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SHEFFIELD 6

These articles are a continuation of those that appear on the previous page

"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men. Plato - (429 - 347 BC)"

Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Tuesday, July 11, 1843; A TORY'S SPITE - The editor of a Tory paper which died a natural death in Sheffield sometime ago describes that place as "a town where the Whigs are more implacable - the Radicals more seditious - and the Conservatives less spirited than in any town in the West-Riding: and the inhabitants generally are possessed of less energy, less public spirit, less honour, less hospitality and more selfishness than the inhabitants of any town in the kingdom

ARTICLES THAT HAVE A SHEFFIELD CONNECTION

1. Detective-Superintendent Frederick Andrew (1863 - 1911) - Sheffield Police 
2. The Life of William Farewell Wardley (1849 - 1941)
3. Darnall Cricket Ground Sheffield and the Great Accident of August 1822
4. John Arnold Shepherd R.A.F 1895 - 1918
5. The Daughter of Amos Brammer - Wadsley Bridge Sheffield
6. The Startling Assertions of the Reverend W. J. Morrison 28th March 1915 - St Peter's Church Abbeydale Sheffield 
7. The Anguish of Clara Ann Bramall - Hillsborough Sheffield 
8. Ellen Cook - The Only Woman In England To Have Survived The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
9. William Clarke Wilkinson (1879 - 1955) - A Life
10.Annie Drinkall - The Last Woman to be Sentenced to Death in Sheffield - November 1955
11.Sidney Whitlam's Medals
12.Joseph Mellor (1904-1929) - The Death of a French Legionaire - Sheffield November 1929
13.Harry Foers - A Schoolteacher from Crookes, Sheffield
14.Ethel Christie and the Sheffield connection to the 10 Rillington Place murders.
15.The Death of Patrick and Beatrice Conroy's child - Sheaf Avenue Sheffield June 1953.
16.Russian Edna's Last Customer - High Hazels Park Tinsley Sheffield March 1954
17.A Sad Case of Domestic Infelicity - Corby Street, Sheffeld - February 1889 
18.The Actions of a Bum-Balliff and the Death of Hugh Saville - Broad Lane, Sheffield 1890 - "A remarkable case of self-destruction."
19. A Tragic Coincidence - The Drowning of William Morriss - River Don, Sheffield 1900
20.Christopher and Louisa Green - Scargill Croft Sheffield 1900
21.The Body of James Brady and the Erection of Sheffield's Public Mortuary - November 1880  - the landlord moved his horses to accommodate the deceased"  
22.The Wesleyan Chapel Princess Street Sheffield
23.Sheffield's Cuban Consul - Carl Wilhelm Widmann (1857 - 1925)
24.The Cater Family of Canal Street, Sheffield 
25.William James Sibbald (1874 - 1920) - Headmaster of Western Road Evening School, Sheffield
26.The Anguish of Henry Bramall - Oughtibridge, Sheffield - March 1886 "(Henry) was perpetually tantalized by his wife"

27.A Family Tragedy - Winifred Frith and her Children September 1924 Sheffield

28.The Melson Family - Sheffield - "Quis tali fundo tempret a lachymie" - Who could look upon this place and not weep" (Anon)
29.The Mysterious Poisoning of Ernest Foster - Crookes, Sheffield May 1896
30.Wharncliffe Hospital 1915 
31.Wards Pub Guide - Sheffield Best Bitter "Naturally the best"
32.Abbey Glen Laundry (1900 - 2010)
33.William Lucas (1881 - 1881) - Allen Street Sheffield - a shocking case of child starvation"
34.James Frith's Letter - July 1916 Sheffield 
35.The Strange Death of Grace Watkins Neepsend Sheffield February 1927
36.A Victim of a Baedeker Raid - John Edward Chambers (1906 - 1942)
37 The Short and Tragic Life of Ernest Tennant - Copper Street, Shalesmoor, Sheffield
38.The Confession of Ernest Bramham - Sheffield March 1945
39.The Living Dead of Montague Street Sheffield 1911 
40.A Workhouse Nurse is Censured Sheffield December 1882
41.John Farr - A Victim of Capitalism - Anlaby Street Sheffield October 1927
42.Sheffield's First Cremation - Eliza Hawley 24th April 1905
43.Shepherd Wheel Whiteley Woods Sheffield
44.Christopher Thomas Jenkinson (1884-1915)
45.Sydney Jackson (1893-1916) 
46.Charles Henry Hattersley (1844-1915) - Yorkshire's Oldest Bellringer
47.John William Castle (1893 - 1922) 
48, The Sheffield Churchyard Murder - January 1961 ""like Jack the Ripper killings in the east end of London in the 1880's"
49.Staff Sergeant William Harris - Pahang State North Malaya - Boxing Day 1956
50 Lily Sentence and her brother Harry - Wallace Road Sheffield 1956

"Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some races increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners hand on the torch of life" Lucretius - De Rerum Natura 11. 75

                                                                   There are another collection of articles that have a "Sheffield connection" on the following page

"Our country sinks beneath the yoke, it weeps, it bleeds, and each day a fresh gash is added to her wounds." William Shakespeare Macbeth Act 4 Scene 3

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