Join  Christine Minter who for many years has been delving into her family history

It was after discovering a branch of her family who had lived and worked in the Crofts district of Sheffield, that she began to look in depth at this area. Housing, employment, education, religion, crime and punishment, not to mention some of its more colourful characters. The more I looked, the more I realised that this district was once one of Sheffield’s most notorious neighbourhoods and was not for the faint hearted!

Before retiring, I worked in the travel industry both in London and in Italy. When I eventually returned to the UK I began my own catering business and also completed courses in family history with the Institute of Genealogy in Canterbury and in local history with Sheffield Archives. Since retiring, however, I have had more time to devote to my research

After three years of research I was finally able to produce her book, ‘The Crofts, Sheffield’s Long Lost Community’