Notes on Old Fulwood

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Keith Pitchforth

Colin Cooper wrote many short articles on aspects of Old Fulwood. Muriel Hall used some
of these in her book “More of the Mayfield Valley” and she noted that she was grateful to
Cooper’s widow for permission to use these. These two articles were found in the Central
Library and copied by Alan Crutch. He notes that he has not found them since.
Alan’s copies are photographs. I have used OCR to transcribe these in this PDF document.
There are some biographical details of Colin Cooper at the end of this paper.

The articles are here

Record of FHG Meeting 16/1/25

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Jane Bartholomew

Record of FULWOOD HISTORY GROUP MEETING 16^th January 2025

Present: D.A., J.B., A.C., G.C., A.H., M.G., M.L., C.M., D.M., J.P., K.P.

Our first meeting of 2025 took place upstairs and included:

Welcome & introductions to two new members who joined us this evening

AC: discussed maps and plans relating to forthcoming group visit to Fullwood Hall grounds to investigate the reason for a local belief that there was once a ‘tunnel’ between Bennet Grange and Fullwood Hall; investigation of Fullwood Hall field to be arranged for later this month (AC)

DA shared copies of a colleague’s photos and press clippings relating to his family who lived in Fulwood in the 20^th century; these included:

Percy Lawson & Edith Hancock c.1930
Golf Cottage at top of Crimicar Lane
Ocean View Guesthouse
Fullwood Show early 1940s

Maps/documents/discussion relating to development of housing on School Green Lane

Group split into discussions around various topics including:

Scissors, Paper, Stone project
Whitham Road and its development/links to Crookes Rd and Fulwood Rd
Fulwood Spa
Local streams, brooks and underground waterways and their impact on Fulwood’s suburban landscape – land slippage etc.

JB & AC’s visit to Sheffield City Archives earlier in week which included a look at:

Plimsoll Letters Patent
various items from the Fairbank Collection

KP will follow up re transfer of Fulwood Church archive to Sheffield City Archives. DM/JB to follow up re passing Fulwood Society documents to Sheffield City Archives after AC has completed cataloguing them

Next meeting February20^th at Broomhill Library