Talk:Hillsborough Barracks

Past use
Was the Barracks not the premises of Sheffield Insulations (now SIG plc) in the 1970s prior to the it being redeveloped, probably when they moved to other more modern premises prior to moving to the Airport busines park for the HQ. ? -BulldozerD11 (talk) 23:39, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Sheffield Flood
The claim that the flood 'water reached a height of about 60 feet (18 m) above normal river water level' does not match my interpretation of the events as reported by Samuel Harrison in his book A Complete History of The Great Flood at Sheffield. I know that many people think that the Sheffield Flood plaque at the entrance to Morrisons Supermarket represents the height of the flood (about 8ft above the parade ground) but Harrison's account, based on interviews with the eye-witnesses just don't match with the water being so deep. An on-line version of Harrison's book can be found at http://mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/sheffield/book/w-page13.html 'The Old Blue Ball Inn, kept by William Cooper, was a good deal damaged. The stable and other outbuildings were destroyed. Cooper and his family escaped by getting up stairs'. In the Proctor family home at Owlerton, 'The water filled the lower rooms up to the ceiling'. A watchman at Owlerton was able to escape the flood by standing on a wall and holding onto a lamp-post. Harrison also says, 'An enormous quantity of timber and furniture was washed up to the border of Hillsbro' park'. We are given a figure for the depth of the water by Harrison. The chapter about barracks says, 'The water rose to the height of twelve feet outside the window' of Sergeant Foulds' quarters. As a married man he would have lived in the Married Quarters. This was located on what is now a McDonalds, at the bottom of the hill on which the barracks parade ground was located. If we add the 12ft to the distance between the present day ground level (at B and Q), and the surface water level of the Loxley, say 8ft, the water could only have been 20ft above the normal level, or have I missed something? Waugh Bacon (talk) 17:43, 31 October 2011 (UTC)