Porter
Brook Links
General Information
Sheffield
Council - sccplugins.sheffield.gov.uk/urban_design/rivers_city.htm
Community Groups and Sites of
Local Interest
Friends of the
Porter Valley - www.portervalley.fsnet.co.uk
Royal Society
for the Protection of Birds - www.rspb-sheffield.org.uk
Sheffield
Botanical Gardens - www.sbg.org.uk
Sheffield
General Cemetery - www.gencem.org/index.html
Sheffield
Wildlife Trust – www.wildsheffield.com
The Shepherds
Wheel - www.simt.co.uk/shepherd/index.html
Fishing
at Wire Mill Dam - www.yorkshirefishing.net/southyorks/wiremilldam.htm
Sheffield Round
Walk - www.chrishobbs.com/sheffieldroundwalk.htm
Local Heritage
Initiative - www.lhi.org.uk/projects_directory/projects_by_region/yorkshire_the_humber/sheffield/archaeology_of_the_middle_porter_valley/index.html
Sheffield
Environmental Training - lsc.wwt.co.uk/documents/inspectionreports/ reports/sheffield_environmental_training_2reinp.pdf They did have a site but all they
now have is an inspection report…
Sheffield First
for Environment - www.sheffieldfirst.net/environment/index.htm
- If you have an environmental issue, these people can help.
Five Weirs Walk
- www.fiveweirs.co.uk/index.htm - This could be good if they get
round to it. I still have no idea which
weirs they are on about…
Sheffield Health
Walks - www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/parks-woodlands--countryside/ranger-service/health-projects-team/health-walks-scheme/current-health-walk-in-the-city
South Yorkshire
Orienteers - www.southyorkshireorienteers.org.uk/index.php
What the Devil are
Yorkshire Water doing digging up our park? www.yorkshirewater.com/yourhome/sheffield.html
Local Businesses connected t0 the
Porter Brook or Photography
The Sheffield
Photographic Centre - www.sheffphotocentre.demon.co.uk
Harrison
Cameras - www.harrisoncameras.co.uk
Neither the
Porter Brook Pub nor the Porter Cottage pub has a site, but they will both sell
you beer.
Wilson’s Snuff
Mill, Sharrow – www.snuffshop.com/mill.htm
Cutlery - www.littlemesters.com/index.html
Cultural
Industries Quarter - www.ciq.org.uk/blue/a_overview.asp
Cultural Indstries Quarter Conservation Area Appraisal - www.ciq.org.uk/blue/Guidelines.pdf
National Stuff
The BBC: Endcliffe and Porter Valley
Walk - www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/i_love_sy/localhistory/walk_through_time/index.shtml
Other People’s Sites Worth a Look
Shepherds Wheel
Photos by Jeremy Crawshaw freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/photos/shepherdswheel/shepswheel.htm
General
Cemetery Photos by E. Pickard freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/photos/cems/gencem.htm
Mayors and
Master Cutlers - freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/webpages/mayorscutlers.htm
White’s 1857
Directory of Derbyshire – contains directory for Sheffield 1857 with names,
addresses and professions - www.n.f.wilson.btinternet.co.uk/
ARCUS Review –
Sheffield University Archaeology - www.shef.ac.uk/arcus/downloads/arcus-review-2003-4.pdf
Pictures of
Sheffield - citysnapper.org/
Pictures of
animals, birds, trees, fungus etc - www.first-nature.com
Steve
Withington Photography of the Porter Brook - stevewithington.co.uk/photos_porter_brook.htm
More on the
General Cemetery by the author of a Dissertation on cemeteries (!) - www.suzielda.co.uk/netcemy/cemy/shef/shef.htm
Old Maps of the Porter Brook Area
Order 1905
Ordnance Survey Reprints from - www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk
Witterings
Pubs - www.coffeebeer.co.uk/pintpleasures/sharrow2.html
This man is a National
Treasure, included here for his references to the Sheffield Round Walk (above)
- www.chrishobbs.com
Pubs on Ecclesall Road - www.rocknroll.force9.co.uk/pubs/ecclesall.htm