Archive Catalogue

ASFC-WNS-063
File
Late 20th century

Part of Alan Stoyel Foundation Collection

Notes on Yorkshire watermills. Also refers to the following mills and mines: Sheffield Watermill, Cornish Place Works (Sheffield) Watermill, Lunehead Mines, Prebden Bridge Watermill, Ecclesfield Watermill, Kirkstall Abbey Watermill, Pool-in-Wharfedale Watermill, Skeleron Mines, Skyreholme Paper Mill (Skilton), East Riding Watermills, Bentley Watermill, Cottingham Snuff Watermill, Little Kelk Watermill, York Watermill, Merrifield Watermill (Bewerley), Prosperous-Providence Mines (Bewerley), Riggs Watermill (Bewerley), Wood's Shaft Ashfoldside Gill Watermill (Bewerley), Ashfoldside Gill Watermill (Heathfield), Burley-in-Wharfedale Watermill, Burton-in-Lonsdale Clay Watermill, Grassington Watermill, Heathfield Watermill, Whichell Rolling Watermill (Halifax), Heathfield Watermill, Helwith Bridge Watermill, Long Preston Watermill, Lowthersdale Watermill, Maltham Watermill, Methley Watermill, Hillam Watermill (Parlington), Brigg House (The Rolling Mill) Watermill (Pateley Bridge), Ramsgill Watermill, Bramsley Watermill (Ripon), Low Watermill (Ripon), Rockley Furnace Watermill, Bridge End Watermill (Settle), Westbrook Snuff Mill (Sheffield), Stammonden Watermill, Sir Francis Level (Swaledale), Sunnydale Watermill, Gouthwaite Beck Sawmill, Worsbrough Watermill, Castle Watermills (York).

"Wheel of time turns again"

CUTT-03743
Item
28 April 1970

Part of Press Cuttings Collection

Article in the 'Manchester Evening News' about how Mr Humphrey Nowill, former handicrafts instructor for Sheffield Education Committee, has finally completed renovating of the waterwheel at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: a complex that was started in 1712.

Waterwheel, Abbeydale Hamlet, Sheffield

FWGC-1103122
Item
1971

Part of Frank W Gregory Collection

Crane removing from or fitting to mill unidentified shaft and gearwheel

Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher

"Sheffield, Abbeydale, Teeming last stage"

RHSC-06-043
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Teeming - pouring molten metal from a ladle into an ingot mould - at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield, Abbeydale, Steeling and Plating Hammers"

RHSC-06-044
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Steeling and plating at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield, Abbeydale, Pouring Steel"

RHSC-06-042
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Pouring steel at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield, Abbeydale, Pot Shop"

RHSC-06-040
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

View of the pot shop at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield, Abbeydale, Pen trough and waterwheels"

RHSC-06-038
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

View of a waterwheel at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield, Abbeydale, Melting Shop"

RHSC-06-041
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

View of the melting shop at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield, Abbeydale, Hand forge"

RHSC-06-045
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Hand forge at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield, Abbeydale, Blowing Engine"

RHSC-06-039
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

View of a blowing engine at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield, Abbeydale Yard"

RHSC-06-037
Item
No date

Part of Richard Hills Collection

View of the yard at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - an industrial museum in Sheffield. The museum consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of a 19th-century works, which are Grade I listed.

"Sheffield"

REXW-COR-02-031
File
1963

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Correspondence re. industrial monuments in the Sheffield area

Photographs of Abbeydale Works, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

JSPB-PHT-56
Subseries
1970s

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Photographs of the former Abbeydale Works, Sheffield. They appear to be taken in the early 1970s when the site was re-opened as the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Museum.
Development number 7529.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Photographs

JKMC-FOL-1182
File
Late 20th century

Part of J Kenneth Major Foundation Collection

Abbeydale (27 photos); Venton Mill, Dartington, Devon (31 photos); De Valk, Leyden; Grotemolen, Zoeterwoude, Zuid-Holland; Leidschendam; Churn Rosmolen; Churn Horse Mill House, Zoeterwoude; Eindhouve, West End Straat, Zoeterwoude; horse mill and milking barn, Zoeterwoude.