Fulwood History Group

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.

09/06/2025

Not strictly Fulwood, but certainly connected - an upcoming event for the Scissors Paper Stone Community History Project based at Ranmoor St John's Church; more events and information here: https://www.stjohnsranmoor.org.uk/Groups/411666/Events_SPS.aspx

25/05/2025

A reminder that there's always plenty of Fulwood History to read about on Alan's Substack; here's a recent example https://alancrutch.substack.com/p/fulwood-great-houses

30/03/2025

The record of our March meeting is available on our website: https://www.fulwoodhistory.uk/minutes-of-discussions/record-of-fhg-meeting-27-3-25/
There are plenty of other recent/new articles on the website, such as this one about the former Hammer and Pincers/Blacksmiths Arms on Old Fulwood Road: https://www.fulwoodhistory.uk/uncategorized/blacksmiths-arms-hammer-and-pincers-or-coffee-house/

28/02/2025

The National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT). Local historians are probably familiar with Sheffield's City Archives but it's less likely they've come across the NATCECT archives held at Sheffield University Library on Weston Bank. This collection is 'A Unique Folklore and Folk Life Resource' and includes a great deal of material collected locally over the last century. To find out more, here's a link to the collection https://archives.shef.ac.uk/agents/corporate_entities/58
To arrange a visit, here's the email address for the Special Collections archive : [email protected] and this page gives details of how to book a visit: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/special-collections-heritage-and-archives/use-our-collections # -a-visit

23/02/2025

Alan's also been busy on Substack, including recent pieces on Life in Old Fulwood and Ringinglow, Lodge Moor Hall and School Green Farm:

Is He Always Like This?. is about the random things that interest me and my thoughts on places I have visited and places in and around Sheffield where I live. Click to read "Is He Always like This?", by Alan Crutch, a Substack publication. Launched 7 months ago.

23/02/2025

There's been a lot of activity on our website recently...https://www.fulwoodhistory.uk/
More details with attached pictures.