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The Sheffield Barracks and its
Place in the City
by John Clarke
Q
uite strangely Sheffield only 1848 at a cost of £94,000, covering about
initially had barracks due to 22 acres. It still had facilities for horses
the French Civil War. Nerves with a clock towered building, with cavalry
around Europe were very tense in 1794 soldiers quartered on the first floor and
when the first barracks were erected for stabling for 260 horses on the ground
the Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons. floor (total accommodation for 918 non-
Fear was that the revolution that was commissioned officers and other ranks).
taking place in France could spread and The barracks even had its own water
Sheffield, being a hotbed of revolutionary supply, fed from the nearby Rawson
thinking, could be a breeding ground Spring, on the facing hillside towards
for an uprising. Its volunteer companies Walkley. The spring kept 21 underground
play an active role with the Imperial tanks filled with over half a million gallons
Yeomanry in the Second Boer War, but of water. The smallest tank held 12,000
opportunities for mounted action were gallons, the biggest 50,000 gallons. It was
much more restricted during World War rumoured at the time that this water
I so it was temporarily converted into supply would be for the benefit of
a cycle unit. The barracks was situated Sheffield’s gentry, who would seek refuge
towards Hillfoot; it is still remembered in in the barracks in the event of an uprising.
some of the road names around there. The new barracks was built to show a
However, the importance of having position of strength, after the Chartist
mounted soldiers in the city diminished movement threatened to undermine
and a more on-foot approach was the structure of power in the country.
needed, so a new barracks was built in Sheffield, being one of the revolutionary
4 HISTORY & HERITAGE
centres, had put pressure on the recalled by the officer who arrested him
garrison. After a rebellion in Newport, in court:
Monmouthshire was put down in 1839. “On Saturday evening, at twelve o’clock, I
A more radical faction of the group, and Wilde and several police officers went
known as the Chartists led by Samuel to Holberry’s house in Ayre Lane... we went
Holberry, planned an armed uprising in upstairs, and found Holberry in bed with
Sheffield. The Sheffield Chartists planned his clothes on. He got upon one elbow, and
to take control of the Old Town Hall then Wilde caught hold of a dagger from a
and other town centre locations. At the side pocket in his coat, which was in a red
same time, riots were to take place in leather case, and like the one produced.
Dewsbury and Nottingham. However, the Wilde then asked him if he was one of the
conspirators were betrayed; Holberry and people called Chartists, and he said, ‘Yes’.
his colleagues were arrested, and peace “He then asked him whether he was
restored in Sheffield. a moral-force Chartist or a physical-force
This is a recollection at the time by a Chartist. He replied ‘a physical-force
Mr Johnson: Chartist’. I said that is a deadly weapon,
“On the 12th September 1839, the pointing to the dagger, you surely would
Chartists held a silent meeting in Paradise not take life with it. He replied, ‘I would in
Square, which was dispersed by the soldiers defence of the Charter and to obtain liberty’.
and police. The Chartists reassembled in But he added, ‘Mind, I am no thief...’
‘Doctor’s Field’, at the bottom of Duke “We went into the garret, and the first
Street, where they were followed by the thing I saw was a pistol, which Wilde took
soldiers and police, and 36 prisoners taken. up and which was found to be loaded. After
At the Town Hall, the next day, which was that, I found the basket on the table, with
guarded by the dragoons and the doors twelve hand-grenades, the cases for which
kept by policemen armed with cutlasses, I were stone bottles stuffed with blasting
saw several anxious mothers inquiring for powder, pebbles and pitch, with a fuse
their missing ones. and touchpaper. I also found a number of
“A night or two after the Doctor’s Field fire-balls there, some tin cases for hand-
meeting, hearing there was to be a Chartist grenades, three torches, about forty ball
meeting at Skye Edge in the park, my cartridges, about three dozen iron bullets
brother and I tried to find Skye Edge, but and an iron pot...”
not succeeding, met the Chartists coming Samuel Holberry was sentenced to four
away. They marched down Duke Street, years’ imprisonment with hard labour and
singing lustily a Chartist melody: “Press died in prison at York Castle on 21 June
forward, press forward, there’s nothing to 1842 aged 27. He is buried in Sheffield
fear, we will have the Charter, be it ever so General Cemetery with his son who died
dear…” But, alas! On turning the corner at in infancy.
the bottom of Duke Street, they caught sight Why was it important to get the likes
of the helmets of the 1st Dragoons from the of Holberry under lock and key came
barracks, who were coming to meet them. out in the trial as seen in the Northern
Instead of ‘pressing forward’ we all ‘pressed’ Star dated 21st March 1840 stating that
every way so that, in two minutes, not a Hoberry “said we must all be at the Town
Chartist was to be seen…” Hall and the Tontine [Hotel] by two o’clock,
The arrest of Samuel Holberry is best as they must be the places to be first taken.
HISTORY
LOCAL&HISTORY
HERITAGE 5
The classes were to come up to take these places, one man first from every class, then two, and the whole body. Exactly as the clock struck two, they were to rush into the Town Hall and Tontine, and take possession of them. Boardman said he could bring about fifty, and I said I could bring about fifty... If they got the Tontine, they were to shut the gates, and barricade them with the coaches inside. When they got into the Town Hall, one party was to occupy the floor, and the others were to go above. We then began to talk about the ‘cats’, the instruments to lame the horses, and it was proposed to throw them in Snig Hill, leading from the barracks, and they were to be thrown at the corner of the Town Hall and the Albion. Holberry said that he and eighty-three picked men were to go after the soldiers when they were called out and fire the straw chamber. One of them was to of Friday 11 March 1864, the ill-fated do it by climbing the spout and throwing a Dale Dyke Dam, further up the Loxley fire-ball in it. That, it was said, would set fire Valley at Bradfield, burst causing the to the Riding School. The ones and twos who Great Sheffield flood. The resulting flood came up were to assassinate all the soldiers waters breached a stone wall around the and watchmen they met... Holberry said in barracks that was three feet thick. The the event of their being baffled, they must water rose to the height of twelve feet ‘Moscow the town’.” outside the window of Sergeant Foulds’ Funny: In July 1848 the Duke of quarters and drowned two of his children. Norfolk’s Markets Bill passed through The barracks never really recovered from Parliament and part of the site chosen for the flood. the new market hall was that occupied On 26 July 1932, an auction was by the Tontine Inn, which was purchased held on the instructions of the War by his Grace. The inn closed as a licensed Department by Eadon & Lockwood in house in 1849 and was demolished in Sheffield. However, when bidding reached 1850. only £12,000, the auction was terminated Many deaths took place in the barracks; and the barracks withdrawn from sale. In instead of battle wounds, it was small pox October of that year, the complex was during the epidemic in the late 1880s sold to Burdall’s Ltd, a manufacturing with most of them buried in Wardsend chemist noted for its gravy salt, and it Cemetery. A monument is in place as you became known as Burdall’s Buildings. It enter the cemetery with a roll of honour now houses Morrisons and various other inscribed on it. shops. So, a building built to control the On the northern side of the barracks people is now used by the very people it runs the River Loxley. On the night was built to control. 6 HISTORY & HERITAGE
COMMUNITY 7
8 COMMUNITY
LOCAL HISTORY 8
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O
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ADVERTORIAL 9
‘The Sheffield
Scientist’
Forensics Corner with
Dr. Miranda Trojanowska
DNA Profiling
D
NA profiling (also called DNA
fingerprinting) is a forensic technique
that compares DNA samples to
determine whether there is a genetic link. The
technique uses DNA to create a ‘profile’ (a
specific DNA pattern) that is unique to an
individual. There will be similarities between
DNA profiles of related family members but Sir Alec Jeffreys
identical twins have the same DNA profile.
This technique has been used in criminal the identity of a British boy whose family was
investigations comparing criminal suspects’ originally from Ghana. The case was resolved
DNA profiles to DNA evidence found at a when the DNA results proved that the boy
crime scene so as to determine whether or was closely related to the other members of
not they were involved in a particular crime. the family.
This technique has also been used in paternity DNA profiling was first used in a criminal
testing, and in the study of animal and plant investigation to solve the murder of two
populations. DNA profiling was developed by teenage girls that had been sexually assaulted
Dr Alec Jeffreys in 1984, in the Department and murdered in the 1980s in neighbouring
of Genetics at the University of Leicester. The Leicestershire villages. In November 1983 in
process begins with a sample of an individual’s Narborough, 15-year-old Lynda Mann took a
DNA (typically called a “reference sample”). shortcut on her way home from babysitting
Reference samples are usually collected instead of taking her normal route home. She
through a mouth swab that is then analysed did not return, so her parents and neighbours
to create the individual’s DNA profile. This spent the night searching for her. The next
DNA profile is then compared against another morning, she was found strangled on a
sample DNA profile, for example, evidence deserted footpath. Police were able to obtain
found at a crime scene (blood, saliva, semen a semen sample from the body but were
or other bodily fluids) or blood or saliva from only able to determine that the person that
a potential father, to determine whether there had assaulted Lynda was blood type A. With
is a similarity in the DNA indicating a genetic no other leads or evidence, the case was left
match. open.
Jeffreys’ DNA profiling method was first put In July 1986 in Enderby, a second 15-year-
to use in 1985 when he was asked to help old girl, Dawn Ashworth, left her home to
in a disputed immigration case to confirm visit a friend’s house. Her parents expected
10 COMMUNITY
LOCAL HISTORY 10DNA profiles from a victim and two suspects compared to DNA found at a crime scene. Suspect 1 left evidence at the
crime scene as the DNA profiles match. The DNA profiles of the Victim and Suspect 2 do not match the profile found at
the crime scene.
her to come home at 9:30 PM but when she had taken the blood test pretending to be
failed to do so they called police to report her another colleague, Colin Pitchfork. Pitchfork
missing. Two days later, her body was found told Kelly that he could not give blood under
in a wooded area. The modus operandi (a his own name because he had already given
particular way or method of doing something) blood while pretending to be a friend of his
matched that of the first attack, and semen who had wanted to avoid being harassed by
samples revealed the same blood type. police because of a conviction for burglary
Leicestershire Police arrested a suspect, in his youth. A woman who overheard the
Richard Buckland, a local 17-year-old youth conversation reported it to police.
with learning difficulties, who admitted to In September 1987, Pitchfork was arrested.
the murder of Dawn under questioning, but His DNA profile matched the semen samples
denied the murder of Lynda. Using DNA found on the two murdered girls. During
profiling, Jeffreys compared semen samples questioning, Pitchfork admitted to exposing
from both murder victims against a blood himself to more than 1,000 women, a
sample from Buckland and conclusively proved compulsion that began in his early teens. He
that both girls were killed by the same man later progressed to sexual assault and then to
but not by Buckland. Buckland became the strangling his victims in order to protect his
first person to have his innocence established identity. He pleaded guilty to the two murders
by DNA profiling. and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The
With no other suspects, Leicestershire Lord Chief Justice at the time of his sentencing
Constabulary then undertook an investigation said: “From the point of view of the safety
in which more than 5,500 local men were of the public I doubt if he should ever be
asked to volunteer blood or saliva samples. released.” In 2016, Pitchfork was transferred to
These were then compared to the DNA an open prison in Gloucestershire and since
profile of the murderer. This took six months, 2017, has been allowed out on day release in
and no matches were found. Bristol.
In August 1987, Ian Kelly revealed to In 1984, Dr Alec Jeffreys was knighted for his
fellow colleagues in a Leicester pub that he services to genetics.
COMMUNITY 11Law Firm Waives Will Writing
Fees in Support of
Bluebell Wood
by Bluebell Wood
A
community-spirited law firm is This amount would contribute to a short
waiving its fees for its bespoke break for a family at Bluebell Wood to
will writing service to help raise give them some much-needed me time.
much-needed funds for Bluebell Wood Counselling and short breaks are
Children’s Hospice. two incredibly important aspects of
BRM Solicitors have partnered with the the wraparound care the charity offers,
charity to offer the service throughout something Saki and Rudi’s families know
February in return for a donation to the all too well.
hospice. BRM’s ‘Make a Will’ month comes Saki, who was always the life and soul
at a time when much of Bluebell Wood’s of the party, passed away in 2019 after
planned fundraising activity has been a lifelong battle with a series of complex
cancelled or postponed as a result of the conditions. Since saying goodbye to her
latest COVID-19 restrictions. son, mum Sharon has relied on Bluebell
BRM’s suggested donation of £75 for Wood’s support through the dark days
a single will can pay for two counselling that followed.
sessions for parents coming to terms with “I didn’t grieve properly to start with. I
the devastation of losing a child. struggled on for months but then I literally
For a Mirror Will, often used by couples, broke,” said Sharon, from Barnsley.
BRM are suggesting a £150 donation. “One of Bluebell Wood’s counsellors,
12 COMMUNITY
LOCAL HISTORY 12picked me up and put me back together “As well as helping to raise money for
again. Without them there’s a massive local charities, our free will months are a
possibility I wouldn’t have been here today.” great way to promote the importance of
Four-year-old Rudi, from Chesterfield, making a Will and ensuring money and
loves visiting Bluebell Wood for short possessions go exactly where you want
breaks and wows staff and volunteers them to.
alike with his infectious smile and bubbly “We are hoping to raise as much money
personality. Mum Daniella explains as possible to support Bluebell Wood
just how important a break from the through these challenging times, so please
pressures of caring for a child with a life- do get in touch if you’d like to put your
shortening condition is to her family. affairs in order whilst supporting a good
“Everyone’s welcoming, understanding and cause.”
has empathy for our situation,” she said. Rachael Dawes, Individual Giving
“Nothing’s ever too much trouble. It’s a Manager at Bluebell Wood, said: “We’d
safe and comfortable place for us to go and like to say a huge thank you to BRM for
having that support to rely on really does supporting Bluebell Wood with their Make a
mean the world to us.” Will Month.
To book an appointment, which can be “We need to raise over £5 million each
done in person, over the phone or via year to keep our doors open, and our ability
video call, contact BRM on 01246 555111 to fundraise has been significantly impacted
or info@brmlaw.co.uk by the pandemic.
Rob Woodhead, Head of Wills and “So a gift left in someone’s Will, of any
Probate at BRM Solictors, said: amount, will help us to continue to be there
“We’re delighted to be supporting Bluebell for children and families at a time when
Wood this year with our Make a Will month they need our support more than ever.”
after several successful years of supporting
amazing local charities.
COMMUNITY 13W
e are now in February and
we are cracking on with JOBS TO DO IN FEBRUARY
getting our plot prepared
for Spring. January was a bit of a washout In the Vegetable Garden:
and a few snowy days prevented us from
finishing off getting the outside ready but • Aubergine - These can be expensive to
we persevered and worked on getting the purchase from the shops but did you know
inside of our shed ready for growing all our you can grow these in the UK? There are
seeds in. My shed is actually part shed, part now varieties which can be grown in UK
greenhouse. This was all made by myself temperatures. Sow these this month for great
as I’m 6ft 5 so needed something tall! This results in Summer.
shed and the greenhouse is the best part • Broad Beans - At this time of year you can
of my plot as I always have somewhere start your broad beans off in pots. This is
to go when it is raining and in summer probably better for broad beans starting them
it gets boiling inside, which is the perfect off in pots as they will grow strong and they
temperature for starting all my seeds in. will be protected from birds.
We have also just launched our own
online greeting card shop selling greeting • Onions - If you want to grow massive onions
cards with our pictures on. Check them out from seeds now is the time to start them
here: www.gardenandallotment.com/shop growing. This will give them a good chance
Don’t forget to check out my website of growing into huge onions big enough for
on the link below. We share lots of tips and exhibitions. You will need to start your onion
advice on our social media channels as well
seeds off on a windowsill or in a heated
– so make sure you give them a follow too.
propagator to get them to germinate.
Facebook/Instagram: • Potatoes - To chit potatoes or not? A lot of
Gardening with Ben gardeners stick to the rule of chitting potatoes.
Website: I personally do. January is a good time to start
www.gardenandallotment.com
14 COMMUNITYchitting your potatoes ready to plant out In the Fruit Garden:
in March and April. To chit your potatoes
place them in a tray or egg cartons with • Currants - February is the perfect time
the eyes facing up on a bright windowsill to be planting your currant bushes,
that is frost-free and wait for them to whether it be red, black or white
sprout. currents they can all be planted this
month.
• Peppers - These need to be started
early so that they have plenty of time to • Gooseberries - Try planting some
grow and fruit in the summer. Start these gooseberry bushes this month. If you are
seeds off now on a warm windowsill. not keen on the sour gooseberries try
planting red ones, these are sweeter.
In the Flower Garden:
• Fruit Tree - Now is the perfect time to
• Chrysanthemum - These are plant these as long as the ground is not
showstopper flowers! Sow the seed this frozen.
month in your greenhouse for fantastic
• Raspberries - You can plant these this
blooms in the garden and allotment.
month in the ground. Autumn varieties
• Dahlia - These can look amazing in the are a great type to grow they will
garden blooming all summer. So the seed produce great crops.
this month for planting out later in the
year. • Strawberries - This month you can still
plant strawberry plants for delicious
• Geraniums - If you want early flowers crops of strawberries in summer. You will
on your geraniums now is the time to need quite a few plants for good pickings
sow seeds in the greenhouse. on a daily basis.
COMMUNITY 15Bessie’s Cafe & Bistro
984 Abbeydale Road,
S7 2QF - 0114 2363084
H
appy 2021 everyone! What a start weight loss/ healthy eating plans out of
to the year eh?! I sit here looking the window! As a business our main focus
out from my window at the rain now is reaching out to as many people as
crashing down from storm Christoph and possible to promote our outside catering
worrying about not only when I will be able and (luckily) our pre booked weddings for
to reopen my beloved cafe but if my garage 2020 have rescheduled for 2021 - but we
will flood like in the last storm! aren’t holding our breath as we try to make
This lockdown is different from the last, our way through this ever changing situation.
it’s cold and wet and being trapped in my BUT we are taking wedding bookings which
house with a toddler has been challenging to will help us on our way to getting back on
say the least! One thing has got me through track.
the last few weeks and will continue to do I have become very best friends with my
so into the weeks approaching: FOOD! slow cooker this last few weeks. It’s cold and
With no real expectation about when I I want maximum taste with minimum effort
will be able to reopen, I am eating my way and I want to share a recipe I’ve made three
through the days with all my regular January times in the last month.
16 COMMUNITYCooked Beef With Orange,
Szechuan & Star Anise
INGREDIENTS METHOD
Serves 4, very generously 1. Dust your beef with flour, salt and
20 mins prep pepper and then pan fry in batches
6 hours cooking until it is all browned off
2. Add all ingredients to the slow cooker
1.5k chuck steak (we get ours from a local and set for 6 hours on a low heat
butcher, this cut is cheap and absolutely
3. That is IT!
delicious, but you can use any type of stew
steak - the fattier the better)
5 garlic cloves So easy and delicious. I have eaten this with
1 thumb size fresh ginger pan fried stem broccoli as a side, and also
1 tsp crushed szechuan seeds with rice when I was extra hungry. Sprinkle
5 strips of orange peel with fresh spring onions when you serve.
4 bay leaves Enjoy!
2 tbsp dark soy
175ml red wine
1 beef stock cube
1 bowl of chopped spring onions
Salt and pepper to taste
17Local Journalist Creates New
Publication for Sheffield
by Louisa Merrick-White
I
n July of 2019, I graduated from the and the demands of education meant
University of Sheffield with a degree that my writing quickly fell by the wayside.
in English and History, and absolutely Once I started writing for fun again it
no idea what I wanted to do. After four quickly became apparent that this may
months of enjoying my post-uni freedom well be my only lifelong passion, the only
and working in retail part-time, I realised hobby I was meant to have, and probably
that, as happy as I was to be out of the only thing I have a natural aptitude for.
education, I kind of missed using my So that was it, writing was back in my life
brain. I loved my retail job but the lack and not getting away again.
of mental stimulation was starting to get As I started to explore what writing
to me. In November 2019, I decided to opportunities were out there, I found
revisit an old passion of mine: writing. I’d that, while there were plenty of online
always loved writing as a kid but as I got platforms to write for, there weren’t a lot
older, a combination of lack of confidence in Sheffield. Of course, there were some
18 COMMUNITY
LOCAL HISTORY 18but they didn’t feel like my place; Exposed who write for us, however, I hope that
Magazine is great but music writing isn’t the experience gained, particularly for
really my thing; Now Then Magazine is journalists who are just starting out, as
also brilliant but again, arts, culture and well as the opportunity to bring new
politics isn’t really my area of expertise. voices to Sheffield’s media scene, means
For a few months, I found myself wishing that writing for us is still worthwhile. My
there was a place where I could write goal for The Steel City Standard is for the
about local issues, as well as other topics platform to continue to grow, continue to
that didn’t fall into an existing publications’ provide opportunities to local journalists
niche. and continue to be a platform for local
The online community of young voices, as well as bringing new voices and
journalists is a brilliant place, and I found perspectives to the people of Sheffield
more and more people who’d stuck their and hopefully one day, having a big impact
neck out and created websites/platforms on the city’s media industry.
to fill a gap in the journalism world that If you’d like to get involved, you can
they thought existed, so I decided to do email us at steelcitystandard@gmail.com
the same. On the 1st September 2020, and if you’d like to follow us on social
I launched The Steel City Standard, an media, you can find us @steelcitystand
online platform for local journalists to on Twitter and Instagram or we’re The
write on any topic. I fund the website Steel City Standard on Facebook and
using my retail wages as I’m determined LinkedIn.
that the articles on the site don’t end up
hidden behind paywalls and advertising.
For that reason, I can’t pay the people
COMMUNITY 1920 TOMMY HILFIGER
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TOMMY HILFIGER 21The Day the
Queen Visited
Sheffield
by John Bradshaw
T
he existence of the first Town Hall
in Sheffield is included in the 1637
edition of William Harrison’s ‘The
Manor of Sheffield’. This modest building,
thought to have been on Pinfold Street in
central Sheffield, was replaced by a second building. By coincidence, Pomeroy was the
which was used from 1700. It was sited sculptor responsible for the 12-foot high gilt
next to the Parish Church (now Sheffield bronze statue of ‘Justice’ atop Mountford’s Old
Cathedral), but there was little room for any Bailey.
extensions. Demolition took place in 1810, Construction of the new Sheffield Town
after the third Town Hall (granted Grade II Hall began in 1890 by the Liverpool firm
listing in 1973 and still standing) had been of Edmund Gabbutt and lasted seven years.
built between 1807-1808, at the junction of The final total cost, including the price paid
Waingate and Castle Street. Extensions were for the land, amounted to almost £200,000
added over the years and it was designed to (just over £26m in 2020). The foundation
house the Petty and Quarter Sessions, as well stone was laid on 9 October1891 by the late
as the Town Trustees. By the 1880s, Sheffield’s Alderman Clegg who was, at the time, the
administration had outgrown this third building, Mayor of Sheffield. The exterior walls were
a fact which initiated the need for the present, built with ‘Stoke’ stone from the Stoke Hall
larger fourth Town Hall. Quarry, near Grindleford in Derbyshire. This
In 1886, the Council bought the land on stone was also used on the interior, along with
which the present fourth Town Hall now Ancaster and Coxbench stone. The 210-foot
stands, at the junction of Surrey Street and high clock tower is surmounted by a 7-foot
Pinstone Street, demolishing the houses which bronze statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of
stood on the land. A competition was held fire and metalworking by the Italian sculptor
by the Council for architects to submit plans Mario Raggi. The statue, weighing 18 cwt (914
for the design of the new Town Hall and kg) was modelled by a Life Guardsman and
out of 178 designs, that of Edward William holds a hammer in the right hand and arrows
Mountford, a London-based architect, was in the left hand; the right foot rests on an anvil.
chosen. Mountford was also the architect Raggi also produced statues of Queen Victoria
for Battersea Town Hall (1891-1893), Old and politicians W E Gladstone and Benjamin
Bailey Courthouse, London (1900-1907) and Disraeli.
Lancaster Town Hall (1906-1909). The sculptor, The construction and fitting-out of the new
Frederick William Pomeroy was chosen to Town Hall were completed by early 1897. This
carry out and supervise the carving on the was the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond
22 HISTORY & HERITAGEPhoto: Picture Sheffield
Jubilee and Her Majesty was invited to come Norfolk (the Lord Mayor) and the Lady
to Sheffield to carry out the official opening Mayoress, Mr A Wilson (the Master Cutler), E
ceremony. The Queen graciously accepted M Mountford (architect of the Town Hall), civic
the invitation and the date of Friday 21 May dignitaries and notable citizens. A bouquet
was chosen for the special event. The morning was presented to the Queen by the Lady
of the appointed day heralded bright, sunny Mayoress before the royal procession made
weather; Her Majesty left Windsor Castle in its way through the city to the Town Hall. This
an open carriage, accompanied by her son, procession was led by the Chief Constable,
Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and followed by eleven carriages, with Her Majesty,
Strathearn, and her married daughter, Princess the Duke of Connaught and Princess Christian
Helena (also styled Princess Christian, wife of riding in the last carriage, accompanied by an
Prince Christian of Schleswig- Holstein). They escort of Her Majesty’s Life Guards.
were attended by an entourage of nine others Immediately the city knew that Queen
who made their way to the railway station Victoria would be coming to Sheffield;
at Windsor, where the Royal train awaited. everyone became involved in making her visit
The Queen and her son and daughter were a memorable one. Colourful banners, garlands,
accommodated in one of the central coaches bunting, flags and archways were made to
of the fifteen that made up the train. The decorate the streets along which the royal
journey to Sheffield began at about 11.30am, procession would pass. Bands were to play on
passing through Banbury, Leamington, Derby the special day to entertain the vast crowds
and then on to Sheffield. Stops were made expected; military personnel and the police
along the route for rest and refreshments. were to line the route and the day itself was
The Queen’s arrival at the Midland Station made a public holiday in Sheffield. From the
in Sheffield at 5pm, was signalled by a 21 gun Midland Railway Station, the procession passed
salute. The Guard of Honour was provided along Station Road, Commercial Street, High
by the Connaught Rangers and music was Street, Fargate, New Surrey Street, Norfolk
provided by the band of the same regiment. Street, Upper Charles Street and Pinstone
There were ninety people gathered at the Street to the main entrance of the Town Hall.
station to welcome Her Majesty; these On arrival, Her Majesty remained in her
included Henry Fitzalan-Howard, Duke of carriage and then followed the presentation
HISTORY
LOCAL&HISTORY
HERITAGE 23of various addresses which were warmly of ‘God save the Queen’, then a rendition of accepted and replied to by the Queen. Next ‘Rule Britannia’ as Her Majesty left the park came the Lord Mayor to make presentations by the upper entrance. Refreshments for the to Her Majesty of civic officers and notable children were provided by the Lord Mayor. citizens. The Chairman of the Improvement The procession travelled along Norfolk Committee, Mr Alderman Langley, was chosen Road, South Street, Broad Street, Corn to present to the Queen a gold key and lock Exchange, Furnival Road, Blonk Street, Wicker attached to an electric cable which went into and Savile Street to the Cyclops Steel Works the building. The Queen turned the key, which of Charles Cammell & Company Limited. brought about the immediate opening of Her Majesty had travelled here to witness the pair of gilded wrought iron gates. Some the rolling of a 56 ton steel ingot, 42 inches spectators believed that it was the wonder thick into an armour plate for the ship HMS of electricity which had brought about this ‘Ocean’. The battleship was launched at spectacle; in fact, the Queen had caused a Devonport in 1898 and was sunk by mines off lamp to be lit inside the building, which was a the Dardanelles in March 1915 during World signal for three concealed men to physically War I. At Cammell’s works, the Lord Mayor open the gates by manpower alone. Following presented Mrs Alexander Wilson, (the Mistress this, the Lord Mayor invited Her Majesty Cutler) to the Queen with a bouquet. After to declare the Town Hall open. A fanfare of watching the rolling process with great interest, trumpets was sounded and a rendition of the Her Majesty and her retinue then boarded National Anthem ended the short ceremony. the royal train via a specially constructed Following the ceremony at the Town Hall, platform outside the works. The Queen and it had been arranged that the Lord Mayor’s Princess Christian left Sheffield shortly after parlour, reception room and dining room 7 pm and travelled to Preston where dinner would be open for inspection by ticket was served on board the royal train. The holders. Afternoon tea was served and Mr journey continued to Carlisle, Perth and on to John Peck’s private band played selections of Aberdeen where the train arrived early the music in the dining room from 5.30 pm to next morning. Upon leaving the train, the royal 8.00 pm. From the Town Hall, the Queen’s party drove to Balmoral Castle to prepare for procession took a route through Barker’s Pool, Her Majesty’s 78th birthday celebrations on Cambridge Street, South Street (The Moor), 24 May. Hereford Street, St Mary’s Road, Farm Road, A month after the visit to Sheffield, Norfolk Park Road, reaching Norfolk Park by the Queen conferred a baronetcy on 6 pm. Here was a gathering of 50,000 children Mr Alexander Wilson (Master Cutler), a from the elementary and Sunday schools of knighthood on Alderman C T Skelton (Deputy Sheffield, on the slopes of the Park, awaiting Mayor) and a C B on Mr John Jackson (Chief the Queen’s arrival. Each child had been given Constable). Queen Victoria was the first British a Union flag to wave and each wore a medal, reigning sovereign to visit Sheffield. She had specially made for the occasion and presented been born on 24 May 1819 and she passed by the Lord Mayor. Upon the arrival of Her away at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, on 22 Majesty, the Queen’s carriage passed along a January 1901, aged 80 years, after reigning road between the slopes, pausing for a few since 20 June 1837. She was succeeded by her minutes to listen to the children sing a specially eldest son who was crowned King Edward VII composed hymn, ‘Loyal and loving the children on 9 August 1902. now raising’. This was followed by the singing 24 HISTORY & HERITAGE
A Journey with
H
ello fellow Steelmekker readers,
I certainly hope you are all
safe and well while you are
reading this article. It has been sometime
since Paces last graced the pages of
Steelmekker magazine, alas we are still
in lockdown as we were the first time
round.
Now while this may not have changed,
there certainly has been lots of changes
and developments at Paces HQ to talk lack of availability, not for much longer!
about. Firstly the very exciting news With the vision for our journey clear
that in just a matter of weeks we will be and with an incredibly determined
moving our Adult Services facility over to team, we have started to put in place
a brand new home on the Smithy Wood fundraising events and activities that will
Business Park in Chapeltown. This exciting get us to our goal. With the country
move will ensure that we can not only still under Covid-19 restrictions for the
provide our adults with the first class foreseeable future, but with some hope
facilities they deserve but it also means that we will soon be able to meet in
we can offer even more places to more person, we are incredibly excited to start
adults thus supporting more families to plan and implement an exciting events
throughout the region. schedule for later this year. From our Golf
With stage 1 of our move complete Day with a difference, London Marathon,
and up and running, we will next be Pink for Paces, Christmas Jumper Day
continuing to fundraise for a new home and much more, there’s something for
for our children and school. The facilities absolutely everyone to get involved with
in our current home can no longer suffice to support on our journey to our new
and we are desperate to provide all of home.
our children with an environment they If you would like to find out more
deserve as soon as we can. Likewise with information about Paces and how you
our Adult Services, we no longer want can support our incredible efforts,
to turn away families that wish to access please get in touch with the team
the life changing work that Paces provides on david.hall@pacessheffield.org.uk
and in the last 3 years alone, we have had or check out our website for more
to turn away almost 100 families due to information: pacessheffield.org.uk
COMMUNITY 25On the Front Line
By Helen Shepherd
National Emergency Services Museum
I
n a previous issue of Steelmekker, I were beyond anything even the most
reflected on the events of 12 and 15 experienced firefighter, police officer or
December 1940, when the Blitz came ambulance driver had seen. As one later
to Sheffield and devastated much of the recalled, ‘If a man who went through it all
City Centre and surrounding areas. tells you he wasn’t afraid that night you
The impossible task of fighting this can take it he’s lying.’
onslaught fell to the emergency services. When the sirens sounded, around
In 1940, Sheffield Fire Brigade (SFB) 1,800 SFB and AFS firefighters were
consisted of just 65 men and four officers. quickly in the City Centre. However, they
Regular fire, police and ambulance staff were soon overwhelmed by numerous
were bolstered by an army of volunteers fires and a request for help saw
who signed up to organisations like the firefighters from neighbouring towns and
Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), War Reserve cities pouring into Sheffield to assist.
Police Force and the Air Raid Precautions An hour into the raid, high explosives
(ARP) service. Sheffield’s Civil Defence began to fall and emergency service
- set up in anticipation of an attack - workers had to dive for cover as bombs
consisted of five divisions, each with a exploded around them. A lack of water
control room and telephone, staffed by also became a serious problem, as mains
wardens, casualty services and police. were fractured by explosions or water
Yet, when the raids came, they sources ran dry. Firefighters turned to any
26 HISTORY & HERITAGEwater they could find, including swimming saving the life of a 16 year old boy who
baths, in a desperate attempt to stem the was trapped in a cellar. Leslie Currie, an
flames. ARP warden, was honoured for digging
Other emergency services were facing through the debris of a house to save five
similar issues. ARP ambulance crews were people.
fighting to get the injured to hospital. At The impact of the Blitz on Sheffield and
least one ambulance was blown up during its people is remembered at the National
the raids. Other members of the first Emergency Services Museum.
aid services were killed as they tried to A dedicated exhibition uses lights,
rescue people from a collapsed house. smoke, smells and sound to tell the
ARP wardens also found themselves story of the raids and the part played
at the heart of the battle. One sent a by the emergency services, aiming to
message that said, ‘Am evacuating the post. bring visitors as close as possible to the
The Moor is on fire. Speaking from under atmosphere of December 1940. Original
the table.’ Eleven others were killed when objects, such as the last surviving engine
their post on Coleford Road received a to have served during the raids on the
direct hit. In total, it’s estimated that 39 city, add to the experience.
emergency services personnel - men and Another display tells the story of the
women - lost their lives during the two ambulance service and the role of the
raids with many others injured. ARP workers who risked their own lives
Given the immense bravery shown by to help save those injured by bombing.
so many, it’s no surprise that of the six The museum building itself even has
Sheffielders awarded the George Medal its own war wounds. The police garage
following the attacks, two were from the was damaged by a German bomb and
emergency services. Samuel Radford, a the front of the museum is littered with
constable with Sheffield Police Force, was shrapnel damage.
recognised for several rescues including
HISTORY
LOCAL&HISTORY
HERITAGE 27Freemasonry in
Sheffield
F
or many, Freemasonry conjures up
images of secret handshakes and
shadowy connections. Its strange
iconography and regalia and privacy over
membership make it ripe for conspiracy
theories.
But how many know that Freemasonry
in Sheffield dates back to 1761, under the
jurisdiction of the Province of Yorkshire,
which today is the Province of Yorkshire,
West Riding with twenty Lodges meeting at
Tapton Masonic Hall near Fulwood? Sheffield
Freemasonry also exists under the jurisdiction
of the Province of Derbyshire with ten Lodges
meeting at the Masonic Hall in Dore. Tapton
Hall is also home to a Lodge from The Order
of Women Freemasons.
Over recent years, there has been an causes to support. Thanks to the generous
attempt to bust the myths and misconceptions contributions from the Freemasons of
which continue to dog the centuries old Yorkshire, West Riding, a total of £438,241 was
organisation. Both Sheffield Halls opened their donated to charitable causes in 2019/20.
doors for guided tours during informative and The many projects supported through
educational heritage days. Tapton Hall will be masonic charitable giving include long-term
familiar to many who have attended weddings programs such as ‘Teddies for Loving Care’
or other functions there. The Hall is also open through to one-off purchases of kit for sports
to the public for lunches and dinners, as well teams.
as on special occasions such as Mother’s Day Teddies for Loving Care (TLC) is an initiative
or Valentines events. launched in 2008 at Sheffield Children’s
The special attraction of The Craft for most Hospital, and then rolled out to other hospitals
men is the brotherhood, making new friends in the area. TLC is aimed at comforting
and acquaintances from all walks of life, every distressed children when visiting the accident
background and age group, whilst others enjoy and emergency department. At the discretion
finding out about the history and mysteries of of nursing staff, a teddy is given to the
Freemasonry. Another big reason for joining is child and is of great assistance in creating
to give something back to the community. calmness for quicker and easier diagnosis and
This last year, the lack of physical meetings administration of treatment. Sarah Lewis,
has been hard for many members who look an Emergency Matron Practitioner, has been
forward to the camaraderie, but this has not using the teddies for a number of years and
stopped them keeping in touch or continuing agrees about the benefits they bring. ‘It means
to give to charity and to look for worthy so much to the nurses,’ she says. ‘It makes our
28 COMMUNITY
LOCAL HISTORY 28lives easier and the children feel safer and it’s restrictions have meant that Emmaus social
not so traumatic for them. The nurses will enterprise shops, which provide both income
quite often use them as a diversion technique and employment training opportunities for
in order to get their jobs done quickly and those who have experienced homelessness,
efficiently. ‘Often we use the teddy to mimic have had to close. The impact of this lost
the injuries that the child’s got,’ explains Sarah. income has meant that communities could
‘We’ll put a sticky plaster on the teddy’s arm be at risk. A Masonic grant of £30,000 has
if the child has hurt theirs, so we can use it ensured that Emmaus’ current services are
as a diversion technique. Children then take sustainable and able to continue to provide
the teddy home (complete with any sticking much-needed support in the future.
plasters, plaster casts or injections). The More information on the awards and the
scheme is supported and funded entirely by good work that the recipients are doing
the Freemasons. can be found on this page: wrprovince.org.
During 2020, there has also been uk/wrmcl-latest-news and should you wish
considerable support for those affected by to find out more about Freemasonry in
the pandemic, from support for the numerous Sheffield or talk to one of our members
foodbanks that have appeared to charities you can get in touch through these sites -
that have had to revise their processes and sheffieldfreemasonry.co.uk - facebook.com/
procedures. Due to COVID-19, lockdown Sheffieldfreemasonry
The Constant
Gardener
F
our inches of snow on the plot. Very
cold and bleak on Hagg Hill but also
very beautiful. My feathered girls are
properly fed up with being in lockdown.
They let me know how fed up in a very
vocal way. Pinky Pie is the loudest followed
closely by V. Fat Betty is still the quietest but
they are all missing free ranging. I feel so
sorry for them. Even with lockdown, I can
still go to the allotment.
It’s still too early to start seeds off in the
greenhouse and too wet to do any digging
especially with the storm we are expecting.
But my garlic and onions look good and I’m
still picking sprouts, chard and spinach. I am
going to start my chillies and tomatoes at
home this week. And I will be buying seed
potatoes soon. Aaron pilot and Maris peer.
The taste of home grown is amazing.
COMMUNITY 29Famous
Sheffield
Names
By John Clarke
T
he chances of seeing the ghost of
a person that helped shape our
city are remote and some would
say non-existent. However, the chances
of seeing what the supposed relics of the
past created are open to everyone’s eyes,
in the form and shape of their legacies.
You won’t see J G Graves walking through paintings stood in is still there to this day,
Graves Park but you will see the man’s a virtual tour can be found online where
heart in the eyes of the kids playing on you can see the exhibition pieces as they
the endless lawns he created for them. once stood. The collection soon outgrew
Another one of those most obscure the Walkley museum and was moved
figures is John Ruskin, born February to Meersbrook in 1886, into the great
1819 to a wealthy Sherry Merchant, who Georgian house in the park. One of his
after studying at Oxford, became a writer strangest ventures was to create a utopia
and art critic. As a romantic figure, his in Totley, a working farm, a commune,
own flights of romance were disastrous, which went by the name of the Totley
with an unconsummated marriage to colony within St. Georges. He died in the
Effie Gray hiding his real love for Rose La Lake District leaving behind the Keswick
Touche, who died aged 27, leaving him School of Industrial Art, carrying on the
devastated. It was probably these early legacy of the metalwork from Sheffield.
days that steered his life in the direction We do, however, also see his influence
it did, with him forming the Guild of in the creation of the health service and
Saint George, for the betterment of the the modern provision of the poor. Over
arts, crafts, and the rural environment in 120 years on, we still see the Freeman
1871. He created an art collection in the College, part of the Ruskin Mill Trust,
now Ruskin art gallery for the people to providing educational opportunities for
enjoy; his words are emblazoned around young adults with complex behavioural
the coving in the Cutler’s Hall for all to and learning difficulties including autistic
see. He was a friend of the great painter spectrum conditions. Another great
Turner, who went on to create one of adopted Sheffielder with a love of all
the best 19th century Sheffield paintings, things and a need to spread it to the
looking out of Meersbrook Park, near community. About that period, we saw
the position of Meersbrook Hall, later this a lot, and it still makes me feel proud
the home of the Ruskin collection. The of our ancestors as I enjoy the art and
house in Walkey that the collection of open spaces that they left us.
30 HISTORY & HERITAGESheffield’s War
Memorial In
Barker’s Pool
(Continued)
by John Bradshaw
Continued from the previous issue of
Steelmekker.
T
he date of Wednesday 28 October
1925 was chosen as the day for the
official unveiling ceremony. Invitations
were sent out by Sheffield’s Lord Mayor,
Alfred James Bailey to selected guests and
officials. The programme for the day included a
service at Sheffield Cathedral in the afternoon,
followed by a procession to the memorial
at Barker’s Pool, where the unveiling and
dedication would take place and finally an
invitation to a reception at the Town Hall,
given by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress.
As anticipated, Barker’s Pool on the day was
packed with sightseers who all wished to
occupy any vantage point to catch a good
view of the proceedings. The photograph
shows people occupying upstairs windows
in nearby shops, some leaning out, perhaps a years of his life in the British Army, serving
little too far for safety. The site of the shops in in the Second Boer War and in World War
the photograph, directly behind the memorial 1 as Deputy Chief of The Imperial General
is today occupied by the John Lewis store, Staff between 1918 and 1920. He eventually
while on the right side can be seen the top become Governor of Gibraltar in 1933, a
of Cambridge Street. As well as the presence post he held until 1938. He died, aged 68,
of a great number of the military, it would in Cheltenham in October 1940, the year in
seem that a military band was also present which his autobiography was published.
on the day in Barker’s Pool. With the Union Following the unveiling, the dedication
Flag appropriately flying at half mast, the of the war memorial was undertaken by
official unveiling was carried out by Lieutenant Sheffield’s first Diocesan Bishop, the Rt. Rev.
General Sir Charles Harington Harington, Leonard Hedley Burrows, who held the post
G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. Sir Charles spent 46 between 1914 and 1939. Burrows was born in
32 HISTORY & HERITAGE1857 in Rugby, Warwickshire, where his father, Engineers in India in World War II, aged 22
Leonard Francis Burrows was, at one time, years. He died from emphysema in Lahore
a master at Rugby School, before becoming Hospital and is buried in the Karachi War
a clergyman. The Burrows family had many Cemetery. Leonard Hedley’s only daughter,
high-ranking army and naval officers amongst Mary Geraldine (Molly) Burrows, married Rev
its numbers, as well as clergymen, ranging Carey Frederick Knyvett, who was Chaplain
from Vicars, Reverends and Canons to Bishops. to the Rt Rev Leonard Hedley Burrows
Ronald Montagu Burrows was a younger (his future father-in-law). Later, Carey was
brother of Leonard Hedley. Ronald taught appointed second Bishop of Selby. He died
Greek at University College, Cardiff and then in a Guildford Nursing Home in 1967, aged
at the University of Manchester. In 1913, he 82. Leonard Hedley Burrows died in Sheffield
became Principal of King’s College, London, on 6 February 1940. His funeral took place at
where he remained until 1920, the year he Sheffield Cathedral. He is buried in Shiregreen
died. Ronald was also a keen archaeologist Cemetery, Sheffield, beside his wife, Anna
who carried out a number of important Louisa, who passed away in December 1934.
excavations in Greece. After completing In December 1940, during World War
his education at Charterhouse and New II, two raids were made over Sheffield by
College, Oxford, Leonard Hedley Burrows German aircraft, bombing the City Centre
was ordained in 1881. He was Curate of and areas where steelworks were located in
Dorking, followed by Vicar of Wecclesham, the region. These attacks were known as the
Surrey, and then Rural Dean of Godalming. He Sheffield Blitz and caused much destruction
was next appointed Bishop of Lewes and in to buildings and lives. One bomb fell in
February 1914, he was appointed Bishop of Barker’s Pool, causing flying shrapnel to hit and
the new Diocese of Sheffield and enthroned superficially damage the pillars at the front of
in Sheffield Cathedral on 1 May 1914. Leonard the City Hall. The stone plinth of the nearby
Hedley’s elder son, Rev Hedley Robert war memorial also suffered similar damage. It
Burrows, served as a Chaplain to the Forces was discovered that the blast had moved the
in France during World War 1. The elder son base about 12.5 cm out of position. In 1949,
of Hedley Robert was Giles Righton Burrows this was rectified and parts of the memorial
who died in 1945 whist serving in the Royal were dismantled and returned to the Parlanti
HISTORY
LOCAL&HISTORY
HERITAGE 33bronze foundry at Hermes Bay in Kent for and have no known grave. restoration, at a cost of £680. In 1983, the Leonard Righton Burrows was the younger war memorial was listed as a Grade II building, son of Rt Rev Leonard Hedley Burrows, first upgraded to Grade II* in 2016. The Barker’s Bishop of Sheffield. Leonard Righton attended Pool area has been closed to vehicular traffic Charterhouse School, then Oriel College, since 1989, when it was pedestrianised and Oxford, where he gained a 1st class degree. restoration work carried out on the memorial. He then did voluntary work at the Oxford In 2006, almost £60,000 was spent on repairs, & Bermondsey Mission, followed by work in undertaken by a company which specialised in India at the Educational Mission at Allahabad such work. The orb and coronet at the top of and Calcutta. On the outbreak of the Great the flag pole were cleaned of bird droppings War, he returned home in October 1914 and completely re-gilded using 24 carat gold to join the Inns of Court OTC. He was leaf, corroded areas of the mild steel flag pole commissioned into the 9th Battalion (Service) were treated before repainting the entire Northumberland Fusiliers at the beginning pole, the mechanism for raising and lowering of December 1914 and went out to France the flag was repaired and the whole of the in July 1915. He reached the rank of Second bronze plinth was cleaned and re-waxed to Lieutenant but was killed on Saturday 2 restore the rich patina. Paving at ground level October 1915 at Ypres, near Hill 60, when was repaired and re-pointed, but the shrapnel he went out under fire to rescue one of his marks were left untouched, as a reminder of men who had been wounded. Leonard was the history associated with the memorial. shot through the head and his elder brother, Finally, it is felt that mention should be given Rev Hedley Robert Burrows, Chaplain to regarding two young men who sacrificed their the Forces, read the funeral service over lives during World War 1; they were from his brother’s grave at Larch Wood (Railway different backgrounds and died under different Cutting) Cemetery, Belgium. This dramatically circumstances in different parts of the world. adversely affected Hedley Robert’s mental Colin Stanley Moorehouse Fenton was a son health. He began to suffer periods of stress of Sheffield’s Lord Mayor in 1923, William and hallucinations, from which he eventually Carter Fenton. On Friday 7 May 1915, Colin recovered. He resigned from the Chaplaincy was working as a Mercantile Marine on the in 1917 and returned to full time parochial ocean liner, RMS Lucitania as a Deck Engineer work as Priest in Charge of St Columba’s in when the ship was struck by a torpedo from Argyll. He was subsequently Chaplain to the a German U-boat, eleven miles off the coast Archbishop of York in 1918 and by 1943, was of Southern Ireland, on its return voyage to Archdeacon of Winchester. Four years later, the UK from New York. The sinking of the liner he was Dean of Hereford, until his retirement took just 18 minutes, killing 1,198 passengers in 1961. Though he suffered a number of and crew out of a total 1,962 on board. Out traumas throughout the years, he lived to be of 48 lifeboats, there was only time to launch 96, passing away in 1983. Hedley Robert was six of them. There were 764 survivors, three extremely proud of his war medals and of of whom died from injuries sustained during the fact that his surviving son, Simon, became the sinking. Colin, who was 27 years old, is Bishop of Buckingham in 1974. commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial in London. This memorial commemorates the WE WILL REMEMBER ALL OF THEM men and women of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets who died in both World Wars 34 HISTORY & HERITAGE
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