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In a room with an open fire grate, two wooden ladderback chairs with woven rush seating stand by a pegged hearthside rug on a stone flagged floor. Alcove cupboards off to one side display antique china crockery. In a room with an open fire grate, two wooden ladderback chairs with woven rush seating stand by a pegged hearthside rug on a stone flagged floor. Alcove cupboards off to one side display antique china crockery.

© Ian M Spooner

© Ian M Spooner

Worker’s Cottage

Continuing Display

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

See what it was like to live in this two-storey cottage, furnished to show what living conditions were like for workers in the mid-1800s.

 

The row of Workers' Cottages was built between 1786 and 1793.The Cottages traditionally housed the 'forgemaster' and his 'heater lad' who worked in the Tilt Forge, amongst other people.

 

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Opening Times:

Thu–Sun 10am–4pm

Closed Mon–Wed including Bank Holiday Mondays

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

***Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet will close for the winter on Sun 1 Nov and reopen in the spring***

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

Abbeydale Road South

Sheffield

S7 2QW

Worker’s Cottage

© Ian M Spooner

  • In a room with an open fire grate, two wooden ladderback chairs with woven rush seating stand by a pegged hearthside rug on a stone flagged floor. Alcove cupboards off to one side display antique china crockery.

    Worker’s Cottage

    © Ian M Spooner

  • © Ian M Spooner

  • © Ian M Spooner

  • © Ian M Spooner

  • © Ian M Spooner

 

 

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