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Books about Sheffield Local History

Much is written and published about aspects of the social and economic history of Sheffield and South Yorkshire.  A select list appears below, all of which include some photographic illustrations.  Questions about the availability of other titles should be addressed to the Society Publications Officer.

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A Geography of Childhood (life in Howbrook & High Green in the 1920/30s)

£3.70

£6.10

A History of East Hill House (former 19th century cutler’s home and deaf school in Park district)

£8.70

£11.00

Bygones of  Bradfield Volume 3 (a miscellany of Bradfield parish memories)   

£4.20

£5.30

Cherry Tree Hill and the Newbould Legacy (detailed account of development of this area of Nether Edge)

£5.45

£6.55

Church of the Annunciation 1854-2004 (Roman Catholicism in Chesterfield and role of this church)

£2.50

£3.00

Dore Old School in records and recollections

£14.000

£17.10

Heghlegh Then and Heeley Now (social history of Heeley area) 

£9.00

£11.90

Heeley and Thereabouts (social history including Meersbrook and Norton Lees)

£9.00

£11.90

It Comes to Us All - a portrait of Crookes Cemetery (illustrated account of history of cemetery)

£5.50

£6.60

Memories of Grenoside (local history through the reminiscences of older residents)

£3.20

£4.30

Life in the Workhouse and Old Hospital at Fir Vale (from documentary sources and personal accounts)

£7.65

£9.40

Mousehole Forge (lavishly illustrated account of the history of this ancient forge in the Rivelin Valley, at one time the premier anvil maker in the world)

£11.00

£13.70

A wander up the ‘Cliffe (reminiscences and social history of Attercliffe)

£12.30

£15.70

Another wander up the ‘Cliffe (reminiscences and social history of Attercliffe)

£12.30

£15.70

Once Round the Lump and other stories from off The Common (Attercliffe social history especially mid-20th century)

£15.20

£17.20

Portrait of Bradfield Dale (illustrated account)

£7.70

£8.80

Reminiscing around Rivelin

£8.20

£9.30

Round and About Grenoside Volume 1 (range of articles compiled by Local History Group)

£6.75

£9.40

Sheffield Central Then and Now (photos of central Sheffield area)

£7.40

£8.50

Sheffield 11 Then and Now (photos of Banner Cross, Bents Green, Ecclesall, Hunter’s Bar, Nether Edge, Sharrow Vale and Greystones)

£7.40

£8.50

Sheffield in Tudor and Stuart Times

£4.40

£5.40

Sheffield City Battalion (detailed history of the 12th (Service) Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment raised to fight in the First World War)

£22.70

£27.90

Shire Green, Wincobank and Beyond (social history of the development of this area of North Sheffield)

£13.80

£18.00

The Complete Hillsborough By Her People (2 local history collections originally published in 1980s)

£9.65

£12.70

The Forgotten Mines of Sheffield (history of gannister and pot clay mining in Stocksbridge, Oughtibridge, Wadsley, Loxley, Stannington and Ecclesall Woods)

 

Out of stock

The Great Sheffield Flood (Photos from lantern slides of the disaster of 1864 that killed 240 people)

£4.70

£6.80

The Sheffield Blitz: Then and Now (incl. Photos, maps of bomb sites and eyewitness accounts)

£7.65

£9.00

The Sheffield Gang Wars (classic account of gang warfare in 1920s Sheffield)

£9.65

£11.40

The Workhouse and Hospital at Nether Edge (pictorial account of history of Ecclesall Bierlow workhouse)

£5.40

£6.50

They lived in Sharrow and Nether Edge (history of these areas and some of their former residents)

£5.65

£7.20

Wharncliffe and Oughtibridge Past (illustrated historical account)

£8.00

£9.10

 

Photographs of Sheffield as it was

The Camera series feature images collected or taken by local photographer J. R. Wrigley dating mainly from the 1960s and 1970s, together with some material from earlier decades of the twentieth century.  The books capture parts of Sheffield as they were before more recent redevelopment.

A Darnall Camera

£8.70

£10.00

An East End Camera

£9.70

£11.00

An Ecclesfield Camera

Out of print

A Hillsborough Camera

£8.70

£10.00

An Owlerton Camera

£8.70

£10.00

A Pitsmoor Camera

£9.70

£11.00

A Walkley Camera

£8.70

£10.00

A Sheffield Camera

£8.70

£10.00

A Sheffield Industrial Camera

£8.70

£10.00

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