It was after discovering a branch of her family who had lived and worked in the Crofts district of Sheffield, that she began to look in depth at this area.

Housing, employment, education, religion, crime and punishment, not to mention some of its more colourful characters.

Medical reports and newspaper archives were particularly enlightening and described how perilous life could really be for the inhabitants.

“The more I looked, the more I realised that this district was once one of Sheffield’s most notorious neighbourhoods and was not for the faint hearted!”