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From: "Pauline Bell" <>
Subject: [ENG-SHEFFIELD] Hillsborough Booklets
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:19:51 +0100


Hello List
I recall about a year ago that someone recommended as a useful resource for information on Hillsborough and Owlerton some little booklets that had been produced on a duplicator in the 1980's by the then local history group. I believe this was their research on buildings etc but also they collected 'memories'. The booklets have been impossible to obtain for a number of years. I thought some on the list might be interested to know that a volunteer with the Hillsborough Community Development Trust has 'retyped' these and that the Trust has now published them. The wording has been left as in the original though Mick Drewry who did this work has included very brief footnotes to indicate the purpose of a building now or if it has been developed or demolished since the 1980's. A few photographs have had to be substituted as no-one now knows where the originals are. All 'profits' go to the Trust whose flagship project is the Hillsborough Walled Garden next door to the Library in Hillsborough Park and originally the Kitchen Garden for Hillsborough Hall (the library now) at the time of the Dixon Family and possibly earlier. If you want to get hold of a copy it's title is
'The Complete Hillsborough By Her People'. Edit. by Mick Drewry published by the Hillsborough Community Development Trust ISBN 1901-58747-9. You should be able to get it through any bookshop. However if you have any difficulty contact the printer who is also a publisher of local history who does mail order
phone number 0114 2679402
I have no financial interest in this...I just think it is a useful resource and that any ex Hillsborough residents or folk with ancestors from the area would enjoy it as well as those who live there now.
Pauline C.Bell
Southwell, Notts
Researching : Cooper, Bell, Bailey, Froggatt, Firth, Barnsley, Barber, Leclere, Shaw


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