From: David Crossley <D.Crossley@sheffield.ac.uk>
To: elizabethpickering@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, 9 April, 2009 15:06:04
Subject: Archive photograph of William Marples' Hibernia Works, Sheffield
Dear Ms Pickering
I am a trustee of Sheffield Industrial Museums, and we have a problem on which your member Susan Wood has suggested some society member might be able to help.
In the course of clearing the Kelham Island site for the new Hawley Collection building, contractors have found a lintel-stone which we are certain came from William Marples' Hibernia Works in Westfield Terrace, demolished c.1970. There are other stones which may also have come from the facade. I wonder if anyone took photographs of the building prior to, or during, demolition. Is it possible that an item on your web-site Miscellany might stir a memory? I will append a possible wording. Or you may have contacts you could suyggest.
Many thanks
David Crossley
[Deputy Chairman, SIMT]
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Does anyone have [or can suggest who might have] a photograph of the facade of William Marples Hibernia Works, Westfield Terrace, Sheffield [between Division Street and West Street]? It was demolished c.1970. The shot in Picture Sheffield in the City Library is too oblique to help, and engraved views in Marples' catalogues don't show much detail. Decorated stonework from the facade has come to light at Kelham Island Industrial Museum, and we need help over fitting the fragments together.
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