Location of streets in sheffield

[Dalum]

Farm Bank was one of the large houses which looked down on the town from the slopes of Sheffield Park. On the 1903 Ordnance Survey map (Godfrey reprint), where it is unnamed, it is divided into two dwellings. It may have been divided by 1851 - I can't tell from the 'Heritage Cartography' version (redrawn) of the 1851 O.S., though on that map it is named.

The house was approached by a short lane or drive running south from Shrewsbury Road. This lane is called Farm Bank Road in 1903. There is a Farm Bank Road on the modern map, but it is not the same road! It is off Granville Road and may have provided access to the house from there at some time.

It would not have been such a prestigious address after the coming of the Midland Railway in 1870.

Hugh in Sheffield

[flame]

Hi Hugh,
I'm so glad that my post has generated more information for treesearcher.
Flame

[bearkat]

Thanks, this is a great site.
Found a picture of where my ancestor lived in 1861 - 1, Bernard Street, Sheffield 
BUT a closer look at the census entry (RG9/3490  folio123 page 36)
clearly shows the numbering of the street as follows;  91... 89... 1... 73... 71... 69.
Can this be correct?  I'd like to be sure that this is  the correct house.
I expect the area has been demolished now.

bearkat

[treesearcher]

Hi Flame and Hugh,
Thankyou so much for all your help!
Hugh, the information you have come up with is amazing!! Thankyou so much for going to the cemetery and posting the photo. Are the people all buried in a single 'plot' or is it a different set-up? Thankyou, too, for the information about the house and the church. It is fabulous to know all this!
Cheers!
Treesearcher

[Dalum]

hello treesearcher,

just to clarify, it was flame that posted the photo and has been fighting the vegetation in the general Cemetery to get it 

...though I have my own set of tools for similar purposes, spending a lot of time in Walkley Cemetery.

Hugh in Sheffield

[flame]

Hi Treesearcher
Yes they are all buried in a vault, in the nonconformist part of the cemetery. T vlt plot 011. Have a look at the website www.gencem.org and have a look around its very interesting. I've just joined the friends of the cemetery cost me a fiver and I get a newsletter so many times a year. Also for a small donation I think they may  search the archives for further information of the occupants of the vault.

Hugh
I was going to take my tools with me but as I hadn't been able to find  the  vault the first few times I'd tried, I didn't bother also don't think they would have let me on the bus with my machete 

Flame

[treesearcher]

Hi Flame,
Thankyou for doing so much for me. I greatly appreciate the photo of the vault and the details of the 'occupants'. You have been extremely helpful.
Treesearcher

[flame]

Hi
You are very welcome Treesearcher. Finding it gave me as much pleasure as if it was one of my relatives. I did take three more but the one I posted was the best of the bunch.  Am hoping to get back soon and take a better one. Had lots of practice trying to resize the picture. Hope it came out ok at your end.   
 Flame 

[treesearcher]

Hi Flame,
Thanks for everything!
treesearcher