Scale 1/4 inch : 1 yard.

Shows Arundel Street, [Arundel Lane], Sycamore Street, foot road from Pond Street, John Wilson's furnaces, stable, carriers warehouse, counting house, brewhouse, gateway, house, passage, Balloon Tavern, workshops, merchant's warehouse, etc.

Note a trade directory of 1829 lists Parker, Potts and Denton as Edge Tool Manufacturers of Arundel Street; and - Hibberson, as a carrier (with carriages to Hull, Liverpool, Manchester and Cheshire)

Dimensions approx. 84 x 56 cm.

Original at Sheffield City Archives: FC/P/Shes/62L.

Digitised with financial support from Sheffield and District Family History Society in memory of Professor David Hey (1938-2016) founder and life president of the Society.

On 10 August 1824, the first manned balloon ascent from Sheffield was piloted by Mr Charles Brown. This was only his second balloon ascent and first solo flight. He took off from James Hibberson’s large garden in Sycamore Street, reaching an altitude of about a mile, before landing in a Rye field at Axholme.

The Balloon Tavern was later named to commemorate the occasion.

(Sheffield Independent 7 and 14 August 1824, Sheffield Local Studies Library)