Sheffield 6 is a part of Sheffield which developed with
the industrial revolution. From a few scattered rural
settlements it grew to feature dense suburban
housing. In the seventeenth century there were along
the rivers both dwellings and small work places where
knives were “manufactured’.The water power was
harnessed to turn water wheels that ran the machinery
of the day. Today the suburb is largely lived in by
ordinary working people but still there are the
individual houses which were home to Lords of the
Manor or those who were the managers of the firms
which employed large numbers of those who lived in
the newly built terraced housing which is such a
feature of the locality. The book tells the story of some
of the old houses and looks at factors which
contributed to the making of the terraced and semi
detached homes that line the many streets of the
locality. In addition there are "snapshots’ of some of
those who have lived in these homes.