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Sheffield’s Heritage Open Days run from 11-20 September and we’re very pleased to once again be the starting point for S...
10/09/2026

Sheffield’s Heritage Open Days run from 11-20 September and we’re very pleased to once again be the starting point for Sheffield’s famous Drainspotting tours - details on second image…

"Being an interesting account of the spinning, weaving, sewing, manufacture of paper and pottery, aeronautics, raft-buil...
06/09/2026

"Being an interesting account of the spinning, weaving, sewing, manufacture of paper and pottery, aeronautics, raft-building, road-making, and various other industries of wild life."
The Romance of Animal Arts and Crafts by H. Coupin & J. Lea, 1907.

John Lea in his introduction writes “…the earth is filled with romance, and we live in a true fairyland…If we would spin or weave, we must learn to do these things by long apprenticeship; but the first web made by a baby spider may be as perfect as any it will spin in the whole of its life."

Daphne Du Maurier's 1957 novel, The Scapegoat: a story of doppelgangers and psychological suspense. And it does look exc...
01/09/2026

Daphne Du Maurier's 1957 novel, The Scapegoat: a story of doppelgangers and psychological suspense. And it does look exciting, with the cover illustration reminiscent of a scene from Jane Eyre.

Elizabeth Raffald, (1733-81) began working in service as a kitchen maid aged 15 and her final post as a domestic servant...
30/08/2026

Elizabeth Raffald, (1733-81) began working in service as a kitchen maid aged 15 and her final post as a domestic servant was at Arley Hall, Cheshire, where she was housekeeper for Lady Elizabeth Warburton. Raffald went on to run cookery schools, inns, shops selling all kinds of foodstuffs and cosmetics as well as authoring trade directories and her celebrated cookbook. She died suddenly in 1781, while still updating this eighth edition of her cookery book, which was published in 1782.
Some of her recipes are for familiar dishes - "To poach EGGS with TOASTS"
Many of them, however, seem bizarre:
"To make STUM", which was a kind of fermented wine, involved a five-gallon cask, “three gallons of the stongest cyder”, alabaster, “allum”, brimstone and burning rags stuffed into a “bung-hole”. These ingredients are rolled about in the cask for twenty days, after which “this liquor will be so strong as to affect your eyes by looking at it.”

Mrs Wright's message on red presentation plate refers to Over Peover, a village lying near Joddrell Bank in Cheshire. The Wrights seemed to have been a significant family in the area in the late 18th century. As Raffald states that her book is “For the USE and EASE of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c.”, perhaps Mrs Wright's granddaughter Mary Ann was getting married and so this would have been a useful gift for a lady about to embark on running her own home.

'Making Miniature Toys and Dolls' written by Jean Greenhowe and published in 1977 by Batsford Books, who have specialise...
29/08/2026

'Making Miniature Toys and Dolls' written by Jean Greenhowe and published in 1977 by Batsford Books, who have specialised in arts and crafts over many decades.
Jean Greenhowe designed fashion for Vogue Knitting in the early sixties before becoming craft features writer and designer for Woman’s Weekly magazine in 1967. Over the years, Jean produced hundreds of designs in a wide variety of crafts. Jean’s methods were relatively simple and thus accessible for people of all ages and proved extremely popular. She also made the puppets for a 1960s children’s Scottish television show.

The True Book about Atomic Energy (1955). The final chapter is titled ATOMIC POWER IN THE FUTURE and the book's authors,...
23/08/2026

The True Book about Atomic Energy (1955). The final chapter is titled ATOMIC POWER IN THE FUTURE and the book's authors, A. Radcliffe and E. C. Roberson conclude by saying, "Much of this chapter has involved crystal gazing and guessing. It will be very interesting to see what atomic energy does for us in the next fifty years.”

This copy was awarded to a pupil for his progress at a local Sheffield school in Midsummer 1955 by George Mack, who was the Headmaster from 1947-65. Mr. Mack is remembered as a "formidable, but fair headmaster.”

Descriptions of Britain’s Brutalist water towers:Wordsley, 1968: “fashionable and starkly functional appearance”Baydon, ...
22/08/2026

Descriptions of Britain’s Brutalist water towers:
Wordsley, 1968: “fashionable and starkly functional appearance”
Baydon, 1974: “The strutted tank or ‘bowl-in-hand’ water tower”
Upton Beacon, 1972: “It is hardly surprising that the sixties also heralded the appearance of the single-stem or wineglass water tower…There is no doubt that the wineglass water tower…has a dramatic visual impact on its surroundings…”
Horstead, c.1970 “angular, multi-lobed tank, a complexity of intersecting lines and planes, rather like a snowflake in plan…Undoubtedly impressive, but whether this bravura design with its heavily cantilevered lobes was cost effective is open to question.”
Ely, 1968: “the semi-detached access shaft – a lightweight rectangular glazed shaft, offset to one side of the tower and with an enclosed walkway from head of the shaft onto the top of the tank”
Cockfosters, 1968: an example of “rather self-consciously ‘architectural’ water tower designs from 1968…although “undeniably impressive” with a “hyperbolic lattice of interlaced concrete struts”
Wittering, 1965: “A recent and more elegant version of the steel spheroid”

The Medium is the Massage, 1967:'The older, traditional ideas of private, isolated thoughts and actions... are very seri...
18/08/2026

The Medium is the Massage, 1967:
'The older, traditional ideas of private, isolated thoughts and actions... are very seriously threatened by new methods of instantaneous electric information retrieval, by the electrically computerized dossier bank- that one big gossip column that is unforgiving, unforgetful and from which there is no redemption, no erasure of early “mistakes.”'

A Celebration of Country Crafts Freda Derrick has dedicated her book, Country Craftsmen, (first published in 1945), to t...
16/08/2026

A Celebration of Country Crafts
Freda Derrick has dedicated her book, Country Craftsmen, (first published in 1945), to the Kelmscott Fellowship, an organisation founded by William Morris’ daughter May (1862-1938) to keep her father’s legacy alive. Derrick (1892-1969), herself an artist, was inspired by William Morris and others in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Inside Derrick's Country Craftsmen is an inscription which tells us that the book's original owners were “Herbert and Letty Halpert”, from “St John’s Nfld.” “Oct 1968”.

The Halperts were renowned American folklorists. Herbert, (1911-2000) spent his life ‘documenting and preserving the voices, music and customs’ from across North America.

From the 1960s the Halperts worked at the Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, and in 1968, Herbert and Violetta, (‘Letty’), founded the University’s Folklore and Language Archive. Letty Halpert died in 2009 at the age of 90, having been awarded for her lifelong contribution to Canadian Folklore and Ethnology.

The Halperts have also recorded that this copy of Country Craftsmen was obtained from Reading, Berkshire.

In his introduction to Modern Ventriloquism, (1974), Daryl Hutton considers the Philosophy of Ventriloquism where he ref...
14/08/2026

In his introduction to Modern Ventriloquism, (1974), Daryl Hutton considers the Philosophy of Ventriloquism where he reflects on the relationship between ventriloquism and compassion, power and authority. He then goes on to instruct would-be ventriloquists in all aspects of the art.

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