Sheffield Flood 1864 Gallery

Sheffield Flood Memorial Card

In memory of the unfortunate sufferers who were drowned by the bursting of a dam at Bradfield, near Sheffield, on March 12th 1864...
Includes also a verse whose first line reads: Like crowded forest trees we stand...
Similar to other cards produced at the time, though this one refers to upwards of 800 lives lost.
From an original at Sheffield Libraries: arc02519

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Sheffield Flood, Remains of the Shuttle House, residence of James Sharman, head of Bacon Island (formed by the River Don dividing into two branches), 1864. House in background, left, is The Grove

Taken from Sheffield Inundation, 1864, Ref. 942.74 SQ. William and Samuel Butcher, Steel Tilters and Rollers, Philadelphia Steel Works, in background. At the head of Bacon Island; residence of Mr. James Sharman known as the Shuttle House, so called because he had charge of the shuttle by which the water was supplied to some mills and factories a little lower down

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Artists Impression of property destroyed and inmates drowned, Great Sheffield Flood, 1864

Property destroyed and inmates drowned

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1864, Flood