Newspaper Archive: 1940s
Friday 24 March 1944 The Derbyshire Times (page 5)
Mrs. S. E. Milner, O.B.E.
Death at Baslow of former Totley Hall resident
The death occurred on Monday at "Tithe Acre," Baslow, of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Milner, O.B.E. aged 87. She was the widow of Mr. William Aldam Milner, J.P., late of Totley Hall near Sheffield and the daughter of Mr. S. Roberts, J.P., Queen's Towers, Sheffield. Mrs Milner leaves a son, Mr. W. A. Milner, Lindrick House, Woodsetts, Worksop, and daughter Mrs. W. Wilson, Horsley Gate, Holmesfield. After Mr. Milner died, Mrs Milner remained at Totley Hall for two years, and removed to Baslow 12 years ago. Before the last war she took great interest in the Brabazon work for old people in the Ecclesall Bierlow Union, and never missed giving them weekly instruction in rug-making and needlework. During the 1914-18 war Mrs. Milner did work for the Red Cross in Derbyshire, which was recognised by the award of the O.B.E. A gifted artist, her chief interests and occupations were needlework and gardening. She will be greatly missed in Baslow, where she took an interest in local affairs and was a supporter of the Church. The funeral service was at St. Anne's Church, Baslow, yesterday (Thursday) prior to internment at Holmesfield.
Friday 19 May 1944 The Derbyshire Times (page 1)
Late Mrs. W. A. Milner, Totley
House at Baslow Sold For £9,000
On Tuesday Messrs. Eadon, Lockwood and Riddle auctioneers, Sheffield, sold by auction in Sheffield the residence at Baslow recently occupied by the late Mrs. S. E. Milner, widow of Mr. W. A. Milner, J.P., late of Totley Hall. The house is beautifully situated at Baslow and was disposed of for £9,000.
Thursday 8 June 1944 The Yorkshire Post (page 6)
Sheffield Green Belt
Sheffield City Council, yesterday, approved the purchase of the Totley Hall Estate for £15,000. The land has been bought to form part of Sheffield's green belt.
Saturday 16 June 1945 The Yorkshire Post (page 5) illustrated
Lease-Lend Emergency Housing
Sheffield, Friday
The first of the 20,000 prefabricated temporaray dwellings which the United States is supplying to this country under Lease-Lend is being erected on the Totley Estate, Sheffield. Next Wednesday one of the 20,000 applicants for houses in the city will be chosen as the lucky first tenant. In all probability he will be a Serviceman, or an ex-Serviceman from this war, for the Estates Committee of the Corporation have decided to allocate 50 per cent. of the houses to them. In the next few weeks 175 of these bungalows, which arrived a week ago in packing cases, will be erected on the site by a local firm of builders. The men, at the moment, are strange to the job, but when they have gained experience in this type of building, a Ministry of Works official tol me they will be be able to put up one building a day. The foundations were ready when the first crate was unpacked yesterday and the walls of timber, fibre, and asbestos, insulated against heat and cold, put into place. The bungalows measure 24ft 2in. square, with a porch projecting 4ft. 1in. They contain a living-room, two bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and lavatory. The kitchen has a gas cooker, electric immersion heater, wash boiler and shelving, but no refrigerator. There are plenty of shelves for the housewife, but because there is a shortage of timber in the United States there are no doors to the kitchen cupboards apart from those to the dresser. Nor, for the same reason, are the built-in wardrobes in the bedrooms provided with doors. The bungalows are designed to have a life of 10 years. In Sheffield, where the Corporation has a housing programme for 30,000 permanent and 2,000 temporary dwellings of various types, these Amercican bungalows will be let at 10s. a week with rates, which are expected to be about 4s.
Friday 16th February 1945 The Derbyshire Times (page 4)
We have received this week from the Sheffield and Peak District Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and interesting booklet, entitled "Sheffield's Green Belt," which is admirably illustrated and contains a beautiful photograph of Totley Hall, the former residence of Mr. W. A. Milner, which, with the estate of 160 acresm has been bought by Sheffield City Council. The boolket describes the plans of Sheffield City Council to retain on the outskirts of the city a belt of green land, free from housing and industrial development, In tghis praiseworthy action, the Council for the Preservation of Rural England have played a valued part. We suggest that now they have secured Sheffield's green belt that they should lend their great influence to protect the rural amenities of other and less powerful neighbours.
Friday 5th October 1945 Derbyshire Times (page 4)
We are glad to see that the Ministry of Town and Country Planning have dismissed an appeal to them against Sheffield City Council's refusal to permit the building of a housing estate at Moor Edge, Totley, adjoing Chesterfield R.D.C. boundary near Holmesfield, which is on the Sheffield green belt area. We hope that the Ministry will be equally firm in rejecting Sheffield plans for Building in Chesterfield Rural District Council's green belt zone.