Unpublished Research Papers
This section is intended to enable local historians to place work that
they believe might be useful to others researching family or local
history which relates to the Hillsborough Owlerton area. Copyright
belongs to the author whose permission should be sought if readers want
to use any text or pictures.
1. Bell Pauline Middlewood 1841-1901. The hamlet where the Bailey family lived in the Parish of Bradfield.
This paper includes sections on: Middlewood, the locality, the Bailey
family, Middlewood Tavern, File making and the firm of Burys and Co
(situated Rutland Rd). Getting to the Church…Middlewood to
Bradfield, Beeley Wood Forge, Middlewood Hall, the Skeltons, their
associates and successors.
2. Lightowler Karen The Sheffield Flood, Bailey and Froggatt, Survivior
This paper is one of many that Karen has written tracing the story of
people who were literally caught up in the Sheffield Flood of 1864.
There is some overlap with Paper 3 as Pauline Bell provided Karen with
information and pictures linked to Annie Mary Froggatt who was six
years old when the flood struck her family home
3. Bell Pauline Annie Mary Bailey
The story of Annie Mary (born 1858) who survived the flood and who then
married Arthur Bailey and had 4 daughters one of whom was
Pauline’s grandmother. The family lived in the Hillsborough area
all their lives and descendants still live in Sheffield 6 today.
4. Lightowler Karen The Sheffield Flood
Karen has invested a great deal of time researching the facts concerning the cause of the flood as well as searching fo rthe stories of those who died and those who survived.
5. Eaton Daniel The Barracks Obelisk Wardsend Cemetery
Looks at the stories of the men whose deaths are recorded on the Obelisk in the cemetery 1866-69
Calling all local historians who would like to ‘publish’ a piece of research on this website. Contact Pauline Bell by changing 'at' to conventional symbol in email address pbell7atgooglemail.com It must be about an event, building, business or family with a clear connection to the Hillsborough and Owlerton locality. Hopefully the paper would be emailed to Pauline Bell as a PDF file and should include at the beginning a brief resume of the content. The decision as to whether it is included rests with Pauline
This paper includes sections on: Middlewood, the locality, the Bailey family, Middlewood Tavern, File making and the firm of Burys and Co (situated Rutland Rd). Getting to the Church…Middlewood to Bradfield, Beeley Wood Forge, Middlewood Hall, the Skeltons, their associates and successors.
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The one thing I have known about Annie since my childhood is that she survived the Sheffield Flood of 1864. I think it is difficult to imagine the kind of impact this experience would have had on a sixyear- old child in any era. My grandmother Florence Emily told me that Annie (her mother) had escaped the flood by being pushed on to the roof. Whether this was literally true or whether it was into the roof space I have no means of knowing but it is a story that beggars belief. We need to remember that this was early March and that strong winds played some part in the whole disaster. In addition this was in the dark because the time was not long after midnight. It is amazing that the houses continued to stand given the tonnage of water and the force it must have gathered as it raced down the Loxley Valley. The family lived at Hill Bridge, one of the areas near to Malin Bridge that experienced the full impact of the deluge.
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Pauline Bell who currently lives in Nottinghamshire clearly remembers tales of the flood as told to her by her maternal Grand Mother, Florence Emily Bailey. Her mother, Annie Bailey nee Froggatt then aged just 6 years, escaped the flood by climbing with her parents onto the roof of their home at 37 Hill Bridge but Pauline says her Grand Mother was frightened for all of her life that the flood would happen again despite the fact this actually occurred 20 years before she was born. Pauline eloquently describes the event that so tormented her Grand Mother.
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Ghoulish sightseers; full list of victims who died at the time; full list of those who died later of effects suffered during the flood. Two other websites containing information about the flood.
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Further details of the flood can also be found on Mick Armitage’s excellent website at: http://www.mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/flood.html
Details of the compensation claims have since been made available online with the
excellent project of digitisation headed by Dr Steven Earnshaw of Sheffield Hallam University.
For more details have a look at: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/sfca/
The Barracks Obelisk Wardsend Cemetery
This paper includes the names and regiments of the men whose deaths are
recorded on the obelisk together with some more detailed information
about their regiments. These deaths were not as we might expect, a
result of battle injuries. Click here to download pdf file