BLACK MICHAEL ... 116
  • Roll of Honour

• The Story of St. Philip's Church, Sheffield (A Centenary Record) 1828 -1928
  by Canon W. Odom (printed in 1928)

• Descriptive Catalogue of Charters, Copy Court Rolls and Deeds (forming part of the Wheat collection) - T. Walter Hall 1920

• The Sanitary State of Sheffield - Jan 1872.
  A series of articles published in the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent,
  Jan 1872. The articles in 11 parts describes the appaling conditions then existing in many parts of the town,

• Sheffield in the 18C - R.E.Leader (photocopy)
  • Chapter 1 - The Town and its Inhabitants
  • Chapter 2 - Smithies, Apprentices, Dames, Dress, and Customs
  • Chapter 3 - Conditions and Habits of the Workmen: Brutal Sports, Drunkenness and Crime
  • Chapter 4 - The Trades of Hallamshire: Their Rise and Growth
  • Chapter 5 - Distibution: Pack Horses, Coaches, Chapmen and Merchants
  • Chapter 6 - Amusements, Learning and Literature
  • Chapter 7 - The Theatres and Music
  • Chapter 8 - Streets, Shops and Markets
  • Chapter 9 - Doctors, Lawyers, and Parsons
  • Chapter 10 - The Town Head; Church Street
  • Chapter 11- Cutlers' Halls, the Cutlers Company, Vicar Wilkinson
  • Chapter 12- The Old Church and Town Hall
  • Chapter 13 - High Street; Old Inns
  • Chapter 14 - Campo Lane; Hartshead, Quakers, Gales, Montgomery
  • Chapter 15 - Mercers, Booksellers, Workhouses and Bridges
  • Chapter 16 - Methodists: Sunday Schools
  • Appendix 1 - Early Cutlery
  • Appendix 2 - Tramways
  • Appendix 3 - Old Taverns and the Church

• The Making of Sheffield I865-1914 - J. H. STAINTON

• CUTLERY & CUTLERS AT SHEFFIELD - Henry J Palmer - Aug 1884

• Illustrated Guide to Sheffield (Pawson & Brailsford 1862)

• Sheffield 150 Years Ago - Joseph Woolhouse (cutler) 1832

• The Story of Old Attercliffe - G.R. Vine
  • The Story of Old Attercliffe - G.R. Vine pt 2
  • The Story of Old Attercliffe - G.R. Vine pt 3

• Reminiscences of Old Sheffield, Its Street & Its People - R.E. Leader, Sheffield 1896
  • Chapter 1 - PARADISE SQUARE, CAMPO LANE, HARTSHEAD, AND WATSON'S WALK
  • Chapter II - CAMPO LANE, THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL THE TOWNHEAD
  • Chapter III CHURCH STREET AND THE OLD CHURCH,-ST. JAMES'S STREET, THE OLD CUTLERS' HALL.
  • Chapter IV.THE OLD TOWN HALL, HIGH STREET
  • Chapter V. THE MARKET PLACE, KING STREET, ANGEL STREET
  • Chapter VI. SNIG HILL AND WESTBAR
  • Chapter VII. OLD SHEFFIELD GARDENS.
  • Chapter VIII BANK STREET, THE CROFTs, BROAD LANE.
  • Chapter IX THE OLD, HAYMARKET-THE WICKER-THE NURSERY BRIDGEHOUSES.
  • Chapter X. THE PONDS-NORFOLK STREET-SHEFFIELD MOOR BARKER POOL-FARGATE
  • Chapter XL, FORTY YEARS AGO
  • Chapter XII. Mr. William Swift

Transcriptions on the Moss Valley Site:

• Remote Links to Moss Valley Site

• Fifty years of Sheffield church life, 1866-1916
  by The Rev. W. Odom, Hon. Canon of Sheffield
  [includes reminiscences of "old Sheffield" and Heeley, some photos, and many names are
  mentioned throughout the text, in addition to a list of subscribers]
  
• The Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield
  from The Illustrated London News, 1867 [includes illustration]
• The Highways and Byways of Old Sheffield
  A lecture delivered by R. E. Leader in 1906
  mentioning many places in and around the town
  
• The Great Sheffield Flood
  (from the Illustrated London News, 1864)

Lists & Indexes

• Sheffield Poll Tax April 1692
  1. Part 1
  2. Part 2
  3. Part 3

• Sheffield Spring Knife Cutlers Under development.

• Lists extracted from History of the Company of Cutlers on Hallamshire - Vol II
  • List of Apprentices & Freemen complete
    I consider this to be very significant genealogical source, covering the activities of a major Sheffield trade, spanning several centuries,.
    See sample apprenticship entry in the original records. Related material is the record of trade marks held by the Hallamshire cutlers see sample and the data base of "masters" held by the Sheffield Local Studies Section.

  • Cutlers found in Court Rolls
  • Cutlers 1614-15
  • Cutlers 1624-1630 (that is on Incorporation)

• Derbyshire Alehouses, Innes and Taverns 1577

• A List of Vills and Freeholders of Derbyshire 1633

• List of those fined for not wearing caps to Church 1577

• Sheffield at the Front - A Pictoria Souvenir of Local Men Serving in South Africa (Boar War -
  1st (Hallre) Vol. Batt York & Lancs Regt. - Officers Mess Copy) See index
  Also Sheffield Photo Index database for sample photos.

• Peter Harvey's Sheffield see index to photos

• A Second Helping of Peter Harvey's Sheffield see index to photos

• A Third Helping of Peter Harvey's Sheffield see index to photos

• A Century of Sheffield 1835-1935 - David Robins - in 4 folios see index of photographs

• The Manor and Parish of Ecclesall - Carolus Paulus Ecclesall Rate Book for the Year 1786

• Ridgway (photocopy)

• History of the Sheffield City Battalion R.A.Sparling - 1920: Roll of Honour

• 4TH Report of THE COMMISSIONERS (Children's Employment Commission (1862)) (photocopy). (This report is useful not only because of the information on industrial conditions at the time, but also because of the information on individuals provided by the witnesses. ) Index to Witnesses

• Harrison's Survey of the Manor of Sheffield - 1637 names index

• Various Transactions of the Hunter Archeological Society
  • July 1914
  • Sept 1918 Cumulative contents for Vol 1
  • Nov 1926
  • Dec 1927

• Old Heeley: Notes Written by members of the " Heeley's History Workshop"
  
  • see index
  • Illustrative edition - Volume 1