I'm trying to find the house number where my parents lived in the 1950's. The houses on Greaves street have all been demolished & replaced by new ones, the street seems to have changed shape as well. I know where the house was but don't know if it's possible to find the number. I've looked on Picture Sheffield, but they all seem to be the bottom end of the street, they lived at the top, near to the nursery/infant school. Are there any directories/registers other than the phone book that would be listed by name.
I think it was 4 doors down. There was a gennel below the school, then a house with it's own yard, then they were the 3rd house, between Rowbothams & Lewises if that helps
Just sent you the relevant bit of a 1951 map with house numbers (from SheffieldHistory)
The gennel would be Majuba Street (still there). The house with a yard looks like 163. The there's a terrace of five houses, 161-153, with the entry between 157 and 155.
Thanks so much for that Hugh, that means the address I'm looking for is 157. Rowbothams did have a tribe of kids, never entered my head to check their line. I'll remember that for future searches
Hugh, what is this register you refer to, can I get access to it, perhaps at the library. Yes I do remember the farm, I'd forgotten about 'til you said, used to sneak on there to play, one day his alsatian chased us off, never been so scared, I could feel it's breath on the back of my skinny little legs! (Are you from this area) Is the farm still there?
You might be able to help with another query. My great great grandfather, Cuthbert Stevenson is listed on the 1861 census as a collier living on Manor Lane & I wondered what pit he might work at, also what number Manor Lane as it's not on the census, any way to find this out.
The 1939 Register, which was really a census outside the usual 10-year cycle, was compiled on the eve of WW2. At the moment it is only available at Find My Past.
There were several collieries in the Manor Lane area - this was the prime area for working the 'Barnsley' seam with deep mines.
On the 1851 6" map at http://maps.nls.uk I can see, for example, Manor Pit, Manor Wood Pit, Deep Pit, and an unnamed pit which I know from a later map was Manor Castle Pit.
