Fulwood History Group

04/01/2026

A summary of December's meeting is available on our website: https://www.fulwoodhistory.uk/category/minutes-of-discussions/

Map reproduced below with the permission of the National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/

01/01/2026

Storth House was built about 1851. I think the last owner was Frank Guthrie Norton who lived there until the late 1950s.
But when was it demolished and Storth Park?
Does anyone know?
Keith

07/12/2025

A summary of November's meeting can be found on our website: https://www.fulwoodhistory.uk/minutes-of-discussions/record-of-fhg-meeting-20-11-25/

20/10/2025

Of interest to anyone curious about Sheffield's history: Sheffield's First Railway - Part 1 Norfolk Park and Part 2 Manor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL_3o9mecpc&t=17s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_v0w3TznNA&t=30s

Join me as we uncover Sheffield’s first proper railway — the Lost Manor Coal Tramway, built in 1830 to serve the Duke of Norfolk’s Manor Park pits. This earl...

18/10/2025

A summary of our recent October meeting, back indoors, is now available on our website:

Record of FULWOOD HISTORY GROUP MEETING 17th October 2025 Present: D.A., J.B., M.L., C.M., K.P., J.P. At our first meeting since the summer and back in Broomhill Library, our discussion included: Archaeological dig in Broomhill Library Garden taking place (ML) … Continue reading →

18/10/2025

Join Calvin Payne for a rebellious journey of environmental activism and redemption in the Sheffield street tree protests.

18/09/2025

Not Fulwood, but nearby. Scissors, Paper, Stone is a community history project which 'explores the origins of St John's Church in Ranmoor: the people who built it, the community which founded it and the people it served'. Its website is worth exploring for information and news of events taking place.

18/09/2025

There won't be meeting this evening as such as instead there is a talk taking place at our usual meeting place of Broomhill Library. The talk is one of many events taking place this week as part of Sheffield's Heritage Open Days:

Landscape Architect Ollie Pike will talk about some of his latest projects that connect people, place and heritage including the Percy Cane Heritage Garden and National Trust garden at Lyveden Manor.

22/07/2025

A brief summary of our July meeting, (which took place outdoors once again), can be found on the Fulwood History Group website: https://www.fulwoodhistory.uk/minutes-of-discussions/record-of-fhg-meeting-17-7-25/

07/07/2025

Here's news of an upcoming event: bring your Fulwood finds (or any finds) or just come along to have a look...

25/06/2025

Our June meeting took place outdoors so we could take advantage of a beautiful midsummer evening while learning about the history of the fields above Forge Dam and the cluster of buildings around Brook House. More information and a summary of the meeting can be found on the Fulwood History Group website: https://www.fulwoodhistory.uk/minutes-of-discussions/3718/

17/06/2025

Here's news of a another history walk led by a member of our group - no booking necessary - just turn up:
'...it will cover part of Glossop Road, St Mark's Crescent, Broomfield Road, and a small part of Beech Hill Road. This area was originally labelled simply as Broomfield in the early days of Broomhill. Several of the properties that existed back in the day were of course demolished to make way for the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and also for hospital accommodation, but there is plenty to hear about even so. Amongst other stories I have unearthed information about steel manufacturers - both English and German, houses with two addresses, mining engineers and how the Rutland Hotel started. Representatives of Steel, Peech and Tozer make their annual appearance(!) There's no need to book, just turn up and let's hope that the weather holds for us.