Record of FULWOOD HISTORY GROUP MEETING 15^th February 2024

Present: D.A., J.B., M.L., C.M., D.M., J.P. & K. P.

• KP shared George Cunningham painting depicting Brookhouse Hill1920; discussion of its houses, shops and cottages
• DM shared selection of documents from the Fulwood Society which have come into his possession; included minutes of meetings, map, writing of Muriel Hall; decision made that after FHG members have had opportunity to look through the papers, they will be passed on to Sheffield City Archives as a revokable loan
• KP shared 1908 map of Nether Green shops area; sparked DM memory of Woodward’s Electrical shop from 1940s/50s
• Forge Dam boating lake rescue: photo shared by DA and people involved remembered by DM
• Stumperlowe Mansions – see December meeting notes – ML organising visit for 10th March
• Heritage Open Days September 2024: theme is Routes, Networks, Connections e.g. transport routes, communication networks, trade unions and social clubs; agreed FHG theme of Fulwood’s sports clubs, beginning at Hallam Grange Sports Club, and finishing at Old Fulwood Road
• Mi Amigo Flypast 22^nd February; discussion of the memorial
• ML told us about U3A archaeology group he is organising; led to JP telling us about Broomhill Library’s Percy Caine garden and Uni of Sheffield’s Roots and Futures project
• KP suggested coffee mornings which could be way of reaching out to community
• Next meeting: 21^st February 2024

 FULWOOD HISTORY GROUP MEETING 19^th January 2024

Present: D. A., J.B., A. C., M.L., J.P. & K. P.

1. Website payment settled with thanks to AC
2. Sheffield Heritage Fair 2025: KP suggested combined stall with Ranmoor Society
3. Heritage Open Days September 2024: theme is Routes, Networks, Connections e.g. transport routes, communication networks, trade unions and social clubs; initial ideas shared e.g.
   • guided walk with suitability for groups of people
   • based around shops
   • Forge Dam
   • Woofindin area
   • A walk round the block with FHG
   • Where roads/lanes meet (e.g. Fulwood Road, Brookhouse Hill area)
   • Fulwood’s lost greens
   • Fulwood’s sports clubs

4.  A.C. shared c1935 map of area which sparked discussion around:

• development of northern suburbs of Fulwood
• Lodge Moor Hall
• the Black Brook and Elliot stone
• the Oak Brook
• Crimicar Lane Hospital
• sewage/waterworks across the area

5. KP. shared information about Gilcrest wood – building on last month’s discussion:

• plans relating to land purchases around 1900s with view to building development which wasn’t realised
• Castlewood Drive area development in 1930s
• variations in naming for this area – 1700s Goulhirst, Gallhirst and Gilcrest and links to Goole/Gold
• air raid shelter built into the slope of the land which was lost beneath 1980s housing on Canterbury Crescent

6. Involvement of Rotherham-based solicitors in land transactions noted

7. JB. shared extract from Reminiscences of Henry Coward (1919) which recalls performance for Plimsoll at Whiteley Woods Hall, probably around 1866

8. A.C. shared photos showing Fulwood area in past times

9. Everyone agreed wording to accompany AC’s article in Fulwood Messenger; led to discussion of Fulwood Chapel and when it was a boarding school run by the Misses Rhodes around 1880s

10. Website development

11. Everyone encouraged to contribute articles etc. to website

12. Reviewing chapters of KP’s book

13. Next meeting: 15^th February 2024

Record of FULWOOD HISTORY GROUP MEETING 21/12/23

Present: D. A., J.B., A. C., M.L., C. M., J.P. & K. P.

1. K.P. shared selected Minutes of Council Meetings 1915-18, (kept at Local Studies Library); these relate to widening and lighting of Fulwood Road. Dr. Inkster is mentiond: Samuel Macaulay Inkster was born in 1848 in Shetland and was one of Sheffield’s Certifying Factory Inspectors in the early days of health and safety
2. A.C. shared research into Ringinglow, including Roundhouse
3. A.C. shared research into Whiteley Woods Hall and Phoebe Silcock’s brother which led to discussion around the ways in which medical conditions were understood and labelled
4. Paths and roads: recent publication of Fullwood Hall – the First 600 Years (Hostombe & Crutch) sparked discussion of siting and construction of Harrison Lane, rights of way, comparisons with Longshaw estate, causeways, cart tracks and footpaths, (recommended book on this topic by archaeologist Jim Leary: Footmarks – A Journey into our Restless Past (2023))
5. K.P. shared copy of brochure for newly built Stumperlowe Mansions c.1938; notable in its promotion of gas as form of power, quality of its architectural style, its fittings and furnishings (supplied by Cockaynes), as well as social aspect; ML’s connection with the site and waterway running through it
6. D.A. shared late 18^th century field maps relating to Fulwood Spring – could this be the spa? Fieldnames with ‘spring’ and ‘well’, probably located in woodland between Woodcliffe and Hangram Lane: needs further investigation
7. D.A. shared maps relating to Crimicar Lane’s Goulhirst woodland area; discussion around naming/misnaming/evolution of names – Goole, Goul, Gilchrest
8. Bower Hill Farm and its last residents c.1950s
9. Goole Green hamlet dating from the 18^th century at least until the late 1960s: buildings included Goole Green Farm with its surviving barn, (Guild Hall), Goole Green House and Goole Green Cottage; members of that community remembered by D.A. as well as members of local FB groups
10. M.L. demonstrated a test website he’s developing and its search facility/database; feedback given about the usability of the online web search for Fulwood addresses and Census data; group encouraged to visit the website and give further feedback on search facilities
11. More discussion of memories of Fullwood Hall
12. Sports grounds: large number of sports fields in area; often belonged to works sports clubs such as Dixon’s Cornish Works; indicates philanthropic/paternalistic attitudes of factory owners towards workers
13. Next meeting: 18^th January 2024; no February open meeting; writing/posting on FHG site encouraged in meantime

Present: JB, ML, CM, J&KP

1 Remembrance Day ceremony which took place at Fulwood War Memorial on 12th.

• People involved
• Land around the war memorial – ownership and use

2            FHG website update

• Connected to importance of keeping record of our meetings
• Way to keep relatively large number of people connected
• Design, accessibility, structure and functionality: Matthew took notes
• Posting and adding longer articles
• Current contributions to the site
• Looked at C. Jenkins’ Stumperlowe article on site and wondered about source of this and the ‘Stump’ burial story

3   Archaeological connections: Matthew shared pictures of neolithic (?) quern-         stone sites on Ringinglow moors from his work with Dr. Tim Cockrell and team from Sheffield Uni; led to discussion of rock art in Ecclesall woods and elsewhere in our area

4 Discussion around nature of our memories and our histories

5 House numbering: included ‘Stand’ area and racecourses in Broomhill & Redmires

6  Rights of way and local developments included

• Field behind Scout Hut
• Artic Monkeys

7  Looked through Histories ‘n’ Oddities ‘r’ Old Fulwood (HOOF) – booklets 1, 6 & 7.  These were written, (probably over the last decade), by Susan Hedges who used to live at Beech Dene cottages

8  Future plans

• Next meeting – Thursday December 21st – mince pies?
• Set out rough plan for future meetings, including large ones
• To develop knowledge for collecting oral histories
• Possibility of having a ‘booth’ at events to collect people’s recollections