A few weeks ago I spent a wonderful few hours at the Sheffield Archives looking through the fascinating documents, photographs and maps associated with Wincobank Hall, home of Mary Anne Rawson, her daughter Lizzie and sister Emily Reed.
Mary Anne survived her daughter and sister and on her death the Estate was divided into Lots to be sold by auction in 1887. The school on the left of the map had already been protected by the by the formation of Upper Wincobank School Trust. The school is now known as Upper Wincobank Chapel. The rest of the land and the Hall was eventually sold and today the area is known as Maple Croft and the new Amaranthus development. The triangle (Lot 3) is at the top of Newman Road and Jenkin Road on the hill above Meadowhall. For the benefit of readers who live at a distance that is in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
If you live in the area and are interested in finding our more about Wincobank Hall please come along to the Chapel on Wincobank Avenue S5 6BB, from 6.30pm Thursday evening 2nd December 2010. After festive refreshment and a brief AGM, Michael McCoy, the archaeologist who excavated the site of Wincobank Hall before the start of the Amaranthus building work, will tell us what he found beneath the mud.
Mary Anne survived her daughter and sister and on her death the Estate was divided into Lots to be sold by auction in 1887. The school on the left of the map had already been protected by the by the formation of Upper Wincobank School Trust. The school is now known as Upper Wincobank Chapel. The rest of the land and the Hall was eventually sold and today the area is known as Maple Croft and the new Amaranthus development. The triangle (Lot 3) is at the top of Newman Road and Jenkin Road on the hill above Meadowhall. For the benefit of readers who live at a distance that is in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
If you live in the area and are interested in finding our more about Wincobank Hall please come along to the Chapel on Wincobank Avenue S5 6BB, from 6.30pm Thursday evening 2nd December 2010. After festive refreshment and a brief AGM, Michael McCoy, the archaeologist who excavated the site of Wincobank Hall before the start of the Amaranthus building work, will tell us what he found beneath the mud.
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