The Chris Hobbs Site

"One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, to scratch a drawing on the tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization" - John Jay Chapman

ARTICLES THAT HAVE A SHEFFIELD CONNECTION

1.Jessops Hospital for Women, Leavygreave Road, Sheffield

2.The Sheffield Round Walk - 1986

3.Sheffield Collieries at Work - 1869

4.Sheffield United v Derby County - 1st September 1897

5.The History of Birley Spa - Sheffield - "a commodious establishment which was even used by the aristocracy.."

6.Ernest Dalton - The last man to be attacked by a tiger in Sheffield - December 1933

7.Sheffield Plane Crashes - World War 2 1939 - 1945

8.The Phoenix Theatre 1911 - 1960 Hillsborough, Sheffield - "clean and refined entertainment"

9.Death at The Owlerton Feast, Sheffield - 4th July 1854 - Joseph Crookes Saw Grinder

10.Murder at the Midland Station - September 1900 Sheffield "..a murder of a most brutal character was perpetrated in Sheffield"

11.A Despicable Case of Child Cruelty and Abuse - Ranmoor, Sheffield "..he was turned out into the snow and kept there all day without food"

12.The Tragic Death of the Baldwin Pony - Sheffield 1889 - "...it suffered great terror and pain while suspended 30ft. from the ground"