Executive Summary In June 2023 Mosborough History Group resolved to research the history and heritage value of the brick kiln at Vine Grove Brick and Tile Works, Mosborough, Sheffield, with a view to ensuring its protection from development. The … Read More
Joseph Stone Educational and Village Centre For anyone familiar with the village of Mosborough, the family name of Stones will be most readily associated with the Joseph Stone Village Centre, which opened in School Road, Mosborough in 2009[1]. The … Read More
The photograph to your left shows the opening of the Mosborough Salvation Army around 1925. The building was purchased from J.J. Clayton near Crown Comer and the place was used for worship. Credit to Gwen Lockwood for the … Read More
A CHRISTMAS TRUCE FROM THE BOOK BY ANTHONY RICHARDS. A Poignant story at this time of the year remembering the 139th Sherwood Foresters amongst many other regiments that fought in Ypres. A book I recommend highly you read. This … Read More
LISTED BUILDINGS – MOSBOROUGH (as at 20 January 2017) There are 13 Listed Buildings/structures in the Mosborough village area. All are of Grade II category. WINNOWING BARN AT ECKINGTON HALL FARM, SOUTH STREET, MOSBOROUGH, SHEFFIELD List Entry Number: 1119713 Heritage Category: Listing … Read More
Field names from the 1798 Enclosure Map and other documents with meanings where known. Meanings are taken from K. Cameron’s Derbyshire Place-names, John Field’s Dictionary of English Field Names and Eckwall’s Dictionary of English Place Names. Ash Field (cf. … Read More
Christopher Rotherham and ‘The Sheffield Outrages’ by John Rotherham Mr. Overend: Have you paid to the union, Witness: No, I would rather rob them of a sovereign than give them one. (Laughter.) Mr. Overend: After the explosion, did you … Read More
The Malthouse, Station Road, Mosborough The story of the Malthouse on Station Road begins in 1818, on land that had only recently been transformed. For centuries, Mosborough Green had been open ground, where villagers grazed their animals in the old .communal … Read More
Mosborough’s Open Fields – A Glimpse into Our Medieval Landscape Long before today’s neat hedgerows and housing estates, Mosborough’s landscape was shaped by a very different system of farming — the open fields. The earliest permanent buildings were probably clustered … Read More
