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 by Joan Flett

Originally printed by the Nether Edge Neighbourhood Group in 1985 this book was reprinted in 2002 with updates as the original workhouse was converted into housing.

Nether Edge Hospital has recently been converted into luxury houses and apartments. This book, recently reprinted and updated from 1984, follows the hospital from a Victorian Workhouse, through the days of the NHS and finally to being redeveloped by Gleesons. 

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 Old Sharrow and Nether Edge in Photographs” includes photos and descriptions of the houses and farmsteads which existed when this was a largely rural district including hamlets such as Machon Bank and Cherry Tree Hill, the farms of Upper Edge, Nether Edge and Edge End, ancient bridleways like Archer Lane and Brincliffe Edge Road and trackways known today as Sharrow Lane and Psalter Lane.

It has photos of many of the large Georgian and Victorian houses built for Sheffield’s wealthy merchants and manufacturers including George Wostenholm of Kenwood who laid out the tree lined estate around his park.