The Great Sheffield Flood 1864 Book - paperback

The Great Sheffield Flood 1864

by

E.G. Draper

This started life as a lantern-slide show created soon after the flood by Edward Goodricke Draper (1844-1905). The accompanying text is a transcript from an old, handwritten exercise book used by Mr. Draper as lecture notes to complement the slides. It describes, in romantic terms, the origin of the river Loxley and its course into the River Don, the building of the Dam and the circumstances that led to the catastrophe. It plots the course of the inundation into the centre of the town, the people caught up in its wake and the destruction it caused. The slides that he himself took illustrating the carnage.

Draper was born in Leeds in 1844 and in 1858 was apprenticed on board the barque William Edward of Liverpool. In1876 he was Staff Sergeant Sheffield Engineer Volunteers. He directed the Globe Nickel Silver plating Works in Penistone Road, and was a life member of the Mount Zion Congregational Church, Westfield Terrace. He was a vice-president of the Northern District of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.