People Gallery

Longley Depot, team winners of Sheffield Casualty Services inter-depot first-aid competition at Hillsborough Barracks, 1950s?

The results were Longley Depot 250.5, Lydgate Lane Depot 244, Staniforth Road Depot 231.5. The teams consisted of first-aid party and ambulance personnel and had to deal with five casualties caused by a bomb bursting on a tram route. Dorothy Hearn was a member of this team.
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Sheffield, Yorkshire

Wightman family and friends group of 14 individuals in unknown garden setting, c. 1910

The identifiable figures are thought to be as follows:
Back row (stood left to right):
1. Benjamin Arthur Wightman (1873 - 1937), eldest son of Arthur Wightman (1842 - 1924);
2. Mr Harland possibly possibly Charles Cecil Harland (1888 - 1946) one of the sons of the Rev. Albert A. Harland (1839 - 1921), vicar of Harefield, Middlesex. Charles Cecil Harland was also younger brother of Albert Harland (1869 - 1957) who became Sheffield MP for Ecclesall. Around the time of this photograph Charles Cecil Harland was living in Sheffield at 10 Psalter Lane where he was a law student, articled to Colonel Hebert Hughes C.B., C.M.G (1853 - 1917). Charles Cecil Harland went on to serve as an army Second-Lieutenant and later Captain in the First World War, in Gallipoli and in France, where he wounded four times, mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross and Croix the Guerre. He later become a director of Joseph & Henry Wilson Ltd, snuff manufacturers, Sheffield and later lived at Westbrook, Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield. Note: the fourth figure on the back row, who looks very similar to this gentleman, may actually be Charles Cecil Harland instead or one of his brothers;
3. Alfred Edward Thompson (1865 - 1955), managing director of Joseph & Henry Wilson Ltd, snuff manufacturers, Sheffield, who lived at the time at Westbrook, Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield;
5. Denis Conway Wightman (1876 - 1933), Arthur Wightman's third son;
6. Thomas Wilson Mappin (1877 - 1916), son of Sir Wilson Mappin J.P. (1848 - 1925) of Abbeydale Grange, who lived at the time at 26 Oakholme Road, Sheffield.
Front row (sat left to right):
2. Florence Ethel Broughton Thompson (nee Noon) (1863 - 1939), wife of Alfred Edward Thompson above;
4. Possibly Charles Edward Thompson (born in Sheffield in 1902), son of Alfred Edward Thompson (1865 - 1955) and Florence Ethel Broughton Thompson (nee Noon) (1863 - 1939) above;
5. or 6. One of these two ladies is probably Constance Mary Wightman (nee Lockwood) (1877 - 1944), wife of Henry Temple Wightman (1866 - 1920), Arthur Wightman's youngest brother;
7. Edith Wightman (1850 - 1943), wife of Arthur Wightman;
8. Violet Maud Mappin (1883 - 1948), wife of Thomas Wilson Mappin above, who married in 1906.
From an original at Sheffield Librarries: arc02573

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Native American Indians visiting Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1923

The Native Americans were appearing at the Albert Hall Cinema in Sheffield to publicize the film Covered Wagon'
This was one of many publicity stunts devised by Reginald T Rea, manager of the Albert Hall, to promote films shown during the 1920s.
Colourised from a black and white original.
Original at Sheffield Libraries: u01595

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