Record of FULWOOD HISTORY GROUP MEETING 19th December 2024
Present: J.B., A.C., M.L., C.M., D.M., J.P., K.P.
Our final meeting of 2024 included discussion of:
- FHG’s social media and agreement to continue with website
- Developing links with other local groups, how they’re organised and comparison with FHG
- Whiteley Green area including Whiteley Woods Hall, Stanley Royle and the ‘stone-roller re-used as a gate-stoop…likely used during the Victorian Period for agricultural purposes, such as clod-crushing, compressing soils prior to sowing, and smoothing grasslands’ Pp.43-4 Porter Valley Landscape History Final Report. Ardron Unified Landscape Assessments. April 2004. https://www.fopv.org.uk/shop?Category=Reports
- Maps of the area dating to 1960s which the National Library of Scotland has added to their database recently
- Sheffield City Archives’ recent acquisitions: A Volume of Maps of the Township of Upper Hallam, Wm. Fairbank II, 1795 and Plans, Valuation and Descriptions of Houses, Warehouses and Workshops situate in the Township of Ecclesall Bierlow’, 1842
- The Crookesmoor Racecourse and how it passed through the Broomhill Library site
- D. M. shared several items he’d brought:
- Tradespeople in Sheffield, a directory of 1789; this sparked discussion of terms such as ‘anvilling’, hammering and smiths
- Walks in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield. Book published by Leader in 1830
- Report of the Sheffield Waterworks Failure Dale Dike or Bradfield Reservoir, May 1864; this included a record of the enquiry along with maps and diagrams
- Next meeting January 19th (tbc) at Broomhill Library
- Proposed visit to Sheffield City Archive in January – tbc