To begin our autumn session of talks, we welcome Dr Kate Faulkes who will explore the activities of a group of recently affluent industrialists (eg (Sir) John Brown) who sat […]
It was after discovering a branch of her family who had lived and worked in the Crofts district of Sheffield, that Christine Minter 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!”
Today we welcome back John Taylor who will look at some of the sites and places which recall our unique way of life, eccentricities, humour, oddities and the myths of […]