to 5s., or double the typical rent. The slide is undated, but from between 1887 and 1904. The tram tracks that can be seen in the old picture are still there, but were covered when the surface was remodelled. In 1832 there was an epidemic of cholera in Sheffield which killed 402 people. In building depressions costs had to In good times, it was "unusual" to find two families under the same roof. earnings. Millennium Square opened in 2006. In 1839, Dr. Holland of Sheffield described "scenes of wretchedness" in the city A typical village had only 100 or 150 inhabitants. In the 1750s a lead mill was built in Sheffield and about 1760 a silk mill was built. Meadow Hall Shopping Centre was built in 1990. Behind the office block, where the houses are in the old picture, is now the City Hall, which was built in 1932 . At first raw sewage was pumped into rivers but in 1886 a sewage treatment plant was built. By 1900 the population of Sheffield was over 400,000. By the standards of the time, it was a large town. The garrison of the castle provided a market for the townspeople's goods. The artisan found it difficult to buy his own house. That means it was pounded in a mixture of clay and water to clean and thicken it. towns in the North. In the Middle Ages fairs were like markets but they were held only once a year. The survey found 160 householders who 'though they beg not are not able to abide one fortnight's sickness but they would be thereby driven to beggary'. or 7 per cent. In the 21st century Sheffield is thriving and it is growing rapidly. His papers are held by the Library at Sunderland University. business. Then in 1856 Henry Bessemer invented a way of producing better quality steel. in the case of larger families. In Sheffield the local artisans traditionally lived in They tilled the fields around the town. creation of votes as well as houses. into confined yards which were generally unpaved and contained the privies. The room was usually paved with flags, its fireplace was fitted with an oven for baking, with a side rates. By 1851 it had grown to over 135,000. family were concentrated in the living-room, which served as kitchen, scullery, dining-room, living-room, as wash-room and bathroom, and on wet Sheffield's workhouse building was located on Workhouse Croft at West Bar, on what is now Paradise Street — another road at the north of the area still bears the name Workhouse Lane. In the working class areas of Sheffield, the worst houses were back-to-backs. The first council houses were built in Sheffield at that time. profitable return for a landlord, and for themselves the tenancy of a shoddy house in the worst quarters of a dirty and insanitary town." However, there were several other towns noted for cutlery. My wife's ancestors who came to Sheffield from the West Midlands were centered Meanwhile Graves Art Gallery opened in 1934. Millennium Galleries opened in 2001 and the National Ice Centre opened in 2003. In 1603 Thomas Crowland left money in his will to build a grammar school. Several of my ancestors lived in the It was on an easily defended site as it had a river on the north and east.