Mandrake house ruins at end of East road. Now ground built on. Found on ordnance survey map 1890 Can anybody tell me anything ? I used to play in these grounds as a little girl. I am now 87 My dad used to come home with cuttings of various plants. A Marks and Spencer clothing manufacturer was situated on ground nearby then demolished. I do not know what is built there now. I am bursting with curiosity
I’ve got a 1923 directory. It has Mandrake House in it on East Bank Road, and lists it as being at the very end after house number 86. There was a Justice of the Peace living there then.
After Francis Forth J.P. (retired bank manager) died in 1930, his wife continued to live in Mandrake House until February 1933. When she left, the house remained empty and by September the lead and water and gas pipework had been stripped, and water was running through the house.
An Alderman called Robert Thomas Eadon used to live there. He was also a J.P.
He died in 1890. His family had a business making saws, files and edge tools.
PS - family business seems to have been Moses Eadon & Sons who had the President Works on Saville St.
There are pictures of the factory on picturesheffield.com