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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