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Internal view of Counting House looking across old desk with open ledger and various items of period office equipment. Internal view of Counting House looking across old desk with open ledger and various items of period office equipment.

© Ian M Spooner

© Ian M Spooner

Counting House

Continuing Display

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

Enter the Counting House, where the foreman and his clerk carried out all the administrative work for the site. The setting you’ll see depicts the 1920s period just before the works was finally vacated.

 

Built around 1830, this is where the piece work produced by the workers was counted and where the payments were made to them. 

 

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Opening Times:

Thu–Sun 11am–4pm

Closed Mon–Wed including Bank Holiday Mondays

Open as usual Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Joni, the Hamlet café is open 7 days a week, all year round

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

Abbeydale Road South

Sheffield

S7 2QW

Counting House

© Ian M Spooner

 

 

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