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I hope that some of your members could help me to locate photographs of the address below. Surprisingly we have very few and even those only show glimpses of the house. I have been to the library in Sheffield but could not find anything in their archives. I am hoping that someone took photos of the area before the Hallamshire Hospital was built.
As a child in the 1950's I spent many happy holidays at my Grandparents home at 22 Treeroot Walk. It was an idyllic detached cottage reached down a leafy cobbled lane. I remember there were two such cottages, the first being at the beginning of the lane whilst my Grandparents was further down on the left hand side. My 85 year old father Fred Stinson tells me that the Caretaker of Broom Hall lived in the first cottage. He said that during the air raids the planes used to come overhead using the nearby dam as a landmark and then turn and attack the city.
Originally the cottages were the lodges for the 'big house'. I don't remember it though my father tells me that it was still there though unused when I was a child. My 'world' obviously stopped at the boundary of what my Grandparents used as their garden. Beyond the cottage was a high brick wall and a gateway led through to an overgrown garden with fruit trees and a derelict tennis court. Although situated in the heart of a city we could have been in the countryside. I remember a family called Chisholm lived beyond a gate at the end of the lane. The father was a doctor.
I have also visited the Sheffield Archives and obtained a map showing that the 'overgrown garden' had consisted of many greenhouses in the past.
Can anyone help?
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