I’m publishing this post 140 years to the day that Fred, 22 years old, boarded a train from Sheffield to Middlesborough, and left behind everything he’d ever known. There’s a letter from Fred dated July 1881 on Brown Baley & Dixon company paper that has been stamped “In Liquidation”. This is the part of the… Continue reading Trouble at the steel mill
The love letters of Fred & Janie – my great great grandparents courting in Sheffield in the 1870's
My Darling Janie 