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Sheffield Flood, Damage at the head of Bacon Island (formed by the River Don dividing into two branches), House on left, is 'The Grove', off Low Road, (named as a Boarding School in the book, 'Photographs of the Sheffield Flood'). Goit, right

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Sheffield Flood, Damage at the head of Bacon Island (formed by the River Don dividing into two branches), House on left, is 'The Grove', off Low Road, (named as a Boarding School in the book, 'Photographs of the Sheffield Flood'). Goit, right
Sheffield_Neepsend
1864/03
1851-1899

Taken from 'Sheffield Inundation, 1864', Ref. 942.74 SQ. The water wheel would probably have been at the front of the picture behind the photographer. The goit would have run under the present Osbourn Mushett building(1999) with the river on the right. For more information about thre flood see: The Great Sheffield 1864 Harrison Ref: 942.74 S The Collapse of the Dale Dyke Dam 1864, Geoffrey Amey Ref. 942.74 SST

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