Sheffield's Old Factories & Workshops (Pics Resurrected)

[echoscout]

I got behind on this thread. Fantastic photo's and history. Thank you so much for taking the time to post all of this great information Jack.

 

[btb01]

Where his workshop is at the museum, there's a bunch of fake cobblestones, and it was very difficult for him to walk on them. He was terrified of slipping, and hurting himself. I had helped him across them to the toilet on the other side, but those cobbles are what did go for him in the end. He was that worried about slipping, he stopped drinking when he was at the museum, so he didn't have to go to the toilet. This caused him to become dehydrated, and he got a bladder infection, which led to him going into hospital. He recovered from the infection, but got sepsis. He beat that, but it was during the Covid lockdown, and they stuck him on a ward with the other 90 year olds, and no visitors. By the time he got out, he had lost all his spark, as his wife said. He died soon after

Sorry to hear that, Jack. What an unfortunate series of events.

Thanks again for all your wonderful photos in this thread!

 

[Headwinds]

Jack, this thread is getting me behind on my chores - there's so much to see in each photo I keep going back over them and finding things I missed the first time. Thanks again for your efforts in taking/finding the photos and posting them for us to enjoy and learn from.

 

[MUFC4Benfica1]

Perhaps a tenuous link, but there seems to be grinding wheels in action at about 33 minutes.

Some great 1965 film of Sheffield, people out and about, at work and play.

It’s a German film, however there’s little narration.

 

[Jack Black]

Perhaps a tenuous link, but there seems to be grinding wheels in action at about 33 minutes.

Some great 1965 film of Sheffield, people out and about, at work and play.

It’s a German film, however there’s little narration.

Thanks for posting that I've posted it in one of the threads here before. I thought it was pretty interesting that it was German

 

[abbydaddy]

These are amazing! I love seeing the old wheels still in action. Are they still making knives there at Shepherd's Wheel? It would be neat to know that one's knife had ben ground by water power.

 

[Jack Black]

These are amazing! I love seeing the old wheels still in action. Are they still making knives there at Shepherd's Wheel? It would be neat to know that one's knife had ben ground by water power.

They sometimes have working days there, but it's been a museum since I was a kid, I even worked there for a short time as a teenager A few knives (and swords) are ground, by water power, at the Abbeydale Hamlet, but they're not very good