Sheffield historian and author Mick Drewery has written the first of two special articles to mark the anniversary of the disaster of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864.

The Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 claimed the lives of 240 people and left more than 5,000 homes and businesses under water when a poorly-constructed dam collapsed.

The 160th anniversary of a flood in which more than 250 people drowned and 5,000 homes were put under water has been marked in South Yorkshire. The Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 happened when the ...

The flood in Sheffield killed at least 240 people but the true toll will probably never be known. Many of the victims were buried without being identified.

The Great Sheffield Flood occurred at a time when the Industrial Revolution was bringing great expansion to the area. The dam, built north of Sheffield, was part of a larger effort to improve the ...

On the week of the anniversary of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, we have the second part of Mick Drewry’s feature on some of the victims who are buried at Loxley.

GREAT BARRINGTON — Firefighters in Great Barrington and Sheffield responded overnight Sunday “to multiple calls” about fire flareups but determined they were inside the wildfire “containment area” and ...

Throughout the day, as the wildfire spread over East Mountain from Great Barrington into Sheffield, the family’s house at their Soda Springs Farm off Home Road became a sudden emblem of human frailty ...

IMPROVEMENT works at the reservoir that caused the catastrophic Great Sheffield Flood in the 19th century are to be carried out by Yorkshire Water.

Sheffield is itself a city whose development owes much to water. Its rivers and streams provided the essential power that forged this “City of Steel,” but they also wrought devastation, ushering in ...