SHEFFIELD:
Sheffield description, 1852
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THE SAVINGS BANK AND FIRE OFFICE OF SHEFFIELD, 1852
The SAVINGS' BANK was established in 1819, and now occupies a neat
stone building, in Surrey st. Its deposits amounted in 1836 to £147,136; in
1840 to £160,380; in 1844 to £182,838; in 1849 to £198,173; and in Nov.
1851, to £237,900, belonging to about 9,900 individuals, and about 80 friendly
and charitable societies. The salaries paid to clerks, &c., amount to £530
per annum. Mr. Benj. Schofield is the secretary. The bank is open every
Monday and Tuesday, from 10 to 2 o'clock, to receive and pay money; every
Saturday, from 3 to 6 in the evening, to receive deposits; and on Fridays,
from 10 to 1, to post interest, and balance books. There are seven Branch
Savings' Banks: at the National Schools, in Carver street, Hermitage street,
Hoyle street, Pits moor, Ecclesall and Attercliffe, and the Vestry offices in
Nursery street. The separate surplus fund is now nearly £700, in addition to
the bank premises and property in Norfolk street, worth about £3,600. The
Duke of Norfolk is patron. and Earl Fitzwilliam, president; and about, 50 of
the-principal gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood are trustees and
managers.
The SHEFFIELD FIRE OFFICE, in George street, was erected in 1811, by
its proprietors, who are associated for the insurance of themselves and others
from loss by fire. They have several powerful engines, &c., and an able body
of firemen. Mr. Edw. Jeffcock is the secretary ; and Mr. John Wreaks, the
assistant. The North of England Fire and Life Insurance Company, has its
head office in the Old Haymarket, and was established in 1844. The
subscribed capital is £300,000, in £20 shares, and the Company have branch
offices in London and Dublin, and a long list of agents residing in all parts
of the kingdom. They have in the town an efficient fire brigade and powerful
engines, &c. The Trustees and Directors are stated in the Company's
advertisement, at a subsequent page, and Mr. G. Stewart is the secretary
and actuary. Several Freehold Land and Building Societies have been formed in
Sheffield during the last ten years, and a considerable number of the industrious
and provident artizans, and small tradesmen of the town and suburbs have
availed themselves of these easy modes of acquiring votes for the West Riding,
and comfortable and pleasant reidences for themselves and families. Large
plots of land on all sides of the town, have been purchased by these societies
during the last few years, and divided into garden allotments of from 500 to
1200 yards. Upon these freehold allotments many houses have already been
erected, and others are now building. In August 1850, the Park Wood Spring
Land and Building Society purchased 27 acres adjoining Old Park Wood and the
Railway, at the cost of about £180 per acre; and they have divided it into 95
allotments. The Reform Freehold Land Society has abort 260 members and
is divided into 423 shares. In Nov. 1851, an estate at Heeley, of about 30
acres was purchased by 87 of the members, and divided into 171 lots. A
small estate at Steel-bank was purchased by the Municipal Land Society in
1851. Among other of these provident institutions which have purchased
estates and built many houses, are the Hallcar, Freedom-hill, Hampden View,
Fir View, and Birkendale View, Land and Building Societies.
Data transcribed from:
Whites Directory of Sheffield 1852
Transcribed by
Colin Hinson ©2003
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